President Trump: Making America Normal Again

[cnm]

The States agreed to form a more perfect union -

The states, not the people.

JFC.

I shouldn't be surprised any more.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union​

U.S. Constitution - The Preamble | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

The original text of The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States.

constitution.congress.gov

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[Foxfyre]

This current CBS poll is pretty remarkable considering it was done by one of the most anti-Trump news organizations. The relative low approval from Democrats on most of the issue questions I think especially interesting.

CBS News poll finds Trump starts on positive note as most approve of transition handling

The fact is that Trump can't cause deflation in prices immediately as the cost of groceries and other necessities continue to climb though climb a bit more slowly these days. So the approval rating on the economy will depend on the people's patience in letting new policies work.

Also as Elon Musk famously said, some of the policies will cause some immediate pain before the good results can kick in. It always is a crap shoot as to whether the people will understand and accept that. It's a fairly safe bet that the anti-Trump MSM will use it to bash him.

But I am one of the majority who see a very strong need for real change and have high hopes for the administration.

 

[Billiejeens]

JFC.

I shouldn't be surprised any more.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union​

U.S. Constitution - The Preamble | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

The original text of The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States.

constitution.congress.gov

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Do you even know what is being discussed?

 

[Foxfyre]

One of the most interesting initiatives in the new Trump administration is the DOGE charged with ferreting out and eliminating graft, corruption, inefficiency, ineffectiveness, unnecessary costs in the existing government. Musk and Ramaswamy will work as volunteers without pay or benefits but will be given access to the financial books and operations of the various government entities. Most of us believe many billions, maybe trillions are being uselessly spent and/or grafted and this is a fascinating concept to me.

Can Musk Dismantle the Deep State? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

It will be interesting to see the following: Can Musk and Ramaswamy succeed where the Grace Commission and other reform initiatives failed?

spectator.org

 

[Foxfyre]

Matt Gaetz is out to clean things up BAMN. I think he's a lot better than what you may know.
I've heard him speak and the ideas he's proposing and they are great.
That investigation was BS. The Senate doesn't want him cleaning things up.
They might get stuck with him as a peer for the rest of Rubio's term.

So the Gaetz nomination never got off the ground. If I'm honest I am rather relieved as I had reservations about him totally unrelated to the sex and drug stuff. I hadn't even thought about Pam Bondi for A.G. but the way it worked out, I wonder if it wasn't sort of engineered? I mean the plan all along was to give Gaetz an excuse to resign from Congress before a potentially embarrassing report came out but nobody expected the nomination to be acceptable? That Bondi was the choice all along. Certainly she doesn't come with the implied baggage that he did.

Sometimes I dearly would have loved to be a fly on the wall listening to the strategy that doesn't make the newspapers.

But I really REALLY like the Pam Bondi appointment and she will surely be easily confirmed. And take THAT Mark Cuban as another strong, intelligent, competent woman joins the team!

 

[Foxfyre]

Thought it interesting that Rasmussen did an analysis of how well they got it right in this presidential election. As it turned out the five major polling groups who predicted a Trump win were:

Rasmussen: Prediction 48.7% Trump to Harris 46.3%. The actual vote: Trump 50% Harris 48.4%. The other four polling groups among the Real Clear Politics averages predicting a Trump win were Fox News, CNBC, WSJ and Atlas Intel.

The worst of the worst was Marist (sponsored by NPR and PBS) who predicted Harris 51% Trump 47%.

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Rasmussen has occasionally missed the mark but it usually isn't by a lot. I watch their polls as an indicator of how things are going as I do trust their methodology to get it pretty close. They continue to give Biden some of his highest approval ratings. Over time I think we can consider them dependably unbiased and accurate.

 

[Foxfyre]

I watched a bit of Kamala's pretty much meaningless word salad a couple of days or so ago and I was thinking the very same thing Douglas Murray was saying in his essay linked here. Like pretty much all leftists, the rhetoric and agenda is murky and ill defined while they demonstrate again and again that they have no clue how to govern as most Americans want and as most Americans voted this month.

Trump and his team are already having a significant positive effect in the USA and in the world which the Democrats will no doubt try to take credit for in this last almost three months of the Biden presidency. Maybe we are already seeing a crack in the Democrat controlled media/social media too--Mark Zuckerberg had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-lago recently. Who would have thought that possible?

How blessed we ALL are that Trump won the election instead of Kamala!

We should be thankful that the future is in Trump’s hands — and not Harris’

This Thanksgiving we got a reminder of what might-have-been. And what we have been unburdened by. We should be truly grateful.

nypost.com

 

[Foxfyre]

This essay suggests Democrats are still just as anti-Trump, anti-MAGA as ever but are just weary of fighting the battle. They're tired. And that's why they aren't as loud and noisy as they were in 2016. They are already speculating that the planned D.C. demonstration opposing Trump's inauguration next month won't be anywhere nearly as well attended as it was in 2017.

‘We’re still in this fight’: the resistance to Trump considers its options after bruising election defeat

Demoralized but unbowed, the opposition ponders its next move as Trump prepares to re-enter the White House

www.theguardian.com

But I wonder.

Is it possible at least some in the TDS crowd, some who have been diehard Democrat supporters, are wishing their party proposed real solutions to problems and issues important to people as the MAGA agenda does?

Is it possible at least some never Trumpers are wishing their party had the positive enthusiasm and real joy in an agenda that is good for America and Americans?

Is it possible that at least some of the hardcore anti-Trump people are taking a second look and realizing how wrong they have been about him and his agenda?

Nothing succeeds like success that you can feel yourself and know it is right and good for you and everybody else.

 

[Concerned American]

Is it possible at least some never Trumpers are wishing their party had the positive enthusiasm and real joy in an agenda that is good for America and Americans?

In a perfect world. Trouble is, the democrats DON'T have a platform to make America better. They are laser focused solely on "Never Trump" and they are unable to break away from it. TDS is a real thing.

 

[gtopa1]

Oh this is clever. There was a thread with this title, except "President Biden: Making America Normal Again"

Impressive.

Oi; that's OUR sewer in the badlands. And it's IN the Badlands for good reason. THIS thread is for more genteel discussion. Ours is NOT!!!

Greg

 

[Foxfyre]

More heads exploding over the Kash Patel as A.G. appointment. I think that includes a good deal of fear as he is not at all shy and reluctant to embarrass anybody who probably needs embarrassing. As an outsider he isn't constrained by collegial loyalties with others in government.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

 

[Papageorgio]

So the Gaetz nomination never got off the ground. If I'm honest I am rather relieved as I had reservations about him totally unrelated to the sex and drug stuff. I hadn't even thought about Pam Bondi for A.G. but the way it worked out, I wonder if it wasn't sort of engineered? I mean the plan all along was to give Gaetz an excuse to resign from Congress before a potentially embarrassing report came out but nobody expected the nomination to be acceptable? That Bondi was the choice all along. Certainly she doesn't come with the implied baggage that he did.

Sometimes I dearly would have loved to be a fly on the wall listening to the strategy that doesn't make the newspapers.

But I really REALLY like the Pam Bondi appointment and she will surely be easily confirmed. And take THAT Mark Cuban as another strong, intelligent, competent woman joins the team!

Most of his appointments seem good, with an outsiders view.

 

[Foxfyre]

Most of his appointments seem good, with an outsiders view.

That's exactly my perspective too. You can't uproot and eject a corrupt, self serving deep state by appointing members of that deep state to clean it up. It also doesn't work to appoint their friends and colleagues who instinctively protect them or put that relationship ahead of what needs to be done. That was Bill Barr for example. A very good man with right values but he didn't have the heart to go after his current and former friends and colleagues plus he was an establishment man and didn't approve of thinking outside the box.

 

[gtopa1]

That's exactly my perspective too. You can't uproot and eject a corrupt, self serving deep state by appointing members of that deep state to clean it up. It also doesn't work to appoint their friends and colleagues who instinctively protect them or put that relationship ahead of what needs to be done. That was Bill Barr for example. A very good man with right values but he didn't have the heart to go after his current and former friends and colleagues plus he was an establishment man and didn't approve of thinking outside the box.

Yes; we tend to forget that these ARE good men and women serving their Country to the best of their abilities but with ideological baggage. It's the ideology that has to go as it has corrupted them. Hence THEY must go too.

Greg

 

[Foxfyre]

Yes; we tend to forget that these ARE good men and women serving their Country to the best of their abilities but with ideological baggage. It's the ideology that has to go as it has corrupted them. Hence THEY must go too.

Greg

Some of them are good. Others not so much.

But I remember one incident after a vote that most Patriots objected to in the Senate, Lindsay Graham was severely criticized for fist bumping Kamala as they passed each other in the Senate chamber. I watched the video and Kamala put her fist up there and then Lindsay, whose arms had been at his side, responded by fist bumping her. To refuse to do so would have been extremely toxic behavior re a Senate colleague. We cannot expect these people to be hostile toward their fellow senators or congressmen who they have to work with every time they come to work and many who they know personally, know of personal issues they are dealing with, perhaps are even social friends.

Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg were close social friends for years even though they were mostly political opposites on the Supreme Court.

Even the worst ones have personal problems that all of us can relate to, have parents and/or children and/or other family and friends who love them. That is one thing I have always admired about Donald Trump. He may hugely accuse and blame certain people for their bad acts, but he never forgets that they are human beings. He is quick to forgive and forget when that is warranted and more than once has shown mercy to his most bitter opposition. I still remember him saying, for example, that he had no interest in going after Hillary Clinton and that she had been through enough. She has never been that magnanimous toward him, but she isn't the admirable person he can be either.

 

[Foxfyre]

So currently big cities are in the news as they try to pass budgets that accommodate illegals and Biden just promised $1 billion to Africa while people in North Carolina are still living in tents in the aftermath of Helene.

And Biden, or whoever is manipulating him, continues to do what he can to undermine the new Administration. He just agreed in negotiations with the federal employees union to lock in them working at home until 2029.

I don't know whether President Trump and/or Congress can overrule that as their intention was to require everybody to go back to the office. There is some controversy re how necessary it is for these people to report to an office for work and some say productivity has increased by allowing the people to tele-work. But I'm finding that information from any sources other than Demcorat propaganda media and pro-federal-employee sources to be hard to come by.

Two federal employees that I know personally and are now working remotely seem to have an awful lot of free time during the day. But they say they do their jobs. I also know that working from home did not reduce my productivity but I did work rather erratic hours preferring the do a lot of it during the late evening and early morning hours when I was unlikely to be interrupted.

So I don't know.

 

[Concerned American]

So currently big cities are in the news as they try to pass budgets that accommodate illegals and Biden just promised $1 billion to Africa while people in North Carolina are still living in tents in the aftermath of Helene.

Let's not forget how well Biden treated the residents of Lahaina.

 

[Foxfyre]

When Matt Gaetz was announced at A.G. pick, I was not excited but instead it just felt wrong. It has nothing to do whatsoever with all the gossip, innuendo, flat out accusations of sexual misconduct, the House ethics investigation or anything like that. It just felt wrong. And I was not sorry when he withdrew his name from nomination. The Pam Bondi appointment seemed immediately right.

When Pete Hegseth was announced as the Dept of Defense pick, I thought about it for bit because it was so unexpected I think. But as I waited for that same feeling of foreboding that it was wrong, it never came. And the more I learned about him, the more right it seemed.

And since then there have been several confirmations of him as right for the job along with those who still have concerns. But I think I met this guy once when working as a volunteer with the Nat'l Republican Party campaign office in 2020, and he sure seemed like he was straight arrow.

 

[Foxfyre]

And for the record I challenge every leftist/Democrat/woke person/hopelessly TDS afflicted to show me a single video or audio clip of Trump saying he intends to get revenge on his political opponents, no matter how bad they were. Never happened. Never will no matter how much you dishonestly spin what he actually has said.