Posted on 10/12/2025 9:27:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Recent moves reflect commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his ambitious agenda
President Trump began mass layoffs of federal workers. He threatened a dramatic increase in tariffs on China. And he flexed his control over the Justice Department once again, as his newly appointed U.S. attorney in eastern Virginia obtained an unusual indictment against the New York attorney general that Trump had demanded over the objections of career prosecutors.
That was just in the past 48 hours. On Sunday, Trump heads to the Middle East to sign a deal he helped clinch to end the fighting in Gaza.
All of these actions reflect a buoyed commander in chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first nine months. He has even remarked to aides that he is shocked how easy it has all proven to be.
While the war in Ukraine continues to bedevil Trump, causing him the most frustrations, he doesn’t face the discontent, sniping and disagreements that characterized his first term, said David Urban, a longtime ally. “This time, he’s having way more fun,” Urban said.
The bespoke gifts from business executives in Trump’s White House tell the story of just how different his second term has been from the first: a circular glass plaque from Apple set in a gold base, a gilded TV remote, a General Motors mock-up of the presidential limousine, a large model of a jet fighter, and a gold chain.
“Everyone’s on my side now,” Trump told advisers this summer. “They were fighting me last time.”
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Got to be killing the establishment whores at the WSJ to publish this
Like democrats never had an agenda.
WALL STREET JOURNAL HAS LOST IT’S LUSTER
Feeling emboldened?
Hardly
The Trump team has uncovered evidence of a broad based Chinese plan to take down the American economy via economic and industrial warfare
China is at war with the US and Trump is simply fighting back
Fortunately, a) he's a New Yorker, and the they're always in a hurry, b) he spent a lifetime meeting deadlines relating to massive and complex building projects, and c) he really doesn't give a **** about what his opponents think, say, or feel.
“Everyone’s on my side now,” Trump told advisers this summer. “They were fighting me last time.”
That’s because this time he picked people who have his back rather than people who stab you in the back.
That’s because this time he picked people who have his back rather than people who stab you in the back.
The rest of the Josh Dawsey keyword, sorted:
poor little Josh must have been crying when he wrote this.
“ He’s got 39 months to halt and reverse an inexorable slide “
Unfortunately I think 39 months is wishful thinking. Right now the President has a 56% disapproval rate and it is not unreasonable to think that we will see a Speaker Jeffries in 2027. Once that happens, President Trump’s agenda is dead in the water and he probably will have to defend against another impeachment or two in his remaining term.
Two things go against Jeffries. Maybe three things.
The big beautiful bill is detonating a massive economic expansion that will be in full swing come November next year. Booming economy equals.republican votes.
Reapportionment
Redistricting
There will be no reapportionment before the midterms and the rats can play the Redistricting game too. As for a booming economy, the public is not seeing it and disaffection with the economy is a major driver of the President’s not very good approval rate. If the economy turns around quickly perhaps that will be a big help but we are entering the Christmas buying season with prices at all time highs and selections low. The public notices and are cutting back. I see it in my own retail business, sales are way off expectations.
The Dims have been spreading gossip that Trump is feeble and not in his right mind. Now he is emboldened.
I’m not disagreeing with you on what’s going on when you look out the side window. But a look out the front window shows that next years economy is going to be booming. This Christmas looks to be lousy. Next Christmas looks to be we wonderful. Agree on apportionment. Disagree on redistricting. The pubs have the upper hand.
“This Christmas looks to be lousy. Next Christmas looks to be we wonderful.”
I have not seen a single non political forecast that says next Christmas season will be wonderful. I hope you’re right but that is a partisan assessment not an unbiased economic assessment. Partisan assessment are not reliable no matter which side does them since they tend to be very biased in how they forecast and analyze data. Honestly if the economy is not humming along by next September, then the public will be locked in and Christmas 2026 will be too late anyway.
As for Redistricting, we better have an advantage because it looks like there is a very good shot that we will be losing Congressional seats in NJ, VA, PA, NY and several others.
I have not seen a single non political forecast that says next Christmas season will be wonderful.
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Agree that I’m taking the Trump administration at their word that the Big Beautiful Bill will produce 4% growth by summer fall of 2026.
But there is also good reason to think that to be true. Trump has got promises of investment in the USA up into the 10-15 trillion dollar range spread out over 5 years or so.
This year industrial investment hasn’t been much more than last year or about 300 billion dollars.
The gigantic upwards spike doesn’t start until next year.
How much will it be? 1-2 trilion dollars.
So 4 percent growth does not seem that unreasonable a prediction.
4 percent growth is a booming economy that brings confidence to voters in the republicans.
Agree that California is now trying to make up for the gerrrymandering losses democrats received in Texas. But they are the only democrat state that can do that. The other democrat states are already tapped out. Not so repubican states. there are about four other republican states who are now tapping into their gerrymanding reserve. California will even the score—if and only if Newsome’s bill wins and that’s big if— but then the other republican states will still be able to add four or five states to the republican majority.
btw.popularity polls may be going against trump. But voter registrations are not. definitely not. all over the country republicans are registering more voters AND democrat voters are switching parties.
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