Don't include me in the Trump Derangement Syndrome excuse. I like the SCOTUS noms, and a few other things, but if they were done by the same fellow who thinks trade wars are good, that he's got "peace in our time" on the Korean peninsula or writes those bizarre tweets, I'll eat my hat. When first asked who he thought would be a good SCOTUS nom, he said he thought his ultra-liberal sister would be just the thing. In short, when Ben Shapiro can say, "Good Trump!" I think it's because someone else in the administration made the call.
Yes, he's President. And I'd rather have a Republican administration in there than Hillary, even if the President is the literal definition of a RINO -- a fellow who spent a lifetime as a liberal, ran for President and lost as an Independent, and settled for being a Republican because his good friend Hillary was destined to be coronated by the Dems no matter who ran against her. Any Republican administration would have come up with the same SCOTUS nominees that Trump did, and almost any one of the people who started the run for the GOP nomination could do exactly as good a job as Trump is doing, with the likely exception of Huckabee and Kasich.
And, of course, anyone who wasn't a Democrat was going to get pummeled by the press. The big boys take a deep breath, pull on their big boy pants and get on with the job. Trump whines and cries like a brat. My guess is something is going to happen in the next two years that is going to so disqualify him that a real Republican will win the next election, and I don't mean the guy who endorsed Cruz but was willing to be Trump's bootlick.
Of course, if by "Trump Derangement Syndrome" you mean someone who doesn't gush for him, well, I guess I'd qualify. I'm more in the Ben Shapiro/Jonah Goldberg school -- they call honest balls and strikes.
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MovieManCin2 (26342)
6 years ago
I don't include you, but you certainly don't seem to like him. TDS is a disease of the Leftists who attack him and his family (which is disgusting) 24/7.
And Trump doesn't whine, he fights back. He's like U.S. Grant, who was a drunk and a failure in civilian life, but Lincoln said of him "I can't spare this man. He fights." He's the first Republican President in my memory to fight back, and I love him for it. And my guess he will be re-elected in 2020.
And what difference does it make if he was a liberal or conservative in the past? All that matters is what he's doing now, and he's doing a great job MAGA!
I was just trying to counter the 24/7 attacks with a report on something good he did. I didn't expect to be jumped by a whole bunch of folks with TDS.
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Destinata (3320)
6 years ago
He was called on whining during the primaries. "And I'll whine right to the White House!" he said. I come from a different era where we wanted Presidents who were strong and didn't whine. He whines, and is proud of it. It's served him well. When liberals whine they're called "snowflakes," and should be. When Trump whines that the media doesn't treat him fairly, he just sounds like he was spending time in an extended "personal Vietnam," not paying attention to the fact that the media has ALWAYS attacked anyone with an R after their name. The others didn't try to pretend as if this was new, different, or on an unprecedented scale -- which Whiny Don does.
But as someone on Twitter pointed out, the media gave him vastly more time during the elections than they did everyone else put together, and they did so because his antics drew the ratings.
"He's the first Republican President in my memory to fight back, and I love him for it." Don't tell me -- you're young.
But I do admit that when he said flatly that a country isn't a country without borders, after eight solid years of people being afraid to say anything like that because it sounded like they wanted to keep brown people out, whereas it's simply a matter of keeping ILLEGALS out, it was refreshing. Sadly, though, he does play to bigots, and to deny that is to ram one's head firmly in the sand. Do you honestly believe he couldn't understand the question because his earpiece was cutting out when he was asked about a man with known KKK ties?
"I was just trying to counter the 24/7 attacks with a report on something good he did." But you weren't paying attention when people pointed out that it was a claim that was, at best, inflated. Trump lies. Trump lies all the time. Trump lies when the truth would serve him better. That's why all his lawyers don't want him to answer questions verbally put to him by Mueller. It's a slam dunk that he'll be dinged on a perjury rap.
PS -- a trade war isn't good.
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MovieManCin2 (26342)
6 years ago
I withdraw my statement that you didn't have TDS. You obviously do, and this is a waste of my time. Bye.
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Destinata (3320)
6 years ago
You need to meet people, as I have, who won't even say they like his SCOTUS nominees because they were named on his watch. They claim to be conservatives, but they won't even cut the man that much slack.
Rush Limbaugh has gone all in for Trump, but even he won't say he's a conservative. If we still had Andrew Breitbart (my guess is you don't really know how great that man was, or how far from his beliefs is the website that currently degrades his name), my guess is we wouldn't have Trump as President. We'd probably have Cruz, and we'd have just as good of SCOTUS nominees, and the left would be howling louder than ever.
Most of Trump's fans are either young, or really haven't been paying close attention to what he's said. Fox wants you to believe that Trump is disappointed that DACA is back. Trump is on the record as being FOR DACA -- it's his supporters that aren't. And his supporters have invested in Trump all their hopes and dreams.
Don't believe that much in a mere man, especially one in politics. Is he President? Then he's in politics, and don't kid yourself on that score. Trump will break your heart. Politicians always do. Folks laugh and joke and say you folks don't have a limit, and you'd hold your grandmother still so he could shoot her, and you'd tell everyone it was some kind of 489D chess. But there really IS a line he'll cross. You do care about your mothers and grandmothers, and you don't honestly believe he's God. Trump thinks he owns you like Obama owned some of his followers, but the rank and file in what liberals consider "flyover country" aren't owned by anyone.
And deep down, Trump knows that. That's why he wants to bail out the farmers who have crops now they can't sell. Those soybeans, corn and kidney beans in the Midwest aren't a mythical gunning down on Fifth Avenue -- they're whether or not families lose their farms.
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eYeDEF (5050)
6 years ago
luuulz.
MoveManCin2 is the type that wilts under a thrashing.
In this case it was the critique you delivered of Trump from the right of Trump. lol.
He had no answer.
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snepts (11123)
6 years ago
Oh, boo hoo. You forward a spurious report about the Donald, people call it into question, and you call it TDS. That's the popular coinage for the next week or so. Take a reprehensible POTUS who most thinking people despise, hold him up as honorable then complain when people disagree?
Like the other poster says, anyone who doesn't agree with you, you claim has TDS, but it's you who are in the Cult of Trump, totally brain-washed and biased. Trump's a miserable human being. He may stumble into some good moves as POTUS and I won't complain, but he's a creep. There's too much smoke around the guy not to believe there is a fire close by. Our Prez tag line is "you're fired." How inspiring.
Now let's talk about Manifort, Sean Spicer, Stormy Daniels, the first two ex-wives, and all the rest of the revolving door that seems to be Trump World. Examining the POTUS' behavior is Derangement? Well let's fire all the legitimate news media so the Lies can more easily be believed.
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snepts (11123)
6 years ago
As far as attacking DT's family, Repubs opened that door a long time ago. I think they made fun of Jimmy Carter's daughter way-back-when. And with the Obama birther nonsense, the gloves were off, not to mention the ugly hate that still gets thrown Hilary's way. Even well-mannered Dems can't just take all this vitriol w/o fighting back, something you seem to admire.
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Destinata (3320)
6 years ago
Some people will be mean as spit no matter what. The thoughtful conservatives started laughing when Carter, in a debate, announced he'd asked his daughter advice on things nuclear. By that time Carter had the perception he was a floundering fool, and asking an eight or nine year old girl about nuclear foreign policy was the living end for many people. Yes, the jokes went on for days, but they were mainly aimed at Carter and his need to get advice from a kid.
I'm far from an Obama fan, but I was sickened by the ridicule that Mrs. Obama got. Attack her for the "All that for a stupid flag!" remark, but "Moochelle"? Really? And the suggestion she was really a man in drag? Sickening!
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