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Merkin Baller said:

Annafalk said:

oftenreading said:

"Look what happened in Sweden"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/20/trump-asked-people-to-look-at-whats-happening-in-sweden-heres-whats-happening-there/?utm_term=.d96e8a0cab2a&wpisrc=nl_most-draw14&wpmm=1

Right, Sweden. Where the crime rate hasn't gone up and immigrants are responsible for only 1% of crime anyway.

1% ? Almost all criminals has foreign names here, according to a police officer talking out in media the other week (because he's had/seen enough)
I wish it wasn't so, but Trump has a point in what he is saying about Sweden. :(
The big problem is that criminals here doesn't get any real punishment, the court system here is a joke.

Can you provide any statistics or reports to back this up Anna?

I think it's interesting that since 2005 my country has stopped to register information about the criminals background in the crime statistics.

Swedish police officer causes controversy with Facebook post http://www.thelocal.se/20170208/swedish-police-officer-causes-controversy-with-facebook-post via @TheLocalSweden

Trump seems to be the do-over President.
First National Security adviser unpopular and probably heading to jail, so name a more acceptable guy next time around.
EO designed to ban Muslims is illegal, gives us a few weeks and we'll write another one. Etc.
Maybe once all the money is followed Americans will get a do-over election?

Kev - Coat and Keys said:

Trump seems to be the do-over President.
First National Security adviser unpopular and probably heading to jail, so name a more acceptable guy next time around.
EO designed to ban Muslims is illegal, gives us a few weeks and we'll write another one. Etc.
Maybe once all the money is followed Americans will get a do-over election?

He couldn't do much worse than every other pick and every other policy and campaign position he has made from jump street.

How about we start by repealing and replacing the 12th amendment with a straight and narrow POPULAR vote for President?

How about we start the Presidential primary elections with a one day run-off of the 20 largest states by population....California
Texas New York Florida Illinois Pennsylvania Ohio Georgia Michigan North Carolina New Jersey Virginia Washington Massachusetts Arizona Indiana Tennessee Missouri Maryland Wisconsin, as opposed to the completely backwards ass way we do it now?

Instead of "committing delegates" to go to a convention by doing it this way

Iowa New Hampshire Nevada South Carolina Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arkansas Colorado caucuses Democrats Abroad Georgia
Massachusetts Minnesota North Dakota Oklahoma Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia Wyoming Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Nebraska

Seriously...Alabama, Alaska, North Dakota, Kentucky, and New Hampshire shouldn't get to talk before the grown ups in New York City and California have said their piece

That goes for you too Arkansas.

Tiki said:

Instead of "committing delegates" to go to a convention by doing it this way

Iowa New Hampshire Nevada South Carolina Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arkansas Colorado caucuses Democrats Abroad Georgia
Massachusetts Minnesota North Dakota Oklahoma Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia Wyoming Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Nebraska

Seriously...Alabama, Alaska, North Dakota, Kentucky, and New Hampshire shouldn't get to talk before the grown ups in New York City and California have said their piece

That goes for you too Arkansas.

"Grown ups in New York City and California"...lmao!!!!! Thanks for the great laugh beginning this fine Tuesday morning!!!

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

Loved his press conference yesterday. He's sticking to the campaign promises and telling the media to fuck off. He's going to do what he said he would whether they're in bed with him or not... love that shit. Gotta love a guy who stands by his word, totally different than many of the clowns we've all grown up with. Normally they get elected and it's honeymoon period for a month or so, this dude just goes to work. I feel you have to respect a doer whether you agree with his principles or not, it's awesome to see govt not just blowing hot air and doing nothing.

Trump has done close to zero, and his followers are being fooled into thinking he is getting shit done. I have read a few articles on this, but I'll leave you one example:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/president-trump-has-done-almost-nothing-214775

mfc2006 said:

from CNN:

"Donald Trump's company has bought thousands of domain names--including TrumpFraud.org and others that could be used against him."

But they don't have anything to worry about, right? LOL.

Granted, he bought some of them a long time ago.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/20/technology/trump-websites/

one of them I read is ihatetrumpvodka.com. LOL

What's the over/under on the number of offensive remarks he makes today at the Museum of African American History?

Oh yea, follow the money.

a "rocking horse presidency":

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/19/politics/fareed-zakaria-trump-take-cnntv/?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion

(CNN)CNN's Fareed Zakaria had strong words on Sunday for President Donald Trump's performance so far, imploring viewers to "not confuse motion with progress," and arguing that Trump has "hardly done anything."

"The first few weeks of the Trump administration have been an illustration of that line from the writer Alfred Montalpert: "Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress,'" Zakaria said.
"We are witnessing a rocking horse presidency," he added.
Though the host of CNN's "GPS" acknowledged that since winning the election the President has "dominated the news," he couldn't, fathom what Trump had "actually done" over the past month.
"This week, Trump said at a news conference, "There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time," Zakaria noted.
But the reality of the Trump White House, he said, is that it "has not even begun serious discussions with Congress on major legislation."
Trump had issued a series of "executive orders with great fanfare," Zakaria acknowledged.
However, he argued, "they are mostly hot air, lofty proclamations that direct some agency to "review" a law, "report" back to him, "consider" some action or reaffirm some long-standing practice."
Not much happening on serious policy
The one order that actually "did something," the temporary travel ban, was unsuccessful, Zakaria said, and " so poorly conceived and phrased that it got stuck in the court system and will have to be redone or abandoned."
As for many of Trump's campaign promises, from the reindustrialization of the Midwest to reviving the coal and steel industries, to imposing term limits on all members of Congress?
"All were promised, none has been done," said Zakaria.
There are "two aspects" to the Trump presidency, said the CNN host. The "freak show" and "the savvy businessman."
"For many people, the bargain of the Trump presidency was that they would put up with the freak show in order to get tax reform, infrastructure projects and deregulation," he said.
Though Zakaria acknowledged that Trump may still fulfill some of his campaign promises, for now, "not much is happening in the realm of serious policy."
"The Romans said the way to keep people happy was to give them "bread and circus" -- sustenance and entertainment" said Zakaria.
"So far all we have gotten is the circus."