The Official Thread Dedicated to "Trump Winning"

[Yinzerlyn]

I think it's fiscally responsible to not pay for people serving in the military's elective surgery. It's a choice to get elective surgery, and that choice should fall on the individual to make, and to fund.

Though barring a group of people from serving in the military, because they are different, is cowardly and low. The problem has been solved by not funding elective surgery. If they still want to serve, let them serve.

My only concern about this is that other surgeries covered by the military/Tricare are elective as well. Vasectomies, tubal ligations, hysterectomies. If we say that gender reassignment is elective and the Pentagon won't pay for them, then will activists lobby to have these elective surgeries taken off the list as well?

Before I get lectured- I KNOW there is a HUGE difference between gender reassignment and a vasectomy. But they are both elective.

 

[Stryker]

My only concern about this is that other surgeries covered by the military/Tricare are elective as well. Vasectomies, tubal ligations, hysterectomies. If we say that gender reassignment is elective and the Pentagon won't pay for them, then will activists lobby to have these elective surgeries taken off the list as well?

Before I get lectured- I KNOW there is a HUGE difference between gender reassignment and a vasectomy. But they are both elective.

I'm 100% on board with you Lyn. Unless having these surgeries is life saving, or aids them to serve, it is elective. I do know tubal ligations and hysterectomies can be necessary surgeries, but vasectomies are not.

Plus there are many ways to serve the military guys. Not everyone is in a fox hole. Plenty of service jobs for these guys to do.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Just as I thought. You and others cried for weeks when I took some time off after Orange Julius took office. Claiming that I ran from the board, hid under my bed, blah ******* blah. When I'm here that's the problem. When I'm not here then that's the problem.

Let me start by assuring you that your sense of your worth to this board is duly over-inflated. And like so much you type about here, you misinterpret. I could place a dollar bill in front of you, and you'd somehow spend 20 minutes explaining how it is a chicken, or a maple leaf.

You were lambasted, roasted, and skewered because after a year of 1,000 posts a day, basically puking all over threads, you were wrong. Wrong on countless fronts. Flat out, not even close, embarrassingly wrong. During the year, you were insulting, arrogant and rude to those that didn't share your belief. And when the other predictors were correct, you tucked tail and ran. You've tried to paint that 30 different ways so it doesn't look so bad, but that's what you did. And that's what you were roasted for. Period.

It's not that we missed you. Not in the least. It's that you didn't stay to take your lumps...THEN leave. That's what a man would have done. Not you.

You, Trog, 21, and the Tard are all different. While Elf is a sick, sick person, there's a spine in there, and right, wrong or indifferent, stands behind his/its sick beliefs. You have no spine. You show up like a shark when the feeding's good, but can't be found when it's bad.

You and the snowflake Trump fanboys can't face the heat, since I call you out on your lies and embellishments and the non-stop fake news and propaganda dumped on here by Spike and others.

It's not that you post what you believe so often Tibs, it's your intolerance to other opinion. I've said before, you're the AntiFA of the board. Any opposing thought is typically met with a meme or ridicule or a hastily found article by you.

I take the time to check my sources, post links, cross reference the information I bring to the board.

Yeah. And I'm the ******* tooth fairy. You who sprays posts around this board like machine gun fire, now spreads the notion that you research and cross check your references like a journalist that spends days prepping his big article before it goes to the editor prior to publishing. Except...well...about that...from your post history:

8-24 Post at 1:01PM
8-24 Post at 1:16PM
8-24 Post at 1:19PM
8-24 Post at 2:54PM and another at 2:54PM
8-24 Post at 5:42PM
8-24 Post at 5:47PM
8-24 Post at 5:59PM

8-23 Post at 12:25PM
8-23 Post at 12:48PM
8-23 Post at 1:21PM
8-23 Post at 1:59PM

That's just looking at the past couple days. I'm curious when all of this cross-checking and research goes on? Must be REALLY in-depth.

The reason I'm on this board is I used to do some amateur sports writing. Was never really great at it, but my best work got posted here and was used nationally a couple times as a point of reference by some organizations. I found it linked here, and decided to join the forum under the same name - Tim Steelersfan. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/232404-the-steelers-steroids-and-profound-misconceptions

I had to reference quite a bit to put that together. Took me over a week and a half of my free time, lots of research and cross-checking sources, etc. You're NOT doing this in 1, 3, 9, 12 minutes between your posts on this board.

Go feed that bullshit to someone who will believe your fake news.

It's sad how pathetic Trump supporters have become. Scared of your own shadows, never willing to face the music and defend your man with fact-based arguments. It's become a bonafide Snowflake Festival on this board with most of you so-called conservatives.

What's sad is that liberals have turned to calling people here snowflakes. You should look up the definition. It fits no Conservative here. None of us needs a safe space. After that **** bag Obama was elected twice, we stood, on our feet, for our beliefs here and in public - without violence, with pride. Yet you, the actual snowflake, needed a safe space and ran. You didn't have the spine or backbone to face the music. Now you call people snowflake? As I said in the prior post, we HATE in others that which we HATE in ourselves...and now you've resulted to calling others snowflakes because you hate being one yourself.

Now please, by all means, go back to accusing others of searching for good news (when you're guilty of this sin), or posting too much (you're guilty of this sin), of being a snowflake (you are and have behaved as one), or posting fake news (you're guilty of this sin), of being blind and non-objective in your adoration for the person you voted for (you're guilty of this sin) and the rest of your never ending hypocrisies. Selective outrage still being my favorite of yours

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

It's not just Mexico. We're now doing a better job of keeping all foreign criminals out of the system. Huge example of Winning....

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Trump is winning the battle against countries sending their criminals to the US

After serving time for two rape convictions, Vietnamese native Thong Van was released into an American community rather than being deported. He then shot two veteran California prison guards, leaving both of them in critical condition. He was returned to prison but still wasn’t deported. Haitian native Jean Jacques, who had been incarcerated for attempted murder, was also released back onto the streets instead of being immediately deported. He then took the life of 25-year-old Casey Chadwick.

Both of these incidents were entirely preventable, but sadly they’re just the tip of a public safety iceberg that most Americans aren’t even aware of. Both men hail from what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) calls recalcitrant countries – nations that refuse to accept the return of their own citizens when the U.S. attempts to deport them. Because of a 2001 Supreme Court ruling in Zadvydas v. Davis, criminal aliens who can’t be returned to their home countries must eventually be released into our communities, with little supervision. Unfortunately, a startling number go on to reoffend, committing heinous crimes that would have been preventable, had we just been able to send them home.

One of the pillars of President Trump’s campaign pledge on immigration reform was to force recalcitrant countries to take back their own. On January 25, the president issued the “Enhancing Internal Immigration Enforcement” executive order, which put countries on notice that the U.S. would no longer turn a blind eye to their refusal to take back their citizens. That threat alone caused the official list of recalcitrant countries to drop from 20 to 12, but now the administration is reportedly ready to back up its words with action.

U.S. law allows the Department of State to stop issuing visas to nationals of countries that won’t take their own citizens back. Most prior administrations have been unwilling to exercise this option, fearing diplomatic and economic fallout. But President Trump, ever the pragmatist, has acknowledged the danger that recalcitrant countries force on American communities. In order to protect American lives, he seems determined to force recalcitrant countries to honor their legal and moral obligations to repatriate their less desirable citizens.

If the Trump administration doesn’t blink, the United States will succeed in sending a clear message: Take your problem children back. We will no longer be the home of last resort for criminals from abroad. And although, according to media reports, only four nations – Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone – are on the Trump fix-it list, any action coercing recalcitrant countries to step up and do the right thing is a positive step toward preventing future immigrant crime.

Moving forward, the U.S. will stop issuing new visas to residents of the four listed nations until they agree to take back their own citizens when they are no longer welcome in the United States. The ability to visit and do business in the U.S. is highly coveted, and threat of a moratorium on visa issuance will leave many countries ready to rethink their unwillingness to cooperate with ICE efforts to carry out deportations.

Ending the problem of recalcitrant countries will go a long way in reducing immigrant crime in the U.S. The ill-considered Zadvydas decision has resulted in American communities being forced to cope with a yearly influx of thousands of criminal aliens from recalcitrant countries who simply should not be allowed to remain here. If the Trump administration successfully brings recalcitrant countries to heel, those foreign criminals will be forced to return home, providing much needed relief to over-burdened ICE officials, and local police officers.

It’s shocking that the U.S. is being forced to take these steps in the first place. As a matter of comity, countries that send immigrants here should be willing to take them back. In addition, international law requires states to re-admit their own nationals when they return home, regardless of the manner in which they return. America readily re-admits the relatively few U.S. citizens who are deported from other countries. It has an unfettered right to expect the same from fellow members of the international community.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

Great news on the McConnell front. One by one, beat these RINOs down, loosen the every-day opposition and get some true, cooperative work happening. McConnell''s approval rating, 18%, is WAY below Trump's.

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Trump is Winning The Battle Against McConnell in Kentucky...By A lot

The battle between President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell keeps escalating, with the two leaders reportedly getting into heated phone calls earlier this month about how to move a successful Republican agenda on Capitol Hill. Now, they aren't speaking.

But according to new polling, Trump is trouncing McConnell in his home state of Kentucky and overwhelmingly beats the majority leader on approval from voters.

A Public Policy Polling survey found just 18 percent of respondents approve of the job McConnell is doing, compared with 74 percent who disapprove.

President Trump has an approval rating of 60 percent in Kentucky. Slightly more than one-third of respondents, 36 percent, disapprove of the job the president is doing.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

And to those naysayers, the ones being spoon-fed by the media...

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Donald Trump is winning...bigly

If you get your political updates through ordinary channels – MSM; local news; the major newspapers; and popular website newsies such as Yahoo, Facebook, and more recently Drudge – you most likely feel that America is imploding, all due to the chaos of the Trump administration.

The goal is to wear you down, if not wear you out, until you agree that Trump must go.

The stakes rise with each new Trump achievement, commensurate with the rising decibel level of those who express outrage at whatever he says. That's what happens when your cherished assumptions are disproven day after day. It's comical and also understandable. No one likes to admit that he is wrong. Or that they are wrong on a regular basis. It's embarrassing and humiliating – especially if you are touted as an expert journalist or commentator, at least by virtue of being on TV.

That's why you hear little or nothing about:

• the current NAFTA negotiations
  [*]Kim Jong-un blinking
  [*]China threatening a trade war and then blinking
  [*]the U.S. becoming a net energy exporter
  [*]our diminishing trade imbalance
  [*]the amazing rise to nearly 4% GDP growth in the 2017 third quarter
  [*]forecasters suggesting that GDP could grow to 5 or 6% annualized
  [*]a rise in manufacturing investments in the U.S.
  [*]more full-time jobs among the middle class
  [*]the Syrian crisis
  [*]the continuing fall of ISIS in the Middle East
  [*]Wall Street's record highs as they turn to embrace Main Street
  [*]the public's opposition to the destruction of historic statues and memorials
  [*]an abhorrence of radical and violent activists on all sides, most all of whom abide on the left fringe
  [*]Russian collusion
  [*]the Awan brothers
  [*]Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  [*]Hillary and the Clinton Foundation entities
  [*]the wall
  [*]immigration
  [*]et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Trump is winning – BIGLY. It's almost too easy. He's focused on results, period. The rest is just distraction, much of it orchestrated by anti-Trumpers who insist that you really can get a different result if you repeat the same experiment enough times. They still don't get it because they don't want to get it. They have dug in their heels. That's why I find it funny. Trump is playing them every step of the way.

The people who get it are the American workers – the ones who watch Dirty Jobs, follow Mike Rowe on Facebook, and are happy to find an extra two hundred dollars at the end of the month. Soon enough, others will, too. It just takes time. Trump is making it happen before our very eyes.

 

[Yinzerlyn]

I'm 100% on board with you Lyn. Unless having these surgeries is life saving, or aids them to serve, it is elective. I do know tubal ligations and hysterectomies can be necessary surgeries, but vasectomies are not.

Plus there are many ways to serve the military guys. Not everyone is in a fox hole. Plenty of service jobs for these guys to do.

But even if you are not in a fox hole, you still have to meet the physical requirements.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Great news on the McConnell front. One by one, beat these RINOs down, loosen the every-day opposition and get some true, cooperative work happening. McConnell''s approval rating, 18%, is WAY below Trump's.

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Trump is Winning The Battle Against McConnell in Kentucky...By A lot[/URL]

Anybody know when McConnell is up for reelection and if anyone else has declared they're running against him in the primary?

 

[SteelChip]

I just wish he could finally put the news media in their place once and for all. Yeh wishful thinking ..LOL


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[SteelChip]

OK, too much time has passed without jocularity. Now where were we...oh yeah, Trump winning.

President Trump ad-libbed a blistering attack on the mainstream media Tuesday in his speech in Phoenix. Their superior attitude can be a little rough on him. The mainstream media covers Donald Trump's presidency as if every day is a new episode of Keeping Up with the White-Trashians.

 

[Spike]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL


Michael Moore: Trump on track for reelection

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore believes President Trump is on track to win reelection in 2020

Moore encouraged Democrats to back a movement to award Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner, saying it was the best way to keep Trump from getting reelected.

“I should say reappointed, because we will have an even larger population that will vote against him in 2020,” Moore said in an interview with Fast Company magazine published Monday. “But he will win those electoral states as it stands now.”

Moore, who was one of few prominent voices who predicted Trump would win in 2016

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/348275-michael-moore-trump-on-track-for-reelection

 

[Spike]

Draining of the Swamp continues....


Tillerson to abolish most special envoys, including climate

Most of the United States’ special envoys will be abolished and their responsibilities reassigned as part of the State Department overhaul, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Congress on Monday, including envoys for climate change and the Iran deal.

Special envoys for Afghanistan-Pakistan, disability rights and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center will be eliminated under the plan. But President Donald Trump’s administration plans to keep envoys for religious freedom, fighting anti-Semitism and LGBT rights, despite speculation from critics that it would seek to downgrade those priorities.

Lawmakers of both parties, think tanks and even the diplomats’ association have long called for absorbing some of the countless U.S. envoys and special representatives into related offices, to help reduce redundancies across the State Department’s notoriously unwieldy bureaucracy.

Of 66 current envoys or representatives, 30 will remain, a cut of 55 percent. Some special envoys are mandated by Congress. The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to repeal those mandates.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-08-28-20-45-17

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Special envoys for Afghanistan-Pakistan, disability rights and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center will be eliminated under the plan.

I thought Bomma closed GITMO? Bomma said.

 

[IndySteel]

I thought Bomma closed GITMO? Bomma said.

He released his terrorist friends but it's not closed yet.

 

[21STEELERS21]

Tim, I'm curious who is predicting 4 to 6% GDP growth, that the media isn't covering?

They would have to be rather nutty, when unemployment is at 4.3%. We don't have enough people to get to 3% on a regular basis,
although it could hit 3% in a random quarter.

 

[Spike]

Donald Trump to Cheering Crowd: ‘Texas Can Handle Anything!’ After Hurricane Harvey

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump traveled to Corpus Christi, Texas, for a briefing on the state’s efforts to rescue victims of Hurricane Harvey.

The storm briefing took place at the Annaville Fire Department, as hundreds of Texans lined the streets to welcome him with chants of “USA!,” “Texas for Trump,” “We Love Trump,” “Texas Strong,” and “We Love Trump!”After spotting the crowd, Trump stood on a ladder and waved the Texas flag.

“It’s historic, it’s epic, but I tell you it happened in Texas and Texas can handle anything!” he shouted.

American flags and a yellow Gadsen flag were spotted in the cheering crowd as well as signs from a couple of protesters.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...s-can-handle-anything-after-hurricane-harvey/

 

[Ron Burgundy]

They would have to be rather nutty, when unemployment is at 4.3%. We don't have enough people to get to 3% on a regular basis,
although it could hit 3% in a random quarter.

I dunno, I'm out of work but I'm smart and I can handle things.

 

[Steeltime]

Tim, I'm curious who is predicting 4 to 6% GDP growth, that the media isn't covering?

That growth rate is not what our economy wants or needs. A growth rate of 2.5% to 3% is ideal as it yields massive growth, increased income, promotes investment, and generates substantial tax revenues from the non-government economy.


By Kimberly Amadeo
Updated June 30, 2017

The U.S. economic outlook is healthy according to the key economic indicators. The most critical indicator is gross domestic product, which measures the nation's production output. The GDP growth rate is expected to remain between the 2 percent to 3 percent ideal range. Unemployment is forecast to continue at the natural rate. There isn't too much inflation or deflation. That's a Goldilocks economy.

https://www.thebalance.com/us-economic-outlook-3305669

They would have to be rather nutty, when unemployment is at 4.3%. We don't have enough people to get to 3% on a regular basis, although it could hit 3% in a random quarter.

Okay, your statement makes little sense. "We don't have enough people to get to 3% on a regular basis" seems to suggest that a larger influx of uneducated, low-skilled, non-English speaking refugees will somehow lower unemployment.

NO. IT. WON'T.

Dumping millions of undereducated, unskilled, non-English speaking refugees is basically the recipe for INCREASING unemployment and creating a dependent class. California is the best example of that fact.

 

[21STEELERS21]

My point on labor is that for the first time we have zero labor force growth in the United States. As many baby boomers are retiring as younger people are entering the
work force. Your not going to get over 3% growth rates when that happens, unless existing workers have extremely high productivity increases. Or you speed up replacing
humans with robots.

 

[IndySteel]

Lowering taxes to MAGA!

Job Creators Network, one of the nation’s largest pro-jobs grassroots organizations, is praising President Donald Trump’s “pro-American tax reform” plan, which he urged Congress to pass in a speech Wednesday in Springfield, Missouri.
“The president is determined to energize the American economy, especially with the necessary tax cuts for job creators – small businesses all across the country who create 70 percent of all new jobs,” Job Creators Network President and CEO Alfredo Ortiz said in a statement. “Job Creators Network will be very vocal and supportive over the coming weeks and months in an all-out effort to ensure small businesses and the country’s hard-working taxpayers get the help they’ve been asking for over so many years.”

“We anticipate Congress, on both sides of the aisle, will be supportive of what the President outlined today,” said Ortiz, whose organization is asking every American to sign its petition to urge Congress to pass meaningful tax reform.

President Trump told a cheering crowd that his “administration is embracing a new economic model. It’s called very simply: The American Model.” Trump touted a 15 percent business tax rate, cutting tax loopholes for corporations, and urged lawmakers to lower taxes for middle-class Americans.

 

[Spike]

White House: President Trump will donate $1 million to Harvey relief

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Donald Trump is pledging $1 million in personal funds to Harvey storm relief efforts.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-08-31-15-53-09


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Obama {crickets}

 

[Spike]

Concrete Border Wall Prototype Contractors Announced

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday afternoon U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the first four contractors that will build border wall prototypes in San Diego.

Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello addressed a room full of reporters on Thursday afternoon in Washington D.C. to make the announcement on the progress on border wall prototype construction.

Construction is now scheduled to begin in the fall, although CBP will be discussing the timeline with vendors.

Four contractors have been granted agreements to construct concrete border wall prototypes:

Caddell Construction Co. (DE), LLC of Montgomery, AL

Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., DBA Fisher Industries of Tempe, AZ

Texas Sterling Construction Co. of Houston, TX

W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company of Philadelphia, MS

The prototypes will feature characteristics such as reinforced concrete and heights between 18 and 30 feet. They have been “designed to deter illegal crossings in the area in which they are constructed,” according to a CBP press release.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-border-wall-prototype-contractors-announced/

 

[IndySteel]

Concrete Border Wall Prototype Contractors Announced

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday afternoon U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the first four contractors that will build border wall prototypes in San Diego.

Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello addressed a room full of reporters on Thursday afternoon in Washington D.C. to make the announcement on the progress on border wall prototype construction.

Construction is now scheduled to begin in the fall, although CBP will be discussing the timeline with vendors.

Four contractors have been granted agreements to construct concrete border wall prototypes:

Caddell Construction Co. (DE), LLC of Montgomery, AL

Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., DBA Fisher Industries of Tempe, AZ

Texas Sterling Construction Co. of Houston, TX

W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company of Philadelphia, MS

The prototypes will feature characteristics such as reinforced concrete and heights between 18 and 30 feet. They have been “designed to deter illegal crossings in the area in which they are constructed,” according to a CBP press release.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-border-wall-prototype-contractors-announced/

Nice but it still needs a priliminary barricade with motion activated machine guns and pressure mines so the Mexicans can't plant explosives to blow out sections of The Wall.

 

[Spike]

President Trump to slash ObamaCare outreach funding

The Trump administration is slashing funding for ObamaCare enrollment outreach.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials announced on a call with reporters Thursday that funding for advertising and other outreach for ObamaCare enrollment will be cut from $100 million last year to $10 million this year.

A department official argued the administration is seeing "diminishing returns" from ObamaCare spending. Officials also pointed to ObamaCare's shortcomings to justify the cuts.

“A health-care system that has caused premiums to double and left nearly half of our counties with only one coverage option is not working," said HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley. "The Trump administration is determined to serve the American people instead of trying to sell them a bad deal"

Officials also announced they are cutting funding for "navigators," which are outside organizations that help sign people up. Funding will be proportional to how navigators have fared in hitting their enrollment target the previous year. If a group signed up 70 percent of their target, they will get 70 percent of the funding.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/348763-trump-administration-to-slash-obamacare-outreach-funding

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Why even give them $10 million? Use it on the wall. Send it to Houston.....

 

[deljzc]

Here is what real trade negotiations sound like.... Not the suck-your-balls schlurping you heard from Obama during every one of his so-called "trade deals".

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ds-possibility-world-without-nafta/622982001/