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Post by aj2hall on Jan 9, 2024 4:46:06 GMT
More evidence that he only cares about what's good for him, not the country. He actually wants the economy to fail because it will be bad for President Biden He said he didn't want to be Hoover, but I'm pretty sure his first term was worse than Hoover. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/us/politics/trump-economy-biden.htmlT rump says he hopes any economic crash happens in 2024 so he isn’t blamed.
Former President Trump said Monday night that he hoped any downturn would come before his possible re-election — under President Biden’s administration.
Former President Donald J. Trump said in an interview on Monday that he believed the economy would crash — and that he hoped it would happen in the next year so the blame would fall on President Biden’s administration.
“We have an economy that’s so fragile, and the only reason it’s running now is it’s running off the fumes of what we did,” Mr. Trump told the conservative commentator Lou Dobbs in an interview broadcast Monday evening on the MyPillow founder Mike Lindell’s platform. “It’s just running off the fumes. And when there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months, because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover.”
President Hoover presided over the 1929 stock market crash that started the Great Depression.
And a good prediction about the economy & the Fed. Totally predictable pattern- anything that makes him look bad is a conspiracy and conversely, anything that makes Biden look good is also a conspiracy. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/opinion/trump-federal-reserve-interest-rates.htmlWhat I don’t know is whether the Fed is ready for the political firestorm it’s about to face, and whether it will stand up to the pressure to keep rates too high for too long. Because it’s a safe prediction that Donald Trump and his supporters will scream that the coming rate cuts are part of a deep-state conspiracy to re-elect President Biden. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 9, 2024 4:49:17 GMT
an excellent point
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 9, 2024 4:50:57 GMT
So many clear contrasts on their different perspectives
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 9, 2024 4:59:46 GMT
Trump laying the groundwork for the 2024 election was stolen thehill.com/homenews/senate/4385839-republicans-want-to-avoid-clash-with-trump-on-border-security-deal/One aide pointed out that Trump urged Congress to do something about the border in a recent post on Truth Social.
“It’s becoming more and more obvious to me why the ‘Crazed’ Democrats are allowing millions and millions of totally unvetted migrants into our once great Country. IT’S SO THEY CAN VOTE,” Trump wrote. “Republicans better wake up and do something, before it is too late. Are you listening Mitch McConnell?” |
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Post by casii on Jan 9, 2024 15:37:43 GMT
Trump laying the groundwork for the 2024 election was stolen thehill.com/homenews/senate/4385839-republicans-want-to-avoid-clash-with-trump-on-border-security-deal/One aide pointed out that Trump urged Congress to do something about the border in a recent post on Truth Social.
“It’s becoming more and more obvious to me why the ‘Crazed’ Democrats are allowing millions and millions of totally unvetted migrants into our once great Country. IT’S SO THEY CAN VOTE,” Trump wrote. “Republicans better wake up and do something, before it is too late. Are you listening Mitch McConnell?” I have 2 neighbors, 2 different homes, flying Trump stuff. They insist that because no one wears Biden gear, flies Biden merch or covers their vehicles in Trump stickers that there's no way Biden won. They're ready to take up arms against their fellow citizens should Trump be jailed or lose the election. DH questioned why they weren't on the neighbor holiday gift list and I had to say they're ready to kill me, so no they won't be getting homemade bread, butter and salted caramels. He still believes they're all talk. I feel like that's his white male privilege talking. It's become a point of contention. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 9, 2024 21:15:07 GMT
NH might be the last ditch effort to get Trump out. We're getting 3-4 flyers in the mail, 1-2 phone calls and 3-4 texts every day. I see some Trump signs but very few for anyone else. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/us/politics/republicans-trump-new-hampshire.htmlAs former President Donald J. Trump’s stranglehold on Iowa Republicans shows no sign of lessening, New Hampshire has become the most critical state for Nikki Haley, Mr. Christie and the small, increasingly desperate contingent of the Republican Party that wants to cast aside Mr. Trump.
It is the only state where polling shows Ms. Haley within striking distance of the former president, and the only place where Mr. Christie has gained any sort of foothold. While Iowa’s caucuses on Monday are likely to be a slugfest for second place, New Hampshire’s primary on Jan. 23 has an outside chance of serving up an upset victory for Ms. Haley. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 9, 2024 21:45:59 GMT
Interesting point about Trump and the economy. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/opinion/economy-survey-republicans.htmlThe economy is good, but Americans feel bad about it. Or do they? The more I look into it, the more I’m convinced that much of what looks like poor public perception about the economy is actually just Republicans angry that Donald Trump isn’t still president.It has been obvious for a while that views of the economy have become increasingly partisan. It’s also clear that this partisanship is asymmetric: Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to say that the economy is good when their party holds the White House and bad when it doesn’t.If that’s really true, the political implications are somewhat ambiguous. Poor economic sentiment may not weigh on Biden because it’s being driven by people who would never vote for him anyway. On the other hand, this interpretation suggests that most of the political upside of an improving economy may already be baked in, since Democrats have already accepted the good news, while Republicans never will.Love this in response's to Trumps statement that he hopes the economy crashes under Biden |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 9, 2024 21:53:13 GMT
Liz Cheney blasted Trump, especially his ridiculous assertion that the civil war could have been avoided www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/us/politics/donald-trump-liz-cheney.htmlIn a flurry of appearances and commentary, former Representative Liz Cheney has stepped up her denunciations of former President Donald J. Trump in a last-ditch effort to persuade Republicans not to nominate him again.
“Tell the world who we are with your vote. Tell them that we are a good and a great nation,” Ms. Cheney told primary voters in New Hampshire on Friday, in a speech at Dartmouth College’s Democracy Summit. “Show the world that we will defeat the plague of cowardice sweeping through the Republican Party.”
A day later, she blasted Mr. Trump’s suggestion on the campaign trail that the Civil War could have been prevented if President Abraham Lincoln had “negotiated.”
As she has done on several occasions, she left open the possibility of running as a third-party candidate if they nominate Mr. Trump. But at the same time, she indicated a preference for President Biden over Mr. Trump, saying that while she disagreed with Mr. Biden on policy matters, “Our nation can survive and recover from policy mistakes. We cannot recover from a president willing to torch the Constitution.”
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 9, 2024 22:04:02 GMT
If Trump were a normal politician, his career would have ended about a hundred times already
After his comments about Mexican immigrants
After insulting John McCain
After making fun of disabled people
After the Access Hollywood video
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Post by Gem Girl on Jan 9, 2024 22:52:48 GMT
If Trump were a normal politician, his career would have ended about a hundred times already After his comments about Mexican immigrants After insulting John McCain After making fun of disabled people After the Access Hollywood video etc To the dismay of people who have empathy, there are a large number of people who don't. They applaud his doing all the things they wish they could get away with, they love that he hates anybody who doesn't look/think like he does, they enjoy the camaraderie of gathering dressed as slobs to drink beer and holler in lieu of the strenuous thinking required to understand the issues and measure candidates against them. To use my dear FIL's word, they are peasants, and TFG stands before them only for what he perceives as receiving adulation from them. Outside of that realm, TFG would never deign to speak with any of them, and I've never seen him shake any of their hands or kiss one of their babies. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 10, 2024 21:32:55 GMT
This is an excellent point. With all of his legal trouble, Trump thinks winning will be his get out of jail free card
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 10, 2024 21:46:24 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 18, 2024 21:23:20 GMT
Pretty compelling statements from Trump's "best" people Gift article - no paywall www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/18/opinion/trump-cabinet-election-2024.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok0.MXFj.YYgy7rI3H0yB&smid=url-shareJohn Bolton - June 22, 2023
By the time I left the White House, I was convinced he was not fit to be president. … I think it is a danger for the United States if he gets a second term.”
William Barr
June 18, 2023
The fact of the matter is he is a consummate narcissist and he constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk. … He will always put his own interest and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest. There’s no question about it. … He’s like a 9-year-old, a defiant 9-year-old kid, who’s always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table defying his parents to stop him from doing it.”
John Kelley
Oct. 2, 2023
A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the rule of law.”
Mark Miller
Sept. 29, 2023
We don’t take an oath to a country. We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a religion. We don’t take an oath to a king or a queen, or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.” |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 18, 2024 22:24:29 GMT
What does TFG think will happen to his precious MAL at sea level if/when the sea rises 10 feet, even 5 feet? |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 27, 2024 4:11:07 GMT
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 27, 2024 9:23:05 GMT
Trump's response to the shooting - get over it. Zero compassion. Even a&shats like Ted Cruz can manage thoughts and prayers. OMG, could you be any more dishonest? Yet again, another 9 second clip, taken so completely out of context. Clipped in the middle of the sentence, clipping the context off in order to push an absolute lie. Something you do not tolerate coming from the other direction. Zero compassion? Horseshit. Here's more context for "we have to get over it" with the context showing the compassion in the reason he said that. Not to mention all of the compassion filled statements he made: Your post is so completely dishonest. Like most of your posts in this thread. |
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Post by compeateropeator on Jan 27, 2024 11:02:27 GMT
I don’t disagree with you about showing the whole clip. All groups seem to be guilty of this more and more.
This however…Zero compassion? Horseshit.
Here's more context for "we have to get over it" with the context showing the compassion in the reason he said that. Not to mention all of the compassion filled statements he made
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I am not sure what Trump you have been paying attention to for the last 40 or more years…but I don’t think it was Donald.
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 27, 2024 11:26:20 GMT
I don’t disagree with you about showing the whole clip. All groups seem to be guilty of this more and more. This however… Zero compassion? Horseshit.
Here's more context for "we have to get over it" with the context showing the compassion in the reason he said that. Not to mention all of the compassion filled statements he made
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I am not sure what Trump you have been paying attention to for the last 40 or more years…but I don’t think it was Donald. No one is talking abou the last 4o years. We're talking about the fuller clip of the speech that aj2hall claims- based on her 9 second clip, "has zero compassion". Did you watch the fuller clip that I posted? |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 27, 2024 13:05:07 GMT
Not sure what definition of compassion you’re using but “It’s just horrible, surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward” is not compassionate. Including the full context does not make his statement compassionate. A day after a school shooting with dead children, no one wants to hear we have to get over it, regardless of the context. His statement was thoughtless, careless, cruel, callous, disrespectful, compassionless, heartless and insensitive. thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4393128-trump-iowa-rally-school-shooting-move-forward/amp/“I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Sioux City. “It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here,” he added. “But have to get over it, we have to move forward.” His somewhat harsh rhetoric comes after a gunman entered Perry High School on Thursday morning, the first day back from winter break, with a pump action shotgun and handgun. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 27, 2024 13:20:36 GMT
This is the person you’re supporting and defending. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-26-2024Former president Trump is under pressure on a number of fronts. As legal analyst Joyce White Vance pointed out tonight in Civil Discourse, two separate juries have now found that Trump acted with malice, and it is becoming harder for him to argue that so many people—two entirely different juries, prosecutors, and so on—are unfairly targeting him. Vance speculates that this latest judgment might hurt his political support. “How do you explain to your kids that you’re going to give your vote in the presidential race to a man who forced his fingers into a woman’s vagina and then lied about it and about her, and exposed her to public ridicule and harm?” she asked. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 27, 2024 13:44:32 GMT
www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/opinion/donald-trump-nikki-haley.htmlDonald Trump should not be president because he tried to overthrow the government. We can’t have someone guiding our democracy who is undemocratic, claiming that every contest he loses is rigged. We can’t have a president who encourages violence, vomits misinformation, campaigns by humiliation and smears and, lately, portrays himself as divine. He has really lost the thread of how a democracy works. This was evident again in his outrageous endorsement of a plan to short-circuit the primaries and have himself crowned the presumptive nominee by the Republican National Committee. After a backlash, he backed off and disavowed his own desire.
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Post by compeateropeator on Jan 27, 2024 14:19:09 GMT
I don’t disagree with you about showing the whole clip. All groups seem to be guilty of this more and more. This however… Zero compassion? Horseshit.
Here's more context for "we have to get over it" with the context showing the compassion in the reason he said that. Not to mention all of the compassion filled statements he made
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I am not sure what Trump you have been paying attention to for the last 40 or more years…but I don’t think it was Donald. No one is talking abou the last 4o years. We're talking about the fuller clip of the speech that aj2hall claims- based on her 9 second clip, "has zero compassion". Did you watch the fuller clip that I posted? Sorry, I highlighted too much of your post…I was assuming you meant “Not to mention all the compassion filled statements he made” as more referring to overall (by the way I had already seen the entire clip before you posted it) but I still do not believe he really has true compassion, I won’t say zero but I would guess it is just hovering above zero. But that really is neither here nor there because Donald Trump (in the at least 40+ years I have been paying attention to him) has had/shown very little real compassion for anything. I do not believe the leopard Trump has changed his spots in the last 8. Years in MY opinion. You are welcome to yours. I was just agreeing with you that people need to include the whole quote, even when just commenting on the obvious intent…Republicans, Independents, and Democrats included. 😄 |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 27, 2024 14:52:30 GMT
Not sure what definition of compassion you’re using but “It’s just horrible, surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward” is not compassionate. Including the full context does not make his statement compassionate. A day after a school shooting with dead children, no one wants to hear we have to get over it, regardless of the context. His statement was thoughtless, careless, cruel, callous, disrespectful, compassionless, heartless and insensitive. thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4393128-trump-iowa-rally-school-shooting-move-forward/amp/“I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Sioux City. “It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here,” he added. “But have to get over it, we have to move forward.” His somewhat harsh rhetoric comes after a gunman entered Perry High School on Thursday morning, the first day back from winter break, with a pump action shotgun and handgun. Get over it the day after the shooting is ok, but talking about sensible gun control the day after is too soon to be discussed? Is TFG anything near compassionate, ever? No! |
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 27, 2024 18:54:11 GMT
Trump's response to the shooting - get over it. Zero compassion. Even a&shats like Ted Cruz can manage thoughts and prayers. OMG, could you be any more dishonest? Yet again, another 9 second clip, taken so completely out of context. Clipped in the middle of the sentence, clipping the context off in order to push an absolute lie. Something you do not tolerate coming from the other direction. Zero compassion? Horseshit. Here's more context for "we have to get over it" with the context showing the compassion in the reason he said that. Not to mention all of the compassion filled statements he made: Your post is so completely dishonest. Like most of your posts in this thread. Boy you really are a MAGA Gal aren’t you. Because otherwise you would understand trump doesn’t care. I watched your clip and those are just words with no meaning to him. BECAUSE HE DOES NOT CARE!!! His comment of getting over it is a true reflection of who trump is. The man has no compassion, not one ounce of it. |
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 27, 2024 20:10:17 GMT
Not sure what definition of compassion you’re using but “It’s just horrible, surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward” is not compassionate. Including the full context does not make his statement compassionate. A day after a school shooting with dead children, no one wants to hear we have to get over it, regardless of the context. His statement was thoughtless, careless, cruel, callous, disrespectful, compassionless, heartless and insensitive. thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4393128-trump-iowa-rally-school-shooting-move-forward/amp/“I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Sioux City. “It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here,” he added. “But have to get over it, we have to move forward.” His somewhat harsh rhetoric comes after a gunman entered Perry High School on Thursday morning, the first day back from winter break, with a pump action shotgun and handgun. You used a 9 second video clip that cuts Trump off mid sentence in order to push your lie: "Trump's response to the shooting - get over it. Zero compassion. Even a&shats like Ted Cruz can manage thoughts and prayers." Trump's full statement: "Before going forward I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa. To the entire community, we love you, we pray for you and we ask God to heal and comfort, to comfort really the whole state, and the pain, the pain that you have. This is something very unique to your state. We're really with you as much as anybody can be. It's a very terrible thing that happened. It's just horrible to see that happening. Just horrible. So surprising to see it here. But we have to get over it and move forward. We have to move forward. To the relatives and to all of the people that are so devastated right now to a point they can't breathe, they can't live, we are with you all the way. We're with you and we love you and cherish you." Now you're going to not only double down on your indisputable lie, but triple and quadruple down by bringing in other issues that do nothing to erase your lie. Most people would agree, he should NOT have said "we have to get over it" in referring to the families in their unable to function, inconsolable, hyperventilating grief. Awkward to say the least. You could have even said those were the wrongest words you could possibly say, but at least he was attempting the best he is capable of (insertwhatever insult you need). And no one would have faulted you. But for you to use a 9 second video clip that cuts Trump off mid sentence in order to push your lie that there is zero compassion in his statement and that he didn’t even manage thoughts and prayers shines a megawatt spotlight on what a liar you are. A 9 second video clip that cuts Trump off mid sentence. You and many others here would never let that stand, coming from the other direction. That's already been demonstrated. You're a liar. You keep proving it, over and over again. Year after year. Last year you were caught pushing provable lies about me. You are beyond dishonest and untrustworthy. It IS indisputable anymore. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 27, 2024 21:19:52 GMT
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 27, 2024 21:59:11 GMT
I will edit my statement and acknowledge Trump offered thoughts and prayers. He’s the equivalent to Ted Cruz, which is a pretty low bar. Even you acknowledged Ted Cruz is an a&shole. Anything Trump said previously regarding the shooting was erased, eclipsed, undermined and overshadowed by his next statement, we have to get over it, we have to move on. There was nothing compassionate about his speech in Iowa. He’s done very little in the last 8 years to demonstrate any real compassion. Recently towards E Jean Carroll, Trump has shown nothing but contempt. His lack of compassion was blatantly obvious during the early days of covid. Most people who have not been corrupted by right wing media can see that he’s not capable of caring for anyone but himself. He essentially ran his campaigns, spinning his selfishness as a positive character trait. Pre-covid, only 36 % of Americans thought he cared about people like themselves. www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/10/01/trump-gets-negative-ratings-for-many-personal-traits-but-most-say-he-stands-up-for-his-beliefs/www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/2020-time-capsule-17-empathy-and-simple-kindness/626996/Applying your own standards to this, it's going to take a lot of honest changed behavior on your part to eclipse, erase, undermine so much of your dishonesty. Where is it that you think I did that? I'm cautiously giving you the benefit of the doubt this time that you're mistaken and not lying again. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 27, 2024 22:14:13 GMT
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Post by tincin on Jan 28, 2024 2:35:19 GMT
Trump laying the groundwork for the 2024 election was stolen thehill.com/homenews/senate/4385839-republicans-want-to-avoid-clash-with-trump-on-border-security-deal/One aide pointed out that Trump urged Congress to do something about the border in a recent post on Truth Social.
“It’s becoming more and more obvious to me why the ‘Crazed’ Democrats are allowing millions and millions of totally unvetted migrants into our once great Country. IT’S SO THEY CAN VOTE,” Trump wrote. “Republicans better wake up and do something, before it is too late. Are you listening Mitch McConnell?” I have 2 neighbors, 2 different homes, flying Trump stuff. They insist that because no one wears Biden gear, flies Biden merch or covers their vehicles in Trump stickers that there's no way Biden won. They're ready to take up arms against their fellow citizens should Trump be jailed or lose the election. DH questioned why they weren't on the neighbor holiday gift list and I had to say they're ready to kill me, so no they won't be getting homemade bread, butter and salted caramels. He still believes they're all talk. I feel like that's his white male privilege talking. It's become a point of contention. I’d be planting Biden signs in my yard. I get along with most of my neighbors but nobody is going to tell me who to support in an election. We can’t afford to have twitler in power again. Not as a democracy or financially. |
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Post by tincin on Jan 28, 2024 2:41:59 GMT
I don’t disagree with you about showing the whole clip. All groups seem to be guilty of this more and more. This however… Zero compassion? Horseshit.
Here's more context for "we have to get over it" with the context showing the compassion in the reason he said that. Not to mention all of the compassion filled statements he made
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I am not sure what Trump you have been paying attention to for the last 40 or more years…but I don’t think it was Donald. No one is talking abou the last 4o years. We're talking about the fuller clip of the speech that aj2hall claims- based on her 9 second clip, "has zero compassion". Did you watch the fuller clip that I posted? I did and I completely agree with compeatoropeator. He like drones on about how horrible it is, it unique to them (BS) and finishes with we have to get over it. |
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