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bigtree

(94,649 posts)
Fri May 15, 2026, 07:31 PM 7 hrs ago

Any updates?

Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz
Seriously guys, whatever happened to:

• the DOGE checks
• tariff checks
• the Greenland hospital boat
• 10% APR on credit cards
• my meds being 1500% cheaper
• $2 gas
• the Epstein files
• reopening the Strait of Hormuz that was already open
• cheaper groceries
• ending wars in 24 hours
• the “privately funded” ballroom

Any updates?


Failed Trump Promise Tracker
https://failedpromises.net/

May 14th, 2026
Tracking Trump’s Campaign Promises
https://www.allsides.com/blog/tracking-trumps-campaign-promises
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Any updates? (Original Post) bigtree 7 hrs ago OP
Yesterday's news. cachukis 7 hrs ago #1
effective political advocacy is about repetition bigtree 6 hrs ago #2
Because you live in an attentive world. cachukis 6 hrs ago #4
it's not yesterday's news. bigtree 5 hrs ago #9
I agree with everything you said, although it was a cachukis 5 hrs ago #12
Well, every bit of news was reported somewhere before you saw it. erronis 6 hrs ago #6
Dead yet? BidenRocks 6 hrs ago #3
All those things Just Jerome 6 hrs ago #5
I don't think any of the (r) political folks believed them when they were uttered. erronis 6 hrs ago #7
we used to hold politicians to those promises bigtree 5 hrs ago #10
Two weeks! Nasruddin 6 hrs ago #8
DOGE was a scam and grand larceny in plain sight. Initech 5 hrs ago #11
All coming in two weeks. LoisB 5 hrs ago #13
Melania's immigration documents. The war in Ukraine being finished Jan 21, 2025. fierywoman 4 hrs ago #14

bigtree

(94,649 posts)
2. effective political advocacy is about repetition
Fri May 15, 2026, 08:04 PM
6 hrs ago

...and not assuming everyone is as informed folks participating daily on a Democratic message board.

What is the problem exactly with continuing to hold Trump accountable on these? It's still actionable and politically relevant, if not otherwise.

I just don't get the sentiment that it's old news.

cachukis

(4,073 posts)
4. Because you live in an attentive world.
Fri May 15, 2026, 08:29 PM
6 hrs ago

I have heard the expression for seventy years.
I appreciate the reminders because, I too pay attention, but lazily rely on others to do the digging.
While every point you raised needs to be called out regularly, trump is the master of yesterday's news.
Control of the attention of the entertained is a masterful ploy that we will not replace. Who can replace this juggernaut? Ennui?
So many need the perp walks to tribunal, but is there even a structure or momentum to play with the legality of money? This is the show. We are in it.
How much of what is going on has been accountable in trumpworld?
We are in serious times.

bigtree

(94,649 posts)
9. it's not yesterday's news.
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:03 PM
5 hrs ago

...it's just not.

It's happening, mostly unabated, right now.

And I'm not campaigning for anything.

What happened to speaking out about what concerns us?

The Democratic party is a coalition of like interests and concerns. It's a vehicle to reconcile those often disparate interests and initiatives into action or law.

You got my concerns, and it's really something to be told that it's old news. I live in a region with a lot of federal workers that had their jobs eviscerated by DOGE.

Unless you're well off, you're already strained family or personal budget was hindered and harmed by Trump's arbitrary and illegal tariffs. Most of the talk is about refunding business, not the people who pay a greater percentage of their disposable income on the very goods that saw price increases due to passed on tariff costs to suppliers and merchants.

If you give it a minute, your nation's president will again threaten the sovereign nation of Denmark by threatening Greenland. That should matter, but I get that Trump has defined deviancy down so far that people forget that we should care about how our nation treats others, especially ones that have been stalwart allies for generations.

10% APR on credit cards is another point that should rankle folks struggling to get by, especially the growing numbers who are falling behind some $20, $30 thousand in credit card debt just to sustain themselves in this economy.

Are you really saying that affordable medicine is old news? Millions were just cut off from subsidies for their health insurance and can't even see a doctor now. Trump should be challenged with his promises and claims to reduce prescription costs. Why in the world should we regard this as old news?

$2 gas may well be an empty promise but it's more than double the increase that people who don't have means to weather the Iran war price spikes should be interested to know that Trump has not only broken his promise, but repeatedly said he doesn't care.

The Epstein files. Victims are demanding justice, and the WH and their toadies at DOJ, Trump's personal attorney Blanche, is obstructing justice, breaking the law that ordered their full release, and covering up child sex crimes and criminals. Trump wishes this was old news, and works everyday to make that so.

Reopening the Strait of Hormuz that was already open is in the news TODAY, with Mike Johnson declaring the war 'over' while saying in the next breath that we need to reopen the Strait. Certainly you're not just willing to be continually lied to about an ongoing, destabilizing, deadly war that Israel and Trump promised just YESTERDAY to escalate when he returns from China.

"Ending wars in 24 hours" would seem to be a relevant point of debate, considering the ongoing, seemingly intractable ME war still waging and scheduled to escalate.

People who don't have to worry about silly old things like choosing between gas, medicine, utilities through the roof, or food might have a hard time understanding why Trump promising "cheaper groceries" isn't relevant TODAY.

The “privately funded” ballroom and a vanity arch. See above for the relevance today.

cachukis

(4,073 posts)
12. I agree with everything you said, although it was a
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:28 PM
5 hrs ago

quick read.
You are so right in that all of it is ongoing. Marc Elias, for one, is on it. I am not. I give some money.
We are in a philosophical dilemma. The poison dilemma.
The ball is rolling. We can slow it down but we are not going to stop it never mind push it back uphill.
We are, in our own ways, managing a predicament.
We are not in the Gloucester fishing boat in the Perfect Storm. But we are in a storm, as it were, of our own making.
I would suggest working to slow down the ball as our best bet. Planning for the next catastrophe, like the Dutch acknowledging they cannot dike all of what's exposed to a rising tide.
We don't do that even though everyone could learn from them. Most of us are waiting for calamity, witless.
Many of us have lost the moral clarity of being reliant for others as they would be for us until a calamity.
We are on the edge of calamity.
Climate, trumpism, AI, Oligarchism, Climate, Consumption, Money, Climate, Technology. Climate.
We are being tested by ourselves. Are we up to it?
Many will be. Worry about those who won't, who could have, had they had, the connections.

erronis

(24,487 posts)
6. Well, every bit of news was reported somewhere before you saw it.
Fri May 15, 2026, 08:30 PM
6 hrs ago

I don't mind being reminded especially if the summation makes the message stronger.

erronis

(24,487 posts)
7. I don't think any of the (r) political folks believed them when they were uttered.
Fri May 15, 2026, 08:32 PM
6 hrs ago

And no thinking Americans believed them.

That just leaves the MAGAts.

bigtree

(94,649 posts)
10. we used to hold politicians to those promises
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:07 PM
5 hrs ago

...we shouldn't assume everyone's heard these.

They are solid political points of opposition and confrontation on issues and concerns that are very present and mostly unabated.

Initech

(109,237 posts)
11. DOGE was a scam and grand larceny in plain sight.
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:09 PM
5 hrs ago

Fuck Elon Musk, may he rot in the hottest circle of hell.

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