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Perhaps, I think I get why you think that is true, but I am not sure you have the full story. We really don't know. And we clearly cannot trust media to give us the full story.

A fair point. I get the transparency concern, and I have some apprehension as well. But, consider that any move he makes is met with a rather enthusiastic opposing effort.....that perhaps sometimes goes a bit too far. I think there is "good" opposition to motivate your opponent to soften their approach, or at least make it a little more good for more people. At least half the country is out there wanting to see some liberal things happen, and we cannot ignore them or their needs.......so yeah, pushback that harkens to that seems fine.....but often I see opposition purely for the sake of opposition. So in part I understand why there might be some holding back, to strategically prevent legal abuse to impede etc.....

I do not think there is any problem with opposing the tariffs, and in fact I think the opposition overall is helpful. I do not think decisions which go unchallenged are all that great, and all this effort to oppose Trump is making sure the work is being done to make better decisions. So in a sense, I am grateful for people such as yourself. We get better outcomes because of you.

Gaza is a mess, and the people are suffering. That is all I really want to say about that. On the bright side, the average person I encountered hates Hamas, not all, but most do. They are not stupid people, they know what Hamas did and why this is all happening. There is a coming together of important regimes in the area, notably Egypt who want to invest in the future of Gaza. But as with anything, its complicated, and there are some from the outside who are actively complicating it as well. The last thing some of the players want is peace, they see it as capitulation.

If you feel that we are not getting the right amount of scrutiny I am good with that. Right now the only thing being done for the most part is scrutiny, so the more the better. I am rather glad to see the media suddenly find the heart to criticize a President.

I dont understand the ask

So far we have not had to make any sacrifices, gratefully, but I do not presume that we can fix the considerable mistakes which brought us here without some impacts. If those folks who sacrificed so much in WWII could do it, I further presume we can deal with the far less impacts of fixing our economic factors. So lets let Trump cook, he is making decisions that people only every talked about in the past, but lacked the fortitude to actually do. Ending the bad economic deals, and eventually balancing the budget (as Clinton did) I think is a path I can get behind.

So you missed the pointe entirely. I hope you can improve your approach to thoughtful dialogue. I have been in Syria, Israel and Gaza for a couple months helping facilitate what will be the coalition that will eventually rebuild Gaza, so I have been out of the loop for a bit.

We are not in WWII, their struggle was worse, but they did struggle, and maybe we have some struggles today as well. If they could survive that, I feel we can withstand this to get past teh failures which brought us here and to establish a brighter future. I leave it to you to oppose, and I think that is good, this is what we needed for the last four years but did not have. At least when a Republican is in power we know we are getting the kind of scrutiny that helps make better choices.

There are far more arseholes in the world than good people.

I thin your objection has no merit. People of every generation have made sacrifices, we might have to as well. That you object to the comparison has less to do with some notion of morality you pretend to hold so much as you just want to oppose. If you cannot see the correlation for the merits then you are not being an honest participant.

I think there are those who are happy to see people suffer, we saw this as people migrated here and were raped and otherwise harmed, and then you had some folks encouraging that. So I get it, there are bad people out there. I think we might have to be strong for a year or so, but not unlike our families during WWII, we give a little to better secure the future for our people. We are already down the road toward a shifting away from the failed ies of the past that we can now see clearly were bad. I do not presume that fixing problems is easy, or without some effort and struggle. That is why people often say that doing it right the first time is better.

I think we tried it your way, and it is evident that we cannot continue to do that, we have enough time and evidence to see clearly how destructive it has been, and it makes sense to now shift gears and try to make it less harmful.

Well, I think to a certain extent there are those who simply disagree regardless, and I think you can find those people on the left and the right. But, right now today, the move of simply opposing no matter what dominates liberal thought, positions and policies. Even where things arise that they have supported in the past, they will now oppose them, no matter what. And I think that is proving to be rather harmful to Democrats.

The Faustian mentality is what has us in such overall debt and trade disparity, that you would protect such flawed economic strategies is just weird.

Importantly. As the economy evolves, liberals will be relegated to every more farcical points in order to try to pretend away the success, and we already know they will not stop. So they will become more and more comical as they struggle to sell lies

If only these repugnant liberal policies hurt the vile pieces of filth proposing them......that would be wonderful

Oddly, Trump did not run on a platform to take her down, using any means necessary......as she did toward him.....so there is a distinction between the two.

Court ruling lets White House ban on the Associated Press continue, for now I have some thoughts on this one. 1) The AP is still allowed in the press room, just not for special events like in the oval etc. 2) The AP is standing by its decision to refuse to use the name Trump has legally mandated......yet....had no problem when Zelensky decided to rename Kyiv 3) The AP appears to be holding Trump to a different level of accountablity/acceptability

I know tariffs are an area of interest for you, and I thought this might help you refine your thoughts

Rink 1) This is media BS. Here we have the media pretending they are a victim here, and portraying the Harris camp as being conniving.......BS!! 2) We have a VP for the purpose of continuity of leadership, they should be planning for all eventualities. This is not some sinister plan. 3) Of course Harris and her ilk all lied about Biden's mental state....they politicians....this is standard. 4) The job of the media is to challenge them, not give them a pass.....so now that all the cards are on the table we see the media types trying to manipulate a narrative that they were just victims.....fock that......they were co-conspirators.....

The Biden dam breaks The Democrat tactic to lie and lie and lie, then later let the truth come out when it no longer matters has brought us to this. I know we do a bit of this back and forth, and while politicians are essentially all the same slime.....these Democrats.....are focking filth for their lies

And apparently keeps them for the most part

The market rises and falls, has done so over time repeatedly will do so long after Trump. While some might like to tout it as a measure of economic well-being it really isnt.

I agree, but wehen the market was up under Trump 1.0 folks were coming here to celebrate, so of course the board liberals had to counter that. As they did so I was in concert with them, they were right, the market performance was not an indicator, but of course the markets and their performance will be used by some to ding Trump....and I get that.....but later, when the markets return to normal, and folks here try to tout that as some economic barometer....my position will still be the same....its not a marker we should use like that.