BrendaninBrooklyn You know nothing about me. I am not a Democrat, now you know something.

True, you do not have to be a Democrat to be a Trump hater. If you really believe, beyond convenience, the rhetoric surrounding Trump, the allegations and faux charges, then that is your opinion and I respect that, in exactly the same way as you respect my opinion that it is just a good example of the nasty way the left do things

    BrendaninBrooklyn
    What you are repeating is the official narrative about Russia and Taiwan. But this narrative is one written by the military industrial complex and the democrat neo con war hawks that control the establishment and planted in so many people’s minds by the mainstream media for their own self interest. As a matter of fact the Ukraine war was entirely avoidable and fully provoked by the us and UK primarily in expanding nato beyond east Germany in breach of assurances given to soviet union at the time. Even after Turkey brokered a peace deal that was accepted by Ukraine, the us and UK forced zelensky to reject. And now more than half a million of ukraine’s youth are dead or crippled and it’s infrastructure almost totally levelled and economy set back decades…and Ukraine is just the latest coutry that the us military industrial complex and neo cons have ruined in addition to Afghanistan, iraq…

    Ukraine is not a nato signatory but yet usa and nato are treating it as if it is and defending it. Why? There is the small matter of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of arms, trillions in the contracts to rebuild Ukraine after the war - all of which paid for in the short term by us and European tax payers of course, but in the long term by ukraine which will have to sell off.its national assets to western multinationals to repay those loans. There is the hundreds of trillions of rare earth minerals and titanium buried under Ukrainian soil. But of course it is so much more compelling to say instead they are doing it for Ukrainian freedom…

    As for taiwan, think of how nonsensical current us policy is. Usa accepts China one country policy and therefore denies state hood for Taiwan. Yet supplies arms sales to Taiwan and refuses to commit itself to whether to defend it or not under the policy of so called strategic ambiguity. The policy makes no sense whatsoever. China knows full well that what that means is that usa will not sacrifice its soldiers to defend Taiwan.

    Vivek ramaswamy who is an Integral part of the new trump leadership has espoused for strategic clarity whereby usa declares outright it will defend Taiwan militarily in case of invasion purely because Taiwanese semiconductors form the basis of us industry until usa achieves semiconductor independence. What that means is Taiwan will have a vital period of safety where he it knows for certainty that usa will defend it but it needs to beef up its defence spending to survive invasion from China. That policy change is vastly preferable and nuch clearer and gives Taiwan a fighting chance.

    So I actually think the trump administration will bring much needed coherence and sense to us foreign policy that has been hitherto dictated too much by foreign adventurism and neo colonialist empire building that has been the greatest contributor to cause the 36 trillion plus budget deficit (the Iraq war alone added 7 trillion to the deficit) not to mention the millions dead worldwide as a result of us military adventurism…

    As for trump’s bankruptcies in the past, bankruptcy law was introduced precisely to give businessmen another chance to rebuild. Here are a few othe famous American businessmen who also had to endure bankruptcy on their way to building their current success stories…

    https://www.michiganbankruptcyfirm.com/debt-relief-resources/famous-cases-of-bankruptcy

    Rather than being a negative thing, the fact that trump can come back and be a success after bankruptcies shows his resilience and never say die spirit- which are essential parts of the american spirit that made your country the superpower it is today!
    On whether he is a man of substance - his 4 year term was infinitely better than the biden- harris term and most Americans agree that their lives were much better under trump…which is why he’s back in power by the choice of both the electoral college and the popular vote! Certainly he has far more substance than kamala harris and the other Democrats who have run america almost into the ground and intentionally allowed 11 million illegals to flood into the country in a bid to install them as future democrat voting population to secure a permanent majority for the Democrats for the whole countey like california. This alone is treason by the Democrats and biden ans harris and newsom should be in jail for purposely breaking us law and committing crimes against democracy itself by rigging the voter base.

    I see from the litany of your complaints of trump that they mirror exactly the narrative that the mainstream media has foisted on the press. Isn’t it strange that prior to 2016 when he ran against the democrat candidate - which is the deep state candidate - that he was lionized by the establishment and by Hollywood. Trump was praised by black politicians as Contributing much to black advancement - but today the press and Democrats call him Hitler and racist! Oprah winfrey encouraged him on air to run for president and wanted to be his running mate vp candidate - but now she give a speech suggesting it could be the last time she votes if trump is elected! Trump used to be asked to come on as guest on talk shows and late night shows and give cameos in numerous movies by so many film stars - but today most film stars won’t be caught dead praising him as its the kiss of death to their careers…

    Wake up brendan and be truly “woke”! You have been lied to about trump but it’s now truly morning in America and now it’s time to put your support behind your new president and try to reverse the calamity that the Democrats have inflicted on usa…

      i openly admit i dont know enough about it, but from the outside what i see is:

      as soon as trump left, ww3 nearly started, global immigration started and the price of everything went through the roof

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        dfk41

        I would say, the nasty way extremists on both sides do things. It is despicable regardless of point of origin, and hugely harms our republic.

        I will not write my full reply at this moment except to say that any healthy society respects the views of both progressives and conservatives, and has an honest dialogue where both sides listen as well as talk, and produce some result which embodies the actual wisdom, not the rhetoric of both. A result for the good of the society, not the good of a political party.

        Despite your enthusiasm, I live here and this is very, very far from what I am seeing. You assume Trump’s words are equivalent to his intentions and actions, present and future. I do not. If I am proved wrong, I shall be delighted.

        chlorox

        Too funny; you were what we in the USA call a liberal arts major, I presume.

        Since you know everything there is little to say except you are entirely off-base about me; you know one version of American history promoted by one branch of media; Trump did not win a majority – less than 50% of voters backed him; his lead over Harris was enough to win but very, very slim; not a mandate. I could go on further however I suggest we wait. Actions, not words; results not rhetoric. If you and your fellows are right I shall be extremely pleased because that means a much better future than what I see now. If I am right – well, we shall see your response then.

          Cuprajake

          Jake,

          Putin’s and China’s aggression are I’d say, very much the result of Trump’s work when in office. Happy to PM or email you if you wish to discuss further privately.

          The global immigration problem is real and huge and needs a solution now not later. I have one to offer but not publicly as I’d prefer not to be murdered for my thoughts. I’m in the Netherlands for two months and believe me I can see the problem all too well. There is no time to lose, and that’s all I’ll say here.

          Inflation was a real issue and in large part due to economic disruption by the pandemic. I think the actual numbers show the USA government during that time did a competent job, however no denying it was painful and bumpy. The hit to my retirement account was very, very large and unhappy. However, the situation now is much improved. Fingers crossed such a situation does not recur soon.

          Best, Brendan

            chlorox

            Bankruptcy – so I looked and found nothing new; these are all well-known instances. I note all those named filed ONCE not FOUR verging on FIVE times.

              My viewpoint is that Trump got in for the same reason Labour got in here…I just hope for the USA, he does a better job than our new government is doing.

                DavecUK

                I truly hope so too, however there is a reason that in both elections he lost NY where he is a local and well-known figure. My fingers are crossed that I’m dead-wrong about him; it will be very bad if I am right. Time will tell.

                BrendaninBrooklyn
                The issue is not how many times it takes but where one is at the end of it. And he is certainly very solvent today in spite of thr best efforts of the establishment to bankrupt him including of the most absurd civil damages award imaginable…

                  BrendaninBrooklyn
                  Trump’s win over harris was not a landslide by the measure of reagan’s trouncing of Monday but it was not a slim one by any recent measure. He won by a greater majority than any other republican since 1988 - no mean achievement!

                    chlorox

                    So how many times is what is essentially a welfare check acceptable to you. Is five okay? How about ten? Perhaps a dozen? Anyone can have a stellar balance sheet if they get someone else to pay for them.

                      BrendaninBrooklyn
                      It’s funny how u keep asserting that others shouldn’t presume to know u but here u e making false assumptions about me being a liberal arts major…

                        chlorox

                        I may be wrong in this instance; however your smudgings of facts and details, led me to believe you had no background in science or engineering.

                          Cuprajake
                          What brendan chooses not to acknowledge is that the southern border collapsed as soon as trump was replaced by biden because biden immediately on the first day of his tenure reversed virtually all of trump’s anti immigration executive orders including rhe stay in Mexico directive and allowed the flood to come in and then after they come in to catch and release them into the population. Of course modt of them claimed asylum which allowed to backlog the court system for the next ten years and meanwhile they can work etc and get properly entrenched do that the Democrats cna then give them amnesty in another few years and induc ta few million more democrat voters to turn America into a permanent democrat voting dupr majority…