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Would love to frankly but we’re stuck with them for now. These nominees of Trumps have a great many question marks attached to them; and several would frankly be uncomfirmable if people had any integrity.

But this goes back to trump in the end. We’ve seen that he feels he is untouchable and will certainly never be held accountable by his party or supporters.
They’ll be more NDA’s involving Pete or women that come forward. I’m sure everyone one of them will just have been a misunderstanding. He’s already misrepresented what the police report said. That it absolutely proved zero wrong doing. When it never says that. Only stated facts and referred it to DA. That said they couldn’t get a conviction.
 
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Well this is why Biden's failure is so mind boggling. All he had to do was:

Day 1- close the border.

You may joke that that is simplistic. Ok. Then why didn't Biden do something you claim is so simple?
Maybe if Republicans had actually been part of the solution instead of the problem something would have been done on it. However, Republicans went out of their way to make sure nothing could get done about it. Including their candidate calling them up and telling them to tank legislation on it. And they got rewarded for doing this because you enjoy being upset about this apparently.

We'll see if he actually deports 15 million people. I'm not convinced he will. I think he is relying on Democrats to do what they usually do, and that is stop these really horrible ideas from happening and then he can just point his finger and blame them for not allowing him to set up concentration camps. That said, I haven't seen much organized resistance to anything from Democrats yet so I think there might actually be a debate going on about whether they are actually going to do much beyond, "We don't like this but you voted in Republicans so there isn't anything we can do about it. Next time vote for Democrats if you want reasonable solutions." All their blocking of stupid ideas and pushing reasonable ideas has gotten them is the demographics they were trying to protect to vote against them so maybe a change in what they do is necessary.
 
Well, let's see. He has failed to sign any of the ethical agreements that other Presidents have signed in the past so he might be making deals with foreign powers right now to sell favors (and based on his previous term he likely is). It's not like he has $500 million in debt he needs to get paid off. The emoluments clause evidently is no longer a thing that exists because not even Democrats have bothered to bring it up. Meanwhile, the de facto President behind the scenes, Elon Musk, is already drawing up plans to effectively eliminate NASA and roughly 20 million other employees.

He tried to orchestrate a scam to skip the Senate confirmation hearings for his cabinet because he obviously realized that many of the people he was going to nominate were wildly unqualified for the positions he was planning on putting them in and trying to invent a recess appointment process and break the Constitution was the only way he was going to get these people into the position he nominated them for. Case in point, he nominated a sexual predator to be his attorney general who had to quit Congress to prevent an ethics report from being released and only withdrew his nomination after it was clear that the recess appointment scam wasn't going to work and the ethics report would have become public knowledge at any confirmation hearings. His Secretary of Defense is also wildly unqualified and is receiving massive push back from people in the Pentagon, most of whom have likely identified themselves as people Trump will fire and replace with Yes men as soon as he has the power to do so. At least he hasn't been accused of war crimes though which is the only way it could be on the same level of bad as the AG pick. He has nominated a secretary of education who has vast experience in...professional wrestling. All three of these nominees have accusations in various stages of investigation for sexual assault or related crimes.

The only surprising thing is how little we have actually seen of Trump during this period, which is actually concerning. At least if he is out front of the TV you can get an idea for what he has been doing. Who knows what type of deals that could potentially undermine the American people or American security that he is making right now? Or worse yet, the health decline we saw at the end of the campaign has continued to progressively get worse and he is incapable of long moments in public and they are just hoping he makes it to the inauguration. I suspect it's the first one though.

Still, if this were Biden or Harris who had a first two weeks like this Republicans in Congress would have already tried to impeach him and run a 25th amendment, even if they have no power to do so, multiple times. And this poll says half the country is happy with this? If an EMP pulse wiped out all digital entertainment and sources the collective IQ of the country would double once we had adjusted to going back to newspapers for sources of information.

And he has been President-elect for 20 days.
Translation = BioHawk is still sore his party was trashed in the election and he hates WINNING.
 
Maybe if Republicans had actually been part of the solution instead of the problem something would have been done on it. However, Republicans went out of their way to make sure nothing could get done about it. Including their candidate calling them up and telling them to tank legislation on it. And they got rewarded for doing this because you enjoy being upset about this apparently.

We'll see if he actually deports 15 million people. I'm not convinced he will. I think he is relying on Democrats to do what they usually do, and that is stop these really horrible ideas from happening and then he can just point his finger and blame them for not allowing him to set up concentration camps. That said, I haven't seen much organized resistance to anything from Democrats yet so I think there might actually be a debate going on about whether they are actually going to do much beyond, "We don't like this but you voted in Republicans so there isn't anything we can do about it. Next time vote for Democrats if you want reasonable solutions." All their blocking of stupid ideas and pushing reasonable ideas has gotten them is the demographics they were trying to protect to vote against them so maybe a change in what they do is necessary.
Well I am sure you'll guess this but you and I have a different memory of the comprehensive bipartisan border bill.

This bill would have allowed 5k people across the border daily. I dont care if this bill was supported by any Republicans. It was a bad bill and were I in congress, Id have voted no as well.

If there is convincing evidence Trump killed this for political reasons, not principle, I'd be happy to look it over. I have not seen any.

If he wanted it killed for the same reasons I do, I am not persuaded this was simply to create a wedge issue obviously. Which seems to be your take.
 
Oh no. He has a very concrete plan on the border. Close it. Day 1. Deport the criminals first.

Sounds like a plan to me.

Id agree with you on the economy. I am not clear what his plan is there aside from deregulation and bringing jobs back to the US via the threat of tariffs and tax policy. But I have an open mind.
He has no logistical plan on how to handle the millions of immigrants he says he will deport. He can't even agree on the number to be deported. Like I said, it's only concepts of a plan.

And why doesn't he have a concrete plan to make stuff as cheap as it was in 2020? He's had four years to work on it.
 
Well I am sure you'll guess this but you and I have a different memory of the comprehensive bipartisan border bill.

This bill would have allowed 5k people across the border daily. I dont care if this bill was supported by any Republicans. It was a bad bill and were I in congress, Id have voted no as well.

If there is convincing evidence Trump killed this for political reasons, not principle, I'd be happy to look it over. I have not seen any.

If he wanted it killed for the same reasons I do, I am not persuaded this was simply to create a wedge issue obviously. Which seems to be your take.
Trump literally called up Johnson and said, "Don't pass that bill because I need to run on immigration in the fall" and Johnson then killed the bill. Maybe not those exact words, but it might as well have been.


Note the part where he says "Blame it on me for the bill not passing". And here you are trying to pretend that none of this happened.
 
Trump literally called up Johnson and said, "Don't pass that bill because I need to run on immigration in the fall" and Johnson then killed the bill. Maybe not those exact words, but it might as well have been.


Note the part where he says "Blame it on me for the bill not passing". And here you are trying to pretend that none of this happened.
I'm sure Gus will look over this and summarily reject it.
 
Trump literally called up Johnson and said, "Don't pass that bill because I need to run on immigration in the fall" and Johnson then killed the bill. Maybe not those exact words, but it might as well have been.


Note the part where he says "Blame it on me for the bill not passing". And here you are trying to pretend that none of this happened.
LOL. There is nothing in the text of the article you linked that remotely says "Don't pass that bill because I need to run on immigration in the fall". At all. In fact, it simply says that he felt it was a bad bill. As do I.

This is flat out revisionist history. Making shit up. Disinformation.

"Blame it on me for the bill not passing" Again, not a statement about needing to run on it in the fall. You are so bad at this.




"Donald Trump on Saturday said he’ll fight the Senate border deal “all the way” and praised House Speaker Mike Johnson for declaring the bill dead on arrival in the lower chamber. Speaking at a “commit to caucus” event in Nevada, Trump railed against President Joe Biden’s handling of the southern border, a subject he has repeatedly leaned into as a base-rallying issue. He called the bipartisan, unreleased Senate agreement a “bad bill” and said there’s no chance he could support it.

“As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible, open borders betrayal of America. It’s not going to happen, and I’ll fight it all the way,” Trump said.

“I notice a lot of the senators, a lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me. I said that’s OK, please blame it on me. Please, because they were getting ready to pass a very bad bill. And I’ll tell you what, a bad bill, I’d rather have no bill than a bad bill.”
 
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Do you know anything at all about statistical sampling? This was likely a representative sample. Sure there MAY be a selection bias but there is no evidence of that.

But ok. For the purpose of settling this, a MAJORITY of voters selected Trump. Id suggest a majority of Americans did as well. Either by action or inaction.
This is a technicality, but Trump got a plurality of the voters. He is at 49.9% of voters.

Still enough for a mandate IMO, but he has not gotten a majority yet. Not sure if there are enough outstanding votes for him to get there.
 
He has no logistical plan on how to handle the millions of immigrants he says he will deport. He can't even agree on the number to be deported. Like I said, it's only concepts of a plan.

And why doesn't he have a concrete plan to make stuff as cheap as it was in 2020? He's had four years to work on it.
I’m curious about the plan on tariffs. Yes go after China and certain industries. But some industries America simply doesn’t have the labor pool to make it economically viable to open new factories.
Textile jobs for instance would be a smart move to outsource to Latin America. Providing them jobs to increase their standard of living and keep them from heading North to the USA
 
As predictable as the sun rising in the east. You were present and know exactly what was said?
Nope. I know exactly what wasnt said according to the article. Nowhere does it say that he said he wanted 'the issue for the fall' so to not pass the bill.

He said it was a bad bill. I agree it was. That is so not close to what Bio said he said it's laughable.

It was a bad bill because it let in 5k border crossing a day. We need zero.

Negotiate a bad bill it gets rejected. Pretty simple if you ask me.
 
LOL. There is nothing in the text of the article you linked that remotely says "Don't pass that bill because I need to run on immigration in the fall". At all. In fact, it simply says that he felt it was a bad bill. As do I.

This is flat out revisionist history. Making shit up. Disinformation.

"Blame it on me for the bill not passing" Again, not a statement about needing to run on it in the fall. You are so bad at this.




"Donald Trump on Saturday said he’ll fight the Senate border deal “all the way” and praised House Speaker Mike Johnson for declaring the bill dead on arrival in the lower chamber. Speaking at a “commit to caucus” event in Nevada, Trump railed against President Joe Biden’s handling of the southern border, a subject he has repeatedly leaned into as a base-rallying issue. He called the bipartisan, unreleased Senate agreement a “bad bill” and said there’s no chance he could support it.

“As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible, open borders betrayal of America. It’s not going to happen, and I’ll fight it all the way,” Trump said.

“I notice a lot of the senators, a lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me. I said that’s OK, please blame it on me. Please, because they were getting ready to pass a very bad bill. And I’ll tell you what, a bad bill, I’d rather have no bill than a bad bill.”
Predictable response. Revisionist history. You are projecting again, Gus. But at least you are willing to not use any critical thinking at all and just take what Trump says at face value here. Despite the bill containing every single initiative that conservatives have been asking for on the border for the last 20 years, including giving the President the ability to close the border down. Something Trump himself wanted in his previous term. In fact, the only reason many Democrats were on board with this was because they knew that Trump would tank it. Republicans will never get another bill as conservative as that one was without blowing up the filibuster to do it.
 
Nope. I know exactly what wasnt said according to the article. Nowhere does it say that he said he wanted 'the issue for the fall' so to not pass the bill.

He said it was a bad bill. I agree it was. That is so not close to what Bio said he said it's laughable.

It was a bad bill because it let in 5k border crossing a day. We need zero.

Negotiate a bad bill it gets rejected. Pretty simple if you ask me.
Sure, sure, sure. If it wasn't in the article then it could never have been said when there weren't reporters in the room or implied. Do you also believe that you are going to get money from African princes?
 
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He has no logistical plan on how to handle the millions of immigrants he says he will deport. He can't even agree on the number to be deported. Like I said, it's only concepts of a plan.

And why doesn't he have a concrete plan to make stuff as cheap as it was in 2020? He's had four years to work on it.
With Harris and Biden ruining the economy 24/7 his plan needed to be changed by the minute, give the guy an opportunity to fix the rotten mess he is being left with.
 
That was a terrible border bill,... Bring back HR2, and pass it this time.
You will have to blow up the filibuster to do it. I doubt Republicans end the filibuster over an issue they would prefer never be resolved in the first place. Although they might end the filibuster over something else which would give them a pathway, which could prove problematic for them due to the whole not actually wanting to resolve the issue thing.
 
You will have to blow up the filibuster to do it. I doubt Republicans end the filibuster over an issue they would prefer never be resolved in the first place. Although they might end the filibuster over something else which would give them a pathway, which could prove problematic for them due to the whole not actually wanting to resolve the issue thing.

Well see,.. at least it will get an actual vote in the Senate this time, and if modified slightly could garner adequate Dem support.
 
Well see,.. at least it will get an actual vote in the Senate this time, and if modified slightly could garner adequate Dem support.
It's going to have to be more than slightly. There are zero reasons for Democrats to work with Republicans on this. Plus, there is that whole Republicans don't actually want to solve this problem thing. They will just blame their inability to get something through Congress on Democrats like they always do.
 
It's going to have to be more than slightly. There are zero reasons for Democrats to work with Republicans on this.

Continued scrutiny by the American voter will provide numerous reasons for Democrats to not be on the wrong side of what needs to be perceived as "reasonable" legislation,... Task at hand for Republicans is to develop this "reasonable" legislation.
 
Continued scrutiny by the American voter will provide numerous reasons for Democrats to not be on the wrong side of what needs to be perceived as "reasonable" legislation,... Task at hand for Republicans is to develop this "reasonable" legislation.
You'd think. But I just don't see many Democrats taking a pro-concentration camp stance. When the history books are written they will want to be on the side that tried to stop that.
 
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You'd think. But I just don't see many Democrats taking a pro-concentration camp stance. When the history books are written they will want to be on the side that tried to stop that.
LOL - please elaborate on the concentration camps? Are they similar to the ones the late FDR built and placed Americans in?

Asking for a friend.
 
It is pretty messed up that Biden is extending every courtesy Trump refused him in 2020. Hard to fathom the danger that is Trump and even the Dems stand around and do nothing. Biden is still the president. He could be signing executive actions right now. He could force background checks on all of Trump's picks. He could force the release of Gaetz's investigation. But he does nothing.
He's waiting to declare martial law at the last minute.
 
Sure, sure, sure. If it wasn't in the article then it could never have been said when there weren't reporters in the room or implied. Do you also believe that you are going to get money from African princes?
Dude youre the one making shit up and asking people to believe it. That sounds a lot more like the people peddling the African prince scam to me than me believing it wasnt said.

Keep trying. Have you found a credible source yet that proves he called for Republicans to reject the plan so he had an issue in the fall?

Seems not.
 
Dude youre the one making shit up and asking people to believe it. That sounds a lot more like the people peddling the African prince scam to me than me believing it wasnt said.

Keep trying. Have you found a credible source yet that proves he called for Republicans to reject the plan so he had an issue in the fall?

Seems not.
I have provided multiple reasons that support my claim. You just keep coming back here with, "nuh-uh!" and a HUGE amount of willful cognitive dissonance. But whatever, you guys won. You're going to get what you want. Hope you enjoy paying 25% or more for all your stuff. I'm sure you will be posting about it every day like you did the past 4 years.
 
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I have provided multiple reasons that support my claim. You just keep coming back here with, "nuh-uh!" and a HUGE amount of willful cognitive dissonance. But whatever, you guys won. You're going to get what you want. Hope you enjoy paying 25% or more for all your stuff. I'm sure you will be posting about it every day like you did the past 4 years.
You have done no such thing. Not one source you have cited has said anything about how he did it to have an 'election issue in the fall'.

Finding an article that said he said it was a 'bad bill' is not at all what you think it is. But par for the course for an intellectual lightweight I suppose. Reading comprehension not your bag huh?
 
You have done no such thing. Not one source you have cited has said anything about how he did it to have an 'election issue in the fall'.

Finding an article that said he said it was a 'bad bill' is not at all what you think it is. But par for the course for an intellectual lightweight I suppose. Reading comprehension not your bag huh?
As I said. Willful cognitive dissonance. You do Trump's work for him.

Here. I'll put it in bold: TRUMP IS LYING TO YOU.
Here's a source that will explain the politics for you, not that you will allow it to kick any common sense into you. I mean, it's not like Trump has been found guilty of fraud dozens of times or anything. Why would he lie?


But again, I expect you to cry about the 25% increase in the price of all goods because of his tariffs as much as you cried about inflation during the Biden years.
 
As I said. Willful cognitive dissonance. You do Trump's work for him.

Here. I'll put it in bold: TRUMP IS LYING TO YOU.
Here's a source that will explain the politics for you, not that you will allow it to kick any common sense into you. I mean, it's not like Trump has been found guilty of fraud dozens of times or anything. Why would he lie?


But again, I expect you to cry about the 25% increase in the price of all goods because of his tariffs as much as you cried about inflation during the Biden years.
LOL - Broken record sounding Libs, all you cry about is "tariffs will increase the cost of ALL goods", which is a total lie.

The tariffs are going to be one of the best things ever for the American worker, tariffs will incentivize companies to produce goods here in the US and thus increase the number of jobs and strengthen our economy.

Manufacture American - Buy American
 
You'd think. But I just don't see many Democrats taking a pro-concentration camp stance. When the history books are written they will want to be on the side that tried to stop that.

I'm sure that we can do this without concentration camps...
 
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