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Not impressive.

During his transition period, Obama had been focused on finding bipartisan support for a stimulus plan to stop the bleeding of jobs and home foreclosures and managed to get it passed in eight days, with support from a handful of Republicans. He passed a budget resolution and signed major legislation on workers’ rights and health care that had been stalled or vetoed under President George W. Bush. Obama also issued executive orders on numerous topics, from closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay to new government ethics rules. At the 100-day mark, 65 percent of Americans polled said they approved of the job he was doing, with only 29 percent disapproving.

Back on the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump portrayed the nation as a desperate dystopian hellscape and promised his adoring followers that he would make America great again. But he he went beyond that. Decrying NAFTA and inner-city crime, vowing to bring back jobs and go after undocumented immigrants, undo regulations and fight ISIS, Trump promised to fix it all “very, very quickly.” Sometimes he’d add that it would “happen so fast your head will spin.”

Indeed, Trump’s pitch to his voters was that none of these were difficult issues and the problem had been our “stupid” leaders who just didn’t know what they were doing. He famously said in his nomination acceptance speech at the Republication convention, “I alone can fix it,” making it clear that he planned to do it all at once.

Just before the election, Trump released his plan for the first 100 days and it was extremely ambitious. He promised to reverse every Obama executive order he could think of and issue as many of his own as possible on the very first day. His ill-conceived travel ban was the most controversial and a few of his promises, like his pledge to “propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress,” have been quietly shelved. Others, in light of subsequent events, now seem mordantly amusing, such as “a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.”

Trump didn’t manage to do everything on his list the first day but he fulfilled many of those promises during the first few months, most of them serving as props for his tedious daily signing photo ops, even if they don’t really add up to any substantial accomplishments. And while his “big, beautiful wall” may be indefinitely put on hold (because it was an imbecilic idea in the first place), he’s made real progress on his draconian immigration crackdown.

The Department of Homeland Security under former Gen. John Kelly and the Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions have most definitely taken off the gloves, and plans are underway for an even more drastic crackdown. In fact, Sessions is systematically carrying out Trump’s “law and order” campaign pledges by turning back voting rights enforcement, “reviewing” police consent decrees, talking up the drug war and rejecting forensic science that leads to fewer innocent people being convicted.

But presidents are generally not considered to have had a successful first 100 days without any major legislative achievement, particularly when their party controls both houses of Congress. And the great negotiator presented himself as someone who could make “deals” almost magically. Indeed, it was the single most important skill he allegedly possessed. He was so good at it he would make Mexico pay for the wall and singlehandedly renegotiate all the trade deals so thoroughly that our trading partners would give up all their jobs and profits and thank us for the privilege.

Unfortunately for the president, he does not have even one real legislative victory. His most substantial achievement is a bill letting hunters kill bear cubs in their dens while hibernating. His only serious attempt at negotiating a legislative deal was so badly botched it ended in ignominious failure after just 18 days of debate in the House. That, of course, was the health care bill meant to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. Recent rumors of a quick revival are, according to savvy observers, a product of White House hype and desperation for a 100-day “win,” rather than a sign of any real movement on the issue.

In other words, Trump’s 100-day achievements have consisted of his signing of some orders, having his picture taken with people around a big table, instituting “law and order” through his henchman Jeff Sessions — and failing to get even one major piece of legislation passed into law, despite his party’s congressional majorities.

According to the latest Gallup poll, he has the worst average approval rating (41 percent) during this period of any president in that survey’s history, and by a margin of 14 points.
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It does read like opposite day.

Obama had zero consensus-building skills. His opponent in the campaign stopped campaigning to help put together that (ill advised) financial package Oreo is bragging about.

This is actually worse than Bill Clinton taking credit for Gingrich ending welfare as we know it.
 
Conager said:
It does read like opposite day.

Obama had zero consensus-building skills. His opponent in the campaign stopped campaigning to help put together that (ill advised) financial package Oreo is bragging about.

This is actually worse than Bill Clinton taking credit for Gingrich ending welfare as we know it.
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But back to all the Trump accomplishments...:rolleyes:
 
Adre said:
But back to all the Trump accomplishments...:rolleyes:
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You seem unaware of the sheer magnatude of what was reversed with a pen and a phone that Obama had put in place with nothing more than a pen and a phone.

Eight years of "accomplishments" gone. That's quite an accomplishment.
 
Adre said:
But back to all the Trump accomplishments...:rolleyes:
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It does seem incongruent that he drives them to apoplectic calls for impeachment from doing nothing more than posing for photo ops.
 
Conager said:
You seem unaware of the sheer magnatude of what was reversed with a pen and a phone that Obama had put in place with nothing more than a pen and a phone.

Eight years of "accomplishments" gone. That's quite an accomplishment.
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Right, a bunch of basically meaningless stuff was meaninglessly reversed. As he promised he's already the best President ever.:rolleyes: Cos, you know, it's easy.
 
Spear Point Invests $1 Million into Salon Media Group

Not impressive...

Spear Point Capital Management has invested $1 million into Salon Media Group. The deal, which closed last Friday, gives the public-equity firm 29 percent of the common stock for the 22-year-old publicly held web magazine.

Spear Point isn’t new to the media game. The activist hedge fund, which invests primarily in publicly traded companies with less than $2.0 billion in market capitalization, holds about 5 percent stake in TheStreet.com, according to New York Post.

Along with the investment come three new board members — Spear Point managing partners Ron Bienvenu and Trevor Colhoun, and Dick MacWilliams, who will serve as chairman.

George Hirsch, John Warnock, James Rosenfield, and Deepak Desai are all retiring from the Salon board, a spokesperson tells Folio:. This leaves only CEO Jordan Hoffner, and director William Hambrecht, from the previous board.
This is an opportunity for me to rethink something and take the lead on it,” Hoffner told Folio:. “I’m also in an interesting situation, where I am not venture backed. We’re publicly traded; I have to show profits. For better or worse, this is the plan that seems to make sense given my situation.”

If Salon’s recent earning reports are any indication, Hoffner has a long road ahead. Q2 FY 2017 saw revenues down 41 percent from the same three-month period in 2015. Operating expenses were down too — posted at $1.8 million from $2.2 million for the same period last year. But losses were posted at $0.9 million, up 180 percent YoY.
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http://www.foliomag.com/spear-point-invests-1-million-salon-media-group/
 
Adre said:
Right, a bunch of basically meaningless stuff was meaninglessly reversed. As he promised he's already the best President ever.:rolleyes: Cos, you know, it's easy.
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So you judge that the bulk of Obama's two terms in office to be "a bunch of basically meaningless stuff?"

Not going to argue with that other than to add "expensive" to meaningless stuff.

I know you peruse financial pages, did you miss that the rollback of regulations reduced expemses to the business community of 86 billion dollars?

Remember when a billion was real money? 86B is now just two months of phony Fed money from the Obama era propping up the stock market.
 
Conager said:
So you judge that the bulk of Obama's two terms in office to be "a bunch of basically meaningless stuff?"

Not going to argue with that other than to add "expensive" to meaningless stuff.

I know you peruse financial pages, did you miss that the rollback of regulations reduced expemses to the business community of 86 billion dollars?

Remember when a billion was real money? 86B is now just two months of phony Fed money from the Obama era propping up the stock market.
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I saw a figure like that but find it impossible to believe it can be reliably calculated already. I also saw the front page of the Journal today, which said Investors Souring on Economy. That's a real 100 day accomplishment.
 
Queerbait the angry little tranny is in full "suck trump cock" mode again and blaming his shitty life on Obama. What a pathetic little loser.
 
Trump slams first 100 days construct -- after repeatedly embracing it

President Donald Trump tweeted Friday about the "ridiculous standard" by which he will be judged on his accomplishments during his first 100 days in office.

The 100 days measure is linked to President Franklin Roosevelt -- he signed 15 major pieces of legislation early in his presidency -- and, as CNN's Jake Tapper notes, it's when a president's power and influence with Congress is likely the greatest.
Trump, himself, talked repeatedly about his first 100 days when he was campaigning last year. It was part of his stump speech in the final week of the campaign -- he asked his crowds in Minnesota, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and elsewhere to "imagine what we can accomplish in the first 100 days of a Trump administration."
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The guy is an imbecile, much like queertag46.
 
Trump slammed Obama for golfing and vowed to never golf while in office. Ooops, that's another lie. :)
 
$60 BILLION in savings from REGULATION in 1st 3 months alone, more to come

NATO is INCREASING $ for defense

China helps with NK

America has a STRONG HORSE and is respected again and no more PINK PONY and a laughing stock

All this DESPITE ENEMIES of AMERICA like so called "Judges" and DUMOH CongressAsshole THWARTING him
 
He's had more National Security Advisers in his first 100 days than any president ever. So that's something.

He also raised Luciano Pavarotti and Frederick Douglass from the dead.
 
Wrong Element said:
He's had more National Security Advisers in his first 100 days than any president ever. So that's something.

He also raised Luciano Pavarotti and Frederick Douglass from the dead.
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which of the 57 States are they living in?

its teh CORPSE, MAN!
 
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