Grading the First 100 Days

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by Walla Walla Dawg II » Thu May 01, 2025 6:32 pm

If you want to say "green card holder", that's fine. But they are not LEGAL Citizens or Residents.

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by bpj » Thu May 01, 2025 7:20 pm

I don't think non-citizens should be allowed to protest anything in our country.

You want to complain, go back to yours.

Immediate deportation. No soup for you.

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by Michael K. » Thu May 01, 2025 8:45 pm

bpj wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 7:20 pm
I don't think non-citizens should be allowed to protest anything in our country.

You want to complain, go back to yours.

Immediate deportation. No soup for you.
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner. I left my country because it sucks, but I'm going to bitch about the country that for some reason is allowing me to stay even though I never did what it takes to become a citizen. That doesn't even work in Canada, but the US is the big bad bully for deciding they were going to get tougher on illegal aliens. :shock:

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by Walla Walla Dawg II » Thu May 01, 2025 8:56 pm

bpj wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 7:20 pm
I don't think non-citizens should be allowed to protest anything in our country.

You want to complain, go back to yours.

Immediate deportation. No soup for you.
Damn Straight!!!

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by Walla Walla Dawg II » Fri May 02, 2025 3:59 pm

A little something from a Fox opinion piece:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kellyan ... t-100-days


As President Trump reflects on promises kept in his first 100 days in office, here are 25 mind-numbing things Democrats did and said in 2025 (so far):

Democrats turned President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress in March into a disjointed political theater. They paddle-waved, stood for no reason, heckled, and even sat stone-faced when a 13-year-old brain cancer patient was named an honorary Secret Service member.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and other Dems held a 12-hour sit-in, – a "moral moment" on a "sacred civil space" – to protest Trump's budget proposal.

Preaching to a camera on the Capitol steps while Congress isn’t in session and other folks are in church is weird. Booker, who, like Kamala Harris, received ZERO votes in the 2020 Democrat primaries, seems super bored lately. He spoke for 25 hours on the Senate floor and said precious little.

At a New Hampshire Democratic fundraiser, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called for "mass protests," stating Republicans "cannot know a moment of peace," and must be "castigated" and "punished," "feel[ing] in their bones…that we will relegate their portraits to the museum halls reserved for tyrants and traitors." Democrats cannot help but diminish and threaten their opposition, regardless of the consequences.

The Democrats’ remarkable talent for misreading the room was on full display with a painfully awkward "choose your fighter" video that made everyone except their most devoted supporters physically recoil.

Polls show Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has record-low approval ratings in his state of New York, and is under threat by thirsty AOC, who may primary him.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett referred to Texas Gov. Abbott (who is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair) as "Governor Hot Wheels" to ignorant laughter from the audience she was entertaining (not educating). One of the loudest mouths of late showed a lack of civility by making an ableist joke at a human rights event.

In a bold new strategy to clinch back power, Democrats are now funding attacks on...other Democrats. Newly-elected DNC Vice Chair David Hogg pledged $20 million to oust "asleep-at-the-wheel" Democratic incumbents, incurring the ire of an old guard that thought it would be cool to elevate a young guy to "help" them hold onto power.

In a not-so-clever series of coordinated, synchronized videos called "Sh*t That Ain’t True," Democrats accidentally introduced more Americans to President Trump’s policies and achievements.

Ignoring the will of many Americans to toss acronyms like CRT, ESG and DEI in favor of USA, the DNC now insists that "leadership diversity" includes a nonbinary title-holder.

The DNC also kicked off its leadership vote with "land acknowledgement"—that America is "stolen land"—because nothing rallies voters like a guilt trip about their country.

Every DNC Chair candidate explained the 2024 loss not as one of strategic failures or messaging missteps of a deeply unimpressive candidate, but with the shopworn charges of racism and misogyny.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett blamed grocery prices and housing costs, which were stubbornly sky-high during Biden-Harris, on President Trump’s deportations.

82-year-old Rep. Rosa DeLauro cringingly tried to attract young voters by dropping Gen Z slang terms, instead of dropping interest rates or unemployment rates for them.

In an apparent attempt to get on a watchlist, an illegal activist proudly announced her immigration status, sexual orientation, and protest schedule.

In his first speech since the election, President Joe Biden made reference to "colored kids."

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer very foolishly tried to take cover behind a stack of blue folders during a press conference with President Trump in the Oval Office.

Former Kamala Harris running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz openly celebrated Tesla’s stock drop, ignoring the thousands of jobs tied to Tesla and the $400 million loss to Minnesota’s pension fund.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was visibly upset during President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress when POTUS announced no more men in women’s sports.

The mainstream media spent 64 minutes covering the Kilmar Abrego Garcia story, and ZERO minutes on victims of illegal immigrant crimes or their families.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries posted a video claiming "the American people are with us" in his opposition to Trump—even though he was standing alone outside the Capitol.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, the top law enforcement officer of the third largest state, who promised to take down Trump, lied that her father was her husband, and she allegedly falsified mortgage documents.

AOC pulled a Kamala (and a Letitia) at a Nampa, Idaho, rally, after sporting a new accent to connect with the crowd. This was part of a "Fighting Oligarchy" tour -- where she and Sen. Bernie Sanders flew on a private jet to bemoan the wealthy.

On "The View," Stephen A. Smith schooled hostile hosts and caused a mini-furor after saying Trump’s win actually counts as a "mandate." Democrats will never win ever again if they don’t acknowledge reality and stop with the same old strategy.

Democrats planned late-night speeches on the floor to mark what they called "100 days of hell." Weaponizing empty gestures by ranting to C-SPAN after bedtime is not an effective strategy. Take my advice: do less complaining and more policy.

In spite of his remarkable accomplishments so far, President Trump’s second term has 92% negative media coverage from ABC, CBS, and other Democrats. It’s no wonder public trust in the mainstream media is the lowest it’s been in over 50 years.

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by ddraig » Fri May 02, 2025 5:18 pm

When you consider what is of immediate importance, i.e. illegal immigration, DOGE, Tariffs, I give Trump an A+ because I can see where it is all leading. Perhaps I have a different take on the tariffs, seeing them as a long term "investment." But I think they will result in eventual good. As for the other items on the list, I don't see them as being of tremendous importance. We'll likely never learn anything about the Epstein Files, the current economy is a leftover Biden "gift," the rogue justices will eventually be curtailed, and other issues of lesser importance.

Job creation is beginning to ramp up, which will have a major impact on the mid-terms. We will never see the Biden Inflation go back down but we might see increases in wages to compensate. And if the Trump tax passes, well, that's the kicker to an A+.

I give Trump an A. There is only so much he can do within the first 100 Days to correct the mess Biden left us. A lot of it depends upon what Congress will do. Lets give it until the end of October to see how things are going.

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by gil » Fri May 02, 2025 5:36 pm

ddraig wrote:
Fri May 02, 2025 5:18 pm
When you consider what is of immediate importance, i.e. illegal immigration, DOGE, Tariffs, I give Trump an A+ because I can see where it is all leading. Perhaps I have a different take on the tariffs, seeing them as a long term "investment." But I think they will result in eventual good. As for the other items on the list, I don't see them as being of tremendous importance. We'll likely never learn anything about the Epstein Files, the current economy is a leftover Biden "gift," the rogue justices will eventually be curtailed, and other issues of lesser importance.

Job creation is beginning to ramp up, which will have a major impact on the mid-terms. We will never see the Biden Inflation go back down but we might see increases in wages to compensate. And if the Trump tax passes, well, that's the kicker to an A+.

I give Trump an A. There is only so much he can do within the first 100 Days to correct the mess Biden left us. A lot of it depends upon what Congress will do. Lets give it until the end of October to see how things are going.
I've been pretty outspoken against tariffs, and I'd like to make sure I'm not missing anything in the pro-tariff argument. What is the investment you mention? Do you mean creating the conditions and incentives for increased manufacturing in the US?

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by Michael K. » Fri May 02, 2025 5:50 pm

gil wrote:
Fri May 02, 2025 5:36 pm
ddraig wrote:
Fri May 02, 2025 5:18 pm
When you consider what is of immediate importance, i.e. illegal immigration, DOGE, Tariffs, I give Trump an A+ because I can see where it is all leading. Perhaps I have a different take on the tariffs, seeing them as a long term "investment." But I think they will result in eventual good. As for the other items on the list, I don't see them as being of tremendous importance. We'll likely never learn anything about the Epstein Files, the current economy is a leftover Biden "gift," the rogue justices will eventually be curtailed, and other issues of lesser importance.

Job creation is beginning to ramp up, which will have a major impact on the mid-terms. We will never see the Biden Inflation go back down but we might see increases in wages to compensate. And if the Trump tax passes, well, that's the kicker to an A+.

I give Trump an A. There is only so much he can do within the first 100 Days to correct the mess Biden left us. A lot of it depends upon what Congress will do. Lets give it until the end of October to see how things are going.
I've been pretty outspoken against tariffs, and I'd like to make sure I'm not missing anything in the pro-tariff argument. What is the investment you mention? Do you mean creating the conditions and incentives for increased manufacturing in the US?
That's how I see it, as well as evening the playing field. Again, why should we pay tariffs, but we don't receive them? It was my initial question in the Tariffs section in here, and if someone answered it concisely, I sure didn't see it. There is zero reason that "fair trade" should mean that one nation pays a tariff, but doesn't charge one. The word fair doesn't fit in that narrative.

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by DavidGee24 » Fri May 02, 2025 6:51 pm

Michael K. wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 3:49 pm
Yep, Ferguson loves him some taxes....WA is ridiculous.

And the fake outrage....too funny not to share. In Wenatchee there was a story released recently about 20 people protesting in front of a local ICE office. I didn't even know we had an ICE office! :lol:

But I thought twenty was hilarious, but the interview was even more so. This woman says "if we don't stop this unnecessary deportation it will be the queers next". So, this woman, in her infinite wisdom, believes people will start getting deported due to sexual orientation. They don't even know what the fuck they are upset about.
If I were the interviewer, I would have said "Ma'am, did the Republicans plant you in this protest to make everyone else look completely insane?" :D

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Re: Grading the First 100 Days

Post by Michael K. » Fri May 02, 2025 6:56 pm

DavidGee24 wrote:
Fri May 02, 2025 6:51 pm
Michael K. wrote:
Thu May 01, 2025 3:49 pm
Yep, Ferguson loves him some taxes....WA is ridiculous.

And the fake outrage....too funny not to share. In Wenatchee there was a story released recently about 20 people protesting in front of a local ICE office. I didn't even know we had an ICE office! :lol:

But I thought twenty was hilarious, but the interview was even more so. This woman says "if we don't stop this unnecessary deportation it will be the queers next". So, this woman, in her infinite wisdom, believes people will start getting deported due to sexual orientation. They don't even know what the fuck they are upset about.
If I were the interviewer, I would have said "Ma'am, did the Republicans plant you in this protest to make everyone else look completely insane?" :D
Haha, it worked perfectly if so!

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