re: 1 Focus. 1 Man. 10 Years. Will we seek eyes to see?

I'm not sure what the supposedly self-evident truth is that the fact that Democrats and the media have hated Trump worse than anybody before him is supposed to have revealed.

That he "threatens the Swamp?"

It's not that, folks. Not if you're really serious about believing your own eyes and not just falling for what someone tells you.

He's never placed his holdings in a blind trust, which if I am not mistaken, every other US President before him has done. Trump's personal net worth almost tripled in a year after he was re-elected. He spent years dogging cryptocurrency as being the haven of shady money, then once he got back in office he heavily de-regulated it and promptly personally made over $2 billion in cryptocurrency.

He's also heavily ramped up foreign licensing deals in real estate his second term, which eventually may face legal challenges as a violation of the Emoluments Clause.

I don't know if the signed guitars, commemorative coins, trading cards, God Bless The USA Bibles, etc. are formally considered conflicts of interest or just more trailer park trash culture, but they are for sure more evidence that what Trump learned in his first term is mostly how to use the system to enrich himself and his family.

So was/is Save America. That was a calculated move to use a "Leadership PAC" to receive larger than allowed donations than regular campaign PACs, and also to have donors pay his legal expenses. I suppose I don't need to connect the dots between huge donations and undue conflict of interest political influence, do I?

Finally, this IRS "negotiation" that was abandoned was not only a rather transparent slush fund attempt, but contained all kinds of stipulations that prohibited the IRS from auditing Trump—or his family—personally. A DOJ negotiated deal was going to exempt Trump and his family from IRS rules and laws.

If Joe Biden's DOJ had negotiated that deal MAGA would have claimed it was time to take up arms and take the country back from the DeepStateGlobalElite, and if you deny that, you are simply a liar.

Trump is the Deep State.

Why do they hate him so much? There are explanations besides, "Well they hate him, so he must be the White Knight that they know they must vanquish."

Before I tell you what I think the most likely explanation is, tell me this. For all Trump's "Drain the Swamp" rhetoric, what has actually changed in over two terms with regard to political corruption? The biggest thing I can see is that Trump is partaking of it himself more than he did in term one. And endorsing others who do likewise.

I got downvoted into oblivion for giving Tommy Tuberville the thumbs-down on here, then someone posts about that new service that racks and ranks all the politician's inside trades and he's second only to Nancy Pelosi in insider trades.

Anyway, it's far more likely from the known facts that it's true that Trump is uncontrollable and disruptive to the status quo. That seems to be true.

He's also the most abrasive, insulting, crass, and (publicly, at least) classless POTUS we've ever had. When you repeatedly tell the press, "frick you, you're corrupt," it's not really a gigantic conspiracy mystery to figure out why they hate you.

Going back to number one, I'm sure there were politicians who were scared that Trump would uncover something they didn't want uncovered. But remember, those fraud investigations in Minnesota started under Biden, yet the whistleblowers started coming forward in 2018.

Why didn't Trump lean into that his first term, if he was so focused on "Draining the Swamp?"

Why did it take the Democrats coming after him personally between 2020 and 2024 before he started really investigating the corruption...not just on that fraud, but everything?

Because Trump is not about "Draining the Swamp." Not unless it also fulfills a personal vendetta of his.

Conclusion, he's about Trump. He's about himself. He is the Deep State, but he's his own, personal Deep State. He doesn't play well with others which is why they do not like him, but that doesn't automatically mean that he's a selfless champion of the people, and the evidence doesn't support that conclusion either.

That works out great sometimes. Other times, not so much.

Holy AI batman?

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Pretty much the same here. When he first announced his candidacy I was like, "this guy is frickin joking, right?" I seriously thought it was just some ridiculous self promotion type literal joke. Then I started paying attention to his rallies and I've been on the Trump train ever since. Rollin until the wheels fall off.

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Sounds a lot like my journey this past decade - When he entered the race I was at first amused, but then began to fear that he was going to screw the whole thing up. I thought he was merely using the primary as advertising for some new TV show = something like "So You Want To Be President?" and that he was just gathering ground floor understanding of that environment.

I railed against him more than anyone on this site - and even threatened to not vote if he wins the nomination.

BUT - I succumbed to my fall back advice = always vote for the LEAST EVIL person on the ballot.

So it was a relatively easy task to vote for him, but I still didn't expect anything good to happen.

How wrong I was = It didn't take long before I recanted all my prior criticisms and actually began to be a fan of his technique - the things he got done needed to have been done decades earlier - and we were really on the cusp of having our precious republican way of life destroyed.

I would crawl over broken glass to support him now.

And I still do not like his persona - he is much too self-centered for me to accept him as a 'friend' - but I have resolved that we had to have someone with that mental makeup and demonstrated success to handle the crap left by Obama.

I’ve been wanting him to run since 2012 when he would go on fix and friends in the morning to blast Romney as weak

I've been for him from the beginning, even though it has not always been an easy ride. I really dug in after the repeated impeachments and faux scandals they tried to hook on him. I just said frick it. I'm in for the long haul.

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Testosterone helps men think clearly, which explains the actions of so many here.

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Well, let's see how much of it you have, then.

Define "conservative" for me in a political context.

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Best president of our lifetime, maybe since George Washington.

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Thomas Jefferson has entered the chat.

Stranger now are his eyes to this mystery
Hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls