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I was willing to wait and see. Give the guy credit on his first term, but this is just a different animal. He is tanking the economy, American influence world wide, and screwing over the next few generations of Americans.

He unilaterally declared economic war on the world, with no apparent plan. I think it's safe to say, given all his lying and flip flopping, there was never a real plan. Maybe a vague outline drawn on a napkin. Similar to the first term, but worse outlines this time.

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My future prediction is you are wrong on every one of your takes.

This is a master 3D chess player while the rest of us are playing checkers

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The only thing or certain is that no matter what happens, his zealot followers will declare it a total victory.

Probably the greatest biggest hit the economy has ever taken in any administration's first 100 days, but it's all sunshine and 3D chess to you!

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It's not relevant to the first 100 days if it saves the country from the Biden fiasco. The country was in horrible shape whether you want to admit it or not.

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There is the argument that it might take short term pain to fix long standing issues, but the economy is objectively far worse off after these 100 days than at any time during the Biden Presidency.

And it will get worse soon, as drilling stops, truckers are laid off, and prices start to rise. If we even get back to the economy we had in January, this calendar year, I will be surprised.

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Just like years ago we were told by Algore that the polar ice caps would completely melt.

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So, you don't think that polar ice is melting? Huh... I guess he was only 1/2 right.

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NEW: President Trump calls out ABC News on ABC News to ABC News' Terry Moran's face, for not reporting on Biden's mental decline.

Too good.

Moran: Do you think the reputation in the United States has gone down under your presidency?

Trump: "No. I think it's gone way up. I… pic.twitter.com/Af1wsk7SON

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 30, 2025

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Moran was right, the tattoos were photoshopped

Trump Would Not Concede 'MS-13' Letters Were Digitally Added
The White House declined to explain why President Trump did not appear to realize that the photograph he held up on social media had been altered.

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The tattoos are not photoshopped . They are MS13 symbols (pot leaf, smile, cross, skull). The clarification part was added so people would know what the symbols mean.

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That's not what Trump claims. Trump says the clarification is part of the tattoo. Barefoot is a bad guy & shouldn't be in US. There is no reason to lie about the tattoo

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I was willing to wait and see. Give the guy credit on his first term, but this is just a different animal. He is tanking the economy, American influence world wide, and screwing over the next few generations of Americans.

He unilaterally declared economic war on the world, with no apparent plan. I think it's safe to say, given all his lying and flip flopping, there was never a real plan. Maybe a vague outline drawn on a napkin. Similar to the first term, but worse outlines this time.

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My future prediction is you are wrong on every one of your takes.

This is a master 3D chess player while the rest of us are playing checkers

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The only thing or certain is that no matter what happens, his zealot followers will declare it a total victory.

Probably the greatest biggest hit the economy has ever taken in any administration's first 100 days, but it's all sunshine and 3D chess to you!

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It's not relevant to the first 100 days if it saves the country from the Biden fiasco. The country was in horrible shape whether you want to admit it or not.

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There is the argument that it might take short term pain to fix long standing issues, but the economy is objectively far worse off after these 100 days than at any time during the Biden Presidency.

And it will get worse soon, as drilling stops, truckers are laid off, and prices start to rise. If we even get back to the economy we had in January, this calendar year, I will be surprised.

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Just like years ago we were told by Algore that the polar ice caps would completely melt.

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So, you don't think that polar ice is melting? Huh... I guess he was only 1/2 right.

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NEW: President Trump calls out ABC News on ABC News to ABC News' Terry Moran's face, for not reporting on Biden's mental decline.

Too good.

Moran: Do you think the reputation in the United States has gone down under your presidency?

Trump: "No. I think it's gone way up. I… pic.twitter.com/Af1wsk7SON

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 30, 2025

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Moran was right, the tattoos were photoshopped

Trump Would Not Concede 'MS-13' Letters Were Digitally Added
The White House declined to explain why President Trump did not appear to realize that the photograph he held up on social media had been altered.

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The tattoos are not photoshopped . They are MS13 symbols (pot leaf, smile, cross, skull). The clarification part was added so people would know what the symbols mean.

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That's not what Trump claims. Trump says the clarification is part of the tattoo. Barefoot is a bad guy & shouldn't be in US. There is no reason to lie about the tattoo

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This is another piece of misdirection. Trump knows that the simpler liberal people will claim that he knows nothing, take their eyes off the prize, and re-direct them to the tattoos, while he is doing something to make the country better. There are still a lot of Biden/Liberal snafus out there that he is fixing

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I was willing to wait and see. Give the guy credit on his first term, but this is just a different animal. He is tanking the economy, American influence world wide, and screwing over the next few generations of Americans.

He unilaterally declared economic war on the world, with no apparent plan. I think it's safe to say, given all his lying and flip flopping, there was never a real plan. Maybe a vague outline drawn on a napkin. Similar to the first term, but worse outlines this time.

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My future prediction is you are wrong on every one of your takes.

This is a master 3D chess player while the rest of us are playing checkers

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The only thing or certain is that no matter what happens, his zealot followers will declare it a total victory.

Probably the greatest biggest hit the economy has ever taken in any administration's first 100 days, but it's all sunshine and 3D chess to you!

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And his zealot detractors will only give him credit for something when they think they have something else "really bad" about him to bring up. Please do avoid that trap.
I too think the tide will turn on the economy, and zealot detractors will have to find something else to beef about.

BTW, it is really best to avoid posting anything that might prove out to be as wrong as that BaylorBJM Biden approval ratings debacle.

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I'm willing to give credit if there is a completely turnaround, but real damage has already been done. These things have massive inertia. It's very difficult for the world economy to just wake up one day and say "oh great, trade deals have been made, back to the great economy we had in January!" In just the American market, trillions have been lost. Retirees have had to make cuts, cancel vacations, businesses have already failed, tourism is down, inflation is still hanging on and possibly rising again soon, our relationship with allies has been damaged, the credibility of the federal government damaged, promises and treaties violated, I mean the list just goes on.

And how long before we get back to the economy Biden handed off? That's the thing the zealots don't get. It is worse right now, than when we had our elections. They don't accept facts like those. To them it's Trump heaven, the best first 100 days ever, when instead the markets tanked more than ever in anyone's first 100 days.

To add 1 more thing, we have to account for time and opportunity lost. Say Trump had put in place policy good for business like he did the first term. Where would the economy be right now?

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Anyone wishing to continue those policies is not thinking long term at all.

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The state of the economy is not executive policy. We have to be able to understand basics before discussion can happen.

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Then Trump's policies are not affecting the economy? Seriously?

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-show-solidary-with-ms-13-with-new-face-tattoos

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Assassin said:

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Porteroso said:

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I was willing to wait and see. Give the guy credit on his first term, but this is just a different animal. He is tanking the economy, American influence world wide, and screwing over the next few generations of Americans.

He unilaterally declared economic war on the world, with no apparent plan. I think it's safe to say, given all his lying and flip flopping, there was never a real plan. Maybe a vague outline drawn on a napkin. Similar to the first term, but worse outlines this time.

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My future prediction is you are wrong on every one of your takes.

This is a master 3D chess player while the rest of us are playing checkers

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The only thing or certain is that no matter what happens, his zealot followers will declare it a total victory.

Probably the greatest biggest hit the economy has ever taken in any administration's first 100 days, but it's all sunshine and 3D chess to you!

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It's not relevant to the first 100 days if it saves the country from the Biden fiasco. The country was in horrible shape whether you want to admit it or not.

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There is the argument that it might take short term pain to fix long standing issues, but the economy is objectively far worse off after these 100 days than at any time during the Biden Presidency.

And it will get worse soon, as drilling stops, truckers are laid off, and prices start to rise. If we even get back to the economy we had in January, this calendar year, I will be surprised.

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Just like years ago we were told by Algore that the polar ice caps would completely melt.

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So, you don't think that polar ice is melting? Huh... I guess he was only 1/2 right.

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But he didn't claim it would go down in half or even just a little. He said it would completely melt.

But like EVERY prediction made by the climate cult it has failed to happen.

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So, if it is not exactly as said, it is a BS clown comment?

That go for Trump? Interesting standard, I will remember next time we have the greatest ever seen speech... Maybe a largest crowd in history attended speech. Or by the wall that Mexico built ..

You really want to stand by that standard?

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Lol. Let go of your TDS for a moment and focus on this Al Gore statement.

Like every other prediction it failed to happen. Period.

I love how for 4 years we were told a president doesn't impact or direct the economy. Now in 100 days we are basically being told this president is ruining the economy because some rich people got nervous in the stock market while prices are going down.

🚨New: Nick Saban introduces President Trump tonight at the University of Alabama’s commencement address.
pic.twitter.com/pXCuTfPid3

— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) May 2, 2025

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I love how for 4 years we were told a president doesn't impact or direct the economy. Now in 100 days we are basically being told this president is ruining the economy because some rich people got nervous in the stock market while prices are going down.

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Very confusing post. So you don't think Donald Trump has any influence on the economy? Yes, this economy is Donald Trump's. Not Joe Biden's. Time for more results and fewer excuses.

Accountability is all but extinct in the USA.

"Time for more results and fewer excuses."

He took office at the end of January. We just started May.

How many other Presidents were you trashing for 'lack of accomplishments' this early in a term?

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I love how for 4 years we were told a president doesn't impact or direct the economy. Now in 100 days we are basically being told this president is ruining the economy because some rich people got nervous in the stock market while prices are going down.

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Very confusing post. So you don't think Donald Trump has any influence on the economy? Yes, this economy is Donald Trump's. Not Joe Biden's. Time for more results and fewer excuses.

Accountability is all but extinct in the USA.

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Lol. Nothing confusing about what I said.

For the last 4 years we were fed the excuse from the media and leftists on here. The president doesn't control the economy. That was the "excuse"

Now that it is a Republican and even more because it is Trump and tds takes over the line is "he has destroyed the economy." All based on a few bad days of the stock market freaking out.

So some rich people lost a little money. But for the average person prices are down.

Cowboy
You are spot on with your analysis.

The media and the Dimicrats (sp on purpose)
Will always twist the picture of the economy to fit their narrative.

Anyone who has studied history knows better than to judge success with the economy on any President during the first 100 days.

Check back with me in 100 weeks.

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"Time for more results and fewer excuses."

He took office at the end of January. We just started May.

How many other Presidents were you trashing for 'lack of accomplishments' this early in a term?

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President Joe Biden comes to mind. Balls and strikes. Regardless if you wear a blue jersey or a red one.

All Joe Biden had to do when taking office regarding the border was do nothing. All Donald Trump had to do regarding the economy and international trade was do nothing.

Both men *ucked up royally and have cost hard-working taxpayers billions if not trillions of dollars. They both screwed up. But of course each tribe will claim their guy is God's gift to humanity. Just plain sickening. I am tired of it.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump signs executive order to end taxpayer funding of NPR and PBS.

— Remarks (@remarks) May 2, 2025

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump signs executive order to end taxpayer funding of NPR and PBS.

— Remarks (@remarks) May 2, 2025

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Excellent

President Donald Trump will request a record $1.01 trillion in national security spending for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, per Bloomberg

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 2, 2025

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"loose a lot of credibility."

Cringe-worthy.

For God's sake, someone needs to get him off social media, and explain to him that his tariffs are the reason for the declining poll numbers. You can't tank the economy, and then have a solid approval rating.

Time for him to chart a different course. That's the only way to salvage the situation. Otherwise, conservatives are looking at a blood bath in the midterms.

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oh boo hoo. did he embarrass you again?

His poll numbers with the polling units most accurate in 2024 (and 2020, 2016, etc....) have not yet left the margin of error. Rasmussen actually had him up by a point yesterday. Several polls/focus groups of Trump supporters show +96% would still vote for him again.....that he STILL polls ahead of Kamala.

Reality is, most polling units in the media are not objective. They are polling to create narratives to move opinions. In this case, they are seeking to create the impression of a sinking ship headed for the shoals in order to scare the soft minded to abandon him. (or turn & criticize him....demand he change course, like you are doing here).

He's freezing his opponents, discrediting the narrative they're trying to push. And he's doing it to push the policies he promised to enact (a platform on which he won the popular vote in a national election). Put your big-girl panties on an quit whining.

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Cowboy
You are spot on with your analysis.

The media and the Dimicrats (sp on purpose)
Will always twist the picture of the economy to fit their narrative.

Anyone who has studied history knows better than to judge success with the economy on any President during the first 100 days.

Check back with me in 100 weeks.

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S&P is off by small single digits for the year; flat in April. Not bad for an economy likely already in recession (which started before he was in augurated....).

https://www.bbae.com/blog/sp-500-the-winners-and-losers-of-april-2025/

but counter-factual narratives do have an impact, and on no one moreso than GOP moderates......

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Oldbear83 said:

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"Time for more results and fewer excuses."

He took office at the end of January. We just started May.

How many other Presidents were you trashing for 'lack of accomplishments' this early in a term?

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President Joe Biden comes to mind. Balls and strikes. Regardless if you wear a blue jersey or a red one.

All Joe Biden had to do when taking office regarding the border was do nothing. All Donald Trump had to do regarding the economy and international trade was do nothing.

Both men *ucked up royally and have cost hard-working taxpayers billions if not trillions of dollars. They both screwed up. But of course each tribe will claim their guy is God's gift to humanity. Just plain sickening. I am tired of it.

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LOL talk about counter-factual.... LOL

How has Trump already cost "hard-working taxpayers" trillions of dollars? He's cut federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars and the Dow Jones is only off by -4% for 2025 despite first quarter contraction (not caused by his policies).
https://www.slickcharts.com/dowjones/returns/ytd

Does it make you feel good to squeal in pain just to hear the noise?

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Mothra said:

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"loose a lot of credibility."

Cringe-worthy.

For God's sake, someone needs to get him off social media, and explain to him that his tariffs are the reason for the declining poll numbers. You can't tank the economy, and then have a solid approval rating.

Time for him to chart a different course. That's the only way to salvage the situation. Otherwise, conservatives are looking at a blood bath in the midterms.

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oh boo hoo. did he embarrass you again?

His poll numbers with the polling units most accurate in 2024 (and 2020, 2016, etc....) have not yet left the margin of error. Rasmussen actually had him up by a point yesterday. Several polls/focus groups of Trump supporters show +96% would still vote for him again.....that he STILL polls ahead of Kamala.

Reality is, most polling units in the media are not objective. They are polling to create narratives to move opinions. In this case, they are seeking to create the impression of a sinking ship headed for the shoals in order to scare the soft minded to abandon him. (or turn & criticize him....demand he change course, like you are doing here).

He's freezing his opponents, discrediting the narrative they're trying to push. And he's doing it to push the policies he promised to enact (a platform on which he won the popular vote in a national election). Put your big-girl panties on an quit whining.

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Thanks for the Trump propaganda.

Let's see where we are at the midterms. He can still turn it around, but it's all about the economy, and if his numbers on the economy continue to tank, say goodbye to Congress.

You know this as well as I do.

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4yrletterbear said:

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Cowboy
You are spot on with your analysis.

The media and the Dimicrats (sp on purpose)
Will always twist the picture of the economy to fit their narrative.

Anyone who has studied history knows better than to judge success with the economy on any President during the first 100 days.

Check back with me in 100 weeks.

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S&P is off by small single digits for the year; flat in April. Not bad for an economy likely already in recession (which started before he was in augurated....).

https://www.bbae.com/blog/sp-500-the-winners-and-losers-of-april-2025/

but counter-factual narratives do have an impact, and on no one moreso than GOP moderates......

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The economy was most definitely NOT in a recession before Trump took office. So let's dispense with the misinformation.

And even if it were, people aren't going to care or recall what the economy was like before he took office. The question will be: have his policies made it better, or has it gotten worse? And given that we still haven't even begun to see the full repercussions of the tariffs, it is likely to get worse. Can he turn it around by the midterms? It's possible, if he charts a different course. But if he truly is committed to the current tariff policy, there will be pretty severe negative repercussions to the economy.

If that happens, goodbye Congress.

Oh, and BTW, China hasn't blinked. They seem committed to seeing this through. Bottom line is China doesn't care if its people suffer. They're not backing down to a bully. If only Trump had not alienated our allies with blanket tariffs, and had engaged in a more targeted campaign against bad actors like China, perhaps it would have worked.

I suspect it will be Trump that blinks. Again.

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whiterock said:

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4yrletterbear said:

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Cowboy
You are spot on with your analysis.

The media and the Dimicrats (sp on purpose)
Will always twist the picture of the economy to fit their narrative.

Anyone who has studied history knows better than to judge success with the economy on any President during the first 100 days.

Check back with me in 100 weeks.

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S&P is off by small single digits for the year; flat in April. Not bad for an economy likely already in recession (which started before he was in augurated....).

https://www.bbae.com/blog/sp-500-the-winners-and-losers-of-april-2025/

but counter-factual narratives do have an impact, and on no one moreso than GOP moderates......

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The economy was most definitely NOT in a recession before Trump took office. So let's dispense with the misinformation.
LOL the economy experienced recession in the 1st Q of 2025, which includes the THREE WEEKS prior to his inauguration.

And even if it were, people aren't going to care or recall what the economy was like before he took office. The question will be: have his policies made it better, or has it gotten worse? And given that we still haven't even begun to see the full repercussions of the tariffs, it is likely to get worse. Can he turn it around by the midterms? It's possible, if he charts a different course. But if he truly is committed to the current tariff policy, there will be pretty severe negative repercussions to the economy.

If that happens, goodbye Congress.
His policies are not popular with "our" demographic....meaning college educated managment/professional classes. They are wildly poplar with ordinary people and particularly union members. UAW has actually endorsed them. If Fed projections are anywhere close to accurate, we will have economic growth THIS year, which will put us in a strong position for the mid-terms.

Oh, and BTW, China hasn't blinked. They seem committed to seeing this through. Bottom line is China doesn't care if its people suffer. They're not backing down to a bully. If only Trump had not alienated our allies with blanket tariffs, and had engaged in a more targeted campaign against bad actors like China, perhaps it would have worked.

I suspect it will be Trump that blinks. Again.

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Dude, you are so seriously misreading the landscape.

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Mothra said:

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whiterock said:

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4yrletterbear said:

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Cowboy
You are spot on with your analysis.

The media and the Dimicrats (sp on purpose)
Will always twist the picture of the economy to fit their narrative.

Anyone who has studied history knows better than to judge success with the economy on any President during the first 100 days.

Check back with me in 100 weeks.

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S&P is off by small single digits for the year; flat in April. Not bad for an economy likely already in recession (which started before he was in augurated....).

https://www.bbae.com/blog/sp-500-the-winners-and-losers-of-april-2025/

but counter-factual narratives do have an impact, and on no one moreso than GOP moderates......

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The economy was most definitely NOT in a recession before Trump took office. So let's dispense with the misinformation.
LOL the economy experienced recession in the 1st Q of 2025, which includes the THREE WEEKS prior to his inauguration.

And even if it were, people aren't going to care or recall what the economy was like before he took office. The question will be: have his policies made it better, or has it gotten worse? And given that we still haven't even begun to see the full repercussions of the tariffs, it is likely to get worse. Can he turn it around by the midterms? It's possible, if he charts a different course. But if he truly is committed to the current tariff policy, there will be pretty severe negative repercussions to the economy.

If that happens, goodbye Congress.
His policies are not popular with "our" demographic....meaning college educated managment/professional classes. They are wildly poplar with ordinary people and particularly union members. UAW has actually endorsed them. If Fed projections are anywhere close to accurate, we will have economic growth THIS year, which will put us in a strong position for the mid-terms.

Oh, and BTW, China hasn't blinked. They seem committed to seeing this through. Bottom line is China doesn't care if its people suffer. They're not backing down to a bully. If only Trump had not alienated our allies with blanket tariffs, and had engaged in a more targeted campaign against bad actors like China, perhaps it would have worked.

I suspect it will be Trump that blinks. Again.

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Dude, you are so seriously misreading the landscape.

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Dude, you are clueless.

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Mothra said:

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whiterock said:

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4yrletterbear said:

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Cowboy
You are spot on with your analysis.

The media and the Dimicrats (sp on purpose)
Will always twist the picture of the economy to fit their narrative.

Anyone who has studied history knows better than to judge success with the economy on any President during the first 100 days.

Check back with me in 100 weeks.

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S&P is off by small single digits for the year; flat in April. Not bad for an economy likely already in recession (which started before he was in augurated....).

https://www.bbae.com/blog/sp-500-the-winners-and-losers-of-april-2025/

but counter-factual narratives do have an impact, and on no one moreso than GOP moderates......

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The economy was most definitely NOT in a recession before Trump took office. So let's dispense with the misinformation.
LOL the economy experienced recession in the 1st Q of 2025, which includes the THREE WEEKS prior to his inauguration.

And even if it were, people aren't going to care or recall what the economy was like before he took office. The question will be: have his policies made it better, or has it gotten worse? And given that we still haven't even begun to see the full repercussions of the tariffs, it is likely to get worse. Can he turn it around by the midterms? It's possible, if he charts a different course. But if he truly is committed to the current tariff policy, there will be pretty severe negative repercussions to the economy.

If that happens, goodbye Congress.
His policies are not popular with "our" demographic....meaning college educated managment/professional classes. They are wildly poplar with ordinary people and particularly union members. UAW has actually endorsed them. If Fed projections are anywhere close to accurate, we will have economic growth THIS year, which will put us in a strong position for the mid-terms.

Oh, and BTW, China hasn't blinked. They seem committed to seeing this through. Bottom line is China doesn't care if its people suffer. They're not backing down to a bully. If only Trump had not alienated our allies with blanket tariffs, and had engaged in a more targeted campaign against bad actors like China, perhaps it would have worked.

I suspect it will be Trump that blinks. Again.

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Dude, you are so seriously misreading the landscape.

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No, it was not. That is called a slowdown, and it happened after Trump took office. We were not in a recession prior to Trump taking office. This is nothing more than misinformation.

As for his policies, his polling is quite negative on the economy. And that's the issue. If it remains that way, and the economy continues to slide, midterms could be a blood bath. It's all about the economy, and we have clear evidence that Trump's policies have negatively affected same.

On China, wait and see.

cowboycwr said:

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I love how for 4 years we were told a president doesn't impact or direct the economy. Now in 100 days we are basically being told this president is ruining the economy because some rich people got nervous in the stock market while prices are going down.

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Nobody told you that. In fact, at one point about a year ago, Trump took credit for the economy, saying it was doing so well because everyone knew he was getting elected. Not only do Presidents impact the economy, just the thought of Trump can send the stock market shooting to the moon.

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Assassin said:

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I was willing to wait and see. Give the guy credit on his first term, but this is just a different animal. He is tanking the economy, American influence world wide, and screwing over the next few generations of Americans.

He unilaterally declared economic war on the world, with no apparent plan. I think it's safe to say, given all his lying and flip flopping, there was never a real plan. Maybe a vague outline drawn on a napkin. Similar to the first term, but worse outlines this time.

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My future prediction is you are wrong on every one of your takes.

This is a master 3D chess player while the rest of us are playing checkers

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The only thing or certain is that no matter what happens, his zealot followers will declare it a total victory.

Probably the greatest biggest hit the economy has ever taken in any administration's first 100 days, but it's all sunshine and 3D chess to you!

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It's not relevant to the first 100 days if it saves the country from the Biden fiasco. The country was in horrible shape whether you want to admit it or not.

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There is the argument that it might take short term pain to fix long standing issues, but the economy is objectively far worse off after these 100 days than at any time during the Biden Presidency.

And it will get worse soon, as drilling stops, truckers are laid off, and prices start to rise. If we even get back to the economy we had in January, this calendar year, I will be surprised.

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Just like years ago we were told by Algore that the polar ice caps would completely melt.

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So, you don't think that polar ice is melting? Huh... I guess he was only 1/2 right.

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But he didn't claim it would go down in half or even just a little. He said it would completely melt.

But like EVERY prediction made by the climate cult it has failed to happen.

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So, if it is not exactly as said, it is a BS clown comment?

That go for Trump? Interesting standard, I will remember next time we have the greatest ever seen speech... Maybe a largest crowd in history attended speech. Or by the wall that Mexico built ..

You really want to stand by that standard?

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Lol. Let go of your TDS for a moment and focus on this Al Gore statement.

Like every other prediction it failed to happen. Period.

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So the entirety of the Arctic Ice cap is there? Russia, Canada, China and the US are not positioning for new maritime trade routes opening up? The US wants Greenland for what reason since the ice cap makes the Arctic not passable? Wow! None of that is happening. The Arctic Ice cap is the same as when Gore made the prediction. I guess someone better tell the crab so they can migrate back...

I guess the inverse is also that this is the best economy ever seen, Trump had the largest inaugural in 2016 and Mexico did pay to have the wall built. Who knew...

BREAKING: Trump has unveiled his proposed budget, per MorePerfectUnion

It includes:
- $163 billion in cuts to health care, child care, education, housing, research, clean energy, food banks, and more
- $1 trillion for defense and homeland security

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 2, 2025

[Trump Defunds Public Broadcasting

Well, nobody can be much surprised by this. From NPR:

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President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board of directors to "cease federal funding for NPR and PBS," the nation's primary public broadcasters. Trump contends that news coverage by NPR and PBS contains a left-wing bias. The federal funding for NPR and PBS is appropriated by Congress.

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This won't be a big deal for NPR, but PBS is going to take a significant hit:

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NPR receives about 1% of its funding directly from the federal government, and a slightly greater amount indirectly; its 246 member institutions, operating more than 1,300 stations, receive on average 8% to 10% of their funds from CPB.
By contrast, PBS and its stations receive about 15% of their revenues from CPB's federal funds.
Most of the funds for public media go to local stations; and most to subsidize television, which is more expensive than radio.

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I have no real idea about bias on PBS, which I only ever watch for its historical documentaries (and haven't done that for some time). But NPR absolutely deserves it. One year ago, longtime NPR journalist Uri Berliner wrote a piece for The Free Press explaining "how NPR lost the public's trust." Berliner, a liberal, wrote:

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It's true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.
In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.
If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it's always been this way.
But it hasn't.

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That's true. I started listening to NPR in the 1980s, when I was a high school liberal. I stuck with it and even gave money to it after I became a conservative. Yeah, it was liberal, but it was pretty good, and I learned a lot from NPR programming. I always listened to it on my car radio.
Until I didn't. I don't remember when the change happened, but I think it was after 2012, when the programming went ultra-woke. I would listen until a host or reporter would insert racism or LGBT into stories that had nothing really to do with racism or LGBT. Or they would focus excessively on race, sex, gender, and so forth all the woke favorites while utterly ignoring the great number of people in the broad and diverse United States whose lives do not center around wokeness.
And then there was this:

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In October 2020, the New York Post published the explosive report about the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer shop containing emails about his sordid business dealings. With the election only weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye. Here's how NPR's managing editor for news at the time explained the thinking: "We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions."
But it wasn't a pure distraction, or a product of Russian disinformation, as dozens of former and current intelligence officials suggested. The laptop did belong to Hunter Biden. Its contents revealed his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father.
The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR's best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren't following the laptop story because it could help Trump.

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The Summer of Floyd further radicalized the NPR workplace. Berliner:

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Race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace. Journalists were required to ask everyone we interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity (among other questions), and had to enter it in a centralized tracking system. We were given unconscious bias training sessions. A growing DEI staff offered regular meetings imploring us to "start talking about race." Monthly dialogues were offered for "women of color" and "men of color." Nonbinary people of color were included, too.

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One more:

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There's an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue and how they should be framed. It's frictionless-one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies. It's almost like an assembly line.

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NPR's leadership had every reason, for years, to change. Nobody wanted it to become conservative. We just wanted it to be fair, and diverse in its programming in terms of viewpoints. NPR, though, is the epitome of the problem within elite journalism: they only want to talk to themselves, about their own interests. Consequently, they don't see the world beyond their heads.

Fine. No media outlet has to cover the world in any way other than it wants to. But American taxpayers don't have to contribute to the salaries of people who hate them.]

🚨BREAKING: Stephen Miller is the top contender for President Trump's new National Security Advisor. - Axios pic.twitter.com/ti3Eii4Zhf

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 2, 2025

People are going to lose their ever loving minds.

boognish_bear said:

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🚨BREAKING: Stephen Miller is the top contender for President Trump's new National Security Advisor. - Axios pic.twitter.com/ti3Eii4Zhf

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 2, 2025

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He is F-ing whack job... Really, he is the best we got??

What a tool

Chuck Schumer was going off about President Trump’s approval rating—until a reporter called him out.

“There's a poll out today that has your approval rating lower than any other Congressional leader at 17%.”

SCHUMER: “Polls come and go.”

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 1, 2025

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— The Associated Press (@AP) May 2, 2025

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