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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 21, 2024 18:15:52 GMT
onelasttime let us not forget TFG continues to talk, claim that the Haitians are eating the 'dogs' when Vance said he made it all up... It was a WHITE male that shot the geese on a golf course and I think he has been charged...
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Post by Merge on Oct 21, 2024 20:36:44 GMT
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Oct 21, 2024 22:28:18 GMT
Wtf?! I am so sick of these people and those who support them. |
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 22, 2024 3:14:28 GMT
Regarding Trump and the economy - his interview did not go well with Bloomberg News. He lacks a basic understanding of economics and specifically , how tariffs work. Trump mistakenly thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and when confronted with facts, he just insults the interviewer. 400 economists and former policymakers have valid reasons for endorsing Harris. thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4895899-kamala-harris-economists-former-policymakers-endorsement/www.c-span.org/video/?539131-1/president-trump-interview-economic-club-chicagoheathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-15-2024Trump showed up almost an hour late to the event with moderator John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. When he arrived, things went downhill fast. Micklethwait asked real questions about Trump’s approach to the economy, but the former president answered with aimless rants and campaign slogans that Micklethwait corrected, repeatedly redirecting Trump back to his actual questions. Trump quickly grew angry and combative.
When Micklethwait corrected Trump’s misunderstanding of the way tariffs work, Trump replied in front of a room full of people who understand the economy: “It must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you're totally wrong.” Referring to analysis that his plans would explode the national debt, including analysis by the Wall Street Journal—hardly a left-wing outlet, as Mickelthwait pointed out—Trump replied: “What does the Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way….. You’ve been wrong about everything…. You’ve been wrong all your life on this stuff.”
The economy is supposed to be Trump’s strong suit.
The former president seemed unable to stay on any topic, jumping from one idea to another randomly, or to answer anything, instead making statements that play well at his rallies—referring to people with insulting names, for example—or by rehashing old grievances and threatening to end traditional U.S. freedoms. He made it clear he intends to "straighten out our press,” for example. “Because,” he said, “we have a corrupt press."
As Micklethwait tried to keep him on task, Trump asserted stories that were more and more outlandish. He claimed that children could do the work of U.S. autoworkers in South Carolina, for example, and that he would be a better chair of the Federal Reserve than Jerome Powell.
Micklethwait did not fight with Trump, but he didn’t indulge him either. When Trump explained that “you don’t put old in” the federal judiciary because “they’re there for two years, or three years,” Micklethwait replied: “You’re a 78-year-old man running for president.”
And therein lies the rub.
Aaron Rupar of Public Notice, who watches and clips Trump’s speeches, called the appearance “bonkers.” Journalist David Rothkopf of Deep State Radio wrote: “The past 24 hours seem to have been a dividing line in the Trump campaign...and in Trump. He went from being periodically adrift and sporadically demented to being 24/7 unfit and in need of permanent medical attention. He's one cloudless night away from baying at the moon.” |
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 22, 2024 11:33:28 GMT
More on the dangers if Trump gets re-elected heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2024On Saturday, September 7, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living in the United States would be “bloody.” He also promised to prosecute his political opponents, including, he wrote, lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters, and election officials. Retired chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told journalist Bob Woodward that Trump is “a fascist to the core…the most dangerous person to this country.”
On October 14, Trump told Fox News Channel host Maria Bartiromo that he thought enemies within the United States were more dangerous than foreign adversaries and that he thought the military should stop those “radical left lunatics” on Election Day. Since then, he has been talking a lot about “the enemy from within,” specifically naming Representative Adam Schiff and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats from California, as “bad people.” Schiff was the chair of the House Intelligence Committee that broke the 2019 story of Trump’s attempt to extort Volodymyr Zelensky that led to Trump’s first impeachment.
Trump’s references to the “enemy from within” have become so frequent that former White House press secretary turned political analyst Jen Psaki has called them his closing argument for the 2024 election, and she warned that his construction of those who oppose him as “enemies” might sweep in virtually anyone he feels is a threat.
In a searing article today, political scientist Rachel Bitecofer of The Cycle explored exactly what that means in a piece titled “What (Really) Happens If Trump Wins?” Bitecofer outlined Adolf Hitler’s January 30, 1933, oath of office, in which he promised Germans he would uphold the constitution, and the three months he took to dismantle that constitution.
By March, she notes, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first prisoners were not Jews, but rather Hitler’s prominent political opponents. By April, Jews had been purged from the civil service, and opposition political parties were illegal. By May, labor unions were banned and students were burning banned books. Within the year, public criticism of Hitler and the Nazis was illegal, and denouncing violators paid well for those who did it.
Bitecofer writes that Trump has promised mass deportations “that he cannot deliver unless he violates both the Constitution and federal law.” To enable that policy, Trump will need to dismantle the merit-based civil service and put into office those loyal to him rather than the Constitution. And then he will purge his political opponents, for once those who would stand against him are purged, Trump can act as he wishes against immigrants, for example, and others.
Suggesting her expulsion was because of her old article disparaging Hitler, in her own article about her expulsion she noted: “My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man, after all. That is a crime against the reigning cult in Germany, which says Mr. Hitler is a Messiah sent by God to save the German people…. To question this mystic mission is so heinous that, if you are a German, you can be sent to jail. I, fortunately, am an American, so I merely was sent to Paris. Worse things can happen….” |
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 22, 2024 14:47:43 GMT
An interesting theory about Trump's personality and the dangers of a 2nd term. Basically, there's no one around him to stop him and he has zero inhibition. And that's a bigger concern than a cognitive deline www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/opinion/donald-trump-ezra-klein-podcast.html
What has changed even more than Trump are the people and institutions around him. The leader of the House Republicans is Mike Johnson, not Paul Ryan. Mitch McConnell is stepping down from Senate leadership. And while I do not consider McConnell a profile in courage, his successor will be more in need of Trump’s patronage. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, for all their flaws, are out, while Don Jr. and Lara Trump are in. JD Vance wormed his way onto the ticket by promising to do what Mike Pence would not. Elon Musk is doing everything in his power to buy influence, centrality even, in another Trump administration. The Supreme Court has given Trump immunity from prosecution for official presidential actions. Republicans have spent four years plotting to take control of the administrative state — to stock it with loyalists who would never, ever do anything to impede Trump — and turn the entire machinery of the government to Trump’s whims.
Donald Trump is not cognitively fit to be president. The presidency is a position that requires an occupant able to act strategically and carefully. That Trump is not such a person is obvious if you watch the man. And so, for years, his supporters have said: Don’t watch the man. Don’t listen to what he says. Look at the results. But those results reflected the power and ability of others to check Trump, to inhibit him when he could not inhibit himself. It is not just the man who is now unfit; it is the people and institutions that surround him.
Here is one difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The people who work most closely with Joe Biden, his top staff, have always said he is up to the job of the presidency. Fit cognitively. Fit morally. The people who worked most closely with Donald Trump, many of his cabinet secretaries, many of them now say he is not.
But to admit the obvious is to be excommunicated, to go from one of Trump’s amazing hires — he only brings on the best people — to one of his deranged enemies, a loser, someone he fired. And so he is now surrounded by yes-men and enablers, by opportunists and scam artists, by ideologues and foot soldiers.
What we saw on that stage in Pennsylvania, as Trump D.J.’d, was not Donald Trump frozen, paralyzed, uncertain. It was the people around him frozen, paralyzed, uncertain. He knew exactly where he was. He was doing exactly what he wanted to do. But there was no one there, or no one left, who could stop him. |
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Post by Merge on Oct 22, 2024 17:00:34 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 31, 2024 23:31:27 GMT
I hope he wins and wins big. People who believe anything Kamala has to say are crazy. If you want to keep your money and be able to have your investments grow you best vote for Trump or don't whine about being poor. I understand struggling financially and dealing with the cost of inflation. However, if you're talking about your investments, you clearly haven't been paying attention to what economists are saying. The economy and your investments will grow more under a Harris presidency. More than 400 economists and former White House advisors previously endorsed Harris. Today, the Economist endorsed Harris. www.economist.com/in-brief/2024/10/31/why-the-economist-endorses-kamala-harristhehill.com/homenews/media/4963850-kamala-harris-the-economist-endorsement-2024/“While some newspapers refused to back a presidential candidate this year, today The Economist is endorsing Kamala Harris,” Economist editors wrote in the endorsement published early Thursday. “Tens of millions of Americans will vote for Mr. Trump next week. Some will be true believers. But many will take a calculated risk that in office his worst instincts would be constrained.”
The writers added later that if Trump were to win election, “Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace.”www.wsj.com/politics/elections/economists-say-inflation-deficits-will-be-higher-under-trump-than-harris-0365588eEconomists Say Inflation, Deficits Will Be Higher Under Trump Than Harris
In WSJ survey, economists see Donald Trump’s plans as more inflationary by a larger margin than in July when President Biden was on the ticketwww.cnbc.com/2024/09/24/harris-economists-white-house-advisors-endorsement-trump-election-policy.htmlMore than 400 economists, former White House advisors endorse Harris, warn against Trump policy agendaeconomy"Trump thinks this economy is in the toilet. In fact, under Joe Biden, it grew faster than it did under Donald Trump."
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 1, 2024 1:30:37 GMT
Be careful what you wish for. More on the disastrous effect Trump, Musk & Mike Johnson would have on the economy and finances for all but the top 1% of Americans www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/opinion/trump-musk-mike-johnson.htmlMany analysts have pointed out that Trump’s proposed tariffs would hurt most Americans, with only high-income individuals gaining enough from his tax cuts to make up the difference.
Many potential Trump voters are probably unaware of what’s in store and imagine that Trump would just snap his fingers and “fix” what he insists is a terrible economy. The reality, however, is that America’s economic performance under the Biden-Harris administration has been very good, especially compared with that of other countries. We’ve grown much faster than any other major wealthy nation, and we’ve substantially outperformed projections, both those made before Covid-19 struck and those made at the beginning of the Biden administration.
This achievement, says The Wall Street Journal, is “remarkable”; The Economist calls it “glorious.” Neither is what you’d call a left-wing rag.
Would Trump do even better than Biden? Or better than Kamala Harris? There’s an unusual consensus among economists that Trump would preside over a worse economy, especially higher inflation, than Harris.
If he wins, many Trump voters are likely to experience buyer’s remorse.
Will they express their disappointment at the ballot box in 2028? They will if they can. But that assumes a free and fair election. Trump has given us plenty of reason to believe that if he wins, 2024 may be the last time America has anything resembling that. |
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 2, 2024 20:16:29 GMT
Hopefully not everyone on this board is against Trump -- did not know you needed to be a Democrat to be on this board. I am a very strong Trump supporter and when I read all the junk put on here I don't get mad about it, just feel bad so many are deceived and really believe things will not be worse with Kamala. You can have your own opinions and I will have mine. We will all see what happens before long. Tim Miller has a great response about supposedly smart people supporting Trump Too stupid to coup |
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