Posted on 04/14/2017 10:18:49 AM PDT by Jim W N
VIDEO: Join us as President Donald J. Trump delivers the Weekly Address.
My fellow Americans, this is a season of great hope. Happy Easter and Happy Passover!
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Get lost. You’re an idiot.
Your opinion on this matter, reflects why you should stick around and contribute.
LOL. Look in the mirror and see a true idiot. Enough of you Trump concern trolls.
“Did he actually say a blessing of Ramadan? “Z
As I recall, there were always posts here about obama acknowledging the wonderfulness of Ramadan every year.
Did he actually say a blessing of Ramadan?...Absolutely. Every year.
As conservatives, part our mandate is to think in positive terms, trust in our chosen leader and give him the benefit of our trust.
However, I agree that we should not use our effort to tear down our President all the time although we have to be honest about our take on what he is doing given the trust we put in him. But, there’s much more fertile ground in the lying land of the Democrats.
What a beautiful picture commentary. Thanks! : )
Trump is not a libertarian. But he’s not a socialist, either.
You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
Take a long walk off a short pier. Happy landing.
I think Trump’s on a journey from Left to Right, that started years ago. Not sure where he is on that continuum but he’s headed in the Right direction.
When Trump talks of the free market economy, he does so with the reasoned expectation that nations will not game their markets to deny us entry. The reality is that we have been exposed to trade war tactics for decades, while we simply allowed it to happen. All this came to benefit the biggest threat to world peace in the 21st Century.
Your attempt to connect tariffs and government handouts is a mighty big stretch > IMO. Using that to justify your extrapolation here seems very thin indeed.
While I don't think the word entitled is the best word to use here, we do expect everyone to have access to the largess of Capitalism.
Aren't you entitled to a neighborhood that is safe? Aren't you entitled to a job, an income, a way to provide for your family? If you think you have to say this in other terms, I think you're being far too picky for your own good.
Who benefits from every single word Trump says being dissected to the point of absurdity? We have a great example of this sort of thing in the New Testament Bible.
Jesus Christ's words were twisted by the Pharisees trying to entrap him. The Sanhedrin laid traps to snare him. In essence, that is what is going on here.
Trump isn't Christ and is nowhere near perfect, but we know from history that the populace wasn't even happy with perfection when it manifested on Earth in the form of God's Son Jesus Christ.
Jim, Trump is one of the greatest presidents this nation has had. We can tell that by what he has accomplished so far, and by what we can see coming. His intent is very clear. We cannot continue to rip him for stuff we make up out of thin air. It's very very destructive.
Trump hasn't proposed one single Great Society program, and yet here you are charging him with that. He didn't. You know he didn't.
We have a minority that sees itself as not sharing in the American dream. As Conservatives we can discuss why, and there are some very obvious reasons. They aren't flattering. We could harp on them, or simply tell them in an important season, they are on our minds, and we intend to see their lives improve.
We want them to see the promise of our ideology, and yet when Trump reaches out with innocent thoughts to let them know we care, you jump in to trash Trump for promising costly big government fixes. He didn't, and you know it.
...I don’t think I deserve to be lumped in with the mindless knee-jerk comments, usually from #NeverTrumpers, which "read the worst into every situation" and "adopt the mindset of Leftists who see a boogeyman hiding behind every Trump phrase"...
I can understand your reluctance to be lumped into groups, but the only way I could get you to see what I see is to remind you of those groups.
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#NeverTrumpers, which "read the worst into every situation"...
This is exactly what you did here. If given time and some thought, I think you'd agree with that. Trump promised nothing of substance here, other than that he was thinking about them, and planned on helping them.
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..."adopt the mindset of Leftists who see a boogeyman hiding behind every Trump phrase"...
You don't think you deserve to be lumped with Leftists who do this, evidently because you think it's not the same thing when you do it. Yes it is. That's why I called you on it.
Look, I don't have a long standing animosity with you. Far as I know, you're a great FReeper. I'm not trying to trash you. I just want to open your eyes.
This infighting and trashing of Trump using clairvoyance, mind reading, or whatever you want to call it, is destructive.
If it were only happening once in a while, it would be pretty much normal. It isn't happening in isolated cases. It's all over the forum daily.
Some of us recognize it for what it is. I could coin some stupid word like "TrumpPhobe" to get the message across, or I can try to address the specific issue and appeal to you to join those of us who are behind Trump pushing on most things.
As for Trust and Verify, that isn't what you're doing here. You immediately assumed the worst out of the blue and raised issues to attack Trump on. You don't trust him at all.
As I said in my previous post, this is one of the most Christian centric addresses I've seen a president make. It touched on our foundation with the Jews, and progressed through to our observances of Christian holidays today.
You read it and just launched. Why is that? Can't you see my point?
Mindless bad-faith bias against Trump and everything he does is destructive and demoralizing. But good-faith, thoughtful questioning of a particular issue or statement of Trump can be helpful and informative. I don’t think we serve our country well by mindless acquiescence to our politicians including Trump and if Trump is the man I think he is, I don’t think he’d want that either. He doesn’t need a following of “Yes men.” He needs a following of knowledgeable and faithful patriots who love God and our country who may disagree with him from time to time on particular issues.
My take away from this, "Mindless bad-faith bias against Trump...", is only bad when you're not the one participating in it.
My take away from this, "But good-faith, thoughtful questioning of a particular issue or statement of Trump can be helpful and informative...", is that divining bad from good out of thin air is your way of helping the rest of us. I don't agree. That wasn't helpful at all.
You raised a false issue out of thin air, and ran with it. That helps? That's exactly what NeverTrumpers and the Left do. Is it helpful when they do it? Are you telling me I am wrong to oppose them doing it?
I don’t think we serve our country well by mindless acquiescence to our politicians including Trump and if Trump is the man I think he is, I don’t think he’d want that either.
So it's your take that anyone hearing or reading Trump's Easter presentation and enjoying it without objection, is a person who is deeply mired in "mindless acquiescence"? Good grief.
Unless you can read Trump's mind back decades, you don't really know what was at his core. You have no more business judging him with regard to that, than you do anyone else.
Trump has made the best jump out of the gate of any president we have ever had. He has accomplished more than any other president on Conservative's behalf than any other president to this point.
There are literally hundreds of things we could point to now. In the last couple of days he signed a bill that will give states the right to defund Planned Parenthood. You understand the implications of that, and yet here you are saying he's still progressing from Left to Right.
Please tell me which Republican in your lifetime has been right of Trump as he sits, and yet you're second guessing the guy's superb religious presentation.
I'm here pondering who it is still moving Left to Right.
Sara, if you think my post here was trashing someone for revealing truth, you need to reread the comment in post 1.
I have not asked folks not to criticize on a valid point.
I criticized his support for RyanCare.
This isn’t that sort of thing, and I think you can understand that.
I see you’re still crying and whining about Trump. Amazing.
You can’t see past the nose on your face. Get lost.
Not from the government. That is unconstitutional socialist tyranny. Might want to think again who's going in which direction.
#NeverTrumpers, which "read the worst into every situation"...This is exactly what you did here.
One exception to part of one address is "every situation"? Please, you're making no sense.
you're second guessing the guy's superb religious presentation
Go back and read what I wrote. I said it was a great address except for a part at the end about "entitlements". Get a clue.
There's a lot to be said against tariffs as protection for a mature economy, unlike the fledgling economy at our beginnings. Nevertheless, tariffs are still about government hindering the free market which was the point of my exception to what I said was otherwise a wonderful speech. Not sure what Trump has in mind so that "no one is left behind" but in the past that had meant more government.
We'll see, but I think my comment was reasonable. Let's not keep going over the same ground. If you have nothing more to add to what has already been said let's say we're done.
Government guarantees of “no one left behind” regarding work could reasonably be construed as more government. That’s what I was talking about. Not unreasonable.
Hillary Clinton is a radical communist from the 1970’s who would have flooded the USA with socialist foreign voters for her finishing what Obama started:socialism for America. Trump made the ultimate sacrifice to save America and all Americans from that horrible fate people are suffering in Venezuela right now.
The evil socialist/liberal media slanders Trump every minute from a million media outlets. Trump had a great life . Trump didn't have to do this. I wouldn't have risked it all as
Trump is doing. you all give the word ungrateful new meaning
Trump has passed many executive order reducing regulations on American businesses. Trump put someone in charge of tbe FCC who is rolling back obama’s regulations that would have censored the Internet.
The only reason you have FREEDOM and can own property is because Trump made that great sacrifice to save America.
Trump gave America another chance.Now what are we going to do with it? it seems some of you just want to bash unfairly the one who gave us that chancel
YOU'RE the one that need to get a grasp on the realities of what America, the Constitution, and the free market are all about. There is NO Constitutional authority given to the feds to guarantee "access to a job".
You've been brainwashed by government schools which feed the FDR pablum of government guaranteeing people stuff the Constitution gives the government no authority to guarantee.
The history of America, until the 1900's when government began to grow unconstitutionally, was people came to this country to be FREE from government and their "guarantees". They came because they wanted freedom from government and hoped, without ANY guarantees, that they could find opportunities in the free market or else in farming. Most did. Some didn't.
Freedom ALWAYS leaves some behind. There are no guarantees with freedom other than being left alone to do as you see fit. Freedom isn't perfect but it is way ahead of whatever is in second place.
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