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The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Scarface281, Jan 25, 2025.

  1. raining threes

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    Yeah, Trump's doing what he said he was going to do and what 77 million people voted for but I'm stupid.
     
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    Everyone drink - CF drinking game where we all have to take a shot every time RainingThrees says 77 million people voted for Trump.

    If we want to make this a healthy thing, everyone drink a glass of water for hydration. We will all then benefit from this drinking game, but then we will spend all day peeing because it’s gonna be gallons.
     
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  3. Amiga

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    Effective enough to win the election. If he is openly an idiot, then logic suggests the Democrats are even bigger idiots for failing to counter him. 'Idiots' here refers strictly to politics.
     
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  4. Amiga

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    This administration is literally run by billionaires... at least 13 of them. Do you consider billionaires not to be elite?
     
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  5. Amiga

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    This is not understanding what I posted. Frankly, this is a pretty common problem... if you don't understand, you can't address it.

    OVERGENERALIZING: For the past 8 years, Republicans have been fooled too easily, and Democrats fail to grasp what people want and fail to address it directly.
     
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  6. Rocket River

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    I dunno about that
    It's like saying the Nerd in High School not winning Student Body President
    because the other guy said he would get a jukebox in the Cafeteria . . .. .
    (true story)
    (hint - it didn't happen)
    Was the nerd an idiot for not making a bigger ridiculous impractical promise to win?

    Democrats maybe right but they cannot communicate it in a meaningful way
    We are currently a SOUND BITE society and alot of problems have no simple solutions
    Republicans offer simple yet wrong solutions

    Generally this:


    Rocket River
     
    #2106 Rocket River, Aug 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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  7. No Worries

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    Yeah if you truly believe that Trump is "doing what he said he was going to do" then perhaps you are stupid lack critical thinking skills or are just blissfully ignorant.

    Trump promised/done chart:

    not promised, not done
    lowering drug prices by 1500%
    make Canada the 51rst state
    invade Greenland
    prosecute Obama, Biden, Hillary, Hunter
    withhold FEMA aid to states that do not 100% back Israel

    not promised, done
    deported non-criminal illegal aliens
    bomb Iran
    raise tariffs against all countries not named China
    start a war against all US universities
    remove people with legal status over 1A protected speech
    start a war against the federal judiciary

    promised, not done
    stop the war in Ukraine
    stop the war in Gaza
    release the Epstein files
    lower the price of groceries
    free IVF

    promised, done
    deported criminal illegal aliens
    raise tariffs against China
    give huge tax break to the top 1%


    When you say Trump is just doing what he said he was going to do, you must completely ignore all of the other things.
     
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  8. astros123

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    What a suprise.... another domestic terrorist thats a MAGAT.
     
  9. raining threes

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    Yeah, I like what he's done and what he's trying to do although he hasn't been able to stop the wars it's not because of a lack of effort.

    Grocery prices have stabilized.

    I too want the Epstein files released and whoever was stealing childen's innocence prosecuted. I dont care whether that GOP or Dems.

    I'm all for the last stuff you listed. Only thing you got wrong is most people got a tax break not just the top 1%. (No tax on overtime/ tips as an example.) BTW, how much in taxes should the upper class/ upper middle class have to pay in taxes IYO? Give me a number.
     
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  10. No Worries

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    For top 10% of tax filers, no less than 20%, no matter the deductions.
    For all corporations, no less than 10%, no matter the deductions.
    This is an Alternative Minimum Tax with teeth.

    People like Trump would never have a year where they do not pay person or corporate taxes.

    Also if the federal government run an annual deficit, I would like to see a bump in tax brackets by 10% the following year. If there is a deficit for two straight years, bump that percentage, say 10% to 15%. etc. This would directly tie annual deficits to the taxes that get paid.
     
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  11. raining threes

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    Thanks for the reply.

    I'm for a national sales tax so this way everybody has skin in the game and doing away with the income tax/IRS altogether. Anything that gets the govt out of our lives I'm all for.
     
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    A new poll puts President Donald Trump's approval rating near record lows, noting an "erosion of support" among one of the president's most reliable groups of supporters: men.

    The University of Massachusetts Amherst survey released Monday, Aug. 4, found public support for the Republican leader has dropped six percentage points since its April poll, giving Trump a meager 38% approval rating. With a corresponding 58% of poll respondents disapproving of his job performance, the figures mark one of the lowest ratings seen in recent months − and follow a string of major national polls with similarly low approval ratings.

    A historical analysis by Gallup shows Trump's approval ratings in the first July of both of his terms are lower than those of any other modern president.

    “Trump’s approval ratings, already historically low for a newly elected president, continue to sink with close to 6-in-10 Americans (58%) expressing disapproval of the job that Trump is doing in office," the UMass Amherst poll's director, Tatishe Nteta, said in an Aug. 4 press release. "While Trump remains a popular figure among Republicans and conservatives, Trump’s time in office is viewed more negatively across genders, generations, classes and races, with majorities of each of these groups disapproving of Trump’s performance."

    The poll, conducted in partnership with YouGov July 25-30, interviewed 1,000 respondents nationally. The margin of error is 3.5%.
     
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  13. astros123

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    @Nook I don't think Americans realize how much the entire world hates America bcz of Trump now. The global South has drastically pivoted towards China in a way thats never happened before.
     
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  14. deb4rockets

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    Do you support Trump's DOJ giving a sweetheart deal move to the recruiter, groomer, and accomplice to sexually assaulting and trafficking those children and stealing their innocence? Surely that should outrage you, right? Surely, even considering giving that sicko a pardon disgusts you, right?
     
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    He always does. He cherry picks pieces of the whole picture, leaves out the missing details, or completely leaves out the Trump flat out lies of his campaigning.
     
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  16. Buck Turgidson

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    You left out quite a few, though.
     
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  17. Nook

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    No - America is insulated from the world view. Trump voters largely don’t give a **** about how the rest of the world views the USA- they want to isolate. Most of the rest of America either feels helpless or doesn’t realize the amount of damage being done.
     
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  18. Bandwagoner

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    Excellent. A million fraudulent degreed indians can move to Russia instead of coming here. Win win.
     
  19. astros123

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    This weird right wing hatred of Indians shows just how much of the "we only want immigrants to come in legally" is just bs. South Asians are hands down some of the most highest contributing members of American society. High education/pay lots of taxes/very low crime members. Americans Indians are also some of the most assimilated Indians anywhere in world.

    You people are just racist scumbags and nothing more.
     
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