What will it take…

[bornaneer]

It's liberals like yourself that ***** about the economy depending on who is in charge. Where were you for the past 35 to 40 years since China has been controlling our economy and most likely still are.

Just to drill down on China controlling our economy....It is really the ultra cheap Chinese labor that started it all....Many U.S. companies were/are complicit.

The U.S. SHOULD have added tariffs way back when our companies shifted production to China. Those tariffs should have been added to make the price of the end product equal.

 

[bornaneer]

Most rational people are going to wait longer than 3 weeks to change their minds. That is the prudent thing to do. I was fine with almost everything going on other than the price of beef through February 2026.

Had you waited 3 or even 6 months, not 2 weeks, into this conflict to ask that question, it probably would have been better received. It is clear you have been itching for this to criticize Trump.

It is going to take a couple years for Beef to come down.....it was the far left Democrat climate nuts that started the decreasing Beef herd.
Pork, Chicken,Shrimp,Seafood and Egg prices prices are down under Trump.

 

[WVUALLEN]

Just to drill down on China controlling our economy....It is really the ultra cheap Chinese labor that started it all....Many U.S. companies were/are complicit.

The U.S. SHOULD have added tariffs way back when our companies shifted production to China. Those tariffs should have been added to make the price of the end product equal.

The liberals need to look at the big picture and not the present.

S GDP is forecast to expand 2.5% in 2026 (fourth quarter, year over year), versus the consensus economist estimate of 2.1%.

Core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation is estimated to fall to 2.1% by December (year over year).

The key driver for the forecast for solid GDP growth is that the drag from tariffs should give way to a boost from business and personal tax cuts.

The Fed is predicted to make two rate cuts of 25 basis points (one cut in June and one cut in September).

The US economy is poised for stronger performance this year than many economists are projecting, according to Goldman Sachs Research.

What’s the outlook for US inflation this year?

Core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation is estimated to fall to 2.1% by December (year over year) and core CPI to fall to 2%. Goldman Sachs Research’s inflation forecasts are 0.3 percentage point below consensus estimates, the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) forecasts, and market pricing.

“We are confident in part because we think there was actually meaningful progress” on declining inflation in 2025 that was masked by a moderate one-time boost from tariffs that should fade this year, Mericle writes.

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/us-gdp-growth-is-projected-to-outperform-economist-forecasts-in-2026

 

[Cheers]

Most rational people are going to wait longer than 3 weeks to change their minds. That is the prudent thing to do. I was fine with almost everything going on other than the price of beef through February 2026.

Had you waited 3 or even 6 months, not 2 weeks, into this conflict to ask that question, it probably would have been better received. It is clear you have been itching for this to criticize Trump.

Not true. I was a vocal critic of the tariffs due to their Inflationary impact. I was told to wait a year before passing judgement. And a year later, we have rising inflation, rising unemployment, rising interest rates, a declining market, and engaged in two wars. That seems like a lot of negativity for one year in office. Obviously on this forum, I’m in the minority. It was bad under Biden, it is bad under Trump. Hopefully we have better options in 2028.

 

[WVUALLEN]

Not true. I was a vocal critic of the tariffs due to their Inflationary impact. I was told to wait a year before passing judgement. And a year later, we have rising inflation, rising unemployment, rising interest rates, a declining market, and engaged in two wars. That seems like a lot of negativity for one year in office. Obviously on this forum, I’m in the minority. It was bad under Biden, it is bad under Trump. Hopefully we have better options in 2028.

This will be my last post on the subject because we have all gone down a rabbit hole, and completely off point of the original question. Based on the videos and other evidence publicly available on both the J6 and Minneapolis incidents, if you can justify the actions of the federal agents in Minneapolis, then it would have been EQUALLY justified for the Capital police and other law enforcement officials to “neutralize” HUNDREDS of violent, weaponized, law-breaking protesters on J6. To argue otherwise is simply hypocritical. Thank God the Capital police and others had more restraint, even when their lives were CLEARLY at risk. Unfortunately, one woman lost her life while trying to break in to the chamber where Congress was in session.

I came here for your honest assessment and opinion on whether the wars, the economy, the markets, and lack of jobs has changed your opinion on the administration and clearly it hasn’t. And I agree, our options were not good. Hopefully we have MUCH BETTER candidates in 3 years.

Last post? Really?

 

[atlkvb]

This will be my last post on the subject because we have all gone down a rabbit hole, and completely off point of the original question.
I came here for your honest assessment and opinion on whether the wars, the economy, the markets, and lack of jobs has changed your opinion on the administration and clearly it hasn’t. And I agree, our options were not good. Hopefully we have MUCH BETTER candidates in 3 years.

This will be my last post to you on this too. You came on here disingenuous. You clearly came on 100% opposed to what you see as Trump's failed policies, but you were also asked to offer the better alternatives and you refused to honestly answer. Why?

You cant ask for better candidates without specifying what policies opposed to Trump would make them better? You didn't even have enough veracity to admit what you voted for opposed to Trump in the last election, because we already know you didn't vote for him. Why not? Who did you vote for? You never answered that!

So you had every opportunity to express what are/were the superior alternatives you prefer over what you claim are Trump's poor results, and you've refused or simply can't offer anything in response. That is a fact.

Additionally, I and other posters in this thread went into some detail over what we like about Trump's current policies, (which we all enthusiastically voted for) and your assertions over his alleged failures were countered with solid data proving every one of your own markers about his shortcomings are in fact better now than before he was re-elected!

Whether it's on unemployment, inflation, wages, stocks....even the confrontations with Iran which have been a huge success....every thing you claimed as worse now is by objective facts better than when Trump re-assumed office a year ago. You have offered nothing factually to refute that, only your media fed anti-Trump talking points calling his successful policies a failure. Well so is your complaining.

No one takes you seriously. You don't even take yourself seriously, because you can't be honest about your true motivations. You obviously have no better ideas, no better policies, and sadly no better candidate.

You're simply an irrational Trump hater, and you can't offer anyone or anything better so you simply hate on him and expect everyone to agree with your emotional diatribes.

So spread your hate filled media talking points somewhere else. The posters on this forum find you ill informed & boring if not altogether insane.

 

[roadtrasheer]

Just to drill down on China controlling our economy....It is really the ultra cheap Chinese labor that started it all....Many U.S. companies were/are complicit.

The U.S. SHOULD have added tariffs way back when our companies shifted production to China. Those tariffs should have been added to make the price of the end product equal.

Hell they raised taxes and red tape on American companies and cut taxes for them to leave ...

 

[Gunny46]

Not true. I was a vocal critic of the tariffs due to their Inflationary impact. I was told to wait a year before passing judgement. And a year later, we have rising inflation, rising unemployment, rising interest rates, a declining market, and engaged in two wars. That seems like a lot of negativity for one year in office. Obviously on this forum, I’m in the minority. It was bad under Biden, it is bad under Trump. Hopefully we have better options in 2028.

Turns out it will take a little more time to fix what you Marxists turds screwed up during the Obama and Biden administration. As far as tarriffs I support we Embargo everything from Communist Countries. I blame Bush and Clinton the most for letting them in the WTO.

 

[Gunny46]

 

[Anon1756575641]

… for you to change your opinion on Trump? We have an economy of rising prices and inflation, rising unemployment, rising mortgage rates, high home prices, and a declining stock market. Is that acceptable to you?

Life comes at you fast.

Markets News, May 29, 2026: Indexes Close at Records as Dell Leads Tech Gains; S&P 500 Rises for 9th Straight Week​

Markets News, May 29, 2026: Indexes Close at Records as Dell Leads Tech Gains; S&P 500 Rises for 9th Straight Week

 

[atlkvb]

Life comes at you fast.

Markets News, May 29, 2026: Indexes Close at Records as Dell Leads Tech Gains; S&P 500 Rises for 9th Straight Week​

Markets News, May 29, 2026: Indexes Close at Records as Dell Leads Tech Gains; S&P 500 Rises for 9th Straight Week

Boy this didn't age well for the OP did it?

@Cheers said
"We’re at war, unemployment is rising, wages are declining, interest rates are rising, and the stock market is declining."

@Cheers ....emotionally reflecting the obvious about his misinformed media fed Trump diatribe

Is there anything you enjoy more DJT besides your smashing successes, than making Leftists like our OP look stupid?

Aw work it DJT!!!!!!

Now @Cheers is really sad!

Poor guy...he's all wet!

 

[Cheers]

Life comes at you fast.

Markets News, May 29, 2026: Indexes Close at Records as Dell Leads Tech Gains; S&P 500 Rises for 9th Straight Week​

Markets News, May 29, 2026: Indexes Close at Records as Dell Leads Tech Gains; S&P 500 Rises for 9th Straight Week

You found 1 out of FIVE that I missed so my entire statement is discredited. Typical MAGA math. Priceless.

 

[Cheers]

Boy this didn't age well for the OP did it?

@Cheers said
"We’re at war, unemployment is rising, wages are declining, interest rates are rising, and the stock market is declining."

@Cheers ....emotionally reflecting the obvious about his misinformed media fed Trump diatribe

Is there anything you enjoy more DJT besides your smashing successes, than making Leftists like our OP look stupid?

Aw work it DJT!!!!!!

Now @Cheers is really sad!

Poor guy...he's all wet!

Are you able to communicate in anything but childish memes? Words are a wonderful tool for communicating. You should try it sometime.

 

[atlkvb]

Are you able to communicate in anything but childish memes? Words are a wonderful tool for communicating. You should try it sometime.

OK let me use words to explain my purpose behind the silly memes.

Since I can NEVER get one of you miserable Leftists (including yourself) to answer a simple question like: "Tell us who you voted for in the last election cycle and why?" Or try this: "what other policies besides the one's you're constantly criticizing from Trump are actually better and who's offering them?"

So... I use silly memes to mock your intractable inability to accurately express your delusional diatribes. Get it?

It's not only an effective alternative communication tool, but actually hilarious because obviously Trump's MAGA success not only has you maniacal mental midgets all flummoxed & frustrated, but linguistically tongue tied offering anything superior to defeat him? It's a hoot!

Do you get it now my loquaciously lacking lobotomized Leftist lemming?

@Cheers trying to understand the multi-syllabic adjectives used to insult his lack of independent intelligent thoughts on voting

Stop voting for lying Leftists my man....maybe then you'll figure it out?

 

[Gunny46]

Are you able to communicate in anything but childish memes? Words are a wonderful tool for communicating. You should try it sometime.

Words and a Meme. Stop rooting against the United States turd.

 

[Gunny46]

 

[atlkvb]

@Cheers ...still in tears over his Trump fears

There...there @Cheers...it'll only be three more years...then it'll all be over OK?

 

[Gunny46]

@Cheers ...still in tears over his Trump fears

There...there @Cheers...it'll only be three more years...then it'll all be over OK?

They will have moved on to VDS and RDS by then. Unfortunately for them the next 3 years are going to expose them so much nobody is going to listen.

 

[Cheers]

I was at the Springsteen concert on Wednesday night here in DC. And as you would expect from one of the GREATEST ROCK LEGENDS of all time, the concert was AMAZING! I’ve seen Bruce probably 4 or 5 times and I must say, this concert was the BEST ever. My only disappointment was that he didn’t play Rosalita but that’s OK. The rest of the concert was incredible. And one of the highlights of the night for me was hearing Bruce speak openly and honestly about the corruption and deceit in this administration and seeing 50+ thousand fans all united in their disgust of the criminal and unlawful activities going on in Washington. It was beautiful. An experience like no other, and a night I will always remember. Now go ahead and show your ignorance by denigrating Bruce Springsteen, a TRUE AMERICAN, because he openly and truthfully criticized your Donny Daddy.

 

[Gunny46]

I was at the Springsteen concert on Wednesday night here in DC. And as you would expect from one of the GREATEST ROCK LEGENDS of all time, the concert was AMAZING! I’ve seen Bruce probably 4 or 5 times and I must say, this concert was the BEST ever. My only disappointment was that he didn’t play Rosalita but that’s OK. The rest of the concert was incredible. And one of the highlights of the night for me was hearing Bruce speak openly and honestly about the corruption and deceit in this administration and seeing 50+ thousand fans all united in their disgust of the criminal and unlawful activities going on in Washington. It was beautiful. An experience like no other, and a night I will always remember. Now go ahead and show your ignorance by denigrating Bruce Springsteen, a TRUE AMERICAN, because he openly and truthfully criticized your Donny Daddy.

Stop lying. The only people going to his concerts these days are a bunch of Neo-Marxists Boomer Hippies.



Bruce Springsteen’s average ticket price typically falls in the mid-$200s to $300 range,

 

[atlkvb]

I was at the Springsteen concert on Wednesday night here in DC. And one of the highlights of the night for me was hearing Bruce speak openly and honestly about the corruption and deceit in this administration and seeing 50+ thousand fans all united in their disgust of the criminal and unlawful activities going on in Washington.

Give us one example you heard that you can verify with factual documentation. I 100% guarantee you will either refuse to, or you will post some Left wing media smear that one of us can easily shoot down with the actual provable facts!

I'll also 100% gurantee 'ol Bruce had zero to say about any of this:

Declassified FBI files exposes shocking Joe Biden's Ukraine ‘bribery scandal'

excerpt:
Bombshell newly released FBI documents have exposed the Biden family's murky network of business dealings in Ukraine, unveiling evidence of an alleged foreign bribery conspiracy that undermines the pillars of American politics.

You haven't said anything about it either...wonder why not?

@Cheers ...playing dumb (but faking it)

 

[Gunny46]

 

[Gunny46]

 

[Gunny46]

They know and you can guarantee they are tracking it. Imagine being warned a year ago and yet be so stupid to continue funding designated terrorist groups.

 

[atlkvb]

Wonder where @Cheers went with his "Springsteen file" on Trump?

 

[30CAT]

I was at the Springsteen concert on Wednesday night here in DC. And as you would expect from one of the GREATEST ROCK LEGENDS of all time, the concert was AMAZING! I’ve seen Bruce probably 4 or 5 times and I must say, this concert was the BEST ever. My only disappointment was that he didn’t play Rosalita but that’s OK. The rest of the concert was incredible. And one of the highlights of the night for me was hearing Bruce speak openly and honestly about the corruption and deceit in this administration and seeing 50+ thousand fans all united in their disgust of the criminal and unlawful activities going on in Washington. It was beautiful. An experience like no other, and a night I will always remember. Now go ahead and show your ignorance by denigrating Bruce Springsteen, a TRUE AMERICAN, because he openly and truthfully criticized your Donny Daddy.

Are you kidding me? You paid to watch an ant-Trump, Trump-hating, commie who is very disconnected with real Americans.

He's a POS and was long before Trump.

He's a disgrace to his own music about America.

Tickets to his "concerts" are $80 to over $3,000, with overall prices averaging around $300 to $500 and you get political hate speech, not the artist. A Robert Di Niro "concert" would be no different.

He's a bum and is totally on board with today's left.

America-hating, communists and socialists....That's today's left.

F*** Bruce Springsteen and all communists and socialists trying to change America and our Constitution.

 

[Gunny46]

 

[atlkvb]

Are you kidding me? You paid to watch an ant-Trump, Trump-hating, commie who is very disconnected with real Americans.

He's a POS and was long before Trump.

He's a disgrace to his own music about America.

Tickets to his "concerts" are $80 to over $3,000, with overall prices averaging around $300 to $500 and you get political hate speech, not the artist. A Robert Di Niro "concert" would be no different.

He's a bum and is totally on board with today's left.

America-hating, communists and socialists....That's today's left.

F*** Bruce Springsteen and all communists and socialists trying to change America and our Constitution.

He STILL hasn't provided us even just one example he heard from Springsteen of "the corruption and deceit in this administration" that he can back up with documented facts?

Wonder why not?

Hey @Cheers ...what do you have?

Poor guy...spent all that time posting about a concert where he says he learned something about Trump but is still clueless!

 

[ChucktownWillie]

Are you able to communicate in anything but childish memes? Words are a wonderful tool for communicating. You should try it sometime.

here’s my best impression

—————————————————————

Is atlkvb a maga npc that’s incapable of independent thought without being spoon fed talking points from his spray tanned daddy?

Why yes, DJT, he is!

Quick, let me ask you several completely irrelevant questions across 6 paragraphs separate from the topic at hand because I can’t defend daddy’s actions without deflecting into random BS

You got him now, DJT! That loser will never show his face again. Typical maga.

———————————————————-

how’d I do?

 

[Gunny46]

here’s my best impression

—————————————————————

Is atlkvb a maga npc that’s incapable of independent thought without being spoon fed talking points from his spray tanned daddy?

Why yes, DJT, he is!

Quick, let me ask you several completely irrelevant questions across 6 paragraphs separate from the topic at hand because I can’t defend daddy’s actions without deflecting into random BS

You got him now, DJT! That loser will never show his face again. Typical maga.

———————————————————-

how’d I do?

By independent thought do you mean running a piss poor Psychological Operation to get Americans to fight against themselves while repeating Propaganda that looks exactly like the slop coming out of Iran, Russia, China, and Drug Cartels. Because that's not Independent thought. It's subversive behavior.

18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 Part I - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

www.law.cornell.edu

 

[Gunny46]

 

[op2]

I was at the Springsteen concert on Wednesday night here in DC. And as you would expect from one of the GREATEST ROCK LEGENDS of all time, the concert was AMAZING! I’ve seen Bruce probably 4 or 5 times and I must say, this concert was the BEST ever. My only disappointment was that he didn’t play Rosalita but that’s OK. The rest of the concert was incredible. And one of the highlights of the night for me was hearing Bruce speak openly and honestly about the corruption and deceit in this administration and seeing 50+ thousand fans all united in their disgust of the criminal and unlawful activities going on in Washington. It was beautiful. An experience like no other, and a night I will always remember. Now go ahead and show your ignorance by denigrating Bruce Springsteen, a TRUE AMERICAN, because he openly and truthfully criticized your Donny Daddy.

We had corruption and deceit for a long, long time. That is why the electorate was so ripe for someone, anyone to come along and give a middle finger to the establishment.

They keep trying to make this about Trump, as if everything was fine and then Trump came long and messed things up. No, things were so messed up that people voted the very imperfect Trump into office because he at least gave lip service to fighting the rot and corruption.

Bruce should do some self-reflection and ask himself why regular working folks, who were who his audience was back in the day and who made him very wealthy, now are on the complete opposite side of him politically.

When Obama left office, he didn't start hanging out with regular folks. And Bruce wasn't hanging out with regular folks then either. Instead, Obama and Bruce were hanging out with each other.

You'll say "And Trump doesn't hang out with regular folks either." True. But Trump at least gives voice to regular folks. He doesn't openly despise regular folks, like Obama and Bruce and everyone else at the top does.

 

[Gunny46]

We had corruption and deceit for a long, long time. That is why the electorate was so ripe for someone, anyone to come along and give a middle finger to the establishment.

They keep trying to make this about Trump, as if everything was fine and then Trump came long and messed things up. No, things were so messed up that people voted the very imperfect Trump into office because he at least gave lip service to fighting the rot and corruption.

Bruce should do some self-reflection and ask himself why regular working folks, who were who his audience was back in the day and who made him very wealthy, now are on the complete opposite side of him politically.

When Obama left office, he didn't start hanging out with regular folks. And Bruce wasn't hanging out with regular folks then either. Instead, Obama and Bruce were hanging out with each other.

You'll say "And Trump doesn't hang out with regular folks either." True. But Trump at least gives voice to regular folks. He doesn't openly despise regular folks, like Obama and Bruce and everyone else at the top does.

Trump has been an outstanding President. Hence why he got elected three times.

 

[atlkvb]

Trump has been an outstanding President. Hence why he got elected three times.

All the Left has to do is offer someone or something better. They can't. That's why he's so hated...they can't come up with a better plan or a better candidate to beat him or his MAGA agenda.

Drives 'em nuts! (of course they already are too!)

 

[30CAT]

here’s my best impression

—————————————————————

Is atlkvb a maga npc that’s incapable of independent thought without being spoon fed talking points from his spray tanned daddy?

Why yes, DJT, he is!

Quick, let me ask you several completely irrelevant questions across 6 paragraphs separate from the topic at hand because I can’t defend daddy’s actions without deflecting into random BS

You got him now, DJT! That loser will never show his face again. Typical maga.

———————————————————-

how’d I do?

What policies of the left do you like?

What policies of Trump’s do you dislike?

 

[atlkvb]

here’s my best impression

—————————————————————

Is atlkvb a maga npc that’s incapable of independent thought without being spoon fed talking points from his spray tanned daddy?

Why yes, DJT, he is!

Quick, let me ask you several completely irrelevant questions across 6 paragraphs separate from the topic at hand because I can’t defend daddy’s actions without deflecting into random BS

You got him now, DJT! That loser will never show his face again. Typical maga.

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how’d I do?

That's pretty good! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Now, tell me who you voted for in the last election against Trump, or who you plan to vote for in the next election offering something better than his MAGA agenda?

@ChucktownWillie ....stumped!

See how easy it is?

 

[Gunny46]

 

[atlkvb]

What policies of the left do you like?

What policies of Trump’s do you dislike?

You will NEVER get an answer!

 

[Gunny46]

 

[Gunny46]