re: Two questions about Trump

Simply put, during Trump's term, inflation was in check and we were energy independent. China, Russia, NK would not consider fricking with us because Trump, like Reagan, dealt with their leaders from a position of strength, not weakness, like this old crook we have now.
He had to battle the DC swamp, their media and constant bullshite from lying frickers like Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell.
In his next term, we can on;y hope that he will be able to reduce the size of the federal gov't. And with the help of a Republican majority in congress, oversee a gov't where Congress does their job instead of passing the buck to some unelected bureaucrat.

I like me some Vivek. Especially his plan of shutting down multiple government agencies.

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I like me some Vivek.

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Vivek does seem to be stressing deconstructing the bureaucracy while showing a lot of competence.

He's basically shown so far that his strengths are similar to both Trump (anti-DC) and DeSantis (competence).

We'll see if his momentum has any staing power over the next few months. I kind of expect his debate performance to knock Desantis out completely.

Yea we will see. I just don't know if he has enough backing from the powers that be in the republican party to make a realistic run at it.

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Trump didn't get it done because he appointed terrible people around him, he said stupid things, and he trusted scumbags like Fauci and Wray. He was also extremely disorganized and had no real plan for getting legislation passed and didn't understand how to actually do the job.

He was great at the stuff he could do himself for the most part or that worked to his strengths. For instance foreign policy and trade deals. He was smart enough to listen to the people that told him to just nominate from a list of SC Justices the Heritage Foundation gave him. He was pretty good on EO's but he didn't do his homework half the time so he kept running into legal messes with them that left openings for Activist Judges to mess with him.

If you are taking on the Swamp you better have a real plan with a serious team of dedicated people. Personally I knew Trump was in trouble when prior to taking office it was clear he hadn't put much thought into who he would appoint to what positions and he ended up relying on others to tell him. He's got even stupider people around him now and he has burned every bridge imaginable with people that are competent because he throws everyone under the bus, even those who took bullets for him.

Acting like "Well Trump failed so everyone else will fail too" is beyond stupid. Trump was a disorganized mess and still is. He still makes his Truth Social posts look like a 12 year old who can't read a teleprompter very well.

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That pretty much sums it up.

Except I would question the whole trade deals thing. He got us out of a lot of deals, but really didn't make any new deals. Updating NAFTA could hardly be considered any kind of new deal. That was one of the things I really thought he would be able to accomplish, being a businessman and all, but he disappointed there as well.

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quote: Trump didn't get it done because he appointed terrible people around him, he said stupid things, and he trusted scumbags like Fauci and Wray. He was also extremely disorganized and had no real plan for getting legislation passed and didn't understand how to actually do the job. He was great at the stuff he could do himself for the most part or that worked to his strengths. For instance foreign policy and trade deals. He was smart enough to listen to the people that told him to just nominate from a list of SC Justices the Heritage Foundation gave him. He was pretty good on EO's but he didn't do his homework half the time so he kept running into legal messes with them that left openings for Activist Judges to mess with him. If you are taking on the Swamp you better have a real plan with a serious team of dedicated people. Personally I knew Trump was in trouble when prior to taking office it was clear he hadn't put much thought into who he would appoint to what positions and he ended up relying on others to tell him. He's got even stupider people around him now and he has burned every bridge imaginable with people that are competent because he throws everyone under the bus, even those who took bullets for him. Acting like "Well Trump failed so everyone else will fail too" is beyond stupid. Trump was a disorganized mess and still is. He still makes his Truth Social posts look like a 12 year old who can't read a teleprompter very well. That pretty much sums it up. Except I would question the whole trade deals thing. He got us out of a lot of deals, but really didn't make any new deals. Updating NAFTA could hardly be considered any kind of new deal. That was one of the things I really thought he would be able to accomplish, being a businessman and all, but he disappointed there as well.

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This actually isn't true and I am obviously a huge DeSantis guy. Trump's best decision of his Presidency is one I would bet most people here don't even know about. One name, Robert Lighthizer. He was one of the few guys that went wire to wire for Trump as US Trade Rep. Old Reagan guy that gave absolutely no fricks.

Lighthizer is famous for sitting down in a trade negotiation and laying out brutal terms, then placing his interpreter earpiece down on the table while the other side spoke, then saying "So do we have a deal?" He made deals with Japan, South Korea, and Australia to go along with the new NAFTA. In all of them he basically said "Here's the deal and we have all the cards. Shut up and get on board." They all did. He told China we didn't need them. He had the deal on the table with the UK and they were about to close it before Trump left but it was going to be humiliating for them.

There was no better hire Trump made and no one that was more true MAGA than him. Absolute badass. He was so strong btw that even Biden isn't messing with those trade deals and he has also stayed tough on China.

Biden replaced Lighthizer with Tai who is basically leaving everything alone and she has one great redeeming quality. She's Taiwanese and freaking hates China. That's also how we got the only smart bill passed that Biden did, the CHIPs Act that is moving Semiconductor manufacturing to the US and away from Taiwan. TSMC is spending $40 Billion in Arizona alone to build 3 NM and below chips. In a few more years we will have all the manufacturing capacity for the tech we need here in the US. All we need now is to get the O&G sector back online but that's not happening with Biden.

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What exactly am I getting with Trump this time (vs other candidates)?

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They don't know and they don't care. They'll go wherever he leads them.

Lighthizer was the badass, Navarro was the big talker. Lighthizer is the one who busted balls and got it done. Dude's a freaking gangster.