Subject: Re: John Kelley dumps on Trump
LurkerMom: What's wrong with you people supporting the most incompetent bumbling old fool president in America's history?

We've gone over this time and time again but reality never penetrates the Trump Cult's bubble.

We're content with a president of average intelligence who has been reasonably successful:

1. Addressed the COVID-19 pandemic through the American Rescue Plan bill which cut child poverty rates in half, got shots in arms, and used the Defense Production Act to produce personal protective equipment.

2. Actually passed a bipartisan Infrastructure Bill that Trump had promised, but failed, to pass, a historic investment in the country's infrastructure, including new funding for water pipes, trains, roads, and high-speed internet.

3. Delivered the Inflation Reduction Act, which contained $485 billion in spending and $790 billion in offsets that would cover that spending. The legislation includes a substantial investment in clean energy tax credits, as well as a new policy that enables Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.

4. The CHIPS Act bolsters domestic semiconductor manufacturing, and contains measures to subsidize or expand new facilities.

5. Got the first bipartisan gun safety bill in decades which included funding for states to implement "red flag" laws, more screening for gun buyers under 21, and a crackdown on illegal guns.


Biden also restored and expanded Obamacare; increased access to VA care beyond 5-year eligibility for combat veterans; reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act; rejoined the Paris climate agreement; and provided student loan forgiveness.

But, no, he's not perfect. Biden has verbal tics and makes verbal gaffes but the claim that he's a bumbling old fool is ludicrous.

Trump makes more incorrect and idiotic statements in a single speech than Biden makes in six months (Trump just claimed he defeated Obama in 2016, confused Jeb with George W, suggested battery-powered boats would lead to electrocution, promoted dampening forest floors, and claimed that windmills kill whales).

The fact that Trump removed and retained many of the nation's most top secret documents -- and lied about having them and then obstructed their return -- should have been enough to have conservatives abandon him en masse. Add in his refusing to take any action at all as the Capitol was attacked -- as his own senators and representatives were calling the White House seeking his help, pleading with his staffers to get him to send the rioters home -- and he should have no support at all anymore.

But as is demonstrated on this board everyday, the cult is too far gone down Delusion Road.