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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2017, 09:47:33 am »
I have observed the president doing everything he possibly can to fulfill his promises with the establishment, regardless of the party they are affiliated with, fighting him every step of the way.

Both of us old codgers are 'seeing' the same thing, @Bigun .    :patriot: 
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2017, 09:50:53 am »
Consistency and truth telling have never been Donald's strong suits.......

But you've got that "consistency" thing down pat, don't you?   

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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2017, 09:52:54 am »
Anyone who doesn't think President Trump's first 100 days have been a raging success, is DELUSIONAL!   
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2017, 12:54:28 pm »
Good luck with that, @libertybele

Certain members' reasons for even being here...ragging on President Trump, thinking each day will be the, "I TOLD YOU SO!", day!

But leave them alone.   Evidently, they relish in their a##holiness.

Miraculously, the day that President Trump was sworn in, all the RINO's changed their tune and became iron clad conservatives and vowed to do everything to help their party and their newly elected president. Silly you, you didn't notice that!   :whistle:
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2017, 01:42:53 pm »
Everything in DC moves slow so measuring a President by his first hundred days is kind of stupid, and that I agree with Trump. But then he goes on and says no other President has accomplished as much as he has in this short amout of time. His giant ego always seems to get in the way.
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2017, 01:57:50 pm »
Anyone who doesn't think President Trump's first 100 days have been a raging success, is DELUSIONAL!   

No, I'm not delusional at all, and I think it has been a very mixed bag - some good (revocation of Obama executive orders and the successful nomination of Justice Gorsuch), some bad (too many dumb Tweets, and the failure to effectively promote an Obamacare replacement) and some mixed (the Syrian bombing -which was deserved but ineffectual). 

The "100-day" standard is an exercise in meaningless symbolism, and Trump is right to ignore it. But I would like him to become more focused and set clearer goals and priorities than he has done to this point.
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2017, 02:01:07 pm »
Both of us old codgers are 'seeing' the same thing, @Bigun .    :patriot:

@DCPatriot I've never liked Trump and still wish Ted Cruz was our president today. He isn't and Trump is.  I can see what's going on and refuse to lie about what I clearly see.
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2017, 02:12:23 pm »
He's got 4 years to come up with a line about how foolish it is to think anyone can get anything done in just 4 years.

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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #33 on: April 23, 2017, 02:15:22 pm »
Focusing on the wrong thing here. Focus on what Ivanka and Jared have accomplished in their first 100 days.  :smokin:

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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #34 on: April 23, 2017, 02:15:57 pm »
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #35 on: April 23, 2017, 02:21:01 pm »
Let's take a walk down memory lane ...

..."Some presidents got off to a rocky start in their first 100 days.

Take Bill Clinton. He won an early victory by moving a $1.5 trillion budget outline through Congress, which was controlled by fellow Democrats. But Clinton's first 100 days in 1993 were also marked by a string of political setbacks and public-relations disasters. They included his decision to allow gays to serve in the military under a "don't ask, don't tell" standard. This meant that the military would no longer ask if its members were homosexual.....

.....Clinton also ran into trouble in naming an attorney general, over winning congressional approval of an economic stimulus package, and over disorganization at the White House. Perhaps most important, he alienated many legislators by placing his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in charge of healthcare reform and not adequately consulting Congress about her proposals. His opponents were able to portray the package as a massive government intervention, and the defeat of Mrs. Clinton's plan set back the cause of healthcare reform for years.....

....and then Bammy shoved Bammycare down our throats .....

I'm not so sure we should be ridiculing President Trump!

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Is that going to be the stock response to criticism of Trump?  "Well, but Clinton and Obama..."

What they did or didn't do is irrelevant.  Trump was hired for the job because he would be different.

If we're going to constantly excuse him by bringing up past presidents (even into the early nineties!), we might as well acknowledge that we've resorted to our version of "Bush's fault."

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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #36 on: April 23, 2017, 02:30:50 pm »
@DCPatriot I've never liked Trump and still wish Ted Cruz was our president today. He isn't and Trump is.  I can see what's going on and refuse to lie about what I clearly see.

Your objectivity should be the standard here, Earl.

In addition to reading your overall political instincts and POV, that's all Trump supporters here request.    :beer:
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #37 on: April 23, 2017, 02:39:58 pm »
No, I'm not delusional at all, and I think it has been a very mixed bag - some good (revocation of Obama executive orders and the successful nomination of Justice Gorsuch), some bad (too many dumb Tweets, and the failure to effectively promote an Obamacare replacement) and some mixed (the Syrian bombing -which was deserved but ineffectual). 

The "100-day" standard is an exercise in meaningless symbolism, and Trump is right to ignore it. But I would like him to become more focused and set clearer goals and priorities than he has done to this point.

Perhaps, I'm looking at the landscape as one being brought out of darkness and despair.

He has signed dozens of Executive Orders reversing President Obama's willful, deliberate destruction of our free market system.

He has not figuratively...but LITERALLY saved the Supreme Court from a Socialist-Caretaker abyss, that NOBODY alive today, will see reversed. 

On the contrary, Madam Clinton was on her way to name the NRA and Conservatives in general as literally "Irredeemable".

I could stop right there, as any red-blooded American would call that a "raging success"....but,

in addition he's also kept, or is in the middle of checking off ALL of his campaign promises.

"Promises" that the average American can witness firsthand.

Come on, @andy58-in-nh , say "UNCLE!!"    :laugh:
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #38 on: April 23, 2017, 02:48:31 pm »

Miraculously, the day that President Trump was sworn in, all the RINO's changed their tune and became iron clad conservatives and vowed to do everything to help their party and their newly elected president. Silly you, you didn't notice that!   :whistle:


The DEMS are a Domestic Enemy.  They refuse to condemn their violent base that will not acknowledge defeat in the Election.

They want to crush him and all he's accomplished by still claiming he's illegitimate.   

The GOP want to stand mute while President Trump is criticized for these so-called 100 DAYS, yet they never gave him the...as set by precedent...HONEYMOON he was 'due'.
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #39 on: April 23, 2017, 02:50:48 pm »
@libertybele

Is that going to be the stock response to criticism of Trump?  "Well, but Clinton and Obama..."

What they did or didn't do is irrelevant.  Trump was hired for the job because he would be different.

If we're going to constantly excuse him by bringing up past presidents (even into the early nineties!), we might as well acknowledge that we've resorted to our version of "Bush's fault."

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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #41 on: April 23, 2017, 03:11:55 pm »
"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #42 on: April 23, 2017, 03:23:54 pm »
Miraculously, the day that President Trump was sworn in, all the RINO's changed their tune and became iron clad conservatives and vowed to do everything to help their party and their newly elected president. Silly you, you didn't notice that!   :whistle:

What's miraculous is that there were enough geniuses out there who were dumb enough to believe that would happen, like their moronic leader evidently did.  Suddenly, it's "unexpected" that someone who actually knows how to make deals would be needed to get things through.

Yet we keep getting told to cheer the beautiful clothes even when Trump parades around naked.


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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #43 on: April 23, 2017, 03:33:08 pm »
@DCPatriot I've never liked Trump and still wish Ted Cruz was our president today. He isn't and Trump is.  I can see what's going on and refuse to lie about what I clearly see.

Exactly.    :beer:
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #44 on: April 23, 2017, 03:43:05 pm »
What's miraculous is that there were enough geniuses out there who were dumb enough to believe that would happen, like their moronic leader evidently did.  Suddenly, it's "unexpected" that someone who actually knows how to make deals would be needed to get things through.

Yet we keep getting told to cheer the beautiful clothes even when Trump parades around naked.

Actually the morons are Paul Ryan and the RINO's in Congress!  I was never a Trump fan, but #1, he's our President and he should be given some credit when credit is due.  #2 It is very difficult to ignore the comments from those in the GOP that have vowed to ensure that our President fails. The fact of the matter is they were hoping for Clinton so that she would keep the status quo.

I am extremely delighted that Hillary is gone and we have Gorsuch seated.  I'm delighted that our President is standing up to Russia, Iran, N. Korea and China ... it's about time that we had a president that had the courage to show strength rather than weakness. If you don't call that an accomplishment after 8 years of Bammy making excuses for our country, it is obvious, you and I aren't seeing the whole picture the same way. I'm delighted that our President is starting to bring jobs back to this country and I am delighted that illegal immigration is way down and our immigration laws are finally being enforced....yep...all in 100 days!  Check! 
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #45 on: April 23, 2017, 05:31:38 pm »
And we all know he'll do just that, don't we?

I think two years is a good standard.  He should at least know something about governing in that length of time.

Beating Trump over the head with his campaign rhetoric is just futile right now.  It's partly (mostly) his fault ... he continues to NOT keep his mouth shut when it would be wise to do so.
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #46 on: April 23, 2017, 06:23:36 pm »
I think two years is a good standard.  He should at least know something about governing in that length of time.

Beating Trump over the head with his campaign rhetoric is just futile right now.  It's partly (mostly) his fault ... he continues to NOT keep his mouth shut when it would be wise to do so.

Thus, it is no longer "campaign rhetoric,' but is "Presidential rhetoric."

I have said often that he didn't become a different person when he became President.  He's still the same dishonest man he was that I couldn't in good conscience, vote for.  What he does is not so much the point, but who he IS, and that is clearly still a problem.
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #47 on: April 23, 2017, 06:32:26 pm »
What he does is not so much the point, but who he IS, and that is clearly still a problem.

Oh, stop clutching your pearls.   *****rollingeyes*****

What the President DOES is very much the point. 

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« Reply #48 on: April 23, 2017, 08:40:14 pm »
@libertybele

Is that going to be the stock response to criticism of Trump?  "Well, but Clinton and Obama..."

What they did or didn't do is irrelevant.  Trump was hired for the job because he would be different.

If we're going to constantly excuse him by bringing up past presidents (even into the early nineties!), we might as well acknowledge that we've resorted to our version of "Bush's fault."

We can certainly leave comparing Bammy and Bill Bob out of the equation. 

That still leaves us with a President Trump who defeated Hillary and placed Gorsuch on the SCOTUS, a President who stood up to Syria, is standing up to Russia, Iran, N. Korea and China and showing the strength of the U.S. and her resolve while assuring Israel that we are a strong ally.  He is bringing back jobs to this country, illegal immigration is down and our immigration laws are finally being enforced...yes...all in 100 days.
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Re: Trump scoffs at 100-day mark as ‘ridiculous standard’
« Reply #49 on: April 23, 2017, 08:42:08 pm »


Actually, there are no if's, and's or but's; President Trump should be given credit when credit is due.
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