Shepard Smith out at Fox News

[SteelChip]

The Trump Presidency has been, and continues to be, a disaster.

At the risk of sounding like I agree with Trog, I will say that at least in my limited circle of friends and associates, there is an undercurrent of dwindling admiration for the Trumpster. Too many unfulfilled promises on the major promises that got him elected.

Fur instance.....

Build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it
The Promise:

"I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great great wall on our southern border and I’ll have Mexico pay for that wall."

Update: Donald Trump stalls on promise to build a wall, have Mexico pay for it

As matters stand, Mexico has not paid for a wall. Congress has not appropriated money for a wall. Fencing is being built or has been completed at the southwest border. But not any 'new' wall.

Cancel all funding of sanctuary cities
The Promise:

"We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.”

Update: Despite efforts, Donald Trump fails to cut funding from sanctuary cities

As matters stand, I don't know that he has even tried.

Establish a commission on radical Islam
The Promise:

“One of my first acts as president will be to establish a commission on radical Islam which will include reformist voices in the Muslim community who will hopefully work with us."

Update: No signs of a commission

As matters stand, new members of Congress show that progress on this matter have worsened.

End birthright citizenship
The Promise:

"End birthright citizenship."

Update: Donald Trump stalls on promise to end birthright citizenship

"Stalls" may be overstated as I don't recall a beginning to the effort.

Enact term limits

"If I'm elected president, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress."

Yeah...like how ******' dumb are we to even think this would happen.

Defund Planned Parenthood

"I would defund it because of the abortion factor, which they say is 3 percent. I don't know what percentage it is. They say it's 3 percent. But I would defund it, because I'm pro-life."

Woulda been a lot smarter to do it and then brag about huh Donald ?

Eliminate Common Core

“We're cutting Common Core. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're bringing education locally."

Individual states choose whether to adopt Common Core standards for their schools, and the federal government actually doesn't have control over that decision. So there's not much Trump can actually do. Be nice to research the problem before making promises.

In his defense, it must be said that he has succeeded in many areas that Hillary would never have touched. I'll vote for him again...if he survives this liberal Ku De Ta but I would implore him to shut the **** up and just do it. Somebody just gag this guy for a couple more years OK ?.

 

[JMM]

I think he found that the Republicans with the exception of a few are pretty much Dem Light and in many cases Dems. They just talk a good game at election time. They're all in cahoots if you ask me and we're all pretty much screwed. That said even as dysfunctional as our leaders are and our country is, it's still a great place to live, do your life's work, and enjoy the freedoms we do have. It could be a lot better in my opinion though if we had a lot fewer roadblocks instituted by federal, state and local governments which are pretty much teaming over with incompetence, corruption and sloth.

 

[hamster]

In his defense, it must be said that he has succeeded in many areas that Hillary would never have touched. I'll vote for him again...if he survives this liberal Ku De Ta but I would implore him to shut the **** up and just do it. Somebody just gag this guy for a couple more years OK ?.

I, on the other hand, think that what he has accomplished, during the harassment that he has had to endure, has been just short of miraculous. Losing the House definitely had an impact as well. He hasn't gotten much help from his fellow Reps in Congress.

In my mind, his greatest accomplishment so far is his appointment of judges....both SC and federal judges. This will have more impact on our lives in decades to come more than anything else he can do. It will reduce the amount of Democratic legislation by court, which has to stop. His other masterful accomplishment is his exposing the media for the biased and corrupt partisans that they are. He has also prevented the total transformation of our society from a sovereign country to a borderless shithole, started by the Obama admin.

Unless Reps win back the House, I don't see much happening in a second Trump term, other than much of the same. But what is the alternative?

 

[Sarge]

So there dwindling support based on unkept promises. They planning to vote Democrat?

Problem with a person making promises when running for President is that the voters need to be aware of what the President can and can’t do by himself/herself.

If it is anything involving money, funding or defunding, that’s Congress. Prez can’t do ****. Same with changing laws and **** like that. When a president fails to keep promises, maybe people should have looked at those promises a little deeper than face value. I find it impossible to believe anyone thought that Mexico was actually going to pay for the wall. If you believed that, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

Point is, I don’t blame the politicians that make the promises as much as I blame the voters that don’t look deeply enough at those promises to know if the guy can keep them if he wanted to. It’s up to us to see if it is actually attainable rather than getting pissed at somebody that would promise the world to get elected.

 

[Sarge]

In my mind, Trump’s biggest problem is his ego. He wants to be loved and adored and held on high like Christ Almighty. IMHO, he isn’t working for the American people as much as he is adulation. I can appreciate that he hits back, but I have to wonder how much he is doing when he has time to tweet about every time he is slighted on TV or Twitter, and it happens a lot.

Trump has the right message. Just stop with the antics and deliver as much as you can for the American people. Go to Congress, try to get your policy initiatives through, and when congress fails to act, at least you can tell the Americans people that you tried. Compromise where you have to, but do your best for America. To me, we haven’t seen Trump’s best because he is to busy fighting over Twitter.

I worry that Trump’s presidency will be remembered as what could have been.

One last thing as far a promises..... where the hell are the classified documents that are going to expose all this corruption? They were supposed to be released months ago. That is the one that chaps my ***, because he can actually do it. Just do it already.

 

[Stewey]

At the risk of sounding like I agree with Trog, I will say that at least in my limited circle of friends and associates, there is an undercurrent of dwindling admiration for the Trumpster.

Don't think you have much to worry about. Unfulfilled promises do not constitute a disaster.

Dwindling admiration doesn't constitute voting for a democrat either.

 

[Stewey]

You don’t say? Impeachment for what? Banging a White House intern?

Seems the hysteria was for good reason. The Trump Presidency has been, and continues to be, a disaster. How many Trump associates and appointees need to either turn on him or resign before you accept that there is something seriously wrong with the man?

WTF??
So we're gonna deflect again huh? You made the accusation of the rights "insanity". Again...

Do you not know or believe that there were calls from the left for Trumps impeachment HOURS after he was elected?
Do you not believe there was liberal mass hysteria and outrage on the left IMMEDIATELY after Trump was elected?
You bunch of insane leftist muthafuckers.


Trumps presidency has been the complete opposite of a disaster. Firings and resignations do not constitute a disaster, especially when this president is the only one ever having to contend with deep state operatives within his administration who are trying to overthrow him. Even a dimwit would correlate a disaster as having to do with record high unemployment, a sinking economy, or if he started WWII..

Trumps presidency being a "disaster" is a leftist manufactured illusion to which you keep clinging to, so do please continue to tell yourself it's been a disaster.

 

[Steelin]

The tax cuts, undoing of many Obama EO's, judicial nominations, economic factors and suppressing dim agendas alone make his presidency valuable beyond any we've seen in my voting history. His base should be pissed that he's been thwarted on every single accomplishment he's tried to implement. ******* RINOS should burn in hell.

 

[Troglodyte]

Do you not know or believe that there were calls from the left for Trumps impeachment HOURS after he was elected?
Do you not believe there was liberal mass hysteria and outrage on the left IMMEDIATELY after Trump was elected?

So what if they were and so what if there was? What is your point? None of that made Trump seek another country’s help in investigating a political rival. Nor did it make it legal.

 

[Steelin]

So what if they were and so what if there was? What is your point? None of that made Trump seek another country’s help in investigating a political rival. Nor did it make it legal.

You've heard about the bill signed in to law that mandates this correct? What exactly was illegal again? More made up dim BS.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Don't think you have much to worry about. Unfulfilled promises do not constitute a disaster.

Dwindling admiration doesn't constitute voting for a democrat either.

Come campaign time, President Trump can credibly claim that Congress held up a bunch of his stuff. And he will. Frequently. And during the debates when the nation will have to see it.

 

[SteelChip]

So there dwindling support based on unkept promises. They planning to vote Democrat?

Not even close Sarge but there are some deplorables out there that took him at his word that he would address certain issues and they are disappointed that he hasn't. No, they won't vote for a Dim but they will vote for a conservative that acts like he/she has some sense. Yeah he has put a lot of judges in place but any other conservative would have done that. Trump's claim to fame right now is his erasing Obama's mess and getting the economy geared up again. There is no debating that he has made a big difference, just not on some of the really key issues people were expecting him to address.

He ran mostly on immigration and it is now arguably worse than when he was elected...his fault or not, it still remains a mess. Smart people like you guys know why but the average voter just wants results.

 

[Stewey]

Not even close Sarge but there are some deplorables out there that took him at his word that he would address certain issues and they are disappointed that he hasn't. No, they won't vote for a Dim but they will vote for a conservative that acts like he/she has some sense. Yeah he has put a lot of judges in place but any other conservative would have done that. Trump's claim to fame right now is his erasing Obama's mess and getting the economy geared up again. There is no debating that he has made a big difference, just not on some of the really key issues people were expecting him to address.

He ran mostly on immigration and it is now arguably worse than when he was elected...his fault or not, it still remains a mess. Smart people like you guys know why but the average voter just wants results.

Like us guys?

Anyway, he did address the issue of immigration. Big time.

Results or not I would expect the average conservative/Republican voter is "smart like us guys" and are fully aware that unrelenting democrat obstructionists refused to fund the wall for no other reason than to not let Trump have his way.

The term "average voter" is sorta convoluted. In todays America you need to be specific. The average conservative/Republican voter or the average Dimocrat/liberal voter?

Many many moons ago the average voter weather a Republican or Democrat voted for the person who thought would be best for America. Both sides believed in American exceptionalism and the American dream.
Today only one side still clings to those values.

The "average voter" on the other side are becoming more and more American hating, ignorant low information vermin who have been taught that America is illegitimate from its founding and the root of the world problems.

 

[Stewey]

Who the hell names their kid "shepherd" anyway?
Sheeple?

 

[Steeltime]

Come campaign time, President Trump can credibly claim that Congress held up a bunch of his stuff. And he will. Frequently. And during the debates when the nation will have to see it.

Not only that, but he implemented promises - ending funding to sanctuary cities, imposing tariffs on Mexican imports to help fund the wall - only to wind up being tied up in courts.

Trump is not a king. He can only do what he said he would, and if his actions wind up being litigated to death, or shunted off by Congress, he really cannot change that. It's like blaming him for the weather.

 

[wig]

None of that made Trump seek another country’s help in investigating a political rival. Nor did it make it legal.

But congress sought MANY countries help in investigating a political rival... wouldn't that fall under the same moral/legal standards as Trump asking a country to look in to possible corruption for an american politician?

I mean, how is it perfectly legal and awesome for congress to do it, but when somebody asks to investigate a member of congress, current or former, it's suddenly illegal?

Double standard much?

 

[Steeltime]

But congress sought MANY countries help in investigating a political rival... wouldn't that fall under the same moral/legal standards as Trump asking a country to look in to possible corruption for an american politician?

I mean, how is it perfectly legal and awesome for congress to do it, but when somebody asks to investigate a member of congress, current or former, it's suddenly illegal?

Damn it, wig, how many times do we have to go over this? Three words - just three:

Orange.
Man.
Bad.

Edit: You know what, the order of those three words does not matter to the LBGQTLMNOPQRSTV snowflake crowd. Watch.

Bad. Orange. Man.
Orange. Man. Bad.
Orange. Bad. Man.

 

[Badcat]

I'm an independent, but until the Democrats advance a candidate that is a centrist, I'm voting straight Republican. The Democratic party is full of mentally ill asshats.

 

[Vincent]

So Shep was escorted unceremoniously by security from the Fox building two days after AG Barr and Rupert Murdoch had a meet.

Hmmm.

Wouldn't be surprised to see the jettisoning of more of these commie rat ******** as AG Barr 'makes the rounds'.

 

[Steelworth]

I'm an independent, but until the Democrats advance a candidate that is a centrist, I'm voting straight Republican. The Democratic party is full of mentally ill asshats.

That's pretty much it with me too. I'm registered Libertarian in CA but am probably going to change that to (R) and am always going to vote for the sane candidate who doesn't want to destroy our Constitution.

 

[Booted]

Who the hell names their kid "shepherd" anyway?
Sheeple?

All the kids in school would say, Hey, Shepherd...get the flock out of here!

 

[Steelworth]

So Shep was escorted unceremoniously by security from the Fox building two days after AG Barr and Rupert Murdoch had a meet.

I saw that too Vincent but there are multiple sources saying that wasn't the case, and that person who claimed it has since deleted her tweet. I don't always agree with Yashar Ali, but I trust his 'journalism' more than many.

Journalist Yashar Ali also chimed in on Twitter, claiming that reports of Smith being escorted out by security were not true.

“I’m seeing tweets saying that Shep Smith was escorted out by Fox News security. That is absolutely not true per a source familiar with the matter,” Ali said.

“You also don’t allow someone to sign off on live television and then deem them worthy of being escorted out because they are untrustworthy,” he added.

 

[Steeltime]

Good news for Shep Smith fans - he found a new gig at a candy factory:

It really is what he always wanted to do.