Is creating unnecessary opposition an intelligent thing to do?

[yidnar]

Trump has now been in office for 6 days and already he has created more opposition to his agenda and views than any other president that I can remember.

1) Pardoning all Jan 6th convicted criminals has caused the Justice community, the opposing party, law abiding citizens, and even some of his own sympathizers to oppose him,
2) Raising tariffs on Canada and Mexico and today, on Colombia and Venezuela has caused those countries to begin or increase the opposition against him and against the U.S.
3) Picking incompetent/unqualified people for leadership positions has not only caused opposition to occur within those departments but has increased the opposition from all Americans.
4) Demanding that NATO nations raise their contribution from 2% to 5% of GDP has caused our allies to increase their opposition to the U.S. worldwide.
5) Deporting all illegal aliens (not just the criminal ones) and deporting those that have been here for decades, have beeen productive members of society, have paid their taxes and have built positive lives, has caused opposition from Americans who have built friendships with them and from the industries that use those illegal aliens for reaping our crops and building our homes/buildings,
6) Going against the Constitution by trying to end Birthright Citizenship has caused judges and those that believe that Birthright citizenship is a right (not a grant) to oppose him.

Creating "unnecessary" opposition to occur is never a positive but doing it by creating disunity among our own and among our allies is a negative that is likely to cause problems, not solve them.

 

[White 6]

I had not voted for anyone until 2020 when I voted "against Trump". Throughout my life, there was never a candidate that was good or bad enough for me to vote for/against. That changed with Trump, he is a huge danger to our country and will cause permanent damage to it.

At this point in time, you are talking opposition, for opposition’s sake, a largely, if not totally impotent gesture, full of frustrations, to be sure. This is not an election year. The House, and Senate are not changing and are in his pocket. We are living the experiment, and will simply have to see how it turns out for a while. Surely you were not impressed with the previous administration. Surely, you did not approve of support for unlimited illegal immigration. Surely, you did not approve of boys self-identifying as girls and using their restrooms, showers and forcing their way into female competitive sports, or parents authorizing supposed physical sex change operations on little kids, permanently changing them, before they could even make a decision to buy a beer, or even drive a car. Roll with it and watch, as there is nothing that will change it, in the short term. There will always be things you don't like, with any President. But, a general opposition to every single move made, is a waste of time, emotion and blood pressure. Calm yourself, or you become a meme.

 

[Crepitus]

The leftards are the ones who put up all the unnecessary opposition.

You and I both know just how huge a lie that is.

You might wanna walk that back.

 

[marvin martian]

Trump’s an idiot

Simple as that

Oh no! The guy flying a Nazi flag thinks someone else is an idiot.

 

[Luckyone]

At this point in time, you are talking opposition, for opposition’s sake, a largely, if not totally impotent gesture, full of frustrations, to be sure. This is not an election year. The House, and Senate are not changing and are in his pocket. We are living the experiment, and will simply have to see how it turns out for a while. Surely you were not impressed with the previous administration. Surely, you did not approve of support for unlimited illegal immigration. Surely, you did not approve of boys self-identifying as girls and using their restrooms, showers and forcing their way into female competitive sports, or parents authorizing supposed physical sex change operations on little kids, permanently changing them, before they could even make a decision to buy a beer, or even drive a car. Roll with it and watch, as there is nothing that will change it, in the short term. There will always be things you don't like, with any President. But, a general opposition to every single move made, is a waste of time, emotion and blood pressure. Calm yourself, or you become a meme.

Internal opposition, especially such as exists today, is bad

 

[White 6]

Internal opposition, especially such as exists today, is bad

What internal opposition, would that be? I see no viable internal opposition. This is the honeymoon stage. They will give him everything, they possibly can at this point.

While, I will continue to point out things, I really don't approve of, just as I did with Joe's border/immigration BS, I am not prepared to ideally tilt at windmills, after every statement or action, just to show opposition for opposition's sake. Life is too short to make yourself miserable.

 

[Concerned American]

You put thought in your post, so I'll take time to repond to it point-by-point.

The J6 defendants were prosecuted in mass. The DOJ put enormous resources into tracking down everyone who was near the capitol on that day, and if they had indication they were Trump supporters, such as purchasing a firearm, they were prosecuted.

Did any Capitol Police officers use excessive force besides Lt Byrd? Why don't we have access to all the video?

You object to mass pardons, you should have objected to the mass prosecution.

For Mexico and Colombia, at least, it has caused them to increase their cooperation, no matter how much more opposed they may feel. Latin-Americans will always feel envy for the U.S. and will never accept the reasons that they are so far behind us.

His picks have all been extremely competent.

You could fairly say that some of his picks have not been as qualified as we might want them to be. But since qualification is often a function of how much experience one has in government agencies, Trump is rightfully wary of again selecting long-time federal officials for senior positions, given how they turned on him last time.

Do you really expect Trump to pick a SecDef, for example, from among generals who leaked that they had discussed informing to China about Trump's plans? Or otherwise sought to underming the civilian CiC?

Because they don't like Trump? That's not a good enough reason for us to become a military dictatorship.

Okay, maybe it will "increase their opposition." But will it also prompt them to pay their fair share? Isn't that what is important to the American people, not whether our NATO allies like our president that we picked?

We don't need a president who operates under the premise that the most important thing is for Europeans to like us. They never will. You think they thought Joe Biden was awesome? Americans who go to Europe and want to be liked can sit with them in their hookah bars and talk bad about their countries, like the Dixie Chicks.


That's not happening, though. Homan has started with the worst of the worst criminals and since Joe Biden let in so many of those, that will keep him busy for a long time.

Yes, they exploit illegal labor to get around the minimum wage, OSHA, and other worker protections. You should applaud Trump for putting a stop to that, if he has time after he deports all the murderers and rapists.

The Constitution specifies that to be born to foreign parents on U.S. soil and by virtue of that become a U.S. citizen they must also be "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." If their parents are illegal aliens, and they are living under an assumed name and/or social security, so they can stay here illegally while illegally working and/or collecting welfare benefits, they are specifically avoiding being subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

There has only been one court case about this, and the person had parents who were legal residents.

Trump is not creating opposition for the sake of it. His actions are necessary, and they are what he was overwhelmingly elected to do. If that causes opposition, that's unfortunate, but Trump can't run the country with his only goal being not creating opposition.

Well said.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

Trump has now been in office for 6 days and already he has created more opposition to his agenda and views than any other president that I can remember.

1) Pardoning all Jan 6th convicted criminals has caused the Justice community, the opposing party, law abiding citizens, and even some of his own sympathizers to oppose him,
2) Raising tariffs on Canada and Mexico and today, on Colombia and Venezuela has caused those countries to begin or increase the opposition against him and against the U.S.
3) Picking incompetent/unqualified people for leadership positions has not only caused opposition to occur within those departments but has increased the opposition from all Americans.
4) Demanding that NATO nations raise their contribution from 2% to 5% of GDP has caused our allies to increase their opposition to the U.S. worldwide.
5) Deporting all illegal aliens (not just the criminal ones) and deporting those that have been here for decades, have beeen productive members of society, have paid their taxes and have built positive lives, has caused opposition from Americans who have built friendships with them and from the industries that use those illegal aliens for reaping our crops and building our homes/buildings,
6) Going against the Constitution by trying to end Birthright Citizenship has caused judges and those that believe that Birthright citizenship is a right (not a grant) to oppose him.

Creating "unnecessary" opposition to occur is never a positive but doing it by creating disunity among our own and among our allies is a negative that is likely to cause problems, not solve them.

I c stopped reading after the first paragraph. Of course Trump has the most opposition you've seen, you have a nasty case of Tds

 

[Doc7505]

Trump has now been in office for 6 days and already he has created more opposition to his agenda and views than any other president that I can remember.

1) Pardoning all Jan 6th convicted criminals has caused the Justice community, the opposing party, law abiding citizens, and even some of his own sympathizers to oppose him,
2) Raising tariffs on Canada and Mexico and today, on Colombia and Venezuela has caused those countries to begin or increase the opposition against him and against the U.S.
3) Picking incompetent/unqualified people for leadership positions has not only caused opposition to occur within those departments but has increased the opposition from all Americans.
4) Demanding that NATO nations raise their contribution from 2% to 5% of GDP has caused our allies to increase their opposition to the U.S. worldwide.
5) Deporting all illegal aliens (not just the criminal ones) and deporting those that have been here for decades, have beeen productive members of society, have paid their taxes and have built positive lives, has caused opposition from Americans who have built friendships with them and from the industries that use those illegal aliens for reaping our crops and building our homes/buildings,
6) Going against the Constitution by trying to end Birthright Citizenship has caused judges and those that believe that Birthright citizenship is a right (not a grant) to oppose him.

Creating "unnecessary" opposition to occur is never a positive but doing it by creating disunity among our own and among our allies is a negative that is likely to cause problems, not solve them.

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Certainly your questions should be directed to the Ideology and political leaning you have chosen to follow.
They chose to create the draconian problems that have been found detrimental to America's National Security, it's Society and it's children.

 

[Modern Messiah]

How you can call "unnecessary" opposition to a liar, a conman, an incompetent person who is more likely to cause pain to me and the nation, is beyond my ability to understand.

Would you oppose or ignore or contribute to Cancer?

The one word that best describes your post is (irrelevant).
At this point the only thing the democrat party is doing for The American People is obstructing progress.
312>226
The American People want change, and your tired, old, hateful rhetoric is falling on deaf ears.

 

[Mac1958]

Creating "unnecessary" opposition to occur is never a positive but doing it by creating disunity among our own and among our allies is a negative that is likely to cause problems, not solve them.

The opposition is in an incredibly weak position right now.

What's happening right now is unprecedented, when you combine domestic and foreign policy. The only thing that can slow this momentum in the short term is if Republican congresspeople stand against this or that legislation. Otherwise, this is all going to play out.

Will there be Democtrats now who are hoping things will go south? Sadly, yes. That's a function of the shitty partisan politics that have consumed both ideological ends of this country. But it's also possible that things will go very well, as ugly in practice as so much of this is.

Seems to me the best two things the Dems can do right now are (a) pursue every legal means necessary to insure that election laws and systems are not perverted, and (b) take a hard look in the mirror and figure out how and why they turned off so many voters.

 

[Luckyone]

At this point in time, you are talking opposition, for opposition’s sake, a largely, if not totally impotent gesture, full of frustrations, to be sure. This is not an election year. The House, and Senate are not changing and are in his pocket. We are living the experiment, and will simply have to see how it turns out for a while. Surely you were not impressed with the previous administration. Surely, you did not approve of support for unlimited illegal immigration. Surely, you did not approve of boys self-identifying as girls and using their restrooms, showers and forcing their way into female competitive sports, or parents authorizing supposed physical sex change operations on little kids, permanently changing them, before they could even make a decision to buy a beer, or even drive a car. Roll with it and watch, as there is nothing that will change it, in the short term. There will always be things you don't like, with any President. But, a general opposition to every single move made, is a waste of time, emotion and blood pressure. Calm yourself, or you become a meme.

The stock market is down strongly today and it is all because of what Trump did this weekend. This is proof of my words.

 

[Seymour Flops]

In reading your first 3 answers, I almost threw your post into the garbage but I decided to read it all and respond

I'm going to stop reading right there.

You posted a frankly rediculous post, but one that you put a lot of effort into. I decided to forego my first instinct to be heavily sarcastic in mocking it. I gave you a thought ful answer, but this is how you respond to being treated like an adult. So I'll treat you as I would never treat a kid.

Look, kid: You can't please everyone, especially in international relationships, and you end up looking like a fool when you try. That's what we saw the last four years.

Grow up.

 

[Luckyone]

The opposition is in an incredibly weak position right now.

What's happening right now is unprecedented, when you combine domestic and foreign policy. The only thing that can slow this momentum in the short term is if Republican congresspeople stand against this or that legislation. Otherwise, this is all going to play out.

Will there be Democtrats now who are hoping things will go south? Sadly, yes. That's a function of the shitty partisan politics that have consumed both ideological ends of this country. But it's also possible that things will go very well, as ugly in practice as so much of this is.

Seems to me the best two things the Dems can do right now are (a) pursue every legal means necessary to insure that election laws and systems are not perverted, and (b) take a hard look in the mirror and figure out how and why they turned off so many voters.

The opposition is weaki?

This is not about strength or weakness, it is about unity or disunity. It is about being alone or being together. Alone is never good, no matter the strength.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Another day, another NARRATIVE.

 

[luiza]

Trump has now been in office for 6 days and already he has created

Horsey Horse is also suffering from Upside Down Dyslexia .
Bad luck , but I have been warning you , Muckybum .

 

[Luckyone]

I'm going to stop reading right there.

You posted a frankly rediculous post, but one that you put a lot of effort into. I decided to forego my first instinct to be heavily sarcastic in mocking it. I gave you a thought ful answer, but this is how you respond to being treated like an adult. So I'll treat you as I would never treat a kid.

Look, kid: You can't please everyone, especially in international relationships, and you end up looking like a fool when you try. That's what we saw the last four years.

Grow up.

You truly are lost. To begin with, I am no "kid". I am 79 years old and a stock market ANALYST for 47 years. I don't know what your qualifications are but I am sure I have more experience doing this than you.

This is not about PLEASING anyone. It is about not having everyone working against you. It is about the concept that agreement (compromise) is what works and not "my way or the highway" mentality..

Then again, that is probably not something you understand or know anything about.

 

[Luckyone]

The one word that best describes your post is (irrelevant).
At this point the only thing the democrat party is doing for The American People is obstructing progress.
312>226
The American People want change, and your tired, old, hateful rhetoric is falling on deaf ears.

Sure! If YOU say so

 

[Luckyone]

~~~~~~
Certainly your questions should be directed to the Ideology and political leaning you have chosen to follow.
They chose to create the draconian problems that have been found detrimental to America's National Security, it's Society and it's children.

Ideology, meaning "my way or the highway" mentality, right?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Trump has now been in office for 6 days and already he has created more opposition to his agenda and views than any other president that I can remember.

1) Pardoning all Jan 6th convicted criminals has caused the Justice community, the opposing party, law abiding citizens, and even some of his own sympathizers to oppose him,
2) Raising tariffs on Canada and Mexico and today, on Colombia and Venezuela has caused those countries to begin or increase the opposition against him and against the U.S.
3) Picking incompetent/unqualified people for leadership positions has not only caused opposition to occur within those departments but has increased the opposition from all Americans.
4) Demanding that NATO nations raise their contribution from 2% to 5% of GDP has caused our allies to increase their opposition to the U.S. worldwide.
5) Deporting all illegal aliens (not just the criminal ones) and deporting those that have been here for decades, have beeen productive members of society, have paid their taxes and have built positive lives, has caused opposition from Americans who have built friendships with them and from the industries that use those illegal aliens for reaping our crops and building our homes/buildings,
6) Going against the Constitution by trying to end Birthright Citizenship has caused judges and those that believe that Birthright citizenship is a right (not a grant) to oppose him.

Creating "unnecessary" opposition to occur is never a positive but doing it by creating disunity among our own and among our allies is a negative that is likely to cause problems, not solve them.

Progressives: rooting against America and Americans since 1913