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Shadowstep · 26-30, M
Because we now have trump
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: do you think it's right to become a conspiracy theorist if you have access to all government data? To blame the previous president for something he has absolutely no authorization to do? Or to support trumpcare which is an absolute piece of crap?
@Shadowstep: No conspiracy. Let me give you an example of the result of liberal policies and leftist thinking.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmSt6R4F0Y]
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmSt6R4F0Y]
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: *sighs* OK give me ONE reason why trump believes Obama did that
@Shadowstep: Obama wiretapped Merkel. You don't think he would wiretap his opponent? This is just part of leftist behavior. The want things to suck for some reason. I think it's self loathing. Obama has done everything that he has accused others of doing and more.
@puck61: The Youtube above is from a liberal perspective and they still don't get it!
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: Obama needs direct authorization from the rest of Congress to do that, also unless you're rich and healthy as possible trumpcare will not benefit you
@Shadowstep: Leftist politicians don't care about rules and regulations unless it suits their agenda. In your heart you know this. Sometimes I think people stick to the left for the same reason some kids go goth or deathcore. Just to piss people off and be strange.
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: ah OK so you don't want good healthcare? And you feel that a 70 year old guy who spends his time on Twitter, his weekends at Mar a Lago, spending time signing pieces of paper, picking a pointless cabinet, and saying that his health care is.. THE BEST HEALTH CARE... Is a good leader? Yeah I'll just move on to live in Britain or somewhere
@Shadowstep: Obamacare was NOT / IS NOT good health care. It wasn't even the slightest bit altruistic. It was the Obama cartels attempt to gain control over 7% of the US economy. The Obama cartel was sinister from start to finish.
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: it was better than trumps new health care plan I'll tell ya that much.. oh wait I forgot.. trump wants to force Obama care to fail and blame the Democrats for its failures, plus you have a rich man, with a rich cabinet and keep in mind the head of environmental believes that global warming is a hoax and a rich doctor is leader of urban housing and development, honestly I feel that if you come straight up with 3 billion dollars and a whole string of pure lies I can become president
@Shadowstep: Trump is doing a fantastic job. His ego will not allow him to fail. I guess I am selfish in feeling like it's unfair for the alt left to benefit from all the good that Trump is doing, but it will. Everyone is going to be much better off. People are fooled by the 'Hollywood' persona of Obama, but that's pretty shallow when you think about it.
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: name 6 GREAT things he's done for this country
10) Freezing all Federal Hiring Outside of the Military: Trump followed in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps by putting a federal hiring freeze in place almost immediately after he became president. That’s big, because the first step to shrinking government is to stop adding more people to it.
9) Pulling Support for the Obama Drive to Force Women to Allow Men in Their Bathrooms: This was a bit surprising, because Trump has generally been supportive of allowing transgender women to use women’s bathrooms, but he also said he believes the issue should be left to the states. Towards that end, he ordered the DOJ to “withdraw a motion filed by former President Barack Obama seeking to allow transgender students in public schools to use the restroom with which they identify.” That will probably lead to the issue being left to the states, which is how it should be.
8) Reinstating The Mexico City Policy: Barring U.S. government funding to international non-governmental agencies that promote or perform abortions is a big deal for pro-lifers. Because of Trump, your tax dollars are no longer going to be used to murder children overseas.
7) Ordered Federal Agencies To Cut Two Regulations For Every New One They Propose: Not only will this lead to fewer regulations, Trump has also decreed that the net cost of any new regulation that is added after cutting the old regulations should be zero. In other words, the regulatory burden on the American people can only go in one direction: down. If you want to help the economy, one of the best ways to do it is to stop strangling American businesses with red tape. Trump understands that.
6) Putting Out An Executive Order Asking The DOJ And Homeland Security to Withhold “Federal Funds, Except As Mandated By Law” From Sanctuary Cities: Trump talked a lot about sanctuary cities on the campaign trail and it’s great to see him taking action against these lawless cities. The fewer sanctuary cities we have, the fewer Americans like Kate Steinle will be raped, robbed or murdered as a result. There is no such thing as the “rule of law” when a protected class of foreign trespassers don’t live under the same laws as the rest of us.
5) Approving The Dakota Access Pipeline And The Keystone Pipeline: Not only will both those pipelines produce jobs without harming the environment, over the long haul they’ll help reduce gas prices. Liberals may not care about Americans spending less on gas, but it’s great that Trump does.
4) Killing The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal: As Jeff Sessions has noted, the TPP was a bad agreement that dangerously eroded America sovereignty,
"The TPP is about a goal of creating a new global regulatory structure, what I have called a Pacific union, transferring power from individual Americans and power from Congress once more. Eroding Congress to an unaccountable, unelected international bureaucratic committee. In other words, we are empowering the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries to create really a new Congress of sorts, a group with delegates that goes and meets and decides important issues that can impact everyday life of Americans. So the American representative in this commission, which will operate in many ways like the UN, will not be answerable to voters anywhere."
For liberals, transferring American sovereignty to an unelected international group is a feature. It’s great that Trump sees it as a bug.
3) Undermining Obamacare: While there’s still lots of talk about how the GOP should repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump has already stuck a shiv in the heart of the program by ordering the government to “exercise all authority and discretion available to them” to delay the law and grant exemptions. There are still legal questions to be answered about the long term impact of this executive order, but as a practical matter, it appears to have already done away with the IRS enforcing a penalty on people who don’t have healthcare. Technically, the law is still on the books, but if you no longer have to report to the IRS whether you have health insurance or not, that makes it nearly impossible for it to be enforced. Obamacare is already in a death spiral and this executive order will speed things along.
2) Ordering The Construction Of The Border Wall: If you had to pick a central promise of Trump’s campaign, it was building a border wall. He’s already ordered construction to begin and as an extra added bonus, he signed an executive order increasing the number of border patrol agents and staffers for deportations. Of course ultimately, Trump will be judged on getting the wall finished, but you have to start somewhere and it’s good to see him taking that big first step right out of the gate.
1) Selecting Neil Gorsuch For The Supreme Court: Gorsuch is an eminently qualified 49 year old originalist and if conservatives were fantasy league picking their top five selections for the court, he’d be on it. Trump did his job; now it’s up to Mitch McConnell to get Gorsuch confirmed via hook, crook or nuclear option.
9) Pulling Support for the Obama Drive to Force Women to Allow Men in Their Bathrooms: This was a bit surprising, because Trump has generally been supportive of allowing transgender women to use women’s bathrooms, but he also said he believes the issue should be left to the states. Towards that end, he ordered the DOJ to “withdraw a motion filed by former President Barack Obama seeking to allow transgender students in public schools to use the restroom with which they identify.” That will probably lead to the issue being left to the states, which is how it should be.
8) Reinstating The Mexico City Policy: Barring U.S. government funding to international non-governmental agencies that promote or perform abortions is a big deal for pro-lifers. Because of Trump, your tax dollars are no longer going to be used to murder children overseas.
7) Ordered Federal Agencies To Cut Two Regulations For Every New One They Propose: Not only will this lead to fewer regulations, Trump has also decreed that the net cost of any new regulation that is added after cutting the old regulations should be zero. In other words, the regulatory burden on the American people can only go in one direction: down. If you want to help the economy, one of the best ways to do it is to stop strangling American businesses with red tape. Trump understands that.
6) Putting Out An Executive Order Asking The DOJ And Homeland Security to Withhold “Federal Funds, Except As Mandated By Law” From Sanctuary Cities: Trump talked a lot about sanctuary cities on the campaign trail and it’s great to see him taking action against these lawless cities. The fewer sanctuary cities we have, the fewer Americans like Kate Steinle will be raped, robbed or murdered as a result. There is no such thing as the “rule of law” when a protected class of foreign trespassers don’t live under the same laws as the rest of us.
5) Approving The Dakota Access Pipeline And The Keystone Pipeline: Not only will both those pipelines produce jobs without harming the environment, over the long haul they’ll help reduce gas prices. Liberals may not care about Americans spending less on gas, but it’s great that Trump does.
4) Killing The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal: As Jeff Sessions has noted, the TPP was a bad agreement that dangerously eroded America sovereignty,
"The TPP is about a goal of creating a new global regulatory structure, what I have called a Pacific union, transferring power from individual Americans and power from Congress once more. Eroding Congress to an unaccountable, unelected international bureaucratic committee. In other words, we are empowering the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries to create really a new Congress of sorts, a group with delegates that goes and meets and decides important issues that can impact everyday life of Americans. So the American representative in this commission, which will operate in many ways like the UN, will not be answerable to voters anywhere."
For liberals, transferring American sovereignty to an unelected international group is a feature. It’s great that Trump sees it as a bug.
3) Undermining Obamacare: While there’s still lots of talk about how the GOP should repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump has already stuck a shiv in the heart of the program by ordering the government to “exercise all authority and discretion available to them” to delay the law and grant exemptions. There are still legal questions to be answered about the long term impact of this executive order, but as a practical matter, it appears to have already done away with the IRS enforcing a penalty on people who don’t have healthcare. Technically, the law is still on the books, but if you no longer have to report to the IRS whether you have health insurance or not, that makes it nearly impossible for it to be enforced. Obamacare is already in a death spiral and this executive order will speed things along.
2) Ordering The Construction Of The Border Wall: If you had to pick a central promise of Trump’s campaign, it was building a border wall. He’s already ordered construction to begin and as an extra added bonus, he signed an executive order increasing the number of border patrol agents and staffers for deportations. Of course ultimately, Trump will be judged on getting the wall finished, but you have to start somewhere and it’s good to see him taking that big first step right out of the gate.
1) Selecting Neil Gorsuch For The Supreme Court: Gorsuch is an eminently qualified 49 year old originalist and if conservatives were fantasy league picking their top five selections for the court, he’d be on it. Trump did his job; now it’s up to Mitch McConnell to get Gorsuch confirmed via hook, crook or nuclear option.
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
OK 5 was really bad don't even mention that
@Shadowstep: It's great. It's way overdue!
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: ah so you think going over sacred native American land protected by treaties is a good thing? Says a lot for moral stances
Please show me where certain American citizens are immune to imminent domain. This is how history works. It's for the best, and it has to be done.
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: native Americans are decently immune for the fact that we took over their lands
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: also think about it like this, would it be OK for me to bust into your house, kick you out, demolish your house, and turn the land into a theme park?
@Shadowstep: Of course not, but the good of the many outweighs the good of the few.
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: breaking treaties, polluting river water, demolishing native American sacred lands is not a good thing much less it's one of the worst things you can do
@Shadowstep: The protesters are/were doing more polluting than the backhoes! This is a hypocrisy free zone!
Shadowstep · 26-30, M
@puck61: so you're willing to demolish land to build a pipe?
@Shadowstep: That's hyperbole. People are generally protesting for their own entertainment anyway. It's like a party, and people feel the camaraderie and selfish altruism and have a perceived reason to misbehave. It isn't going to "destroy the land" and "poison the watershed". It's necessary, and there are always risks, but there's no need for dramatics.