The view from 40,000 feet.

[kyzr]

Fluoride was introduced into drinking water starting in 1945. The flu vaccine was first made available to the general public a year later. Fuel efficiency standards for cars were adopted in 1975.
Such innovations long ago became stitched into the fabric of American life, largely accepted by most Americans who came to rely on them or gave them little thought. That is, until President Trump and his team came along and began methodically rolling back widespread practices and dismantling long-established institutions.
It should come as no surprise that Mr. Trump would try to undo much of what President Joseph R. Biden Jr. did over the past four years. What is so striking in Mr. Trump’s second term is how much he is trying to undo changes that happened years and even decades before that. At times, it seems as if he is trying to repeal much of the 20th century.
I've always found it baffling as to why you folks think the "trump won" mantra materially changes anything about his reckless, failed, divisive presidency.

Trump has to undo everything that Biden did, Biden's policies are disasters.
From open borders, to his war on energy, to his 9% inflation, to his debasement of the US military, to his Crime Family pardons, to his selling us out to the Chinese and their spy balloon flying across the US, to his being held in contempt by the Brits for his AFG disaster, to his 87,000 IRS agents "willing to kill", to his shitting his pants, to his showering with Ashley, and his divisive racist policies like DEI, and CRT, his FBI spying on Catholics, his war on parental rights, and his trannys invading girl's sports and locker rooms.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Hahahahaha,.....you still think your burning cities and burning forest programs are helping the environment.

You leftist idiots have done more damage to the environment in the last 3 years than we've done in the last 100 years.

The result is massive floods all over the United States.

.

We are experiencing smoke from the Canadian fires in the southeast corner of South Dakota EVERY YEAR.


.

 

[kyzr]

Yes. The biggest tax increase on American consumers I can recall.

Nope. That was Joe Biden, costing US families $11,400 a year. Trump is lowering prices.

Americans need an extra $11,400 today just to afford the basics, Republican analysis finds

Compared with 2021, the typical household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain their standard of living, analysis shows.

www.cbsnews.com

Americans need an extra $11,400 today just to afford the basics​

How have prices changed under Trump? Experts explain.

Inflation is hovering near its lowest level since 2021.

abcnews.go.com

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs earlier this year set off alarm among economists about a risk that just about every U.S. shopper fears: major price hikes.
Instead, inflation has cooled, defying doomsday predictions and helping to propel sturdy economic performance

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Democracy is not strengthened by a concentration of power in the executive nor by enacting policies by fiat over the objection of the majority.

Conservatives of course seek to weaken democracy, hence their advocacy of unitary executive dogma.

Indeed, the conservative ideologues on the Supreme Court saw fit to codify the unitary executive, creating an all-powerful president at liberty to ignore the courts and Constitution with impunity.

And this is all consistent with the conservative goal of establishing the tyranny of Republican minority rule, contrary to the will of the majority of the people, insulated from democracy and the political process.

 

[mudwhistle]

Conservatives of course seek to weaken democracy, hence their advocacy of unitary executive dogma.

Indeed, the conservative ideologues on the Supreme Court saw fit to codify the unitary executive, creating an all-powerful president at liberty to ignore the courts and Constitution with impunity.

And this is all consistent with the conservative goal of establishing the tyranny of Republican minority rule, contrary to the will of the majority of the people, insulated from democracy and the political process.

Prime example of brainwashing.

 

[justoffal]

They say "the science is settled!", then demand more taxpayer loot to keep studying "the science".

That math certainly doesn't math.

It is settled....it settled right into the government funding creating an unbreakable umbilical.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

You might say there's a lot going on. Clearly by design. The end game and who it benefits, both foreign and domestic, is less certain.

Democracy is not strengthened by a concentration of power in the executive nor by enacting policies by fiat over the objection of the majority.

On the Expansion of Executive Power: An Overview​

President Trump is pursuing an unprecedented expansion of executive power. Here are my observations on some of the legal and constitutional considerations. My intent is not to resolve these controversial questions, or even to identify all the underlying issues, but rather to raise just a few of the concerns that will have to be addressed as the Trump presidency unfolds.

https://www.cato.org/blog/expansion-executive-power-overview

International relations and the health of the economy are not served by erratic tariff announcements.

Under Attack by Trump’s Tariffs, Asian Countries Seek Out Better Friends​

Most nations are still negotiating in hopes of avoiding punitive import taxes. At the same time, they’re looking for trading partners as a way around the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/economy/trump-tariffs-trade-deals.html

Cuts to scientific research in all areas do not serve the advancement of understanding.

Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science​

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-proposed-budget-would-mean-disastrous-cuts-science

The Lasting Threat of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NWS on American Communities​

The Lasting Threat of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NWS on American Communities

The Trump administration’s cuts to NOAA and NWS staffing and research capabilities are hindering the nation’s ability to prepare for and respond effectively to extreme weather events—such as the recent flooding in Texas.

www.americanprogress.org

Random acts of abject cruelty with dubious efficacy in contradiction to the country's historical values do not unite the citizenry.

Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries
Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/south-sudan-third-country-deportations.html

Drastic cuts to the social safety net advantaging the wealthy do not a serve a more just, egalitarian society.

Final House Vote on Devastating Health and Food Assistance Cuts​

Final House Vote on Devastating Health and Food Assistance Cuts - Medicare Rights Center

Update, July 3, 2025: The House passed the legislation—along party lines and without a single Democratic vote—that will rip critical health and nutrition programs for millions of Americans. Learn more about the bill’s devastating impact below. An Overview of the Harmful Budget Bill Senate...

www.medicarerights.org

The collective affect being to weaken democracy, harm the environment, make a significant part of the populace less healthy, strain relations with allies and trading partners, and further divide the nation. All of which comes as a consequence of attempts to reshape the country to fit one man's view of how it should be. An unpopular view.

Donald Trump's Approval Rating Collapses With America's Middle Class​

Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with America's middle class

Trump made inroads with middle-class voters in the 2024 election. But polls now show his standing with America's middle-income earners has taken a sharp hit.

www.newsweek.com

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Ridiculous. Liberals can't see from an inch away, why would we entertain their view from 40K'?

 

[justoffal]

Prime example of brainwashing.

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Clayton is a bot ...

 

[justoffal]

There is a price to be paid when the leader of the POT normalizes violent rhetoric.

Threats to lawmakers are on the rise, security officials tell senators after Minnesota shootings​

Threats to lawmakers are on the rise, security officials tell senators after Minnesota shootings

Threats to members of Congress are on the rise, security officials told senators at an emergency briefing in the wake of the killing of a Minnesota state lawmaker in her home over the weekend.

apnews.com

I know.... Who the hell does Obama think he is telling everyone that we will punish our enemies?

 

[Doc7505]

"Global elitists" is an artificial construct of the Right created to give believers in it a target for their hatred and distrust. It also gives them an amorphous entity to blame for their failures and frustrations. Something they apparently need quite a bit.

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Then you believe that the UN is not about Globalism?

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/john-ruggie/files/the_united_nations_and_globalization_patterns_and_limits_of_institutional_adaptation_0.pdf

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Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence :

digitallibrary.un.org

 

[berg80]

Trump has to undo everything that Biden did, Biden's policies are disasters.
From open borders

There has never been an open borders policy.

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response​

In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say.

Staff reductions, budget cuts and other changes made by the administration since January have already created holes at the National Weather Service, which forecasts and warns of dangerous weather.

Mr. Trump’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year would close 10 laboratories run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that research the ways a warming planet is changing weather, among other things. That work is essential to more accurately predicting life-threatening hazards. Among the shuttered labs would be one in Miami that sends teams of “hurricane hunters” to fly into storms to collect critical data. The proposed budget would also make major cuts to a federal program that uses river gauges to predict floods.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/climate/floods-trump-cuts-disaster-preparedness-fema.html

 

[chesswarsnow]

The Federal Government should not fund "science." It should fund the collection and distribution of DATA, and let the private sector and universities/other determine what the data is telling us.

Global Warming is a case point. If we had JUST THE DATA, the CO2 FRAUD would never have gotten off the ground. Instead, we funded "climate scientists" to fudge that data and lie to us about a "crisis" that never existed. We are out $20 trillion for that. Only treasonous morons who hate America support funding "government science."

The OP is just such a treasonous moron. The OP cannot even answer basic climate questions...


1. Why does one Earth polar circle have 9+ times the ice of the other?
2. Why is there ice age glacier south of Arctic Circle on Greenland but no such ice age glacier north of Arctic Circle on Alaska?
3. If the oceans are "warming" why is the record decade for canes still the 1940s?
4. If the oceans are "rising" why can't we see one single photo of land sinking?
5. How did Co2 thaw North America and freeze Greenland at the same time?

Sorry bout. that,

1. Your learning, by asking the right questions.
2. When we realize how much we dont understand, then we think about it trying to understand it, there really is no ending of knowledge.
3. Its a stableliizeing effect that only God understands is my guess.
4. A good question is why does the weather change right on time, hot in summer. cools down for fall, cold in winter, cool again in spring, the changes are set in motion, and I see no change in the seasons, not even a little bit.
5. Are you sure its changed?
6. Science can be dead wrong, think carefully.

Regards,
SirJamesoofTexas

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Sounds like a conspiracy theory believed in by uneducated, misinformed nutbaggers. The data is what supports the scientific conclusions that climate change is happening.

The climate is always changing, dumbass! There is nothing we can do about it but adapt.

 

[Doc7505]

There has never been an open borders policy.

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response​

In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say.

Staff reductions, budget cuts and other changes made by the administration since January have already created holes at the National Weather Service, which forecasts and warns of dangerous weather.

Mr. Trump’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year would close 10 laboratories run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that research the ways a warming planet is changing weather, among other things. That work is essential to more accurately predicting life-threatening hazards. Among the shuttered labs would be one in Miami that sends teams of “hurricane hunters” to fly into storms to collect critical data. The proposed budget would also make major cuts to a federal program that uses river gauges to predict floods.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/climate/floods-trump-cuts-disaster-preparedness-fema.html

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Once again your full of crap. The evidence shows you're pissing into the wind.

Memo Confirms DHS Secretary Mayorkas Designed Biden's Open Borders Policy

Mayorkas sought to ensure enforcement actions by border and immigration authorities 'do not lead to inequitable outcomes'

scnr.com

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Consequences of Failure: How Biden’s Policies Fueled the Border Crisis

Testimony Before Committee on Homeland Security / Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement United States House of Representatives March 25, 2025 Lora Ries Border Security and Immigration Center The Heritage Foundation

www.heritage.org

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Wrap Up: Biden Administration’s Policies Have Fueled Worst Border Crisis in U.S. History - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

oversight.house.gov

 

[westwall]

You might say there's a lot going on. Clearly by design. The end game and who it benefits, both foreign and domestic, is less certain.

Democracy is not strengthened by a concentration of power in the executive nor by enacting policies by fiat over the objection of the majority.

On the Expansion of Executive Power: An Overview​

President Trump is pursuing an unprecedented expansion of executive power. Here are my observations on some of the legal and constitutional considerations. My intent is not to resolve these controversial questions, or even to identify all the underlying issues, but rather to raise just a few of the concerns that will have to be addressed as the Trump presidency unfolds.

https://www.cato.org/blog/expansion-executive-power-overview

International relations and the health of the economy are not served by erratic tariff announcements.

Under Attack by Trump’s Tariffs, Asian Countries Seek Out Better Friends​

Most nations are still negotiating in hopes of avoiding punitive import taxes. At the same time, they’re looking for trading partners as a way around the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/economy/trump-tariffs-trade-deals.html

Cuts to scientific research in all areas do not serve the advancement of understanding.

Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science​

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-proposed-budget-would-mean-disastrous-cuts-science

The Lasting Threat of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NWS on American Communities​

The Lasting Threat of Trump’s Cuts to NOAA and NWS on American Communities

The Trump administration’s cuts to NOAA and NWS staffing and research capabilities are hindering the nation’s ability to prepare for and respond effectively to extreme weather events—such as the recent flooding in Texas.

www.americanprogress.org

Random acts of abject cruelty with dubious efficacy in contradiction to the country's historical values do not unite the citizenry.

Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries
Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/south-sudan-third-country-deportations.html

Drastic cuts to the social safety net advantaging the wealthy do not a serve a more just, egalitarian society.

Final House Vote on Devastating Health and Food Assistance Cuts​

Final House Vote on Devastating Health and Food Assistance Cuts - Medicare Rights Center

Update, July 3, 2025: The House passed the legislation—along party lines and without a single Democratic vote—that will rip critical health and nutrition programs for millions of Americans. Learn more about the bill’s devastating impact below. An Overview of the Harmful Budget Bill Senate...

www.medicarerights.org

The collective affect being to weaken democracy, harm the environment, make a significant part of the populace less healthy, strain relations with allies and trading partners, and further divide the nation. All of which comes as a consequence of attempts to reshape the country to fit one man's view of how it should be. An unpopular view.

Donald Trump's Approval Rating Collapses With America's Middle Class​

Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with America's middle class

Trump made inroads with middle-class voters in the 2024 election. But polls now show his standing with America's middle-income earners has taken a sharp hit.

www.newsweek.com

​

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[fncceo]

climate science

Oxymoron

 

[berg80]

Prime example of brainwashing.

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American Allies Want to Redraw the World’s Trade Map, Minus the U.S.​

Trade chaos is forcing America’s allies closer together, and further from the United States. And as that happens, the European Union is trying to position itself at the center of a new global trade map.

The bloc learned this weekend that Washington would subject it to 30 percent tariffs starting Aug. 1. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the E.U. executive branch, responded with a pledge to keep negotiating. She also made it clear that, while the European Union would delay any retaliation until early August, it would continue to draw up plans to hit back with force.

But that was not the entire strategy. Europe, like many of the United States’ trading partners, is also looking for more reliable friends.

“We’re living in turbulent times, and when economic uncertainty meets geopolitical volatility, partners like us must come closer together,” Ms. von der Leyen said on Sunday in Brussels at a news conference alongside the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/world/europe/trump-tariffs-trade-europe-us.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20250714&instance_id=158431&nl=today%27s-headlines&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=201815&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

If a foreign government wanted to try to weaken the US from within, an obvious strategy would be to support a candidate for the presidency who.......intentionally or not.......turns the US in to a international pariah. Or sows internal division. Or causes the deficit to increase. Or surrounds himself with incompetent staff. Or is himself corrupt.

 

[mudwhistle]

American Allies Want to Redraw the World’s Trade Map, Minus the U.S.​

Trade chaos is forcing America’s allies closer together, and further from the United States. And as that happens, the European Union is trying to position itself at the center of a new global trade map.

The bloc learned this weekend that Washington would subject it to 30 percent tariffs starting Aug. 1. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the E.U. executive branch, responded with a pledge to keep negotiating. She also made it clear that, while the European Union would delay any retaliation until early August, it would continue to draw up plans to hit back with force.

But that was not the entire strategy. Europe, like many of the United States’ trading partners, is also looking for more reliable friends.

“We’re living in turbulent times, and when economic uncertainty meets geopolitical volatility, partners like us must come closer together,” Ms. von der Leyen said on Sunday in Brussels at a news conference alongside the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/world/europe/trump-tariffs-trade-europe-us.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20250714&instance_id=158431&nl=today%27s-headlines&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=201815&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

If a foreign government wanted to try to weaken the US from within, an obvious strategy would be to support a candidate for the presidency who.......intentionally or not.......turns the US in to a international pariah. Or sows internal division. Or causes the deficit to increase. Or surrounds himself with incompetent staff. Or is himself corrupt.

Dude, STFU.

 

[Mac1958]

American Allies Want to Redraw the World’s Trade Map, Minus the U.S.​

Trade chaos is forcing America’s allies closer together, and further from the United States. And as that happens, the European Union is trying to position itself at the center of a new global trade map.

The bloc learned this weekend that Washington would subject it to 30 percent tariffs starting Aug. 1. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the E.U. executive branch, responded with a pledge to keep negotiating. She also made it clear that, while the European Union would delay any retaliation until early August, it would continue to draw up plans to hit back with force.

But that was not the entire strategy. Europe, like many of the United States’ trading partners, is also looking for more reliable friends.

“We’re living in turbulent times, and when economic uncertainty meets geopolitical volatility, partners like us must come closer together,” Ms. von der Leyen said on Sunday in Brussels at a news conference alongside the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/world/europe/trump-tariffs-trade-europe-us.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20250714&instance_id=158431&nl=today%27s-headlines&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=201815&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

If a foreign government wanted to try to weaken the US from within, an obvious strategy would be to support a candidate for the presidency who.......intentionally or not.......turns the US in to a international pariah. Or sows internal division. Or causes the deficit to increase. Or surrounds himself with incompetent staff. Or is himself corrupt.

I think they're being told that (a) the trade mess is being handled just fine and we're going to see big improvements in our lives because of it, (b) Trump is admired and respected the world over, and (c) any discouraging words you may hear are simply because the meanies are mad that they can't make big ol' victims out of us any more.

They're not going to venture outside their world for any opposing facts, so that's that.

 

[kyzr]

There has never been an open borders policy.

..see Biden's open borders and Trump's closed border (2025 bottom line)
Biden was a national security disaster, letting in 166,000 Chinese, 125,000 Russians, hundreds of terrorists and sleeper cells, add to these "encounters 2-million "got-aways".

Hawley Blasts Mayorkas for Record Number of Illegal 'Gotaways' Crossing the Border Without CBP Apprehension - Josh Hawley

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling out his failure to secure the southern border. A new report reveals that in fiscal year 2023 alone, 860,000 illegal immigrants crossed into the United States without...

www.hawley.senate.gov

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response​

FEMA proved that they are political by avoiding properties with Trump signs.
States now know that they are the primary contacts with FEMA providing support.
There are many accurate weather services, Accuweather and Weather Channel as examples.