Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

Of course, since it's never "Independents" (I) running the show(es), it's not REALLY that amusing.....

And make no mistake, that's not me "both-siding" it. The Rs trying to destroy the essence of this country is near-infinitely worse than overly-tolerant (and overly-judgemental) liberals. As much as the latter has freakin' annoyed me most of my life, and to this day.

If I’m not mistaken, Trump and the GOP promised that their huge deficit producing billionaire tax cut was supposed to trickle down to Trumpers. Those tax cuts are still in place but nothing trickled down to Trumpers. Our right wingers are bellyaching about how things are dire even though corporations are making a killing.

do you think it’s possible Trumpers were duped by supply side economics again?

Even the ultra liberal ACLU is taking Trump's side.

And yet a "Democrat run" city like NYC, with a far higher percentage of black residents, has lower crime rates (in all seven major categories) than the GOP-run state of Ohio.

So how do you figure? Or is it just a question of moving the goalposts?

It's better than this:

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#FJB

I agree with most of that.
I’d disagree with the claim of ‘GOP run cities’ bejng better though - that’s not really a thing, unless you count third-tier regional large towns that aren’t really cities.
kudos for bravery tho.

Fifteen safest cities in the US, according to Forbes.

Honolulu, Hawaii
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Henderson, Nevada
El Paso, Texas
New York City
San Diego, California
Mesa, Arizona
Charlotte, North Carolina
San Jose, California
Boston, Massachusetts
Raleigh, North Carolina
Arlington, Texas
Santa Ana, California
Omaha, Nebraska
Austin, Texas.

Only a few of them have Republican mayors.

An opinion piece from PMSNBC?? Hilarious.

I’m doing great financially under Trump and Biden.

Do you think all the fear mongering of Trump saying we would be living under communism and 401Ks would be gone might have been BS?

it would be unlike Trump to not be truthful.

Weird

1. NYC is the massive exception for multiple reasons: it's VHCOL so many criminals have been priced out, and a lot of the black population of NYC is middle class and/or immigrants.

2. Ohio had 1020 homicides in 2021, according to the CDC. Cleveland had 165 homicides, Columbus had 204, Cincinnati had 94 homicides, and Toledo had 70. These cities - all Democrat-run, combined for 52% of Ohio's homicides. Ohio had 11.78 million people in 2021, and these cities have: 367k (Cleveland), 906k (Columbus), 308k (Cincinnati), 268k (Toledo). So, the combined population is 1.849 million people: these cities are 15% of Ohio's population but have over half of homicides...

Virginia Beach is thriving. Carmel is thriving. DFW are thriving.

Bravery? Nah, that was a piece of cake.

I get a kick out of Trumpers believing inner city crime is a result of whether the mayor is Republican or Democrat.

Everything is so simplistic when you live in the right wing world. (More guns, Ban abortion, Prayer back in school, stop wokeism). Complex problems are solved with one sentence catch phrase solutions.

Bill O Reilly, Hannity, Alex Jones and Tucker all have had simplistic solutions that sound so logical and catchy. Until they get put into office and then not so much.

Here is the pop psychology explanation.

Trumpers see themselves in Trump. He made it acceptable to be a horrible person by getting elected to the presidency while being a horrible person. (Or at least that's what they believe.)

So when Trump is attacked for being a horrible person, they feel like they are attacked for being horrible persons. They believe Trump because they believe in themselves.

Funny thing is that Trump does NOT see himself in Trumpers. He believes they are despicable, and has even privately admitted that. But Trumpers dismiss the reporting as "fake news", because well, that's just another attack on THEM.