Breakdown: The World Is Measurably Better Since January 2016

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Even since January 2019, the world is so much better.

By now the new Rat Congress was supposed to have been halfway through impeaching and removing President Trump from office.

Instead they are mired down in the muck of blackface, afterbirth abortion governors and anti-Semitic democrats.

They are imploding as we speak.

This has been a wonderful year so far, politically speaking.

The largely unreported and to some ironic reality of the past two years is that the world overall is a better, safer, more prosperous place since the swearing in of Donald Trump as President of the United States in 2016. Better than it was under Barack Obama and better than it was under George W. Bush.

Despite the nonstop onslaught of negative reporting on Trump — 90 percent according to the Media Research Center (there’s been 10 percent positive?) — and the breathless reporting on the government shutdown, the latest Robert Mueller leak or arrest, the Kavanaugh hearing fiasco, fake news such as BuzzFeed’s flat wrong non-story on Trump telling Michael Cohen to lie, the disgusting anti-Christian bigotry associated with the MAG-hat Covington Catholic High School students and so on ad infinitum — Trump’s approval ratings remain right in the range they were when he took office, and ticking upward.

That suggests that the relentlessly anti-Trump, Democratic partisan media is washed out by what his actual policies have so clearly accomplished.

But it also suggests that a lot of Americans — probably more than are reflected in polls, and at least some who support Trump — simply do not feel safe saying to anyone that they realize how much better off the country and the world are. It wasn’t supposed to happen. But the media not reporting something does not mean it didn’t happen.

So here are some of the major areas where the world is demonstrably better off since January 2016:

→ First, the economy, duh! 304,000 jobs in January, blowing out all of the predictions. Manufacturing has burst back in the U.S. when President Obama said those jobs would never return. (Man, that guy was wrong a lot.) GDP growth 50 percent higher than it had been under Obama, even though the recovery is now long in the tooth. This has led to a growing consensus among non-political economists that what has driven the economic renaissance has been tax cuts, massive deregulation, stronger trade policy, tax breaks to lure back offshore capital, and a dramatic rise in oil and natural gas production.

→ The entire federal court system will be far more conservative and constitutional for a generation as Trump’s judicial nominees have been uniformly originalists and conservative…and young. This means that there should be fewer overtly political rulings in which the law and constitution are bent to judges’ political views like a reed in the wind, and more solid rules for governing and living.

→ The dishonest and duplicitous media has been unmasked for the partisans they are. This was unintended, of course, but Americans are better off knowing this (something I have known for many, many years as a former member of the mainstream media.) The media’s vicious partisanship has been widely self-exposed for Americans to see, although many members of the media themselves seem to remain in denial. The vast majority of Americans do not.

→ China’s systemic cheating on trade agreements and thieving of intellectual properties has been called out and responded to forcefully. Since Trump’s inauguration, an accepted consensus has emerged that China’s actions pose a commercial threat to world trade, to its geographic neighbors and to the security of the United States. Ultimately, we will end up with better, more fair trade that will absolutely benefit American companies and workers, but also will benefit most of the rest of the world, which will be more empowered to demand better, more fair agreements for their companies and workers.

→ Pulling out of the terrorist-enabling Iran nuclear agreement did not result in the end of the world, In fact, the world basically yawned past the regular hyperbolic media coverage. Further, most of the sanctions have been reinstated, including by our European friends, when the media Democrats assured us they could not be. Iran is feeling the pinch. Leashing up the murderous Mullah’s financially makes the world that much safer.

→Similarly, when the U.S. walked away from the essentially worthless, symbolic Paris Climate Accords, the world did not warm and seas did not rise. Actually, the U.S. continues to be a leader in reduction of carbon emissions, largely through the voluntary, innovative private sector.

→ The U.S. showed its promise-keeping resolve for the first time when Trump directed the U.S. embassy in Israel to be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — just like Obama, Bush and Bill Clinton had promised to do before him, but never did. The hyperventilating over lighting the Middle East tinderbox never materialized. The normal amount of Muslim terrorism and Israeli military response ensued afterwards as before.

→ Black Americans are enjoying an employment resurgence like that not seen since before the disastrous implementing of the Great Society. While overall U.S. unemployment hit a 50-year low in Trump’s second year, joblessness among black Americans has set a modern record as well. Black employment has risen about 1.3 million under Trump to hit a record 19.3 million in October. Now this clearly started before Trump, but that it accelerated this long into a recovery is fairly remarkable.

→ Russian aggression against Ukraine and other small neighbors has been held in check as the U.S. has sent arms and supplies to the Ukraine and stiffened the response to Russian belligerence. The tough talk had already been backed by missile attacks against Russian mercenaries in Syria and Russian-backed Syrian allies. Using the big stick once or twice means carrying it around becomes a deterrent — not a joke as with the previous president. The crossing of any red line is obviously not going to be acceptable and Russia knows that.

→ Trump’s forceful efforts to denuclearize North Korea resulted in a one-one-one summit with President Kim, and second one coming up. It started with tough talk, followed by the movement of U.S. naval and air power off the coast. It’s ended so far with the self-destruction of some of North Korea’s nuclear facilities and no more of the missile tests that had become common under Obama.

→ Most of our European allies in NATO have been weak and sometimes duplicitous on defense, refusing to live up to their promise on minimal military expenditures to help defend themselves from Russia. Trump again talked tough. Considering he had pulled out of the Paris climate accords and the Iran agreement, European leaders worry he could follow through on NATO threats. They have accordingly increased their defense spending by a combined $100 billion now so far — strengthening free countries against tyranny.

→ ISIS decapitated.

There are plenty more. But this hits the highlights. By all the evidence, it is unarguable, even by the Orange Man Bad crowd, that the world is better off now than two years ago.

The Revolutionary Act ^ | 02/13/19
 
OP title: "Since January 2016"

OP begins:
Even since January 2019

OP ends:
two years ago

Guess 2017 is MIA.
Deflection.
Clinton was great still we didn’t give gore a chance.

Obama got us out of bush’s Great Recession still we went republican.

Trumps a one termer.
Obama didn't do anything, because if you check the facts, the Great Recession ended 4 months into his first term. He had not done anything by then other than raise excise taxes on booze, tobacco, and other products, essentially raising taxes on the poor. Oh, and he sent billions to foreign banks for some strange reason, without approval of Congress.
 
OP title: "Since January 2016"

OP begins:
Even since January 2019

OP ends:
two years ago

Guess 2017 is MIA.
Another ONE DIMENSIONAL THINKER...or should that be stinker.....What's the matter Pog, not picking a year.....ABNORMALS have nothing, that is why they will lose BIG TIME in 2020!....ROTFLMFAO!

YOU notice not a word about the body of the story....poor Pog.....lolol
 
You do notice who is UP FRONT on the BUTT HURT AND TERMINALLY STUPID crowd....

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OP title: "Since January 2016"

OP begins:
Even since January 2019

OP ends:
two years ago

Guess 2017 is MIA.
Deflection.
Clinton was great still we didn’t give gore a chance.

Obama got us out of bush’s Great Recession still we went republican.

Trumps a one termer.
Obama didn't do anything, because if you check the facts, the Great Recession ended 4 months into his first term. He had not done anything by then other than raise excise taxes on booze, tobacco, and other products, essentially raising taxes on the poor. Oh, and he sent billions to foreign banks for some strange reason, without approval of Congress.

Yes but remember before Obama took office Bush was trying to pass a NO QUESTIONS ASKED TARP fucking bill. Obama and Warren said whoa wait a second here.

No doubt the international bankers own our country. This is true regardless of who's in power. The rich pull Trump/Bush/Obama/Clinton's strings.

Doesn't take much to pull Trump or Bush's strings though because they are the party of the rich. We expect trickle down economics when Republicans are in charge.

My brother is a VP of a fortune 500. He learned the most important rules of business.

1. Feed the Generals first
2. Never forget rule # 1.
 
OP title: "Since January 2016"

OP begins:
Even since January 2019

OP ends:
two years ago

Guess 2017 is MIA.
Deflection.
Clinton was great still we didn’t give gore a chance.

Obama got us out of bush’s Great Recession still we went republican.

Trumps a one termer.
You'll be ok sweetheart. Only six more years to go before another REP President is elected.
 
OP title: "Since January 2016"

OP begins:
Even since January 2019

OP ends:
two years ago

Guess 2017 is MIA.
Deflection.
Clinton was great still we didn’t give gore a chance.

Obama got us out of bush’s Great Recession still we went republican.

Trumps a one termer.
You'll be ok sweetheart. Only six more years to go before another REP President is elected.

That's what Carl Rove thought.

I love reminding Republicans what our position on immigration was back in the 2000's. Remember these words?

Americans are concerned that a "flood of illegal immigrants" coming primarily across our southern border is, to paraphrase Lou Dobbs, "wiping out the American middle class." And there is considerable truth to it, but Dobbs says the solution is to "secure our border". It'll be a multi-billion-dollar boon to Halliburton and Bechtel, who will undoubtedly get the construction and maintenance contracts, but it won't stop illegal immigration. Instead, people will legally come in on tourist and other visas, and not leave when their visas expire.

Before Reagan's presidency, an estimated million or so people a year came into the US from Mexico - and the same number, more or less, left the US for Mexico at the end of the agricultural harvest season. Very few stayed, because there weren't those kinds of jobs for them. Non-citizens didn't have access to the non-agricultural US job market, in large part because of the power of US labor unions. And Republicans say unions are unnecessary. And because companies were unwilling to hire illegals.

But Reagan put an end to that. His 1986 amnesty program, combined with his aggressive war on organized labor told both employers and non-citizens that there would be few penalties and many rewards to increasing the US labor pool (and thus driving down wages) with undocumented immigrants. A million people a year continued to come across our southern border, but they stopped returning to Latin America every fall because instead of seasonal work they were able to find permanent jobs.

The magnet drawing them? Illegal Employers. Yet in the American media, Illegal Employers are almost never mentioned.

Liberal media my ass.
 
OP title: "Since January 2016"

OP begins:
Even since January 2019

OP ends:
two years ago

Guess 2017 is MIA.
Deflection.
Clinton was great still we didn’t give gore a chance.

Obama got us out of bush’s Great Recession still we went republican.

Trumps a one termer.
You'll be ok sweetheart. Only six more years to go before another REP President is elected.

Between 1999 and 2003, (The Early Bush Years) work-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent. The number of employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003.

Only the CNN poll asked the question: "Would you favor increasing penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants?" Two-thirds of Americans, of all party affiliations, said, "Yes," but it went virtually unreported in mainstream media coverage.

"Mass deportations" and "Fences" are hysterics and false choices. Start penalizing "Illegal Employers" and non-citizens without a Social Security number will leave the country on their own.

Easy, simple, cheap, painless. No fence required. No mass deportations necessary. No need for Homeland Security to get involved. When jobs are not available, most undocumented workers will simply leave the country (as they always did before), or begin the normal process to obtain citizenship that millions (including my own sister-in-law - this hits many of us close to home) go through each year.

Republicans, however, are not going to allow a discussion of "Illegal Employers." Instead, they will continue to hammer the issue of "Illegal Immigrants," and tie that political albatross around the necks of Democrats (who seem all too willing to accept it).

These Illegal Employers are breaking the law - both immigration laws and IRS laws. I suggest that we need to tighten up these laws against Illegal Employers, adding huge fines for first offenses, jail time for CEOs for second offenses, and the corporate death penalty - dissolve their charters to operate - for repeat offenders. When companies are repeat offenders, they should be dissolved, their assets sold to reimburse their shareholders, and let other, more ethical companies pick up the slack. We used to do this all the time in America when companies behaved badly. Up until the 1880s, an average of around 2000 companies a year got the corporate death sentence in the US.

When we clear up the Illegal Employer problem in this country, we'll be back like we were before Reagan started allowing employers to behave illegally. When non-citizens can't get a job, most of them will go home, as they always have in the past. We don't need a fence, we don't need amnesty, we don't need mass roundups or deportations, and we for sure don't need guest workers. We have as many unemployed citizens in this nation as there are illegal immigrants - in my state of Michigan, for example, Flint and Detroit have massive unemployment since Reagan and his corporate cronies declared war on working people. When we get rid of Illegal Employers, that's one step in helping the job market tighten up so that legal employers will have to pay a living wage to attract legal citizens to work. That and rational labor and trade policies, and we can begin to restore our middle class and put our cities back together.

Republicans thought back in the 1980s that letting in illegals was a good idea. Which is why we have this mess today. Get rid of the Illegal Employers - toss a few CEOs into jail and shut down the outlaw companies - and the rest of this part of the problem will be easy and inexpensive to fix...
 
OP title: "Since January 2016"

OP begins:
Even since January 2019

OP ends:
two years ago

Guess 2017 is MIA.
Deflection.
Clinton was great still we didn’t give gore a chance.

Obama got us out of bush’s Great Recession still we went republican.

Trumps a one termer.

Reagan was labeled an "amiable dunce" by the media.

Bush was labeled worse.

They both earned and served two terms.

"Misunderestimate" Trump's chances at two terms at your peril.
 
OP title: "Since January 2016"

OP begins:
Even since January 2019

OP ends:
two years ago

Guess 2017 is MIA.
Deflection.
Clinton was great still we didn’t give gore a chance.

Obama got us out of bush’s Great Recession still we went republican.

Trumps a one termer.

Reagan was labeled an "amiable dunce" by the media.

Bush was labeled worse.

They both earned and served two terms.

"Misunderestimate" Trump's chances at two terms at your peril.
Doesn’t matter if I over or under estimate. The results will be the same no matter what I think.
 
OP title: "Since January 2016"

OP begins:
Even since January 2019

OP ends:
two years ago

Guess 2017 is MIA.
Deflection.
Clinton was great still we didn’t give gore a chance.

Obama got us out of bush’s Great Recession still we went republican.

Trumps a one termer.

Reagan was labeled an "amiable dunce" by the media.

Bush was labeled worse.

They both earned and served two terms.

"Misunderestimate" Trump's chances at two terms at your peril.
For you to say Bush earned a second term tells me you are a fucking idiot.

Donald Trump attacked the Bush family during the Republican presidential debate Saturday night, accusing the George W. Bush administration of lying to the public before going to war in Iraq.

"Obviously the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake," Trump said, launching into a fierce critique of rival Jeb Bush's brother.

"We should have never been in Iraq," Trump added. "They lied, they said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none and they knew that there were none."
 
There is only one group in the U.S.A. that does better no matter which party appears to be in charge, and that is the rich. No matter what you are told, Democrats and Republicans alike don't give a rats ass about you, unless you are rich.
But please, be my guest, keep arguing among yourselves about the really important things, like who can use what bathroom.
 
There is only one group in the U.S.A. that does better no matter which party appears to be in charge, and that is the rich. No matter what you are told, Democrats and Republicans alike don't give a rats ass about you, unless you are rich.
But please, be my guest, keep arguing among yourselves about the really important things, like who can use what bathroom.
The world has never seen a middle class like the one we had from the New Deal to Unions to Labor Laws. From about 1950-1980 the American middle class was booming.

And since Reagan, all the things that benefit the middle class have been chipped away at and the rich have been getting richer and richer and richer.

Stop with this bullshit that there is no difference between the parties. Then leave USMB and don't vote if you really believe that.

I'll bet you 1000 dollars that you lean conservative. It's always cons who are trying to convince the masses that voting doesn't matter. Meanwhile they fucking show up every fucking 2 years and pull the fucking lever for Republicans. Am I wrong about you? If you lie I'll go look at your history to see if the threads you start and if you the comments you make lean right or left. I'll bet you fucking MONEY you are a con.
 

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