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Trump Approval at 55%! Go Trump!

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Rocketman1981, Feb 16, 2017.

  1. larsv8

    larsv8 Contributing Member

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    The basic work has been done.

    The position has been put forward, the evidence shown to support the position.

    If you cannot or are unwilling to do the work to counter that position or challenge the evidence, in a debate forum, well then this isn't really the place for you, now is it? Either counter the point, or concede it.
     
  2. NewRoxFan

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    In other words... there are no reputable sources. And I always would prefer to get some half-baked opinion from some anonymous poster on a basketball discussion board than an article from a reputable newspaper or magazine article written by an expert on the subject (or at least with information provided by an expert). Heck, I am sure all of America is waiting to here what RussiaLegend thinks about the current tariff issue...
     
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    Many people, more and more people, are saying that the greatest fraud perpetuated by a political party is your dotard of a dear leader. Believe me.
     
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    If it were the case the people would decide in two years but that is not what is going on. The people should be able to make their choices and
    they chose Trump and if another side makes a better argument the people will decide differently.

    BUT WHAT IS GOING ON is that the leftists want him out by any means necessary, calls for impeachment, the weaponizing of the government to political purposes. That's sad.
     
  5. Rocketman1981

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    I for one am SUPER happy with the work that Trump has done. Great Supreme Court Justice (soon to be two), rulings
    for entrepreneurs, job creators and wealth builders. Reduction in governmental overreach and a sense of joint purpose
    with industry.

    Such happy days
     
  6. Rocketman1981

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    Such a nice feeling when governmental bureaucrats lose the power to enforce any rules that will give them more political
    power. Growing like a virus. And Trump's policies have been the most significant increase in a return of power to people,
    business and states and away from government that we've seen in my lifetime.

    Remember that fascists and autocrats TAKE power from private owners. He's a bad autocrat if his policy is returning
    power and freedom away from government and back to the people.
     
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    You mean how Trump enacted tariffs and now companies have to grovel to bureaucrats to get exemptions from the tariffs Trump enacted?

    Whoops.
     
  8. Rocketman1981

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    Do you think it is a coincidence that there are no US cars in Europe? There is a 10% tariff on US cars going to Europe and a 2.5% tariff on
    European cars going into the US?

    There are all types of terrible trade deals and glad we have an administration trying to rectify those ills. We're not here to subsidize the world.
     
  9. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    You should really do some reading about actual fascism, and not via an InfoWars/Federalist blog. Your dear leader's look-a-like act-a-like, Il Duce, defined fascism as corporatism: private (corporate) ownership of everything, until you cannot distinguish between the mega-corps and the central government. Voila! How Franco ran it, how Mussolini ran it, how the Third Reich ran it.

    As to your "YOU LOST" post... WTF? You've got to have something better than that, in the face of criticism, right? It would be very difficult to find an American who cares less about HRC than me. But criticizing our leader is an American right and it has nothing to do with the last election. Yes, 45 won the electoral college. That means he needs to be the president of all Americans. The problem is everything that's come after he was elected. Brennan, an actual patriot, someone who deeply loves his country, put it best just yesterday. Cheers.
     
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    When you create governmental bureaucracy and excessive rules it BENEFITS the largest corporations at the expense of the nimble new entrepreneur.
    Reductions in regulations and government paper pushers and the extreme requirements and labor laws to start up anything KILLS new businesses.

    The reduction of rules and oversight fights big business. It helps SMALL new companies take market share as the basic cost to start a business is lower and they're able to compete better than in markets with heavy handed rules that only the lawyers and corporate cronyism is able to flourish in.

    Your point is incorrect.
     
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    No matter how many times this is repeated some folks will never be able to grasp it. I don't know whether it's a reflection on their own "team" vs. "team" mentality, or it's just easier to believe that everyone was really a die-hard Hillary fan and just can't take it that their "beloved" Hillary lost.

    I honestly don't know why this keeps coming up over and over again.
     
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    I'll let BRENNAN who voted for the communist party ride off to his socialist sunset while those that believe in the rights of individuals and will fight governmental overreach like me will support what is going on.

    TRUMP is REDUCING government power. That's anti communist and socialist in which the government controls and has heavy influence in the private sector and then the power goes to the elite party member intelligencia.

    Not happening here...move on!
     
  13. larsv8

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    Grats on helping small businesses.

    It only cost a living wage for workers, a habitable planet, a sustainable economic model, a working democratic electorate, peaceful race relations.

    But hey, gotta look at the positives!
     
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    Why American cars don't sell in Germany (Hint: it's not tariffs)
    Europeans don't buy American cars because they don't like their huge size and appetite for gasoline, not because of import duties.
    https://global.handelsblatt.com/companies/american-cars-dont-sell-germany-hint-not-tariffs-917427
     
  15. Rocketman1981

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    Then go to the people as to why your ideas are better. Countless democrats have tried to start impeachment proceedings against
    Trump.

    How is that democratic?

    It's not about HRC, its about a losing side trying to overturn and deny the people's choice for President.
     
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    Can you make an argument yourself without just googling Jesus. And finding Mr. German Heinrich's german professor
    saying why we don't sell US cars in germany is great, but why the Tariff imbalance??

    Does that not REDUCE the ability for American companies to sell there even at the margin?

    How people think and defend them charging 400% of the tariff's we charge on their automobiles and DEFENDING
    it is just daft.

    This is simple stuff people.
     
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    If Germans wouldn't buy US cars why not make the tariff equivalent??

    Because they're subsidizing their industry at the expense of ours. Our politicians have been fools like John Kerry
    that want to hobnob with the elite and not fight in the trenches for unfair practices that hurt our country.

    People in the US will live better and produce more when these terrible practices are equalized.
     
  18. NewRoxFan

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    Again, I would trust someone identified as a car expert in Germany on this before I'd trust some anonymous poster on a basketball discussion board. And I'd trust someone that presented sourced information. But you keep being you... after all, you are a trump supporter.
     
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    I'm an entrepreneur and a job creator and he hasn't done anything to help me. Try again.
     
  20. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    I should just drop it, I know, and quit "debating." It's so pointless.

    But of all my criticisms of and defense of Obama's time in office, I never once was even tempted to say "YOU LOST," or "GET OVER IT!" No, if I have even a shred of respect for my fellow citizens and if they are concerned that Obama would screw up healthcare or screw up the middle east or screw up the deficit (bwahahaha! by the way on that one), then I took that seriously. How little does something think of their fellow citizens if they think "YOU LOST! Romney whiner!" as a response to criticism of our president? It boggles the mind, but it also shows me a clear path forward: don't engage with people who post in that manner.

    I guess the YOU LOST mindset comes from people who truly do digest politics as a sort of football game, and they hear any criticism of policy to be like someone complaining about a holding call or something (?) I don't know. Not worth much of our time to try to figure it out honestly. Cheers.
     
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