Trumps Presidency 2025

[oblong]

1 hour ago, ewsieg said:

Serious question, why do you want them there?  What do you feel is going on in Portland that requires the National Guard.

Also as someone that claims to be conservative, aren't you generally looking for the most cost effective solution?  Sending cash to blue cities to help them hire more cops (which blue cities actually would love to do if they could afford too) would be much more cost effective then sending the National Guard.  

My MAGA brother wants the National Guard in Dearborn, because you know, Sharia Law, ISIS, all the terror attacks that originate from their apparently...etc.  He doesn't live in Michigan, but I told him next time he's around, we'll head to Dearborn.  He is fully convinced every women is in the full garb, getting beat on the street if they don't maintain the correct distance behind their husband.  He seriously needs to work on his algorithm.

He can come to one of my fitness classes.  We're allowed to bring one guest for a period of time.  He will find young arab women in sports halter tops with not much coverage than a sports bra.  He'll see others in full body clothing that covers their entire arms, legs, and head.  We all work out together in the same room, men and women, in varying amounts of clothing.  Nobody gets beaten.   For sure there are patriarchal elements at play but that goes on in every culture.  The whole "Trad Wives" thing among the evangelical right is just another form of what they probably bitch about in their perceptions of the Muslim world.

 

 

[gehringer_2]

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More insanity from a Trump nominee, another "very fine person"

One might note the slight difference between the example of some terrible 'lefty' person being a nobody randomly found on the internet, and a terrible 'righty' person being some one this government is trying to put into a position of official authority. 

Edited October 21 by gehringer_2

[oblong]

36 minutes ago, Archie said:

The bigger issue in Portland is not how many police there are but that they are operating under the policies of the their far left city council.  In other words they are standing around and doing nothing but protecting the left wing radicals that are blocking streets, harassing and at times inciting violence on anyone that doesn't agree with them and harboring illegal aliens.  There was video showing some left wing loon attacking a guy in a Charlie Kirk shirt.  The guy in the Kirk shirt defended himself and was arrested while nothing was done to the left wing loser.

 

[pfife]

2 hours ago, Archie said:

The

You support the GOP federal cover up of pedos.   And the pardoning of potential assasins.

Folks should look elsewhere if they're interested in sound judgement.

[ewsieg]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

He will find young arab women in sports halter tops with not much coverage than a sports bra.  He'll see others in full body clothing that covers their entire arms, legs, and head. 

Funny you say this as this as I was saying similar stuff. I said we’ll eat at a restaurant (something ‘Merican like Buddy’s) and he might see folks in full body clothing and in the next booth you’ll have a 2nd/3rd generation Middle Eastern family with a teenager wearing less than I would let my own daughter walk out of the house with.

[Tigeraholic1]

All true. Just more whining today. 
 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

2 hours ago, Archie said:

I wondered why you only quote one word of a post. I get it now that you are protecting the delicate eyes of the left wing loons that can't handle to see an opinion of the real world truth instead lefty fantasy they so desire.  Continue on with your liberal loon safe space with free teddy bears, cupcakes and rainbows.   

TDS

[pfife]

2 hours ago, Archie said:

I wondered

You support the GOP federal cover up of pedos.  

[pfife]

13 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

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You support the GOP federal cover up of pedos.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, Archie said:

There was video showing some left wing loon attacking a guy in a Charlie Kirk shirt.  The guy in the Kirk shirt defended himself and was arrested while nothing was done to the left wing loser.

Says you.

[oblong]

Truman "gutted the entire white house" because it was literally falling apart and would have collapsed had they not done that. He spent most of his "second" term of his presidency living elsewhere

Nixon put his bowling alley in place of where LBJ/JFK's pool was.

 

[pfife]

Just more ridiculous comparisons.

[Tigeraholic1]

I mean….

 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

 

While my wife and I was driving Route 66, we stopped in Oklahoma City, and while driving around, I saw the same things I've seen in a lot of smaller cities, especially out west: unhoused people sprawled on many of the streets, setting up camp right on sidewalks in the open; tons of garbage strewn about all over the streets and sidewalks; and, of course, nobody walking around the streets after dark anywhere, not even downtown. Nothing like Chicago at all.

While we were there, we went to the Jim Thorpe museum, which is connected to the AAA baseball stadium. The guy on staff was a white man, maybe 70-ish. We came in making nice small talk telling him how we found ourselves in OKC, and he asked, "where you folks from"? My wife answered, "Chicago". And he replied, "Oh, sorry, ha ha ha."

I knew where he was coming from. I didn't answer him in the moment, but after checking out the museum and the ballpark for maybe 15 minutes, as we were leaving, he was near the door on the way out, and I said to him, "Oh, by the way? Chicago? Is a way, way better city than Oklahoma City." And he replied, "Well, I can't imagine." And I said, "Well, you should come visit. You'll see what I mean. You'd love it." And he had nothing more to say than, "Well, heh heh heh."

And it was in that moment the thought occurred to me: probably a big reason so many red hats are so freaked out about Chicago is that they believe it's just a bigger and far worse version of their own cities, or at least the close cities they get their TV from. So many of those cities have been allowed to simply go to seed. (Perhaps in part because their Republican state legislatures starve them of state money they could use to help clean things up? That's what Illinois' R governors and legislators have been trying to do to Chicago ever since I've been here.)

So this guy from the museum sees what's happening in his town, Oklahoma City, watches Fox and Newsmax and OAN talk about Chicago—and, most importantly, hears "his" president talk about Chicago—and can't conceive of the idea that it could not possibly be anything but a filthier and infinitely more dangerous version of Oklahoma City. He assumes Chicago is basically the equivalent of Gaza right now.

Of course, if you look at the violent crime stats for 2024—courtesy of the Trump FBI—for every decent-sized town along Route 66, you can see that Chicago ranks pretty low in overall violent crime:

TBF, it's not the lowest crime rate along the route. Kingman, Normal, Joliet, Rolla, Flagstaff, all lower. But to hear the red hats talk about it, it would be impossible that Chicago would not be the highest violent crime rate in the country.

By the way, you can download your own copy of the FBI 2024 crime data right here.

[Tigerbomb13]

11 minutes ago, chasfh said:

While my wife and I was driving Route 66, we stopped in Oklahoma City, and while driving around, I saw the same things I've seen in a lot of smaller cities, especially out west: unhoused people sprawled on many of the streets, setting up camp right on sidewalks in the open; tons of garbage strewn about all over the streets and sidewalks; and, of course, nobody walking around the streets after dark anywhere, not even downtown. Nothing like Chicago at all.

While we were there, we went to the Jim Thorpe museum, which is connected to the AAA baseball stadium. The guy on staff was a white man, maybe 70-ish. We came in making nice small talk telling him how we found ourselves in OKC, and he asked, "where you folks from"? My wife answered, "Chicago". And he replied, "Oh, sorry, ha ha ha."

I knew where he was coming from. I didn't answer him in the moment, but after checking out the museum and the ballpark for maybe 15 minutes, as we were leaving, he was near the door on the way out, and I said to him, "Oh, by the way? Chicago? Is a way, way better city than Oklahoma City." And he replied, "Well, I can't imagine." And I said, "Well, you should come visit. You'll see what I mean. You'd love it." And he had nothing more to say than, "Well, heh heh heh."

And it was in that moment the thought occurred to me: probably a big reason so many red hats are so freaked out about Chicago is that they believe it's just a bigger and far worse version of their own cities, or at least the close cities they get their TV from. So many of those cities have been allowed to simply go to seed. (Perhaps in part because their Republican state legislatures starve them of state money they could use to help clean things up? That's what Illinois' R governors and legislators have been trying to do to Chicago ever since I've been here.)

So this guy from the museum sees what's happening in his town, Oklahoma City, watches Fox and Newsmax and OAN talk about Chicago—and, most importantly, hears "his" president talk about Chicago—and can't conceive of the idea that it could not possibly be anything but a filthier and infinitely more dangerous version of Oklahoma City. He assumes Chicago is basically the equivalent of Gaza right now.

Of course, if you look at the violent crime stats for 2024—courtesy of the Trump FBI—for every decent-sized town along Route 66, you can see that Chicago ranks pretty low in overall violent crime:

TBF, it's not the lowest crime rate along the route. Kingman, Normal, Joliet, Rolla, Flagstaff, all lower. But to hear the red hats talk about it, it would be impossible that Chicago would not be the highest violent crime rate in the country.

By the way, you can download your own copy of the FBI 2024 crime data right here.

Statistics are for snowflakes libs! The left loves their numbers. 

[chasfh]

9 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Statistics are for snowflakes libs! The left loves their numbers. 

Out of reactions at the moment, but Haha.

[oblong]

I've said this before here but it's like the red hats get off on the homeless.  When I come back from vacation and I have cousins asking where we went, if it was a big city, like San Diego, their first question "Was there a lot of homeless people there?"   The first time we went my fox news watching MIL said to us, "Just be careful" and when we asked why she said "Well it's close to the border".

Chas, you are exactly right.

[chasfh]

5 minutes ago, oblong said:

I've said this before here but it's like the red hats get off on the homeless.  When I come back from vacation and I have cousins asking where we went, if it was a big city, like San Diego, their first question "Was there a lot of homeless people there?"   The first time we went my fox news watching MIL said to us, "Just be careful" and when we asked why she said "Well it's close to the border".

Chas, you are exactly right.

I am out of reactions at the moment, but, Thanks.

[GalagaGuy]

Holy hell, you people argue about some silly ****.  🤣

[Dan Gilmore]

3 hours ago, Archie said:

The bigger issue in Portland is not how many police there are but that they are operating under the policies of the their far left city council.  In other words they are standing around and doing nothing but protecting the left wing radicals that are blocking streets, harassing and at times inciting violence on anyone that doesn't agree with them and harboring illegal aliens.  There was video showing some left wing loon attacking a guy in a Charlie Kirk shirt.  The guy in the Kirk shirt defended himself and was arrested while nothing was done to the left wing loser.

This post probably doesn’t stand out too much from your usual delusional drivel, but you really haven’t the slightest clue about Portland, especially the Portland police. Stupid and ignorant, not a good combination.

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

Truman "gutted the entire white house" because it was literally falling apart and would have collapsed had they not done that. He spent most of his "second" term of his presidency living elsewhere

Nixon put his bowling alley in place of where LBJ/JFK's pool was.

 

And they all asked for and received permission from the governing office or offices charged with conducting an historical review and funding the project.

Trump is a tenant of the White House not the owner. I'm sure our resident Troll would love it if he had rental property and the people paying him rent decided to completely remodel one of his houses without permission. Even if they were supposedly "paying for it" 

Trump NEVER pays for ANYTHING himself. 

 

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, GalagaGuy said:

Holy hell, you people argue about some silly ****.  🤣

Nothing says you're not one of us by referring to the rest of the community you're visiting as "you people". 😉

[chasfh]

49 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

And they all asked for and received permission from the governing office or offices charged with conducting an historical review and funding the project.

Trump is a tenant of the White House not the owner. I'm sure our resident Troll would love it if he had rental property and the people paying him rent decided to completely remodel one of his houses without permission. Even if they were supposedly "paying for it" 

Trump NEVER pays for ANYTHING himself. 

 

And the best part is, overseeing building renovations is the only work-related part of the job he even likes.

[pfife]

Sorry for the untrusted source (derogatory) but wtf and also lol

only 230m