Comment on Trump on Vaccine Mandates, Biden's COVID Failures, & Ignoring Fauci
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years agoTo be mildly fair to him, I don't think he realized just what running a state would entail. He went from never being elected to anything to being in charge of the largest economy and most powerful country on the planet with very few friends in the government he was in charge of.
Even his businesses were never really that big when you get right down to it. Being in charge of an organization that big and that is actively working against you is the sort of thing that you actually do need some skill in statecraft for. He left 99.9% of the establishment in place, so at the end of the day it almost doesn't matter what he did because the people underneath him would just not do it. We saw that with him trying to pull out of various countries in the middle East
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
He wasn't elected to GOVERN. He was elected to be a SLEDGEHAMMER to Big Govt.
As long as he was on Twatter, his millions of followers gave him feedback. Trump craves to be loved, so he would do mostly populist things
He did a great job murdering the State Department deep state - Madcow was losing her shit "OMG, centuries of institutional wisdom is being destroyed" - fuck that lying cunt.
He should have KILLED all 3 letter agencies, FBI/CIA/CDC/FDA... to my understanding he only damaged the EPA
Ever since Twatter banned him, he can't hear the People anymore.....
The man was an almighty miracle, God's one finger salute to the libtards and NWO.... but all good things end...
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
There are a lot of ways that he just didn't do the things he said he was going to do. The guy spent more than 4 years than Obama spent in 8. That alone should tell you the difference between Donald Trump on paper and Donald Trump in reality.
If he actually was getting rid of all the deep state stuff, that would have been great. It's pretty obvious to me that instead, all the people that he continued to pay were actively going against him and anyone who supported him in ways that should run anyone's blood cold because even if they support you today doesn't mean they support you tomorrow and they shouldn't be acting as political operatives.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I think he was the most careful spender since Reagan, but maybe you can prove me wrong.
The only other notable agencies he went after was the EPA, and dept of education if you consider Betsy Devos.
All the really nasty ones like FBI/CIA/NSA/TSA/FDA/CDC remained intact completely, which was a real shit show.
Those agencies represent everything wrong with the US govt, and they need to die.
The military also needs to be cleaned out of all the wokes and get back to proper generals like after WWII
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
"Careful spender" is a tough thing to say, because it's a soft measure. What is "careful spending"? It's sort of meaningless. I go by the actual numbers.
I'm measuring absolute and inflation adjusted (to 2007 dollars since that's when I did the math) increases in federal debt, and in terms of that, Reagan was horrible. Going into his presidency, the federal debt was about 900 billion dollars, and when he left office the federal debt was about 2.3 trillion, the largest % increase since the second world war, absolutely massive. The inflation adjusted numbers look worse. H. W. Bush was worse, but in inflation adjusted terms, Clinton (granted with a Republican congress iirc) was by far the best. He increased the annual federal budget in 8 years about as much as H. W. Bush increased it in 4, both are less than half of the inflation adjusted change in spending by Reagan over 8 years, he balanced the budget by the end of his term and increased the inflation adjusted debt by an amount comparable to Bush, and at a rate lower than any president since Carter. George W. Bush spent a huge amount which I think is one thing that crushed the Republican party at that time -- how do you run on fiscal responsibility when you increased the debt from about 4 billion to over 10 trillion?
Obama blew everyone else out of the water. 9 trillion dollars(not inflation adjusted), almost more than all other presidents combined, leaving office with about 19T in federal debt. When Trump left office, it was about 29T. Some of that was pandemic spending, but Trump's federal budgets were each the largest in history by a huge order of magnitude.
You could maybe argue that Clinton had it easy comparatively because he had a growing economy with shrinking debt, but you could also argue that Trump was running up record budget deficits and record budgets with unemployment at 4% up until the pandemic in his last year in office, which is one of the lowest numbers in history. By all accounts, he should have been showing record shrinking budgets and similarly shrinking debts.
Beyond that, I agree with you totally. I think the prevalence of glowie ops shows that they are solving problems they create. We didn't need these organizations previously, what changed? Only the desire to have a federal state that has overarching power over everything, the opposite of what the constitution calls for.