When real americans are allowed to voice their views

[Waterboy]

It’s always amazing that the public bites on these short term gotcha polls and don’t hear the real message.  When Trump wins a bunch of tariff concessions in the next few months, he may become the most popular president ever.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04...s-stunned/

[purplefaithful]

The polls are pretty meaningless this early on. You peel the latest one back a layer and you get the usual split #'s between red and blue voters. 

They are both pretty entrenched.

I guess the only interesting thing I see is the independent voting block trends, but again its early.

All that said, team red will be hoping for better results (with this independent group especially) for the 26 mid-terms.

[Zanary]

Well, he obviously prefers the bulls**t Columbus Day approach to the far superior Indigenous People's Day use of that holiday...despite the horrifying enslavement/murder that the Spanish brought in their wake.

Very on-brand for the filth staining the Oval Office.

https://www.indian.senate.gov/newsroom/p...-american/

"FACT: The Trump administration and Senate Republicans have refused to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which would restore Tribes’ authority to bring violent offenders to justice, give Tribal public safety systems more tools, and keep Native communities safe. By contrast, Senate Democrats have been instrumental in recent legislative victories that will help protect public safety for Native American women and girls."

I mean, expecting our prez with his own sexual assault history to help the victims is pretty unrealistic.

[Waterboy]

The polls are pretty meaningless this early on. You peel the latest one back a layer and you get the usual split #'s between red and blue voters. 

They are both pretty entrenched.

I guess the only interesting thing I see is the independent voting block trends, but again its early.

All that said, team red will be hoping for better results (with this independent group especially) for the 26 mid-terms.

If he gets the economy booming he’ll be an all time great. If not he won’t.   Know which way I’m betting.

[purplefaithful]

If he gets the economy booming he’ll be an all time great. If not he won’t.   Know which way I’m betting.

I wont cheer or celebrate disruption for the sake of disrupting...

My expectation is the level of benefit exceeds the pain to get there. 

I am not betting, but hoping (for all our sake) some of this actually works.

[Waterboy]

I wont cheer or celebrate disruption for the sake of disrupting...

My expectation is the level of benefit exceeds the pain to get there. 

I am not betting, but hoping (for all our sake) some of this actually works.

As long as people are sensible, I understand the reaction to the tariffs causing a market downturn. But, from a common-sense perspective, we're only going to be in a better position when some of these trade imbalances are addressed, and they're not going to get worse.  They can't.  lol   My 401k has taken a 5% hit as a result of the market downturn as it's well diversified.  My personal money I've thrown in to an all-stock market fund has already returned close to 10%.  I realize I'm not the typical person, but my guess is the stock market will be setting new highs by later this year when the tariff dust clears, and we see jobs coming back to the US.  Even people that are currently scared also know this could pay off massively.  And when the first returns start to trickle in, it could easily become a tidal wave of good news.  The main drivers of inflation have been addressed outside of the tariffs, so once the better terms are negotiated and implemented, that becomes a thing of the past imho.  When that's the case, things improve quickly.  Short-term pain, long-term gain.  The Trump haters are playing this up because they would rather be right than rich.  The problem is they'll almost certainly be wrong.  Anybody who acts like there isn't some genius behind Trumps ideas is just fooling themself and validating their TDS.  We're in a much better country today and addressing some long-term ills that other presidents were scared to address.  I used to begrudgingly support Trump's second-term.  I now know he's the only guy who could have taken this on.