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 President Trump's State Of The Union AddressPresident Trump's speech will enumerate the great number of promises made - promises kept. President Trump's policies have revived the American economy to the highest and most prominent role as world economic power unseen for 50 years. President Trump's speech will highlight the fact that American corporations are growing in number and productivity unseen for over 50 years. President Trump's speech will recount the highest unemployment rates not seen in 50 years. President Trump's speech will highlight the resurgence of America's military to the most powerful in the world. After the dismantling by recent administrations. President Trump's speech will highlight the rise of the average American income and reduction of American's need for Welfare. President Trump's speech will highlight the growth of the American small business due to the greatest reduction of business regulations - as promised. President Trump's speech will highlight the fact of International terrorism decline, and the fact that threats from North Korea and Iran have been dealt with. Showcasing the inept policies of previous administrations. President Trump's speech will highlight the fact that America is now energy independent, and the number one energy producer and the world. President Trump's speech will highlight the fact that true prison reforms are making a good difference in the American Justice system. President Trump's speech will highlight the fact that the fight for the unborn child and the fight against unrestricted abortion is still a priority for America. And, lastly, President Trump's speech will highlight the fact that the lying Mainstream Media has consistently failed to report these accomplishments to the American people for 3 and 1/2 years. MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN USA! USA! USA! |
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What we can expect Self aggrandizing lies Vain lies Mean spirited attacks More lies |
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Bull $#@&! Self aggrandizing lies Vain lies Mean spirited attacks More lies >> I can provide documentation and proof for my assertions Your countering EVERY POST of mine is getting very tiresome! Free speech does NOT allow or encourage false statements Hope you can provide some substantiation here. FTFS Club does not condone fake news Understand? |
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“Thanks to our bold regulatory reduction campaign, the United States has become the No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world, by far,” Trump said, according to an excerpt of the speech released in advance. The facts: Trump is taking undue credit here. The U.S. has been the largest natural gas and oil producer since 2011 and 2014, respectively, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the agency that tracks this information. Trump took office in 2017. Claim 2 “After losing 60,000 factories under the previous two administrations, America has now gained 12,000 new factories under my administration,” Trump said, according to the remarks prepared for delivery. The facts: Trump is mostly right, though his numbers are slightly off. The U.S. lost 53,659 factories during the two previous administrations, not 60,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But he’s correct in saying that trend has reversed under his own administration. From 2017 to the second quarter of last year, the U.S. added 12,074 factories, according to the most recently available data from the BLS. Claim 3 “Since my election we have created 7 million new jobs, 5 million more than government experts projected during the previous administration,” Trump said Tuesday night. The facts: This number is misleading. Trump is taking credit for months of job gains that occurred during the Obama administration. The economy, however, doesn’t move that quickly. Since Trump took office, the country has added 6.7 million job in 36 months. He also suggests that this is unprecedented success no one could have predicted, but it’s not: In the 36 months before Trump took office, Obama created 8.2 million jobs. Claim 4 “If we had not reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration, the world would not now be witnessing this great economic success,” Trump said during his address. The facts: Economists believe the current period of economic growth began under the Obama administration. Some say Trump’s tax cuts might have boosted it, but the economy was not on the decline when Trump took office. Claim 5 “Unemployment rate for African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans has reached the lowest levels in history,” Trump said. The facts: This is true. Unemployment rates for each group reached the lowest levels on record, though all three have since ticked up slightly since reaching those lows. Jane C. Timm is a political reporter for NBC News, fact checking elections and covering voting rights. |
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The bad news for people with preexisting conditions is that this “ironclad pledge” is a lie. Trump and his administration have fought hard — in all three branches of government — to strip people with preexisting health conditions of the protections they enjoy under the Affordable Care Act. Indeed, if Trump has his way, those protections will cease to exist. Obamacare provides that insurers in the individual health insurance market must cover people with preexisting conditions, and it forbids those insurers from charging higher premiums to people with such conditions — a practice known as “community rating.” The executive branch cannot, acting on its own, eliminate community rating altogether. But the Trump administration has fought hard to undermine it. In 2018, for example, it handed down a rule expanding the use of short term insurance plans to that do not cover many services, and that may exclude people with preexisting conditions. The mere existence of these plans can drive up premiums for people with expensive preexisting conditions, because these skimpy plans will lure healthy consumers away from more generous plans. That risks creating a segregated market. Healthy consumers will buy cheap, watered-down plans, while people with expensive medical conditions will be concentrated into much more expensive plans. In Congress, meanwhile, Trump supported legislation seeking to repeal Obamacare or drastically water down its protections. One bill backed by Trump, the American Health Care Act, would have allowed many insurers to charge higher premiums — potentially prohibitively high premiums — to patients with preexisting conditions. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is currently asking the courts to repeal Obamacare almost in its entirety. If the courts ultimately embrace the administration’s position, that will mean that all of Obamacare’s protections for people with preexisting conditions will be struck down. Trump, it’s worth noting, has a history of claiming that he will protect Americans’ access to health care, then pushing policies that would strip health coverage from millions of Americans. He claimed in 2015, for example, to be the “first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid,” but his 2020 budget proposal would cut Medicaid spending by $1.5 trillion over the next decade. |
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@ Inhis about economy Although they carry 2 opposite policies, they obtain similar results. The reason for it is that, after the subprimes crisis, there has been a worldwide economical growth. The particular economic policies have little to do with it. |
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@Zorroloco Please address this: << Lies Self aggrandizing lies Vain lies Mean spirited attacks More lies >> |
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Bigotry in the SOTU Analysis by Brandon Tensley Washington (CNN) — As on so many other occasions during his presidency, President Donald Trump on Tuesday night demonstrated that he's ever the showman, having used part of his third official State of the Union address to ostensibly pander to black voters as he vies for another term in the White House. And as before, one thing seemed especially clear: The President would rather perform support for black Americans than actually champion them. There were the predictable talking points, such as Trump's crowing about low black unemployment rates under his leadership -- "African American poverty has declined to the lowest rate ever recorded," he said -- despite the fact that he inherited an already OK economy that's still just OK. Indeed, black unemployment has hit all-time lows while Trump has been in office. In August, the unemployment rate for black workers fell to 5.5% from 6%, according to the Labor Department data. The previous record low of 5.9% was set in May 2018. Yet maybe more jarring than Trump's words alone was the sheer spectacle of it all. As the President celebrated some of his avowed accomplishments, he also chose to spotlight black Americans in a manner that felt designed to soothe white supporters who might be uncomfortable with his discriminatory track record and rhetoric. Trump's polling with black Americans is dismal -- a recent Washington Post/Ipsos poll showed that 8-in-10 black voters said that the President is racist. Maybe he's trying to turn that number around. But he also might be trying to give the 53% of white women who voted for him in 2016 reasons to justify voting for him again in 2020, despite his high-profile antagonism of prominent black politicians such as Reps. John Lewis and Elijah Cummings and his denigration of cities such as Baltimore as "rat-infested." Trump pivoted from touting the creation of the Space Force -- the youngest branch of the American military -- to praising 13-year-old Iain Lanphier ("one of the Space Force's youngest potential recruits") and his 100-year-old great-grandfather, Charles McGee, who happens to be one of the few surviving Tuskegee Airmen, the famed group of black military pilots during World War II. "After more than 130 combat missions in World War II, he came back to a country still struggling for civil rights and went on to serve America in Korea and Vietnam," the President said. "General McGee: Our Nation salutes you." It was a moment of Trumpian whiplash: embracing the civil rights gained in one era while glossing over how his administration undercuts these same rights in another era. Then there was Trump's preening over supposedly rescuing "countless American children" who have been "trapped in failing government schools" -- that is, public schools, which he and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have long disparaged. "Eighteen states have created school choice in the form of Opportunity Scholarships. The programs are so popular that tens of thousands of students remain on waiting lists," Trump said, before highlighting one of these students: Janiyah Davis, a black fourth grader. What was Trump doing elevating these stories? He was playing politics. All presidents do this, very definitely, but what made Trump's spin on the evening stand out was its queasiness: He presumably sought to scoop up plaudits from his overwhelmingly white base for showcasing (literally) black Americans when his administration has done so little for them policy-wise. (Not unlike how Trump positions himself as a guardian of hard-won LGBTQ rights at the same time as he reverses them.) Perhaps the most revealing example of this dissonance on Tuesday night came with the bestowing of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on archconservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who was recently diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. John F. Kennedy established the award in 1963 to recognize Americans who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors." Limbaugh has devoted his career to doing the exact opposite: suggesting that the majority-black National Basketball Association is full of criminals ("call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association," he said in 2004), stoking racial panic by promoting the birther conspiracy that Trump himself rode to political prominence and that dogged Barack Obama's presidency. As Trump introduced the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, I initially thought that he was describing someone else: the civil rights icon John Lewis, who, to use Trump's own words, "is a special man, someone beloved by millions of Americans who just received a Stage 4 advanced cancer diagnosis." But then I remembered the trick of Trumpism: its ability to twist and bend, to hide bigotry in plain sight -- visible only to those who bother to see it. |
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Americans Want America First "Donald Trump sees sharp increase in support for economic policies" Americans have boosted public attitudes towards Donald Trump's economic stewardship, with more than half of likely voters polled by the Financial Times and the Peter G Peterson Foundation saying they believe the president's policies have helped the US economy. About 51 per cent of Americans believe Mr Trump's policies have either "strongly" or "somewhat" helped the economy, the first time a majority of respondents signalled their support for the president's economic agenda since the FT and the Peterson Foundation began surveying American voters' attitudes in October. The response represents a sharp increase over the previous month's FT-Peterson Economic Monitor, which showed just 44 per cent of likely voters believed Mr Trump's policies ad helped the economy, while 47 per cent said they had hurt economic growth. The poll showed voters sharply divided by party lines, with just 19 per cent of Democrats saying the president's policies had helped the economy, compared with 89 per cent of Republicans. But in a boost for Mr Trump, 43 per cent of independents said the president's policies had helped, compared with 33 per cent who said they had hurt; the remaining 24 per cent said they had no impact. www.ft.com The fact that the Mainstream Media continues to portray President Trump in a negative light reflects in the Mainstream Media's fall in viewership. "Poll: Mainstream media continues to lose the public's trust" WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) -- While many mainstream media outlets have cried foul over Donald Trump targeting outlets as "failing" or peddling "fake news," that sentiment is largely shared by a majority of Americans. In its annual confidence poll, Gallup found that Americans' trust in the mass media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly" reached its lowest level in polling history, with only 32 percent saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. Trust in the establishment media did not begin with the contentious 2016 election and Donald Trump taking the stage, but after a steady decline over the past 20 years, it took its deepest dive yet, led by Republicans deep distrust of mass media. wjla.com Zorro, where do you get your news I wonder? Unfortunately, the Democratic Party's refusal to cooperate with President Trump is only going to assure their continua slip in membership, also. "Democrats Are Losing Their War With Trump" Politics: Leaders in the Democratic Party probably should have thought twice before deciding to mount a scorched-earth campaign against President Trump. So far, they've failed to stop any of Trump's picks, or gain public support for their cause. They have, however, succeeded in making themselves look unhinged. As we write this, not a single Trump Cabinet pick has withdrawn or failed to secure confirmation, which puts him well ahead of President Obama, who was forced to withdraw several of his initial appointments due to scandals. That included Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for Health and Human Services, who'd failed to pay taxes, and his Commerce pick, Bill Richardson, who was being investigated for allegedly doling out government contracts in exchange for campaign contributions while governor of New Mexico. The best Democrats have been able to accomplish was to force Vice President Pence to cast the tiebreaking vote to confirm Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. www.investors.com We should expect President Trump to continue to support the American citizen as he pursues pokicies which are most important to us. "Survey: Americans Still Believe Trump Is the Best President for Their Finances" www.gobankingrates.com "Harvard/Harris Poll: 3-in-4 Voters Favor 'America First' Immigration, Trade, War Platform from Candidates" www.breitbart.com |
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@Zorroloco Zorro, the fact that you're totally against the policies of President Trump - and more th the point - against the direction he's taking America - does not mean I should agree with your assessment of what he's doing of no doing. It was the same thing for all of American Conservative and Christian minded Americans when the Democratic Party was in Washing DC these last 8 LONG YEARS. You can go ahead and bluster and complain about President Trump all you want. He's doing a fine job and that's why most Americans are supporting him. |
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Inhis Less than 25% of the Amaricans have voted for him (considering the enormous absentionist rate in the USA - not a sign of health for a democracy. Similar situation in France BTW : 70% of the population support the Yellow vests and the strikes. Less than 25% have voted for Macron on the first round of elections. The democratic systems works so, the people who do not vote are not legitimate to complain but one must admit that those 2 presidents are not supported by most the population. |
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@ptitroque So YOU SAY. Looking at how America is running like a Rolls Royce engine, I'd say we're doing something right? Eh? |
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@ Inhis How are the profits shared ? France's economic performances is correct in the moment but the poorest 15% are getting poorer, the 1% richest are getting richer ! What's the good of great economical performances if the results are shared this way ? |
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Your point is valid and I also see the apparent "inequality" with the American corporate capitalistic system. However, compared with systems which do not provide incentives - like the Communist or Socialist which actually weaken the natural tendency to thrive - the American system is still superior IMO. Shouldn't those who risk the most ( Intial capital investors ) also reap the greater benefits? Then those who are hired for work can expect to prosper and benefit as well according to their productivity. That's the American way. |
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Still Standing! For over three and a half years the Mainstream Media has reported ( FALSELY ) President Trump's failed policies and falling voter endorsement. For over three and a half years the Mainstream Media has reported the illegal actions and hateful misogyny against women ( Fake News ) After listening to the president's State of the Union Address - as President Trump enumerated on all of the positive impacts his policies have and are having in America - if should be obvious who's telling you the truth. "2019: Fake News Year In Review" Over the past year, the mainstream media has managed to popularize fake news stories of every kind. Manufactured hate crimes. Climate crises. Fake war footage. Here are just a few of the stories intended to deceive in 2019. MAGA Hat Smirker In January, the media reported that bunch of Covington high school kids surrounded a Native American and mocked him. One of the videos that was going around the internet was a 2-minute clip published by Vice. It didn’t take long for a longer video to surface, showing the full incident in context, including footgage of the Black Israelites insulting the Covington kids with racial slurs. Jussie Smollett On the last day of January, it was reported that two white Trump supporters attacked Jussie Smollett in the middle of the night in a polar vortex. It wasn’t until the second half of February that the media acknowledged the truth that the ‘attackers’ were two Nigerians who worked with Jussie Smollett previously and that Smollett paid them. Russian Collusion In March,The Mueller Report came out and Mueller’s conclusion was that Trump didn’t collude with Russia which completely contradicted the media’s 2 year hysteria and false allegations. ‘Corrupt And FAKE’: Trump Blasts Media Over Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory (1) (1). thelibertarianrepublic.com Video of Turkish Forces Slaughtering the Kurds In October, ABC news published a video of the Turkish forces slaughtering the Kurds (2) after Trump’s move to bring back the troops from Syria. Except for the fact that the video was of a Kentucky gun range show and that the video was edited so the lower part of the shot wouldn’t be seen. Whether they knew or not that the video was edited or whether they had edited it is unknown. (2). www.dailysabah.com Collusion Round Two Remember the Trump Russia collusion? It’s back. Now false allegations have come up that Trump is colluding with Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden. And Hillary accused of Tulsi Gabbard of being groomed by the Russians. The media is throwing out the same debunked allegations of Trump working with Putin. The Quid Pro Quo stuff hasn’t been debunked but the allegations have been made with no proof. So it’s basically like debunking the Flying Spaghetti Monster. How Do We Stop Fake News? Fake news can’t be simplified into just Trump Derangement Syndrome because it happens with both liberals and conservatives. In any case, the pattern is a photo or video without context, or purposely edited to change the context. Then everybody is talking about (and sometimes they talk about the fact that no one is talking about it even though they are). Then a ‘new’ piece of information comes out and the fake news dies down. The media makes a small time apology compared to the amount of time they spent spreading that fake news. Fewer people see that apology and keep thinking that the original news was true. thelibertarianrepublic.com |
