As he's gotten over the target he's been heavily targeted.  Seems like the MSM and even non-MSM outlets have gone after him and are now working hard to boost Haley.  Some of it might his targeting of Haley and the rise in her family's wealth from her connections to Boeing and other MIC companies.

He has to be careful in how he couches things also. Not sure he entirely thought through his firing 50% of the Fed workforce by firing all those whose SS numbers end in an odd number.  I would think it is obvious that could produce a smaller or larger number than 50%.

He still has a lot of good things to say. I watch him on X.

I hadn’t heard about the odd SS number thing.  In any case, we cannot all at once fire 50% of feds. That’s millions of people immediately unemployed without a manufacturing economy to take them up. It’s one of the horrible consequences of gradually replacing productive jobs (meaning actually making real things) with bureaucratic jobs that produce nothing but paperwork and regulations further choking the productive economy. Globalism has replaced domestic production supplying us with our shit.  That needs to be reversed.  It’s one of the things Trump understood by negotiating trade deals that began to incentivize bringing manufacturing back home.

If you think all those federal employees will happily fill the blue collar jobs available that we actually have a shortage of such as the trades, transportation, grid and infrastructure maintenance, etc. you’re crazy. They have degrees. They’re above getting their hands dirty.

Dismantling the monster we’ve created needs to be done piecemeal and judiciously to avoid a literal communist revolt with the unemployed feds taking to the streets.  But doing it slowly gives the opposition the opportunity to strategize ways to obstruct and sabotage.  This was a large part of Trump’s problem when he was in office. They saw his long term plan, rescinding multiple regulations for every one new one. He was attempting to shrink the bureaucracy and they weren’t having it. It’s one of the reasons they’re pulling out all the stops to prevent him from being re-elected.

Off the subject a little.  In 1978 I was an ATC instructor working at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS.  At this time we usually had 3 o4 Iranian students in every class. I also did some flight instructing at the base aero club and sometimes flew a Cessna 206 for some shrimp boats chasing parts and whatever else they needed.  One Friday night I got a call from the boat scheduler asking if I would be interested in a flight to an airport near Atlanta that night.  When I arrived at Gulfport airport I found 3 Irainian female students that had been in my class a few months before.  They remembered me and we had a good talk.  They had just graduated and wanted to defect to America.  During the flight they told me that things were going to hell in a handbasket back in Iran and they knew it would not be good for women and minorities.  About 6 months later the Shah abducted and we know what happened next.  I dropped them off at a small airport southwest of Atlanta, there were people there to meet them, gave them a good welcome.  One lady sat up front with me very interested in the instruments, communications and navigation.  I often wondered what has happened to them.

Nikki will save us all, she's the new darling of the media.

If the media likes her she's bad.

How about not adding $8 Trillion to our debt in four years?

How about not lying to us about draining the swamp?

How about giving a little help to the J6 people in prison and bankrupt from legal fees?

Just a thought.

The Republican Party fought Trump all the way.  When he tried to cut agencies, the republicans swooped in and stopped it.

J6?   Are you fuckin’ kidding me?  Trump talks about the injustice being done, while the republicans are silent.   Hell, the republicans are rewarding the DoJ/FBI instead of reigning them in. 

If you really want to talk about the debt, let’s discuss how the republicans have stood side by side with the democrats in these spending sprees.   

He’s in his late 70s. He’s not going to change and he’s not perfect.  He gave us four years of low gas prices, a booming economy, a secure border (relatively), less regulations and world peace.  What the hell more do you want from the guy?

I don't know who said it:  Pro Trump takes what he says figuratively, not literally.  Anti Trump takes what he says literally, not figuratively.  There are two ways to take "Mexico will pay for it".  All pro Trump understood what he meant.  He could have gone on and on that the fence would pay for itself as Mexicans would not be coming across and being a drain on our limited resources backed up with charts and facts and figures that indirectly Mexico would indeed pay for it.  But that's too complex for most people who want a two second sound bite.

Several years ago on a bitterly cold winter day, I was slowly driving past some road construction. A female flagger was directing traffic. I noticed she was not wearing gloves, and her hands were really blue and she looked miserable. As I came up beside her, I rolled down my window and handed her an extra pair of gloves I happened to have. She was so grateful, but I couldn’t help thinking … where was her brain when she got ready for work that morning?

Totally germane to the topic, my internet is out.  I’m using my phone’s hotspot which is overloaded because everyone in this neighborhood must be doing it.  They tell me it will be fixed by 9:30.  It was out when I woke up at 4:30 am.

Guess which sex are outside at 5:00 in the morning climbing poles and whatnot trying to fix my internet?  Yeah, I don’t need no man.