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Journal damn_registrars's Journal: Is Anyone Tracking Trump's Broken Promises? 34

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Trump made a great deal of campaign promises, and he is already back-tracking on quite a few of them.

Raise criminal charges against Hillary Clinton? nah, maybe not

Repeal all of Obamacare, immediately? nope, not doing that either

Start deporting people on day one? nah, that can wait (note what the same article also says about the wall)

Can anyone name anything substantive he was planning that he hasn't already walked back? Should be an interesting "first 100 days", being as he's already been dropping things off his to-do list.
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  • What's the big deal? Find somebody that's any better.. The history of replacing politicians that break promises is pretty poor on both sides. 97% of them always get reelected, with two years of useless whining between campaigns, and any suggestion of voting them out being brushed off. So, suck it up.

    • I'm certainly not disappointed that he is already falling to earth and realizing that he can't do some of what he promised for so long to do. More so I'm wondering how many of his followers are paying any attention to the fact that their revolutionary "new guy" is behaving just like any other old guy. Just as be promises to "drain the swamp" while pulling in established lobbyists as advisers.

      • More so I'm wondering how many of his followers are paying any attention to the fact that their revolutionary "new guy" is behaving just like any other old guy.

        What are they going to do? Vote democrat? Hopefully not next time, but I know that's a pipe dream. It will be the usual back and forth and 97% reelection in congress. I just have to accept this is the foreseeable future. But before drawing any conclusions, we should wait until at least January 21.

        • The democrats don't need people to walk away from Trump and vote democrat. The democrats merely need to get the people who voted for Obama in 2012 and stayed home in 2016 to come out and vote in 2018 and 2020 and they'll have it. The democrats did themselves in by putting up a candidate for POTUS who was so greatly un-liked.

          • The democrats merely need to get the people who voted for Obama in 2012 and stayed home in 2016 to come out and vote in 2018 and 2020 and they'll have it.

            Have what? Another victory? We don't want democrats any more than we want republicans.

            The democrats did themselves in by putting up a candidate for POTUS who was so greatly un-liked.

            Exactly. So why should more people come out and vote for their machine politicians? I ask that they come out and vote for independents. Let's get rid of the democrats and repub

            • So what is the platform of your fantasy third-party candidate(s)? What will they campaign on that will bring out the non-voting voters and get them to vote for your person? We've had plenty of candidates for different offices across the land run as third party, and it seems quite clear that a platform of simply "I'm not one of them" is not sufficient.
              • LOL, don't ask any substantive questions, it'll just make fusta run away!

                Wait....

              • Their platform isn't so different, keep and properly fund social security, real universal health care, real transparency in official business with real public oversight, reduction of bureaucratic meddling, tell Wall Street to go to hell, of course there's the prohibition issue, etc. A lot of democrats make those promises, but we all know they won't keep them because they have to answer to the party. So, it is our responsibility to see if the third party candidate really *isn't one of them*, and vote them ou

                • keep and properly fund social security,

                  Well, that's going to be abolished, so it's no longer an issue to fight over. Next!

                  real universal health care

                  I can just hear it now: Old crusty white people worrying about UHC taking away their vouchers. That'll be fun.

                  real transparency in official business with real public oversight

                  Then you'll love Trump! Don't need oversight when the man is the government! Phew, solved another problem!

                  reduction of bureaucratic meddling

                  This one ought to
    • What's the big deal? Find somebody that's any better

      ROFLMAO! Says the guy frothing at the mouth about how horrible the Clintons are!

  • Trump got more Pinnochios than any politician in history. Hell, he insisted that he was against the Iraq war right after he's shown a clip saying he is!

    • I'm surprised only that he's getting away with it. While the GOP politicians of recent memory have been most dramatic only in their magnitude of evil, they have at least been consistent in their degree and application of it. Trump is running all over the place right now, and I would expect that his followers would at some point call him out on it. Even for someone who - as more than one person has pointed out - is known for having nearly every position on every issue, he is failing to hold a steady cours

      • Gee, your new lawn chair hasn't even been delivered yet, and you're already complaining. Maybe you should try a different brand.

  • ...tracking broken promises, when apparently what I'm really supposed to focus on is how come he hasn't disavowed skinheads more than 88,000 times. What's he trying to hide!!!

    • when apparently what I'm really supposed to focus on is how come he hasn't disavowed skinheads more than 88,000 times. What's he trying to hide!!! Flag as Inappropriate

      That's...oddly specific What I'm seeing in the MSM is calls for unity and asking the the Dem party to drop 'identity politics'.
      • Indeed the leading democrats have been quickly lining up to drop trousers for ass-ramming from the GOP this time. The whole bit of "give him a chance" makes me nauseous. Not once in his campaign did he ever express the slightest interest in listening to people of other view points, and we see that in his cabinet and advisory selections so far as well. He's likely to go for the GWB "political capital" bit and try to use it as justification to make life awful for his opponents.

      • Right, cuz Lefties totally would be doing all that. You're as jacked in the head as DR.

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