Donald Trump

[boodykaka2003]

Haaa where do you start with the media bias controlled by the liberals? Why don't you focus on his acievments since being President but you might need to research this as the media won't be too forthcoming, the left wing in the US are a disgrace, Don Lemon attacking Kanye West for sitting with white people and attacked his mental health problems and called his presence in the white house a minstrel show, the thing is black unemployment in the US is at an all time low thanks to Donald trump , west is pointing out failed democrat policies towards black Americans for 100 years

The fact is people in the UK are brainwashed by the biased left wing media establishment with the BBC at the helm

 

[Terryhall11]

He's just a stooge .sadly he may get re elected

Comedy gold when he climbed those steps with toilet paper stuck to his shoe

Also the hair...laughable

 

[hoppy]

The progressive leftists need stirring up now and again .

Imho politics is way too complex to boil down to right and left, both are equally flawed, what can be said for one can usually be said for the other. Many people on both sides may be surprised how they agree with the other side on certain issues.

 

[janobi]

Seems we have a few right wingers amongst us, and certainly a few lefties as well. This is going to be interesting...

As for what Trump has achieved, i'd personally say not much. He has delivered very little for the country itself, but delivered massively for himself and his family. Please see the patents awarded to Ivanka following the trip to meet Xi of China. However I will give him that he's followed through on the majority of his campaign pledges. Although some have been absolute madness, the great wall for instance, quite funny how in testing it was breached multiple times.

Unemployment figures are spin, and can be manipulated greatly, check out the UK figures, lowest they've ever been, but in reality they're as high as ever. They are just worked out a slightly different way.

Seeing as slavery was only banned just over 100 years ago, I dont see how West is pointing out anything other than the failings of America, and not just the democrats. The only people any of these politicians care about, are themselves, and how much money they can make for themselves. 99% of them couldn't give a sheet about the common man of the country they're representing. And West is an absolute hypocrite, he is failing black people then blaming everyone else for it, West is just trying to ensure he stays within the limelight ready for the release of his new album, which he purposely delayed, as "It wasn't ready", and he was going to spend time in Africa finishing it off ><. Watch him drop it now, with a great fan fare to boot.

As for the media being liberals, TBH the reporting in the US is abhorrent on both sides. FFS Trump is on fox and friends weekly, and they lap it up, fawn all over him, then bash anyone that says anything against him. But in all honesty, it's the same from the other side as well, again the reporting is terrible, there is very little independent reporting, Glenn Greenwald is one of the few I would trust and read personally, for those who don't know who he is, he was the reporter that broke the Snowden story.

In all honesty, the world in general is becoming very insular, countries are only worried about themselves, the US, UK, many European ones, are worried about the rise of other countries, as it will effect the monopoly they have built over the years, this is why the trade war with China is happening, and why the US is happily invading many countries. They want to oppress others, whilst seeming that they are doing the right thing, when in actual fact all they're doing is plundering the natural resources of that country, that's why they're so annoyed at Iran. Iran has a massive oil reserve, and they're not willing to listen to the US or trade in the $. So the US is hitting them with sanctions and threats of war, when in actual fact they just want to Oil reserves, think about it, there is only so much oil in the world, and the US have the largest reserves of any country. Why do you think that is? What happens when the oil runs out, and you've got all the reserves...

As I said originally, Trump will win another presidential term, although im not sure if he will actually serve the term, but he will win it. The US is in such disillusion, and it's so badly split and divided, that they will stick with what they've got. And also history tells us the same, I can only think of 1 president in my lifetime who hasn't served 2 terms. The original George Bush, although George W Bush had 2 terms, and he was as mad as a box of frogs. Clinton was impeached for his intern giving him a blowie, and he got a 2nd term, Regan was an actor and he had 2 terms.

As long as he doesn't invade Wales, then I couldn't give a flying what happens. Neither that of Brexit, I just hope it doesn't give a rise to the right wing facism that we seem to be seeing. We're all the same, whether you're pink, green, blue, orange, white, yellow or black. A bigger concern imo is the Israel crisis, and the clear apartheid being enforced, which you would think of all the people who wouldn't want that to happen it would be the Israelites, especially after what the Nazi's did to them.

 

[hoppy]

Haaa where do you start with the media bias controlled by the liberals? Why don't you focus on his acievments since being President but you might need to research this as the media won't be too forthcoming, the left wing in the US are a disgrace, Don Lemon attacking Kanye West for sitting with white people and attacked his mental health problems and called his presence in the white house a minstrel show, the thing is black unemployment in the US is at an all time low thanks to Donald trump , west is pointing out failed democrat policies towards black Americans for 100 years

I wonder what the right would have thought if Obama had West in the White House. I couldn't care less what his mental state was, for me he came across like a rambling idiot and the whole thing was just a joke.

As for the media, well again it comes down to left and right, you say the media wont highlight Trumps achievements, Fox never shut up about them.

 

[hoppy]

Sorry m8 no I am not. Trump is not afraid to say what he see's.Nigel Farage is another legend. Ask @Spectre .

No need to say sorry miggy, your entitled to support whoever you want fella..

 

[hoppy]

Seems we have a few right wingers amongst us, and certainly a few lefties as well. This is going to be interesting...

As for what Trump has achieved, i'd personally say not much. He has delivered very little for the country itself, but delivered massively for himself and his family. Please see the patents awarded to Ivanka following the trip to meet Xi of China. However I will give him that he's followed through on the majority of his campaign pledges. Although some have been absolute madness, the great wall for instance, quite funny how in testing it was breached multiple times.

Unemployment figures are spin, and can be manipulated greatly, check out the UK figures, lowest they've ever been, but in reality they're as high as ever. They are just worked out a slightly different way.

Seeing as slavery was only banned just over 100 years ago, I dont see how West is pointing out anything other than the failings of America, and not just the democrats. The only people any of these politicians care about, are themselves, and how much money they can make for themselves. 99% of them couldn't give a sheet about the common man of the country they're representing. And West is an absolute hypocrite, he is failing black people then blaming everyone else for it, West is just trying to ensure he stays within the limelight ready for the release of his new album, which he purposely delayed, as "It wasn't ready", and he was going to spend time in Africa finishing it off ><. Watch him drop it now, with a great fan fare to boot.

As for the media being liberals, TBH the reporting in the US is abhorrent on both sides. FFS Trump is on fox and friends weekly, and they lap it up, fawn all over him, then bash anyone that says anything against him. But in all honesty, it's the same from the other side as well, again the reporting is terrible, there is very little independent reporting, Glenn Greenwald is one of the few I would trust and read personally, for those who don't know who he is, he was the reporter that broke the Snowden story.

In all honesty, the world in general is becoming very insular, countries are only worried about themselves, the US, UK, many European ones, are worried about the rise of other countries, as it will effect the monopoly they have built over the years, this is why the trade war with China is happening, and why the US is happily invading many countries. They want to oppress others, whilst seeming that they are doing the right thing, when in actual fact all they're doing is plundering the natural resources of that country, that's why they're so annoyed at Iran. Iran has a massive oil reserve, and they're not willing to listen to the US or trade in the $. So the US is hitting them with sanctions and threats of war, when in actual fact they just want to Oil reserves, think about it, there is only so much oil in the world, and the US have the largest reserves of any country. Why do you think that is? What happens when the oil runs out, and you've got all the reserves...

As I said originally, Trump will win another presidential term, although im not sure if he will actually serve the term, but he will win it. The US is in such disillusion, and it's so badly split and divided, that they will stick with what they've got. And also history tells us the same, I can only think of 1 president in my lifetime who hasn't served 2 terms. The original George Bush, although George W Bush had 2 terms, and he was as mad as a box of frogs. Clinton was impeached for his intern giving him a blowie, and he got a 2nd term, Regan was an actor and he had 2 terms.

As long as he doesn't invade Wales, then I couldn't give a flying what happens. Neither that of Brexit, I just hope it doesn't give a rise to the right wing facism that we seem to be seeing. We're all the same, whether you're pink, green, blue, orange, white, yellow or black. A bigger concern imo is the Israel crisis, and the clear apartheid being enforced, which you would think of all the people who wouldn't want that to happen it would be the Israelites, especially after what the Nazi's did to them.

Waw, that's a post and a half Chief, **** me am getting all emotional here janobi,,you should be a politician..

 

[janobi]

Waw, that's a post and a half Chief, **** me am getting all emotional here janobi,,you should be a politician..

But then I’d have to hate myself. And I’m the only one that likes me, so for now it’s a no from me.

 

[Spectre]

I have no problem with real liberals, the ones that allow others to have opinions. Progressives are something different and proper liberals are usually offended by being referred to as one.

Here's a collection of who I watch (or have watched) on YT, in no particular order. Maybe you agree, maybe you don't, but I'd like to be able to hold opinions without being put into a category because of it because I don't categorise anyone else because of their opinions.

I don't discount other people's views (although QT can be difficult to watch... BBC) but I believe these people speak sense and I regularly watch their content (apart from C. Hitchens, of course, who is no longer here).

• Pat Condell
• Jordan Peterson
• Douglas Murray
• Nigel Farage
• Sargon of Akkad
• Paul Joseph Watson
• Cristopher Hitchens
• Peter Hitchens
• David Starkey
• Tommy Robinson
• Ben Shapiro
• Milo Yiannopoulos

Some SJW will no doubt tell me it is wrong to listen to these people because they live in an echo chamber (I'll explain that if anyone wants). As for "fascism", well I could go on a bit but "fascism" is a form of control and progressives love nothing better than controlling speech, and thought so who are the real fascists?

 

[rambo1369]

Trump 2020.. Coming from a person that cant be open about my support of Trump..
I work in the credit card field and IT.. I had enough of liberal telling me Trump is bad and wrong.. The economy is amazing and now get job offer's left and right.. During Bush and Obama it was horrible..

Trump has ball's of steel and does not take shit from anyone..

 

[rambo1369]

Now I do agree we should have left and right.. I also believe we need prison reform and Weed legal in all states..

Honestly what damage has trump done?? I made 7000.00 couple months in stock's

Please we are not apologizing anymore and finally doing America First..

I want new Road's and Fast train's...

Just let the builder get stuff done...

 

[hoppy]

I have no problem with real liberals, the ones that allow others to have opinions. Progressives are something different and proper liberals are usually offended by being referred to as one.

Here's a collection of who I watch (or have watched) on YT, in no particular order. Maybe you agree, maybe you don't, but I'd like to be able to hold opinions without being put into a category because of it because I don't categorise anyone else because of their opinions.

I don't discount other people's views (although QT can be difficult to watch... BBC) but I believe these people speak sense and I regularly watch their content (apart from C. Hitchens, of course, who is no longer here).

• Pat Condell
• Jordan Peterson
• Douglas Murray
• Nigel Farage
• Sargon of Akkad
• Paul Joseph Watson
• Cristopher Hitchens
• Peter Hitchens
• David Starkey
• Tommy Robinson
• Ben Shapiro
• Milo Yiannopoulos

Some SJW will no doubt tell me it is wrong to listen to these people because they live in an echo chamber (I'll explain that if anyone wants). As for "fascism", well I could go on a bit but "fascism" is a form of control and progressives love nothing better than controlling speech, and thought so who are the real fascists?

There are a few in that list that often speak a lot of sense, Hitch is someone I could listen to all day long. Yep there are a few I don't like but it would be pretty boring if we all thought the same. You should have a go at the link below, usually these kind of things are vague but I was surprised by my overall rating.

The Political Compass

 

[hoppy]

Now I do agree we should have left and right.. I also believe we need prison reform and Weed legal in all states..

Honestly what damage has trump done?? I made 7000.00 couple months in stock's

Please we are not apologizing anymore and finally doing America First..

I want new Road's and Fast train's...

Just let the builder get stuff done...

We don't know what damage he has done, only time will tell,, waw I remember a time when the word communism would send the right wing into a frenzy,, how times have changed. Still as long as the stocks keep paying dividends and Americans are happy putting themselves first then I suppose us in the rest of the world should just up. Keep up the good work and God bless America...

 

[miggy]

We don't know what damage he has done, only time will tell,, waw I remember a time when the word communism would send the right wing into a frenzy,, how times have changed. Still as long as the stocks keep paying dividends and Americans are happy putting themselves first then I suppose us in the rest of the world should just up. Keep up the good work and God bless America...

while we are on the subject of calamities shall we talk about Thatcher and Blair then?. Britain should listen and learn by other Countries and their rules and follow suit. They get the job done instead of faffing about.God bless America.Pmpl

 

[boodykaka2003]

Seems we have a few right wingers amongst us, and certainly a few lefties as well. This is going to be interesting...

As for what Trump has achieved, i'd personally say not much. He has delivered very little for the country itself, but delivered massively for himself and his family. Please see the patents awarded to Ivanka following the trip to meet Xi of China. However I will give him that he's followed through on the majority of his campaign pledges. Although some have been absolute madness, the great wall for instance, quite funny how in testing it was breached multiple times.

Unemployment figures are spin, and can be manipulated greatly, check out the UK figures, lowest they've ever been, but in reality they're as high as ever. They are just worked out a slightly different way.

Seeing as slavery was only banned just over 100 years ago, I dont see how West is pointing out anything other than the failings of America, and not just the democrats. The only people any of these politicians care about, are themselves, and how much money they can make for themselves. 99% of them couldn't give a sheet about the common man of the country they're representing. And West is an absolute hypocrite, he is failing black people then blaming everyone else for it, West is just trying to ensure he stays within the limelight ready for the release of his new album, which he purposely delayed, as "It wasn't ready", and he was going to spend time in Africa finishing it off ><. Watch him drop it now, with a great fan fare to boot.

As for the media being liberals, TBH the reporting in the US is abhorrent on both sides. FFS Trump is on fox and friends weekly, and they lap it up, fawn all over him, then bash anyone that says anything against him. But in all honesty, it's the same from the other side as well, again the reporting is terrible, there is very little independent reporting, Glenn Greenwald is one of the few I would trust and read personally, for those who don't know who he is, he was the reporter that broke the Snowden story.

In all honesty, the world in general is becoming very insular, countries are only worried about themselves, the US, UK, many European ones, are worried about the rise of other countries, as it will effect the monopoly they have built over the years, this is why the trade war with China is happening, and why the US is happily invading many countries. They want to oppress others, whilst seeming that they are doing the right thing, when in actual fact all they're doing is plundering the natural resources of that country, that's why they're so annoyed at Iran. Iran has a massive oil reserve, and they're not willing to listen to the US or trade in the $. So the US is hitting them with sanctions and threats of war, when in actual fact they just want to Oil reserves, think about it, there is only so much oil in the world, and the US have the largest reserves of any country. Why do you think that is? What happens when the oil runs out, and you've got all the reserves...

As I said originally, Trump will win another presidential term, although im not sure if he will actually serve the term, but he will win it. The US is in such disillusion, and it's so badly split and divided, that they will stick with what they've got. And also history tells us the same, I can only think of 1 president in my lifetime who hasn't served 2 terms. The original George Bush, although George W Bush had 2 terms, and he was as mad as a box of frogs. Clinton was impeached for his intern giving him a blowie, and he got a 2nd term, Regan was an actor and he had 2 terms.

As long as he doesn't invade Wales, then I couldn't give a flying what happens. Neither that of Brexit, I just hope it doesn't give a rise to the right wing facism that we seem to be seeing. We're all the same, whether you're pink, green, blue, orange, white, yellow or black. A bigger concern imo is the Israel crisis, and the clear apartheid being enforced, which you would think of all the people who wouldn't want that to happen it would be the Israelites, especially after what the Nazi's did to them.

"As for what Trump has achieved, i'd personally say not much" personally you are wrong
Economic Growth

• 4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
• For the first time in more than a decade, growth is projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.

Jobs

• 4 million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5 million since Trump took office.
• More Americans are employed now than ever before in our history.
• Jobless claims at lowest level in nearly five decades.
• The economy has achieved the longest positive job-growth streak on record.
• Job openings are at an all-time high and outnumber job seekers for the first time on record.
• Unemployment claims at 50 year low
• African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached record lows.
  • African-American unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018.
  • Hispanic unemployment at 4.5 percent.
  • Asian-American unemployment at record low of 2 percent.
• Women’s unemployment recently at lowest rate in nearly 65 years.
  • Female unemployment dropped to 3.6 percent in May 2018, the lowest since October 1953.
• Youth unemployment recently reached its lowest level in more than 50 years.
  • July 2018’s youth unemployment rate of 9.2 percent was the lowest since July 1966.
• Veterans’ unemployment recently hit its lowest level in nearly two decades.
  • July 2018’s veterans’ unemployment rate of 3.0 percent matched the lowest rate since May 2001.
• Unemployment rate for Americans without a high school diploma recently reached a record low.
• Rate for disabled Americans recently hit a record low.
• Blue-collar jobs recently grew at the fastest rate in more than three decades.
• Poll found that 85 percent of blue-collar workers believe their lives are headed “in the right direction.”
  • 68 percent reported receiving a pay increase in the past year.
• Last year, job satisfaction among American workers hit its highest level since 2005.
• Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate now as a good time to find a quality job.
  • Optimism about the availability of good jobs has grown by 25 percent.
• Added more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the election.
  • Manufacturing employment is growing at its fastest pace in more than two decades.
• 100,000 new jobs supporting the production & transport of oil & natural gas.

American Income

• Median household income rose to $61,372 in 2017, a post-recession high.
• Wages up in August by their fastest rate since June 2009.
• Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017, the most in a decade.
• Council of Economic Advisers found that real wage compensation has grown by 1.4 percent over the past year.
• Some 3.9 million Americans off food stamps since the election.
• Median income for Hispanic-Americans rose by 3.7 percent and surpassed $50,000 for the first time ever in history.
  • Home-ownership among Hispanics is at the highest rate in nearly a decade.
• Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels ever recorded.

American Optimism

• Small business optimism has hit historic highs.
  • NFIB’s small business optimism index broke a 35 year-old record in August.
    • SurveyMonkey/CNBC’s small business confidence survey for Q3 of 2018 matched its all-time high.
• Manufacturers are more confident than ever.
  • 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future, the highest ever.
• Consumer confidence is at an 18-year high.
• 12 percent of Americans rate the economy as the most significant problem facing our country, the lowest level on record.
• Confidence in the economy is near a two-decade high, with 51 percent rating the economy as good or excellent.

American Business

• Investment is flooding back into the United States due to the tax cuts.
  • Over $450 billion dollars has already poured back into the U.S., including more than $300 billion in the first quarter of 2018.
• Retail sales have surged. Commerce Department figures from August show that retail sales increased 0.5 percent in July 2018, an increase of 6.4 percent from July 2017.
• ISM’s index of manufacturing scored its highest reading in 14 years.
• Worker productivity is the highest it has been in more than three years.
• Steel and aluminum producers are re-opening.
• Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and NASDAQ have all notched record highs.
  • Dow hit record highs 70 times in 2017 alone, the most ever recorded in one year.

Deregulation

• Achieved massive deregulation at a rapid pace, completing 22 deregulatory actions to every one regulatory action during his first year in office.
• Signed legislation to roll back costly and harmful provisions of Dodd-Frank, providing relief to credit unions, and community and regional banks.
• Federal agencies achieved more than $8 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings.
• Rolled back Obama’s burdensome Waters of the U.S. rule.
• Used the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations more times than in history.

Tax Cuts

• Biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history by signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs act into law
  • Provided more than $5.5 trillion in gross tax cuts, nearly 60 percent of which will go to families.
  • Increased the exemption for the death tax to help save Family Farms & Small Business.
  • Nearly doubled the standard deduction for individuals and families.
  • Enabled vast majority of American families will be able to file their taxes on a single page by claiming the standard deduction.
  • Doubled the child tax credit to help lessen the financial burden of raising a family.
  • Lowered America’s corporate tax rate from the highest in the developed world to allow American businesses to compete and win.
  • Small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their business income.
  • Cut dozens of special interest tax breaks and closed loopholes for the wealthy.
• 9 in 10 American workers are expected see an increase in their paychecks thanks to the tax cuts, according to the Treasury Department.
• More than 6 million of American workers have received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to tax cuts.
• Over 100 utility companies have lowered electric, gas, or water rates thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
• Ernst & Young found 89 percent of companies planned to increase worker compensation thanks to the Trump tax cuts.
• Established opportunity zones to spur investment in left behind communities.

Worker Development

• Established a National Council for the American Worker to develop a national strategy for training and retraining America’s workers for high-demand industries.
• Employers have signed Trump’s “Pledge to America’s Workers,” committing to train or retrain more than 4.2 million workers and students.
• Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
• Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.

Domestic Infrastructure

• Proposed infrastructure plan would utilize $200 billion in Federal funds to spur at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment across the country.
• Executive order expediting environmental reviews and approvals for high priority infrastructure projects.
• Federal agencies have signed the One Federal Decision Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) streamlining the federal permitting process for infrastructure projects.
• Rural prosperity task force and signed an executive order to help expand broadband access in rural areas.

Health Care

• Signed an executive order to help minimize the financial burden felt by American households Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
• Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
• Signed Right-to-Try legislation, expanding health care options for terminally ill patients.
• Enacted changes to the Medicare 340B program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs in 2018 alone.
• FDA set a new record for generic drug approvals in 2017, saving consumers nearly $9 billion.
• Released a blueprint to drive down drug prices for American patients, leading multiple major drug companies to announce they will freeze or reverse price increases.
• Expanded short-term, limited-duration health plans.
• Let more employers to form Association Health Plans, enabling more small businesses to join together and affordably provide health insurance to their employees.
• Cut Obamacare’s burdensome individual mandate penalty.
• Signed legislation repealing Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, also known as the “death panels.”
• USDA invested more than $1 billion in rural health care in 2017, improving access to health care for 2.5 million people in rural communities across 41 states
• Proposed Title X rule to help ensure taxpayers do not fund the abortion industry in violation of the law.
• Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy to keep foreign aid from supporting the global abortion industry.
• HHS formed a new division over protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom.
• Overturned Obama administration’s midnight regulation prohibiting states from defunding certain abortion facilities.
• Signed executive order to help ensure that religious organizations are not forced to choose between violating their religious beliefs by complying with Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate or shutting their doors.

Combating Opioids

• Chaired meeting the 73rd General Session of the United Nations discussing the worldwide drug problem with international leaders.
• Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand, introducing new measures to keep dangerous drugs out of our communities.
• $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
• DEA conducted a surge in April 2018 that arrested 28 medical professions and revoked 147 registrations for prescribing too many opioids.
• Brought the “Prescribed to Death” memorial to President’s Park near the White House, helping raise awareness about the human toll of the opioid crisis.
• Helped reduce high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent in 2017.
• Opioid Summit on the administration-wide efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
• Launched a national public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.
• Created a Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis which recommended a number of pathways to tackle the opioid crisis.
• Led two National Prescription Drug Take Back Days in 2017 and 2018, collecting a record number of expired and unneeded prescription drugs each time.
• $485 million targeted grants in FY 2017 to help areas hit hardest by the opioid crisis.
• Signed INTERDICT Act, strengthening efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids before they reach our communities.
• DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.
• Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.
• Declared the opioid crisis a Nationwide Public Health Emergency in October 2017.

Law and Order

• More U.S. Circuit Court judges confirmed in the first year in office than ever.
• Confirmed more than two dozen U. S. Circuit Court judges.
• Followed through on the promise to nominate judges to the Supreme Court who will adhere to the Constitution
  • Nominated and confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
• Signed an executive order directing the Attorney General to develop a strategy to more effectively prosecute people who commit crimes against law enforcement officers.
• Launched an evaluation of grant programs to make sure they prioritize the protection and safety of law enforcement officers.
• Established a task force to reduce crime and restore public safety in communities across Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.
• Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.
• Violent crime decreased in 2017 according to FBI statistics.
• $137 million in grants through the COPS Hiring Program to preserve jobs, increase community policing capacities, and support crime prevention efforts.
• Enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods to help reduce violent crime.
• Signed legislation making it easier to target websites that enable sex trafficking and strengthened penalties for people who promote or facilitate prostitution.
• Created an interagency task force working around the clock to prosecute traffickers, protect victims, and prevent human trafficking.
• Conducted Operation Cross Country XI to combat human trafficking, rescuing 84 children and arresting 120 human traffickers.
• Encouraged federal prosecutors to use the death penalty when possible in the fight against the trafficking of deadly drugs.
• New rule effectively banning bump stock sales in the United States.

Border Security and Immigration

• Secured $1.6 billion for border wall construction in the March 2018 omnibus bill.
• Construction of a 14-mile section of border wall began near San Diego.
• Worked to protect American communities from the threat posed by the vile MS-13 gang.
  • ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division arrested 796 MS-13 members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the prior year.
  • Justice worked with partners in Central America to secure criminal charges against more than 4,000 MS-13 members.
  • Border Patrol agents arrested 228 illegal aliens affiliated with MS-13 in FY 2017.
• Fighting to stop the scourge of illegal drugs at our border.
  • ICE HSI seized more than 980,000 pounds of narcotics in FY 2017, including 2,370 pounds of fentanyl and 6,967 pounds of heroin.
  • ICE HSI dedicated nearly 630,000 investigative hours towards halting the illegal import of fentanyl.
  • ICE HSI made 11,691 narcotics-related arrests in FY 2017.
  • Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand introduced new measures to keep dangerous drugs out the United States.
  • Signed the INTERDICT Act into law, enhancing efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids.
  • DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.
  • DOJ launched their Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.
• Released an immigration framework that includes the resources required to secure our borders and close legal loopholes, and repeatedly called on Congress to fix our broken immigration laws.
• Authorized the deployment of the National Guard to help secure the border.
• Enhanced vetting of individuals entering the U.S. from countries that don’t meet security standards, helping to ensure individuals who pose a threat to our country are identified before they enter.
  • These procedures were upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court hearing.
• ICE removed over 226,000 illegal aliens from the United States in 2017.
  • ICE rescued or identified over 500 human trafficking victims and over 900 child exploitation victims in 2017 alone.
• In 2017, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 127,000 aliens with criminal convictions or charges, responsible for
  • Over 76,000 with dangerous drug offenses.
  • More than 48,000 with assault offenses.
  • More than 11,000 with weapons offenses.
  • More than 5,000 with sexual assault offenses.
  • More than 2,000 with kidnapping offenses.
  • Over 1,800 with homicide offenses.
• Created the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office in order to support the victims and families affected by illegal alien crime.
• More than doubled the number of counties participating in the 287(g) program, which allows jails to detain criminal aliens until they are transferred to ICE custody.

Trade

• Negotiating and renegotiating better trade deals, achieving free, fair, and reciprocal trade for the United States.
  • Agreed to work with the European Union towards zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsides.
  • Deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
  • Litigated multiple WTO disputes targeting unfair trade practices and upholding our right to enact fair trade laws.
  • Finalized a revised trade agreement with South Korea, which includes provisions to increase American automobile exports.
  • Negotiated an historic U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement to replace NAFTA.
  • Agreement to begin trade negotiations for a U.S.-Japan trade agreement.
  • Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.
  • Established a Trade and Investment Working Group with the United Kingdom, laying the groundwork for post-Brexit trade.
• Enacted steel and aluminum tariffs to protect our vital steel and aluminum producers and strengthen our national security.
• Conducted 82 anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations in 2017 alone.
• Confronting China’s unfair trade practices after years of Washington looking the other way.
  • 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of goods imported from China and later imposed an additional 10% tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
  • Conducted an investigation into Chinese forced technology transfers, unfair licensing practices, and intellectual property theft.
  • Imposed safeguard tariffs to protect domestic washing machines and solar products manufacturers hurt by China’s trade policies
• Withdrew from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
• Secured access to new markets for America’s farmers.
  • Recent deal with Mexico included new improvements enabling food and agriculture to trade more fairly.
  • Recent agreement with the E.U. will reduce barriers and increase trade of American soybeans to Europe.
  • Won a WTO dispute regarding Indonesia’s unfair restriction of U.S. agricultural exports.
  • Defended American Tuna fisherman and packagers before the WTO
  • Opened up Argentina to American pork experts for the first time in a quarter-century
  • American beef exports have returned to china for the first time in more than a decade
• OK’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.

Energy

• Presidential Memorandum to clear roadblocks to construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
• Presidential Memorandum declaring that the Dakota Access Pipeline serves the national interest and initiating the process to complete construction.
• Opened up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration.
• Coal exports up over 60 percent in 2017.
• Rolled back the “stream protection rule” to prevent it from harming America’s coal industry.
• Cancelled Obama’s anti-coal Clean Power Plan and proposed the Affordable Clean Energy Rule as a replacement.
• Withdrew from the job-killing Paris climate agreement, which would have cost the U.S. nearly $3 trillion and led to 6.5 million fewer industrial sector jobs by 2040.
• U.S. oil production has achieved its highest level in American history
• United States is now the largest crude oil producer in the world.
• U.S. has become a net natural gas exporter for the first time in six decades.
• Action to expedite the identification and extraction of critical minerals that are vital to the nation’s security and economic prosperity.
• Took action to reform National Ambient Air Quality Standards, benefitting American manufacturers.
• Rescinded Obama’s hydraulic fracturing rule, which was expected to cost the industry $32 million per year.
• Proposed an expansion of offshore drilling as part of an all-of-the above energy strategy
  • Held a lease sale for offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2018.
• Got EU to increase its imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States.
• Issued permits for the New Burgos Pipeline that will cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

Foreign Policy

• Moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
• Withdrew from Iran deal and immediately began the process of re-imposing sanctions that had been lifted or waived.
  • Treasury has issued sanctions targeting Iranian activities and entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force
  • Since enacting sanctions, Iran’s crude exports have fallen off, the value of Iran’s currency has plummeted, and international companies have pulled out of the country.
  • All nuclear-related sanctions will be back in full force by early November 2018.
• Historic summit with North Korean President Kim Jong-Un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula.
  • The two leaders have exchanged letters and high-level officials from both sides have met resulting in tremendous progress.
  • North Korea has halted nuclear and missile tests.
  • Negotiated the return of the remains of missing-in-action soldiers from the Korean War.
• Imposed strong sanctions on Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro and his inner circle.
• Executive order preventing those in the U.S. from carrying out certain transactions with the Venezuelan regime, including prohibiting the purchase of the regime’s debt.
• Responded to the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime.
  • Rolled out sanctions targeting individuals and entities tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program.
  • Directed strikes in April 2017 against a Syrian airfield used in a chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians.
  • Joined allies in launching airstrikes in April 2018 against targets associated with Syria’s chemical weapons use.
• New Cuba policy that enhanced compliance with U.S. law and held the Cuban regime accountable for political oppression and human rights abuses.
  • Treasury and State are working to channel economic activity away from the Cuban regime, particularly the military.
• Changed the rules of engagement, empowering commanders to take the fight to ISIS.
  • ISIS has lost virtually all of its territory, more than half of which has been lost under Trump.
  • ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city, Raqqah, was liberated in October 2017.
  • All Iraqi territory had been liberated from ISIS.
• More than a dozen American hostages have been freed from captivity all of the world.
• Action to combat Russia’s malign activities, including their efforts to undermine the sanctity of United States elections.
  • Expelled dozens of Russian intelligence officers from the United States and ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle, WA.
  • Banned the use of Kaspersky Labs software on government computers, due to the company’s ties to Russian intelligence.
  • Imposed sanctions against five Russian entities and three individuals for enabling Russia’s military and intelligence units to increase Russia’s offensive cyber capabilities.
  • Sanctions against seven Russian oligarchs, and 12 companies they own or control, who profit from Russia’s destabilizing activities.
  • Sanctioned 100 targets in response to Russia’s occupation of Crimea and aggression in Eastern Ukraine.
  • Enhanced support for Ukraine’s Armed Forces to help Ukraine better defend itself.
• Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.

Defence

• Executive order keeping the detention facilities at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay open.
• $700 billion in military funding for FY 2018 and $716 billion for FY 2019.
• Largest military pay raise in nearly a decade.
• Ordered a Nuclear Posture Review to ensure America’s nuclear forces are up to date and serve as a credible deterrent.
• Released America’s first fully articulated cyber strategy in 15 years.
• New strategy on national biodefense, which better prepares the nation to defend against biological threats.
• Administration has announced that it will use whatever means necessary to protect American citizens and servicemen from unjust prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
• Released an America first National Security Strategy.
• Put in motion the launch of a Space Force as a new branch of the military and relaunched the National Space Council.
• Encouraged North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies to increase defense spending to their agree-upon levels.
  • In 2017 alone, there was an increase of more than 4.8 percent in defense spending amongst NATO allies.
  • Every member state has increased defense spending.
  • Eight NATO allies will reach the 2 percent benchmark by the end of 2018 and 15 allies are on trade to do so by 2024.
  • NATO allies spent over $42 billion dollars more on defense since 2016.
• Executive order to help military spouses find employment as their families deploy domestically and abroad.

Veterans affairs

• Signed the VA Accountability Act and expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
• Delivered more appeals decisions – 81,000 – to veterans in a single year than ever before.
• Strengthened protections for individuals who come forward and identify programs occurring within the VA.
• Signed legislation that provided $86.5 billion in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the largest dollar amount in history for the VA.
• VA MISSION Act, enacting sweeping reform to the VA system that:
  • Consolidated and strengthened VA community care programs.
  • Funding for the Veterans Choice program.
  • Expanded eligibility for the Family Caregivers Program.
  • Gave veterans more access to walk-in care.
  • Strengthened the VA’s ability to recruit and retain quality healthcare professionals.
  • Enabled the VA to modernize its assets and infrastructure.
• Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act in 2017, which authorized $2.1 billion in addition funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
• Worked to shift veterans’ electronic medical records to the same system used by the Department of Defense, a decades old priority.
• Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
• Increased transparency and accountability at the VA by launching an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with access to wait time and quality of care data.
• Signed legislation to modernize the claims and appeal process at the VA.
• Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, providing enhanced educational benefits to veterans, service members, and their family members.
  • Lifted a 15-year limit on veterans’ access to their educational benefits.
• Created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
• VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.
• Signed the Veterans Treatment Court Improvement Act, increasing the number of VA employees that can assist justice-involved veterans.T

That's not much is it?

“As for the media being liberals, TBH the reporting in the US is abhorrent on both sides. FFS Trump is on fox and friends weekly, and they lap it up, fawn all over him, then bash anyone that says anything against him. But in all honesty, it's the same from the other side as well, again the reporting is terrible, there is very little independent reporting, Glenn Greenwald is one of the few I would trust and read personally, for those who don't know who he is, he was the reporter that broke the Snowden story.”
Fox news is the only tv to lap it up as you call it, every other media outlet attacks him, there is also Maxine waters & Nancy Polosi calling on democrats to attack republicans at their homes & work, Glenn Greenwald has been accused of lying many times over the years by multiple sources.
“ I just hope it doesn't give a rise to the right wing fascism that we seem to be seeing” Fascism is inherent by the left at the moment the so called Antifa are todays Fascists they're wearing costumes; they wear masks; they carry bike locks and baseballs bats as weapons, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were forerunners of modern liberalism the Democratic Party was the political shield of slavery and Jim Crow racism, There was a collectivist aspect to the ideology of the Nazis, who did call themselves "national socialists." The Left’s belief in government power also has elements of compulsion and prioritize social justice over individual liberty, Nazism, Fascism, and Socialism Are All Rooted in Communism all of them were merely different interpretations of Marxism
The policies of the Nazi Party followed the communist mode, he 25-point program included universal free health care and education, nationalization of large corporations and trusts, government control of banking and credit, the splitting of large landholdings into smaller units, and similar policies, Mussolini and Hitler both identified socialism as the core of the fascist and Nazi Weltanschauung, where I am going with this I am relatively confident by your comments that you support Mr Corbyn who supports socialism/communism

 

[janobi]

I have no problem with real liberals, the ones that allow others to have opinions. Progressives are something different and proper liberals are usually offended by being referred to as one.

Here's a collection of who I watch (or have watched) on YT, in no particular order. Maybe you agree, maybe you don't, but I'd like to be able to hold opinions without being put into a category because of it because I don't categorise anyone else because of their opinions.

I don't discount other people's views (although QT can be difficult to watch... BBC) but I believe these people speak sense and I regularly watch their content (apart from C. Hitchens, of course, who is no longer here).

• Pat Condell
• Jordan Peterson
• Douglas Murray
• Nigel Farage
• Sargon of Akkad
• Paul Joseph Watson
• Cristopher Hitchens
• Peter Hitchens
• David Starkey
• Tommy Robinson
• Ben Shapiro
• Milo Yiannopoulos

Some SJW will no doubt tell me it is wrong to listen to these people because they live in an echo chamber (I'll explain that if anyone wants). As for "fascism", well I could go on a bit but "fascism" is a form of control and progressives love nothing better than controlling speech, and thought so who are the real fascists?

I don’t know everyone in the list but one stands out and that’s milo. I find him very obtuse. He says stuff for the shock factor only.

We’re all controlled one way or the other, by some form or another. None of us are free in any country, there is a clear them and us, especially in the UK. The parliamentary act allowing the people to be spies upon but the people who made the law not to be spies upon. What do they have to hide I wonder...

I’m no liberal, progressive, right or left, I listen to all opinions. I agree with some parts and disagree with other parts. As muggy said if we all thought the same then the world would be a boring place.

 

[janobi]

@boodyakka where did you copy and paste those “facts” from? As stated statistics and information can be manipulated to show whatever is the end goal. Orwell taught us this in 1984, it’s a shame that his vision is coming true now.

 

[boodykaka2003]

@boodyakka where did you copy and paste those “facts” from? As stated statistics and information can be manipulated to show whatever is the end goal. Orwell taught us this in 1984, it’s a shame that his vision is coming true now.

I copied & pasted from Chuck Callesto regarding Donald Trumps achievements who was a Former Candidate for Florida's 3rd Congressional District he follows me on Twitter

 

[janobi]

I copied & pasted from Chuck Callesto regarding Donald Trumps achievements who was a Former Candidate for Florida's 3rd Congressional District he follows me on Twitter

I presume you're American, and also a republican. The gentleman you've copy and pasted is a "Prominent conservative republican". I wouldn't say a good source for information personally, as he will have an agenda. A conservative republican agenda, or would you consider these to be "Alternative Facts".

 

[janobi]

'America’s economy is stronger … thanks to President Trump’s pro-growth agenda’
CLAIM “Three million jobs have been created since Trump took office,” booms Trump’s news release. He made the same claim at a rally in April.
REALITY What Trump does not tell people is that the rate of job creation under him is actually slower than the last four years under Obama. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2.188m jobs were added in 2017. Obama added 2.3m in 2013, 2.99m in 2014, 2.71m in 2015, and 2.24m in 2016.
Trump claimed that the unemployment rate has dropped to 3.8%. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics did indeed report the unemployment rate for May was 3.8%.
But what Trump ignores is that the unemployment rate is declining in part because of large numbers of people leaving the workforce rather than getting jobs. The percentage of workers in jobs or looking for work dropped from 62.9% in March, to 62.8% in April to 62.7% in May. Those levels have not been seen since the 1970s.

CLAIM “American families received $3.2tn in gross tax cuts.”
REALITY Trump has been making this claim since 2017, when he signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law. In fact, the bill delivers $1.5tn in tax cuts – and that number includes cuts that corporations will receive.
The disparity is because Trump does not include aspects of the bill which will actually increase taxes. Factcheck.org pointed out that the non-partisan joint committee on taxation estimates the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will result in $1.456tn less in taxes over the next 10 years.
Some of that comes from the corporate income tax rate being cut from 35% to 21%, while the tax rate for wealthy individuals has been cut from 39.6% to 37%. The tax cut for corporations is permanent; the tax cuts for individuals will expire in 2026.
The bill is projected to add $1.46tn to the nation’s debt over the next decade. And the Washington thinktank the Center for American progress predictsthat Trump will save $11m to $15m a year under the tax bill, while Jared Kushner will save between $5m and $12m per year.


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Trump signs his tax cut into law in December. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

CLAIM “President Trump has rolled back unnecessary job-killing regulations such as the Clean Power Plan.”
REALITY Trump hails the government’s October 2017 decision to scrap the Clean Power Plan, which was introduced by Obama and was designed to cut US carbon dioxide emissions by 32% by 2030.
The Environmental Protection Agency had previously estimated the plan would prevent 90,000 child asthma attacks and 3,600 premature deaths a year by 2030.
While Trump claims the Clean Power Plan has already been rolled back, as of May 2018 the EPA was yet to finalize its repeal, and 19 states are challengingthe government’s move to scrap the plan – giving hope that Trump and Pruitt could be thwarted, or at least delayed.

‘America is winning on the world stage’
CLAIM “The president has taken action to confront aggression by Iran and its proxies.”
REALITY Trump has withdrawn from the landmark international deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme. In doing so he drew condemnation from the leaders of the UK, Germany and France, who made clear that Iran was abiding by the terms of the agreement.

‘America’s government is more accountable’
CLAIM “President Trump has confirmed the most circuit court judges of any president in their first year.”
REALITY Unfortunately for those not aligned with the president’s political views, this is correct. Republicans have rushed through the appointment of 21 such judges, and Trump plans to add 20 more by the end of 2018.
Most of those appointments are white men, and almost one-third have anti-LGBT records. The majority of Trump’s appointments are under 50 – meaning they could influence decision-making in the US for decades to come.

‘America’s communities are safer and more secure’
CLAIM Immigration and Customs Enforcement – Ice – has “made 110,568 arrests of illegal aliens – a 42% increase for the same timeframe in 2016”.
REALITY There is no mention of the disruption this has had on communities across the country – and on the terrible toll Trump’s actions have had on families.
Between 6 and 19 May, 658 children were taken away from their parents at the border, after the Trump administration announced that parents detained while entering the US without documentation would be separated from their children and prosecuted.

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My source is somewhat less biased, but that could be argued either way. As stated you can dress up statistics however you want . Although the majority of those are from your own regulators and information providers within the US.