Americans should be thanking God every day that we have President Trump instead of Hillary Clinton

We have the best economic numbers in more than 40 years

Trump is succeeding with N Korea compared to the bungling by past presidents (both parties)

Trump has restored our ME relationships with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, Arab Emirates to name a few

Justice Gorsuch and a record number of Constitutional Federal Justices confirmed

ISIS Caliphate destroyed

Got us out of the traitorous agreement with Iran

Military being rebuilt to operational readiness

Improved trade relationships including big increase in energy exports (including COAL)

Taxes cut

First president since Coolidge to reduce Federal regulations

Getting rid of criminal illegals with increase in immigration raids

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its wonderful to have a real pro American leader in the White House again

Why should we thank God?  Are you accusing God of fixing the election? 

No I’m just thankful to God that He brought Trump into this world so that he was here to defeat Hillary.

plus we thank God daily for our blessings and Trump is a blessing to this country

I recommend adding a 5 minute funeral service to the repertoire to handle the future volume.

Trump is a blessing to this country

And I'd say "Not to everyone"

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more than 200 liens have been filed against Trump or his businesses by contractors and employees dating back to the 1980s   The claimants include curtain makers, chandelier shops, cabinet makers and even Trump's lawyers who represented him in prior cases.

former Trump Plaza president Jack O'Connell said. "Part of how he did business as a philosophy was to negotiate the best price he could," O'Connell said. "And then when it came time to pay the bills," Trump would say "'I’m going to pay you but I’m going to pay you 75% of what we agreed to.'"

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History doesn't lie.

This great and powerful OZ is just a illusion. It's really just a doddering old fool behind the curtain pulling levers getting his way and deceiving people till too many people get hurt. Then he'll fly away and he won't be taking you with him. 

I say Good Luck America. 

No I’m just thankful to God that He brought Trump into this world so that he was here to defeat Hillary.

Lot of people are under the illusion that god is on Trumps side.  Seems to be a problem sussing out false prophets with this crowd, they don't know the difference between god and 'satan'.  Anything the ferments the hate and division Trumps does has nothing to do with the light.   More like tool of the devil.  

Are you accusing God of fixing the election?

yes... and guess what else? 

mueller can not subpoena god any more than he can subpoena trump

Ha

Lot of people are under the illusion that god is on Trumps side

everyone knows god is conservative...

everyone knows god is conservative...

I dont know the world changes pretty fast for a conservative creating it. 

IMO GOD would be classified as more of a progressive. 

That has nothing to do with his presidency and all the great things he has done to restore our nation

Lol, you two make a good pair...I'd like to go for a beer with the pair of ya!

I agree that Trump has done and is doing great things for our exceptional America.

LOL From what I hear, so did the Pied Piper in the beginning.

This town was facing a rat infestation, and a piper, dressed in a coat of many coloured, bright cloth, appeared. This piper promised to get rid of the rats in return for a payment, to which the townspeople agreed too. Although the piper got rid of the rats by leading them away with his music, the people of Hamelin reneged on their promise. The furious piper left, vowing revenge. On the 26 ^th of July of that same year, the piper returned and led the children away, never to be seen again, just as he did the rats.

ancient-origins

"Just let me be boss and I'll clean the swamp. just pledge me your loyalty or else."         

LOL Yep kinda like the pied piper.. 

Good Luck America !

Donald Trump IS 'the swamp,' lol...

God's goin' down, Sandrat, Mueller's gonna sentence Him to hell!

Ha 

Mueller has no power to sentence anyone.

I think lenny was being sarcastic 

IMO GOD would be classified as more of a progressive.

No, I don't think God would crack someone's skull just because you support our President and others don't.

I don't think God would rape and sexually assault up to hundreds of women, then claim he is part of the #metoo movement to attempt to say he is for women's rights.

I don't think God would cry. moan and groan....or even scream at the sky to himself to protest a duly elected President.

No, God is in no way a progressive.

No, God is in no way a progressive.

I totally agree ... under Your definition of a progressive.

But,  I see progressives as the people who progress and change with the world as it changes. 

happening or developing gradually or in stages; proceeding step by step.

Let me finish your definition for you...

"In a way nobody wants".

Let me finish your definition for you...

The majority of people support progressive ideas if you don't tell them that they are progressive ideas. Pople have been biased against the word progressive by the media, but they agree with the policies. 

The progressive consensus cuts across economic and social issues and includes even traditional culture-war flashpoints. On most policy questions, polling shows that about three-fifths or more of the public prefers progressive positions.

Consider some examples.

Healthcare reform: In a Gallup survey last year, roughly half of respondents favored repealing Obamacare, while half favored keeping it. But 58 percent supported a third option: replacing it with “a federally funded healthcare system providing insurance for all Americans.” The wording is vague, but that sounds a lot like the single-payer, “Medicare for All” system that progressives have lobbied for.

Unions: Fifty-eight percent of respondents to a 2015 Gallup survey said they “approve of” labor unions—and 72 percent said unions should have either more influence than they now have, or at least the same amount. Historically, the approval rate was in the 70s through the mid-1960s. It declined to roughly 60 percent in the early 1970s and dipped to the high 40s in the wake of the financial meltdown of 2008, but has steadily recovered since then.

Campaign finance reform: Seventy-seven percent of the public supports limits on campaign spending, according to a 2015 Pew poll . Voters in the deep-red state of South Dakota made that clear last November by approving a sweeping campaign-finance reform initiative. The measure passed despite strong opposition from the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a PAC funded by the Koch brothers.

Climate change and renewable energy: There was a sharp spike in people who reported that they are at least “a fair amount” worried about climate change last year—from 55 to 64 percent— according to Gallup. The share of people who believe that the effects have already begun also rose, from 55 to 59 percent. It’s true that opinions about climate change fluctuate significantly based on current events, the wording of the question and other factors. A recent Pew poll , for example, found that only 48 percent of respondents believed human activity causes climate change, versus 65 percent in the Gallup poll. But whatever they believe about the causes, Americans overwhelming agree about solutions. In the Pew poll, support for solar panel and wind turbine farms was more than 80 percent. A majority opposed every other potential energy source: offshore drilling, nuclear power plants, fracking and coal. And a post-election poll found that even people who voted for Donald Trump are on board with taking some action against climate change. Sixty-one percent said that companies should be required to reduce carbon emissions, and 78 percent support air-pollution regulations.

Reproductive rights: Fifty-six percent of Americans believe abortion should be legal in “all or most cases.”

LGBT rights: In 1996, 27 percent of Americans thought same-sex marriages should be legal. Last year, 61 percent did. And, by a narrow majority, most Americans believe that transgender people should be able to use the public bathroom of the gender they identify with.

Kinda how liberals hate Trump's SOTU remarks...until they find out they are  Obama's

Campus Reform,

Their supposed journalism ranks with Breitbart and World Net Daily.

Factual Reporting:  MIXED

Notes: Campus Reform is a college news website. They claim to be “a watchdog to the nation’s higher education system and to expose bias and abuse on the nation’s college campuses.” The website is a project of the Leadership Institute , which is an institute founded in 1979 by conservative activist Morton C. Blackwell. Its mission is to “increase the number and effectiveness of conservative activists” and to “identify, train, recruit and place conservatives in politics, government, and media.” In review, the majority of articles are negative toward liberal activists on college campuses.

Proudly promotes our Christian values

Boy, you got THAT right.  Here is a sample of those 'values':

nj

slate

time

theguardian

Lying is all right as long as it serves a higher purpose

It’s no problem to be married more than, well, twice

Immigrants are scum

Vulgarity is a sign of strength and resolve

White lives matter (much more than others)

There’s no harm in spending time with porn stars

It’s all right for adults to date children

The ends justify the means

I encourage you to read examples of those hideous values in the article. 

Again you America haters focus on his past rather than what he is accomplishing that reflects our values.

cutting taxes

reducing regulations 

stopping IRS persecution of Christian ministries and pastors

appointing Constitutional justices 

protecting our sovereignty against Islam and illegal immigration

upholding pro life instead of the infanticide policies of the left

consistently proclaiming our Christian heritage and our nations worship of God, not government

promoting individualism over Marxist collectivism

The principles of Liberty and those of socialism are completely incompatible.  Liberty is about the sovereignty of the individual whereas socialism or collectivism is about the "good" of the state.  They cannot exist together.

Obama, Hillary, the Democratic Party, and the rest of the left including Bernie Sanders do not believe in the same America reflected in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Their America is not about the natural liberty, sovereignty, and natural rights of the individual. Instead this ideology is that of statism and collectivism, where your rights are determined by the state. Where the pursuit of happiness comes from the benevolence of the state, who takes from one class of citizens and redistributes to another class of citizens for the "collective good".

Collectivism through Statism likewise is in opposition to Christianity.  Jesus came to set the captives free from the oppression of both sin and anything including governments that put us in bondage.   Either we are looking to God as the one who gives us our rights, liberty, and our needs, or we look to government.  Either we are praising and glorifying God for these things, or you are doing so to the state.

So, you subscribe to at least 2 of those I listed:

Lying Is All Right As Long As It Serves A Higher Purpose and 

The Ends Justify The Means

onsistently proclaiming our Christian heritage and our nations worship of God, not government

The USA does not have a Christian heritage and there is no proof that the Abrahamic God exists.

You instead should seek to obey the First Amendment's separation of church and state in the US Constitution and keep religion out of government unless you want to admit your theocratic goals. 

Your strawman army is out in force today. 

protecting our sovereignty against Islam and illegal immigration

Islamic Americans are not trying to enforce their religious beliefs, unlike conservative Christians in the US. Leviticus 19:33-34 commands that you should care for all immigrants, regardless of immigration status or do you only obey the cherry-picked parts of that passage to suit your homophobic beliefs.

upholding pro life instead of the infanticide policies of the left

Protecting the privacy rights of women is not promoting infanticide, despite your beliefs.  The GOP should stop trying to enforce their pro-birth beliefs and instead of beginning to support policies that support the lives of all people in the US instead of stopping at the beginning of the 4th trimester. 

Americans should be thanking God every day that we have President Trump instead of Hillary Clinton

I do not thank fictional concepts.

I'd much rather have Hillary Clinton as POTUS, despite the fact that she is too conservative. She is experienced and is reasonably intelligent, unlike either Trump or Pence.

Hillary would have been a disaster for the American people.

True, But, trump may be a disaster for the world, time will tell.

Personally I did NOT want either clinton or trump to be president. However, I had no chance for my candidate to win, because they never even materialized.

Hillary would have been a disaster for the American people. We get down on our knees and praise and thank God for sparring us all from the evils of a Clinton regime.

Hillary was a centrist capitalist on economic issues, a hawk on foreign policy and a moderate on social issues, so in what way would she have been a disaster? Most educated people would call her a traditional Republican. 

in what way would she have been a disaster?

IMO, hillary herself IS a disaster. Her quest and thirst for power has corrupted her. And IMO she was not the only one running in this category.

I was pissed, I had NO ONE I wanted to be the next president.

IMO, hillary herself IS a disaster. Her quest and thirst for power has corrupted her. And IMO she was not the only one running in this category.

Your fear is absolutely unwarranted.  Her power would have been limited by both the Constitution and Congress.  We have the check and balances to prevent any POTUS from taking dictatorial powers.

power would have been limited by both the Constitution and Congress

All presidents power HAS been limited by the constitution and congress. That doesn't mean it always will be. Power hungry people usually are not inhibited by limits that normally limit normal people. They find ways around those limits. Both trump and clinton fit that description.

power can be gained thru consolidation as well as is the case with what trump has been doing from day one.

NO I did not want either clinton nor trump to become president. 

I haven’t had someone I really wanted to become President get the job since Reagan.

You cannot possibly claim to be a fiscal conservative and support Reagan. Ronald Reagan was among the worst presidents, but he was a great liar.

During Reagan's presidency, the national debt grew from $997 billion in FY1981 to $2.85 trillion in FY1989. This led to the U.S. moving from the world's largest international creditor to the world's largest debtor nation. Reagan described the new debt as the "greatest disappointment" of his presidency.

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"By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."

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Thirty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan made perhaps the most purposeful and consequential foreign-policy decision of his presidency. Though he never said so explicitly, he ended America’s military commitment to a strategic mistake that was peripheral to America’s interests. Three-and-a-half months after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. military personnel — and after repeatedly pledging not to do so — Reagan ordered the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Lebanon. As Gen. Colin Powell later aptly summarized this military misadventure: "Beirut wasn’t sensible and it never did serve a purpose. It was goofy from the beginning."

IYO

May 11, 2018 8:58 am

Trump Has Now Broken Every One of His Economic Populist Promises

“Draining the swamp” has become a catchall-Republican slogan, like “lock her up,” that basically means doing anything to lash out at Trump’s opponents. During the campaign, though, it had a different and more specific definition. Trump promised to enact reforms to reduce the power of lobbyists and business. He   specifically endorsed :

• A constitutional amendment imposing term limits on members of Congress
• A ban on federal employees lobbying the government for five years
• A ban on members of Congress lobbying for five years
• Tighter rules about what constitutes a lobbyist, instead of letting people call themselves consultants
• Campaign finance reform limiting what foreign companies can raise for American political candidates
• A ban on senior government officials lobbying for foreign governments

Trump has not merely forgotten these promises, his administration has embraced Washington sleaze with   unprecedented gusto . Not only has he failed to prevent former administration officials from lobbying for foreign governments, he has   had   current   administration officials lobbying for foreign governments. There has never been an American presidency so easily manipulated by domestic and foreign business interests. The most benign explanation for Michael Cohen’s secret payments to his hastily constructed Delaware shell company is that he was a conduit for business interests to buy their way into Trump’s good graces.

[ Update ] Trump also promised,   over   and   over   and   over   again, to raise taxes on the rich, including on himself. “It’s going to cost me a fortune, which is actually true,” he said. It was   not   actually true at all.

Trump promised to do a lot of un-Republican things to give resources and influence to blue-collar Americans, which would have threatened his party’s power brokers. Many of these promises were feasible if Trump actually wanted to follow through on them. Instead, the only promises he has kept are the ones that put money in the pockets of Trump and his cronies.

nymag

Laughable

Trump is exceeding our expectations and is doing a fantastic job

The tax cut bill which not only cut taxes, it also

opened Anwar for drilling

2018 marked biggest wage increases in a decade

GDP growth strongest in 13 years

killed the individual mandate from Obamacare

Then we have Gorsuch to SCOTUS

  and a record number of federal judges in first year

Wall is under Construction ( santafenewmexican )

70% reduction in illegals crossing the border

deportations up with continuous raids of criminal illegals

Ordered end of catch and release

Increased number of judges for deportation hearings

Destroyed ISIS caliphate

Dakota and Keystone pipelines now operating

22 regulations repealed for every new regulation

VA Accountability law signed

TPP killed 

Pulled out of the farcical Paris Climate Accord

restored our relationships with Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, Japan, South Korea, Philippines,  

first sales of coal to China in 9 years and dramatic increase in energy exports

led the world in getting increased sanctions on N Korea and bringing NK to the peace table

exposed the illegal missile activity by Iran

heavy weapons sales to Ukraine to oppose Putin’s Russian forces (which Obama refused to allow)

stopped funding of overseas abortions with federal funds

Pulled out of the terrible Iran deal

stopping IRS persecution of Christian ministries and pastors

protecting our sovereignty against Islam and illegal immigration

upholding pro life instead of the infanticide policies of the left

consistently proclaiming our Christian heritage and our nations worship of God, not government

promoting individualism over Marxist collectivism

consistently proclaiming our Christian heritage and our nations worship of God, not government

Bullshit, you are on the record choosing government over REAL christian ideals.  And that is not a personal attack, that is you specifically telling us that you care more about what Trump has done politically that you like and that allows you to ignore all his amoral and degenerate morality and values.   Righteous people reject that, others will go into contortions to justify the results and ignore the  depravity.

Laughable

Trump is exceeding our expectations and is doing a fantastic job

Here are a few chuckles!

The tax cut bill which not only cut taxes

Here are several examples of how the tax plan hurts people who are not well off:

-- Retirement Benefits Will Likely Be Cut.   Because the plan proposes to add at least $1.5 trillion to the national debt, fiscal conservatives say the imbalance needs to be offset by either cuts of "entitlement" programs like Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid or tax increases (see below).

One sneaky way to lower Social Security payments is to change the way they are calculated. They are now indexed to inflation through a standard measure of the Consumer Price Index, but that will change under a new way of figuring inflation.

Republicans want to used a "chained CPI," which would cut the amount retired people receive. Here's what   Los Angeles Times   columnist Michael Hiltzik   discovered when he pried into the Senate GOP's tax plan

How GOP Tax Plan Will Slam Small Businesses

"Changing the inflation index immediately would raise about $125 billion over the next decade and nearly $500 billion in the decade after that, according to the Tax Policy Center.

Most of that money would come out of the pockets of middle- and working-class taxpayers. Most important, it would slow inflation adjustments to tax brackets. This would hurt those taxpayers because more of them would move into higher tax brackets purely because of inflation in their wages."

The GOP Plan Would Really Raise Taxes for Middle Class Over Time.   President Trump and his GOP allies have been crowing about how middle class families will receive a tax cut in their plan.

The truth is obscured by the fact that several tax breaks -- like personal exemptions and property tax write-offs -- are cut.

Moreover, whatever meager personal cuts are proposed now   go away in the future   to pay for huge rate reductions for global corporations and the ultra-wealthy. Here's Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post:

"Republican leaders keep claiming the bill focuses on helping the middle class. But voters are already catching on to the fact that the biggest tax cuts go to the wealthiest.

Lately the public has learned that the Senate bill will actually raise taxes for households making less than $75,000 by 2027, relative to current law. Yes you read that right. And it’s true even if you don’t count the bill’s changes to Obamacare."

Those Who Can Least Afford It Will Pay the Most for These "Reforms. "   The math is most compelling because it's mostly subtraction for working people.

Since the in GOP plan is not cutting corporate loopholes, bringing back trillions in offshore cash by corporations and cutting defense spending, again, the only way to reduce the federal deficit is to slash big programs like Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.

This cruel math hurts everyone from retired people in nursing homes to the working poor. There's no help for families paying for long-term care, payroll taxes or college.

Graduate students and families   paying off college debt   see whatever modest tax breaks vanish. That will further mushroom the outrageous cost of college.

Instead of giving families tax   credits   for college bills and nursing/home care bills, they pay more out of pocket while the estate and alternative minimum tax on the ultra-affluent disappear.

And on health care, the GOP tax reform template would cause millions to lose their health coverage or pay more, according to a   fresh analysis from the AARP Public Policy Institute:

-- People ages 50 to 64 would face average premium increases of up to $1,500 in 2019 as a result of the bill, the AARP study found.

-- The Senate plan eliminates the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, which requires most Americans to have health insurance. But eliminating the mandate would leave 4 million more Americans uninsured by 2019 and 13 million by 2025, according to Congressional Budget Office  estimates .

-- With fewer younger, healthier people obligated to pay for health insurance, average overall premiums in the individual market would rise about 10 percent annually “in most years” over the next decade, the CBO said.

-- Older Americans ages 50 to 64, who typically pay higher insurance premiums, would bear the brunt of the mandate’s demise.

The independent, non-partisan   Tax Policy Center reached this conclusion:

"...not only would the tax cuts continue to be   regressive , but the vast majority of American households would actually be   worse   off, with the tax cuts plus the financing, than they would be if the tax cuts had not occurred."

If only key members of Congress could receive visitations from the wise spirit representing the grim, morbid future for most Americans under GOP tax reform, then this flailing of "the excess population" can be avoided.

Until then, the GOP's version of tax reform for anyone who can't afford a powerful lobbyist is pure humbug.

opened Anwar for drilling

1. Negative Sociological Impacts
The negative sociological impact of oil drilling in Alaska include increased rates of diabetes and alcoholism among the people living within and near the oil-drilling communities.

2. Pollution
The release of pollutant in high amounts increases the risks of pollution in ANWR and in its surrounding areas. High amounts of pollutants are released during the developmental stage when workers setup roads, crew habitations, and derricks. Pollutants are also released during the drilling process when high-powered drills are used to bore the earth.

Pollutants are also released during the transportation processes including the shipping of oil for distribution. The oil distribution in ANWR can cause severe impacts to the environment. Oil spills can pose threat to the lives of people living within the oil-drilling communities. Also, boring through the earth can lead to the emission of nitrogen oxides, methane, and other airborne particulate matter that can cause acid rain or smog.

3. Endangers Animal Habitats
Drilling in ANWR involves processes that can cause explosions deep into the earth. These explosions or the release of seismic pulses can scare animals, and lay them off from their natural migratory patterns. This can lead to increased mortality rates of animals such as polar bears and caribou. This can also increase the risks of these animals to human contacts, which is dangerous to both parties.

2018 marked biggest wage increases in a decade

In the United States, an average 3 percent pay increase is predicted by Korn Ferry, the same as for 2017. Adjusted for the expected 2 percent inflation rate in 2018, however, the real wage increase is 1 percent—down from last year's 1.9 percent.

GDP growth strongest in 13 years

SHALL I GO ON?

killed the individual mandate from Obamacare

Then we have Gorsuch to SCOTUS

  and a record number of federal judges in first year

Wall is under Construction (   santafenewmexican )

70% reduction in illegals crossing the border

deportations up with continuous raids of criminal illegals

Ordered end of catch and release

Increased number of judges for deportation hearings

Destroyed ISIS caliphate

Dakota and Keystone pipelines now operating

22 regulations repealed for every new regulation

VA Accountability law signed

TPP killed 

Pulled out of the farcical Paris Climate Accord

restored our relationships with Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, Japan, South Korea, Philippines,  

first sales of coal to China in 9 years and dramatic increase in energy exports

led the world in getting increased sanctions on N Korea and bringing NK to the peace table

exposed the illegal missile activity by Iran

heavy weapons sales to Ukraine to oppose Putin’s Russian forces (which Obama refused to allow)

stopped funding of overseas abortions with federal funds

Pulled out of the terrible Iran deal

stopping IRS persecution of Christian ministries and pastors

protecting our sovereignty against Islam and illegal immigration

upholding pro life instead of the infanticide policies of the left

consistently proclaiming our Christian heritage and our nations worship of God, not government

promoting individualism over Marxist collectivism

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