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Do you Approve of President Trump?

Yes 42 39.62%
 
No 59 55.66%
 
In the middle. 5 4.72%
 
Total:106
Aeolus451 said:
Machiavellian said:

Nevermind then.  I kind of figured this would be the answer you give which is nothing.  No need to respond, I guess you really did not have anything to offer and it's the same old tired Trump arguments.  Only you understand what he is doing while us whatever you want to call us cannot see his genius or understand.  Thanks for playing.

You're asking silly questions. You said that you're not planning to argue the points. It's pointless to engage with you.

I said I was not going to argue every point.  I actually was just interested in what you saw as good coming from this President.  Since its an opinion, not everything needs to be argued, I was just genuinely interested just in case I missed something.



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Machiavellian said:
Aeolus451 said:

You're asking silly questions. You said that you're not planning to argue the points. It's pointless to engage with you.

I said I was not going to argue every point.  I actually was just interested in what you saw as good coming from this President.  Since its an opinion, not everything needs to be argued, I was just genuinely interested just in case I missed something.

Then please don't ask silly questions like "who is this everyone" or other redundant questions that you can answer yourself. I get annoyed by being asked to answer something that's self-evident. I rather answer questions that move the discussion forward  or shed light on a different aspect of the topic. I already wrote out a list earlier of what I think Trump has accomplished. Depending on where you stand politically, that list is good, bad or doesn't exist.



Aeolus451 said:

Anyway, here's my list. Renegotiating trade deals by using tariffs and other tactics, dropped the US out of the paris accord, tax cuts, loosening restrictions on harvesting natural resources/approving pipelines, being tougher on illegal immigration, got NK to release american prisoners and pipes down for nothing but some tweets and a meeting, moved US embassy to Jerusalem, already chose one supreme court justice.. about to choose another, removed individual mandate of obama care, signs right to try drug bill, strengthens work requirements for welfare, unemployment fell to lowest level in 18 years, black unemployment fell under 6% for the first time ever, economic growth is great. Best of yet, Trump is a master at trolling the left into hysteria and being honest for a change.

So apparently I missed this since the list itself wasn't in list form and I rolled my eyes way too hard at the prior paragraph.

Renegotiating trade deals. How have trade deals been renegotiated? Is this a work in progress or do you view tariffs on Chinese imports and American exports as an overall good thing?

Dropped US out of the Paris accord - No country is able to back out of the accord until 2020. US is still in agreement with that accord.

Tax cuts - If you like the super wealthy hording their money rather than it being spent on the poor, sick, and afflicted in the country as well as the deficit ballooning way back up due to a decrease in revenue then not much to say here.

Loosening restrictions on harvesting natural resources - Fair enough. Some people like nature. Some people don't.

Being tougher on illegal immigration - Rate of deportations has actually decreased under Trump. The difference is that under Obama you had to actually have violent criminal offenses to be deported. https://www.usnews.com/news/data-mine/articles/2018-03-13/fewer-crossing-border-fewer-deported-immigration-under-trump

Moved US embassy to Jerusalem - Can you elaborate as to why you feel it's a good thing? The capital of Israel is Tel Aviv. Embassy seats are typically in the nation's capital.

Got NK to release prisoners - Good stuff. No different than what happened under Obama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_nationals_detained_in_North_Korea

Already chose one Supreme Court justice - There's no sort of positive trait there. That's a stipulation of the job.

Remove individual mandate of ACA - Yep, and insurance premiums are going to skyrocket even moreso because of it. Individual mandate was originally argued for by the Heritage Foundation. I'll just quote Stuart Butler, a head of the The Heritage Foundation for 30 years: "I held the view that as a technical matter, some form of requirement to purchase insurance was needed in a near-universal insurance market to avoid massive instability through "adverse selection" (insurers avoiding bad risks and healthy people declining coverage). My view was shared at the time by many conservative experts, including American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholars, as well as most non-conservative analysts. Even libertarian-conservative icon Milton Friedman, in a 1991 Wall Street Journal article, advocated replacing Medicare and Medicaid "with a requirement that every U.S. family unit have a major medical insurance policy."

Right to Drug Bill - A waste of money on drug tests. But if you like wasting money that's up to you.

Strengthens work requirements for welfare - You're going to have to elaborate on this one. My Google-fu has found nothing that the Trump has done regarding this. There were attempts to do something nationally about it in a farm bill but it was stripped from the bill in order to pass the Senate.

Unemployment fell - Yep, it fell a whopping .8% compared to Trump's start in office. Not bad, but still nothing compared to Obama's 3% (or 5% if measured from its peak)

Economic growth is great - It's about at the same pace as when he started. For instance the most recent released GDP on a trailing 4-quarters basis has matched 2015. In other words, it's good, but it's just continuing what had already been going. 

So from what I can see, you like rich people hoarding their money, you dislike nature, you have no sympathy or empathy for the poor and less fortunate, and you like that insurance premiums are going to go way up, and you like that people and businesses are paying more for Chinese imports and that US exports are being similarly taxed in China leading to a loss of a big trading partner for many businesses.

Alright, if those are things that you like, then you're opinion is at least well-founded.



Aeolus451 said:
Machiavellian said:

I said I was not going to argue every point.  I actually was just interested in what you saw as good coming from this President.  Since its an opinion, not everything needs to be argued, I was just genuinely interested just in case I missed something.

Then please don't ask silly questions like "who is this everyone" or other redundant questions that you can answer yourself. I get annoyed by being asked to answer something that's self-evident. I rather answer questions that move the discussion forward  or shed light on a different aspect of the topic. I already wrote out a list earlier of what I think Trump has accomplished. Depending on where you stand politically, that list is good, bad or doesn't exist.

Lol, whatever.  You make a generalize statement and you call it silly when someone ask you for more information.  Anyone can say, everyone believes this or that with no actual stats to back it up.  Why don't you stop making generalize statements that way you do not have to get mad when people ask you what the heck do you mean.  Maybe if you provide more actual relevant data you do not have to get annoyed by what you believe is self-evident.  I thought you had hard facts but again it's what I feel more than anything else.  I thought you had some type of barometer to show Trump success so far and accomplishments but it appears I was mistaken.  In the end you did not provide anything but you want everyone to believe in his accomplishments and your self-evident belief that everyone sees what you see.



President Trump has ended conflicts in Syria and North Korea, has record job growth, record unemployment levels especially for minorities like blacks. This contrasts to his opponent who wanted to treat Russian cyber-attacks the same as military attacks... essentially bringing us into World War 3. To say that I approve of Trump's record to date, especially given the alternative, is an understatement.



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Illusion said:
President Trump has ended conflicts in Syria and North Korea, has record job growth, record unemployment levels especially for minorities like blacks. This contrasts to his opponent who wanted to treat Russian cyber-attacks the same as military attacks... essentially bringing us into World War 3. To say that I approve of Trump's record to date, especially given the alternative, is an understatement.

What military conflicts has Trump ended in Syria and North Korea? I'm not quite sure you understand what the definition of 'end' is.



o_O.Q said:
Final-Fan said:

Oh, you think he's exposed his lack of thought on the subject?  Let me educate you. 

First off, it seems weird to me to measure the the cut in unemployment in Obama's term by the metric of eight years when unemployment definitely didn't peak on Day 1 of his presidency, but whatever.  Let's go ahead and give that one to you for now.  Stack the example in Trump's favor. 

So if unemployment during Obama's presidency maxed out at 10%, and dropped to 4.7% by the end of his term, that's a drop of 5.3%.  So the cut in unemployment was 5.3% for Obama and 0.8% for Trump.  But it's true that this is across different amounts of time. 

One and a half years for Trump, you say?  How much bigger is 8 compared to 1.5?  Coincidentally, it's 5.3 times bigger.  So if you multiply Trump's cut in unemployment by 5.3, you get ... 4.3%.  Less than Obama.  Remember, this is with the time factor stacked in Trump's favor. 

Now, people could object that it's not a fair comparison because realistically speaking there's a limit to how far unemployment can actually drop (0% unemployment is basically impossible), but that's not relevant to the claim that unemployment has dropped faster under Trump, which is demonstrably false.  (Clearly, since I just demonstrated it.)   

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"First off, it seems weird to me to measure the the cut in unemployment in Obama's term by the metric of eight years when unemployment definitely didn't peak on Day 1 of his presidency, but whatever.  Let's go ahead and give that one to you for now."

but i didn't? he did? i in response expressed how asinine it is to compare ~1.5 years to ~8 years

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"One and a half years for Trump, you say?  How much bigger is 8 compared to 1.5?  Coincidentally, it's 5.3 times bigger.  So if you multiply Trump's cut in unemployment by 5.3, you get ... 4.3%"

again this is an asinine comparison... you really expect that employment rates are going to follow a constant progression?

 
i personally wouldn't be surprised if unemployment rates followed an EXPONENTIAL decrease moving forwards with time until trump finally slays that dragon once and for all sword and shield in hand

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but that's not relevant to the claim that unemployment has dropped faster under Trump"

under the same time period its a fact and not just a fact but an indisputable fact

1.  You missed my point but it's not that important so let's just move on to the other stuff. 

2.  It clearly wasn't "constant", but on overage unemployment dropped faster under Obama than under Trump. 

2b.  That is complete insanity.  Even the idea that there is any realistic CHANCE of it happening is complete insanity.  I can only hope that when this inevitably fails to happen that it will shake your blind faith in President Trump.  Or maybe you're trolling. 

3.  Did you not understand that I spoke of the average over time for Obama's presidency?  Do you not understand what an average is?  If the average was faster under Obama for 8 years compared to how fast it was under Trump for 1.5 years, then it's mathematically impossible for there to not be a 1.5 year period in Obama's presidency where unemployment dropped at least as fast as it did under Trump.  (Actually, faster.) 



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Illusion said:
President Trump has ended conflicts in Syria and North Korea, has record job growth, record unemployment levels especially for minorities like blacks. This contrasts to his opponent who wanted to treat Russian cyber-attacks the same as military attacks... essentially bringing us into World War 3. To say that I approve of Trump's record to date, especially given the alternative, is an understatement.

What conflict was there in North Korea.  They still have their bombs.  Nothing seems to be stopping them from making any more bombs.  Yes they destroyed test sites but then again, you do not need test sites anymore when you can make the bombs.  Nothing was done with NK, we did not get them to sign anything to remove their nukes from the playing field and since this has been an ongoing thing for decades, why has anything changed now.  As for Syria, they still have their civil war, the only thing is that russia is now their patron saint so the US has decided to move on.  I guess you can call that a win.

I give you record job growth and unemployment but then again its not like it wasn't steadily going in that direction before he came into office.  At least we can agree he didn't do anything to screw it up.  Why people keep throwing black people into this category as if lower unemployment would not be representative for all people in the US.

I am sorry but if you believe that cyber attacks isn't considered a military attack, you have no clue about how our world is run.  Every nation has a cyber attack squad because infiltration of information, disruption of financial, political and utility systems is a direct means to hurt anyone.  We were never close to WW3 but you definitely do not let any state sponsored attack on your nation be considered some off hand attack and ignore it.



Donutsticks said:
I voted for him :D

good



I don't approve of Trump because he's an idiot. He acts like knows what he's talking about to get everyone on his side excited, but at the end of the day, he knows very little. I don't expect the president to know everything because that is what the people he hires around him are for, but they keep hiring people, like Peter Navarro, who are not qualified for their position. As of now, Trump is riding the success of the last president, but in a couple years, shit is going to hit the fan.