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Originally Posted by Robbie
He is. The real America. Working people and their families. That's what people have been waiting on. And it scares the hell out of the establishment.
To have someone stand up and give a speech against the powers that be is exciting to me.
It's just crazy that we can all see and hear the same things...but come away with completely different views on what we saw.
I saw a vibrant, funny, energetic speech with a crowd of people laughing and having a good time.
I heard our President speak of "your dreams are my dreams" and condemn racism and bigotry in all forms.
The minute the speech was over? Don Lemon on CNN declared it to be "divisive and hateful" and his panel all concluded that Drumpf is starting another "Civil War".
WTF?
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We see different things.
We have always been a divided country, Republican vs Democrats, and it's worked because we've played nicely. But something changed during Obama's term. It seemed like no matter what, the Republican side was complaining. The best example of this is the economy - Under Obama our unemployment went from 10% or 12% down to 4%, but the Republicans kept complaining. We saw this here on GFY when people wanted to complained about the U6 unemployment rate, which was silly because the U6 unemployment rate just directly coincides with the actual unemployment rate. Yet others wanted to complain about the labor force participation rate, which frankly has little to do with the economy and unemployment.
Then we had all of this shit with Hillary. I'm sorry, I did not like Hillary, but that was pure bullshit. We knew going in that nothing illegal was done with Benghazi, and we knew going in that nothing illegal was done with her email server. Fuck - the set up she had for her email was common at the State Department and multiple Republicans had also done this. The Republican party knew Hillary was the next candidate to beat, and before Trump even put his name into the election the Republican party was flat out attacking Hillary Clinton with the only intention of making her look bad.
I didn't watch the speech in Phoenix. I saw some footage of it. All I walked away with was that he threatened to shut down the government if they fail to fund his wall. During his campaign Trump promised us Mexico would pay for this wall, and now is threatening to shut down our government if Congress doesn't force the tax payers to pay for it. This wall, by the way, is completely and utterly not needed - Illegal immigration has been declining over the past eight to ten years so why are we going to pay billions for a wall for a problem that has been solving itself since before Trump came into office?
Fuck Trump. Today he is signing a bill for Veterans, which he will claim will solve their problems. Did anyone read this bill? All this bill does is streamlines the approval process for benefits. This will have zero impact on the veterans into the system; It will only increase the amount of veterans that join the system. If you have such benefits, it will not do anything to reduce the amount of time to be seen by a doctor. It's pure bullshit all around.
This is by far, without a doubt, the worst president we have ever had. Period.