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Q&A: Electoral Promises

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Yes, it’s a good article. Here is the link. I particularly agree with this:

The irony of Donald Trump’s first four years in power were that they seemed anticlimactic. I know this might sound preposterous given the nervous breakdown that the media had between 2016 and 2020. But what substantial lasting changes were achieved? The Trump peace plan seemed weighty at the time but, well — so much for that. The border wall remained unfinished. Operation Warp Speed is the kind of thing that Trump’s supporters are liable to recall with horror. Trump’s ability to conjure up, or simply find himself in, iconic moments never seemed to be translated into major change.

This is very true. Trump is best at being himself. He’s great at grand symbolic gestures. But those gestures don’t do much for me. There was still no wall, nothing remotely similar to the endlessly promised deportations, no executive orders on immigration or anchor babies, no barriers to the BLM, no action against transification.  Some positive action on Ukraine and Israel, OK, great but as we saw later, it was light-years away from being decisive. And it was like that in everything. A timid, vacillating administration that never even attempted to live up to the grandiosity of its rhetoric.

In short, Trump promises a lot of great things and won’t do any of them. Biden promises a lot of bad things and will do all of them.

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    Anonymous

    “In short, Trump promises a lot of great things and won’t do any of them. Biden promises a lot of bad things and will do all of them.”

    So isn’t this really an easy choice?

    Come on — Wouldn’t you prefer a leader who falsely promises great things and then at least does no harm, compared to a leader who promises to do evil and actually keeps his word?

    Dreidel

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      Stringer Bell

      Yeah, this is a no-brainer, especially after yesterday’s events. Also, I think the question of Biden’s fitness will go away now because Dems are more than happy to make him the sacrificial lamb to the inevitable slaughter. Why “waste” a good Dem candidate in this election?

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      Clarissa

      No, not really. People get disarmed with lies and false promises and stop seeing reality for what it is. Then, bad things happen because everybody is convinced that the good guys won and no effort is necessary.

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    Anonymous

    I would like to point out though, that while the Office of President does have many powers legally, and even more illegally when ignoring congress and the Supreme Court, like Biden has done. The Office of the President still has to work with congress to get things done. This is not a monarchy or a dictatorship.

    For example if you won the Presidency and your party (assuming 100% loyalty and will press for laws doing your policy) took the house, but the other side took the senate this would occur. You as President would set policy, lets take the road system. You might say we need to repair and upgrade it. The house would then need to come up with committees/laws/regulations/programs to put this into being. They would also have to vote the grant funding for this. So lets assume 100% party loyalty and say the House comes up with a program for this, a budget for this, and regulations for this. The house would then send it to the Senate, and if they agreed, then it would go to you the President to sign into being. Except your party doesn’t control the Senate, which means you have to compromise with the other side. They believe the roads are fine as is, and nothing needs to be done. So they are going to oppose this to keep it from passing. Depending upon the Speaker of the House, this might be brought up for vote or discussion or if the Speaker really didn’t like you at all, he could pigeonhole the vote/discussion until either forced to bring it up via pressure, or until the vote/discussion looses traction and fails.

    So having said all this, lets discuss Trump’s 1st Term in Office. He was elected President by America, at the time we (Note from this point forward we is synonymous with Americans, rather than individuals or party.) At the time we knew things were bad in DC, and that there was a lot of corruption, but no one had any hard evidence other than things kept falling apart. In Trump’s 1st Term, he had polices he wanted enacted. The Republican party (Note: this is not the base, this is the politicians specifically,) were not 100% loyal to him and united behind him. There were RINOS everywhere, less now, but some are still there. They would smile to his face, agree to support his policies, and then do the opposite as soon as his back was turned. He had traitors inside the White-house. Do you recall the constant flood of leaks coming from his staff since almost day one? I do. The border wall would need to be funded, the house controls the purse-strings of the country. At the time RINO Speaker of the House Paul Ryan did everything he could to pigeonhole any vote or discussion on funding the border wall. He also did everything he could to block any attempt to remove the Obamacare nonsense. It took some time, but the scum was eventually removed as were a fair number of RINOs. Lets not even pretend the left had any intention of following the rules at all, and they controlled the Senate. You had local judges trying to rewrite laws to block anything he did as well. Quite frankly it was amazing as much got done as it did.

    What Trump’s 1st term did do was to dredge up the swamp, to show the world exactly what was lying about in DC and in the halls of power. If you had told a random American in 2015 how things would go over the next 8 years, not the disasters, but the shear incompetence and political backstabbery, they would have probably laughed and said nonsense, congress is bad, but its not that bad. That is one of the reasons I support Trump so much. He is brash, boastful, and a braggart, plus a bunch of other things I don’t particularly care for, but all those are ignored for the simple reason of he fights back, or at the very least exposes those abominations for what they are. No one else was willing or could do that. And so rather than slowly drown wondering how it occurred, now America has a change to fight back rather they die not knowing what happened.

    • – W

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      Clarissa

      Paraphrasing Trump himself, “I don’t like presidents who are prevented from fulfilling their promises by the swamp. I prefer presidents who don’t get themselves stopped by the swamp.”

      I don’t care about these excuses. I care that things don’t get done. The Dems suck but they get their sucky things done. They are deadly effective. While all we get is always a litany of reasons why we can’t get anything we were promised.

      Four more years of impotent “law & order” tweets while cities get trashed by deranged mobs. I don’t even want to imagine.

      However, if he chooses a decent person as veep and not, for example, a pussy-wipped sub of a mega woke wife like JD Vance, I might consider voting for him. So I’m really looking forward to the announcement.

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        Clarissa

        Oh, so he did choose the pussy-whipped fellow. OK, then, now I definitely have nobody to vote for.

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          methylethyl

          Did he?

          Dang.

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            Clarissa

            After going on for 2 days how Dems comparing him to Hitler caused the assassination attempt, he goes and chooses a dude who compared him to Hitler. Yet another brilliant hiring decision. Lessons learned. Not.

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              methylethyl

              Clearly the Yalie party pick.

              Yalies need to be banned from public office. That place is some kind of globalist cult.

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                Clarissa

                Totally. Kamala versus Usha. What a joy.

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