re: Those That Act Totally Outraged Over Internet Tweets From The President, Are They Serious?

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Mouthing off doesn't make Trump tough

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Your right. But the results have not all come in yet. We will see.

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We used to have a badass president that said, "speak softly and carry a big stick". Mouthing off doesn't make Trump tough. The might of the US military does. The only thing his foolish words do is make it more likely that we will have to prove it.

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That's, like, your opinion man.


And you've missed the point, entirely. You guys keep melting over tweets, but your doomsday never comes.

To the contrary, we've hammered NK and marginalized Kim. Our position is as good as its ever been, and the NYT reported today that NK wants to negotiate.

I guess you would rather a president who sits silent as foreign leaders call him "monkey" or a "son of a whore". A president whose idea of diplomacy is delivering pallets of cash to theocrats who bankroll terrorists.

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Our position is as good as its ever been

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Laughable statement. NK has nukes and a delivery method. They're now negotiating from a position of strength.

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who sits silent as foreign leaders call him...

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Yes. That's exactly right. Restraint shows far more strength than lowering yourself to childish tweetstorms.

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Why do people keep parroting this line?

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How do you justify 90% negative coverage when every meaningful traditional metric for presidential success has improved under Trumps leadership? How do you explain the media wasting bandwidth on stories about his steak and ice cream eating habits or his soft drink consumption?

You almost had me thinking that you were an honest lefty.

Trump is not a popular president. He lost the popular vote, so you can expect coverage to be more negative than usual.

His two main legislative agenda items were largely unpopular. Repeal & Replace couldn't get passed because certain provisions of ACA were too popular. His tax bill was easily and predictably attacked because it didn't balance the budget as promised and gave himself a nice tax break.

He has an ongoing feud with specific journalists and open contempt for journalists in general.

His political strategy is to make controversial public statements to excite his base, which is less than 15% of the overall population.

Why would you expect our profit-driven press coverage to be anything other than largely negative? Popular presidents get fluff pieces. Unpopular presidents get pummeled.

The only people who are against the tax bill have to lie to justify their positions.

Who'd you vote for last fall?

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The only people who are against the tax bill have to lie to justify their positions.

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So the budget doesn't have a larger deficit?
So tax cuts won't expire for the middle class?
So supply-side economics isn't inflating the growth expectations yet again?

C'mon, man. Dissenting opinions aren't lies.

A. You cannot start to care about the deficit after eight years of Obama

B. They aren't expiring anytime soon. That doesn't stop your ilk from pretending that they are expiring next year

C. Nope

Who'd you vote for?

I don't know why we are bothering with this alter

Are you a shill? Your posts are so full of debunked talking points, i dont know where to begin.

Trumps favorability is right around where Obama's was after his first year. Yet Obama enjoyed only 20% negative coverage. in spite of historically poor economic performance and the passing of two wildly unpopular bills.


And the tax cut polled poorly because the media lied about it constantly. It was revealed later that only 17% of Americans knew they were getting a tax cut. the funniest thing is that once it's popularity grew to 50%, the polling agencies stopped polling on it.

Every point you are trying to make, supports my argument better than yours.