Donald Trump has been with us his whole life whether he was Democrat or a Republican. Watch the old videos, read the old articles. Trump is us, Dman1200. Trump is the same today as he has been every day of his entire life.
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Donald Trump has been with us his whole life whether he was Democrat or a Republican. Watch the old videos, read the old articles. Trump is us, Dman1200. Trump is the same today as he has been every day of his entire life.
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He has to stay in office, that's why he fights it. He knows they're working on a frame up to try to impeach him. How would that help us? You think Pence can fix this mess for US? Pence is a good Vice President, but as President, OH MY GOD, He'll fold like a wet suit.Quote:
Originally Posted by dman1200
Amen to that!Quote:
Originally Posted by dman1200
Trump is too easily manipulated and coerced. He seems to snap like a brittle twig under the slightest pressure from those around him. Trump needs to learn you can please some of the people some of the time but you'll never please everyone all the time! With that said, he should spend more time pleasing his base and less time trying to appease globalist money grubbers, illegal alien advocates and haters!
I fully realize that a lot of the problems are coming from those he chose to surround himself with ...... a lot of bad advice.
LOL!! What a fabulous Friday the 13th this has been. A truly great day!!
Slow down on the Twitter...stop talking about DACA, Dreamers, Mueller.
Now get to work rebuilding our country, building that wall and fix our healthcare!
Sign an Executive Order to deport all illegal aliens within 24 hours! Hand all minor's immediately into the care and custody of THEIR President.
YOU are the President of the United States citizens...not the care taker of the World! Now get them OUT of here and fire Kirstjen and Kelly to do it!
DIVERSION...GET DOWN TO TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE ELECTED YOU TO DO!
NO DACA, NO AMNESTY #8...NO MORE TALK OF IT!!!
BTTT.
Trump messed up big time when he broke his first campaign promise a few weeks after winning the race in November 2016. After leading stadiums full of supporters chanting "lock her up" Trump announced arbitrarily and without hardly any explanation that there would be no investigation or prosecution of Hillary Clinton.
He simply stated that she or they had been through a lot already.
In that one fell momement, Trump proved himself to be a disengenuous liar who could not be trusted to keep his promises and core campaign issues.
And while proving himself a liar he also gave up the initiative thinking in some grandious fashion if he stopped his advance the socialist Democrats would somehow give him credit and ease their attacks.
But instead all Trump did was turn the initiative over to the socialists and instead of Hillary and Obama's allies in the deep state playing defense, they are all on offense because of Trump's critical blunder in November of 2016.
If Trump had kept his campaign promise, the national debate and discussion right now would be all the dirt his reformer administration was digging out on Obama and Clinton and how they were looking at jail time instead of the current narrative made possible by Trump's capitulation on "lock her up".
You're right, that sudden and unexpected "change of heart" was a defining moment. However, the "change of heart" that sent my stomach up into my throat was when broke his promise on DACA.Quote:
Originally Posted by ALIPAC
The Tea Party Is Officially Dead. It Was Killed by Partisan Politics.
I helped make the grassroots activist movement a reality. But now the party's over.
Matt Kibbe | February 11, 2018
https://media.reason.com/mc/psuderma...pg?h=233&w=310
MIKE THEILER/UPI/Newscom
It has finally happened: The Tea Party is dead.
The grassroots movement that fought so hard for fiscal sanity in government over the past decade is no more.
It was killed off by the very same Washington establishment it sought to overthrow. Its death leaves proponents of limited government with some big questions: What went wrong? And what do we do now?
For me, it's personal. For years, the Tea Party was my life, and I have the the battle scars—and tattoos—to prove it. When I was the President of FreedomWorks, I worked side by side with tens of thousands of citizen activists as a Tea Party organizer, organizing protests and knocking on doors, hoping to topple the Goliath of government. But now the party's over.
I know, you've heard it before. Virtually every Beltway pundit in DC has pronounced the Tea Party dead at one time or another. Republican Senators well past their sell-by dates and Democratic apparatchiks alike have gleefully built a cottage industry on the prediction.
But this time is different. Republicans, now controlling both the legislative and executive branches, jammed through a "CRomnibus" spending bill that strips any last vestiges of spending restraint from the budget process.
Gone are the Tea Party's biggest and most hard-fought policy victory—mandatory caps in domestic and defense spending. The budget deal replaces them with $300 billion in new spending over the next two years, and, in all likelihood, sets a precedent for greater spending in the decade to come.
It's 2009 all over again, with trillion dollar deficits, and red ink as far as the eye—or at least CBO projections—can see. As budget deals go, it's a total fiasco.
The supposed fiscal hawks in the House Freedom Caucus drew a line in the sand on House budget plan that was only slightly less bad. They demanded "full funding for the military and community health centers."
In the Senate, Rand Paul and Mike Lee fought the good fight, but they couldn't even convince Ted Cruz to stand firm. Cruz, the one-time Tea Party darling, "reluctantly" supported the spending measure, making sure to itemize all of the spending increases he helped procure with his fellow Texas senator, John Cornyn, while simultaneously decrying "unfettered spending." Cruz's statement is world class political jujitsu.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of Republicans and Democrats in our nation's capitol celebrating the Tea Party's demise. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the primary architect of this steaming pile of budget prolificacy, has been actively plotting the Tea Party's demise for years.
So what went wrong? Ultimately, I think partisan politics broke the Tea Party.
To understand what I mean, we need to clear away some popular tropes employed by critics to discredit what I still believe to be one of the most important social movements in my lifetime.
The Tea Party was never the product of some top-down design, and it wasn't owned or controlled by anyone. It was organic and leaderless. That's why it was so powerful, fueled by new social technologies that allowed citizens to self organize outside of traditional political parties. Like-minded people, once anonymous and silent, found each other and found their collective voice.
The Tea Party also wasn't partisan. It was held together by a common set of values that united an otherwise disparate group. What did the Tea Party stand for? I would ask everyone I met as I traveled the country. The answer was always some iteration of the same thing:
"Individual freedom, fiscal responsibility, constitutionally-limited government, and free markets."
This consistency of purpose made the Tea Party community a potent counter balance to the typical special interest inertia that drives the growth of government. The grassroots backlash against the Obama Administration's "shovel ready" stimulus spending shifted broad public opinion against the package. The same thing happened with Obamacare, which became so unpopular that even deep blue Massachusetts rejected it by electing Republican Scott Brown to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.
If not for some amazingly underhanded and Constitution-bending procedural games played by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Tea Party would have succeeded in killing Obamacare. Even still, the fact that the fight over Obamacare consumed the entirety of Obama's domestic agenda for eight years no doubt killed countless bad ideas before they ever saw the light of day.
At some point, people started to notice. The Tea Party's enemies started to look for leaders to negotiate with, to deal with. But there were no leaders—or rather, there were tens of thousands. That was its greatest strength, and its biggest weakness.
I still remember being back stage at the massive 9/12 march on Washington in 2009. Over a million activists had shown up, and as word got out, the politicians started showing up too. They circled like sharks behind the stage, hoping to get at the microphone. We kept them off that day. But ultimately more and more opportunists got onto the Tea Party stage, wanting to "lead" a leaderless movement.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...417-story.html