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The choice in 2024: fascism or democracy. Don't screw it up.

Flyingsaucesir 8 Nov 24
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This election advice was a spectacular fail in 2016, not gonna help in 2024.

In 2016 people imagined that the office would force Trump to grow up. We know better now. He's incapable of maturing.

@Flyingsaucesir I admit I underestimated how incompetent he would be, and registered to vote for the first time in decades in 2020. I think it would be a disaster if he got reelected. That being said, "Vote for Biden because he's not Trump" barely squeaked him by in 2020. I think people should focus more on positive reasons to vote for Biden, like protecting health care, abortion rights, and LGTB rights for starters.

@Druvius I agree, and there is much to Joe's credit. Would I like to see a slightly younger version of him? Sure. But his advanced age alone is not a reason to withhold my vote.

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Hopefully DeSantis, Haley or Trump will be elected in 24 and we can begin an economic recovery from the crazy radical Democrat agenda.

Recovery? What exactly is so bad? The US economy is growing faster than most other OECD countries. The unemployment rate is low. The only weakness I see is the national debt, but let's be honest: would a Republican POTUS/Congress reduce the debt? They never did in the past, quite the opposite, Reagan, Bush, Trump.... have increased the national debt.

@Thibaud70 We have the worst inflation since Carter and the Democrat green energy agenda is going to cause lots of hardship if we don’t reverse it.

@Trajan61 Inflation is bad, that's sure, but after the COVID crisis and the war in UKR, inflation is a global phenomenon. We have had it here in Europe too. In Victor Orban's Hungary (one of Trump's buddies !), inflation was over 20 %.
Currently, the inflation rate in the US is 3.2 %. You cannot really complain about this !
In the UK, with Conservatives at the helm, it's 4.6 %.
You should look for another reason why you hate the Biden administration....

@Thibaud70 A John Deere swather I purchased for less than 100,000 thousand dollars in 2015 now cost 250,000 thousand dollars and almost all of that inflation has occurred since Biden took over so where in the hell are you coming up with 3.2%? The cost of equipment and vehicles has skyrocketed since Biden took over. With Trump we had the best foreign policy we’ve had in many years with Pompeo as Secretary of State and relative peace around the world. With Biden’s idiotic appeasement policy agains Iran and his weakness we have wars in the Middle East and the Ukraine and it’s liable to get worse when the Chinese take Taiwan.

@Trajan61 Because that's the current inflation rate?

@Trajan61 So let me get this straight. You bought a John Deere in 2015 for $100,000 and now it costs $250.000? Wasn't Trump in charge for half of that period?

@Trajan61 There is a "felt inflation", and there is real inflation, and the two often enough diverge.
Where did I get the 3.2 % from? Just ask Google "official rate inflation USA octobre 2023" and you can check it fro yourself.
But of course, you can always trust your feelings more than the official figures. The 'woke' call it emotional truth.....
[jpmorgan.com].

It's a familiar pattern: you hate person X, and then you are looking for reasons for your hate so that it is more than a feeling, but it is justified. If you want to believe that the US economy is in bad shape because of Biden's policies, you can believe it. Others believed that Hillary Clinton was the head of pedophile's mafia

@273kelvin Almost all of that inflation occurred after Biden took over.

@273kelvin, @Thibaud70 Google is extremely left biased.

@Trajan61 Okay so what is the score so far? His sister and niece can't stand him - jealous. His eldest son stopped talking to him for a year - Poisoned by his mom. Access Hollywood tape - Lockerroom talk, didn't mean it. "I only hire the best people" Two AGs, three chiefs of staff and a boatload of cabinet members - Incompertant traitors. Muller Report - Russia hoax, biased DOJ. Ukraine impeachment - Perfect call, Democratic hoax. COVID - Democratic hoax, China virus, all be over by easter, maybe we can inject disinfectant? 2020 election "If I lose it's rigged" - "They used Italian satellites and a program from Chavez" - Krebs says "Most secure in US history" - fired. Barr says "No significant fraud" - "incompetent coward" 61 court cases - biased judges, won't hear the evidence. Jan 6th - It was ANTIFA, it was like a tourist visit, it was an FBI false flag. Jan 6th committee - Witchhunt, Aides testify against him "Never knew them, they're RINOs". Trashed in midterms - "Didn't push the rigged election enough". Faux Gnus loses $878,000,000 to Dominion - "Shoulda stuck to the fraud story" (Sydney Powell got it from a woman who heard it on the wind). Classified documents case - "planted by the FBI, I have a perfect right to have them, I declassified them with my mind". NY fraud case - Democratic witchhunt, NY apartment 10,000 - 11,000 sq ft "I added the lift and roof access to make it 30,000. Besides there was a clause in the contract that says I'm full of shit. Biased DA, judge and clerk" Georgia - Racist DA. Washington Jan 6th case - Biased DA and judge.
Add to that biased media from the Wall Street Journal to Forbes and now Google is out to get him as well.

Nb forgive me if I missed some things out but it seems that the whole world is against poor little old Trumpy-wumpy and my fingers were getting tired.

@273kelvin Trumps cabinet was far better than we have now and his Secretary of State Pompeo was the best we had in our lifetime. If Trump had won I don’t think we’d be having the problems in the Middle East we’re having now and probably not in the Ukraine either.

@Trajan61 Okay, If Trump's cabinet was so good? Can you please tell me why so many were fired or left in disgust and were subsequently dissed by Trump?
Secondary question; As we are on the subject of Trump's outstanding cabinet. Can you please tell me what in your opinion was the most significant contribution Ivanka made during his term?

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The obvious thing to me is that I do not want all of that to happen and will vote against Donny boy in any way that I can. Former Republican here and a card carrying Libertarian. I identify as Progressive

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I would like to have faith -- meaning here a reasonable hope based on the evidence -- that Americans will not screw it up and make the right choice, but I've got to tell you I do not have much. This is a country high on its own supply, has been for too long, over- exposed to information but under- informed on fact, a country where ethnocentrism has mutated to toxic individualism, people who now know little about 20th fascism other than Hollywood fantasy, a country and people so besotted by finding people to hate and blame for all the angst in their lives while having no understanding of the real reasons which relate to the class and power structure from which they suffer but have no perspective of. So, no, I don't have much faith.

You're not wrong. 70+ million idiots voted for the Done Cheato in 2020. Most of them are unaware that Fox "news" paid out $780 million for promulgating Combover Caligula's Big Lie; they still think the election was stolen. And even though Joe Biden got 7 million more votes than Orange Foolius, his victory in the electoral college came down to only 40-something thousand votes in a few purple precincts. So I am by no means at ease here.

@Flyingsaucesir Funny names you have for Trump... Is there a list somewhere of all the nicknames he's gotten from his enemies so far?

@Thibaud70 He's such an object of ridicule for so many, any list of Trumpty Dumpty monikers is bound to be a work in progress.

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Love the face of the plump guy in the first pane. It says it all!!

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