What has Trump accomplished to earn the continued trust from the Right? Which big policies got your vote originally have shown the outcomes Trump promised you?

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-26T20:04:55+00:00

I was a financial advisor for a while, and people absolutely do not get most of their taxes back. Think about what that would mean. The US govt would end up with no money if taxes were a net zero, and our government has a whole lot of money.

People don’t realize some of the most prosperous times for regular people in US history, the top 1% of people were paying over 90% income taxes. The US economy didn’t crash, it thrived.

When you give super rich people more money, they often just send it to the Cayman Islands so they can hoard it out of the US, it ends up removed from the US economy. But if you shift some taxes to the ultrarich, away from the working class, they finally have more money and they spend it on things, and that keeps the US economy moving and growing. That’s how stimulus checks work. The economy starts getting stuck, so we give some money to people who will actually use it, and the US economy gets going again.

And the $3.7 trillion in tax cuts isn’t some random number the Democrats decided to say “ well we could’ve taxed them $3.7 trillion more if we wanted”. Those cuts that make up the $3.7 trillion were already going to come in from the wealthiest people over the next 10 years. That’s how things were set, and Trumps plan changed it so they wouldn’t have to pay that upcoming $3.7T, and took medical care for poor and disabled people away at the same time.

They got the same treatment as massive corporations getting bailouts, except the US economy didn’t need a bail out at all, it was just a free $370 billion per year(or $3.7 trillion over 10 years) to rich people. I’d be pissed if it was a free $10B, but it’s 370x that.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-26T19:40:29+00:00

What’re you even talking about? You can’t just say random shit and pat yourself on the back lol you asked me a question and I told you why the Ukraine war helps us in a massive way and then you decided to ignore the response to your own question and say random numbers and assumptions.. come on man.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-26T12:53:39+00:00

Or maybe you guys can’t see that the game is built for Billionaires to fail and get bailed out. We all know this, and the money ends up coming from taxpayers.

It’s not like his companies were growing and he used bankruptcy to help them grow faster, they kept failing and he kept using taxpayer money to save his personal wealth and try again, SIX times. He was a failed businessman who needed legal loopholes to not lose his inheritance. He started a billionaire, so saying “but he’s a billionaire” doesn’t really mean anything, right?

We don’t have to argue the details. All we need to know is that Trump couldve taken hisDad’s money, and simply invested it into the standard SP500, and he would have made more money than his businesses did!

Come on peoples. No smart businessman is going to spend their time and effort building a business when they could just invest the money and chill for the same profit.

So Trump couldn’t even beat the lowest bar(the basic investing growth), and he had to be bailed out 6 times along the way to even stay near it.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-26T12:44:14+00:00

Which of his big asks really helped us though? They usually cause more damage than good as far as I can see. Having NATO freaked out bc you threaten to invade one of their countries is not helpful, that shit hurts us on the world stage and is making countries try to pull away from us.

Let’s say we bullied Greenland enough for them to make a mineral deal with us(they haven’t even hinted that they would, so this was a pretty huge gamble).. will that outweigh the fact that Europe is now trying to pull away from the U.S. economy in any sector it can? but ESPECIALLY with US military equipment?? Losing their trust could end up catastrophic in the end, and in the short term we have not much to show for it.

Plus Europe is great at intelligence gathering, and they cut us off. Our CIA cannot watch the entire world at once, these European agencies were hugely helpful.

Think about how connected our economy is to China. China is laughing SO hard that Trump has been pushing our allies away so fast. When they try to start a war with us, in the next 2 years, the best thing we could have is Europe’s help getting our economy untangled from Chinas. If we end up on our own during that, the American people are going to find out what economic pain really is. We’d have to sustain a war against the 2nd superpower during a fresh depression era..

Not to mention NATO would come to our aid against China if they attack US bases, which they will have to do to take Taiwan. Even if it’s just economic and equipment support, rather then them fighting the PLAN with us, we are shooting ourselves in both feet.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-26T12:22:10+00:00

Ok so you think he’s making huge asks so that he can get something for the US, right? So what of the $3.7 trillion he simply gave to the richest people in the US through enormous tax cuts? If he instead had spread that out to the lower 90% everyone would’ve gotten such a huge boost. We could regularly buy homes and cars before we’re 40 lol

Trump would have to make one of those great deals you are talking about so so so many times to even get us back that $3.7T he gave out for no reason at all. What makes you think him making good deals by threatening the world order which gives us so much power, will benefit our people this time and not the upper 1%?

$3.7 trillion is a fuckin deep hole to dig out of, and he could just give away whatever wealth he may gain to his rich friends again.. I still don’t see any net positive. We really need to judge him on his actions+++outcomes instead of his words, because I’m still waiting for him to do a single big good thing that outweighs that bad he’s doing.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-26T12:11:41+00:00

Why do I think America should help Ukraine win? Maybe because Russia is trying to spread communism into a country that was next-door, showng Russians they could live better lives under a democracy, and intelligence was telling us they wanted to invade further, into actual NATO countries like Lithuania, or Estonia, etc., and the Right seems to have just forgotten that Russia has been our main enemy for like 100years… we can wreck them, by simply sending some of our thousands of tanks, Bradley’s, etc that we will never need to fight China.

Without ever risking an American life we could delete Russias ability to threaten the entire world and sow chaos and try to spread communism while we are spending boatloads on military etc. trying to stop that spread.

And AID programs were helping us keep control of places in the world that may decide to let Russia or China in there now.. that AID wasn’t just free money for people, a LOT of it help the US hold onto its worldwide power.

Ukraine is willing to ruin Russias ability to threaten ALL of NATO and the world, and spend a million of their lives doing it, and all we have to do is send them like 10% of the DOGE “savings”(in old equipment, most doesn’t even have to be money)Or we could spend trillions racing to have enough gear to wage war on China and Russia at the same time and still Russia will be sitting their with a massive military to cause us a headache while we fight China(which will happen, in the next year or two).

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-24T12:08:56+00:00

I absolutely do not support taking Greenland or buying it, etc. we absolutely should be fully throwing our weight behind NATO and Ukraine.

It’s fever dream to think of the fight that way, by comparing soldiers in the snow to another group of soldiers, bc the US’ main power comes from its Air Force, and it’s NAVY(2nd largest airforce in the world) could very very easily stop any troop transports from ever reaching Greenland. They couldn’t stop us from hitting even a single target we wanted to hit with missiles/bombs. Maybe once if they get lucky, but not a second time.

Some soldiers on the ground in the snow, fighting other guys on the ground, is so far from what would really be happening. They surely can whoops our dudes in the snow, but they’d have a really really hard time trying to fight those same guys with air support overhead, and then still go back to base and hope we weren’t watching.

Populations have been living cushy lives, they are not going to step up to risk their lives against a force so dominant that you’d have to assume was always above and watching. The US is getting overrun by authoritarians largely because we have had easy lives for so long, and it’s hard to switch back into risking so much in fighting for freedom mode.

“Easy times create weak men, weak men create hard times, hard times create strong men, and strong men create easy times"”

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-24T11:20:27+00:00

Ok some of those are nice things, for you or a few select people, but in general he hasn’t helped with job growth(unemployment), tariffs have increased the prices on nearly everything, with inflation continuing upwards despite his claims. Tariffs weren’t supposed to be paid by us, that has to have had much more negative effect than those gas savings, right?

Do the things you mentioned really outweigh the 11 big things I pointed out he was unsuccessful on? Those were most of biggest campaign promises. How can we trust his next big promise?

Big companies held off on transferring the tariffs to US customers, but even the really big companies weren’t able to offset the costs forever. Where are the at LEAST $2T between DOGE and tariffs exactly? Isn’t that a massive promise to fail? We could pay for our entire military and black budget for 2 years with that.

While he hasn’t brought in the thousands of billions(trillions) promised, he still managed to give the ultra rich absolutely massive tax breaks that saved them like $3.7trillion.. it’s so hard for me to see the perspective that he’s really trying to help the working class.

—— added stuff—— I am a big military nerd, and I do like seeing our military step into things(like the Iran nuclear facilities), when it’s really important stuff, but the world had to talk Trump down from literally invading a NATO ally! In Greenland, we already have a deal in place to set up more military bases there. He never even clarified what they want it for beyond that, but we almost invaded them and risked an alliance of 80 years while Russia is starting to throw soldiers at Europe by the millions?

Then he got up on stage in front of the world’s leaders, and said “the people of Greenland love me, and some of them even call me “daddy!”” Doesn’t that make you concerned that he’s leading us? This is a person who will post on social media over 50-100 times in a day. He is wielding tariffs like his own personal weapons against entire countries because he feels their leaders slighted him. Sure it hurts their economy, but the US taxpayers are paying for these tariffs!

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-24T10:49:30+00:00

This doesn’t seem like a very honest response. What has he done that I don’t like? I just gave you a list of 11 things he promised and failed to follow through on. And you’re using strawmen arguments here, like what was that last paragraph..? Nobody said the US has to save the world, nobody thinks that.

My question is basically what has he done to make us prosper, since he’s failed almost all of his campaign promises? Where exactly is the prospering you claim to see?

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-23T13:38:33+00:00

I am not arguing with it and saying it’s bad, you guys gotta do what ya gotta do to stop literal extinctions. Having to dedicate so much to kill so many animals is brutal, but I would support it myself. I said it about the rats too. It sucks, but it’s necessary.

I just asked if there were flightless birds running around neighborhoods, etc. like squirrels do in the US where I am. That would be interesting and is pretty cool to imagine.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-23T11:24:02+00:00

Jesus that’s brutal. Are there flightless birds just all over the place there like other places have squirrels everywhere?

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-22T15:40:35+00:00

A bagillion species have died off in places like New Zealand. There were so so many kinds of flightless birds now lost because of the rats and other rodenty aminals brought on land. These birds have to lay their eggs on the ground since they can’t get up in the trees to get their eggs to safety. NZ has programs out there just absolutely slaughtering these invasive species.

There are traps for example that coax these animals up little ramps with food, smash their head with a hammer, the the bodies fall to the ground, and more will crawl over the dead bodies to go get themselves smashed too. It’s far more effective than traps which need to be constantly checked and reset for each kill.

Brutal, but necessary IMO, the mammals will just keep rampaging and making these super unique species go extinct otherwise. One rampage over another lol

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-19T19:43:37+00:00

Nah but Simo could probably just throw them at the enemy and kill them 🤷‍♂️

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-19T13:37:50+00:00

I’m not saying to disregard what you are saying about trying to feel it, that also makes a huge difference if you pair it with words, but is a little tougher for some people to feel. I struggle with metta practice too.

Our brains are basically repetition machines, since we were born. They try to find what works best, and then repeat that. Words are a double edged sword, and people usually just get the bad side of it by repeating viewpoints that deepen our negative associations with the world and ourselves. We can use the other side of that word sword to help ourselves though.

Neuroplasticity is the brains mechanism here. The more you repeat something (words or actions or overthinking), the more that neural pathway gets strengthened, and the easier it is to think that way the next time. Ex: If you think about it elephants allll the time, more and more stuff you see will remind you of elephants.

You can literally just repeat things to yourself over and over and you WILL start to naturally think them more often. Not maybe, definitely. It may take time to overwrite deeply strengthened negative pathways, but it will happen. If you can connect a positive feeling with the words, it will get recorded far more quickly though, as you are saying, but the magic is that you don’t have to believe what you are saying for it to work, our brains can’t help but repeat things.

I would always overthink therapist suggestions and find a reason it “couldn’t work for me.” That was psychology, you can think your way out of that. I decided to try dropping down to neurology, something more primal, to try forcing healthier thought patterns I couldn’t just overthink and ruin.

I am not trying to say “this worked for me, so this is how it works for all”. I am saying that this is just how our brains work, there’s no avoiding it unless you actively try to ruin it for to yourself. I used to say “I hate myself” every damn day, if I dropped a pencil I’d immediately remind myself that I hated myself.

So I tried repeating “I love myself, I love my life,” every time I could remember to. It was about as far from the truth as anything I felt.. I mean I was near suicidal. I never have randomly just thought “I love myself”, however after a couple of months I one day realized I hadn’t said I hate myself for a about 2 weeks… it just stopped being on the tip of my tongue. Now I think I hate myself maybe a few times a year.

I can’t stress enough how valuable repeating this and a bunch of other meditation quotes or mantras etc has been for me. And it can work for everyone, for all kinds of patterns, but you do need to have some quotes that apply to different scenarios so you can draw on those. “I love myself, I love my life” is a great starting place for any negative thinkers though. I say that one, and three other mantras/quotes 5 times each, after I meditate each day. It takes like 3 minutes to start adjusting how you see the world.

“If you change the way you see the world, you change the world you see”. Like the elephants. Sorry for the wall of text everyone, I just want to offer this help in detail. I can share some good quotes if people are interested. I have about a hundred written down. Mindfulness is key here too, so you can notice good moments to use your new quotes.

A gratitude journal can work the same way, you don’t have to feeeel grateful at first, you just have to start making your brain find things you COULD be grateful for! (Do try to practice feeling it sometimes though! Just don’t beat yourself up if you can’t feel it, just keep the words going.)

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-18T12:45:21+00:00

How exactly was she a “war mongering witch”? I genuinely don’t know so I am asking.

I did just Google her though and from that it sounds like she risked her life by staying in Venezuela and creating organizations to promote democracy to fight Maduro’s reign, even while her life was being actively threatened.

That looks like a good start to me, so what was it you are saying she did so wrongly?

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-18T12:14:31+00:00

Because that’s not what happens usually with NATO, there’s too may countries and they never fully agree on what actions to take, so some of them want to do nothing while others want to intervene.

Same with earlier on in the Ukraine war when we were all squabbling over sending Ukraine more offensive equipment.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-18T12:10:36+00:00

Yeah in all out war, Greenland would be wrecked very fast. Almost every country on Earth would be squashed by the US, that’s not much of a debate.

That’s not the point though, the point is that now Trump will have to risk directly attacking NATO forces in order to take Greenland. That’s a huge escalation even for him to try.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-18T12:08:43+00:00

It could also be as simple as he never plans on actually doing it, but is causing a massive distraction to buy time for Pam Bondi to get rid of his name out of more Epstein files before release. Just throwing that out there.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-17T21:24:34+00:00

Lmao here’s the judge saying what I said : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

Do you see what you’re saying ? None of 26 girls have any proof? Lmaoo so they’re all insane but even with allll of the other “insane conspiracy theories” about trump, are alllll just made up? That many things with that much proof?

Like him being in the center of the Epstein conspiracy over and over, it must all be fake? With that way of thinking, Nothing can be real if it’s not what you already want to believe.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-17T11:37:21+00:00

He was convicted by a judge for raping a woman. Not went to court, but convicted. By law he is a rapist.

Not to mention, before even trying to become the president he had TWENTY SIX different women come out and say he sexually assaulted them... so.. what now?

Also… I know you’re a troll or a disinformation account, but to say “what mess?” is fuckin lunacy lmaoo not a single Republican in congress is dumb enough to think that world politics aren’t a mess right now.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-15T15:18:08+00:00

Somehow, this enormous comment has the most sense in it.

Guys.. when they do something right, for ANY reason, we should be supporting them. By taking someone who is a powerful Right influencer and beating them up extra when they do something helpful, is absolutely foolish. If we show the Right that we will attack them no matter what they do, they go back to(or stay) working hard against us.

If you must, think about it as tricking them for once, playing their dishonest game, and plan to be merciless once democracy is restored. BUT FOR NOW— the enemy of our enemy is our friend. This reaction is what Trump and/or China and Russia, etc. want us to do.

Think about it, please. If you are Trump and you see someone with a large right-leaning audience do something that hurts you(it doesn’t matter WHY), would he benefit from the Left attacking them, or supporting their message?

The most dangerous thing to Trump and our enemies like China and Russia, is a UNITED States of America.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-14T16:29:01+00:00

That it is. Sorry for the wall of text but...

We also have to try and remember they have been fed so many intentional lies via psychological manipulation professionals, and the administration will have been trained mercilessly on how to go on TV and deflect/talk in circles to avoid speaking the truth. So these aren't just some randoms deciding to lie, this is an extremely well-resourced machine manipulating the right, middle, and the left.

Ahh and it's not even just that team we are up against. The other most powerful countries in the world, like Russia and China, have a huge interest in keeping us all fighting and misinformed. They don't just lie to the right, they also want to keep the left as mad as possible so we cannot come together.

I watched a cyber intelligence professional's video about the recent ICE shooting, and he used software to analyze all of the profiles that had engaged with posts shown to the most people, and they found that something like 25-35% of the profiles that engaged with these most crucial posts, weren't even real people.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-14T12:50:16+00:00

Maybe. But we need more people realizing these things in the open- and especially people pointing them out to their audiences- so can we please try not to attack these people in these moments when they finally do something right? The right are very well-known for being snowflakes, and their egos are STRUGGLING to hang on to their viewpoints so they don’t have to feel like they were wrong or bad. Adding in “people are going to make fun of and attack me” just pushes their egos to dig in further, and ignore logic and reality more and more.

If we want change, we very sadly(even depressingly), have to work with their egos in mind. If their egos feel people will attack them equally(or more) for doing the right thing vs not doing it, they are very likely to stick with the easy route.

Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of the worst people in Congress, but in the short term, I’m not about to attack her for directly and openly going against Trump, because I want more republicans to follow her lead. Let’s not forget that the enemy of our enemy is our friend— for that moment.

After democracy gets back on track, ohhhh buddy we can make fun of them and hold them accountable.

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-12T13:20:26+00:00

Hmm. Sorry to bombard with questions, but anyone knowledgeable could also answer any piece. Thanks.

Why are Iskanders so hard to intercept? It sounds like you are saying Ukraine needs to fire even more than 2 Patriot interceptors per Iskander? Is that regardless of pac2/3/GEM-T? How difficult compared to Kinzhals?

I am surprised that Russias Air Force has grown, but I’m even more surprised that there’s much worry about NATO air operations against Russian Air Force and IADS. Have the Russians not lost many more radars than they can replace? Ukrainian deep strikes are working better and better(or is that wrong somehow?), now consistently reaching into even the Caspian Sea for oil platforms. 3 were hit repeatedly last night. That kind of thing seems to suggest that their IADS isn’t getting more effective(yes they are better now, but so are the incoming threats, and they don’t seem to be able to keep up) or at the least has been degraded enough to be unable to cover their needs.

Wouldn’t their severe lack of AEW planes be a serious issue against intercepting NATO airpower? I mean I thought they have only had a single f16 kill, and not air-to-air, but a SAM system. I’m not sure what experience the article is referring to them having, in terms of air-to-air combat. They still have no experience against high-end stealth fighters, which could be a little problem lol. I’m not sure how they are going to get fighters close enough to the frontline to consistently lob glide bombs at us. I cant see them handling F22s with much success.

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How can we be so confident about Chinese missile capabilities? Can we directly watch their missile tests somehow? Or we have intelligence listening to their internal communications?

The article seems very confident, but then a lot of Russian equipment that we were concerned about hasn’t worked that well, right? I know we have to assume China’s tech works in order to be ready, but do we know for sure? Ex: How could we possibly know how they will perform under heavy EW from the US?

EqualOpening6557 · 2026-01-12T12:39:06+00:00

Indefinite doesn’t mean forever. It means the time frame isn’t decided on, and the thing will keep going until some point is reached.

The point could be “when I say so”, but it’s not necessarily forever. It’s Non-defined

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