Good summary from Praying Medic, wish it was unrolled - I'm sure more could be added, but this is a great list to shove in peoples' faces who whine "Trump hasn't done anything". ✔️ Corrupt princes arrested and removed in Saudi Arabia. SA leads the middle east into a more peaceful practice of Islam— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Troops withdraw from Syria— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️POTUS orders drawdown of troops in Afghanistan— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Clowns out of North Korea. Kim negotiates denuclearization.— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️ NXVIM sex cult exposed, prosecution underway— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Human trafficking arrests at all-time high— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Dozens of deep state players fired from FBI/DOJ— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Culture of sexual harassment exposed in top-levels of mainstream media— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Voter fraud exposed— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Iran deal ended— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Withdrawal from Paris climate accord— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Anti-globalist leaders elected in many western nations— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Yellow vest protests throughout Europe signal mass awakening— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 ✔️Sex scandal in the Catholic church exposed— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 2018 WILL BE GLORIOUS. Q— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 Roger that, sir. It certainly was. Thank you for your service. Thank you for giving us hope. We cannot repay the debt we owe you. God bless this nation and all the nations of the world. Dark to Light.— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019 2019 will be even more glorious.— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) January 1, 2019
That's a pretty good list.
Trump was clearly personally leading on many of the events listed here: Saudi Arabia, the troop withdrawal from Syria, the drawd-down of troops in Afghanistan (still too early to say what happens, Bush and Obama also both ordered drawdowns at various points), big progress in North Korea, and ending the crappy Iran deal. Leaving the Paris accords (2017) was fantastic, something no other Republican would ever have done.
I'd add renegotiation of NAFTA, foreshadowed by his torpedoing the TPP in 2017 (you knew he wasn't bluffing at that point), and his success adjusting trade with China as major Trump-driven wins that should be added to the list. Big wins that show that the bi-partisan consensus was fake. American decline and China as #1 is not some globally pre-ordained event, it's largely the result of feckless "leadership" of the previous two administrations, beginning with the Xlintons push for China to join the WTO, even though they did not meet most of the existing criteria.
A lot of us old Freepers remember that even back then Clinton was taking suitcases of cash from the Chinese to sell out the USA. (Anyone remember the book "Year of the Rat"? Great book!).
Trump's administration has led in many of the other areas, in a clear break with previous practice: the NXVIM sex prosecution, the focus Human trafficking are rightfully called out. I'd also add Jeff Sessions focus on MS-13 and other criminal illegal aliens. His DOJ worked with other agencies to lead in the arrest of tons of them.
I'd argue that the clean up of the FBI/DOJ hasn't gone far enough, but it is still great that a lot of corrupto-crats are at least no longer in their jobs. A bunch of people were fired or resigned under duress, but so far no one from the swamp has seen prosecution. What happened to the McCabe case? It was referred for prosecution by both the House and the DOJ Office of Professional Standards after the OIG report called out his misbehavior. Seems like we should have seen it by now.
It still seems to me like the Deep State wrong-doers have effective immunity. It makes me want to vomit every time I see Clapper or Brennan talking sh*t about President Trump. Someone arrest those clowns already!
I don't see any particular connection of Trump with the #MeToo scandal. The first reporting of it was done by the New York Times and Ronan Farrow in Oct. of 2017, in the New Yorker Magazine. The hast tag began with Alyssa Milano tweeting, also in Oct. of 2017.
I give Praying Medic a total "wishful thinking" score on his claim that voter fraud was exposed. Some people are aware of it, but lets face it 8 races in California were flipped after the election with "vote harvesting", which was legalized, so there will be no prosecution of it and the GOP has 8 fewer seats than it should.
Trump did raise the issue of vote fraud after the election. He appointed a commission led by Pence to investigate it, but nothing has come out of all that. It's certainly not something that belongs on a list of 2018 successes.
A few of the items don't really belong in 2018, though.
The exposure of the Catholic Church began with the Boston Globe articles in 2002:
Church allowed abuse by priest for years
The movie Spotlight is the story of the team of reporters that worked on the stories (eventually over 600 separate stories). Not a bad flick, all things considered. The Globe investigation opened the spigot and it hasn't stopped pouring out pedophile priests ever since.
Ditto the election of right-wing and Nationalist leaders in Europe. There is a bigger wave of Nationalism and rejection of Globalism sweeping the world. Because America is the most important country, our nation making the turn and Trump's election had a lot of impact. But we still have to acknowledge that there were quite a few big wins before Trump: Brexit victory was in June, 2016. Victor Orban was elected in 2010! He was arguably the start of the wave that is still growing. Poland elected the Law and Justice Party in 2015.
2018 saw some big growth: Austria turned over government to Kurz in Dec. 2017, Italy now has a nationalist coalition governing, Spain may flip to the right-wing in the next election.
Yellow jacket protests in France? Well the think I like best about them is that there are these huge protests against Macron. The Libtards absolutely loved Macron, and many threw him up as the example of the smart, sophisticated French doing it the right way and electing a real change agent, not a barbarian like Trump.
It's satisfying that Trump has had this long string of successes and is sitting near 50% approval while their favorite alternative is hiding in his fortress while the people are calling for his resignation and his approval is under 20%.
Now what's really going to be interesting is what happens in 2019! I think we will all know what's what by the time the 2019 roundups are being done next December. And, of course, we'll be well into Trump's re-election campaign.