A handful of genuine questions to the *trump2028!!! and TheAdultInTheRoom types in this thread. Can you clarify your thoughts on below:
If Hunter Biden’s $50k per month board seat with a Ukrainian energy company really grinds your gears, how do you feel about Jared Kushner, who holds over $2.5B (that’s a B, kids) in investment from Saudi Arabia and other totalitarian states in the Middle East, guiding diplomatic and economic decisions from within the walls of the White House with those same countries? To be clear, I found Hunter’s board seat to be inappropriate, but I find Kushner’s involvement in ME negations orders of magnitude more problematic.
If Biden’s autopen bothers you so much, how do you feel about Trump blanket pardoning 1,600 people who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, many of whom had violent records, physically assaulted police on that day, and immediately committed more violent crime within days of their release? To be clear, I don’t think any President should have pardon powers.
If rising prices and lower than desirable jobs reports under Biden bothered you so much, how do you feel about additional inflation from the Trump Tariffs and negative figure job reports under Trump? I think current Democratic policies are American Business Party Light, but Trump’s policies are economically absurd and the regressive tax nature of his tariffs are objectively negative for an overwhelming majority of the country. Also, why do you celebrate onshoring low margin products and services while offshoring high margin products and services? This topic really confuses me.
If the national debt is such a concern for you, how did you feel about Trump adding 30% to the national debt in his first term (trending with record deficits even if ignoring COVID-19 recovery, a lot of which happened under Biden anyway) and how do you feel about him running record deficits in this second term?
How do you reconcile these realities in your heads? I’ve had some long conversations with a very close friend of mine who is pro MAGA. The conversations have never gotten ugly, but he also can’t be pinned down to answer a question. I remember before the election he said, “Trump’s just messing around, he’d never actually go that hardcore on tariffs.” After the election my friend has decided we just shouldn’t talk about tariffs because “it’s not worth getting into it.”
I don’t personally know a single Dem voter who won’t call out Dem missteps and I don’t personally know a single MAGA voter who will voice concern about Trump. Very confusing.
