Objective State of Union

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Past the spin and hatred of Trump, I think there are some objective positive things happening under this administration. I will list a few, and I know g5000 and candycorn will pull out charts and polls saying things are terrible.

1. Gas prices - It is unquestionably good. The savings yearly are significant. Dems will immediately say presidents can't affect gas prices, but I think we know what gas would cost under democrats.
2. Inflation under control - Dems will say the inflation rate is flat, but again, we can guess what inflation would be under democrats. The investments brought in with tariffs is significantly higher than Biden years. Wages are gaining over inflation.
3. Closed Border - I saw someone float an expert saying illegal immigration is good for the economy, but even Democrats know illegal waves are enormously expensive. Plus, the human smuggling was appalling, let alone the drugs.
4. Fraud crackdown - Can even Democrats say that fraud is a good thing, or that it doesn't exist on a massive scale. Is the argument that it is always there so its ok?
5. Lower Crime - murder rates are at record lows. You think that would happen under democrats?

Prices are still high, yes. Once inflation jacks them up, they don't tend to go down. Imagine what things would cost if gas was still avg 4 bucks a gallon. The Democrats and their communist sponsors are defiant and upset. Mamdani proposed a budget larger than the entire state of Florida, energy costs skyrocketed in Virginia, and even CNN talking heads like Fareed Zakaria are saying blue cities are grossly incompetent. Prices, energy, and crime are steady or improving, and people like Susan Rice are threatening to get revenge on media outlets who don't censor conservatives. I see objectively positive directions, and am glad we are not under the boots of warm collectivism.
 
Past the spin and hatred of Trump, I think there are some objective positive things happening under this administration. I will list a few, and I know g5000 and candycorn will pull out charts and polls saying things are terrible.

1. Gas prices - It is unquestionably good. The savings yearly are significant. Dems will immediately say presidents can't affect gas prices, but I think we know what gas would cost under democrats.
2. Inflation under control - Dems will say the inflation rate is flat, but again, we can guess what inflation would be under democrats. The investments brought in with tariffs is significantly higher than Biden years. Wages are gaining over inflation.
3. Closed Border - I saw someone float an expert saying illegal immigration is good for the economy, but even Democrats know illegal waves are enormously expensive. Plus, the human smuggling was appalling, let alone the drugs.
4. Fraud crackdown - Can even Democrats say that fraud is a good thing, or that it doesn't exist on a massive scale. Is the argument that it is always there so its ok?
5. Lower Crime - murder rates are at record lows. You think that would happen under democrats?

Prices are still high, yes. Once inflation jacks them up, they don't tend to go down. Imagine what things would cost if gas was still avg 4 bucks a gallon. The Democrats and their communist sponsors are defiant and upset. Mamdani proposed a budget larger than the entire state of Florida, energy costs skyrocketed in Virginia, and even CNN talking heads like Fareed Zakaria are saying blue cities are grossly incompetent. Prices, energy, and crime are steady or improving, and people like Susan Rice are threatening to get revenge on media outlets who don't censor conservatives. I see objectively positive directions, and am glad we are not under the boots of warm collectivism.
Very excellent commentary.
 
Past the spin and hatred of Trump, I think there are some objective positive things happening under this administration. I will list a few, and I know g5000 and candycorn will pull out charts and polls saying things are terrible.

1. Gas prices - It is unquestionably good. The savings yearly are significant. Dems will immediately say presidents can't affect gas prices, but I think we know what gas would cost under democrats.
2. Inflation under control - Dems will say the inflation rate is flat, but again, we can guess what inflation would be under democrats. The investments brought in with tariffs is significantly higher than Biden years. Wages are gaining over inflation.
3. Closed Border - I saw someone float an expert saying illegal immigration is good for the economy, but even Democrats know illegal waves are enormously expensive. Plus, the human smuggling was appalling, let alone the drugs.
4. Fraud crackdown - Can even Democrats say that fraud is a good thing, or that it doesn't exist on a massive scale. Is the argument that it is always there so its ok?
5. Lower Crime - murder rates are at record lows. You think that would happen under democrats?

Prices are still high, yes. Once inflation jacks them up, they don't tend to go down. Imagine what things would cost if gas was still avg 4 bucks a gallon. The Democrats and their communist sponsors are defiant and upset. Mamdani proposed a budget larger than the entire state of Florida, energy costs skyrocketed in Virginia, and even CNN talking heads like Fareed Zakaria are saying blue cities are grossly incompetent. Prices, energy, and crime are steady or improving, and people like Susan Rice are threatening to get revenge on media outlets who don't censor conservatives. I see objectively positive directions, and am glad we are not under the boots of warm collectivism.
The average price for regular motor gasoline in January 2025 was $3.08 per gallon.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
The average price of gasoline in the U.S. today is $2.98 per gallon.
Forbes empower.com

Inflation has dropped 0.6 of 1%. 3.0 in January 2025 2.4% today

The border is much better controlled today, without a doubt.

Fraud is alive and well, and living in the White house and every executive branch of the US Government.

Crime rate has been dropping steady for about 5 years now.

I am not impressed, at all by this administration. The assault on ordinary American citizens, including deaths under this totalitarian leaning regime is atrocious, in it's zeal to raise the immigration arrest numbers. 86% of all arrested, never had a criminal charge, while we were told, they would be going for the worst of the worst in illegal alien violent criminals. It simply by the numbers has not proven to be the case. Healthcare and pharmaceutical prices have risen, since I took over paying/approving payment on my 76-year-old brother's medications and health expenditures starting in September 2024, through now.
The number of uninsured Americans increased by about 2.3 million during Donald Trump's presidency, leading to a rise in the uninsured rate and negative health outcomes. This trend was largely attributed to policy changes that undermined the Affordable Care Act. capitalandmain.com KFF
We now kill people in boats in international water, suspected of trafficking drugs, instead of stopping, searching, arresting and seizing drugs as evidence. The only recovered survivor we bothered to pick up were returned to their home country without charges. Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, who was involved in a large-scale drug trafficking scheme, after he was convicted here in the US. Then invaded Venezuela to take it's president into custody as a drug king pin, but most know, as trump has admitted, it was about taking the oil. Now he has started a war with Iran, to stop it's nuclear weapons program, after telling us he obliterated their nuclear weapon program months ago. He has talked about taking over Greenland (by force if necessary), though they are NATO ally territory, as well as wishing to co-opt Canada as the 51st state, though they want no part of it. Last week, he went against allowing use of a bridge over the Detroit river Canada paid. And, lets not forget his tariff trade war, being a new tax paid by American business and the American people.

Trump totally sucks, and I will be glad when the stupic sonovabitch is out of offices, as anybody would be a better president, than this egomaniacal asshole.
 
The average price for regular motor gasoline in January 2025 was $3.08 per gallon.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
The average price of gasoline in the U.S. today is $2.98 per gallon.
Forbes empower.com

Inflation has dropped 0.6 of 1%. 3.0 in January 2025 2.4% today

The border is much better controlled today, without a doubt.

Fraud is alive and well, and living in the White house and every executive branch of the US Government.

Crime rate has been dropping steady for about 5 years now.

I am not impressed, at all by this administration. The assault on ordinary American citizens, including deaths under this totalitarian leaning regime is atrocious, in it's zeal to raise the immigration arrest numbers. 86% of all arrested, never had a criminal charge, while we were told, they would be going for the worst of the worst in illegal alien violent criminals. It simply by the numbers has not proven to be the case. Healthcare and pharmaceutical prices have risen, since I took over paying/approving payment on my 76-year-old brother's medications and health expenditures starting in September 2024, through now.
The number of uninsured Americans increased by about 2.3 million during Donald Trump's presidency, leading to a rise in the uninsured rate and negative health outcomes. This trend was largely attributed to policy changes that undermined the Affordable Care Act. capitalandmain.com KFF
We now kill people in boats in international water, suspected of trafficking drugs, instead of stopping, searching, arresting and seizing drugs as evidence. The only recovered survivor we bothered to pick up were returned to their home country without charges. Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, who was involved in a large-scale drug trafficking scheme, after he was convicted here in the US. Then invaded Venezuela to take it's president into custody as a drug king pin, but most know, as trump has admitted, it was about taking the oil. Now he has started a war with Iran, to stop it's nuclear weapons program, after telling us he obliterated their nuclear weapon program months ago. He has talked about taking over Greenland (by force if necessary), though they are NATO ally territory, as well as wishing to co-opt Canada as the 51st state, though they want no part of it. Last week, he went against allowing use of a bridge over the Detroit river Canada paid. And, lets not forget his tariff trade war, being a new tax paid by American business and the American people.

Trump totally sucks, and I will be glad when the stupic sonovabitch is out of offices, as anybody would be a better president, than this egomaniacal asshole.
That's the TDS talking. Hopefully one day you will be able to reengage your brain functions. Maybe then your typing/spelling will improve.
 
The average price for regular motor gasoline in January 2025 was $3.08 per gallon.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
The average price of gasoline in the U.S. today is $2.98 per gallon.
Forbes empower.com

Inflation has dropped 0.6 of 1%. 3.0 in January 2025 2.4% today

The border is much better controlled today, without a doubt.

Fraud is alive and well, and living in the White house and every executive branch of the US Government.

Crime rate has been dropping steady for about 5 years now.

I am not impressed, at all by this administration. The assault on ordinary American citizens, including deaths under this totalitarian leaning regime is atrocious, in it's zeal to raise the immigration arrest numbers. 86% of all arrested, never had a criminal charge, while we were told, they would be going for the worst of the worst in illegal alien violent criminals. It simply by the numbers has not proven to be the case. Healthcare and pharmaceutical prices have risen, since I took over paying/approving payment on my 76-year-old brother's medications and health expenditures starting in September 2024, through now.
The number of uninsured Americans increased by about 2.3 million during Donald Trump's presidency, leading to a rise in the uninsured rate and negative health outcomes. This trend was largely attributed to policy changes that undermined the Affordable Care Act. capitalandmain.com KFF
We now kill people in boats in international water, suspected of trafficking drugs, instead of stopping, searching, arresting and seizing drugs as evidence. The only recovered survivor we bothered to pick up were returned to their home country without charges. Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, who was involved in a large-scale drug trafficking scheme, after he was convicted here in the US. Then invaded Venezuela to take it's president into custody as a drug king pin, but most know, as trump has admitted, it was about taking the oil. Now he has started a war with Iran, to stop it's nuclear weapons program, after telling us he obliterated their nuclear weapon program months ago. He has talked about taking over Greenland (by force if necessary), though they are NATO ally territory, as well as wishing to co-opt Canada as the 51st state, though they want no part of it. Last week, he went against allowing use of a bridge over the Detroit river Canada paid. And, lets not forget his tariff trade war, being a new tax paid by American business and the American people.

Trump totally sucks, and I will be glad when the stupic sonovabitch is out of offices, as anybody would be a better president, than this egomaniacal asshole.
So basically, you are willing to increase the prices of absolutely everything, support the absolute crackdown of all conservative views in all media, because of arresting illegal immigrants, taking out Maduro and Khomeini, and wanting Greenland. You would open the gates of illegal immigration, and put someone in charge who would explode the size of government with zero increase in services because Trump is an asshole? Again, California is a a paradise people are leaving because of gross incompetence, and New York City is proposing a budget bigger than Florida, and that is the direction you want to go?
 
The democrat/communist model is fairly consistent.
1. Increase taxes significantly while offering no services in return
2. Force out businesses
3. Make everything more expensive
4. Penalize people for trying to leave
5. Censor aggressively all who dissent
name blue strongholds where this model is not in place
 
That's the TDS talking. Hopefully one day you will be able to reengage your brain functions. Maybe then your typing/spelling will improve.
Really? Which numbers or statement of fact, did you disagree with?
 
Really? Which numbers or statement of fact, did you disagree with?
Most things domestic are stable or improving and you want to blow it up. Is that rational? Do you think people like Newsom would no longer do what they are currently doing?
 
So basically, you are willing to increase the prices of absolutely everything, support the absolute crackdown of all conservative views in all media, because of arresting illegal immigrants, taking out Maduro and Khomeini, and wanting Greenland. You would open the gates of illegal immigration, and put someone in charge who would explode the size of government with zero increase in services because Trump is an asshole? Again, California is a a paradise people are leaving because of gross incompetence, and New York City is proposing a budget bigger than Florida, and that is the direction you want to go?
No. Not willing to increase prices of absolutely everything. That is why I am against Trump's tariff wars.
What crackdown on conservative media are you talking about? There has never been one, we are aware of. The crackdown is on media, newsgroups, network news, and comedians, letting out facts on actions, policies, missteps, and words of the president and his moronic department heads, unflattering to the Trump and the administration, even if (or especially if) true. This included the constant dribble of information of the President's involvement with Epstein and possible pedophile sexual activity of the President Trump.
When do you plan to reopen the gates of illegal immigration? I had not heard of it. I am against that, now, just as I was when Biden did it.
 
Most of them are your TDS rantings that are not present in reality.
Which ones? You seem to be unable to come up with specifics to refute facts, today. This is not really uncommon for you. Yours is more of an emotional devotion to trump, rather than truth.
 
Which ones? You seem to be unable to come up with specifics to refute facts, today. This is not really uncommon for you. Yours is more of an emotional devotion to trump, rather than truth.
You have TDS, and the sooner you realize your lies, the better off you will be in life. You are a miserable POS when you lie.
 
You have TDS, and the sooner you realize your lies, the better off you will be in life. You are a miserable POS when you lie.
I figured you could not come up with anything. Typical of you.
 
No. Not willing to increase prices of absolutely everything. That is why I am against Trump's tariff wars.
What crackdown on conservative media are you talking about? There has never been one, we are aware of. The crackdown is on media, newsgroups, network news, and comedians, letting out facts on actions, policies, missteps, and words of the president and his moronic department heads, unflattering to the Trump and the administration, even if (or especially if) true. This included the constant dribble of information of the President's involvement with Epstein and possible pedophile sexual activity of the President Trump.
When do you plan to reopen the gates of illegal immigration? I had not heard of it. I am against that, now, just as I was when Biden did it.
 
I figured you could not come up with anything. Typical of you.
I will not waste any more of my time proving them wrong, when all you will say is "nuh-unh" like the mental child you are, and continue with your TDS rants. Whether you know it or not, you prove nothing with your lies, and we are all reduced to pointing and laughing at you,
 
No. Not willing to increase prices of absolutely everything. That is why I am against Trump's tariff wars.
What crackdown on conservative media are you talking about? There has never been one, we are aware of. The crackdown is on media, newsgroups, network news, and comedians, letting out facts on actions, policies, missteps, and words of the president and his moronic department heads, unflattering to the Trump and the administration, even if (or especially if) true. This included the constant dribble of information of the President's involvement with Epstein and possible pedophile sexual activity of the President Trump.
When do you plan to reopen the gates of illegal immigration? I had not heard of it. I am against that, now, just as I was when Biden did it.
What do you think would happen the next time a democrat becomes president? The very first thing would be to open up the border again. What do you think that will do to prices? They will continue their war on gas, shooting it up to 4 dollars a gallon instantly. The west coast can't even keep a supply line open. What do you think that will do to prices? Susan Rice already said the Democrats would immediately get revenge on tech companies that didn't censure conservatives. You might not be for any of that, but your representatives will absolutely do it.
 
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I will not waste any more of my time proving them wrong, when all you will say is "nuh-unh" like the mental child you are, and continue with your TDS rants. Whether you know it or not, you prove nothing with your lies, and we are all reduced to pointing and laughing at you,
I gave facts and numbers. You are the one with the "nuh-unh", no facts at all. You are nothing without numbers and facts. Or weren't you ever in the military or industry, in a responsible position? Your "feelings" matter naught without facts or numbers from a recognized source.
 
1. Gas prices - It is unquestionably good. The savings yearly are significant. Dems will immediately say presidents can't affect gas prices, but I think we know what gas would cost under democrats.
Listen up and Learn.

trump brokered and led the OPEC+ deal, you know this.
Foreign oil production was decreased during COVID, but also for a 2 year period of the deal.
This caused OIL prices to rise once people went back to work.
This has NOTHING to do with biden, the rise in gas prices was 100% caused by trump and his terrible OPEC+ deal.

So, even though biden was POTUS, it was trumps 2-year OPEC+ deal that decreased supply when demand went high.

So guess what pal, trump is 100% responsible for higher gas prices in the beginning of Bidens term.

So yes, trump absolutely effected the price of gas for 2 years, while biden was POTUS.
 
Listen up and Learn.

trump brokered and led the OPEC+ deal, you know this.
Foreign oil production was decreased during COVID, but also for a 2 year period of the deal.
This caused OIL prices to rise once people went back to work.
This has NOTHING to do with biden, the rise in gas prices was 100% caused by trump and his terrible OPEC+ deal.

So, even though biden was POTUS, it was trumps 2-year OPEC+ deal that decreased supply when demand went high.

So guess what pal, trump is 100% responsible for higher gas prices in the beginning of Bidens term.

So yes, trump absolutely effected the price of gas for 2 years, while biden was POTUS.
Well, you blew off a lot of gas.
 
Well, you blew off a lot of gas.
Are you here to accept or deny my statement?

Did trump broker the 2 year OPEC+ deal, which lowered supply and caused a rise in gas prices once demand went up and supply stayed low?

Stay on topic Robert W
 

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