“Candidate Trump and President Trump are one and the same.” I know what you mean, but I beg to differ. Candidate Trump is a cult leader. President Trump is a mob boss.
Chris should write a post about the real state of the country Biden is turning over to Trump. By many measures the country that Trump is going to lead is in pretty good shape. As I see it our current biggest problem is stupid voters.
Yes, Laurie, the people who elected Trump and gave Republicans majorities in the House and Senate clearly aren't as smart as you - or as arrogant.
They were just tired of inflation, illegal immigrants, paying for unnecessary wars, lawfare against the leader of the opposition Party, pretending that boys playing in girls sports was normal - oh, and having no idea who was actually running the country (for starters), but thank goodness you are of superior intelligence.
Inflation started under Trump during the pandemic. Illegal immigrants were crossing the border under Trump’s regime. He has done plenty wrong but somehow y’all were so impressed by Trump’s dishonest, arrogant rhetoric. Y’all voted for this. The laughing will be great while it lasts for y’all, I’m sure. I am sickened for you.
You people really are part of a cult - and drink Kool-Aid.
Inflation for 2017 2.1%
For 2018 2.4%
For 2019 1.8%
For 2020 1.2% - including Sep 1.7%, Oct 1.8%, Nov 2.1% Dec 2.3%
2021 Jan 1.4% Feb 1.7% Marc 2.6% (Biden signed the American DESTRUCTION Act on March 11, 2021), April 4.2% May 5.0%, June 5.4%, Jul 5.4% - by Nov it was up to 6.8% and finished the year at 7.0%. It peaked in June 2022 at 9.1%. Go ahead and look it up at bls.gov. Those are the official government numbers.
The total number of border crossing encounters during the Trump administration (during his entire four years) was right at 2 million. There were almost 1.7 million in 2021, over 2 million in 2022, and again in 2023. During the Biden administration, there were more illegals during 2022 and once again during 2023 than in all four years of the Trump presidency. Go ahead and look it up at cbp.gov. Those are also official government numbers.
How many Biden lies would you like me to remind you of? Let's start with his fitness. They told you that behind closed doors, he was more energetic than anybody on his staff. You believed them. They were hiding him from you for three and a half years.
I won't pardon Hunter (you know, the guy whose laptop was Russian disinformation).
I could go on all day. YOU, sweetie, are the sucker, and you don't even know it. If you want to debate with me, at least have a grasp of the facts. You should be embarrassed - but I know you're not.
Liberals call Trump voters uninformed when, in fact, they are pathetically unaware.
"...the entire address was peppered with “I” statements. It was 85% about him — how he had been persecuted by the past administration, how people said he couldn’t win, all the things he was going to do as president — and very, very little about the American people."
Stop hyper-ventilating. Do you believe Obama, the guy who was yucking it up with Trump at Carter's funeral, believed the dictator talk for even a minute?
You forgot the turd time he was elected. Remember he won three times. He never loses, never makes mistakes, he's perfect in every way. He is the one...
I slightly disagree: he is more EVIL than insane; perhaps “criminally insane” fits it best — crazy AND evil, guilty AND wacko.
Also, save ourselves, yes; but save others too. However it happened, whoever is most responsible, we all collectively failed to keep him out of the White House, and morally we owe it to the most vulnerable among us — the poor, immigrants documented and undocumented, racial and religious minorities, the neurodivergent, LGBTQ+ — to protect them (or at least try to).
For those who put yourselves through the misery of another Trump rally speech, you can cleanse your soul and salve your psyche by watching MLK’s “I have a dream.” Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
As I listened to the speech, I told my wife the very same thing … it was a campaign speech, with one exception. He didn’t have the ramblings he would usually interject, unless they occurred after 12:25. I had an online yoga class at 12:30 and priorities are priorities. I was really hoping to see a unifying message. But alas, I think in Trump’s eyes, that was a unifying speech.
Please write an article about JB pardoning his family members! What should the American public take from that?!? Whoa Boy! Has that ever been done in history? Parsons for those not yet charged? It’s reeks of corruption!
Ford pardoned Nixon. And I don't have a problem with the pardons Biden issued today. We know Trump is just going to go after everyone who ever crossed him in the past. Joe just eliminated a whole bunch of targets so that maybe Trump can concentrate on actually doing his job.
You must have missed the last four years where Joe Biden and AG Garland appointed (unconstitutionally) a special counsel to investigate their political opponent.
Would you find it stunning if Trump issued pardons to his children? I find it shocking that we just had a convicted felon, who has stated publicly that he intends exact retribution on those he feels have wronged him, sworn in as President. That is not the American way.
I agree that Chris should write an article about Biden's pardons of his family members. Chris should also mention the unrelenting threats and attacks by Trump against those same Biden family members, threatening imprisonment. An absolutely disgraceful act from a guy who just can't accept his loss in 2020.
He couldn’t have bc crooked JB just issued those unethical pardons to his family members as they were evicting him from the White House a couple hours ago…..
I’m sure you didn’t mean anything personal by that comment but I sure didn’t appreciate it. To imply someone has a learning disability because they believe in this country and have hope is disingenuous. If you don’t have hope then what’s the use of even living. I have felt deep hopelessness in my personal life and I can tell you it’s not a place you want to be. For me there is always hope.
There will be little hope for the next few years. That's reality. We've put a criminal in office. My hope is for a big swing of the pendulum back to reality at the midterms.
NanceeM's comment did not say anything about believing in America, or having hope. It was about anyone having hope of seeing a unifying message in the speech, which the fact is,, there was absolutely nothing unifying in that speech.
Agree there was nothing unifying in his speech, and said as much. But to say having hope that I would see one implies I have a learning disability is downright offensive! I will always have hope. If I don’t I will never get through this next four years. Notice, I didn’t say I I have faith he will do the right thing. Hope precedes faith and he hasn’t earned that.
Ok, I did not at first perceive that the disability comment seemed to be directed at you personally.
I assumed she meant anyone hoping to see a unifying message, but now I can see how you can take it as being directed at you.
Perhaps the emotions of the day, and the lack of anything gracious or unifying in the Prez's speech to the nation has many of us reacting with unclear messages....
I don’t think you meant to offend me, but if you think Trump believes in America outside of what is politically or financially in his advantage, you operate with a very sick and dystopian view of America.
Hell if you believe that, I bet you can buy a pair of Air-Cons, a Bible, NFT, watch or meme coin to show your patriotism and loyalty to dear leader.
So President Trump knew Biden was weaponizing the DOJ against him? Biden became President on 1/20/21 but (somehow) Trump outsmarted him by announcing his candidacy nearly two years into Biden’s term.
Chris - this speech has to have achieved a new world record for the number of adjectives in an inaugural speech - positive adjectives about all of the wonderful things he will achieve for America, or negative adjectives for all of the bad things he will keep from happening...AND NOT ONE mention how he will deliver on any of it. The implication being - all of these goods things will now happen because HE is there.
I could not get myself to watch any of it. Your observations did not surprise me and building my own wall around myself to protect from the new administration. Praying for the strength to be willing to see any positives and be constructive when I disagree.
Every time Hitler survived a plot to murder him, his worshippers used it as "proof" that God was on the Nazi's side. Funny how that works. Too bad God does not speak up for herself. So, we're stuck with people believing what they want to believe, even though it has no bearing on reality. And no way to verify one way or the other.
“Candidate Trump and President Trump are one and the same.” I know what you mean, but I beg to differ. Candidate Trump is a cult leader. President Trump is a mob boss.
Chris should write a post about the real state of the country Biden is turning over to Trump. By many measures the country that Trump is going to lead is in pretty good shape. As I see it our current biggest problem is stupid voters.
And wait for Trump to take credit for all of it... before he destroys it.
Yes, Laurie, the people who elected Trump and gave Republicans majorities in the House and Senate clearly aren't as smart as you - or as arrogant.
They were just tired of inflation, illegal immigrants, paying for unnecessary wars, lawfare against the leader of the opposition Party, pretending that boys playing in girls sports was normal - oh, and having no idea who was actually running the country (for starters), but thank goodness you are of superior intelligence.
Inflation started under Trump during the pandemic. Illegal immigrants were crossing the border under Trump’s regime. He has done plenty wrong but somehow y’all were so impressed by Trump’s dishonest, arrogant rhetoric. Y’all voted for this. The laughing will be great while it lasts for y’all, I’m sure. I am sickened for you.
You people really are part of a cult - and drink Kool-Aid.
Inflation for 2017 2.1%
For 2018 2.4%
For 2019 1.8%
For 2020 1.2% - including Sep 1.7%, Oct 1.8%, Nov 2.1% Dec 2.3%
2021 Jan 1.4% Feb 1.7% Marc 2.6% (Biden signed the American DESTRUCTION Act on March 11, 2021), April 4.2% May 5.0%, June 5.4%, Jul 5.4% - by Nov it was up to 6.8% and finished the year at 7.0%. It peaked in June 2022 at 9.1%. Go ahead and look it up at bls.gov. Those are the official government numbers.
The total number of border crossing encounters during the Trump administration (during his entire four years) was right at 2 million. There were almost 1.7 million in 2021, over 2 million in 2022, and again in 2023. During the Biden administration, there were more illegals during 2022 and once again during 2023 than in all four years of the Trump presidency. Go ahead and look it up at cbp.gov. Those are also official government numbers.
How many Biden lies would you like me to remind you of? Let's start with his fitness. They told you that behind closed doors, he was more energetic than anybody on his staff. You believed them. They were hiding him from you for three and a half years.
I won't pardon Hunter (you know, the guy whose laptop was Russian disinformation).
I could go on all day. YOU, sweetie, are the sucker, and you don't even know it. If you want to debate with me, at least have a grasp of the facts. You should be embarrassed - but I know you're not.
Liberals call Trump voters uninformed when, in fact, they are pathetically unaware.
Thank you I didn’t have to write that exact same post!
Scuse me? That concept is not in Chris’ playbook.
I fairness to Chris JB hasn’t given him much to crow about!
Right track wrong track bears that out as does the election!
Keep up the great work Chris!
I’d like to see Chris’ take on JB pardoning his family members?!? Like what?
"...the entire address was peppered with “I” statements. It was 85% about him — how he had been persecuted by the past administration, how people said he couldn’t win, all the things he was going to do as president — and very, very little about the American people."
He doesn't know what it is to be an American.
My thoughts exactly! He doesn't have the slightest understanding of what America stands for or what the American people care about.
Too bad 49% of the country strategally placed thought he did. The rest of us will suffer because of it.
Please note - it is 49% of the eligible voters who voted - some 90 million voters chose to not exercise their right to vote...
Hope they are happy about their choice to not vote four years from now…
Stop hyper-ventilating. Do you believe Obama, the guy who was yucking it up with Trump at Carter's funeral, believed the dictator talk for even a minute?
How is this different from when Joe Biden won? Even fewer vote in midterms. It doesn't invalidate elections.
If you're going to use a whole number without a decimal point - then it's 50%.
Yeah it’s a wonder he was elected. Twice. And carried the House. And the Senate. And has a majority conservative SCOTUS. 🤔
Kindly GFY. 😘
You forgot the turd time he was elected. Remember he won three times. He never loses, never makes mistakes, he's perfect in every way. He is the one...
Oh he’s made plenty of mistakes. But unlike the tone deaf democrats he learns from them. Keep on underestimating him. How’s that working out?
Sarcasm doesn't make good copy. It works best live and in person. Ask Jonathan Swift and Kurt Vonnegut.
"So let it be with Caesar.
The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it."
Billy Shakespeare disagrees.
As Chris said, he is not capable of change and only has one gear.
Trump is batshit insane. Everyone needs to save themselves from the carnage.
I slightly disagree: he is more EVIL than insane; perhaps “criminally insane” fits it best — crazy AND evil, guilty AND wacko.
Also, save ourselves, yes; but save others too. However it happened, whoever is most responsible, we all collectively failed to keep him out of the White House, and morally we owe it to the most vulnerable among us — the poor, immigrants documented and undocumented, racial and religious minorities, the neurodivergent, LGBTQ+ — to protect them (or at least try to).
For those who put yourselves through the misery of another Trump rally speech, you can cleanse your soul and salve your psyche by watching MLK’s “I have a dream.” Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
I do love that hymn...
I refused to watch this. What a dark day. That’s all!
Word salad inaugural. He’s a moron - and I’m being polite.
He is not an American, period. He is a narcissistic sheik or an oligarch who wants people to adore him while he has a harem to himself.
As I listened to the speech, I told my wife the very same thing … it was a campaign speech, with one exception. He didn’t have the ramblings he would usually interject, unless they occurred after 12:25. I had an online yoga class at 12:30 and priorities are priorities. I was really hoping to see a unifying message. But alas, I think in Trump’s eyes, that was a unifying speech.
No, Jim, you didn't miss it. he mostly stayed on the teleprompter.
Please write an article about JB pardoning his family members! What should the American public take from that?!? Whoa Boy! Has that ever been done in history? Parsons for those not yet charged? It’s reeks of corruption!
Ford pardoned Nixon. And I don't have a problem with the pardons Biden issued today. We know Trump is just going to go after everyone who ever crossed him in the past. Joe just eliminated a whole bunch of targets so that maybe Trump can concentrate on actually doing his job.
This is really unprecedented in history I believe. Pardons for family members not yet charged! It’s stunning!
And it's unprecedented that an incoming POTUS should threaten the outgoing one and his family members, not to mention staff such as Fauci and Milley.
You must have missed the last four years where Joe Biden and AG Garland appointed (unconstitutionally) a special counsel to investigate their political opponent.
Didn't Speaker Pelosi start an "impeachment trial" on Trump AFTER he left office?
Cry me a river, snowflake.
Would you find it stunning if Trump issued pardons to his children? I find it shocking that we just had a convicted felon, who has stated publicly that he intends exact retribution on those he feels have wronged him, sworn in as President. That is not the American way.
I am pardoning someone for offenses which they did not commit
I agree that Chris should write an article about Biden's pardons of his family members. Chris should also mention the unrelenting threats and attacks by Trump against those same Biden family members, threatening imprisonment. An absolutely disgraceful act from a guy who just can't accept his loss in 2020.
Chris did write posts (and post videos) about it. And lots of other people have written articles about it.
He couldn’t have bc crooked JB just issued those unethical pardons to his family members as they were evicting him from the White House a couple hours ago…..
Ah, thought you meant the Hunter Biden pardon.
Sorry, but anyone hoping to see a unifying message from this man has a learning disability. It's not his style or his intent.
I’m sure you didn’t mean anything personal by that comment but I sure didn’t appreciate it. To imply someone has a learning disability because they believe in this country and have hope is disingenuous. If you don’t have hope then what’s the use of even living. I have felt deep hopelessness in my personal life and I can tell you it’s not a place you want to be. For me there is always hope.
There will be little hope for the next few years. That's reality. We've put a criminal in office. My hope is for a big swing of the pendulum back to reality at the midterms.
NanceeM's comment did not say anything about believing in America, or having hope. It was about anyone having hope of seeing a unifying message in the speech, which the fact is,, there was absolutely nothing unifying in that speech.
Agree there was nothing unifying in his speech, and said as much. But to say having hope that I would see one implies I have a learning disability is downright offensive! I will always have hope. If I don’t I will never get through this next four years. Notice, I didn’t say I I have faith he will do the right thing. Hope precedes faith and he hasn’t earned that.
Ok, I did not at first perceive that the disability comment seemed to be directed at you personally.
I assumed she meant anyone hoping to see a unifying message, but now I can see how you can take it as being directed at you.
Perhaps the emotions of the day, and the lack of anything gracious or unifying in the Prez's speech to the nation has many of us reacting with unclear messages....
I don’t think you meant to offend me, but if you think Trump believes in America outside of what is politically or financially in his advantage, you operate with a very sick and dystopian view of America.
Hell if you believe that, I bet you can buy a pair of Air-Cons, a Bible, NFT, watch or meme coin to show your patriotism and loyalty to dear leader.
To the victors go the spoils
An impeachment is not a criminal trial
It makes no sense to vote to remove him from office when he had already left office prior to the start of the Senate trial on 2/9
The original point was to show that Biden and Pelosi went after the outgoing President immediately
So President Trump knew Biden was weaponizing the DOJ against him? Biden became President on 1/20/21 but (somehow) Trump outsmarted him by announcing his candidacy nearly two years into Biden’s term.
Awkward, indeed. Not a good speech by any measure.
Totally depends on your perspective!
Yes, if you hate America it was a great speech.
I was quite inspired.
Inspired to head to the toilet.
Very good inspiration.
Chris - this speech has to have achieved a new world record for the number of adjectives in an inaugural speech - positive adjectives about all of the wonderful things he will achieve for America, or negative adjectives for all of the bad things he will keep from happening...AND NOT ONE mention how he will deliver on any of it. The implication being - all of these goods things will now happen because HE is there.
God help us...
I'm glad I didn't watch any of the crap. If I had watched, I would have kicked the TV screen in. What a POS.
I appreciate you Chris.
I could not get myself to watch any of it. Your observations did not surprise me and building my own wall around myself to protect from the new administration. Praying for the strength to be willing to see any positives and be constructive when I disagree.
Every time Hitler survived a plot to murder him, his worshippers used it as "proof" that God was on the Nazi's side. Funny how that works. Too bad God does not speak up for herself. So, we're stuck with people believing what they want to believe, even though it has no bearing on reality. And no way to verify one way or the other.
Growing up, I had little appreciation for the epithet “horse’s ass.” Now I do. Thank you to Donald Trump for providing a picture worthy of Webster’s.