What about what Trump has done / is doing do they find acceptable? Talkin' bad about the Fed Chair?
The world is on fire, and we are the arsonists. And 41% or OK with that.
The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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What about what Trump has done / is doing do they find acceptable? Talkin' bad about the Fed Chair?
The world is on fire, and we are the arsonists. And 41% or OK with that.
What about what Trump has done / is doing do they find acceptable? Talkin' bad about the Fed Chair?
The world is on fire, and we are the arsonists. And 41% or OK with that.
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In the RCP Average, Trump’s approval rating hovered around 43% during his first term and currently stands at 46.9%.
Stacking this up against other presidents, he doesn’t fare too well. The only president with approval below Trump’s at this point in his presidency was Trump himself during his first term, at 38%. Bill Clinton’s approval rating in June 1993 was also close, at just 41%. Richard Nixon, in the middle of the June 1973 Senate hearings related to Watergate, and after top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman had resigned, exceeded the approval of both Clinton and Trump, at 44%.
The tendency for most presidents is to have a generally high job approval at the start of their term, which then declines as they face their first major setbacks or controversies. Biden’s approval in June 2021 was 56% in the Gallup poll and around 53% in the RCP Average, but it dropped to 45.3% after the Afghanistan withdrawal, which was enveloped in chaos and resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members.
A 40% approval rating is approximately 30 points below the ratings of some of the most popular presidents. Of the presidents that Gallup measured, John F. Kennedy led the pack at 73% in June of 1961, followed by George H.W. Bush in 1989 at 70% approval, and Lyndon Johnson in 1965 at 67%.
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How Trump’s Approval Stacks Up Against Past Presidents
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Bad enough when he thought that he’s King of America. Now he thinks he’s King of the World.
Anyone else beginning to think that Trump's goal is to start WWIII?
Anyone else beginning to think that Trump's goal is to start WWIII?
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'Baby got himself a bruise': DHS faces scrutiny over ICE agent 'internal bleeding' claim
Story by David EdwardsDepartment of Homeland Security officials faced calls to produce medical records after claiming to multiple media outlets that Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot Renee Good, was suffering from internal bleeding.
According to CBS News, DHS officials did not respond to requests for additional information about Ross' condition.
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The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland…
Why is invade Greenland not the same as Venezuela?
I did not write this. It was written by Brent Molnar. This sounds bad, very bad.
If the United States follows through on the threat to invade Greenland, we need to be crystal clear about what happens the next morning. This is not a real estate transaction or a routine military exercise. It is the geopolitical equivalent of pulling the pin on a grenade in a crowded elevator. The moment American boots hit the ground in Nuuk to seize territory from a fellow NATO member, the world as we know it ends. The consequences will not be temporary sanctions or angry letters. They will be total, permanent, and devastating.
The first domino to fall is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization itself. NATO is built on the sacred promise of Article 5, that an attack on one is an attack on all. If the U.S. attacks Denmark, we are not just breaking the treaty; we are triggering it against ourselves. NATO dissolves instantly. The alliance that kept the peace in Europe for 75 years evaporates, leaving the continent to rearm and realign against the new aggressor across the Atlantic. We don't just lose an ally; we create a unified enemy.
The military repercussions will be swift and humiliating. Europe will immediately ....
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All that followed by civil war - I'm sure Putin is laughing his ass off
Unmistakably so.
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Since I am somewhat sympathetic to Russia, it sort of seems an insult to Russia to call Trump a "Russian asset".
While on the surface it would seem to Russia's advantage to break up NATO as Trump risks doing, the reality is that NATO has never been the good guys, and instead participated in the toppling of over half a dozen popular Mideast leaders like in Bosnia, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, the Ukraine, etc.
I suspect NATO is actually just a US asset, so will bow to the will of Trump in the long run.
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Your choice, but please don't conflate your tolerance for Trump's anti-Americanism with Trump patriotism.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel: Samuel Johnson April 7, 1775
The Trump administration excluded Zelenskyy from participating in the formulation. Judging by the terms of the formulation the terms were apparently written by Russia, likely within the Kremlin.
Those terms included amnesty for Russian war atrocities, etc.
Essentially Putin handed the terms off to Trump, and Trump passed it along to Zelenskyy.
That's not the only example, but example enough. President Trump is a Russian puppet.
Fine.
What does Thune have to say about it?
McConnell raises a didactic point here.
Since McConnell's observation seems to be history based, it suggests Trump wants something other than what Greenland already seems willing to share. What else could that be, other than ownership?
Trump has caught Putin fever? Putin gets Ukraine, and Trump gets Greenland?
Thanks Mitch.
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Maybe this should go in the humor thread?
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Ayn Rand redux or why it's suddenly an "absolute necessity" for Trump to acquire Greenland.
Are they actually trying to do Atlus Shrugged? Where a bunch of elites go and create their own little country and it's REAL SUCCESSFUL because the elite are simply THAT COOL (completely ignoring the fact that the elite are nothing without the workers).
Are they actually trying to do Atlus Shrugged? Where a bunch of elites go and create their own little country and it's REAL SUCCESSFUL because the elite are simply THAT COOL (completely ignoring the fact that the elite are nothing without the workers).
Ripped straight from the Putin playbook.
Some have suggested Trump rattles his "hard way" sabre to prepare Greenland / NATO to gain a more generous conciliation from those opposing Trump on it.
But you are forgetting from 1991 when Gorbachev allowed East Germany to reunite with West Germany, and the Ukraine was allowed independence.
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The quote from James Baker, U.S. Secretary of State, is a pivotal moment in the history of NATO and the Cold War. It was part of a series of assurances given by Western leaders to Soviet officials during the German reunification process in 1990. Baker's assurance was that NATO's jurisdiction would not move one inch eastward if Germany remained in NATO. This statement was made during a meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and has been a point of contention regarding NATO's expansion into Central and Eastern Europe. The assurance was part of a broader set of verbal commitments that were not legally binding and have been interpreted differently by various parties involved....}
Since then, NATO has totally violated that promise with 16 Warsaw Pact countries added to NATO.
So then Russia was the one acting in good faith, and the US and NATO simply were lying.
Having Hunter Biden bribe the 2014 Maidan Coup was exceptionally evil since the Ukraine is INSIDE the Russian defense grid, so Russia could not detect a nuclear launch from the Ukraine until detonation.
a) Putin is not Gorbachev.
b) I'm disgusted with U.S. President GHWB, the bloke in the white house when the wall fell.
GHWB had been head of the CIA, and was a WWII veteran.
GHWB should have understood how monumentally essential the U.S. Marshall Plan was to setting post War Europe in the correct direction.
It may have seemed madness to those that had to live with rationing, to flood in after the War and help Germany and Japan recover.
But today Germany & Japan may be better allies to the U.S. than we are to them.
R5,
I sometimes try to stay off my soapbox. Due to your #2,417 I'm on it.
- The Berlin Wall fell.
- GHWB shrugged it off, virtually ignored it. I D I O T !!
The following is a rough draft of a letter GHWB should have sent Gorby within a week or two of the Berlin Wall coming down:
Dear President Gorbachev:
For decades the U.S. and U.S.S.R. were locked in a mutually depleting Cold War that threatened our mutual annihilation.
That War is now over, and some might expect the victor to harvest the spoils.
But the United States of America maintains a proud tradition of welcoming our former adversaries as friends, as we have with both Germany and Japan after WWII.
Not a mere rhetorical welcome without substance or concern, but genuine, substantial peace and prosperity.
The Soviet economy was a zero sum game. For government to have more, the good people of the Soviet Union had less, and for the Kremlin to keep pace with the Pentagon, the good people of the Soviet Union were forced to have a great deal less.
As president of the United States I offer to you, to Russia and the good people that populate her, the same determined hand of friendship that it is our tradition to extend.
It will be a very long road Mr. Gorbachev, measured not in miles, but decades. Many challenges and obstacles await us in our mutual effort to welcome Russia to a far more prosperous, more comfortable, more secure future.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." There is no benefit to delay. The sooner we begin to rebuild, to modernize, to benefit all of Russia the better.
I have appointed a liaison team to establish communications with their counterpart working group in Russia.
This combined team can begin by establishing the objectives Russia chooses to achieve, prioritized to your preference, to be executed only upon your approval.
If any time you sense a snag in their progress, or if you simply wish to touch base to solidify mutually beneficial diplomatic relations, please feel free to contact me directly.
Both our nations have paid a price. But the wisdom of your world-class leadership is surely equal to this task that lays before us. Our liaison team has communication keys to share with yours, for their consultation with Germany, Japan, and other Western nations eager to offer constructive suggestions on how to optimize Russia's post Cold War transition to Western style prosperity.
All best to you and and Raisa.
Your partner in Russia's prosperity, with kindest regards
United States President George Herbert Walker Bush
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As you know R5, President GHWB did not send that letter, or anything like it.
And here we are, Russia an authoritarian State, threatening its neighbors Cold War style, lead by a former KGB.
It did NOT have to be this way !
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So they're literally going with the "It was just a prank, bro" defense. Christ...
turn on the sound
turn on the sound