I’ve lost all faith in anyone holding their side accountable. And I never thought I’d say this, but the right is worse. Or at least, I despise it more from the right because I’m on the right and hate seeing this clown show they’ve become. I’ve only seen political dialogue get more ignorant and partisan
Completely agree. There are maga heads that don't get why many of us in political limbo criticize the Right so much. It's because we already KNOW the Left is crazy, and there is nothing left to be said. We are beyond frustrated just how devolved our own side has become.
Honestly, I can’t even root for republicans anymore. Maybe a few here and there like Larry Hogan, a few brave enough to stand up to Trump and his online/talk radio cult. I hope, politically and nonviolently speaking, MAGA fails and comes crashing down, and level headed conservatives can pick up the pieces and build a new coalition. I just hope Trump and MAGA haven’t destroyed all potential credibility
John- Wow, that was a booklet of information and I must say- your crystal ball is very crystal clear. Such keen insight you have, but a huff and a puff won't "blow the house down." That might take an army of who knows what- which leads me to my question of the week for you : What are your feelings and opinions for the next twelve months? Any military actions will be viewed in a negative light. Firing any cabinet members as well. It's "politics" until the midterms? I think so.
Nice job, particularly on the patting of one's back part. (Ok, that's a bit of a tease.)You're not wrong John but you leave out a lot. Like the current stock market is what it is in addition to AI not as much because of it as you ellude. Money people don't seem concered.
And you left out the part about Trump's first administration officials, Clapper, Brennan and Comey blatantly pursuing getting Trump thrown out of office by concocting "facts". Not to mention Pelosie and H Clinton's rolls in the same.
I'm reminded of how Comey's amnesia suddenly appeared when an investigating committee had his feet to the fire. That's an indication of a bad cop.
In spite of the optics I suggest we let the system handle how this presidency goes. He's had SCOTUS 90% on his side so far. When he goes too far they, or congress or even his own croud, will reel him in. As Holman is doing in Minnesota. My guess here is Trump actually told him to do that.
You criticize Trump with judgmental calls about how he's handling Putin and Ukaine...ok dammit, you go fix it.
There's more to be positive about than one would gather from what you write and allowing the system to run itself seems a reasonable alternative.
>>Nice job, particularly on the patting of one's back part. (Ok, that's a bit of a tease.)
I used the earlier piece as the framework for this piece to illustrate how all of these concerns were well-founded and well-established, prior to Trump's return, for anyone who'd been paying attention to Trump's history and conduct.
>>Like the current stock market is what it is in addition to AI not as much because of it as you ellude.
AI has, in fact, been the primary driver of this stock market surge.
>>Money people don't seem concerned.
Lots of "money people" are concerned, including economists, business owners, U.S. manufacturers, U.S. importers, U.S. exporters, U.S. consumers on a budget, etc.
>>And you left out the part about Trump's first administration officials, Clapper, Brennan and Comey blatantly pursuing getting Trump thrown out of office by concocting "facts".
The only one of those three people who was in office during Trump's first term was Comey. Tell me how he "blatantly pursued getting Trump thrown out of office by concocting facts," and then tell me why I should have included anything about Comey in a piece about my concerns about Trump's second term.
>>Not to mention Pelosie and H Clinton's rolls in the same.
Why should I have written anything about Pelosi and Clinton in the context of this piece?
>>In spite of the optics I suggest we let the system handle how this presidency goes.
Let "the system" handle it? Was that your tact when Biden was president? "Just shut up about what's happening, because of the system"?
Sorry, but no. The president works for us (and has been trying everything he can to circumvent the system), the Republican Congress (who also works for us) is not doing its job, and the Supreme Court can't be relied on for everything. Also, "the system" can't fix a lot of the damage Trump is causing, including with our allies.
>>He's had SCOTUS 90% on his side so far.
He hasn't, but so what if he had? How would that apply to any point I've made in this piece?
>>When he goes too far they, or congress or even his own croud, will reel him in.
He has repeatedly gone too far (you'd agree if he were a Democrat), and the Republican Congress has chosen to do nothing, time after time, because they're afraid of being primaried out of office by Trump's "crowd". The Supreme Court can certainly end some executive abuses and executive overreaches, but they can't clean up the messes and repair the damage created by them. And what can the Supreme Court do about things like Trump destroying our foreign alliances, trying to surrender Ukraine, and central-planning our economy?
>>As Holman is doing in Minnesota. My guess here is Trump actually told him to do that.
Homan works for Trump. Of course he's acting at Trump's behest, to do damage control for the situation. There's no comparison between that and the separate branches of our federal government.
>>You criticize Trump with judgmental calls about how he's handling Putin and Ukaine...ok dammit, you go fix it.
You realize how absolutely ridiculous that comment is, right? You certainly would if I said the same thing to you about Biden's judgment when he was president. Believe me, I wish I had the authority to direct U.S. policy on Ukraine, but I don't.
>>There's more to be positive about than one would gather from what you write and allowing the system to run itself seems a reasonable alternative.
Again, was that your tact with Biden? How about Obama? There were positive things, so just shut up and "let the system" deal with it? You're telling me you would have seen that as a "reasonable alternative" to Americans voicing their discontent with their leaders, and the abuses committed by those leaders? Sorry, not buying it.
I agree with most of your opinion though I cannot stop myself from thinking about a Harris/Waltz administration. That scares me, especially living in Maine with the fraud now being uncovered that may have continued under a more liberal federal administration
I’ve lost all faith in anyone holding their side accountable. And I never thought I’d say this, but the right is worse. Or at least, I despise it more from the right because I’m on the right and hate seeing this clown show they’ve become. I’ve only seen political dialogue get more ignorant and partisan
Completely agree. There are maga heads that don't get why many of us in political limbo criticize the Right so much. It's because we already KNOW the Left is crazy, and there is nothing left to be said. We are beyond frustrated just how devolved our own side has become.
Honestly, I can’t even root for republicans anymore. Maybe a few here and there like Larry Hogan, a few brave enough to stand up to Trump and his online/talk radio cult. I hope, politically and nonviolently speaking, MAGA fails and comes crashing down, and level headed conservatives can pick up the pieces and build a new coalition. I just hope Trump and MAGA haven’t destroyed all potential credibility
MAGA has and is correcting a lot of mistakes the Democrats have made.
Name one Trump initiative I wrote about in this piece that is an example of him correcting Democratic mistakes.
Trump has, in fact, adopted a number of positions from far-left Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
John- Wow, that was a booklet of information and I must say- your crystal ball is very crystal clear. Such keen insight you have, but a huff and a puff won't "blow the house down." That might take an army of who knows what- which leads me to my question of the week for you : What are your feelings and opinions for the next twelve months? Any military actions will be viewed in a negative light. Firing any cabinet members as well. It's "politics" until the midterms? I think so.
You do realize that this is the deep six for any hope you had for your own show with Fox! :)
Nice job, particularly on the patting of one's back part. (Ok, that's a bit of a tease.)You're not wrong John but you leave out a lot. Like the current stock market is what it is in addition to AI not as much because of it as you ellude. Money people don't seem concered.
And you left out the part about Trump's first administration officials, Clapper, Brennan and Comey blatantly pursuing getting Trump thrown out of office by concocting "facts". Not to mention Pelosie and H Clinton's rolls in the same.
I'm reminded of how Comey's amnesia suddenly appeared when an investigating committee had his feet to the fire. That's an indication of a bad cop.
In spite of the optics I suggest we let the system handle how this presidency goes. He's had SCOTUS 90% on his side so far. When he goes too far they, or congress or even his own croud, will reel him in. As Holman is doing in Minnesota. My guess here is Trump actually told him to do that.
You criticize Trump with judgmental calls about how he's handling Putin and Ukaine...ok dammit, you go fix it.
There's more to be positive about than one would gather from what you write and allowing the system to run itself seems a reasonable alternative.
>>Nice job, particularly on the patting of one's back part. (Ok, that's a bit of a tease.)
I used the earlier piece as the framework for this piece to illustrate how all of these concerns were well-founded and well-established, prior to Trump's return, for anyone who'd been paying attention to Trump's history and conduct.
>>Like the current stock market is what it is in addition to AI not as much because of it as you ellude.
AI has, in fact, been the primary driver of this stock market surge.
>>Money people don't seem concerned.
Lots of "money people" are concerned, including economists, business owners, U.S. manufacturers, U.S. importers, U.S. exporters, U.S. consumers on a budget, etc.
>>And you left out the part about Trump's first administration officials, Clapper, Brennan and Comey blatantly pursuing getting Trump thrown out of office by concocting "facts".
The only one of those three people who was in office during Trump's first term was Comey. Tell me how he "blatantly pursued getting Trump thrown out of office by concocting facts," and then tell me why I should have included anything about Comey in a piece about my concerns about Trump's second term.
>>Not to mention Pelosie and H Clinton's rolls in the same.
Why should I have written anything about Pelosi and Clinton in the context of this piece?
>>In spite of the optics I suggest we let the system handle how this presidency goes.
Let "the system" handle it? Was that your tact when Biden was president? "Just shut up about what's happening, because of the system"?
Sorry, but no. The president works for us (and has been trying everything he can to circumvent the system), the Republican Congress (who also works for us) is not doing its job, and the Supreme Court can't be relied on for everything. Also, "the system" can't fix a lot of the damage Trump is causing, including with our allies.
>>He's had SCOTUS 90% on his side so far.
He hasn't, but so what if he had? How would that apply to any point I've made in this piece?
>>When he goes too far they, or congress or even his own croud, will reel him in.
He has repeatedly gone too far (you'd agree if he were a Democrat), and the Republican Congress has chosen to do nothing, time after time, because they're afraid of being primaried out of office by Trump's "crowd". The Supreme Court can certainly end some executive abuses and executive overreaches, but they can't clean up the messes and repair the damage created by them. And what can the Supreme Court do about things like Trump destroying our foreign alliances, trying to surrender Ukraine, and central-planning our economy?
>>As Holman is doing in Minnesota. My guess here is Trump actually told him to do that.
Homan works for Trump. Of course he's acting at Trump's behest, to do damage control for the situation. There's no comparison between that and the separate branches of our federal government.
>>You criticize Trump with judgmental calls about how he's handling Putin and Ukaine...ok dammit, you go fix it.
You realize how absolutely ridiculous that comment is, right? You certainly would if I said the same thing to you about Biden's judgment when he was president. Believe me, I wish I had the authority to direct U.S. policy on Ukraine, but I don't.
>>There's more to be positive about than one would gather from what you write and allowing the system to run itself seems a reasonable alternative.
Again, was that your tact with Biden? How about Obama? There were positive things, so just shut up and "let the system" deal with it? You're telling me you would have seen that as a "reasonable alternative" to Americans voicing their discontent with their leaders, and the abuses committed by those leaders? Sorry, not buying it.
I agree with most of your opinion though I cannot stop myself from thinking about a Harris/Waltz administration. That scares me, especially living in Maine with the fraud now being uncovered that may have continued under a more liberal federal administration