The sky isn't falling on Trump's America
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Many news reporters took up the Democrats’ banner at every stage, writing stories to follow whatever theme the party was messaging on any given day.
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Beltway journalists, including the few conservatives, are obsessed with every minor matter that comes across Twitter. These poor souls live and die with every political utterance, every innuendo, every smear, every jot and tittle of political gossip. We're not immune to this ourselves. But we endeavor not to lose sight, as so many people in our line of work do, of the fact that there is much of importance to the public that is not retailed endlessly through the well-curated Twitter feeds of like-minded Beltway journalists.
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President Trump's administration is, for us inside the Beltway, a never-ending circus. The president's frequent tweets, first of all, are ridiculous, impolitic, or frequently offensive. White House controversies — there are real ones and others created by sloppy reporting nearly every week — are a constant.
But does the rest of America live and breathe this stuff? Does it view the world this way? Do ordinary people care or even notice most of the things that send denizens of the Beltway scrambling for the defibrillator?
The fact the 2016 election result caught so much of the press off-guard should have forced everyone to rethink their obsessions. What matters to political hacks is often of little concern to the public. Most of America neither knows nor cares whether Trump insulted a reporter during a news conference the other day ?
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What they see is what is both obvious and most important: Even though Trump is graceless, thin-skinned, uninterested in details, and apparently deceptive, the sky has not fallen on America since his election. Most things are going pretty well, and certainly better than they were before he was elected.
In the real world, the economy is booming. Growth is soaring at a rate that Obama said was no longer possible. Job creation is up and unemployment is down, especially among black and Hispanic workers, who the anti-Trump crowd would have you believe are afflicted by presidential racism. The labor market is so tight that employers are raising wages and overlooking job candidates’ blemishes, including criminal convictions.
Exports are up substantially over the past year, in spite of Trump’s counterproductive tariff war. Manufacturing output is about to hit its pre-recession high, and there are 400,000 more manufacturing jobs today than there were when Trump took office. The stock market, the vehicle for most retirement savings, is hitting new highs this week. The housing market is neither frothy nor lagging. The price of gasoline is reasonable.
Whether or not you’re willing to acknowledge the enormous role that deregulation and corporate tax reform have played in making such things possible, you cannot credibly pretend that the economy is doing poorly, which is why Democrats are so silent about it as the midterm elections approach.
And so on and so on ! Trump is actually Doing !
In short, take a mental health break from social media and talk to real people, and you’re likely to realize that most of them don’t think the country is in trouble or that Trump’s presidency is a disaster.
A month from now, voters are expected to follow the historic norm and repudiate the party in power. If they reprimand Republicans more gently than the Beltway media expect, we will not be surprised.
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What matters to political hacks is often of little concern to the public. Most of America neither knows nor cares whether Trump insulted a reporter during a news conference the other day.
Most of America aren't Trump supporters. Only Trump supporters refuse to care about decorum, civility, honor, manners or what used to encompass the phrase "acting Presidential". They don't care about his insults to journalists, our allies or other Americans because his base hates foreigners and fellow Americans who don't happen to share their religious or political views with a passion that hasn't been seen since the civil war. Much like a person who has never had any instruction on dinner etiquette so have no clue as to which fork is the salad fork, Trump supporters have had little to no instruction in civics so they have no clue as to what kind of etiquette has been expected of every President since our founding. The majority of Americans of course do know what's expected and how a President should behave so as to not embarrass his own country. But in Trumps case his loyal followers not only don't know how he should be acting, they encourage his crapping all over the presidential norms. In their minds those norms never got them out of poverty so like the peasants in the French revolution they've risen up and placed their mob boss in the white house to crap on all their enemies and figuratively guillotine the liberals, progressives, lgtbq Americans and any other minority group they feel have been getting more attention than themselves, the straight white Christians.
And the "Twilight Zone" just became a reality.
Please research public comments made by Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Eric Holder.
Much like a person who never had any instruction on dinner etiquette so have no clue as to which fork is the salad fork, Trump supporters have had little to no instruction in civics so they have no clue as to what kind of etiquette has been expected of every President since our founding. The majority of Americans of course do know what's expected and how a President should behave so as to not embarrass his own country. But in Trumps case his loyal followers not only don't know how he should be acting, they encourage his crapping all over the presidential norms.
Thanks for calling half the population uneducated hicks. Keep thinking that way up to and through the midterms. Such silly some comments will come back to bite you. In case you have not been paying attention, what Trump's doing is the "new normal", and if the Democrats ever want to regain power, they are going to have to nominate some ass kicking and credible candidates. You can't deny that he has had a string of incredible successes
In what reality is it civil, honorable or a display of good manners to mock a victim of sexual assault or a disabled reporter? In what reality is it proper decorum to insult our allies while cozying up to authoritarians and despots? In what reality is considered reasonable to ridicule and vilify the free press just because they were unflattering? In what reality is it honorable to mock or insult goldstar families? This is the "Twilight Zone" President, the abnormality that exposes that segment of America who have hidden their emotional deformation of racism and bigotry for decades but have now been given cover by a racist bigoted President so they no longer fear the light.
While the story of an unhinged half-wit bigot running the most powerful country on the planet would make for exciting Tv drama, having to watch it live as it happens is a bit surreal. Every day I'm surprised at the new depths of depravity this President stoops to and for a while kept wondering "So is this it? Will this new gaff be enough to end the Gold-painted Presidency? Will this finally be enough for those Trump fans with even a shred of conscience to pull their support?". But alas, I no longer even entertain such thoughts of Trump supporters reinserting any sort of backbone they may have had in the past and standing up for what's right, standing up against a poorly educated bully who is a complete embarrassment to the vast majority of patriotic Americans.
"Sticks and Stones", and all those other phrases one learns in Play School.
In what reality is it civil, honorable or a display of good manners to Get physical, Burn, Break, shatter, scream in ones face, run human beings out of restaurants, corner folks in elevators, etc.....?
And yes, those are called "Mobs", no matter how the left Media tries to deflect or dismiss that fact.
My fav. was the Trump Supporting LONE women that got caught at the closed Hotel Glass doors by Trump Haters, and was egged and had bottled waters thrown at her head during the election.
And nothing like running into a restaurant to spit scream at someone having a nice private dinner with friends and familySo Civil and Moral.....Pffffffft.
Liberal types make us soooooo proud most times.
He has certainly ridden on Obama's coattails when it comes to the economy, taking credit for the low unemployment when it was Obama who lowered it by nearly 10% while Trump has overseen a drop of just 0.8%. He added to the gains made for the stock market, though under Trump we've seen the two worst single day stock market drops in history. Success? No, but at least it's not a complete failure.
How about on the ACA he promised would be killed and replaced with something better? Nope, still nothing better even presented let alone achieved. Success? I think not.
The North Korea deal? We get a few hundred repatriated remains of our soldiers and an unbound undefined promise to sometime in the future work towards denuclearization while NK gets world recognition, standing on the same stage as the US with the same number of flags presenting themselves as global equals, something they have always desired, and a stopping of military exercises with our South Korean allies. Success? I think not.
A dozen of his campaign officials have either been indicted or plead guilty of financial crimes or lying to the FBI about their involvement with Russian operatives. Half a dozen cabinet picks are under investigation, have quit or been fired for misuse of government funds. Success? I think not.
Numerous accounts of chaos in the white house, he's gone through more staff than any prior President this early in a Presidency. Success? I think not.
The only ones seeing Trump as a success are those who believed our system of government was so broken it needed to be completely destroyed and remade in their image. And the fact is the image it's being remade into under this President more resembles the poor white racist plantation owners of the confederacy than it does hard working honest union supporters. While that may make some angry bitter bigots happy, it does not generate any joy for freedom and equality loving Americans who embrace diversity and recognize our multi-cultural, multi-faith, multi-race melting pot as an asset, not a liability. To us it's clear, the Trump Presidency is a complete failure as it has taken us backwards and widened divisions, not forwards to a more perfect union.
They don't care. They celebrate him being an asshole. They said the most vile and nasty things about Obama then elect someone who does the same.
I'd much rather have someone scream in my face or disrupt my meal than to have them ram their car into me during a peaceful protest killing one and seriously injuring 28.
And just so we're clear, I do not advocate for or support the anarchist antifa who use the righteous fight against fascists and worthless white supremacists as an excuse to vandalize and commit petty crimes or maybe even to punch a few Nazi's (which I think any true patriot would at least think about if given the opportunity).
And the woman caught in hotel doors being egged that Trump supposedly supported should talk to his 19 credible accusers who know the real Donald Trump, not that any of his deplorable supporters would care about women or their desire not to be treated as sexual objects or mere "pussies" to grab or "move on like a bitch".
I'd rather have neither as I don't suffer fools easily.
I raise you one Nut that shot up congressman on a baseball field to your one White Supremacist nut.
The advocating of Physical confrontation by Politicians in Office to "Force" a point, and I'll include Hillary in that, since she did do the "You can't be civil" crap just a few days ago, is waaaaaay past "Twilight Zone". It's not even made for adults. XXXXXXXXXXX Rated.
So supposedly "liberal" nut, who thankfully was unsuccessful in taking anyone life, vs the white supremacist "nuts"... I guess I'll raise you...
2018 Murder of Blaze Bernstein Orange County, California
2018 Murder of MeShon Cooper-Williams Kansas City, Missouri
2017 University of Maryland stabbing College Park, Maryland
2017 Car-ramming attack into counter-protestors at the white nationalist Unite the Right rally Charlottesville, Virginia
2017 Portland train attack Portland, Oregon
2017 Stabbing of Timothy Caughman New York City
2015 Shooting at a showing of the film Trainwreck Lafayette, Louisiana
2015 Planned Parenthood shooting Colorado Springs, Colorado
2015 Shooting attack on worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Charleston, South Carolina
2014 Attack on Pennsylvania State Police barracks Blooming Grove, Pennsylvania
2014 Ambush attack on Las Vegas police officers Las Vegas, Nevada
2014 Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting Overland Park, Kansas
2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting attack on TSA officer Los Angeles, California
2013 Double murder committed by Jeremy Lee Moody and Christine Moody Jonesville, South Carolina
2012 Ambush attack against St. John the Baptist Parish police St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana
2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting Oak Creek, Wisconsin
2012 Tri-state killing spree by white supremacists David Pedersen and Holly Grigsby
2011 FEAR group attacks Georgia
2011 Murder of James Craig Anderson Jackson, Mississippi
2010 Murder committed by Aryan Brotherhood members Mississippi
2010 Shooting at bookstore cafe perpetrated by Ross William Muehlberger Wichita Falls, Texas
2010 Murder of Todd Getgen Carlisle, Pennsylvania
2010 Suicide attack by airplane Austin, Texas
2009 Murder of sex offender by white supremacists North Palm Springs, California
2009 Murder committed by Charles Francis Gaskins Carmichael, California
2009 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting Washington, D.C.
2009 Assassination of George Tiller Wichita, Kansas
2009 Murders of Raul and Brisenia Flores Brockton, Massachusetts
2009 Shooting of Pittsburgh police officers Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2009 Woodburn bank bombing Woodburn, Oregon
2008 Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting Knoxville, Tennessee
2007 Murder of homeless man by Aryan Soldiers
2006 Murder committed by John Ditullio
2004 Bank robbery Tulsa, Oklahoma
2003 Torture, abduction and murder Salinas, California
I eagerly await your long list of liberal/progressive terrorists who've actually killed people or attempted to do so based on their ideological views from the last two decades.
That's soooo cute !
CBS has parted ways with one of the company’s top lawyers after she said she was “not even sympathetic” to victims of the Las Vegas shooting because “country music fans often are Republican,” when discussing the mass shooting that unfolded in Las Vegas late Sunday night.
So now some loon on the left making a disgusting snide remark about a mass killing is the same as the long list of right wing mass killers? Now that's some serious pretzel logic.
Pretzel logic is "Rotten Egg Hunting" and avoiding what's going on and being said by your Fav. democrat politicians and commentators.
Operative word "POLITICIAN". Not some nutwing living in the communities like we all do.
Jeffy ate humans. Were they only Liberal Humans ?
In Liberal Land.....Brett only went after Liberal Women.
Really ?
SOME OF THE LIST:
– Nidal Hasan – Ft Hood Shooter: Registered Democrat and Muslim.
– Aaron Alexis, Navy Yard shooter – black liberal/Obama voter
– Seung-Hui Cho – Virginia Tech shooter: Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff, registered Democrat.
– James Holmes – the “Dark Knight”/Colorado shooter: Registered Democrat, staff worker on the Obama campaign, #Occupy guy,progressive liberal, hated Christians.
– Amy Bishop, the rabid leftist, killed her colleagues in Alabama, Obama supporter.
– Andrew J. Stack, flew plane into IRS building in Texas – Leftist Democrat
-YouTube Shooter Aghdam claims a workout tutorial she posted was unfairly censored just because of her beliefs
Those are some extreme stretches to claim those were politically motivated terrorists. Just being "registered Democrat" does not make your actions politically motivated. In most of the right wing terror list above the violence was specifically ideologically motivated, and the list is of course three times longer.
In whose mind ?
A Democrats ?
Someone who lies to the public on an average of EIGHT times each and every day, isn't "apparently deceptive", he is either evil or mentally ill.
Donald Trump has NEVER had 50% or more of Americans behind him.
Even more disturbing than all the right wing excuses for his dishonesty in the office though, is the ignoring , by the right and others, of Trump's unethical and illegal behavior. He is a crook. He is frankly, a proven crook. No crook should be president of the United States.
Did you miss this part :
What they see is what is both obvious and most important: Even though Trump is graceless, thin-skinned, uninterested in details, and apparently deceptive, the sky has not fallen on America since his election. Most things are going pretty well, and certainly better than they were before he was elected. This would explain why, at a polling average of nearly 44 percent job approval, Trump is almost as popular as he was at the time of his inauguration. And in favorability terms, he is significantly more popular than he was at any point of the 2016 election.
It would also explain why Gallup found last month that public satisfaction with the direction of the country is currently higher, and dissatisfaction currently lower, than at any point during Barack Obama’s eight-year presidency.
Normal Folks are only worried about the "Good" happening as it pertains to their own lives, as it should be. Finding a few disheartened folks isn't "The Country".
I JUST HEARD HE SIGNED THE "SAVE OUR SEAS" ACT. Liberals should be in luv with him right now.
The majority of Americans think Trump is an idiot. Hopefully that will prove out on election day and we can begin to get this criminal asshole off the national stage.
And what if it doesn't happen? Will you admit you are wrong about him.
Trump is the man they love to hate....
And yet, they keep losing to him at each turn. There are people on this very site that said, 6 months and he'll be out....oh, now in year he'll be out....oh now, after 4 years he'll be out. After being wrong virtually all the time, one would think that they'd stop and try to figure out why thye keep losing, but no, full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!
I wish they would just break up with him already.
Right back at ya.
Nice to see you supporting a progressive and feminist .
Real men don't cheat on their wives.
How come Democrats always complain when people bring up the Clintons but they have free reign to?
Haha. You said Trump.
She is an inspiration to us all....
I agree. Like I said, it's good to see you embracing liberalism.
I don't know if the ceiling is falling in "Trump's America" or not but I am betting that the Ford MC is feeling that way right about now. Due to his tariffs, the FMC is facing a 1 billion dollar deficit and massive lay offs are looming.
The Sky Isn't Falling On Trump's America.
You might be correct.
Or not.
I think we'll know much better whether or not that's true, come election day (OMG-- its only a month away!).
Trumps America is going strong and is a great exceptional nation.