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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
In case you're wondering who supports Trump and how.
Allegations about Russia are largely overblown, too, his fans say, and are an attempt to de-legitimize his victory. They largely agree with Trump over the executive order travel ban that has since been frozen by the courts. "He was smacked down by an activist judge," Sawyer said, of how Trump's supporters see it.
There are at least some people with brains there:
tl;dr- They really do want a king as long as he isn't a lib.
Trump supporters cheer his combative stance with the media
“I back him 100 percent,” said the 42-year-old stay-at-home mom. “You either love it or get out, is my opinion."
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Reporters, she said, “need to leave him alone. He’s just doing what he said he’s going to do.”
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Kevin Felty of Norfolk, Virginia, said it was the “most impressive presidential press conference” of his life.
“Largely because it was so unorthodox,” said Felty, 48, who works as a surgical assistant and sells life insurance. “It was hyper adversarial between the president and the press. And yet he was able to control the questioning and the tone and the mood in the room.”
Felty said the media needs to move on regarding Russia and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“There was nothing illegal that General Flynn had done at that time,” Felty said. “What he did do is make a mistake in not being accurate with the vice president.”
He also said he believes Trump is trustworthy as president.
“He doesn’t need the media to chide him to make the right decisions,” Felty said. “It’s something he’s been doing well for decades.”
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Regina Lenoir of Picayune, Mississippi, enjoyed watching Trump’s news conference and said the president “looked more relaxed.”
“We don’t know the conversation that happened between him and (Vice President Mike) Pence. Only they know. But the news media gets out there (and) says such and such with no corroboration,” she said. “I’m sick of them making up stories. You know, we’re intelligent people. We can make up our own mind on whether they’re telling the truth.”
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Scott Hiltgen, a 66-year-old office furniture sales broker from River Falls, Wisconsin, said he was glad to see the president push back against the media. He said reporters have no proof Trump or anyone around him did anything wrong.
“They’re trying to make up a story that Trump worked with the Russians to rig the election,” he said. “Now they’re trying to make a big deal out of (former national security adviser) Mike Flynn. He was doing what he was supposed to do. He was talking to his counterparts. He was talking to the Russians. He got fired because he lied to (Vice President Mike) Pence. There’s no story there. The left media is so excited. They think they took this guy down. No, he made a mistake. He just lied.”
Hiltgen said he remains squarely behind the billionaire president because he has done what he said he would do on the campaign trail.
“He’s accomplished more in, whatever, three weeks, regarding the stuff he talked about,” Hiltgen said. “That’s what people voted for. I can’t believe there’s actually a politician doing what he says he would do. That never happens.”
Just goes to show that there's no reaching these people. They're too far gone. It's not even low education or low intellect. These people are just willfully ignorant. People who are actually dim have more self awareness than these cultists.
edited 17th Feb '17 10:54:45 AM by NoName999
Rex Tillerson fires multiple senior staffers at the State Department
. The Trump Administration just wants to be the emptiest, doesn't it?
@No Name 999: "Love it or Get out" (Of my white, christian totalitarian regime)
Here, I FTFY, miss half-a-brain Trump Supporter. SMDH.
edited 17th Feb '17 11:13:18 AM by ViperMagnum357
Sixty million + people voted for Trump. They aren't all uneducated brainwashed degenerate fanatics. Mostly they are people who thought they were voting for their interests. We just need a few red states to flip blue and we got this guy. Sounds to me, based on those very same articles, that he's already lost Michigan.
It just so happens I'm from Michigan, and you would be shocked, yes shocked, at how many people now claim never to have voted for him. Power is fleeting, esp for demagogues.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.Not a good idea unless they can exclude people from other states from it. Otherwise all the poor folks from elsewhere will try to join and the thing will run out of money.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWhich would also not be an inherent problem except that California, unlike the United States itself, is balance sheet constrained. It cannot create new dollars and must rely on increasing revenue or borrowing against its credit to satisfy any deficits.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The poor people flocking to the state would increase its revenue base if handled properly. But if a large number of them are coming because they are too sick to work, you end up with an adverse selection death spiral.
edited 17th Feb '17 12:09:34 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It's entirely possible to restrict the thing to residents—provided Cali has a great team of lawyers writing and defending the statute, and SCOTUS doesn't suddenly reverse its Dormant Commerce Clause cases.
Don't think there are any defenses to that though...
edited 17th Feb '17 12:12:12 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesNope. If memory serves, New York tried to do something similar a while ago (but as a social service) and had to back out due to it being overrun with poor people from other states. These things are inherently unsuitable for state level action.
Fixing transportation and housing issues is a much more worthwhile task to invest money in. As much as they are non-trivial issues to fix.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanYes, but like maintenance, housing is politically invisible except when disaster strikes. Transit (at last in GA) is as likely to rally NIMBYs as supporters.
edited 17th Feb '17 12:15:56 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesI just find it hilarious that William Henry Harrison did nothing except die of pneumonia and still was rated better than five other presidents.
Edit: Man, the Presidents of Antebellum America in general are rated pure dogshit.
edited 17th Feb '17 1:09:27 PM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Well, we did have a Civil War right after that period, so I suppose it's no wonder that people think that.
Oh God! Natural light!

At least we're seeing that 40% isn't quite the floor on Trump support it previously seemed to be.