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    JB, don't look! Political thread.

    WHAT HAS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DONE SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN OFFICE

    1. Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch

    2. 59 missiles dropped in Syria

    3. He took us out of TPP

    4. Illegal immigration is now down 70%( the lowest in 17 years)

    5. Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index 125.6

    6. Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a seven year high

    7. Arranged from 7% to 24% Tariff on lumber from Canada

    8. Bids for border wall are well underway

    9. Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord

    10. Keystone pipeline approved

    11. NATO allies boost spending by 4.3%

    12. Allowing VA to terminate bad employees

    13. Allowing private healthcare choices for veterans

    14. More than 600,000. Jobs created (cut 10,000 Fed workers)

    15. Median household income at a 7 year high

    16. The Stock Market is at the highest ever in its history

    17. China agreed to American import of beef

    18. $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks

    19. Rollback of A Regulation to boost coal mining

    20. MOAB for ISIS

    21. Travel ban reinstated

    22. Executive order for religious freedom

    23. Jump started NASA

    24. $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget

    25. Targeting of MS13 gangs

    26. Deporting violent illegal immigrants

    27. Signed 41 bills to date

    28. Created a commission on child trafficking

    29. Created a commission on voter fraud

    30. Created a commission for opioids addiction

    31. Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients

    32. Unemployment lowest since May 2007

    33. Historic Black College University initiative

    34. Women In Entrepreneurship Act

    35. Created an office for illegal immigrant crime victims

    36. Reversed Dodd-Frank

    37. Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning

    38. Order to stop crime against law enforcement

    39. End of DAPA program

    40. Stopped companies from moving out of America

    41. Promoted businesses to create American Jobs

    42. Encouraged country to once again - 'Buy American and hire American'

    43. Cutting regulations - 2 for every one created

    45. Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first

    46. Apprentice program

    47. Highest manufacturing surge in 3 years

    48. $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota

    49. Denied FBI a new building

    50. $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation

    51. Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll

    52. Dept of Treasury reports a $182 billion surplus for April 2017 (2nd largest in history)

    53. Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in Egypt

    54. Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years

    55. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence and Economic Growth

    56. Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people's lives than any President in the history of America

    57. President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman

    58. Has given head executive of each branches 6 month time frame, dated March 15, 2017, to trim the fat, restructure and improve efficiency of their branch. (Observe the push-back the leaks the lies as entrenched POWER refuses to go silently into that good night!)

    59. Last, refused his Presidential pay check. Donated it to Veterans issues
    A Government that pays people to do nothing destorys their willingness to do anything!

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    I was half in half out on the Trump thing, in the give a guy a chance bucket. Some of the stuff he does I really like, but he lost me with the Nazi thing. Sort of like Obama not standing tall and denouncing with 0 wiggle room on groups that perpetrated violence against officers. When you have a clear bunch of shit heads call them out...Trump failed at doing that.

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    Maybe his heart was not in denouncing it? Also sorta like Obummer didn't believe he should denounce the violence against cops.
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    You actually hit perfectly on both my issues. Both of their hearts should be in denouncing it. And, I am in complete agreement Obamma is every bit as guilty on the other side of this issue. What I would really like is for rationale people to not be so polarized by "their candidate that they will call bullshit when it's due. It never seems to happen.

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    Bullshit!
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    I said rational people 😀

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hombre View Post
    I said rational people 😀
    Bam.

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    A Government that pays people to do nothing destorys their willingness to do anything!

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    Yep, he is. Anyone else think Pence is sitting down with his advisors right now having this conversation..... "Look back in July you a$$ holes told me he'd be impeached by now and I'd be president."

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    I'm confused .... according to CNN, he hasn't accomplished ONE thing since he's been in office.
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    That's because Larke's list is weak sauce at best. No repeal and replace, not one dime spent on the wall by either us or the Mexicans and he's using racism to draw everyone's attention away from his Russia "problem". The reality is he hasn't accomplished a damn thing that can't be erased with a stroke of the next President's pen.

    But, as long as us deplorables are happy because at least it's not Hilary, it's all good!


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    I don't understand how they missed that, CNN is usually right on the cutting edge
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    I have a suspicious feeling we've all taken Cap's bait.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hombre View Post
    I have a suspicious feeling we've all taken Cap's bait.
    Hehe. The slick old country boy wouldn't be above doing a little baiting.

    Serious question though, and I'm not being provocative or flippant here. Has the thought crossed anyone else's mid that maybe, just maybe this nation has become... ungovernable?

    I hate to even think it let alone say it out loud. But I swear to god we are showing all the symptoms of a country so divided, so deeply divided, that we might not be able to govern ourselves anymore. It used to be that men were ashamed to considered hysterical. I'm not sure it isn't considered a badge of honor now.

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    Either ole Bucky is a soothsayer or a really smart guy.....about 3 years ago, he posted that very thing.....he said that our govt. had gotten too big to be governed and was out of control like a runaway locomotive.....a rather big discussion followed.
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    I try and stay away from political threads and arguments but 0fella's, Trump is a FUCKIN IDIOT! Hell of a choice last year between a woman I fucking can't stand and this assclown I was afraid would destroy the country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hombre View Post
    I have a suspicious feeling we've all taken Cap's bait.
    No as much that, more as a effort to get s discussion going. This place has been dead lately.
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    I suddenly feel prophetic, and think I'll plagiarize my south MS brother, Doc Shockley:

    """It's my hope that when people get done tearing down statues, digging up graves , protesting flags that they put the same effort in getting gangs out of neighborhood's, improving schools in the inner cities, protest the loss of blue collar union jobs to foreign countries, protest these companies wanting to pay non living wages and no benefits to hard working men and women. Tearing down a statue does nothing to stop drugs , digging up a boys grave that died in Virginia carrying a musket doesn't bring back an automotive plant, so when your finished fighting about something from 150 years ago , let's join up and fight for the future of our children cause believe me I'm more worried about tomorrow than I am about yesterday."""
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    This bullshit has nothing to do with statues. And I don't know many people who don't think that local towns and cities and states can make up their own minds about what monuments they want to put up. But the statue deal is a giant red herring in this deal.

    BKB
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    What do you mean Posthole? The statues should come down??
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    Blacks, who were never slaves are fighting whites who were never Nazis, over Confederate statues, erected by Democrats . . . because Democrats can't stand their own history anymore . . . yet, somehow it's Trumps fault!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain View Post
    What do you mean Posthole? The statues should come down??
    I mean that whatever the voters or representatives in a city decide to do with them is perfectly fine by me. And it also really ain't none of my business.

    But the statues have nothing to do with Charlottesville.

    And statues ain't got nothing to do with the shitstorm over Trump's comments about it. Its all a ruse, like Hank said. I just hope this crazy bastard doesn't get us in a war.

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    They're going all ape-shit about statues down here also ... and removing the dang things. This latest b/s really pisses me off. The stupid thing is, I saw Al Sharpton on TV last night demanding the federal government halt funding the Jefferson Memorial. He said his tax dollars shouldn't go to supporting a monument to a dufe who boinked a slave and made a baby! WTF??? HIS tax dollars??? Wasn't he charged for not paying 4.5 million bucks in taxes? What a frigging idiot!
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    They tore down Robert E. Lee's in Durham NC this week. It's a mess
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    I think they arrested some folks that did that didn't they?

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    I've sorta been out of the news but I do think they arrested the gal that put the rope on the statue. Maybe others. The only news I've seen on it has been on Facebook.
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    I think I saw today they had arrested three or four people and were lookng at more.

    There is no excuse for tearing shit up.

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    That's right. If the area no longer wants the thing they could sell it to a collector, or move it to some museum.
    It's just stupid to make such an issue out of this.
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    Of course, now they're protesting that the folks got arrested for tearing down them statue.


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