The First 100 days

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by theiioftx, Nov 10, 2016.

  1. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    So do you admit having cheering staffers in the PC was not appropriate? Or are you saying it's appropriate only because it came before the inauguration. Isn't that splitting hairs?

    We were all told that Trump would behave differently if he won the election. How has that panned out?
     
  2. I35

    I35 5,000+ Posts

    Lying? The recent fracas gave CNN just another black eye. It never stops with them. They just don't know when to stop. At this point it doesn't matter. Only that CNN lost all credibility in the last year day in and day out and they won't recover from this for many years if not ever? It's like the guy that punches his GF and claims it won't happen again. Does she need to forgive and just keep trusting him? Nope and neither should the public.

    What you are describing is not near as bad as when Obama had all these people show up (about a 100) in the rose garden and his staff went around giving white medical doctor jackets to pretend they are doctors that are supporting him as he gave a speech on how doctors support Obamacare. What a fraud!
     
  3. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Given "the wall" is a hot topic of conversation now and will continue to be maybe we should evaluate the success of the effort that started in 2006 to build the wall. HBO is running a liberal documentary called "The Fence". You need to be a subscriber to view it but here is the summary.

    I got a chuckle out of the purported impact to local animal species (i.e. migration, access to water). The documentary does put the cost in perspective though. The other interesting aspect was the border patrol videos that show how easily the fence is subverted with homebuilt rebar ladders.

     
  4. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Do you believe that CNN was lying or Trump was lying over the 2-page synopsis that we reportedly included in Trump's briefing? It can't be both.
     
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  5. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    The Scottish Herald's TV listing for the Trump inauguration.
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  6. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Trump says NATO is "obsolete" after saying it was "very important to him".

    Mattis said in his hearing last week that "if we did not have NATO today, we would need to create it" and called it the "most successful alliance in history". Additionally, Mattis claimed that Putin's goal is to "break" NATO.

    The BBC says that Trumps comments "worries" NATO nations.
     
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  7. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    In 2006, NATO member countries agreed to commit a minimum of two per cent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to spending on defence. This guideline principally served as an indicator of a country’s political will to contribute to the Alliance’s common defence efforts. Additionally, the defence capacity of each member country has an important impact on the overall perception of the Alliance’s credibility as a politico-military organisation.

    The combined wealth of the non-US Allies, measured in GDP, exceeds that of the United States. However, non-US Allies together spend less than half of what the United States spends on defence. This imbalance has been a constant, with variations, throughout the history of the Alliance and more so since the tragic events of 11 September 2001, after which the United States significantly increased its defence spending. The gap between defence spending in the United States compared to Canada and European members combined has therefore increased.

    Today, the volume of the US defence expenditure effectively represents 73 per cent of the defence spending of the Alliance as a whole. This does not mean that the United States covers 73 per cent of the costs involved in the operational running of NATO as an organisation, including its headquarters in Brussels and its subordinate military commands, but it does mean that there is an over-reliance by the Alliance as a whole on the United States for the provision of essential capabilities, including for instance, in regard to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; air-to-air refuelling; ballistic missile defence; and airborne electronic warfare.

    The effects of the financial crisis and the declining share of resources devoted to defence in many Allied countries have exacerbated this imbalance and also revealed growing asymmetries in capability among European Allies. France, Germany and the United Kingdom together represent more than 50 per cent of the non-US Allies defence spending, which creates another kind of over-reliance within Europe on a few capable European Allies. Furthermore, their defence spending is under increasing pressure, as is that of the United States, to meet deficit and indebtedness reduction targets. At the Wales Summit in 2014, NATO leaders agreed to reverse the trend of declining defence budgets and decided:

    • Allies currently meeting the two per cent guideline on defence spending will aim to continue to do so;
    • Allies whose current proportion of GDP spent on defence is below this level will halt any decline; aim to increase defence expenditure as GDP grows; and will move toward the two per cent guideline within a decade.
    While the two per cent of GDP guideline alone is no guarantee that money will be spent in the most effective and efficient way to acquire and deploy modern capabilities, it remains, nonetheless, an important indicator of the political resolve of individual Allies to devote to defence a relatively small, but still significant, level of resources at a time of considerable international uncertainty and economic adversity.





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  8. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    From Trump's daily installment of "if I say it enough it will become true"...



    Per the Washington Post.
     
  9. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    This was a response...


    ...to numbers like these.

    Donald Trump will enter the White house with lower approval ratings than the guy he's replacing. Obama is up to 58% based on on poll. This is to speak nothing about Obama's effectiveness as POTUS but he departs a well liked by a majority of Americans.
     
  10. I35

    I35 5,000+ Posts

    SH, you actually trust any polling right now? I believe most Americans think were going in the wrong direction with Barrack Hussein Obama (conclusion by how many GOP are now Governors and Congress since Obama took office in 2008) and you're telling me 58% approve of the job he did as President? Unbelievable what Libs want to believe.
     
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  11. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Approval rate is largely a measurement of affinity for their personality. In other words...do I like him? With that caveat, yes I do think it's possible 58% of America "approves" of Obama. I'd wager Trump's behavior may be helping that figure a smidge.
     
  12. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  14. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    The US media has advance knowledge of part of these terrorists' plan, but are refusing to disclose this information to the public

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  15. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

     
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  16. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    I wonder how the thousands abd thousands of workers being kept on or added by Carrier,Ford,Chrysler,now GM,Amazon,etc etc etc feel about the Dens leftists Hollywood and media trying to discredit Trump.
    I am sure sone of the new hires will be African-American. What will Lewis or Walters say to them?

    Edit to add Hyundai / Kia
     
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  17. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    If Republicans had done this to Obama, the media would have deemed them all racists

     
  18. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    The stuff the left gets away with .....

     
  19. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Tucker Carlson undoes an extremely whacky lefty Trump inauguration protestor


     
  20. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Darwin at work?



     
  21. Phil Elliott

    Phil Elliott 2,500+ Posts

    Please keep doing this, all you unhinged lefties.
     
  22. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    2012 -- "Governor Romney is stuck in a Cold War mindset."

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    2017 --
     
  23. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts


    Will they be willing to take these guys head on?

     
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  24. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts


     
  25. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

     
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  26. UTChE96

    UTChE96 2,500+ Posts

    The Democrats have severely misplayed their hand here (again). Trump will steal the "Party of No" play from their book for the next four years. Dems are making it so easy for him by calling him illegitimate before even taking the office and now boycotting the inauguration. Appeasing their voters in New York and San Fran is not going to help them win over the all the voters in the Rust belt that they just lost.
     
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  27. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Creepy Joe conveniently forgets both Obama and Hillary voted for a 700-mile border wall in 2006 ....

     
  28. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts


    Shapiro addresses some of that here -- http://www.dailywire.com/news/12531...m_content=news&utm_campaign=twitterbenshapiro

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  29. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    If the media had not continuously acted the way they had but reported the news somewhat objectively the public/average person's view of Trump and inauguration would be very favorable.
    Think how the many companies: announcement of creating jobs here in USA would resonate with blacks alone.
    Or consider how the media is trying to whip people up over Obamacare. The Dallas paper headline and article, 18 Million could lose coverage if repealed. NEVER has anyone said repeal only. NEVER yet all leftist media keep beating that drum.
    What the Dems leftists and media is doing to our country is shameful.
     
  30. Brad Austin

    Brad Austin 2,500+ Posts

    Like I said in my post on biased favorability polls. Those are the bogus numbers you get when Dems are sampled (+8) over Reps.

    Latest Gallup numbers are (+3) Reps, with the 2016-17 avg around (+3) Dems.

    When oversampling Dems anywhere from +5 to +11 over the reality, those type of swayed, fake favorability numbers pop out.

    Nevertheless the propaganda was accepted as fact by many and now it's openly used in arguments. Pathetic.
     

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