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I copied from another site but I agree 100%.

I'm noticing that there are some folks doing some serious whining about the Trump administration. So I thought I'd post some thoughts.

1. Accept the fact that this is the leadership that we (the majority of) working, middle class Americans wanted. We are pulling the economic weight in this country and we are tired of pulling the weight of those that do not contribute.

2. If you haven't already, get a job. Every business in the country is hiring. And you get paid for the work you do. And the harder you work and the more you learn, the faster you will advance, and the more you will earn. It's an amazing concept.

3. Understand that if you are a U.S. Citizen, or have already started the legal process to become a U.S. Citizen that you are not going to get deported! I don't care what your favorite liberal media channel says.

4. Tariffs are a bargaining chip. When you are in business you make deals, and sometimes you have to play hardball. That's how you get the deals you desire.

5. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects you from discrimination by age, sex, race, etc. DEI openly violates this. Democrats want you to believe the opposite is true because they value your vote more than your quality of life.

6. It's not the government's money, it's your money. You absolutely should give a damn about how it is spent.

7. We are not the World Bank. If other countries need help they should raise their own finances. I don't recall receiving any hurricane relief money from India or China.

8. Drill baby, drill. Want to know why? Because we have it. Are electric cars the future? Not in their current form. There is way more oil in the ground than lithium, and guess where most of that is? China. Want food prices to come down? Then energy costs have to come down. And that means oil, gas, coal, and nuclear. Unicorn farts and liberal tears won't power your car!

9. The economy and the security of the country are far more important than your feelings, get over it.

10. There are men and there are women. Simple as that.

11. Education is to establish a learning core that prepares a child for the real, working world. Anything else is wrong.

12. Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States and he won by a landslide — both the popular vote and the electoral vote. Get over it. More than half the country voted for him, he deserves respect. Period.
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Nope.

12. Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States and he won by a landslide — both the popular vote and the electoral vote.

Here's reality


That's NOT a "landslide"; if 0.75% of the electorate had voted the other way, it would have been a tie. lol

Here are some landslides in the popular vote margin (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin):

Election Winner Pop Marg
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 24.26%
1972 Richard Nixon 23.15%
1800 Thomas Jefferson 22.86%
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 22.58%
1904 Theodore Roosevelt 18.83%
1984 Ronald Reagan 18.21%
1832 Andrew Jackson 17.81%
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 17.76%
1928 Herbert Hoover 17.41%
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower 15.40%

More than half the country voted for him, he deserves respect. Period.

NO, less than half of those who voted voted for him.

And with a turnout of only 64.1% of registered voters, he only had

0.641 * 0.498 = 0.319

or 31.9% of the country voting for him...

lmao
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Well, @oldguy73, the OP copied it from somewhere (as he openly said) and this last one gets to a point which has been made here (erroneously) many times.

But it's not the only of the 12 points which are wrong.

Of course, you'd have to question and actually research what has been put up i order to know this.

Clearly, of the two of us, one had the right instinct on this.

Hmmmm...
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@SomeMichGuy You can nitpick wording, but the bottom line is, HE WON!
@fanuc2013 It's not nitpicking when someone says

"it was a landslide" when it was NOT,

or

"half the country voted for him" when this is ALSO not true.

Yes, he won. And he's already destroyed our international reputation to the point that we have our best trading partners actively decoupling from us.

He is the front man for the longtime Republican dream of dismantling Social Security and Medicare (public pensions & healthcare), but his unhinged, unplanned, ill-conceived economic directives have trashed PRIVATE pensions, too (IRAs, etc.)

Is that good for America or Americans?