Inaugural Address (January 20, 2025)

"We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.  My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier."  Trump

inb4 Trumpers cope with Iran isn't a war

Inaugural Address (January 20, 2025)

"We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.  My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier."  Trump

inb4 Trumpers cope with Iran isn't a war

Technically, Congress hasn't declared war. ;)

Technically, Congress hasn't declared war. ;)

That's one way of looking at it lmao


Just a little excursion.

Technically, Congress hasn't declared war. ;)

It's more than just that...

Trump hasn't started a war with at least 193 nations

Trump has been the best peacemaker president in the modern era.

This term alone....

•  Israel–Hamas: Facilitated or supported a ceasefire and hostage/prisoner exchange that paused major fighting in gaza and secured the release of remaining living Israeli hostages
•  India–Pakistan: Asserted a role in de-escalating tensions (often associated to Kashmir).
•  Rwanda-democratic republic of congo (DRC): Hosted and facilitated a peace agreement signed in Washington addressing long-running conflict involving militias.
•  Armenia–Azerbaijan: Brokered or hosted a framework peace agreement addressing the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute and related tensions (one of the clearer cases of proactive U.S. involvement).
•  Egypt–Ethiopia: Claimed resolution of the major dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile. This was a high-stakes diplomatic/economic conflict rather than active armed warfare.
•  Serbia–Kosovo: helped orchestrate progress toward normalization or peace (building on earlier first-term efforts)
•  Thailand–Cambodia


Etc

Not to mention freeing the people of Venezuela from tyranny, as celebrated and thanked by last years Nobel peace prize winner.


Even if you consider the nuclear disarmament security operation in Iran a war....



That still leaves Trump with a .5% of countries at war with rate- one of the lowest in modern times.

I've been trying to tell people this for decades. The number of absolutely retarded things Donald Trump hasn't done is magnitudes greater than the number of absolutely retarded things he has done. I can't do the math but I can tell you with certainty that that's a huge difference.


BTW, I just hit the subscribe button harder than Hunter Biden hits a crack pipe. That's a perfect 100% increase in subscribers, numbers like you've never seen before. No one else will ever top it.

I live on an Indian reservation that, like all of them, is rife with corruption and embezzlement of federal funds. While the guilty as usual crowd here wont admit Donald Trump has been a god send with his audits and crack down of federal spending to places, like my rez, that dont need it. If you take into account that and him being the first president ever to take on the meat packers monopoly, that has been price gouging their way to record profits in the billions annually for 20+ years while cattle ranchers barely made enough to get by, he would still get my vote if he found his way onto the ballot again. He in no way has lived up to the expectations he set for himself but these are two huge issues for America as well as myself that nobody addresses that would have gone unnoticed had Kamala gotten in. Cattle ranchers were literally a few years away from being bankrupted by importing sub par and uninspected beef from third world countries thanks to the Democrats. Beef prices are only high now because of the suit against the Packers monopoly, once their monopoly is destroyed (and it will be) Americans will be able to eat the highest quality beef in the world at prices not far above that of poultry and pork.

That's one way of looking at it lmao


Just a little excursion.

It's more than just that...

Trump hasn't started a war with at least 193 nations

Trump has been the best peacemaker president in the modern era.

This term alone....

•  Israel–Hamas: Facilitated or supported a ceasefire and hostage/prisoner exchange that paused major fighting in gaza and secured the release of remaining living Israeli hostages
•  India–Pakistan: Asserted a role in de-escalating tensions (often associated to Kashmir).
•  Rwanda-democratic republic of congo (DRC): Hosted and facilitated a peace agreement signed in Washington addressing long-running conflict involving militias.
•  Armenia–Azerbaijan: Brokered or hosted a framework peace agreement addressing the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute and related tensions (one of the clearer cases of proactive U.S. involvement).
•  Egypt–Ethiopia: Claimed resolution of the major dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile. This was a high-stakes diplomatic/economic conflict rather than active armed warfare.
•  Serbia–Kosovo: helped orchestrate progress toward normalization or peace (building on earlier first-term efforts)
•  Thailand–Cambodia


Etc

Not to mention freeing the people of Venezuela from tyranny, as celebrated and thanked by last years Nobel peace prize winner.


Even if you consider the nuclear disarmament security operation in Iran a war....



That still leaves Trump with a .5% of countries at war with rate- one of the lowest in modern times.

The price of beef, flour based products, and gasoline/diesel will be following the same trend before the year is over.

The price of beef, flour based products, and gasoline/diesel will be following the same trend before the year is over.

Not with the latest worm going around that's going to require a ton of cattle to be killed.

Not with the latest worm going around that's going to require a ton of cattle to be killed.

Are ya'll still in a heifer retention phase?

the screw worm has been a thing for as long as things have been things, we don't have it in South Dakota but I have friends in Texas that combat it with simple insecticide repellants we have been using for decades. Don't believe the hysteria on the news, the screw worm thing is just a way for democrats to get people to freak out about the "millions of cattle that must be slaughtered" to open the borders up to import sub par and uninspected foreign beef.

I looked into this claim that it is all the democrats fault, but all I could find was there was a ton of bipartisan support that caused the monopolization of the big four, and a lot of judicial rulings that makes it impossible to fight against the market concentration.


Furthermore, all the judges that ruled on Tyson vs. Pickett are judges that were appointed by Reagan and Bush, both Republicans. Which makes sense, because Republicans are typically in favor of monopolization and big business,


What is your source for all this being the Democrats fault?


Also, not taking any blame away from the Dems, because both parties are typically the same outside of culture wars, but Trump has been heavily in favor of foreign imports from Argentina until all the monopolization problems have been sorted through.

Also, not taking any blame away from the Dems, because both parties are typically the same outside of culture wars, but Trump has been heavily in favor of foreign imports from Argentina until all the monopolization problems have been sorted through.

I consider RINO's to be democrats personally but I say democrats because in my experience as a life long rancher democrats tend to lean hard on reliance of sub par foreign products over quality home raised/grown products. This is not to say that republicans are without fault, they're definitely pieces of shit too by and large. But R-CALF (major representation for producers) have never been able to get a meeting with a president to bring this issue to light, until Donald Trump came along and let them be heard. Since their voices were heard the cattle market is finally at a point to where the people that feed the country can make a living that's worth the effort put in. If this holds up cattle ranching might be sustainable to the point that it alone can be an industry that pays a living wage. Never in my life has ranching been something you could live solely off of, there has always had to be some form of supplemental income to keep the bills paid, which can be difficult considering how time consuming ranching is. To quote my late grandfather "ranching is a hell of a lifestyle but a piss poor way to make a living.".

Ii'll defer for the much more expertise cattle rancher thats 6'8" and close grip benches 500lbs with boots and jeans on...

My simpleton take OPG- you’re not wrong that the Big Four concentration has deep bipartisan roots and that old court cases like Pickett v. Tyson were brutal for producers (jury saw manipulation, judge tossed the verdict, Reagan/Bush appointees and all).

The system protected the packers for decades while ranchers got squeezed and packers raked in record billions. Nobody’s pretending that started last week.

But that’s exactly why large dude's post 14 lands so clean.

SmillironS wasn’t doing a “Democrats invented the monopoly” bit — he was pointing out who’s actually doing something about it right now instead of just talking or letting it fester.

Trump directed DOJ to investigate the Big Four for collusion, price fixing, and capacity manipulation.

They’re already moving on related antitrust cases and settlements aimed at the exact squeeze large dude described.

Previous admins (of both flavors) mostly shrugged while the packers consolidated to 85%+ control and ranchers needed side jobs just to survive.

On the Argentina imports — rez member already clarified it’s a drop in the bucket and probably lip service or noise.

Meanwhile the same admin is explicitly targeting foreign-owned packers (JBS being the biggest example) that domnate the supply chain.

The bigger threat smills called out was the push for flooding the market with cheap, low-standard, barely-inspected imports that would have finished off a lot of dostic operations.

Breaking the monopoly power from the inside protects American ranchrs and American beef quality at the same time.
And don’t sleep on the federal spending audits and crackdowns on rez-level corruption/embezzlement.

That’s real accountablity on waste that was ignored for years.

You can both-sides the ancient history and old judicial appointments all day, but results on the ground for producers and taxpayers matter more than debate points about who appointed which judge in the 2000s.

If this enforcement actually breaks the stranglehold and ranching becomes something you can live on without supplemental income (like SmillironS’s grandfather never saw), that’s a tangible W that wouldn’t have happened under the other side.

War/peace arguments are one lane.

This domestic stuff on monopolies and spending is another — and he was right to call it out as something that actually moves the needle for regular people.


There are a ton of micro issues that Trump admin has done that has helped regular people nationwide in the last year- especially on the regulation aspect side.

And more so in fundamental court case wins and pending verdict