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The problem with crediting the Trustees with the move to name it for Trump is that Trump eliminated the entire Board and replaced them with his hand picked cronies when he took office.  Is Trump correct that the Kennedy Center is a crumbling pile of infested debris, as Trump says?   If so, surely the fix up can be done without removing JFK's name and attaching Trumps.   

Anyone with a soul hates Trump right now, a sitting president who craves attention and adoration, who cares only about lining the pockets of his family and friends.  Doubtful he even cares about the GOP, but he has them by the short hairs.  Maybe a few are falling on their swords, but not fast enough.

The Dems need to come up with some platforms that American families care about.  Illegal immigration is wearing thin compared to the soaring cost of food, gas, housing, child care, so many things people actually care about, not just sitting congressmen getting their faces on TV, spots of browbeating each other without context.

Candy

Miller will now call you delusional and a moron, and bleat TDS TDS TDS. Because you have dared to criticize his orange master.

The trouble, Candy, is that a strong majority of the cult still adores him. Even with his approval ratings in the low 30s, most Republicans still love him and want to have his baby. This seems nigh inexplicable. What would turn them off? I had thought it would be the destruction of our and the world's economy, but noooo...that's not enough to shake their faith.

There's basically two reasons to hate Trump. The first, and the more important in my book, is his awful character, his selfishness, his evil. He's not a good man at all. The second is that his dumbass moves are ruining the economy and damaging the lives of ordinary Americans.

The Dems should focus on cost of living and all of Trump's broken promises, like not getting involved in foreign wars. They should move away from stuff like transgender rights, not because that's unimportant, but because it pisses off more folks than it gratifies. And I really, really wish that someone, sometime, would speak out on the realties of immigration, migrant labor, FEELTHY ILLEGULS, etc. The truth is that America depends on cheap labor to, among other vital tasks, grow its food. And if we, as Trump wants to do, rounded up and executed every illegal immigrant, those industries would collapse. Somebody needs to up and say that the reason we have a lax migrant worker policy is that those workers are highly beneficial to us (here in Oregon, crops would go unharvested without them). It would be perhaps a political third rail, but somebody should say it.

Well said, Candy.   Some of what you posted is what I also mention in my post on this topic...and I wasn't wrong.  Thank you for your correct and well articulated post.  You are such a wonderful and well intentioned poster and person.  Be well. 

  Now, the truth about the funding -- My question on Google was answered thusly --  Where did the funding for the repair of the Kennedy Center come from?--- (1) --While the center's artistic and educational programming is financed by private philanthropy and ticket sales, its status as a federal building and national memorial means that all facility repairs and restorations are taxpayer-funded. For instance, recent major capital repair budgets and renovations have been backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally appropriated funds. -- (2) -- Federal funding for the Kennedy Center covers only its role as a presidential memorial and federal building, making up roughly 15% to 18% of its total budget. These appropriations are strictly earmarked for facility maintenance, operations, and capital repairs. The remaining 80% to 85% of the Center's budget is funded privately through ticket sales, private philanthropy, and corporate gifts -- 

Thanks, Edso.  I had noticed your similar statement about Trump padding the Board(s) of Trustees. 

I try to examine things before sounding off.  Nothing is 100%.  My opinion needle on Trump, while once was in the 'see how things go' area, has moved toward 'strongly disfavor', to put it politely.  

Candy

  To quote you Candy - "The Dems need to come up with some platforms that American families care about. Illegal immigration is wearing thin compared to the soaring cost of food, gas, housing, child care, so many things people actually care about, not just sitting congressmen getting their faces on TV, spots of browbeating each other without context." -- The illegal immigration issue was caused by the Biden/Harris administration allowing any and everyone to enter the United States unabated and mostly unvetted. The U.S. is suffering everywhere in dealing with this DemocRAT caused problem. The DemocRATs fight/obstruct every attempt by the government to address this issue, even to this day. You may say that American families caring about of illegal immigration is "wearing thin" - just think how much more could and would have beem accomplished if the DemocRATs would help instead of hindering. DemocRATs caused this issue and refuse to help fix this issue. The costs that you mention were not caused entirely by the Trump administration. Food, housing, child care and the "so many other things" you allude to are a direct result of DemocRAT policies that have carried over into the 1 & 1/2 years of the Trump administration, they were enacted during the Biden administration. The current cost of gas is a direct result of the Iran crisis, and will be temporary - all done because President Trump and his administration have stopped Iran from developing and using an atomic weapon. Once the Iran crisis is settled, America's economy will soar. New manufacturing businesses will come on line, more jobs created and America will no longer be brutalized by foreign tariffs because President Trump has used tariffs to make trade fair among America's trading Partners. The one glaring aspect that is missing is the fact that you and many others who have a problen with the current resultant DemocRAT caused state of the economy is that I heard nothing from the media - and others who post here - about the 9% inflation caused by the Biden administration and the cascading effect it had on Americans as it was happening. As for your comment about congressmen browbeating each other goes, DemocRATs refuse to take responsibility for their corruption that is now being exposed that  they have caused and benefitted from - they stonewall, refuse to answer legitimate questions, envoke the 5th amendment and deny what everyone with a functioning brain can see. The solutions you request are being put in place and will be implemented - but because of congressional DemocRAT resistance will not take place immediately. The DemocRATs don't give a damn about Americans and their current plight as has been glaringly made apparent by the 7 week shutdown of the government and the second funding shut down of funding for TSA, the Coast Guard and ICE. Blaming President Trump for the results of past DemocRAT actions is asinine. 

There are plenty of people that are of the same mentality as you in regards to Trump....Cautiously optimistic early on, to "What the Heck is he doing?" now. 

I am sorry Candy but I don't see how any sane reasonable person, I consider you one, could be cautiously optimistic about Trump. What made you cautiously optimistic about Trump?

The finding by the jury that he sexually assaulted someone and the judge in the case later ruling it counts as rape?

His attempt to overthrow the government after he lost the last election?

His 34 felony fraud convictions?

His other 54 felony indictments spread across several other jurisdictions? 

Let me ask you this. If you put an ad on Nextdoor looking for someone to cut your yard and a guy showed up at your door and when you asked him to tell you about himself he said, well a jury just found I sexually assaulted a woman, I also was just convicted for 34 felony counts of fraud, I tried to overthrow the Federal government and I have 54 pending felony indictments in several different jurisdictions would you hire him to cut your grass?

I suspect you would say no way in hell I'd let someone like that near me or my house. Yet you were cautiouslyoptimistic about a President with the same record?

I was the one that posted cautiously optimistic.....not Candy.  It was a generalization in regards to Republican thinking, especially those that voted for Trump. There were plenty of Republican voters that aren't MAGA that were hoping that Trump would do a good job.

Might want to apologize to Candy, and throw that shade on me.   

Not all conservatives or Republicans are MAGA.  Trump won by default because the Harris/Walz ticket the Dem's pushed after Biden dropped out was pretty much doomed from the jump. 

"Cautiously  optimistic" are your words about my words, Mark.  But I truly do appreciate your thoughts.  I do  tend to give a degree of 'wait and see' instead of quick condemnation until the jury, my instincts, are in after I read and listen to many sides of an issue.  I don't ever like people being bullied or piled up on for their sincerely held opinions.  

I think we females have learned a lot about our vulnerabilities through these stories of sexual misbehaviors, how easily we can be pulled into that kind of thing, flattered by the attention of someone at the top tiers of prominence.   Remember Bill Clinton?  He had a history way before Monica and her blue dress, dating back to before he was governor of a small state, and everybody knew it.  Probably pales in comparison, yet 'the people' did and still revere him, elected him to two terms for God's sake.  And he still travels in the highest of circles.  He was and still is protected by his good looks and smarts early on.  And he was a good governor (and again, two terms) and a good president, despite his moral failings sexually and politically. 

It isn't fair, that's for sure, when the Clintons and Trumps, with all their financial and political and social power ease out of their ghastly embarrassing sexual and criminal malfeasance exposed to the world and be just fine. 

Ah, well.

Candy