@jax said:

I think we got Mamdani because of the illegal invasion, indoctrination in schools and media plus the past couple mayors were terrible. I'm sure what you're saying also plays a part.

No attitude in my posts btw, just throwing stuff out there.

The "you" wasn't directed at you, more the government. I thought your posts were fair. 

@vaportrail said:

Respectfully, these issues are not important to your entire generation. The issues that you just talked about above as important to you don't mean a thing to the zoomers. To summarize their worldview - who cares about Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Gaza when nothing is affordable?

It matters to everyone. I need to know when I retire I can still afford things as well. Zoomers need to be educated how flooding the country with foreigners raises prices on everything just as the higher energy costs does. I wonder how many of these zoomers are defending the fraud committed by Somalis as well.

@vaportrail said:

And on top of that, if I try and criticize you for cozying up to Ukraine or Israel, you're going to try and make that illegal? This is how you get Mamdani. And if the GOP keeps it up, there will be more Mamdanis throughout the country. 

I think we got Mamdani because of the illegal invasion, indoctrination in schools and media plus the past couple mayors were terrible. I'm sure what you're saying also plays a part.

No attitude in my posts btw, just throwing stuff out there.

@vaportrail said:

He could have kept bombing the smugglers boating across the Caribbean. Capturing Maduro isn't going to put a dent in the drug trade. It's only going to create more opportunity for drug lords to assume some of the power that he held. Every single time we do this it creates refugees - as it turns out, one semi-competent strongman is often preferable to live under than a number of incompetent and competing warlords. 

He's promising some good things, even boots on the ground and taking control until we are pleased the country will be free. If we secure some oil, good for us for freeing a country.

@vaportrail said:

What other topic would it fall under?

Not sure but this war has nothing to do with his foreign policies.

@vaportrail said:

I'm more talking about the unrest over there this week. The strategic impact of the Fordham nuclear site bombing is still unknown. I am going to wager that it's going to have had less of an impact than Iran launching enough ballistic missiles to cost them 20% of their GDP.

Getting rid of their nukes was needed and hopefully we did just that. Having those over everyones head would be a lot worse than someones gdp.

@vaportrail said:

A year into his second presidency, Trump has been a mixed bag. Let's look at some of the campaign promises he made

The Good

• The Border
  • The uncontrolled migration that the Biden admin allowed has significantly improved by actually enforcing immigration laws
  • Treating drug runners as military invaders has been a major deterrent to the drug trade via the Caribbean
• Crime
  • Trump wielding the National Guard in American cities, which in some cases was illegal, did seem to light a fire under Democrat mayors to do more to fight crime
  • Here's the Major Cities Chiefs Association annual report on crime. Cleveland and Chicago saw all forms of violent crime go down, and this trend has mostly applied across the country, whereas our northern neighbor's major cities have seen more increases. Any values in the table that are in red demonstrate an increase from 2024 to 2025. 
• Drug overdoses
  • There has been a sharp decline since he took over
• Foreign Policy
  • Negotiated a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, leading to the living hostages being returned to Israel and stopping further annexation of Gaza

The Bad

• Foreign Policy
  • He hasn't done much to decrease American taxpayer money going to foreign wars, and in fact, has increased spending
  • The war between Russia and Ukraine continues, and in spite of more heavy-handed rhetoric, Trump doesn't really have any leverage against Putin there
  • He appears to have negotiated an exit with Maduro and claims to have captured them this morning. Creating a power vacuum in Venezuela is going to create more refugees in our backyard. 
  • He continues to rattle the saber with Iran as the Ayatollah weathers a potential regime change. Even Jeb Bush has stated this week how good a job Trump is doing on this topic. 
• Affordability
  • Inflation has slowed, but prices remain high. His posts on the affordability of Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas were just as deceitful as when Biden was doing it. 
  • Passed the big beautiful (bloated omnibus) bill which significantly increased government spending.
    • NGOs mass importing a bunch of Somalians and Haitians into our communities wouldn't have flown under the radar so easily if we didn't have these massive, unreadable spending bills as the basis of our federal budget
  • Bailed out Argentinian beef farmers at the expense of our own

The Ugly

•  Freedom of speech
  • He has kowtowed to his Israeli-American oligarch donors on their crusade to label most things critical of Israel as "antisemitism"
  • Cancel culture continues and is encouraged against those who speak out against Israel's influence in US government
• Bringing pedophiles to justice
  • Everything the administration has done about the Epstein files has been the complete opposite of what was promised

Thinking ahead to the midterms, Trump won bigly with zoomers, and now he is underwater with that voting bloc, mostly due to the current state of the economy, but also because they don't care that foreign conflicts seem to be a higher priority for this administration. If more isn't done about affordability, I expect the Democrats to regain control of Congress this year. 

Wasn’t the mass importing of Somalis under Obama?

You missed a ton.

Starting with foreign policy:

• March 13, 2025: Significant airstrikes were carried out in Iraq as part of an ongoing mission to target ISIS (Daesh) remnants.
• Mission Context: These operations have been described as a continuation of efforts to degrade terrorist organizations across their former strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
• Frequency: Monitors noted that by mid-2025, the volume of strikes in theaters like Iraq and Syria under Trump had already rivaled or exceeded the totals from the previous administration's entire term. 

• Iran: High-impact "bunker buster" bombings of nuclear facilities in June 2025.
• Yemen: An intense campaign against Houthi rebels (Operation Rough Rider) between March and May 2025.
• Somalia: A record number of strikes against al-Shabab, surpassing levels seen in the prior three U.S. administrations.
• Venezuela: Recent major strikes and ground operations in early January 2026, which included the reported capture of President Nicolás Maduro. 

@vaportrail said:

Cal, obviously the BBB didn't cause those things. But the BBB has a whole bunch of money earmarked for god knows what that will allow that kind of blatant corruption to continue. 

I get your point, but I don't see how it's valid - the BBB negated the obaMaocare subsidies, negated the incredible

amount of money spent for illegals' freeloading lifestyles, and the blatant corruption is being shot down to a point pretty soon. You know the BBB was a great thing because most, nearly all dems voted against it.

@calfoxwc said:

was excellent, yes, it increased spending - the obaMao/biden hacks screwed up our military spending, spent tremendous amounts of money on woke, politically left causes, blew open our borders, refused to vett all illegals stealing into our country, it takes money to FIX the problems they created. Excuse me, but I'm disgusted that the somalies/haitians/venezelan gangs/terrorists/etc came here during your obaMao/biden years.

Has NOTHING to do with the big beautiful bill.

Cal, obviously the BBB didn't cause those things. But the BBB has a whole bunch of money earmarked for god knows what that will allow that kind of blatant corruption to continue. 

@jax said:

I'd like to know, is Trump trying to do his best or is he just covering up for people close to his circle? Don't get me wrong, Trump is sill better than any Dem candidate and most Repubs. Getting back to democratic control in our gov't is only going to bring this country down at warp speed.

Agreed.

I get what you're saying but why does this fall under foreign policy? This war was already raging when he took office. You failed to mention all the wars he stopped or deals he made, including tariffs. Which of course we may see the effects more of this year, hopefully good. 

What other topic would it fall under? I'm aware that he brokered peace in the brief India/Pakistan conflict and that his presidency presided over the console wars when Halo was finally released on Playstation, but these issues aren't all that important to Americans compared to Ukr/Rus and Isr/Gaza. He deserves a Nobel for getting some of those Israeli hostages home safely and keeping Netanyahu from annexing Gaza - they'll never give it to him, though.

He did what needed done, should he have allowed them to continue running drugs into our country because of a 'power vacuum'? And how does one correlate a vacuum to refugees? Which I agree, would be bad but that can be controlled.

 He could have kept bombing the smugglers boating across the Caribbean. Capturing Maduro isn't going to put a dent in the drug trade. It's only going to create more opportunity for drug lords to assume some of the power that he held. Every single time we do this it creates refugees - as it turns out, one semi-competent strongman is often preferable to live under than a number of incompetent and competing warlords. 

Iran has always been a threat and thankfully Trump neutralized their biggest threat. He's the only one that had the balls to stop their nukes and we should be thankful for that.

 I'm more talking about the unrest over there this week. The strategic impact of the Fordham nuclear site bombing is still unknown. I am going to wager that it's going to have had less of an impact than Iran launching enough ballistic missiles to cost them 20% of their GDP. 

I don't see any impact of this, especially to label under free speech. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this in response to all the college 'free Palestine' crap that was harassing jewish people? Shame colleges themselves didn't stop it.

Respectfully, these issues are not important to your entire generation. The issues that you just talked about above as important to you don't mean a thing to the zoomers. To summarize their worldview - who cares about Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Gaza when nothing is affordable? And on top of that, if I try and criticize you for cozying up to Ukraine or Israel, you're going to try and make that illegal? This is how you get Mamdani. And if the GOP keeps it up, there will be more Mamdanis throughout the country. 

What criticism of Israel is valid? WHAT?

Which lends itself to the conclusion - that invalid criticism of Israel 

IS anti-Semitic. 

Pres Trump has only been president for about one year, and whining that all problems haven't been solved

is very much nonsense, when no whining occurred about prices etc for the twelve years of obaMao and biden/obaMao.

    The epstein files are being released, it isn't all up to him. he isn't a dictator, you know, Vapor.

Gas prices are way down, it takes time to revamp our oil production, coal production/energy creation. It takes far more than just 11 months to fix the dramatic problems left behind by obaMao/bideen deep corrupt state leftism.

    The Argentina deal was a short term fix to keep prices from exploding because of the long term damage to our own beef industry.

  Every damn thing obaMao/biden hacks did, was for political advantage, regardless of how it would damage our country.

@vaportrail said:

• Passed the big beautiful (bloated omnibus) bill which significantly increased government spending.
  • NGOs mass importing a bunch of Somalians and Haitians into our communities wouldn't have flown under the radar so easily if we didn't have these massive, unreadable spending bills as the basis of our federal budget
• Bailed out Argentinian beef farmers at the expense of our own

the big beautiful bill was excellent, yes, it increased spending - the obaMao/biden hacks screwed up our military spending, spent tremendous amounts of money on woke, politically left causes, blew open our borders, refused to vett all illegals stealing into our country, it takes money to FIX the problems they created. Excuse me, but I'm disgusted that the somalies/haitians/venezelan gangs/terrorists/etc came here during your obaMao/biden years.

Has NOTHING to do with the big beautiful bill.

ObaMaocommiecare was a financial disaster, and a lot of lies. Yes, helped Argentina beef farmers. Know why?

North American Meat Institute

https://www.meatinstitute.org › press › meat-institute-usda-continues-over-regulate-beef-and-cattle-market

Oct 8, 2024WASHINGTON, DC - Following the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) requests for more information on possible new rules under the Packers and Stockyards Act on price discovery in cattle markets, Meat Institute President and CEO Julie Anna Potts today made the following statement: "Biden's USDA is once

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  POLITICO

  https://www.politico.com › news › 2023 › 09 › 26 › biden-agriculture-monopolies-farmers-00118135

  'Rome's burning': Small farmers complain Biden administration is ...

  Sep 26, 2023Small farmers and anti-monopoly groups say the Agriculture Department's policy changes aren't aggressive enough to restore the ranks of America's smaller farms.

The Hill

https://thehill.com › policy › equilibrium-sustainability › 590941-small-ranchers-say-biden-letting-them-get-squeezed

Small ranchers say Biden letting them get squeezed - The Hill

America's independent cattle ranchers say major corporations in the beef industry are squeezing them out — and that the Biden administration is letting it happen.President Biden issued a ...

House Committee on Ways and Means

https://waysandmeans.house.gov › 2024 › 04 › 15 › chairman-smith-op-ed-failed-biden-trade-policies-mean-falling-ag-exports-hurting-american-farmers

Chairman Smith Op-Ed: Failed Biden Trade Policies Mean Falling Ag ...

Apr 15, 2024The Biden Administration must aggressively utilize this agreement to protect American farmers, whether for biotechnology in Mexico or dairy access in Canada. The new and improved enforcement mechanisms included within USMCA must be utilized to ensure market access for our agriculture products.

Lancaster Farming

https://www.lancasterfarming.com › biden-revives-controversial-obama-era-ag-rules › article_17cb75a4-d559-5470-ad24-1391cd0859d2.html

Biden Revives Controversial Obama-Era Ag Rules - Lancaster Farming

The Biden administration is preparing to apply its "build back better" slogan to some of the most contentious agricultural regulations that fizzled during the Obama era. The rules — on organic practices, meatpacking abuses and the federal government's authority over water — stoked heated debate during the last Democratic administration.

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Fox Business

https://www.foxbusiness.com › economy › farmers-fear-return-to-hot-mess-climate-regulations-under-biden

Farmers fear Biden's climate regulations will be 'hot mess' for industry

Rural ranchers across the U.S. are bracing for a comeback of Environmental Protection Agency regulations under President-elect Biden that were in place during the Obama-Biden administration. The ...

Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com › worst-time-american-farmers-decades-2107710

It's the Worst Time to Be an American Farmer in Decades

Aug 3, 2025"The entire farm economy has been hurt by Biden's inaction. Over the last four years, our trade agenda favored foreign competitors over America's farmers, ranchers, and producers."

House Committee on Agriculture

https://agriculture.house.gov › news › documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=7176

One Year of President Biden's War on Agriculture | House Agriculture ...

As we look back on year one of Joe Biden's America, communities across the country are feeling the pangs of skyrocketing inflation, rising expenses, and dismal supply chain disruptions, largely due to reckless policies and bloated, unchecked spending in Washington. Farm country has been hit particularly hard by the

There's a massive system of gov't, agencies and laws.

One second everyone expects him to round up a posse and make things happen then turn around and cry cause he's blowing up drug smugglers invading our country.

He has to delegate to a great degree and there's only so many people in the pool he can choose from.

This includes me, I'd like to know why we still have corrupt judges, why any pedo ring isn't being annihilated to every degree, why corrupt politicians aren't getting exposed and then buried, why aren't illegals being deported at light speed, why have colleges become cesspools where a single man can't have open debate, why are we celebrating muslims that are trying to destroy our culture, why is ground beef nearly triple the price, have we heard about gov't following through eliminating all the waste Doge was exposing, why isn't hellfire raining down on these Somali criminals....?? 

I'd like to know, is Trump trying to do his best or is he just covering up for people close to his circle? Don't get me wrong, Trump is sill better than any Dem candidate and most Repubs. Getting back to democratic control in our gov't is only going to bring this country down at warp speed.

@vaportrail said:

The war between Russia and Ukraine continues, and in spite of more heavy-handed rhetoric, Trump doesn't really have any leverage against Putin there

I get what you're saying but why does this fall under foreign policy? This war was already raging when he took office. You failed to mention all the wars he stopped or deals he made, including tariffs. Which of course we may see the effects more of this year, hopefully good. 

@vaportrail said:

He appears to have negotiated an exit with Maduro and claims to have captured them this morning. Creating a power vacuum in Venezuela is going to create more refugees in our backyard. 

He did what needed done, should he have allowed them to continue running drugs into our country because of a 'power vacuum'? And how does one correlate a vacuum to refugees? Which I agree, would be bad but that can be controlled.

@vaportrail said:

He continues to rattle the saber with Iran as the Ayatollah weathers a potential regime change. Even Jeb Bush has stated this week how good a job Trump is doing on this topic. 

Iran has always been a threat and thankfully Trump neutralized their biggest threat. He's the only one that had the balls to stop their nukes and we should be thankful for that.

@vaportrail said:

 Freedom of speech

• He has kowtowed to his Israeli-American oligarch donors on their crusade to label most things critical of Israel as "antisemitism"
• Cancel culture continues and is encouraged against those who speak out against Israel's influence in US government

I don't see any impact of this, especially to label under free speech. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this in response to all the college 'free Palestine' crap that was harassing jewish people? Shame colleges themselves didn't stop it.

a topic of which has come across the news cycles every time theres a lull in the left tard narrative,

people seem to forget theres a relationship with energy prices and overall economic health .. 

as if the biden energy (up the ass dry) policy hadnt had the effect that it did ?

look back to 2018 - 19 before the covid scam, and youll see a booming economy JUST starting to take off.

So where are the energy prices now? trending to more affordability right?

and an economy that is bound to respond, like a couple of romanced and satisfied lovers 

NOT a couple of pipe smokers at a blow and go gloryhole that the media and the left liken their expectations to ... 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Esbkxg5bk/

@vaportrail said:

A year into his second presidency, Trump has been a mixed bag. Let's look at some of the campaign promises he made

The Good

• The Border
  • The uncontrolled migration that the Biden admin allowed has significantly improved by actually enforcing immigration laws
  • Treating drug runners as military invaders has been a major deterrent to the drug trade via the Caribbean
• Crime
  • Trump wielding the National Guard in American cities, which in some cases was illegal, did seem to light a fire under Democrat mayors to do more to fight crime
  • Here's the Major Cities Chiefs Association annual report on crime. Cleveland and Chicago saw all forms of violent crime go down, and this trend has mostly applied across the country, whereas our northern neighbor's major cities have seen more increases. Any values in the table that are in red demonstrate an increase from 2024 to 2025. 
• Drug overdoses
  • There has been a sharp decline since he took over
• Foreign Policy
  • Negotiated a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, leading to the living hostages being returned to Israel and stopping further annexation of Gaza

The Bad

• Foreign Policy
  • He hasn't done much to decrease American taxpayer money going to foreign wars, and in fact, has increased spending
  • The war between Russia and Ukraine continues, and in spite of more heavy-handed rhetoric, Trump doesn't really have any leverage against Putin there
  • He appears to have negotiated an exit with Maduro and claims to have captured them this morning. Creating a power vacuum in Venezuela is going to create more refugees in our backyard. 
  • He continues to rattle the saber with Iran as the Ayatollah weathers a potential regime change. Even Jeb Bush has stated this week how good a job Trump is doing on this topic. 
• Affordability
  • Inflation has slowed, but prices remain high. His posts on the affordability of Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas were just as deceitful as when Biden was doing it. 
  • Passed the big beautiful (bloated omnibus) bill which significantly increased government spending.
    • NGOs mass importing a bunch of Somalians and Haitians into our communities wouldn't have flown under the radar so easily if we didn't have these massive, unreadable spending bills as the basis of our federal budget
  • Bailed out Argentinian beef farmers at the expense of our own

The Ugly

•  Freedom of speech
  • He has kowtowed to his Israeli-American oligarch donors on their crusade to label most things critical of Israel as "antisemitism"
  • Cancel culture continues and is encouraged against those who speak out against Israel's influence in US government
• Bringing pedophiles to justice
  • Everything the administration has done about the Epstein files has been the complete opposite of what was promised

Thinking ahead to the midterms, Trump won bigly with zoomers, and now he is underwater with that voting bloc, mostly due to the current state of the economy, but also because they don't care that foreign conflicts seem to be a higher priority for this administration. If more isn't done about affordability, I expect the Democrats to regain control of Congress this year. 

If they regain Congress.. America as we know it is fried, kaput, El Gone O!.. You better hope they don't..