@unite for individuality I have thought many of the same things about Trump, which brings me back to the doubts that I had when he was campaigning. He jumped into the political arena right after Cruz announced he was running. He took out the other GOP opponents one by one and admittedly stated that Cruz was a tough one to beat. However, Trump didn't go after his biggest adversary in the same way who was Hillary. What happened to lock her up.
First off I agree that eliminating her from the field for the future should have been done. She has missed glorious years among the prison population. Trump had a weak DOJ (in terms of justice), and they jumped on the Russia/collusion thing immediately. They are supposed to uphold the law, but they have been mighty picky of late as to whom they uphold what law against.
Still, going after Hillary would have looked like he was making a retaliatory strike, not a case with merit, and even after that merit was proven, the Media were rabidly going after Trump (and
still are).
None of the crimes Hillary committed got squat for traction in the MSM news cycle--nor did Hunter's until 'the big guy" started stepping in poo like a blindfolded guy dancing in a feedlot. Hundred(s) of pedophiles did not make front page news. Instead, the MSM is downplaying the most heinous of crimes by walking with the Democrats promoting judges who are soft on baby-rapers.
Ok, he became president. The wall never truly got built even though he had a full majority in both Houses. In fact Cruz several times pleaded for that wall. It wasn't until the GOP lost the House, that Trump decided to make a move on the wall, a move that came only a few weeks before the new Congress took place.
Where was the GOP???
Trump doesn't initiate revenue or spending measures, that all comes through the House. The GOP had it for two years and .....>crickets< Again. Trump managed to divert some already appropriated funds to get done what he did get done, but the Congress was doing bupkiss, as usual.
Why is it that the Democrats always manage to put their whole wish list into some omnibus spending bill just in time to "keep Government from shutting down" (The horror!) but the Republicans are still trying to find their hindparts with both hands and a flashlight two years later?
You are absolutely correct, his choice of appointees were horrific; Sessions, Barr as prime examples. What about Pence?? How did he come about selecting someone so eerie and at the end of the day, IMO failed on Jan. 6
The insurrection/Floyd happened and though he commented several times he was going to stop the insurrection he allowed it to happen.
Sessions, Barr, were deep state but had served the GOP and I think Trump assumed the GOP would be behind a Republican POTUS. Oops.
As for the riots, Trump was restricted by Federal Law (as was 'W' during Katrina): he could not send in the National Guard unbidden.
The Governor or Mayor has to ask.
They did not.
To do so would have given the slavering impeachment mongers a real case of federal overreach. Those riots were bait, and he didn't bite. So the destruction remained on the local authorities or state governments (many of who were Leftist sympathizers). Sad, but true.
We can go through a lot of what if's but he displayed the utmost patriotism, he got many things done very quickly especially with the economy.
The pandemic hit -- he brings Fauci in. That one flabbergasted me. Even Obammy shut down Fauci's research for fear of a pandemic .... so ... it again brings questions and doubts.
Trump did not bring Fauci in. Fauci had been head of NIAID since the Reagan Administration. Once the pandemic hit, it was a tad late to fire Fauci, and although firing the top dogs at the CDC, NIAID, and FDA would have been a good move, we only know that in retrospect, and had no reason to believe that DOCTORS would act in any but the public's or America's best interest.
Trump is neither a doctor nor a medical researcher; he was at the mercy of his 'experts' whom we all now know were corrupt, but who were assuring Trump and the world that "the science" was correct. Only those of us who did extensive research on our own to find out about the virus, the effects, the alternatives and medication available, and the mRNA injections or who read the information from those who had (banned from Facebook and Twitter and YouTube) knew that what we were seeing in the MSM was NOT accurate. The move to conceal the Gain of Function Research by exporting it and sliding it money through a middleman, even in China, was done by the Obama Administration, likely to keep the whistle from being blown and to conceal the funding and continuation of the research. It was the Pandemic that brought all that into the open. Without that, most of us would have been unaware of what was going on and had been going on.
One thing that has always stood in the back of my mind, Trump walks a fine line and does things his way to an extent. I think he wanted a second term and that what kept him in line. If he wins re-election, he will be Trump unleashed and that has always concerned me.
Trump did walk a fine line, but frankly, he had to be so squeaky clean that anything that even appeared to be out of line would launch another round of Investigations and subpoenas and insanity, not to mention 24/7 media crap. Failure to walk a fine line would have had everyone in his administration getting raked over hot coals by the Democrat Congress and the MSM.
That would have been paralyzing, even worse than the problem with having key staffers and formers grabbed at gunpoint. Re-election, had he been able to accomplish more other than by Executive order would not have deterred him, nor would it have made for total insanity on his part. He used Executive Orders because they were the only way (even when the GOP held both houses of Congress) to get anything done.
He has liberal NY values and roots -- his associates like Giuliani are troubling. Giuliani is a liberal clown and that's who he chose to represent him?? He also plunked Jared and Ivanka in the WH; all in my books pretty liberal. Something will all of them just wasn't the right choice.
No arguments about the NY values, nor the way that background skews a person's POV about what is conservative or liberal (Leftist), because it unarguably does.
People from the Northeast tend to be far more Liberal in their most Conservative views than someone from the rural South, Midwest, or the Rockies--or, for that matter, most anywhere rural.
"Rural" is the key, there, because Leftists tend to congregate where they do not have to be responsible for clearing the road of snow to get to the highway, where the water is piped in instead of from a well, and all the modern conveniences that tend to be more difficult to come by, more expensive, or just up to the individual to provide for themselves in rural settings. Guns are a tool, and the basis of security in rural areas where response times might be measured in half hour increments, (although some parts of some cities may not be much better, time wise, at least we know we are on our own).
Freedom, especially via vehicles, is necessary just to function because the MTA doesn't come within walking distance, and would not take us close to where we work, anyway, as a rule. The differences between the bi-coastal urban areas, and even the interior major Metro areas and the vast rest of the country are profound, affecting our philosophy, endurance, patience, work ethic, and even religious devotion--in areas where sometimes it is up to us and God--and mostly God--if something essential is going to get done.
City folks are, well, different.
That said, he has been around, befitting the line from
If: 'To walk with kings nor lose the common touch.' from what I have seen.
I do not agree with all he has done, and believe he was seriously misled by the Deep State hiring pool of career bureaucrats who endure from administration to administration, underestimated in their ability to make things happen or not, as their own agenda coincides with the policy (or not), deeply infiltrated and heavily populated by the minions of the Left.
This is the level of Government we should be most concerned with, because it is the one that actually writes the omnibus Bills, makes the rules, creates the loopholes, and at the bottom of it all enforces the policy.
If they don't acknowledge it, it does not exist and did not happen. If they flag it, no matter if it is in compliance with the complete letter of the law, procedurally and in fact, the act of defending one's self, family, company or behaviour can be expensive enough that those who plead guilty to heinous crimes will get off lighter than the innocent person just mounting a defense--all over some rule that never was voted into law. He exposed a lot of this to people who were unaware of it before, and that alone is a good first step.
Time will tell .... I think this year is going to perhaps reveal more politically, even where Trump is concerned.
At the end of the day though, if not Trump, then who??
To the first, yep, I reckon we're going to find out.
To the second, good question. It is time we asked ourselves, though, just in case there is no alternative to finding another candidate.