Quote: (05-05-2019 04:41 PM)911 Wrote:
Quote: (05-05-2019 03:30 PM)Tail Gunner Wrote:
Quote: (05-05-2019 02:41 PM)911 Wrote:
Some praises on his energy policy, TPP nixing and SCOTUS appointees, but it's far from the kind of blind worship some are still pushing here...
Who is pushing blind worship in this thread? I did not vote for President Trump, but even a half-assed track-record that preserves, and perhaps restores, our Constitutional Republic is still far superior than full-assed socialism.
From a personal perspective, President Trump really screwed me with the new tax plan and the elimination of tax-deferred retained earnings on offshore business income, but I look at the big picture. I would rather pay higher taxes in my own personal situation if it means preserving the Constitutional Republic, the Bill of Rights, and some semblance of fiscal sanity.
It was very obvious that President Obama was in way over his head and had very poor political instincts (not in terms of getting elected, but in regards to actually getting things done). As a result, the nation suffered. As a political novice, I expected the same from President Trump (similar to the fiasco in California with Arnold Schwarzenegger), but he has shown a rather surprising political deftness and an admirable drive towards accomplishment.
Obama was not much more than a figurehead, with limited power and influence. He's a 3rd generation deep state kid, groomed for this role because he's very slick, and can manipulate the masses to feel good about themselves with a fake MLK feel good vibes.
His mother worked for the deep state at the Ford Foundation, where her boss was Tim Geithner's father. Geithner was the guy who engineered the $9 trillion taxpayer money giveaway to the banksters, in what was the greatest money transfer in the history of mankind. So Obama wasn't way over his head, he knew exactly what he was doing, and is on his way to reaching 9 figure wealth, and we already have socialism for the oligarchs, subsidized by the middle classes. And it's not like Mnuchin or Wilbur Ross (both Rothschild people) who are going to change that...
I would not be shocked if all of that were true. The one thing that I know for a fact, because it is listed in campaign discosures: the largest contributor to President Obama's first campaign was Goldman Sachs.
I harp all the time about the Fed's artificially low interest rates that are subsidized by the middle class (i.e., transferring wealth from middle-class savers to the wealthiest asset-holders). So, we certainly agree there.
Honestly, if President Trump can just place two more originalists on the Supreme Court, he will accomplish more to change the nation for the better than any President within the last century. That is where Ronald Reagan failed: Justice Scalia was a stunning success; Justices O'Connor and Kennedy were failures (read the story about how Reagan promised his daughter that he would appoint the first woman Justice if she just shut up and left his campaign alone). If President Trump listens to the advice of the Federalist Society, he can cleanse the judiciary and change the nation for generations.