I'd argue with you only on the point of whether or not Trump is trash.
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fishonjazz
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This is normal. Totally fine. Everything is totally good here.
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Almost no one thinks all Trump voters are racists and sexists.
Idiots for voting for such a horrible candidate? Sure.
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I don't know if I'd even go that far, there is a decent amount of recency bias in that comment. Most of the people I know who voted for Trump did so primarily to vote against Hillary, or as a non-establishment candidate. And really at the time most people saw him as more of a clueless clown than the truly destructive horrible person he's turned out to be. And most of the people I know who voted for Trump regret it now.
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I think the people who voted for him for that reason should get the label of idiot.
I mean you only vote for someone because they are not qualified and are inexperienced? That's why hack voted for him and he is definitely an idiot.
That's like choosing who you would hire as your accountant for your company by finding the person who is the worst at math and hiring them.
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The Thriller
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Yeah but didn’t you see how triggered you made the HR department by hiring that clueless clown to be the accountant? Drink those HR snowflake tears! #owntheHRnerds
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I think most like that viewed it as not hiring yet another buddy from the golf club more than trying to hire a janitor to be the CFO.
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I can't believe that anyone who is paying attention to the current dialogue could make this claim with a straight face.
Whoops: I overlooked the "all" comment. Nevertheless, racism in particular is the go-to attack for many in the anti-Trump crowd. Sexism is not far behind.
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My anti Trumpness is focused on his childishness, douchebaggery, and idiocy. I think that is most people's problem with Trump first and foremost. Sure people think Trump is racist and sexist (I certainly do.) but it's the fact that he is a childish classless idiotic douchebag that rubs most people wrong in my experience.
When I hear friends or Co workers talk **** on Trump it's almost never about him being racist or sexist. It's about him just being a dumbass no class douchebag.
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Joe Bagadonuts
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Okay, our experiences are different. When I express support for Trump policies on this site (which is an experience I realize that you've never had) the accusations of racism rain down upon me. I am very confident that in the real world nobody who knows me ever thinks of me as a racist at all. I do not think Trump is a good guy either, but my opinion of him is not nearly as low as yours. I think the media portrayal of Trump is absurd.
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Fwiw my opinion of him was already that low before he ever even ran for president.
He has been a childish douchebag for as long as I have ever known of him
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Many of Trump's policies are racist/sexist, certainly in effect.
Some people think you need to be a KKK member (or something similar) to be racist. However, we all have racist biases built into our reactions simply bt being raised in a racist culture.
Well, Trump is absurd, ...
The Thriller
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This is true. I told my wife that I could never support enslaving another race. But I’m totally racist/biased against Asians. Whenever I see an Asian behind the steering wheel or running me over at a National Park taking selfies, I get anxious. I’m trying to work on it to be less judgmental. I’m sure many other races see me and think I’m a petty obnoxious ignorant white dude with a dad bod. They’re probably right. And I’m not even sure they’re being racist or biased. It could be a pretty damn accurate observation.
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That’s been his thing!!!
That’s whats annoying as hell to me. The overt racism and sexism aside.
He’s been mocking our laws (i skip out on paying taxes unlike you little people) and being a selfish douche for as long as i can remember. He got joy out of firing people.
Yet the losers of our society support him? What does trump who ***** in a golden toilet have in common with the truck driver making $35k? Or with the laid off steelworker whose boss, like trump, saw that by saying, “you’re fired”, he could make a few extra pennies?
Why does trump have such a cult following? Losers trying to live vicariously through him?
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He has a cult following because he is the one who broke the mold. Even with warts and all.
Whether you want to admit it or not it pretty impressive how he became president with all the obstacles he was faced with. Both parties and all of the media was against him. He was practically against himself with all the bagage he has.
That, and the left is extremely annoying at the moment and he is viewed as the last hope to save us from the crazy people. Like you
Yeah, he managed to overthrow the reign of the giant douche and replace it with the almighty **** sandwich. Hazzah!
Lmfao. Last hope. Hahaha
Sadly, I have people I genuinely care for that view him this way.
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List of Trump's accomplishments: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-in-just-20-months-relentless-promise-keeping
But, but, but he speaks rudely and has said some crappy things. I will take 100+ federal judges that believe in upholding the constitution, 2 Supreme Court judges, defending Israel, deregulation, economic growth and no Hillary Clinton any day of the week.
Economic Growth
Jobs
American Income
American Optimism
American Business
But, but, but he speaks rudely and has said some crappy things. I will take 100+ federal judges that believe in upholding the constitution, 2 Supreme Court judges, defending Israel, deregulation, economic growth and no Hillary Clinton any day of the week.
Economic Growth
- 4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
- For the first time in more than a decade, growth is projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.
Jobs
- 4 million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5 million since Trump took office.
- More Americans are employed now than ever before in our history.
- Jobless claims at lowest level in nearly five decades.
- The economy has achieved the longest positive job-growth streak on record.
- Job openings are at an all-time high and outnumber job seekers for the first time on record.
- Unemployment claims at 50 year low
- African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached record lows.
- African-American unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018.
- Hispanic unemployment at 4.5 percent.
- Asian-American unemployment at record low of 2 percent.
- Women’s unemployment recently at lowest rate in nearly 65 years.
- Female unemployment dropped to 3.6 percent in May 2018, the lowest since October 1953.
- Youth unemployment recently reached its lowest level in more than 50 years.
- July 2018’s youth unemployment rate of 9.2 percent was the lowest since July 1966.
- Veterans’ unemployment recently hit its lowest level in nearly two decades.
- July 2018’s veterans’ unemployment rate of 3.0 percent matched the lowest rate since May 2001.
- Unemployment rate for Americans without a high school diploma recently reached a record low.
- Rate for disabled Americans recently hit a record low.
- Blue-collar jobs recently grew at the fastest rate in more than three decades.
- Poll found that 85 percent of blue-collar workers believe their lives are headed “in the right direction.”
- 68 percent reported receiving a pay increase in the past year.
- Last year, job satisfaction among American workers hit its highest level since 2005.
- Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate now as a good time to find a quality job.
- Optimism about the availability of good jobs has grown by 25 percent.
- Added more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the election.
- Manufacturing employment is growing at its fastest pace in more than two decades.
- 100,000 new jobs supporting the production & transport of oil & natural gas.
American Income
- Median household income rose to $61,372 in 2017, a post-recession high.
- Wages up in August by their fastest rate since June 2009.
- Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017, the most in a decade.
- Council of Economic Advisers found that real wage compensation has grown by 1.4 percent over the past year.
- Some 3.9 million Americans off food stamps since the election.
- Median income for Hispanic-Americans rose by 3.7 percent and surpassed $50,000 for the first time ever in history.
- Home-ownership among Hispanics is at the highest rate in nearly a decade.
- Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels ever recorded.
American Optimism
- Small business optimism has hit historic highs.
- NFIB’s small business optimism index broke a 35 year-old record in August.
- SurveyMonkey/CNBC’s small business confidence survey for Q3 of 2018 matched its all-time high.
- Manufacturers are more confident than ever.
- 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future, the highest ever.
- Consumer confidence is at an 18-year high.
- 12 percent of Americans rate the economy as the most significant problem facing our country, the lowest level on record.
- Confidence in the economy is near a two-decade high, with 51 percent rating the economy as good or excellent.
American Business
- Investment is flooding back into the United States due to the tax cuts.
- Over $450 billion dollars has already poured back into the U.S., including more than $300 billion in the first quarter of 2018.
- Retail sales have surged. Commerce Department figures from August show that retail sales increased 0.5 percent in July 2018, an increase of 6.4 percent from July 2017.
- ISM’s index of manufacturing scored its highest reading in 14 years.
- Worker productivity is the highest it has been in more than three years.
- Steel and aluminum producers are re-opening.
- Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and NASDAQ have all notched record highs.
- Dow hit record highs 70 times in 2017 alone, the most ever recorded in one year.
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Part 2:
Deregulation
Tax Cuts
Worker Development
Domestic Infrastructure
Health Care
Deregulation
- Achieved massive deregulation at a rapid pace, completing 22 deregulatory actions to every one regulatory action during his first year in office.
- Signed legislation to roll back costly and harmful provisions of Dodd-Frank, providing relief to credit unions, and community and regional banks.
- Federal agencies achieved more than $8 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings.
- Rolled back Obama’s burdensome Waters of the U.S. rule.
- Used the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations more times than in history.
Tax Cuts
- Biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history by signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs act into law
- Provided more than $5.5 trillion in gross tax cuts, nearly 60 percent of which will go to families.
- Increased the exemption for the death tax to help save Family Farms & Small Business.
- Nearly doubled the standard deduction for individuals and families.
- Enabled vast majority of American families will be able to file their taxes on a single page by claiming the standard deduction.
- Doubled the child tax credit to help lessen the financial burden of raising a family.
- Lowered America’s corporate tax rate from the highest in the developed world to allow American businesses to compete and win.
- Small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their business income.
- Cut dozens of special interest tax breaks and closed loopholes for the wealthy.
- 9 in 10 American workers are expected see an increase in their paychecks thanks to the tax cuts, according to the Treasury Department.
- More than 6 million of American workers have received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to tax cuts.
- Over 100 utility companies have lowered electric, gas, or water rates thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
- Ernst & Young found 89 percent of companies planned to increase worker compensation thanks to the Trump tax cuts.
- Established opportunity zones to spur investment in left behind communities.
Worker Development
- Established a National Council for the American Worker to develop a national strategy for training and retraining America’s workers for high-demand industries.
- Employers have signed Trump’s “Pledge to America’s Workers,” committing to train or retrain more than 4.2 million workers and students.
- Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
- Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
Domestic Infrastructure
- Proposed infrastructure plan would utilize $200 billion in Federal funds to spur at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment across the country.
- Executive order expediting environmental reviews and approvals for high priority infrastructure projects.
- Federal agencies have signed the One Federal Decision Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) streamlining the federal permitting process for infrastructure projects.
- Rural prosperity task force and signed an executive order to help expand broadband access in rural areas.
Health Care
- Signed an executive order to help minimize the financial burden felt by American households Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
- Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
- Signed Right-to-Try legislation, expanding health care options for terminally ill patients.
- Enacted changes to the Medicare 340B program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs in 2018 alone.
- FDA set a new record for generic drug approvals in 2017, saving consumers nearly $9 billion.
- Released a blueprint to drive down drug prices for American patients, leading multiple major drug companies to announce they will freeze or reverse price increases.
- Expanded short-term, limited-duration health plans.
- Let more employers to form Association Health Plans, enabling more small businesses to join together and affordably provide health insurance to their employees.
- Cut Obamacare’s burdensome individual mandate penalty.
- Signed legislation repealing Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, also known as the “death panels.”
- USDA invested more than $1 billion in rural health care in 2017, improving access to health care for 2.5 million people in rural communities across 41 states
- Proposed Title X rule to help ensure taxpayers do not fund the abortion industry in violation of the law.
- Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy to keep foreign aid from supporting the global abortion industry.
- HHS formed a new division over protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom.
- Overturned Obama administration’s midnight regulation prohibiting states from defunding certain abortion facilities.
- Signed executive order to help ensure that religious organizations are not forced to choose between violating their religious beliefs by complying with Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate or shutting their doors.