Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All

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lawtig02 said:
I've thought for a while his approval floor is around 42%, just because that's the percentage of the public that will support him no matter what. He may fall below that level before his first month is over. I literally can't imagine a worse start to a presidency than what we're seeing.
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Huh?

He was basically under 38% his entire first term, save the first 8 or so months at the beginning and a few spikes in the middle and end. There is no way he will be sniffing anything above 40% for the vast, vast majority of 2.0. I expect him to be sub 35% in 2026 and beyond.
 
lawtig02 said:
Pubs have become really, really quiet on this board over the last few days. I get that you're embarrassed to defend what's happening right now, but if you're to be taken seriously as a member of this online community, seems to me you wouldn't disappear when the (completely predictable) shit hits the fan.
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lolz.

none of the board pubs who are to be taken seriously are maga.
 
Zoo_View said:
We have non-MAGA ‘Pubs on this board? Who?
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there are quite a few who used to be Republicans but left the party in the last decade or so. i don't want to name anyone and be misremembering but definitely some of our very regular posters.
 
This is the worst day of Trump 2.0 BY FAR!!! And that's a high bar after the last couple of days, including yesterday when OMB was forced to rescind an order it issued a couple of days ago because it was so fucking stupid even Pubs were opposing it. I'm confident we'll have many more Worst Days ahead, but damn if this administration isn't off to a spectacularly awful start. We may become Canada's 11th province before this is over.

Ohio Gop GIF
 
lawtig02 said:
This is the worst day of Trump 2.0 BY FAR!!! And that's a high bar after the last couple of days, including yesterday when OMB was forced to rescind an order it issued a couple of days ago because it was so fucking stupid even Pubs were opposing it. I'm confident we'll have many more Worst Days ahead, but damn if this administration isn't off to a spectacularly awful start. We may become Canada's 11th province before this is over.

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And Tulsi hasn't even testified yet today.
 
I want to get this off my chest.

I'm scared to voice my opinions about Trump on social media. This is pretty much the only outlet where I vent somewhat freely. I'm scared to give Likes to posts that criticize Trump and this administration. I'm a little scared of losing my Tourist visa. I'm very scared of putting my sons' visas in jeopardy. I worry that their job prospects will be vaporized by random decisions. Logic would seem to indicate that this is impossible...and yet, I worry.

I am as pro-American as you can get in Latin America. I believe in the ideals of American democracy as a beacon of values that we should aspire to...freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom to protest, majority rule, minority rights. I'm still amazed at the utter stupidity of the electorate. I'm still amazed how the Dems totally botched this.

The only time Ive ever suppressed my opinions is in Nicaragua so as to not put family in harm's way. I can't believe I have that same fear now.
 
CRHeel94 said:
I want to get this off my chest.

I'm scared to voice my opinions about Trump on social media. This is pretty much the only outlet where I vent somewhat freely. I'm scared to give Likes to posts that criticize Trump and this administration. I'm a little scared of losing my Tourist visa. I'm very scared of putting my sons' visas in jeopardy. I worry that their job prospects will be vaporized by random decisions. Logic would seem to indicate that this is impossible...and yet, I worry.

I am as pro-American as you can get in Latin America. I believe in the ideals of American democracy as a beacon of values that we should aspire to...freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom to protest, majority rule, minority rights. I'm still amazed at the utter stupidity of the electorate. I'm still amazed how the Dems totally botched this.

The only time Ive ever suppressed my opinions is in Nicaragua so as to not put family in harm's way. I can't believe I have that same fear now.
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Makes perfect sense to me. I am not optimistic about how this all plays out once Trump’s storm troopers are positioned to assert their dominance. They are following the Project 2025 playbook to the letter so far. It’s naive to think they won’t continue.
 
www.nytimes.com

Trump Officials Release Water in California That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use

Local officials and experts said the water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began sending downstream on Friday could have been helpful to farmers later this year. President Trump, in an apparent reference to the move, called it a “victory.”
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Local officials and experts said the water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began sending downstream on Friday could have been helpful to farmers later this year. President Trump, in an apparent reference to the move, called it a “victory.”
 
CRHeel94 said:
I want to get this off my chest.

I am as pro-American as you can get in Latin America. I believe in the ideals of American democracy as a beacon of values that we should aspire to...freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom to protest, majority rule, minority rights. I'm still amazed at the utter stupidity of the electorate. I'm still amazed how the Dems totally botched this.
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I'm sorry that our idiot president has made you feel this way. But in a way, you are perfectly emblematic of the problem.

Trump and the nativists in the GOP -- and this includes Marco Rubio, by the way, who I regard as a total fraud and he's done nothing so far to disabuse me of that notion -- simply do not understand that there are pro-Americans in Latin America. To them, you are undistinguished mass of people, which is why they are more than happy to deport people to random countries instead of where they live. This is why the foreign policy looks the way it does.

And of course their policies end up making their ignorance come true. I cannot imagine living in a Latin American country right now and wanting my country to develop closer ties to the US. I understand very well that you have a wee bit more insight as to the Latin American experience (wee bit here meaning almost the entirety of our mutual experiences on earth), and as you know, I respect your opinions very much and learn a lot from you. So I'm not second-guessing you. I'm just saying that the approach of these nativists dumbasses is so counter-productive, which is of course what you have been saying for years. Or longer.

But any regime in Latin America that thinks it can curry favor with the GOP is sorely mistaken. Some of them recognize that fact: Lula's got his eyes wide open, for instance. I even have my suspicions that Milei knows this. What Latin America needs is its own bloc of diplomatic unity that excludes the United States.
 
Buckle is well positioned. He's smart and knows how to play the propaganda game. I'm sure he's the one that offered to take a criminals from other countries.

Rubio is just a sniveling opportunist. He thinks that playing the faithful dog will position him for a presidential run with the MAGA wing. It won't.
 
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