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Posted on 12/04/2016 10:20:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President-elect Trump may not have a popular vote mandate, but he possesses raw political assets that are even more powerful: superior communications skills, a highly energized, devoted and organized grassroots following, and true fearlessness.
A master entertainer; he has captured America’s attention, with friends, foes and those in-between on the edge of their seats wondering what he’ll do next. Trump deployed these assets for maximum impact to win the nomination and the Presidency.
Yet the political chattering class continues to underestimate the Donald. Here’s a news flash for Official Washington: President Trump could be one of the most consequential chief executives to occupy the Oval Office....
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
They’re just now figuring this out? I knew it before he even announced he was running...why do you think I’ve been one of the most solid Trump supporters around here since day one?
Could be?
Already is.
Singlehandedly made the Legacy Media irrelevant,
while simultaneously milking them for millions
in free publicity.
The Hill/Times they are a changin' (Times pun intended :)
WE THE PEOPLE have won, and are winning ... get used to winning a lot :)
~ MM ~
Same here, and at times, gushing. Whether you see him as dyn-o-mite/’lightning in a bottle’, or something else, he’s nothing like the superannuated, ossified, stiff, amnesty-loving ‘cucks’ the GOP has force-fed us since Bush I.
Trump will only be seen as significant if he incorporates the concept of governing least is best.
The USA deserves a big president, and an unconventional one, to represent the Republic who is big and unconventional.
She used to be anyway, and now is the desperate time to have a president like TRUMP to rub against modern conventional politics and restore a sense of ourselves that was so apparent in our now battered traditions and re-written history.
My concern remains my tag line. If we do not get a handle on our curriculum and the Leftist teachers in Public Education and Academia soon, then it’s a decent question to ask just how in the heck is a picture perfect policy of one fine president ever going to stand for longer than his four year term?
We NEVER hear about curriculum and the stranglehold of the Left on our kids from a single “R” candidate. They might grumble about the teachers union, but never is public education an agenda item for change and restoration.
He hasn’t done anything small yet, and he’s just getting started.
He hasn’t done anything small yet, and he’s just getting started.
I could see that Trump was a fighter, and that was the factor for me, even if he wasn't the most conservative. An acceptably conservative candidate willing to fight and beat Hillary was a lot better than the most pure candidate who wouldn't fight. And so far, Trump has been more conservative than I expected, and fought harder than I thought was possible.
Precisely. I voted for Mr. Trump for two reasons: 1- he loves America. 2- He FIGHTS.
One tweet identifying the pol blocking legislation in exchange for a “bridge to nowhere” will unleash the fury of his following like Happy Gilmore’s gallery on Shooter McGavin. The difference here is that Trump is more than willing to call out members of his own party and seems to enjoy doing it. That will certainly boost prospects for change.
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And companies, such as Rexnord. Any company that tries to play games in order to get a special deal will be called out
“President-elect Trump may not have a popular vote mandate...”
Lost me right there
I was going to read this for perspective. What is wrong with these people?
They do analysis and have no idea what or whom they are talking about. Had they even seen a rally on youtube? Do they look at the blue red map and see the demographics, the skewed results, the mob think that voted for Hillary. The 3000 counties Trump won
Do they know that Trump is a winner and that the vast geographical and electoral majority who voted for him hired him because they have been looking for a winner since Reagan left office and the Bush/Clinton era brought in massive cultural and economic decline? No. why do the turn a blind eye to this and pretend they can be analytical. Why do the publishers agree to put this crap out there?
Do they know we are being invaded on the southern border? Do they know that we are twenty trillion dollars in debt? Or that the last administration, including the republican congress, doubled our debt in 8 years? do they consider that our college kids have tuition that’s a multiple of ten since 1985, but we don’t look at this massive corrupt rip off because it’s a liberal institution? Do they realize we have 90 million people out of work and double digit unemployment among young adults?
Do they know all of this and cover it up? Or are they sheltered in a group think world of ignorami?
Fox might hate Trump but they can see that it is not Trump but the American electorate that is driving this thing. Trump might be interviewing people to be in his administration but the American electorate interviewed for the president in the same way. Fox might be reluctant but they are moving ahead. These others will be left in the dust with this drivel.
Tucker Carlson is now on. Finally. These writers would do well to watch him in these next few weeks while liberals are still willing to try to survive an interview by him. This is the direction the country is going. No more fake news.
I worry about that, too. The “safe spaces” movement on college campuses is frighteningly anti-1st Amendment. The Global Warming “consensus” blathering is anti-science, which should be a realm of PROOF and skepticism but is instead herd mentality abdication of critical thinking.
These attitudes are the result of teachers acting in loco parentis when they are really just loco. It used to be commonly said that “those who CAN do, those who CAN’T teach” and it was more than just a way to insult teachers — it is just a simple fact that teachers who have never done anything else do not really know what kids need to learn to succeed in any other area. All they know is what it takes to be a teacher convinced they are an underpaid underappreciated victim in a liberal echo chamber and that is what they teach the kids.
I wish the focus would shift from teaching to learning. Kids should be able to learn from any source and simply advance to the next grade level and graduation and degree by passing standardized tests like the SAT. Proof that they have LEARNED and not simply ATTENDED school.
Eliminate the filtering and emphasis that teachers are placing on subjects by having databases of millions of questions on each subject that a test can be assembled from at random. After the random 200 or more questions are put together for a test, put the questions in random order for each student to prevent cheating from one student to another. Build the databases of questions by submissions from teachers, but then peer reviewed at random by other teachers and you should be able to get unbiased test questions. Have the kids take 25 question pop quizzes every day to identify what they know and what they are missing, and the quizzing doesn’t end until they get 90% of them right.
None of this Common Core focus on methods, just SAT type tests for each course. K12 Math would consist of 52 tests, one for each quarter final at each grade level. Same for Reading, same for Grammar, same for Science, same for History, Geography, Programming, Agriculture, etc. You get a diploma when you have scored 90% on all the tests for all courses, whether you are 10 years old or 25 years old, whether home schooled or private schooled or public schooled or no school but just self-study. Advance to college level courses whenever you have passed the K12 test for that subject.
“Trump will only ...if he incorporates...”
Here’s where people don’t get it. Trump knows who hired him and why he was hired. He will not go in there and suddenly be blinded by allure of power, money or women the enemy would tempt him with and forget about us.
You are partly right, some people do not get it. Less government is better, period.
Don’t negate the power of my vote by saying he doesn’t have the mandate of the popular vote. Illegals voted en masse for Hillary. That’s got to stop.
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