Trump's First 100 Days.

[Hermskii]

Funny, I watch all of the news and depending on the channel, you get different results:

ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC and News Nation all put up stats indicating Trump is suffering the worst first 100-days of any president in the last 70 years. Surely that many stations can't be wrong.

Newsmax, Fox, The First, and One Nation News are all reporting about how Trump has done more in his first 100-days than every President did before him in their entire 4-year term. Focus being on how he secured the border more in 4-days than Biden and Harris did in 4-years.

I guess it all depends on how you want to look at it. I'll say I'm still betting on Trump 100% and I'm really looking forward to the next 40-days. I hope to revisit this thread with an update around June 10th of 2025.

[EvilGrins]

Trump has claimed with his 1st 100 days he brought the price of gas down to $1.98 p/gallon.

Strangely nobody can find anywhere in the country the gas is that low.

Which isn't surprising as gas hasn't been that cheap since my grandparents were teenagers.

[a nameless entity]

I'll say I'm still betting on Trump 100% and I'm really looking forward to the next 40-days. I hope to revisit this thread with an update around June 10th of 2025.

How are you feeling about Trump lately?

Don't you think it's bizarre that Trump still thinks that foreign countries are paying the tariffs he imposed when actually it's the American companies and ultimately the public that are actually paying all those taxes?

And have you realized that his ambition to replace the income tax system with tariffs really means that he and his rich supporters who pay next to nothing already, will then pay zero into the economy? And that everything will become so expensive that no one who isn't rich will be able to afford anything? -which will result in a huge underground economy and the ultimate collapse of all government paid infrastructure like roads, bridges and everything else the government takes care of now?

He's creating a huge mess that will take years to recover from.

[Hermskii]

I hope that you don't really believe what you just said. The whole world better hope the USA doesn't fail at anything. I'm not even going to start on all of the good the USA has always done throughout the world. Now all these losers are worried about the price of gas because we TRUMP is doing what no other country would dare to do and no other US president ever even considered doing. The fact that IRAN can mess with the entire world's economy every time they get mad and shut down the passage for oil to get around. No. I'm not even going to start. He is doing everything right and time will tell and well as history.

Democrats are blocking our Homeland Security from being paid so they can cry about how mean we are to people who broke into our country illegally. We are practically at war except that Iran can't fight back because we already kicked them hard. No time to reply to this. Stop watching the wrong news people. No ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC. Don't listen to NPR and then you might have a fighting chance of being informed with more than just a small portion of the whole story. G-Nite!

[Hermskii]

Oh look. Trump is doing what nobody would do. The USA along with the rest of the world has been subject to Iran and OPEC having a bad attitude and locking down oil for the last 50 years. Trump put the USA in a position to not require the oil at all. Trump is the only one doing anything to ensure the oil flows to the rest of the world even though we, the USA, could walk away at any time and be just fine. Sure, we'd pay more but we can.

Now here is the best part. All we have to do and we can do it easily is take that one island that produces over 80% of all of Iran's income and they would collapse just like that. Yes, even their regime. I suspect by the end of this week or two, we will and the people will finally revolt the entire way and finally, Iran will be free again to once again be a great country and Israel, and the rest of the middle east can rest assured that Iran is no longer a threat to them.

The oil prices will drop rapidly, and the world will never have to deal with these terrorists again...ever. Not in 5 years. Not in 10 or 20 or 30-years. Did Canada help? Nope. Just like usual. Let the USA do it all and then complain about your price of butter. Thanks to President Trump is what should be happening.

If you were drowning and the New York Times had a reporter on scene and Trump walked on water and saved you from drowning, they'd report Trump can't swim. Stop watching the wrong news people.

[a nameless entity]

I hope that you don't really believe what you just said.

Stop watching the wrong news people. No ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC. Don't listen to NPR and then you might have a fighting chance of being informed with more than just a small portion of the whole story. G-Nite!

1) Of course I believe what I said. Trump does want to replace the income tax system with tariffs which are already costing everyone more. Trump and all of his super rich supporters already fail to pay their fair share of income tax, and now they hope to pay nothing at all. I stand behind my prediction that this will ultimately cause economic disaster if it all comes to pass in this way.
The rest of your reply goes off on a tangent. You are correct that time will tell, but as for the rest I have nothing to say about that stuff. It's way too soon to comment, or even speculate.

2) Clearly you have cosseted yourself in a world created by the extreme right wing news agencies like Newsmax and the rest.
I absolutely will continue to listen to the "wrong" news organizations. They at least are grounded in reality based observation and reporting.

I know you heartily disagree, but it is nice that at least we can communicate with each other -even if it is to no avail, as we obviously exist in different dimensions of reality.

[Hermskii]

Let's say you're right and that Trump wants to replace income tax with Tariffs. You know that is how this country paid for itself before right? Before there were income taxes there were just tariffs. It sounds like you don't want that but if it happened wouldn't all of us not pay any income tax at all? Wouldn't that be a good thing? We could just raise or tariffs a little higher to cover the margin since right now he only has them set to make them fair / even / equal right? Maybe he should raise them to cover our cost and pay off debt and fill the coffers.

Canada produces most of its own oil so like us, not very concerned with the Strait of Hormuz being blocked by Iran, right? Is much of the rest of the world suffering from this? I think so. Iran leadership has sworn for almost 50-years that they will destroy Israel and the USA. The USA, not Canada offered them free fuel to run their nuclear plants forever and they said no because they already had enough enriched uranium to soon make 9-11 nuclear bombs. Their stash was already at 60% enrichment and would quickly make it to 90% and become nuke bomb ready. Uranium only needs to be enriched to 6% to produce energy so there was no doubt what they were up to.

How many ships, planes, troops have Cananda put on the table to ensure Iran was stopped? How much money has Canada put on the table to help? Not much of any if any of the things I named. Now Cananda is aligning with China who also needs us to clear the path so they can get their oil. Did they help any? Nope.

All I'm hearing is that you want Trump and my country to continue to pay for more than our fair share of protecting everyone else's interest. I'm leaning more towards nationalism in that for all of the near future, I'd like to see us take more care of ourselves first. I think we need to make everyone else stand up for themselves for a change. Based on your posts, I'd have to suspect you'd vote Democrat if you were a citizen of the USA.

The fake news is fading away. Americans are hip to the lies. Finally, Trump is suing the hell out of people for lying on TV and in the news. Even today more people from MSNBC are leaving or were let go. Morning Joe just lost another hour of their show each day! Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon are gone from CNN along with a host of others. Gutfeld is King of Late-night TV now. Stephen Colbert is gone in a few more months because his show has been losing 40 million a year. The John Stewert show gets more pathetic by the week. BBS is about to be 10-billion dollars poorer due to lying to people like you about Trump. CBS is getting a makeover as we speak after Trump sued them for misrepresenting him. ABC lost 10 million or more because of George Stephanopoulos lying on TV. The View is about to get shut down. PBS and NPR have been voted to not be paid for by my tax dollars anymore so they must stand on their own or fail like the rest of us. Tons of businesses are being caught scamming the government here and they are always run by a Democrat and always are huge contributors to Democrats and their efforts. That well of money is drying up fast!

I can't wait to see what happens here in the good old USA after Trump finishes off Iran's current Regime and makes the strait safe again so everyone can get their oil they are unwilling to fight for.

[Hermskii]

I must retract a statement I made or maybe Canada came to the table after the fact but either way, I must admit that Canada did in fact pledge help in assisting the US along with only a few other countries. I learned this shortly after my last statement and took too long to mention it here. See that. I can admit when I'm wrong.

I recently heard that Spain, Italy and France won't let us use the air bases we built, at our costs, in their countries, to help us protect them. They said this isn't their war. Funny. This thing with Russia isn't our war either, yet if we don't help, Russia takes over everything they want. Right? Yes. Right.

Iran has been butt-heads for almost 50-years saying nothing but death to Isreal and death to America the whole time. They have killed 1,000's of Americans over this time and tens of thousands of their own people just in the last year. They are well recognized as the number #1 sponsor of terror around the entire world and yet this is our war.

I'll stop right here for right now but read this again and think about it. EXACTLY as President Trump said, NATO is a paper tiger. We should leave NATO and let everyone defend themselves. We should take all of the oil from Iran and pay off our debts. It would be easy and smart to do so. We don't even need or use oil going through the Straits of Hormuz. If we are the only ones willing to fight for it, we should get to keep it right?