1) crime began rising in early 2020 during the TRUMP administration, as a result of the pandemic economy tanking. There has historically always been a correlation between rising crime rates and recessions. The fact that it's coming down is not only a testament to Biden's success in that area, but the economy too (which nearly every economist said was headed for a deep recession this year, and now nobody thinks that as inflation comes down while the unemployment rate is at historical lows).
2) Anyone who thinks a child can't be transgender has simply never met one. Just like cis-gender, straight, gay people, this is a hard-wired thing. It's not something that can be controlled (or "prayed away"), and is not a negative characteristic of a person any more than their skin color is. It just simply is what it is, and should be legally protected as such.
3) It's like you wrote down this point back in 2022 or something. As said, the pandemic caused the economy to crater and crime to rise during the TRUMP administration. It peaked, along with the economic nadir, in 2021, and now it's coming back down. Heading in the right direction is still heading in the right direction, even if it's not back to where we were in 2019.
4) The Afghan war was a disgrace, full-stop, started by an ignorant, war-mongering president who barely had enough intelligence to tie his own shoelaces. There is never an honorable way to end a dishonorable war (see: Vietnam). But it had to be ended. Biden did it.
5) Yes, you're right.... civil rights issues are promoted by Democrats. Only Republicans want to take civil rights AWAY from American citizens. Who wants to be associated with a political party whose primary goals is to take things AWAY from its citizens?
6) the tax cuts favored the wealthy and corporations. They did nothing to grow the economy. GDP was 2.4% the year before the cuts, and 2.4% after. Trickle-down economics has been proven to be a fraud every time (Reagan, Bush II are two other examples). When the wealthy do well, they keep the money to themselves, period. Also, there is historically ZERO causation between increased taxes on the wealthy and rising prices. That's just a conservative fantasy talking point that sounds good, but has no basis in actual fact.
7) Biden is corrupt? Yeah, you guys have been saying that for 3 years, and you still haven't produced any evidence to prove it, which means it either ain't there, or your side is just mindblowingly incompetent (or both). On the other hand, we have treasure troves of evidence against your guy (most of which is regularly supplied by Tr*mp himself whenever he opens his buffoon mouth). So yeah, that's MAJOR projection on your part
5. What rights are being taken away?
Well, the right to control what happens to your own body was taken away from over 1/2 the population.
Donald Trump is a world class loser. But, the overturning of Roe v Wade, is the issue that will undue your party.
It's amazing how oblivious you lefties are to your rampant disregard for the rule of law whenever it suits you.
Trump not only has a disregard for the law he has actively worked to dismantle democracy. He is such a bad choice for presidency, I honestly would vote for you before I vote for Trump.
I don't think you would try to pass fake electors pretending you won instead of real electors reflecting the actual choice of voters.
I don't think you would claim that every time you lost a vote it was due to cheating.
I don't think you would refuse to give back documents for months then accuse law enforcement of being against you when they legally take them.
I don't think you would try to try to make the country lose all confidence in our legal system just because you were caught doing illegal things.
And by God I bet when our capital was attacked I think you would have done everything in your power to stop the attack.
Yeah, even you would be much better than Trump. (You're welcome)
Democrats tried to get electors to switch their votes in 2016. Trump probably got the idea from them.
Trump claimed he lost due to cheating in one election because he believes there was fraud. I agree with him.
Biden stole documents outright and gave them to a crack addict. At least Trump had a right to have the documents in the first place. As always, your fake outrage is entirely devoid of self awareness.
No one with any sense would believe a Democrat is capable of behaving ethically when politics are involved. The corruption of the FBI and DoJ since 2015 are all the excuse any normal person would need not to trust the Democrats.
Democrats attacked the White House in 2020, injured dozens of cops and secret service agents, and forced the secret service to evacuate the president from the White House. The Democrat media response was "ha ha Trump got scared". Take your fake outrage over 1/6 and stuff it up your butt.
1. It is bat sh*t crazy to try to claim Biden has been good on crime.
2. Hormone blockers are child abuse. Permanently damaging and sterilizing children who are pre-pubescent is disgusting. The vast majority of Americans oppose the Democrat's obsession with other people's children. If you want to destroy your own kid's life knock yourself out. Leave other people's kids alone.
3. It's like you live in a bubble and have no idea Democrats spent all of 2020 demanding we defund the police. Crime in blue cities which goes unprosecuted by blue DA's wasn't Trump's fault in 2020 and sure as hell wasn't in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
4. Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan. The war was completely justified. Only a leftist would declare that opposing Al Qaeda and the Taliban was dishonorable.
5. What rights are being taken away?
6. Every tax bracket was reduced. Only leftists are shocked that people who pay 90% of the taxes benefit more when taxes are reduced. It is nonsensical to claim that raising taxes on corporations doesn't lead to higher prices. You are living in a fantasy world.
7. There's plenty of evidence. You need to look outside of your bubble.
Guess which areas have the highest crime rates?
Democrat controlled areas - Memphis, Trenton, etc. All led by black mayors. Face it - you guys can't run cities.
Except, you are picking crimes and anarchy. The only candidate facing criminal charges is the guy you’re picking. On top of that, you’re advocating ignoring the law to continue your support.
Biden will be facing actual criminal charges before it's all said and done. He's been using the FBI and DoJ to protect his crime family for years.
Biden is a grandpa from Delaware. A moderate Democrat. He won’t be facing criminal charges because unlike Trump there’s -0- evidence he’s committed any crimes.
Infant in our Room, wasn't Bill Barr running the DOJ in 2019 ?!? (and protecting Trump !)
1 political appointee at the top isn't really running the show.
Weiss was a Trump appointee and he was actively helping the Biden's in Hunter's investigation. He did such a good job working for the Biden's that corrupt Garland broke DoJ rules to appoint him as the Special Counsel.
1 political appointee at the top isn't really running the show.
Weiss was a Trump appointee and he was actively helping the Biden's in Hunter's investigation. He did such a good job working for the Biden's that corrupt Garland broke DoJ rules to appoint him as the Special Counsel.
Haha you’re hilarious. 😂
Bear in mind the only time you ever see non-DNC approved information is on forums...
Why would Weiss let the statute of limitations expire before proposing a sweetheart plea deal that protected Hunter from any crimes discovered in the future?
1 political appointee at the top isn't really running the show.
Weiss was a Trump appointee and he was actively helping the Biden's in Hunter's investigation. He did such a good job working for the Biden's that corrupt Garland broke DoJ rules to appoint him as the Special Counsel.
Haha you’re hilarious. 😂
Everyone of his posts are not meant to be followed logically to completion. They are attempts at quick gotchas so he can move on to a different lie.
It will send you into crazy town if you do think them through. Such as:
1. Weaponization of DOJ-Very, very bad and criminal. Totally Biden's fault that Trump is in trouble.
2. Hillary should be in jail! The most corrupt family in world history!!!
3. The reason she is not is not in jail is because of Trump stepping in and getting involved to protect her.
3. Trump is getting my vote because he promises to weaponize the DOJ immediately if elected.
I don’t believe fully in horseshoe theory, but there are many reasons I would never support Trump as a candidate. A very small portion of those those are these: his lying, his demands for unstinting loyalty, and the hyperpartisanship he leans into (along with things like gerrymandering) give more power to fringe elements on both sides. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that he’s pretty consistently been, arguably, the most deeply us-versus-them candidate in at least a century. He doesn’t just lie; he actively subverts the potential for shared facts and shared truth. Thoroughly rebuking him is not by any means the only step toward a better place, but it’s an important first step (or early step).
Which policy did he have that was problematic?
He fired people like John Bolton for lack of shared vision not lack of loyalty. The president should be allowed to surround himself with people that agree with what he's trying to do. Trump tried to end the war in Afghanistan and the neo-cons went nuts because he was threatening to turn off the gravy train. Biden only got away with it because he turned on a new gravy train in Ukraine.
Biden lies constantly. Why do lies only bother you when you're politically opposed to the liar?
I clearly can’t get sufficient reasonable discussion out of you, and in those areas where I can or might, we’re so far apart on foundational principles that there’s no bridge of reason.
In response to another in this thread, I’ve said that if Biden were to have committed crimes that warrant indictment and imprisonment, that’s exactly what should follow. I doubt his failings sink to that level, but we’ll see. I don’t know how stuff gets contorted in your mind to think I’m a cheerleader for him or that I look the other way entirely at misdeeds by anyone. I get infuriated by run-of-the mill lying of the sort that so many of politicians do, as when his administration made a big show of what great jobs they were creating early in his term (just expected level of recovery post-shutdown for the most part). I have a lifetime of loathing such things in corporate-speak, in media, in all manner of public discourse, and in politicians of all stripes. You haven’t experienced the displeasure of hearing me hold forth on myriad topics over the course of decades, so you wouldn’t know that about me, but many bored and pained interlocutors would corroborate my distaste for mendacity (that’s also the giant hole in my earlier LA cop analogy).
So lies bother me a lot. What to do in a culture and political climate that is rife with half-truths and untruths?
I generally look at the balance, and how it tilts, both in individual questions, and over the course of time. My answer here is generally not to go with the guy whose entire career, in and out of office, is a fusillade of lies. I believe he deserves his day in court with a robust defense, however. He lies a lot, but that doesn’t mean that he always lies or that his opponents never lie. So he deserves to have the facts come to light, whether they exonerate or condemn him. My understanding of the last many years, though, is that even if he isn’t the only one with shortcomings, he doesn’t have a very good record when proceedings rely firmly on both sides producing facts, when people have to testify under oath and face penalties for being dishonest themselves (his occasional wins in this area are, of course, part of the facts I consider).
You harp on the promises he keeps and the way others lie. At least in terms of debate cachet, I thought I had offered up a version of put-up or-shut-up: soon after DJ T claimed he had a report detailing “irrefutable evidence” of widescale voter fraud, I said that I would change my tune to whatever extent the facts dictate if he does, in fact, produce irrefutable evidence. I welcomed to anyone on this board adopting a pro-Trump, or near pro-Trump, position to meet me on that and be willing to recognize that perhaps he is a fraud himself if he fails to produce the irrefutable evidence that he is so loudly claiming he has, a claim he has made in similar ways over the course of years, yet failed to produce. I do, of course, find a telling that no one on the board took up my challenge.
My general sense is that he is a threat to democracy. The only reasonable present indication that he is not would be such irrefutable evidence. Otherwise, he likely attempted to overturn the results of the election for the very least unsavory, and arguably fraudulent, reasons. That, coupled with all of the surrounding of the documents case, likely means that he does not consider himself bound by the law, and that he does not take his oath of office or the Constitution seriously.
For me, there is nothing more disqualifying in a candidate for high office or holder of high office. And as I’ve noted before, that is not a one-sided political perspective to hold. You want to point to policy, other cultural implications, personality, or other peoples lies. Those things have their varying degrees of importance, but they have to rest on a foundation. Trump, if guilty of even a small portion of what he’s been indicted for, represents the erosion of that foundation.
That’s the core of my point. You disagree, so you and I have nothing else to say to each other. I wish you health and goodness in your life, and I wish the restoration of a better version of democracy for all of us.
Well, the right to control what happens to your own body was taken away from over 1/2 the population.
Donald Trump is a world class loser. But, the overturning of Roe v Wade, is the issue that will undue your party.
No it wasn't it was kicked back to the states.
And why do you abortion zealots always completely ignore the rights of the baby?
Both parties go too far on abortion. The pride and enjoyment you animals get out of abortion is disgusting.
We wouldn't have to worry abortion right so much if conservatives would stop raping and impregnating children.
No one is ignoring the rights of the baby that's why democrats continuously push for improved maternal health care while the GQP is busy creating death zones where women cannot get reproductive health care.
If you weren't radical and ignorant in your thinking you would endorse quality sex education and free birth control. But you're to worried what your imaginary sky daddy might think.
1. Whatever trump has been indicted for, he didn't do it. There is no point in reading the documents, or listening to audio recordings of him, or reading his own social media, or the fraudulent docs his team produced.
2. But Biden / H. Clinton did it much worse. ITS IN THE LAPTOP!!!. Therefore any republican crime is OK.
3. There is a giant conspiracy spanning decades against the GOP, even when they controlled congress, senate, DOJ, supreme court, and presidency that they were powerless to overcome. 50% of Americans are in on it an NOBODY is willing to talk. Only this obscure blogger is willing to tell the TRUTH!
4. ALL democrats and ALL of their beliefs are scum. If they agree with a republican on any point they are either lying or the republican must change his position. Changing position is the preferred choice.
5. Any "news" source that agrees with me is legitimate. All those internal docs from that source that show they were intentionally lying can't be trusted.
Everyone of his posts are not meant to be followed logically to completion. They are attempts at quick gotchas so he can move on to a different lie.
It will send you into crazy town if you do think them through. Such as:
1. Weaponization of DOJ-Very, very bad and criminal. Totally Biden's fault that Trump is in trouble.
2. Hillary should be in jail! The most corrupt family in world history!!!
3. The reason she is not is not in jail is because of Trump stepping in and getting involved to protect her.
3. Trump is getting my vote because he promises to weaponize the DOJ immediately if elected.
The logic is sound which is what makes you crazy.
It is undeniable that the DoJ and FBI have been motivated by politics in the last 6 years. We have the documents, testimony, and text messages to prove it.
It is undeniable that Hillary broke the law. The Clinton's have stolen more money than you could count. Ask someone from Haiti what they think of the Clinton Foundation.
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he won’t pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton because it would divide the nation — and she’s already “suffered greatly.” “I don’t want to hurt t…
"President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he won’t pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton because it would divide the nation — and she’s already “suffered greatly.” “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons — I really don’t,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Times. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.” When asked whether he would pledge not to prosecute the former secretary of state, the president-elect said, “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about.”"
I would LOVE it if the GoP grew a spine and played as dirty as the Democrats do for 4 years.
He fired people like John Bolton for lack of shared vision not lack of loyalty. The president should be allowed to surround himself with people that agree with what he's trying to do. Trump tried to end the war in Afghanistan and the neo-cons went nuts because he was threatening to turn off the gravy train. Biden only got away with it because he turned on a new gravy train in Ukraine.
Biden lies constantly. Why do lies only bother you when you're politically opposed to the liar?
I clearly can’t get sufficient reasonable discussion out of you, and in those areas where I can or might, we’re so far apart on foundational principles that there’s no bridge of reason.
In response to another in this thread, I’ve said that if Biden were to have committed crimes that warrant indictment and imprisonment, that’s exactly what should follow. I doubt his failings sink to that level, but we’ll see. I don’t know how stuff gets contorted in your mind to think I’m a cheerleader for him or that I look the other way entirely at misdeeds by anyone. I get infuriated by run-of-the mill lying of the sort that so many of politicians do, as when his administration made a big show of what great jobs they were creating early in his term (just expected level of recovery post-shutdown for the most part). I have a lifetime of loathing such things in corporate-speak, in media, in all manner of public discourse, and in politicians of all stripes. You haven’t experienced the displeasure of hearing me hold forth on myriad topics over the course of decades, so you wouldn’t know that about me, but many bored and pained interlocutors would corroborate my distaste for mendacity (that’s also the giant hole in my earlier LA cop analogy).
So lies bother me a lot. What to do in a culture and political climate that is rife with half-truths and untruths?
I generally look at the balance, and how it tilts, both in individual questions, and over the course of time. My answer here is generally not to go with the guy whose entire career, in and out of office, is a fusillade of lies. I believe he deserves his day in court with a robust defense, however. He lies a lot, but that doesn’t mean that he always lies or that his opponents never lie. So he deserves to have the facts come to light, whether they exonerate or condemn him. My understanding of the last many years, though, is that even if he isn’t the only one with shortcomings, he doesn’t have a very good record when proceedings rely firmly on both sides producing facts, when people have to testify under oath and face penalties for being dishonest themselves (his occasional wins in this area are, of course, part of the facts I consider).
You harp on the promises he keeps and the way others lie. At least in terms of debate cachet, I thought I had offered up a version of put-up or-shut-up: soon after DJ T claimed he had a report detailing “irrefutable evidence” of widescale voter fraud, I said that I would change my tune to whatever extent the facts dictate if he does, in fact, produce irrefutable evidence. I welcomed to anyone on this board adopting a pro-Trump, or near pro-Trump, position to meet me on that and be willing to recognize that perhaps he is a fraud himself if he fails to produce the irrefutable evidence that he is so loudly claiming he has, a claim he has made in similar ways over the course of years, yet failed to produce. I do, of course, find a telling that no one on the board took up my challenge.
My general sense is that he is a threat to democracy. The only reasonable present indication that he is not would be such irrefutable evidence. Otherwise, he likely attempted to overturn the results of the election for the very least unsavory, and arguably fraudulent, reasons. That, coupled with all of the surrounding of the documents case, likely means that he does not consider himself bound by the law, and that he does not take his oath of office or the Constitution seriously.
For me, there is nothing more disqualifying in a candidate for high office or holder of high office. And as I’ve noted before, that is not a one-sided political perspective to hold. You want to point to policy, other cultural implications, personality, or other peoples lies. Those things have their varying degrees of importance, but they have to rest on a foundation. Trump, if guilty of even a small portion of what he’s been indicted for, represents the erosion of that foundation.
That’s the core of my point. You disagree, so you and I have nothing else to say to each other. I wish you health and goodness in your life, and I wish the restoration of a better version of democracy for all of us.
Democrats are the ones who push the idea of everyone having their own truth.
I'm of the pre-2008 view that the truth is just the truth and we don't all get our own version.
It's very difficult to prove mail in voter fraud without subpoena power. When evidence is provided in court the judges said that's great but there's not enough here to have changed the outcome of the election and no you can't have subpoena power.
You're assuming that Biden's "foundation" is any better than Trump's. It is not.
Everyone of his posts are not meant to be followed logically to completion. They are attempts at quick gotchas so he can move on to a different lie.
It will send you into crazy town if you do think them through. Such as:
1. Weaponization of DOJ-Very, very bad and criminal. Totally Biden's fault that Trump is in trouble.
2. Hillary should be in jail! The most corrupt family in world history!!!
3. The reason she is not is not in jail is because of Trump stepping in and getting involved to protect her.
3. Trump is getting my vote because he promises to weaponize the DOJ immediately if elected.
The logic is sound which is what makes you crazy.
It is undeniable that the DoJ and FBI have been motivated by politics in the last 6 years. We have the documents, testimony, and text messages to prove it.
It is undeniable that Hillary broke the law. The Clinton's have stolen more money than you could count. Ask someone from Haiti what they think of the Clinton Foundation.
"President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he won’t pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton because it would divide the nation — and she’s already “suffered greatly.” “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons — I really don’t,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Times. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.” When asked whether he would pledge not to prosecute the former secretary of state, the president-elect said, “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about.”"
I would LOVE it if the GoP grew a spine and played as dirty as the Democrats do for 4 years.
If Cankles is/was a criminal as you claim - its just another example of Trump's ineptitude as will all know he has no soul and only exist to serve himself.
