Mexico acted as they did knowing Trump would do as he said...The number of illegal aliens entering from our border and from Mexico by the thousands confirms there isn’t any effort to stop it, thats BS what you said and you know it.. my gosh perm how you can try to refute the mass numbers coming across-illegay and rising, not reducing.. You must take us for idiots!!!!

China another bit of BS...keep up perm.. Naturally they talked big trade war and all that with Trump but then put it out there they want far market trade and willing to reduce car trade tariffs etc..As well as stopping their control of steele/alumium that Trump called them out about too..The only President that tackled their BS, why is that perm??

You just can not dare say a word positive of Trump...hint~ He’s succeeding in spite of you and your ilk... Three fantastic great results this week alone and all major events.. Keep your lies going tho .. You kick your own ass every time in the process....

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Chinese leader Xi Jinping promised today to open China's economy up even further for foreign investments and to lower tariffs on foreign automobiles. His speech comes in the middle of this ongoing standoff between the U.S. and China over trade. NPR's Rob Schmitz joins us live from our Shanghai bureau this morning to talk about this. Hey, Rob.

ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: Good morning.

MARTIN: What can you tell us about the timing of this speech?

SCHMITZ: Well, obviously this comes amidst a pretty big buildup in what many people think is a trade war or a coming trade war between the U.S. and China. And a lot of people, I think, were expecting Xi Jinping to make a stand against the U.S. today. This is a really heavily hyped speech. But instead what we got was a speech that was sort of filled with poetic language about peace and harmony and coming together to solve global problems. Xi said that China would seek to reduce its trade surplus, which is, as we know, a big pet peeve of President Trump's. He also vowed China would improve its investment environment. Here's a snippet of what he said.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/10/601072299/china-ready-to-lower-import-tariffs-and-trade-barriers-xi-says

As for Syria once again reverted to gasing his own people because of the rebels still fighting and refusing to leave.. They have been advancing again and Assad could not stop them so he did what he does when they are losing.. Puts a bomb out there with chlorine and serain again.. Works every time too. The rebels back off, leave the area for awhile..This one was once again an opps in getting caught because he killed 45 of his own people and injured hundreds most women and children.. Not the first time since he supposedly got rid of the chemicals and signed a treaty to it as well..You Know the rest I’m sure you have followed it..

Did you even watch the emergency meeting Russia called with the UN and hear what was said by the UK and fabulousy laid out by Nikki Haley?? You couldn’t have or you wouldn’t be
Embarrassing yourself with your comments on Syria!!!
Bo didn’t do a thing to stop Assad and Russia damn sure did nothing!! Trump inherited this mess from Bo’ and his imaginery red line in the sand garbage again.. He didn’t even enforce the inspection program as the treaty allowed, so please toot your BO BS on some of your ilk because it doesn’t work with me!!
BTW the UN denied Russia too..

I think that the people being represented by the politicians in their state should be able to recall the politicians for not representing them, or their interests.
What California, or New York think work for them may not necessarily work for the people of Texas, for example.
DC is out of control in my opinion, and needs an enema.

But, then that might create an enviromental, and biological catastrophe worse than Fukishima!

Trump Delivers a Hollow, Self-Congratulatory Speech to Farmers in Nashville
“Oh, are you happy you voted for me,” he assured the assembled.
TOM PHILPOTTJAN. 8, 2018 11:53 PM

Donald Trump is big with the farmers. How big? Just ask him. “Oh, are you happy you voted for me,” the president cooed during his speech at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 99th annual convention in Nashville on Monday. “Oh, you are so lucky I gave you that privilege.”

His preening lines (starting around 23:20 in the above video) inspired a curiously muted applause from the audience compared to the rousing cheers he elicited during other parts of the speech. The flat reception underlines Trump’s dilemma in farm country as the 2018 mid-term elections approach. His administration has delivered on the main promises it made to farmers during the 2016 campaign: gutting regulation and easing the burden of the estate tax. But those promises actually amount to very little in the face of a struggling farm economy beset by years of low commodity prices, labor shortages exacerbated by an immigration crackdown, and fears of imperiled export markets as Trump threatens to roll back trade deals like the North American Free Trade Act.

Take deregulation. At his Nashville speech, the president trumpeted the administration’s move, back in March, to overturn the Waters of the US rule, a clarification of the Clean Water Act mandated by a 2006 Supreme Court decision. According to Trump, crushing WOTUS, as it’s known, was a heroic act that essentially saved the family farm. “Men that were tough and strong, women that were tough and strong, they’d see me, there were tears coming down their eyes, because I gave them back their property, I gave them back their farms,” he claimed.

The crowd roared at Trump’s WOTUS victory lap, but the idea that the president delivered farms back to people is nonsense. As I showed in this post, the Waters of the US rule—like the Clean Water Act itself—exempted farming activities from its purview. The Farm Bureau itself did its best to whip farmers into a frenzy against it, even though it had little effect on them.

He told another fairy tale about what he called the “deeply unfair estate tax.” Until recently, estates valued at $5.5 million and higher were forced to pay an estate tax of 40 percent. The recent GOP tax overhaul pushed the threshold to $11 million. Before that act of largesse, farm families typically “were forced to take these farms and sell them at a fire-sale price,” he claimed. “That’s not gonna happen anymore, folks. Not gonna happen.” In reality, just 0.4 percent of US farm estates were big enough for the tax in 2016, according to the US Department of Agriculture.

Not surprisingly, Trump also congratulated farmers on the broader benefits they’ll receive from the tax overhaul, which he described as “5.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts, with most of those benefits going to working families, small businesses, and—who?—family farmers.” I won’t tackle the broader claims. As for impact in farm country, as I reported and was recently confirmed by a new paper from US Department of Agriculture economists, the great bulk of its benefits will accrue to the very largest farmers. According to the paper, the very largest farms will grab as much as 70 percent of the tax reductions, while the smallest farms will actually pay more.

Meanwhile, prices of major commodities like corn and soybeans remain mired in a multi-year slump and farm labor shortages linger. Trump’s bluster won him massive support among farmers in 2016. As the hollow nature of his gifts to them sets in, it’s hard to see how his popularity in farm country will hold out through the mid-terms. Indeed, in the iconic farm state of Iowa, at least, Trump’s appeal is on the wane, reports The Washington Post’s David Wei



Advocates for farmers and trade analysts say Mr. Trump’s protectionist approach to trade has the potential to shrink the market for food producers in the United States. The president withdrew the country from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal with Asian nations. And he has threatened to pull the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has bolstered exports of meat, grains and other commodities.

Many of Mr. Trump’s supporters in the 2016 presidential election come from farming communities. But some now question whether the president’s trade policies are contributing to an advantage for their foreign competitors in countries that are continuing to form trade pacts around the world.

Mr. Trump has promised to negotiate better one-on-one trade deals with other nations, but he has yet to demonstrate much progress toward that goal. In the speech on Monday, he again pledged to negotiate new and better trade deals, particularly with Canada and Mexico.

an opinion
not necessarily mine


Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge.



That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.



The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern here.



What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win. It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.



That’s a civil war.



There’s no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government.



This isn’t dissent. It’s not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship.



Your very own dictatorship.



The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can’t scratch his own back without his say so, that’s the civil war.



Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that’s not the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country.



If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He’s a dictator.



But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can’t do anything. He isn’t even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has “discretion” to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn’t even have the “discretion” to reverse him. That’s how the game is played. That’s how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn’t yet won that particular fight.



When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren’t even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.



The Constitution has something to say about that.



Whether it’s Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship.



Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can’t serve in if you’re not a member. If you haven’t been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren’t in the club. And Trump isn’t in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren’t in the club with him.



Now we’re seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down.



That’s not a free country.



It’s not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an “insurance policy” against Trump winning the election. It’s not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It’s not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It’s not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn’t supposed to win won.



Have no doubt, we’re in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.



That is how WARS START from within.

What an opinion it is too, bobby!! Thank You for posting it...

We are a country formed on the Constitution and our alliance to country comes first!!

Politicians are a dime a dozen while our country is for as long as Mother Nature allows..
What you say right here sums it up perfectly;

It’s not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an “insurance policy” against Trump winning the election. It’s not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It’s not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It’s not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn’t supposed to win, won!”

We have tolerated more than enough and what happened after years of forced progressive left BS is people had enough and showed it.. Since then the losers(and they are ) have whined, cried, thrown fits, lied, obstructed, impeded President Trumps ability to secure and strengthen our border security, fought for DACA who came in illegally to begin with and never bothered applying for legal status anyway. Hired BLM and other groups to disrupt, attack band together to threaten and attack along with, Ohh just too much to list, we all know what has gone on...

Democrats are not happy in having a President that actually leads, works for America First and takes action on his words.. He is a leader and sooner or later they will learn you don’t want to test this President because he will and does act!! Mexico, China and Syria certainly know that, dont they ....

The progressive lefts only motivation is to take Trump out at all cost and to hell with our country in the process.. Their action defines it, words cheap and patriotism ??? Well not what America is all about..!!!!

Ohhhh nice attempt to divert our discussion with this BS twist trying to change the topic..Just exactly what does this have to do with President Trumps three superb outstanding results on three very serious issues, all in one week...,

Thank You for proving my post before this one now...

Trump is a Narcissist,no doubt, but this article you post up is pure garbage and twist again..

Try something else like replying to my post instead of skirting it with this hypobole