There wont be a wall, One has to take a lot of his words woth a grain of Na. I do not like him one bit but as my son pointed out last night he has already potentially saved tens of thousasnds of automotive jobs that were headed to Mexico, begun ACA repeal, begun talks on tax reform not only for business but individuals and reversing many of Obamas overzealous environmental actions, many of which devastated whole towns and industries. I dont like him but hes not even president yet and hes done more good than anyone in recent history, the last guy was more bad than good. I also think were done taking shit from China but it will be tough to undo Obamas precedent of being a pussy. Obama terribly mishandled the Chinese militarization of the South China Sea and their defiance of international rulings. Its all flawed and when it blows up, and it will, everyone will blame Trump for bringing us to war. Im highly disappointed in him for not bringing Hilliary to justice but we cant have it all. I would say that if we remove his likeness from the equation and judge him soley on his actions so far he has been far more productive than not. The sooner he can spit out Putins cock the better off we'll all be though.
Even though Trump is a fucking clown he is off to a fairly good start. It will be interesting to see how well he can not only do his new job but counter the terrible damage and precedence left by that last fucking clown. We did certainly dodge a bullet no doubt. I do not believe Trump is even mentally sound and I still think he was a less bad choice given the two. I can definitely understand why some folks are raw about this but we really had no choice to avoid more of the last 8 years. Oddly the left didn't hide that, they fucking actually boasted that she would continue Obamas legacy! Thankfully his legacy is all but dead and the door hasnt even closed behind him, I have too say that so far the Trump administration has very pleasantly surprised me inspite of being far from perfect.
All that being said I really didnt mean to touch this off, I really only thought the cradleboard had such a likeness that it had to be shared.
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According to the CEO of Ford their decision has nothing to do with Trump. But if people are going to give Trump credit for shit even the CEO Ford claimed he had nothing to do with why isn't Obama credited for saving auto-industry jobs as well?
Here's what I don't understand. When Obama was running against Romney in 2012, Romney claimed the economy wasn't rebounding fast enough. He made promises that if he was elected president he would do better. He set numbers on what he would accomplish if he was president. And America has surpassed those numbers that Romney set. So exactly how are folks measuring the strength economy? Seems everyone has their own way they're measuring. Fair enough. I just hope they stay consistent with that way and measure Trump by those same standards. But I highly doubt they will because no one really gives two flying fucks about actual facts and figures now. It's just all based on gut feelings.
And the supporters are proving it every day. Trump's not going to build a wall and all I hear from supporters is "Yea, no one actually thought there would be a wall." Then why was that shit chanted at every Trump rally? Why were people chanting and cheering and making signs for shit they know wasn't going to happen? Just seems like a Bill Engvall "here's your sign" sort of thing. But it's these reactions now that prove to me facts dont matter. Feelings do.
I gave Trump credit on the Carrier deal, but one could argue a fair point. More Carrier jobs still left for Mexico than they kept in America and the company got tax breaks for it. Again, credit for saving those jobs they did, but you can't call that a great deal.
As far as China's encroachment in the sea... as you mentioned that's an international issue. I don't know why people expect America to be the one that has to deal with it. I really don't think Obama or Trump for that matter have much leverage there. So that is a clusterfuck waiting to go off. Will Trump get blamed? Yea. But that comes with the job. Given Trumps history of saying really stupid shit though, he might very well deserve the blame if/when that shit goes off. It will depend on the circumstances. But we do need to be tougher on China on trade and the Obama administration has failed in that regard.
I liked Trump's pick of Lighthizer as US Trade Rep, because he's always held a tougher stance on China, but I don't know how much influence he will have since the Trump team said the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will be the primary architect of international trade deals. We shall see.
For me personally it's the fact that Trump has Putins balls blissfully in his mouth that upsets me the most. His recent actions of shitting on American intelligence agencies before even meeting with them and reading the reports and praising Putin just disgust me beyond words. But it's still a clear demonstration of Trump forming an opinion without even bothering to go through the data first. That's Pelosi "we have t pass it before we know whats in it" level of stupidity right there. But at the end of the day Trump's consistent position on Putin, his pro-Russian appointments, and his criticisms of American intelligence organizations are treasonous to me.
Obama has been wrong about many things, but one thing he was right on. Reagan would be turning in his grave for sure. But then again Tea Partiers would have ran Reagan out of town 8 years ago, so I guess he's sort of irrelevant now.