Thank you, Jim. Too many Americans - on both the right and left - are victims of their own addiction to instant gratification, fueled by their short attention spans. Those on the right who aren't satisfied with what Trump has done so far are behaving like princesses with zero idea of how expertly Trump is working D. C. “I want America fixed, not just by the end of today but yesterday!” Those on the Left are behaving like psychopaths “He's moving faster than Hitler to destroy Democracy and he doesn't even wait for *our* due-process!” It's been over eight years of not being able to reason with TDS, but I'm dismayed by the people who should be thrilled at what Trump has accomplished instead constantly deriding how long it's taking him to do what he said he would. Have they ever tried to get anything done in government? If Warren Buffet says it's best to review your finances once a year, maybe the same holds for reviewing your president. If I were to scold my husband with “Sure, you took out the garbage and fixed the toilet but you brought back a steak from the market that's not a rib-eye like you said you'd get!” and didn't bother to register that maybe there wasn't a rib-eye today in the meat section and we're going to be eating a fine porterhouse cut - I would be pretty abusive, no? Show a little gratitude to the guy who's done more to save America in less time than any president in my lifetime. Thank you, President Trump!
Pol - excecpt for that genius George Washington, Trump in the best president we've ever had! He understands the kind of operation that works for civilized people. My only objection is he puts up with the Commie freaks instead of throwing them in jail or running them out of the country!
You are so right, Mr. Brown - Trump *is* the best president since George Washington. When we do get together we'll toast him. I'm a teetotaler, but Trump is, too.
I don’t know how you magas can spend so much time on your knees, groveling and kissing trumps butt. This nation has nothing to thank him for. He has made the United States, one of the most disrespected and hated nations in the world today. He has alienated, allies and friends, and the United States now stands alone. Which I believe is what he wants. He’s always bragging how he’s the only one that can fix the problems. Well, he sure isn’t doing that job either.
He keeps repeating how we might have to go through some hardships and discomfort for a while, which is easy for him to say, since he and his oligarch billionaire friends, won’t even feel it. His overall approval rating is now less than 37% and the polls have him as the worst president in history ever.
Julia: Thank you for a voice of sanity amongst the disinformation, …..I don’t know how to address these people who don’t appear to see or understand how lawlessly and self-aggrandizing trump is….HIS HISTORY ALONE SHOULD HAVE DISQUALIFIED HIM AS A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY OF THIS COUNTRY.
The problem as I see it is that the sources the dyed-in-the-wool Republican use for their information remains unnamed. Liberals have at least 5 very reputable sources to gather facts, and check inconsistencies, whereas, no Republican will name their source. I’ve asked many times. I suspect it’s FOX and they’re embarrassed to say so.
I agree with your description. Only someone with Trump’s life experience and with no concern about his next election or his next paycheck could have the courage to what is needed to stop and reverse the slow and steady “managed decline” set in place by the Progressives, Marxists, and Globalists.
trumps life experience? You mean like when he went to war, oh wait no he had Bone spurs, couldn’t go. Not concerned about a paycheck, why would he be his daddy left him 40+ million dollars and possibly real estate. No, he was concerned about the next election. That’s why he acted like the loser he is. Crying that the 2020 election was stolen. He was concerned, he knew he lost. His life experience consists of being a philanderer, sexual predator, racist, liar, braggart, six bankruptcies under his belt, grifter, snake oil salesman, convicted felon, failure as a president.
JULIA, AH, THE FRESH AIR OF REALITY, OF THE TRUTH…..
The question I keep asking is, WHAT DO THE REPUBLICANS EXPECT TO GAIN FROM THE DICTATORSHIP TRUMP Wants our Democracy to become ? We know what he wants….something to make up for the emptiness in himself, from a lifetime of failures…he thinks being a TIN KING is going to make him happy and he’s ruining lives of good American citizens to satisfy his sickness.
Bernard: The U.S. is a Democracy with a Constitution of Laws which has served us for many years. If your philosophy of how Americans should live and actandexpectfrom government is different from WHAT HAS EXISTED FOR ALL THESE YEAES WITH VARIATION , APPROVED OF BY CONGRESS….well, maybe you should move to another country which suits you Modus operandi.
IT IS NOT RIGHT TO CHANGE WHAT HAS BEEN IN PLACE AS LAWS AND ENTITIES ….AGREED ON BY CONGRESS…WHICH BENEFITS MOST AMERICANS .
IT IS EASIER FOR THOSEWHO WANT TO CHANGE THE BASIC TENETS OF DEMOCRACY TO CREATE CHAOS WHICH IS RUINIGN THE LIVES OF TAX PAYING AMERICANS
Basically, I mean to say: TURNING a Democracy into a Dictatorship….which is what it appears trump is doing….is AGAINST what exists…our democracy. There exist dictatorships around the world, but The U.S. IS A DEMOCRACY, WITH LAWS IN PLACE TO KEEP IT RUNNING FAIRLY AS IT HAS BEEN.
Millions of people are objecting to the chaos and the misinformation which FOX for example spews out every minute of the day.
So, think about going to Turkey. That Dictatorship isn’t going anywhere fast and you might be happier there. Take your friends with you.
Trump is making the USA weaker economically and security wise and strengthening China and Russia. Not to mention trampling on our civil rights and breaking laws every day. He will also again create more deficit spending than the Democrats with his tax cuts.
Brian, your comment adds nothing to the reality of what is happening. Which site would you like us liberals to pay attention to? WHERE do you get your information?
I challenge you to name your sources so we can debate the validity of such. Thanks.
Chuck, a lot of one-sided speculation in your comments, picking the worst and dare we say partisan doomsday projected scenario - in effect you are claiming America will flounder unless it sticks to more reckless tax and unaccountable govenrment spending. Any particularly reasons for your own speculative viewpoints?
China is its own powerhouse, pretty much regardless of what we do. And for its long 5000 year history, which is what it has always been. We can stop weakening our own country, chasing the few pennies saved buying cheap Chinese crap. China also teeters in demographic free-fall right now, so little is stable about its own future.
China's recent break throughs in hard science technology should give us pause, while our own higher learning institutions have devolved into swamps of irrelevant causes, ideologies and useless spending.
Russia in fact is a small economy with a large land mass and highly diverse populations to oversee. They have applied their own Cold War peace dividend to a great deal of domestic spending and modernization, which is obvious to anyone traveling there over the past few decades. Again, a country whose history must be viewed through the millennium lens, not the short term centuries lens we apply to our own country.
Tax cuts do not create deficit spending.. They are merely explicit provisions written into the tax code. As such, government spending must adjust appropriately. Government spending is what drives deficits.
Don’t forget all his golf trips every week, goes home to mar-a-lago for golf. He’s erecting 2 100 foot flag poles on the north and south sides of the White House. Apparently he can’t see the one that’s on top of the White House. Supposedly, musk is saving money and Trump is spending it. I agree His deficit is going to be so much bigger than his first term and that was about 7 trillion.
Great recount of the USA 🇺🇸 recovery and the war against the Dems pitiful policies that are being pushed by the left. Thanks for the reporting reminder/summary and the common courtesy of the POTUS powers of our re-elected DJT. 🙏👏👍💯⚖️🍻🎯🫵🗽🇺🇸
As he is in his second term by a landslide victory Julia its more than a courtesy to bow to the fake Republican Rhino’s in a blitz to corner them and expose the traitorous left.
What he’s doing is all common sense responses to the destruction the Dems and some Republicans have wrought on us for decades now. I for one couldn’t be more pleased and agree with you wholeheartedly about these much needed changes no matter how painful they may be.
Brian…why don’t you name the” destruction the Dems “ “ have wrought on us for decades “ so we know what your euphemisms refers to. And please, could you demonstrate where you gather your information? What proof you may have, OR is it just your personal opinion about how Americans should be treated?
For example ( to help you along ) Do you disapprove of
1. MEDICARE
2. SOCIAL SECURITY
3. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR BRIGHT BUT POOR STUDENTS
4. DUE PROCESS OF OUR LAWS
5. OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION
6. DO YOU, in general, THINK THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT HELP NEEDY AMERICAN CITIZENS.
As I said, this is just for starters to see if we agree on the place of government in the lives of Americans.
I admire you Jim, for your unwavering courage and commitment to telling it like it is. Especially in a town where people wear their political beliefs on their sleeves. Kudos to you and the many patriots on this site.
The old adage of “you measure a person based on their opposition,” rings true. The legions of neo- liberal, disloyal opposition is very telling. As you mentioned, the unhinged immigration policies advocated by the left, the spending of our hard earned tax dollars funding outrageous, perverted causes and the out of control, radical judiciary should be obvious, clear threats to our democracy.
What amazes me is the local liberals that take to our streets, often in their 60-70’s, often apoplectic about various bizarre social issues ie, men playing women’s sports, defending terrorists from being deported and cutting massive fraud and abuse from our government to name a few.
I’m sorry, but it’s very hard for me to take serious a 70 year old male, jumping up and down about the Ukraine or Elon Musk while sporting a ponytail!
Sorry, call me old school.
It has become obvious to me that the liberal psyche is based on emotions and not logic.
Cui bono, who benefits from the current unhinged "immigration policies"? Start with the most obvious ones - the teachers unions. Then the vast numbers of SEIU member social welfare employees. No wonder there is such a partisan divide on this one issue itself. No wonder there is this insatiable partisan demand for higher taxes and more government debt? Cui bono, indeed.
Respondeat Superior, “let the master answer,” Counselor. Yes, let the perverted Democratic Party answer for their unhinged violence, their obscene violations of Title 9, their criminality in letting millions of undocumented immigrants into our country and their highjacking of our judiciary by radical leftists! Let them answer at the ballot box and in the courtroom.
LT…You clearly have a lot of prejudices and biases….they are your problems and should NOT be imposed on the freedoms and laws we Americans have fought for, paid for, and lived happily with throughout our lives.
There are ways to change what you may not like in a Democracy, and not the way trump is doing it.
If you are so disturbed about men wearing pigtails, how can you stand trump coloring his hair BLOND…a 78 year old idiot….and COMBING IT STUPIDLY TO COVER HIS BALD SPOT?
Much Better to wear a pigtail. Our forefathers did!
Of all the stupid things to complain about…….YIKES! You’re not just “ old school “,you need therapy. FOCUS ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT: innocent men and women and children being kidnapped by this sick man in office and sent to jails in other country.
YOU SHOULD BE INCENSED. YOU COULD BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE…trump is making all sorts of mistakes about whom he jails in El Salvador !
Faced with an never ending beggars mentality in government is enticing.
Sure let's government do it, they have the money!! Who's money?
Taxpayers and let's not forget businesses. If you think want you see daily in your tax bills (e.g. energy) is the bottom line forget it. To survive businesses have to pass on all government taxes to their customers. The anti-Trumpers found out a long time ago to hide the tax burden make business the hidden tax collector.
Then you have the "tin cup street beggars" who are the government workers.
Far too often they cannot make it in the private sector that converts labor and ideas into profits (profits the gov. then taxes). Who works for the city of SB in parking? The former head of the bicycle boys now called Move. How about those community development types that have failed the City of Santa Barbara with State St. narrowing for 40+ years and killed retail in the heart of the city. Same types in Goleta that within 6 months of narrowing Old Town Hollister put most of the middle class businesses in ICU.
Bringing it down to the local level focuses the irrational and costly big government wonks of the Left. Then you have the supposed supporters of business. What too often do they do? Turn to government with their tin cups out, give us money and we'll happily play the game of government forced economies.
Yep Trump has rattled the cage. Unfortunately the State of Calif. for over 40 years has not just moved but raced to the Soviet style economy. Trump says "prove it!!!"
But with easily $26 Billion State deficit, all the cities in South SB County teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, and a County who's budget is now over a $ Billion the dyed in the wool big government types go into cardiac arrest. All because when faced with a call for small government and protection of business they realize there isn't enough O2 for the private sector and big government to exist.
Cars Are Basic: CONSIDER THIS. IF YOU WANT CHANGES in the way the U,S. Government works, THEN MAKE THE CHANGES ACCORDING TO LAWS, NOT BY RIPPING APART WHAT MANY OF US THINK HAS WORKED FOR DECADES.
REMEMBER: THIS IS A COUNTRY OF LAWS. IF YOU APPROVE OF A DICTATORSHIP….GO ELSEWHERE. You are blind to these facts: trump is not trying to “ make a smaller government “ as you Republicans think. He is trying to be a DICTATOR to try to make himself feel better. You are fooling yourselves if you think he has ONE IOTA of compassion for anyone else but his thoroughly unhealthy ego.
Just check out his history and behavior as a father, husband, businessman…..he has no compassion, no capacity for love or caring for humanity…..he is an evil self serving person
who has been a failure all his life.
You’re all blind if you think he cares for you Republicans. He is getting very rich with his crypto money schemes…..another illegal move of his. That’s all he wants :MONEY AND ATTENTION. Wake up, you dummy Republicans.
The ends do NOT justify the means. This has NOTHING to do with Democrats. If you support the cruelty, disrespect for the law and the inhumanity of this administration, you are just like the fascist sympathizers of the past. The torrent of lies being told makes one
nauseous. What will YOU do if you no longer can rely on the due process that is the bedrock of how we treat people? Careful what you wish for!!!
Elaine, the ends do justify the means. Passing on massive debt to future generations who had no say in incurring this debt but who must spend their lives paying it off, is the cruelest hoax of all. There has been no disrespect for the law, but many untested gray areas are getting exposed that need further judicial elucidation. This is how our system works. This should not be unsettling to you.
The torrent of lies are coming only from those protective of the current, dysfunctional and ruinous tax and spend status quo. Where was due process when the last Biden administration and his auto-pen opened the borders and flooded this country with uninvited, unvetted and now millions of new US taxpayer-dependent persons?
Due process is a two way street, You march to a false flag if you chose to use "due process" as your sole cudgel to use against this last lawful election and its demand for changes, fundamental changes in how this country has operated in the past four years. This was all on the table in clear view when 2024 voters made their choice. Where were you then?
Why are you only waking up now to these very predicable impacts? You are abusing a very fundamental and universal principle, due process, by demanding it is applied only in a very narrow partisan, short-sighted, self-serving and unilateral manner.
David: I hope you'll keep track and report honestly when his numbers rise to unprecedented heights as U.S. prosperity – real prosperity – returns, especially for the broader middle class.
This editorial is as sure a sign as any that the current doesn’t represent sane, well-considered conservatism but is a cult of personality for Trump. The tariffs are going to tank GDP—good luck with fiscal responsibility. The immigration enforcement has been a pendulum swing in the diametrically opposite and equally unlawful direction. Do conservatives not believe in habeas corpus and due process? The founders established these principles for a reason.
Hey Prof, you take for granted that the rest of us are living in your SB bubble, make believe, lefty world. Ya, suffice to say most of us are now retired from actual jobs, whereby people are expected to work, not merely feeding students mounds of bullshit while hiding under the aegis of tenure.
I’m a liberal—as in I believe in free markets and limited government. Is that what Trump is giving us with non-legislated 145 percent taxes on imports?
LibProf what you are getting fed appears to be non-stop drivel from main stream media, the Democrat party and some very sluggish critical thinking.
Welcome to the larger debate. It is good to learn where you are coming from and what your students are getting from the investment of our tax dollars in their higher education.
Assuming of course you are a "liberal prof" at one of our large local tax supported public institutions. Maybe you are a Westmont prof? Maybe it is just a bogus screen name for effect. Most of us use our real names here. What a novel concept - we own what we say. And risk the consequences in this government dependent company town.
I voted for Trump FWIW—which turns out to have been worth not much. Good luck seeing a repeat of 2024 when you try testing a ludicrously unsupported model of zero-sum trade economics. Please be my guest and set up a pig iron smelter in your backyard. The rest of us enjoy being in an advanced service sector economy with affordable consumer goods and reliable supply chains.
What do economists think about tariffs? Why don’t we ask them? Look—only two percent strongly or somewhat agree that reciprocal tariffs will help reduce the trade deficit!
How many peer-reviewed articles has Thomas Sowell written? He’s pretty much been a conservative public intellectual his whole career and hasn’t made any recognizable contribution to Econ.
BTW: Catastrophic thinking is actually a mental disorder. But why present only one side of the cost:benefit ratio: advanced service sector, affordable consumer goods, and reliable supply chains. With no pig iron smelters in our back yards. You forgot to include the larger picture impacts of current your "liberal" policies.
is a lot of room to meet in the middle while still radically changing the ruinous status quo .Let's start with identifying your description of an "advanced service sector". Often times this argument boils down to who is expected to pay for an "advanced service sector"; not what actually is thought of as "advanced services" and especially for whom?
Put some meat on those bones you just cited, and incorporate what DOGE recently uncovered as blatant misuse of the government as purveyor of those "advanced service sectors", operated on the public side which defies the most critical fundamental of all - willing buyer meets willing seller.
Our political issues boil down primarily what do taxpayers expect to get for tax dollars expended. Private sectors have proven to be remarkably resilient when left alone, until they become too depended on the taxpayer trough.
LT…..IF YOU DONT VALUE EDUCATION, you should really shut up. Education is the basis of everything else in life…..it accounts for values, compassion, kindness, humanity….stop embarrassing yourself and your fellow mostly uneducated Republicans.
Uneducated? I have 3 degrees including Master Degrees. How dare you, you miserable, angry, hateful, old bag. Go back into your hole and close the lid. Try to sober up before posting, loser!
LT: I never said you are uneducated….how would I know? TRY READING CORRECTLY IF in fact your 3 degrees taught you how.
I said, “ IF YOU DONT VALUE EDUCATION “ which you appear not to. Trump is uneducated, a 6 times bankrupt businessman, and you know all the other problems he has….convicted, adulterer, etc. SO, anyone who voted for him per se DOES NOT VALUE EDUCATION. He’s a dummy, a self serving narcissist. Can’t even speak correctly .
By the way, your really gross insults only demonstrate your lack of self respect. Doesn’t touch my self image at all…..just proves how uncouth you are, and probably UNEDUCATED AS WELL! Yeah…..now I do believe it!
Ya Freeman, it’s low class, self entitled, Uber liberal trash like you why our Country is such a dumpster fire. Millions of illegals, crushing debt and men who think they’re women. Congratulations, take a bow, fool!
LT….poor L.T. You sound so unhappy. Try Dictator Orban’s Turkey…..might suit you better. Well, which are you, a woman or a man, or half and half?
Why should it bother you what gender a person prefers, yet all the chaos and law breaking and blond stupid hair and bankruptcies and 37 Convictions and MORE that trump has DONE WRONG, But you don’t care?
This is what I mean when I say you sound uneducated…..WRONG VALUES
Did you say “ dumpster fires “….? Biden left us in near perfect condition… the Market was UP, EMPLOYMENT was high, everything about our Democracy was in order and even the border was getting under control. Trump didn’t do much for the border in his 4 years except the illegals had to walk around that expensive useless fence he had built. Typical of his uselessness, and he managed to separate parents from children…..that was GREAT!
No, you err LiberalProf. The editorial does represent what sane, reasoned conservatives have also long held. Get to know us. This is your second post where you reduce "conservatives" to one-dimensional cartoon characters.
The tariff realignments are long overdue. Nothing happening right now benefits from a magic wand, but rather a long slog which currently includes traversing this current swarm of calculated Cloward-Pivens resistance, from those who grew fat and lazy protecting the former and debt-riddled status quo.
Fiscal responsibilities also means cutting government expenses and inefficiencies, something DOGE is exposing in exemplary fashion. Plus opening the country to more domestic innovation and productivity. Buy American can be all our new watchwords. Pay attention to your own household spending and make the best choices, one for all.
There is no place for open borders in our nation, except in the minds of those who are unilaterally profiting from it. We can no longer endure their selfishness. Those criminally abusing our sovereign borders have chosen to receive swift justice. That was their choice; not ours.
Yes, conservatives believe in due process and habeas corpus for its legal citizens which is a fundamental part of our mutual compact with each other. Where were you when this was clearly abused after Jan 6? Crickets is all we heard from you "liberal profs". (aka tax dollar dependent cult people)
Is this why Trump is negotiating with himself to walk back most of his tariffs with zero concessions from the Chinese?
Do you actually run a business? Because if you talk to small business owners and leaders of innovative tech companies they’ll tell you that Chinese supply chains are integral to US innovation.
If US innovation is important why is Trump stop-ordering legitimate R&D grants and threatening to kill actual examples of effective industrial policy such as the CHIPS Act?
One last comment: if you don’t allow due process, how do you know the people you’re deporting aren’t citizens?
LibProf, attempting to push the magic wand approach to the fundamental change voters supported in 2024, will be an exercise in futility and specious nit-picking for what I assume is your own partisan effect. Trump supports interest based negotiations. Expect moving targets and pragmatic sensibilities.
You are the one who sees him only as a rigid cult figure and irrational dictator; not us. Can you move away from your original premise - OrangemanBad and he is worse than Hitler?
You for your own reasons chose to jump to hasty conclusions and finalities at only Day 100. Appreciate your role as the loyal opposition, because best policies do evolve from reasoned debate.
BTW: American citizens are already in numerous official a data banks; illegals are not. That is a starting point when defending against improper deportations. How can you even deport a "US Citizen" to a country other than their own. Where would you send them?
Your speculative exceptions, do not make the rules. What is your real interest protecting the dysfunctional status quo? Make your best case, we are open to discussion. But you must start by coming from an honest place. Not this calculated sophistry.
You think LiberalProf is the only one that sees him as a cult leader, take off your rose colored glasses. Half of the United States see him for what he is, a dictator in training. and you want to know how you would deport a US citizen? Ask Trump, he’s trying to find a way to deport “home grown criminals” as he’s calling them.
I thought tariffs were set up according to the quantity of products that countries either export or import from each other. if the tariffs need realignment, why make a big deal about it. A president or leader With logic and common sense would know to contact the country in question set up meetings, work things out and once it was done, announce your success. Why call a press conference, just to bully people and waste their time at these press briefings just for camera time for yourself.
Doge has done nothing but cause chaos and the next administration is going to have to fix it all. Trump and musk keep saying that they’ve cut this they’ve cut that and saved all this money but there’s no evidence of anything except their word and they’re both liars.
At this time I would like to quote something to you. “[N] or shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” this is from the 14th amendment. This is from the fifth amendment, “Fifth Amendment states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. No where is the word “legal” or “citizen” used, the word used is “person”
The insurrectionists of January 6 received due process, and justice was served, until they were despicably pardoned.
Spoken like a pure borg, Julia. Self-protection is causing ideological distortions and premature conclusions. Carry on. DOGE is on target and will prevail in cleaning out the rot and dross we no longer choose to fund. Plan your own life accordingly.
I am not sure why, but when I read your comments or articles, images of Cruella De Vil flash before my eyes. You got me, not sure what a pure borg is, but I doubt it’s a compliment. Self protection is human instinct to me. Doge, supposedly, according to musk and trump has saved millions. Where did those millions saved come from? The majority I believe comes from funding that went toward the elderly, children, veterans and the disabled. in need of health services and basic needs such as food and housing. Not just here, but all over the world. That is what USAID was for. I guess that’s what you consider rot and dross. I wouldn’t be surprised if the saved millions by Dog are being dumped into the cesspool that is the new government ruled by all the oligarchs to cover their tax cuts.
Ha ha Troll you crack me up in one sentence you pontificate about "kindness" and "compassion", and in the next sentence you are telling people to shut up because they think different than you ,ha ha ha. What a Troll. No wonder nobody is taking you seriously.
Here you virtue signal about how amazing you are:
" Education is the basis of everything else in life…..it accounts for values, compassion, kindness, humanity"
And in the next sentence you revert to the angry entitled jerk you really are:
"you should really shut up.….stop embarrassing yourself and your fellow mostly uneducated Republicans."
This is why you are an election loser. Your opinion no longer matters. Your values no longer matter. Your posts no longer matter. And every damaging thing you believe in is in tatters. You literally do not exist in any way that matters. Enjoy the next 8 years.
George…your opinions ALSO , like mine, do not matter. The opinion of the majority of Americans will count. So, let’s hope for the best for Democracy.
I think the majority of Americans DO agree with my values.
Regarding compassion and kindness, I do value them which is why I don’t understand how you or anyone can watch innocent Americans being kidnapped on the streets of American and sent…with no due process… to jail.
Of course that is shocking…..yet you are not complaining about the lawlessness of that. It is shocking that an American WOULD NOT COMPLAIN! And it is embarrassing and completely not understandable to me, and I can only explain it by a lack of education of NOW THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY WORK.
Don’t you want due process if you’re picked up on the streets of S.B. Trump HAS MADE MISTAKES, and kidnapped true blue real Americans!
I'd like to see a new Trumpy offer to the Commie-Dem dissidents:
"Don't like the USA? We'll give you a free ticket & $500 to move anywhere you'd like to go. All you have to do is renounce your US citizenship and you can't come back." We'll see how long it takes them to miss the good 'ol USA!
Biden reminded me of the Chief of the Fucarewe Indians. As he was leading his tribe across the Great Plains he came up on a hill, looked out, and said “Where the fuc are we?”
MCCALMONT….WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INFORMATION ABOUT TRUMP…..DO YOU EVER LISTEN TO HIM TALK.? what an embarrassment to this country to have an illiterated failure of a convicted felon speaking like an IMMIGRANT who just landed here.
I respectfully completely disagree with your view of reality. Trump and his mob have no respect for the laws that protect each and every one of us from abuse. He’s even thumbed his nose to the Supreme Court. He’s destroying the economy. This is a complete takeover of everything…government institutions, education, healthcare, the legal system. This should astound even the most diehard Trump supporters. We are inching our way to Nazi Germany or some version of it. It is NOT okay and…again…has NOTHING at all to do with the Democrats who have to look in the mirror at their own mistakes and excesses. The means do NOT…DO NOT…justify the ends. Maybe you are not watching what’s happening??? I could not be okay with myself…my basic humanity and my citizenship of this country…if I went along with this insanity. There is a lawful, humane and measured way to get rid of the excess, change the laws that need to be changed, move the country more to the middle and more….What I see is the opposite. You support a dictatorship. I do not.
Hey Elaine, seriously, do you proofread your comments before posting? You equate our President with Hitler, the Republican Party with National Socialism? Really? My Father chased Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps throughout the Middle East in an effort to rid the world of tyranny. Yet, you persist with this obscene analogy and obsession.
Are you really this stupid and ignorant of world history?
LT. HAVE YOU NOT HEARD TRUMP SAY OFTEN HOW MUCH HE ADMIRES HITLER? Have you not heard him say he will be Dictator ( for a day ) which means he can then declare himself dictator forever. Only needed one day. Don’t you listen to trump when he speaks….IS HE NOT BEHAVING LIKE A DICTATOR….LOVES PUTIN, HE HAS SAID, TO anyone LISTENING….I HEARD HIM SAY SO…! Where DO you get your information if you don’t at least know that about him? Would anyone but a dictator have masked men grab innocent people off the streets of America, and AGAINST THE RULING OF JUDGES, put them in jail in onother state….without due process?
Freeman, you continue to prove yourself (and the rest of us) as an obnoxious, annoying, ill informed individual. Please get yourself some therapy, seriously suggest you get a psych consult.
LT….having a hard time accepting the truth? You write as though you have no idea what is happening daily in America. Show me where ( Elaine ) and I are wrong….if you can.
Demonstrate your supposed veracity instead of deflecting..
Freeman, quite obviously you and your Sorority sister, Elaine, belong to the sisterhood of misery. You believe what you want regardless of the facts. Trump was elected because of the massive failure of the liberal, corrupt machine that has driven our society into the ground. Pick ANY of the following; education, energy production, crime, immigration, homelessness, foreign policy, economic development ALL have suffered miserably under Democratic leadership to include the recent INCOMPETENCE of Joe Biden. Yes, his bumbling, stumbling, stupidity was KNOWN by you and your fellow asshole Democrats and nothing was said or done about it.
So get over your self righteous ignorance and bullshit sister!
LT, why don’t you quote figures or sources ( but not greedy Republican’s ) for your gross complaints? The market, the needy, the underprivileged, and the wealthy were all doing exceedingly well under Biden’s care. It didn’t all fall apart until this convicted felon got into office with Musk’s money, ( And now THAT love affair is falling apart ).so, just WHERE did you get this distorted self-serving comment “ massive failure of the liberal “. PROVE IT.
Which REPUTABLE person or people are saying so: was it Lawrence Tribe who is the eminent Constitutional Lawyer at Harvard? Was it NPR, as honest as any source can be? Whom do you listen to? Don’t bother naming FOX. THAT SHIP SANK YEARS AGO.
I really want to hear why YOU ( but clearly NOT the majority of Americans or the intelligent Americas worth listening to ) think Biden’s lifetime of giving to the American people was “ bumbling, stumbling, stupid “.. Were you unhappy because he cared for the needy, for WOMENS’ lives, for the unfortunates of other countries, for bright people who couldn’t afford University fees?
THAT is the part of our DEMOCRACY which the Democratic Party cares about. The Republicans used to care also, but now they are hanging on to sicko-trump’s tail, hoping I think their wealth will increase or something.
I can not understand what the attraction is in following trump. He is arguing with everyone he comes in contact with : millions of Americans protest his actions everyday; Greenland, Canada, Ukraine, Europe, Our Best UNIVERSITIES, Judges, Lawyers…..everyone is in shock at what he’s doing to our Democracy. He’s uneducated, unqualified, a liar, a failure at his own businesses, multiple bankruptcies, married 2 immigrants and hates immigrants, jails innocent people, has 37 convictions……lied about having won the Biden election, tried to have Pence hanged…..
Tell me: WHAT IS HE DOING , according to you, THAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA? And who is saying so besides you and the 5 or so men who write here,, without giving their sources ?
Elaine, THANK YOU for a REFRESHING voice acknowledging the REALITY of what trump is doing to our ordered life. I can hardly believe the lies these Republicans are bantering about. What cowards….incapable of facing what’s being done to the laws of this Democracy. Trump was handed an ordered thriving country and he is decimating it in front of everyone’s eyes……and they refuse to see! What does it benefit the Republicans to do that? What do they hope to gain ? Anyone know? No one has broken more laws than trump,, yet he sends innocent men. ( “ innocent until PROVEN GUILTY “) to prison…..whereas THAT IS EXACTLY WHERE HE BELONGS!
Well said! Now if we could just get our “Republican” party to show up from vacation and stop the judicial coup we are witnessing all would be well. As it is they are sitting on their hands and almost look like they are ‘in on it’. If they don’t reverse and resolve this constitutional crisis and usurpation of Presidential power then they will prove themselves permanently useless and part of the problem. We would need to create a new aggressive rino free third party based around Trump/Musk/Vance and retire the Republican party permanently. They act now or we need to replace the party asap. We are done watching them do nothing but post on social media.
It is happening. Expect the animal spirts of the market place to also respond positively to the administration now pushing back against this current Democrat abuse of the judicial branch of our government. Democrat calculated lawfare spooked the markets; not Trump and not tariffs. Go long on all of this.
You do not undo even the past 16 years of deep state abuse of our government overnight. But it is a fascinating process to finally see this non-elected government abuse get flushed out of the shadows. You have to go back 50 years at least to see how it sprouted in the darkness. And you want it undone in 3 months?
Mostly agree. I did not say undone in 3 months. I said action now. Senate has done zero as judges have usurped presidential power. This is unheard of. Acute. And a constitutional crisis requiring strong immediate action. Republicans have tools to stop it but instead have been MIA. They must pretend they are Democrats i.e.stick together, act strongly and quickly, and vote as a block. Otherwise they are useless to us.
Agree GR, Congress has not yet stepped up to the plate. 2026 elections will be where this plays out with the voters. Meanwhile, we get to content ourselves wondering whatever will Salud Carbajal, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla do? Or we could content ourselves working instead on the art of the possible, where we can make a difference.
These are novel issues unfolding right now and I do urge caution along with active recognition of where and why these sticking points exist. Structural changes within our constitutional framework are required. Just application of SCOTUS overturning the Chevron Defense case is herculean as well - what government bureaucratic functions are now deemed illegal and can no longer be funded? Let explore that more along with the DOGE findings.
Engaging in public media debate is as good at it gets right now to move the needle. Which is exactly what Democrats are doing right now using their surrogates - trying to control the dialogue. And misinterpreting Trump's currently declining poll numbers as rejection of Trump, and not as growing reflection of Trump supporters disappointed that he is not moving fast enough.
No one wants a return to the Biden/Democrat years of corruption. That is a given. Now, how to we get to the recently proposed "Golden Age"? More likely in slow steady steps, two steps foward, one step back wards. The ice jam (pardon the pun) thrown at us by Demorat obstrutcionists is breaking up.
Polling shows even Californians are getting tried of this Democrat nonsense. We will be a stronger country by our 250th Birthday - but it is still a slog to get there.
I love your optimism. I see the eradication of our European American culture and heritage as the globalist goal. This will, or should I say, is, being achieved by two methods. 1) Illegal Aliens brought or let into the country to vote and have children and 2) The fact that Mexican American illegal and legal, and Muslim American, legal and illegal, birth rates, as two examples, exceed that of European American Americans. In time simple arithmetic will destroy the European American heritage, culture and innovation that primarily built the USA. As Muammar Gaddafi once said, and seperatel a then President of Mexico also said: " We will take over without firing a shot due to our love of having children". If this trend continues the European American heritage will largely be erased, which we are already seeing with the removal of statues, removal of our cultural norms etc, and I would predict a power struggle in the future between Catholicism mainly supported by a Mexican American majority, and Sharia law mainly supported by a Muslim American majority. A religious war of sorts could follow. Time will tell.
Thank you, Jim. Too many Americans - on both the right and left - are victims of their own addiction to instant gratification, fueled by their short attention spans. Those on the right who aren't satisfied with what Trump has done so far are behaving like princesses with zero idea of how expertly Trump is working D. C. “I want America fixed, not just by the end of today but yesterday!” Those on the Left are behaving like psychopaths “He's moving faster than Hitler to destroy Democracy and he doesn't even wait for *our* due-process!” It's been over eight years of not being able to reason with TDS, but I'm dismayed by the people who should be thrilled at what Trump has accomplished instead constantly deriding how long it's taking him to do what he said he would. Have they ever tried to get anything done in government? If Warren Buffet says it's best to review your finances once a year, maybe the same holds for reviewing your president. If I were to scold my husband with “Sure, you took out the garbage and fixed the toilet but you brought back a steak from the market that's not a rib-eye like you said you'd get!” and didn't bother to register that maybe there wasn't a rib-eye today in the meat section and we're going to be eating a fine porterhouse cut - I would be pretty abusive, no? Show a little gratitude to the guy who's done more to save America in less time than any president in my lifetime. Thank you, President Trump!
Pol - excecpt for that genius George Washington, Trump in the best president we've ever had! He understands the kind of operation that works for civilized people. My only objection is he puts up with the Commie freaks instead of throwing them in jail or running them out of the country!
You are so right, Mr. Brown - Trump *is* the best president since George Washington. When we do get together we'll toast him. I'm a teetotaler, but Trump is, too.
I don’t know how you magas can spend so much time on your knees, groveling and kissing trumps butt. This nation has nothing to thank him for. He has made the United States, one of the most disrespected and hated nations in the world today. He has alienated, allies and friends, and the United States now stands alone. Which I believe is what he wants. He’s always bragging how he’s the only one that can fix the problems. Well, he sure isn’t doing that job either.
He keeps repeating how we might have to go through some hardships and discomfort for a while, which is easy for him to say, since he and his oligarch billionaire friends, won’t even feel it. His overall approval rating is now less than 37% and the polls have him as the worst president in history ever.
Julia: Thank you for a voice of sanity amongst the disinformation, …..I don’t know how to address these people who don’t appear to see or understand how lawlessly and self-aggrandizing trump is….HIS HISTORY ALONE SHOULD HAVE DISQUALIFIED HIM AS A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY OF THIS COUNTRY.
The problem as I see it is that the sources the dyed-in-the-wool Republican use for their information remains unnamed. Liberals have at least 5 very reputable sources to gather facts, and check inconsistencies, whereas, no Republican will name their source. I’ve asked many times. I suspect it’s FOX and they’re embarrassed to say so.
Thanks for adding your voice to truth.
I agree with your description. Only someone with Trump’s life experience and with no concern about his next election or his next paycheck could have the courage to what is needed to stop and reverse the slow and steady “managed decline” set in place by the Progressives, Marxists, and Globalists.
Berney
trumps life experience? You mean like when he went to war, oh wait no he had Bone spurs, couldn’t go. Not concerned about a paycheck, why would he be his daddy left him 40+ million dollars and possibly real estate. No, he was concerned about the next election. That’s why he acted like the loser he is. Crying that the 2020 election was stolen. He was concerned, he knew he lost. His life experience consists of being a philanderer, sexual predator, racist, liar, braggart, six bankruptcies under his belt, grifter, snake oil salesman, convicted felon, failure as a president.
JULIA, AH, THE FRESH AIR OF REALITY, OF THE TRUTH…..
The question I keep asking is, WHAT DO THE REPUBLICANS EXPECT TO GAIN FROM THE DICTATORSHIP TRUMP Wants our Democracy to become ? We know what he wants….something to make up for the emptiness in himself, from a lifetime of failures…he thinks being a TIN KING is going to make him happy and he’s ruining lives of good American citizens to satisfy his sickness.
Bernard: The U.S. is a Democracy with a Constitution of Laws which has served us for many years. If your philosophy of how Americans should live and actandexpectfrom government is different from WHAT HAS EXISTED FOR ALL THESE YEAES WITH VARIATION , APPROVED OF BY CONGRESS….well, maybe you should move to another country which suits you Modus operandi.
IT IS NOT RIGHT TO CHANGE WHAT HAS BEEN IN PLACE AS LAWS AND ENTITIES ….AGREED ON BY CONGRESS…WHICH BENEFITS MOST AMERICANS .
IT IS EASIER FOR THOSEWHO WANT TO CHANGE THE BASIC TENETS OF DEMOCRACY TO CREATE CHAOS WHICH IS RUINIGN THE LIVES OF TAX PAYING AMERICANS
Bernard….sorry for misspelling.
Basically, I mean to say: TURNING a Democracy into a Dictatorship….which is what it appears trump is doing….is AGAINST what exists…our democracy. There exist dictatorships around the world, but The U.S. IS A DEMOCRACY, WITH LAWS IN PLACE TO KEEP IT RUNNING FAIRLY AS IT HAS BEEN.
Millions of people are objecting to the chaos and the misinformation which FOX for example spews out every minute of the day.
So, think about going to Turkey. That Dictatorship isn’t going anywhere fast and you might be happier there. Take your friends with you.
Trump is making the USA weaker economically and security wise and strengthening China and Russia. Not to mention trampling on our civil rights and breaking laws every day. He will also again create more deficit spending than the Democrats with his tax cuts.
You need to stop smoking crack and start paying attention to what’s really happening in the world
Brian, your comment adds nothing to the reality of what is happening. Which site would you like us liberals to pay attention to? WHERE do you get your information?
I challenge you to name your sources so we can debate the validity of such. Thanks.
Chuck, a lot of one-sided speculation in your comments, picking the worst and dare we say partisan doomsday projected scenario - in effect you are claiming America will flounder unless it sticks to more reckless tax and unaccountable govenrment spending. Any particularly reasons for your own speculative viewpoints?
China is its own powerhouse, pretty much regardless of what we do. And for its long 5000 year history, which is what it has always been. We can stop weakening our own country, chasing the few pennies saved buying cheap Chinese crap. China also teeters in demographic free-fall right now, so little is stable about its own future.
China's recent break throughs in hard science technology should give us pause, while our own higher learning institutions have devolved into swamps of irrelevant causes, ideologies and useless spending.
Russia in fact is a small economy with a large land mass and highly diverse populations to oversee. They have applied their own Cold War peace dividend to a great deal of domestic spending and modernization, which is obvious to anyone traveling there over the past few decades. Again, a country whose history must be viewed through the millennium lens, not the short term centuries lens we apply to our own country.
Tax cuts do not create deficit spending.. They are merely explicit provisions written into the tax code. As such, government spending must adjust appropriately. Government spending is what drives deficits.
JL, you mistakenly are under the assumption that Chuck has the ability of logic or the emotional maturity to comprehend your in depth analysis.
Yeah Trolls gonna be Trolls.
JL - e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t.
Don’t forget all his golf trips every week, goes home to mar-a-lago for golf. He’s erecting 2 100 foot flag poles on the north and south sides of the White House. Apparently he can’t see the one that’s on top of the White House. Supposedly, musk is saving money and Trump is spending it. I agree His deficit is going to be so much bigger than his first term and that was about 7 trillion.
Thank you, Chuck for speaking the truth .
Great recount of the USA 🇺🇸 recovery and the war against the Dems pitiful policies that are being pushed by the left. Thanks for the reporting reminder/summary and the common courtesy of the POTUS powers of our re-elected DJT. 🙏👏👍💯⚖️🍻🎯🫵🗽🇺🇸
As he is in his second term by a landslide victory Julia its more than a courtesy to bow to the fake Republican Rhino’s in a blitz to corner them and expose the traitorous left.
Trump wouldn’t know common courtesy if it bit him in the butt.
What he’s doing is all common sense responses to the destruction the Dems and some Republicans have wrought on us for decades now. I for one couldn’t be more pleased and agree with you wholeheartedly about these much needed changes no matter how painful they may be.
Brian…why don’t you name the” destruction the Dems “ “ have wrought on us for decades “ so we know what your euphemisms refers to. And please, could you demonstrate where you gather your information? What proof you may have, OR is it just your personal opinion about how Americans should be treated?
For example ( to help you along ) Do you disapprove of
1. MEDICARE
2. SOCIAL SECURITY
3. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR BRIGHT BUT POOR STUDENTS
4. DUE PROCESS OF OUR LAWS
5. OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION
6. DO YOU, in general, THINK THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT HELP NEEDY AMERICAN CITIZENS.
As I said, this is just for starters to see if we agree on the place of government in the lives of Americans.
I admire you Jim, for your unwavering courage and commitment to telling it like it is. Especially in a town where people wear their political beliefs on their sleeves. Kudos to you and the many patriots on this site.
The old adage of “you measure a person based on their opposition,” rings true. The legions of neo- liberal, disloyal opposition is very telling. As you mentioned, the unhinged immigration policies advocated by the left, the spending of our hard earned tax dollars funding outrageous, perverted causes and the out of control, radical judiciary should be obvious, clear threats to our democracy.
What amazes me is the local liberals that take to our streets, often in their 60-70’s, often apoplectic about various bizarre social issues ie, men playing women’s sports, defending terrorists from being deported and cutting massive fraud and abuse from our government to name a few.
I’m sorry, but it’s very hard for me to take serious a 70 year old male, jumping up and down about the Ukraine or Elon Musk while sporting a ponytail!
Sorry, call me old school.
It has become obvious to me that the liberal psyche is based on emotions and not logic.
Cui bono, who benefits from the current unhinged "immigration policies"? Start with the most obvious ones - the teachers unions. Then the vast numbers of SEIU member social welfare employees. No wonder there is such a partisan divide on this one issue itself. No wonder there is this insatiable partisan demand for higher taxes and more government debt? Cui bono, indeed.
Respondeat Superior, “let the master answer,” Counselor. Yes, let the perverted Democratic Party answer for their unhinged violence, their obscene violations of Title 9, their criminality in letting millions of undocumented immigrants into our country and their highjacking of our judiciary by radical leftists! Let them answer at the ballot box and in the courtroom.
LT…You clearly have a lot of prejudices and biases….they are your problems and should NOT be imposed on the freedoms and laws we Americans have fought for, paid for, and lived happily with throughout our lives.
There are ways to change what you may not like in a Democracy, and not the way trump is doing it.
If you are so disturbed about men wearing pigtails, how can you stand trump coloring his hair BLOND…a 78 year old idiot….and COMBING IT STUPIDLY TO COVER HIS BALD SPOT?
Much Better to wear a pigtail. Our forefathers did!
Of all the stupid things to complain about…….YIKES! You’re not just “ old school “,you need therapy. FOCUS ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT: innocent men and women and children being kidnapped by this sick man in office and sent to jails in other country.
YOU SHOULD BE INCENSED. YOU COULD BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE…trump is making all sorts of mistakes about whom he jails in El Salvador !
Faced with an never ending beggars mentality in government is enticing.
Sure let's government do it, they have the money!! Who's money?
Taxpayers and let's not forget businesses. If you think want you see daily in your tax bills (e.g. energy) is the bottom line forget it. To survive businesses have to pass on all government taxes to their customers. The anti-Trumpers found out a long time ago to hide the tax burden make business the hidden tax collector.
Then you have the "tin cup street beggars" who are the government workers.
Far too often they cannot make it in the private sector that converts labor and ideas into profits (profits the gov. then taxes). Who works for the city of SB in parking? The former head of the bicycle boys now called Move. How about those community development types that have failed the City of Santa Barbara with State St. narrowing for 40+ years and killed retail in the heart of the city. Same types in Goleta that within 6 months of narrowing Old Town Hollister put most of the middle class businesses in ICU.
Bringing it down to the local level focuses the irrational and costly big government wonks of the Left. Then you have the supposed supporters of business. What too often do they do? Turn to government with their tin cups out, give us money and we'll happily play the game of government forced economies.
Yep Trump has rattled the cage. Unfortunately the State of Calif. for over 40 years has not just moved but raced to the Soviet style economy. Trump says "prove it!!!"
But with easily $26 Billion State deficit, all the cities in South SB County teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, and a County who's budget is now over a $ Billion the dyed in the wool big government types go into cardiac arrest. All because when faced with a call for small government and protection of business they realize there isn't enough O2 for the private sector and big government to exist.
Good one Mr. Buckley
Cars Are Basic: CONSIDER THIS. IF YOU WANT CHANGES in the way the U,S. Government works, THEN MAKE THE CHANGES ACCORDING TO LAWS, NOT BY RIPPING APART WHAT MANY OF US THINK HAS WORKED FOR DECADES.
REMEMBER: THIS IS A COUNTRY OF LAWS. IF YOU APPROVE OF A DICTATORSHIP….GO ELSEWHERE. You are blind to these facts: trump is not trying to “ make a smaller government “ as you Republicans think. He is trying to be a DICTATOR to try to make himself feel better. You are fooling yourselves if you think he has ONE IOTA of compassion for anyone else but his thoroughly unhealthy ego.
Just check out his history and behavior as a father, husband, businessman…..he has no compassion, no capacity for love or caring for humanity…..he is an evil self serving person
who has been a failure all his life.
You’re all blind if you think he cares for you Republicans. He is getting very rich with his crypto money schemes…..another illegal move of his. That’s all he wants :MONEY AND ATTENTION. Wake up, you dummy Republicans.
Isn't the First Amendment Grand!
As crude as it is, I salute the new ethos for our country: FAFO. Which is a two-way street. All sides must proceed with due care.
We will be a far better and stronger nation when choices and consequences again operate as an organic whole.
Atta girl - FAFO is the exact right response! :)
The ends do NOT justify the means. This has NOTHING to do with Democrats. If you support the cruelty, disrespect for the law and the inhumanity of this administration, you are just like the fascist sympathizers of the past. The torrent of lies being told makes one
nauseous. What will YOU do if you no longer can rely on the due process that is the bedrock of how we treat people? Careful what you wish for!!!
Elaine, the ends do justify the means. Passing on massive debt to future generations who had no say in incurring this debt but who must spend their lives paying it off, is the cruelest hoax of all. There has been no disrespect for the law, but many untested gray areas are getting exposed that need further judicial elucidation. This is how our system works. This should not be unsettling to you.
The torrent of lies are coming only from those protective of the current, dysfunctional and ruinous tax and spend status quo. Where was due process when the last Biden administration and his auto-pen opened the borders and flooded this country with uninvited, unvetted and now millions of new US taxpayer-dependent persons?
Due process is a two way street, You march to a false flag if you chose to use "due process" as your sole cudgel to use against this last lawful election and its demand for changes, fundamental changes in how this country has operated in the past four years. This was all on the table in clear view when 2024 voters made their choice. Where were you then?
Why are you only waking up now to these very predicable impacts? You are abusing a very fundamental and universal principle, due process, by demanding it is applied only in a very narrow partisan, short-sighted, self-serving and unilateral manner.
PEOPLE WHO THINK USING CAPS MAKES THEIR POINTS HAVE NO POINTS TO MAKE.
Golly Polly, your dear leader, Trump, is a big user of all caps on his “truth” social account. I now understand your point.
I don't expect Trump - or anyone else - to be perfect. The greatest people I' e been luck to know have been blessed with imperfections.
Lol, true and I would tell him what I told Nancy and Elaine.
Polly
: GIVE IT UP. STOP TELLING OTHERS WHAT THEY CAN WRITE…..YOU DONT OWN OTHER PEOPLE’S FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
AND NOW YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO REPEAT YOUR STUPID BULLYING.
GO AHEAD.
Trolls gonna be Trolls
A predictable response.
If the shoe fits…well you know the rest
Trump approval rating - averages of several polls-
1/26/25 50.7%
4/26/25 43.9%
David: I hope you'll keep track and report honestly when his numbers rise to unprecedented heights as U.S. prosperity – real prosperity – returns, especially for the broader middle class.
Yeah? My approval rating - 110%
Wait, what?
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/congressional-dems-support-from-young-americans-hits-new-low-with-just-23-approval-rating-poll/
Correct. The kids aren't happy with anyone.
Similar polling has young American's approval of congressional Republicans at 29% and President Donald Trump 31%.
This editorial is as sure a sign as any that the current doesn’t represent sane, well-considered conservatism but is a cult of personality for Trump. The tariffs are going to tank GDP—good luck with fiscal responsibility. The immigration enforcement has been a pendulum swing in the diametrically opposite and equally unlawful direction. Do conservatives not believe in habeas corpus and due process? The founders established these principles for a reason.
Hey Prof, you take for granted that the rest of us are living in your SB bubble, make believe, lefty world. Ya, suffice to say most of us are now retired from actual jobs, whereby people are expected to work, not merely feeding students mounds of bullshit while hiding under the aegis of tenure.
I’m a liberal—as in I believe in free markets and limited government. Is that what Trump is giving us with non-legislated 145 percent taxes on imports?
Let me guess, you’re not a Professor of Economics?
https://nolabels.org/the-latest/the-history-of-tariffs-as-told-by-howard-lutnick/
Lib Prof: Cutting government spending 145% is 145% tax relief. By your same logic.
LibProf what you are getting fed appears to be non-stop drivel from main stream media, the Democrat party and some very sluggish critical thinking.
Welcome to the larger debate. It is good to learn where you are coming from and what your students are getting from the investment of our tax dollars in their higher education.
Assuming of course you are a "liberal prof" at one of our large local tax supported public institutions. Maybe you are a Westmont prof? Maybe it is just a bogus screen name for effect. Most of us use our real names here. What a novel concept - we own what we say. And risk the consequences in this government dependent company town.
I voted for Trump FWIW—which turns out to have been worth not much. Good luck seeing a repeat of 2024 when you try testing a ludicrously unsupported model of zero-sum trade economics. Please be my guest and set up a pig iron smelter in your backyard. The rest of us enjoy being in an advanced service sector economy with affordable consumer goods and reliable supply chains.
What do economists think about tariffs? Why don’t we ask them? Look—only two percent strongly or somewhat agree that reciprocal tariffs will help reduce the trade deficit!
https://www.kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/tariffs-reciprocal-and-retaliatory-2/
Liberal Prof,
Below, are the thoughts on the Trump tariffs than none other tha the Hoover Institute conservative darling Thomas Sewell.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/legendary-economist-says-trumps-tariffs-could-replay-devastating-history.amp
How many peer-reviewed articles has Thomas Sowell written? He’s pretty much been a conservative public intellectual his whole career and hasn’t made any recognizable contribution to Econ.
BTW: Catastrophic thinking is actually a mental disorder. But why present only one side of the cost:benefit ratio: advanced service sector, affordable consumer goods, and reliable supply chains. With no pig iron smelters in our back yards. You forgot to include the larger picture impacts of current your "liberal" policies.
is a lot of room to meet in the middle while still radically changing the ruinous status quo .Let's start with identifying your description of an "advanced service sector". Often times this argument boils down to who is expected to pay for an "advanced service sector"; not what actually is thought of as "advanced services" and especially for whom?
Put some meat on those bones you just cited, and incorporate what DOGE recently uncovered as blatant misuse of the government as purveyor of those "advanced service sectors", operated on the public side which defies the most critical fundamental of all - willing buyer meets willing seller.
Our political issues boil down primarily what do taxpayers expect to get for tax dollars expended. Private sectors have proven to be remarkably resilient when left alone, until they become too depended on the taxpayer trough.
LT…..IF YOU DONT VALUE EDUCATION, you should really shut up. Education is the basis of everything else in life…..it accounts for values, compassion, kindness, humanity….stop embarrassing yourself and your fellow mostly uneducated Republicans.
Uneducated? I have 3 degrees including Master Degrees. How dare you, you miserable, angry, hateful, old bag. Go back into your hole and close the lid. Try to sober up before posting, loser!
LT: I never said you are uneducated….how would I know? TRY READING CORRECTLY IF in fact your 3 degrees taught you how.
I said, “ IF YOU DONT VALUE EDUCATION “ which you appear not to. Trump is uneducated, a 6 times bankrupt businessman, and you know all the other problems he has….convicted, adulterer, etc. SO, anyone who voted for him per se DOES NOT VALUE EDUCATION. He’s a dummy, a self serving narcissist. Can’t even speak correctly .
By the way, your really gross insults only demonstrate your lack of self respect. Doesn’t touch my self image at all…..just proves how uncouth you are, and probably UNEDUCATED AS WELL! Yeah…..now I do believe it!
Ya Freeman, it’s low class, self entitled, Uber liberal trash like you why our Country is such a dumpster fire. Millions of illegals, crushing debt and men who think they’re women. Congratulations, take a bow, fool!
LT….poor L.T. You sound so unhappy. Try Dictator Orban’s Turkey…..might suit you better. Well, which are you, a woman or a man, or half and half?
Why should it bother you what gender a person prefers, yet all the chaos and law breaking and blond stupid hair and bankruptcies and 37 Convictions and MORE that trump has DONE WRONG, But you don’t care?
This is what I mean when I say you sound uneducated…..WRONG VALUES
Did you say “ dumpster fires “….? Biden left us in near perfect condition… the Market was UP, EMPLOYMENT was high, everything about our Democracy was in order and even the border was getting under control. Trump didn’t do much for the border in his 4 years except the illegals had to walk around that expensive useless fence he had built. Typical of his uselessness, and he managed to separate parents from children…..that was GREAT!
No, you err LiberalProf. The editorial does represent what sane, reasoned conservatives have also long held. Get to know us. This is your second post where you reduce "conservatives" to one-dimensional cartoon characters.
The tariff realignments are long overdue. Nothing happening right now benefits from a magic wand, but rather a long slog which currently includes traversing this current swarm of calculated Cloward-Pivens resistance, from those who grew fat and lazy protecting the former and debt-riddled status quo.
Fiscal responsibilities also means cutting government expenses and inefficiencies, something DOGE is exposing in exemplary fashion. Plus opening the country to more domestic innovation and productivity. Buy American can be all our new watchwords. Pay attention to your own household spending and make the best choices, one for all.
There is no place for open borders in our nation, except in the minds of those who are unilaterally profiting from it. We can no longer endure their selfishness. Those criminally abusing our sovereign borders have chosen to receive swift justice. That was their choice; not ours.
Yes, conservatives believe in due process and habeas corpus for its legal citizens which is a fundamental part of our mutual compact with each other. Where were you when this was clearly abused after Jan 6? Crickets is all we heard from you "liberal profs". (aka tax dollar dependent cult people)
Is this why Trump is negotiating with himself to walk back most of his tariffs with zero concessions from the Chinese?
Do you actually run a business? Because if you talk to small business owners and leaders of innovative tech companies they’ll tell you that Chinese supply chains are integral to US innovation.
If US innovation is important why is Trump stop-ordering legitimate R&D grants and threatening to kill actual examples of effective industrial policy such as the CHIPS Act?
One last comment: if you don’t allow due process, how do you know the people you’re deporting aren’t citizens?
LibProf, attempting to push the magic wand approach to the fundamental change voters supported in 2024, will be an exercise in futility and specious nit-picking for what I assume is your own partisan effect. Trump supports interest based negotiations. Expect moving targets and pragmatic sensibilities.
You are the one who sees him only as a rigid cult figure and irrational dictator; not us. Can you move away from your original premise - OrangemanBad and he is worse than Hitler?
You for your own reasons chose to jump to hasty conclusions and finalities at only Day 100. Appreciate your role as the loyal opposition, because best policies do evolve from reasoned debate.
BTW: American citizens are already in numerous official a data banks; illegals are not. That is a starting point when defending against improper deportations. How can you even deport a "US Citizen" to a country other than their own. Where would you send them?
Your speculative exceptions, do not make the rules. What is your real interest protecting the dysfunctional status quo? Make your best case, we are open to discussion. But you must start by coming from an honest place. Not this calculated sophistry.
You think LiberalProf is the only one that sees him as a cult leader, take off your rose colored glasses. Half of the United States see him for what he is, a dictator in training. and you want to know how you would deport a US citizen? Ask Trump, he’s trying to find a way to deport “home grown criminals” as he’s calling them.
JL, I think LiberalProf has you guys pegged.
I thought tariffs were set up according to the quantity of products that countries either export or import from each other. if the tariffs need realignment, why make a big deal about it. A president or leader With logic and common sense would know to contact the country in question set up meetings, work things out and once it was done, announce your success. Why call a press conference, just to bully people and waste their time at these press briefings just for camera time for yourself.
Doge has done nothing but cause chaos and the next administration is going to have to fix it all. Trump and musk keep saying that they’ve cut this they’ve cut that and saved all this money but there’s no evidence of anything except their word and they’re both liars.
At this time I would like to quote something to you. “[N] or shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” this is from the 14th amendment. This is from the fifth amendment, “Fifth Amendment states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. No where is the word “legal” or “citizen” used, the word used is “person”
The insurrectionists of January 6 received due process, and justice was served, until they were despicably pardoned.
Spoken like a pure borg, Julia. Self-protection is causing ideological distortions and premature conclusions. Carry on. DOGE is on target and will prevail in cleaning out the rot and dross we no longer choose to fund. Plan your own life accordingly.
JL,
I am not sure why, but when I read your comments or articles, images of Cruella De Vil flash before my eyes. You got me, not sure what a pure borg is, but I doubt it’s a compliment. Self protection is human instinct to me. Doge, supposedly, according to musk and trump has saved millions. Where did those millions saved come from? The majority I believe comes from funding that went toward the elderly, children, veterans and the disabled. in need of health services and basic needs such as food and housing. Not just here, but all over the world. That is what USAID was for. I guess that’s what you consider rot and dross. I wouldn’t be surprised if the saved millions by Dog are being dumped into the cesspool that is the new government ruled by all the oligarchs to cover their tax cuts.
Trolls gonna be Trolls
Russell…..a typically nonsense Republican comment…..just go away. You contribute nothing.
Ha ha Troll you crack me up in one sentence you pontificate about "kindness" and "compassion", and in the next sentence you are telling people to shut up because they think different than you ,ha ha ha. What a Troll. No wonder nobody is taking you seriously.
Here you virtue signal about how amazing you are:
" Education is the basis of everything else in life…..it accounts for values, compassion, kindness, humanity"
And in the next sentence you revert to the angry entitled jerk you really are:
"you should really shut up.….stop embarrassing yourself and your fellow mostly uneducated Republicans."
This is why you are an election loser. Your opinion no longer matters. Your values no longer matter. Your posts no longer matter. And every damaging thing you believe in is in tatters. You literally do not exist in any way that matters. Enjoy the next 8 years.
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No worries Russ, Freeman has made a hobby out of looking like an utter buffoon.
Nancy you are the gift that keeps on giving. Are you trying to sound dumb or is it an act I can't tell, I don't think your acting though :-)
George…your opinions ALSO , like mine, do not matter. The opinion of the majority of Americans will count. So, let’s hope for the best for Democracy.
I think the majority of Americans DO agree with my values.
Regarding compassion and kindness, I do value them which is why I don’t understand how you or anyone can watch innocent Americans being kidnapped on the streets of American and sent…with no due process… to jail.
Of course that is shocking…..yet you are not complaining about the lawlessness of that. It is shocking that an American WOULD NOT COMPLAIN! And it is embarrassing and completely not understandable to me, and I can only explain it by a lack of education of NOW THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY WORK.
Don’t you want due process if you’re picked up on the streets of S.B. Trump HAS MADE MISTAKES, and kidnapped true blue real Americans!
LiberalProf: An intelligent voice; thank you!
I'd like to see a new Trumpy offer to the Commie-Dem dissidents:
"Don't like the USA? We'll give you a free ticket & $500 to move anywhere you'd like to go. All you have to do is renounce your US citizenship and you can't come back." We'll see how long it takes them to miss the good 'ol USA!
Biden reminded me of the Chief of the Fucarewe Indians. As he was leading his tribe across the Great Plains he came up on a hill, looked out, and said “Where the fuc are we?”
It's never occurred to me NOT to hang tight with The Trumpster!
MCCALMONT….WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INFORMATION ABOUT TRUMP…..DO YOU EVER LISTEN TO HIM TALK.? what an embarrassment to this country to have an illiterated failure of a convicted felon speaking like an IMMIGRANT who just landed here.
I respectfully completely disagree with your view of reality. Trump and his mob have no respect for the laws that protect each and every one of us from abuse. He’s even thumbed his nose to the Supreme Court. He’s destroying the economy. This is a complete takeover of everything…government institutions, education, healthcare, the legal system. This should astound even the most diehard Trump supporters. We are inching our way to Nazi Germany or some version of it. It is NOT okay and…again…has NOTHING at all to do with the Democrats who have to look in the mirror at their own mistakes and excesses. The means do NOT…DO NOT…justify the ends. Maybe you are not watching what’s happening??? I could not be okay with myself…my basic humanity and my citizenship of this country…if I went along with this insanity. There is a lawful, humane and measured way to get rid of the excess, change the laws that need to be changed, move the country more to the middle and more….What I see is the opposite. You support a dictatorship. I do not.
Hey Elaine, seriously, do you proofread your comments before posting? You equate our President with Hitler, the Republican Party with National Socialism? Really? My Father chased Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps throughout the Middle East in an effort to rid the world of tyranny. Yet, you persist with this obscene analogy and obsession.
Are you really this stupid and ignorant of world history?
On the contrary. I studied history which is why I’m alarmed. It’s very clear to me that we get our information from very siloed channels. So be it.
You studied history. Please list the history books you read.
GO HAVE ANOTHER CRACKER, YOU DUMB BIRD.
LT. HAVE YOU NOT HEARD TRUMP SAY OFTEN HOW MUCH HE ADMIRES HITLER? Have you not heard him say he will be Dictator ( for a day ) which means he can then declare himself dictator forever. Only needed one day. Don’t you listen to trump when he speaks….IS HE NOT BEHAVING LIKE A DICTATOR….LOVES PUTIN, HE HAS SAID, TO anyone LISTENING….I HEARD HIM SAY SO…! Where DO you get your information if you don’t at least know that about him? Would anyone but a dictator have masked men grab innocent people off the streets of America, and AGAINST THE RULING OF JUDGES, put them in jail in onother state….without due process?
WHY DONT YOU KNOW THIS? Inform yourself!
Freeman, you continue to prove yourself (and the rest of us) as an obnoxious, annoying, ill informed individual. Please get yourself some therapy, seriously suggest you get a psych consult.
Not obnoxious. Informed and alarmed as you all should be! Insults will not change reality.
LT….having a hard time accepting the truth? You write as though you have no idea what is happening daily in America. Show me where ( Elaine ) and I are wrong….if you can.
Demonstrate your supposed veracity instead of deflecting..
LT. Incidentally, I don’t know Elaine. We have never met, but I wouldn’t mind being her sister. Smart lady.
Freeman, quite obviously you and your Sorority sister, Elaine, belong to the sisterhood of misery. You believe what you want regardless of the facts. Trump was elected because of the massive failure of the liberal, corrupt machine that has driven our society into the ground. Pick ANY of the following; education, energy production, crime, immigration, homelessness, foreign policy, economic development ALL have suffered miserably under Democratic leadership to include the recent INCOMPETENCE of Joe Biden. Yes, his bumbling, stumbling, stupidity was KNOWN by you and your fellow asshole Democrats and nothing was said or done about it.
So get over your self righteous ignorance and bullshit sister!
LT, why don’t you quote figures or sources ( but not greedy Republican’s ) for your gross complaints? The market, the needy, the underprivileged, and the wealthy were all doing exceedingly well under Biden’s care. It didn’t all fall apart until this convicted felon got into office with Musk’s money, ( And now THAT love affair is falling apart ).so, just WHERE did you get this distorted self-serving comment “ massive failure of the liberal “. PROVE IT.
Which REPUTABLE person or people are saying so: was it Lawrence Tribe who is the eminent Constitutional Lawyer at Harvard? Was it NPR, as honest as any source can be? Whom do you listen to? Don’t bother naming FOX. THAT SHIP SANK YEARS AGO.
I really want to hear why YOU ( but clearly NOT the majority of Americans or the intelligent Americas worth listening to ) think Biden’s lifetime of giving to the American people was “ bumbling, stumbling, stupid “.. Were you unhappy because he cared for the needy, for WOMENS’ lives, for the unfortunates of other countries, for bright people who couldn’t afford University fees?
THAT is the part of our DEMOCRACY which the Democratic Party cares about. The Republicans used to care also, but now they are hanging on to sicko-trump’s tail, hoping I think their wealth will increase or something.
I can not understand what the attraction is in following trump. He is arguing with everyone he comes in contact with : millions of Americans protest his actions everyday; Greenland, Canada, Ukraine, Europe, Our Best UNIVERSITIES, Judges, Lawyers…..everyone is in shock at what he’s doing to our Democracy. He’s uneducated, unqualified, a liar, a failure at his own businesses, multiple bankruptcies, married 2 immigrants and hates immigrants, jails innocent people, has 37 convictions……lied about having won the Biden election, tried to have Pence hanged…..
Tell me: WHAT IS HE DOING , according to you, THAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA? And who is saying so besides you and the 5 or so men who write here,, without giving their sources ?
Don’t just show your anger. Make a cogent point.
Elaine, THANK YOU for a REFRESHING voice acknowledging the REALITY of what trump is doing to our ordered life. I can hardly believe the lies these Republicans are bantering about. What cowards….incapable of facing what’s being done to the laws of this Democracy. Trump was handed an ordered thriving country and he is decimating it in front of everyone’s eyes……and they refuse to see! What does it benefit the Republicans to do that? What do they hope to gain ? Anyone know? No one has broken more laws than trump,, yet he sends innocent men. ( “ innocent until PROVEN GUILTY “) to prison…..whereas THAT IS EXACTLY WHERE HE BELONGS!
Well said! Now if we could just get our “Republican” party to show up from vacation and stop the judicial coup we are witnessing all would be well. As it is they are sitting on their hands and almost look like they are ‘in on it’. If they don’t reverse and resolve this constitutional crisis and usurpation of Presidential power then they will prove themselves permanently useless and part of the problem. We would need to create a new aggressive rino free third party based around Trump/Musk/Vance and retire the Republican party permanently. They act now or we need to replace the party asap. We are done watching them do nothing but post on social media.
It is happening. Expect the animal spirts of the market place to also respond positively to the administration now pushing back against this current Democrat abuse of the judicial branch of our government. Democrat calculated lawfare spooked the markets; not Trump and not tariffs. Go long on all of this.
You do not undo even the past 16 years of deep state abuse of our government overnight. But it is a fascinating process to finally see this non-elected government abuse get flushed out of the shadows. You have to go back 50 years at least to see how it sprouted in the darkness. And you want it undone in 3 months?
Mostly agree. I did not say undone in 3 months. I said action now. Senate has done zero as judges have usurped presidential power. This is unheard of. Acute. And a constitutional crisis requiring strong immediate action. Republicans have tools to stop it but instead have been MIA. They must pretend they are Democrats i.e.stick together, act strongly and quickly, and vote as a block. Otherwise they are useless to us.
Agree GR, Congress has not yet stepped up to the plate. 2026 elections will be where this plays out with the voters. Meanwhile, we get to content ourselves wondering whatever will Salud Carbajal, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla do? Or we could content ourselves working instead on the art of the possible, where we can make a difference.
These are novel issues unfolding right now and I do urge caution along with active recognition of where and why these sticking points exist. Structural changes within our constitutional framework are required. Just application of SCOTUS overturning the Chevron Defense case is herculean as well - what government bureaucratic functions are now deemed illegal and can no longer be funded? Let explore that more along with the DOGE findings.
Engaging in public media debate is as good at it gets right now to move the needle. Which is exactly what Democrats are doing right now using their surrogates - trying to control the dialogue. And misinterpreting Trump's currently declining poll numbers as rejection of Trump, and not as growing reflection of Trump supporters disappointed that he is not moving fast enough.
No one wants a return to the Biden/Democrat years of corruption. That is a given. Now, how to we get to the recently proposed "Golden Age"? More likely in slow steady steps, two steps foward, one step back wards. The ice jam (pardon the pun) thrown at us by Demorat obstrutcionists is breaking up.
Polling shows even Californians are getting tried of this Democrat nonsense. We will be a stronger country by our 250th Birthday - but it is still a slog to get there.
I love your optimism. I see the eradication of our European American culture and heritage as the globalist goal. This will, or should I say, is, being achieved by two methods. 1) Illegal Aliens brought or let into the country to vote and have children and 2) The fact that Mexican American illegal and legal, and Muslim American, legal and illegal, birth rates, as two examples, exceed that of European American Americans. In time simple arithmetic will destroy the European American heritage, culture and innovation that primarily built the USA. As Muammar Gaddafi once said, and seperatel a then President of Mexico also said: " We will take over without firing a shot due to our love of having children". If this trend continues the European American heritage will largely be erased, which we are already seeing with the removal of statues, removal of our cultural norms etc, and I would predict a power struggle in the future between Catholicism mainly supported by a Mexican American majority, and Sharia law mainly supported by a Muslim American majority. A religious war of sorts could follow. Time will tell.