Posted on 01/26/2019 6:02:33 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
I have deliberately tried not to read the articles and comments of the last couple of days since President Trump’s announcement on the deal to end the government shutdown.
The reason being was the kind of negative comments and wailing that the President had caved and no longer deserved our support. I flatly reject that argument.
None of can truly know the immense pressure the President was under to find a way to end this imbroglio. I, like many, had hoped that the President could tough it out and get the Border Wall Funding that is needed. The truth is the President went further than any one before him on Principle, but at some point it became an issue of diminishing returns politically, and the Democrats refused to bargain in good faith.
The real truth is that President Trump is one man who has been battling not only the Democrats, but his own party that have refused to stand with him, not only on the Border issue but many others as well. What could we the voters who put President Trump in office really expect?
President Trump in two short years has accomplished more than any of us could have realistically expected given the circumstances. A man who was not a professional politician and had come up through the ranks to become President, but one who was a independent outsider that by a fluke won and beat all the professionals, and badly at that.
We have to take note and realize that both political parties are corrupt, in fact they are beyond the Pale kind of corrupt and one man cannot take them on and win without unqualified support. We the voters that put Mr. Trump in office in many ways have failed him, and failed him miserably.
When exactly was the last time that people took to the streets to really protest anything or marched on Washington D.C. to demand any change? There were certainly many protests and such during the Vietnam War as well as Civil Rights Demonstrations in the 1960’s and early 1970’s.
The one time though that I can recall from history that people actually went to Washington D.C. for a real protest was during the early 1930’s. It was during the Depression and it was the Bonus March where veterans of W.W. I came to get the monies they were promised for fighting in W.W. I. Over 43,000 people came and tent cities sprang up all over Washington.
The Army was called out to disperse them, they were under the command of then Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur , tear gas and guns were used, people died ,and it was a shameful period in out history.
My point in bringing this up is this, at what point do we as Americans, finally decide we have had enough of the corrupt parties in D.C. and finally march on the city and demand our Government do what we elected them to do????
Recently we have seen those in France, The Yellow Vests, do exactly that. The people there were finally pushed to the braking point tax wise and were able to cause a General Strike and for the most part were able to force the Government to it’s knees and they aren’t finished yet as they have been emboldened to press on and try to get other reforms.
The question arises when do we in this country do the same, what is the tripping point here? Will people ever get motivated to come out of their little cocoons, put down their cell phones, get away from the video games, etc. and etc. to demand that government be accountable to them and have our elected officials do what we elect them to do or we will just go along, silently assent and acquiesce?
Because if we aren’t going to so what is necessary to demand our Politicians be accountable then how can we hold President Trump responsible?
President Trump isn’t perfect and we knew that when we elected him, but we also knew he wasn’t a Boy Scout either, he was a New York Street Fighter and that was what was needed. Like or not Donald Trump is the only game in town for us, The Deploreables. If what the Democrats propose and want doesn’t scare you then I don’t know what to tell you.
I will continue to support the President through thick and thin as there is no other alternative for the future of our country and Constitution.
Maybe we won’t get the Border Wall, but it won’t be for lack of trying. President Trump has put it all on the line for us because I think he loves his country, we need to find more ways to support the President.
My dream would be 10 Million of us march on Washington D.C. and demand what we know is right and the politicians be Damned.
The question is what will it take to make us do that?
Look, the whole thing was sabotaged by Ryan from the beginning, so it’s time to move on — there are much bigger stakes: a trade deal with China on our terms will make a few billion dollars of concrete look like peanuts.
You are full of arrogant defeatism. Quitters never win and winners never quit. Too bad you never learned that fact.
I agree with Trump’s moves and you will find out ultimately that you are so far off base with your arrogant analysis that you’re not even in the same country as Trump and his supporters. It’s amazing how some can spew nothing but negativism given the slightest opportunity. Happily, I see the wall being built, and sooner than you and your cohorts think.
He can do stuff in his power to do that’s what
Here’s a few
Start by sending the army to the border
Start taxing remittances
Start firing Obola associates
Start arresting public officials that allow sanctuary
Find out if RBG is alive
For crying out loud Sandmann didn’t even
get clock boy status
As long as Democrats control TV/media they will control the country.
Trump should break up the free TV networks. The y don’t serve all Americans.
Ryan did indeed do his job for the open borders cartel.
Here is the long and the longer of it from Nathan Bedford:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3722962/posts?page=129#129
A few years back, Arizona passed one of the harshest border control laws in the country.
Arizona - a place that was represented by open borders poster boy John McCain.
McCain was ***NEVER*** voted out of office.
How is it that Arizona is strict conservative but represented by mushy middle McCain?
[You are full of arrogant defeatism. Quitters never win and winners never quit.]
It would focus GOP legislators a lot more if he had pointed to the wall as the one thing he cannot give up. But Trump never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Every piece of legislation that crossed his desk, including must-haves for the globalists, like tax cuts, came without strings (i.e. the wall or immigration restriction) attached.
We’ll find out pretty soon, but it would not surprise me if, in response to lousy polls, he decided not to run in 2020. I suspect he’ll discover that what he thought was a bunch of throwaway remarks about immigration will turn out to be the unfulfilled promises that end up denying him a second term.
If AZ is so Conservative, explain the new Senator they Elected last November.
AZ is now off our “move to” List. They, like Nevada will be another Domino to fall to the Leftists.
This is re-opening of the government is not the end of the issue. It is only the beginning. Trump is a fighter and this is no knockout punch.
He's given the democRATS a deadline of 30 days to negotiate terms for the wall or he will shut the government down again. Then we'll see what he has up his sleeve to build the wall without them.
I think that is how this will end. Trump will declare a national security emergency and build the wall without the democRATS support. Then watch heads explode.
Oh, ye of little faith. There's none so blind as those who will not see.
The title smakes it seem like we are supposed to work hard and for the benefit of Trump.
Sometimes you can want something really bad. And it still doesn’t come true.
The key is to win more than you lose.
These things happen. Pray to Great Cthulhu, or not. He doesn’t care.
Freegards
It’s hard not to agree with her.
Your posts on this thread are full of arrogant defeatism.
The editor of my old newspaper used to say that if they don’t break your windows out now and then, you obviously aren’t doing the job right.
The Main Stream Media needs their windows busted (shot?) out weekly, IMHO. Our watchdogs of the Fourth Estate have joined the wolves. They need to feel real pain.
Goes directly to the point that the republicans in Congress refused to support Trumps agenda because it was not in their financial interest, corruption rules.
I don’t think it is a failure, I think it is a political move on Trump. He said February 15th...he might shut it down again...
[It’s hard not to agree with her.
Your posts on this thread are full of arrogant defeatism.]
The idea that voters who demand results are arrogant defeatists is nothing short of amusing. Maybe that should be Trump’s 2020 campaign slogan - vote Trump to show you’re not an arrogant defeatist. That should work about as well as Hillary calling GOP voters deplorables.
As a local Republican county party chair, I’d sure like to see more people getting off their couches and coming to party meetings and helping reform the party.
Amazing, you have it all figured out, even Trump not running in the 2020 election. Incredible.
Who do ya think Trump supporters should get behind if Trump bails out?
Who do ya think Trump supporters should get behind if Trump bails out?
If Trump bails, I would re-enact Fred Astaire’s final scene from “On The Beach.”
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