In my lifetime, a President and later a Vice President with the same skin color as mine. And I’m incredibly grateful that my parents lived to see them elected.
@bijouxbroussard That's pretty good. I have to admit that I wonder when there will be another black president. I hope it wasn't a one time thing that the country got off their checklist....Obama was a very charismatic person. It may be a while before we get a person like Eisenhower...limited charisma as a black president. I think that would show a greater level of equality....
@bijouxbroussard IDK...Colin Powell probably didn't have the personal charisma of Obama, but he was everyone's favorite person after the first Iraq war. I sometimes wonder how Jesse Jackson sr. feels about never having gotten the nomination. I think his son got mixed up in some Illinois scandal. I don't recall much about it, but I do remember (even as a conservative) thinking he was a really good politician....
@Dustyhands I feel like the decisions that were made during the Trump administration were mostly his ideas, is the problem. Yes, it's true, the GOP in general are responsible for the fact that Obama wasn't permitted to name a Supreme Court judge, but if you look at the people who got the job, they are totally people Trump would get drunk with after work.
Regarding the railroads, I don't know personally what language was in the safety regulations he rolled back, so you can probably convince me with little effort that the regulations were already insufficient, but come on. Surely you don't agree that there needed to be fewer safety regulations?
And yes, Vladimir Putin is the one who chose to invade Ukraine, but only after specifically telling Trump he wanted him to stop giving them military aid. He didn't call the Senate. He didn't call the House. He called the president.
The pandemic wasn't started by him, either, but he was there every day on television, contradicting the things that were said by the medical experts and creating confusion. And his proposed travel bans on China and other countries had exceptions for the type of people he liked, so they were basically useless. You're right that he had a good idea incentivizing the pharmaceutical companies to come up with a vaccine quickly. I give him credit for that. He knows how to motivate greedy people.
I note that you don't address the fact that he rolled back parts of the Dodd-Frank Act which led directly to the current banking crisis.
@LordShadowfire I don't know the specifics about what was rolled back on Dodd-Frank, but I do remember reading a lot when the act was created; it wasn't really intended that all the items in the bill would remain in place forever, so it really doesn't surprise me that he rolled some things back....
@samueltyler2 Mine was either the Berlin Wall falling or the Soviet Union breaking up....and the second one really came with a whisper in relative terms.
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout who were the "they?" I thought there was a particular man who shot Reagan.
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I don't know about "swore it would never happen" but I've certainly seen some surprising events in history in my lifetime. The rapid collapse of the Soviet Union was a big one.
That an idiot dementia patient would be installed after 45 and destroy the economy, go after a previous president, open the border and weaken America. Leaving Afghanistan in a slip shot manner leaving billions in military equipment in the hands of our enemies.
@helenS So? what he said was treasonous! By the way, why were sanctions required on Russia? who enabled their actions?
You might not even be correct about who put more sanctions on Russia:
https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/sanctions-by-the-numbers-russia The Trump administration continued imposing new sanctions on Russia, albeit at a much lower rate than the preceding Obama administration, which designated 458 entities and individuals with ties to Russia during Obama’s second term compared to 273 under Trump.
@samueltyler2 Here's a list of sanctions imposed on Russia by the Trump administration. I hope the list is reliable. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/09/25/on-the-record-the-u-s-administrations-actions-on-russia/
More specifically, Trump signed a law that imposed sanctions on any firm that helps Russia's state-owned gas company, Gazprom, finish a pipeline into the European Union. The US considered the project a security risk to Europe, and rightly so.
The country succumb to corruption and become no more than a third world Banana Republic, and install a mentally non-functioning pederast as current Resident of the White House and the fucked up excuses for people who make up his cabinet.
