Trump Has Won

Is it possible to acknowledge that *both* were destructive events that destabilized US institutions?
J6 was an insurrection. On that day, almost every serious politician went on record saying as much.
GF Riots were....riots. People were killed, injured and losses were astronomical. There was nothing virtuous about them.

Forget about parties - democracy works when individual leaders sit at a table with their, "opponents" and come to agreements. The Art of the Possible. In a polarized 50/50 environment, the extremes on both sides have all the power. M@GA negotiating with AOC & The Squad will not get anywhere.

I doubt Trump will actually spend much time getting "revenge".

Whether he sues the networks for partisanship is probably moot. It's pretty clear they have lost a lot of influence.

I would appreciate it if Trump does deport a lot of illegals. It essentially comes down to a resource issue. The US government is already running up huge deficits, we ought not to be spending deficit dollars on folks who aren't even citizens. Before we go to far down this path with the compassionate folks, there are billions of disadvantaged people in the world living well below what we would consider the poverty line. How many of those people should we bring into the country legally or ilegally? What's the right number? How many of those people do we use our resources on before all of the citizens of this country start to resemble the economic status of where we brought these people from? Is the job of the US government to protect the interests of its citizens first?

Trump is going to have a blank check on what he can do for at least 2 years.

If you paid close attention to Trump's last term and what he said about Tariff's this time around is that they are a negotiating tactic to get deals favorable to the interests of the US. So, for example, if the US can't sell American made cars in China, then Trump will suggest at the negotiating table that perhaps we'll put Tariff's on Chinese made goods that will make them to expensive to be sold in the US, making American's seek out other, cheaper options. It's called good business.

Hard to say what will happen with no taxes on tips and overtime. I suppose to cut down on the cheating the code will have to reflect that you're truly working in a low wage job, like as a waitress, and tips are a high percentage of your income. Just a guess.

See you in 4 years. Republicans run it all now. As an unaffiliated Dem leaning voter, time for me to sit back, stfu, and handle my business as usual. To the victor goes the spoils, so all the jokes, the partying, is all part of the costs of doing business. Now with that said, there are some non-negotiables:

Any attempt to take away Parent Plus loans to pay for kids college or bringing forth legislation to end Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) (these have NOTHING to do with what the Biden administration was doing with mass debt cancellation, its actually law)

then it is war. Don’t go too far!

Stick to immigration, men out of girl’s sports, the economy, the military and foreign affairs.

Don’t get stupid. Don’t get greedy.

I'm not familiar with the PSLF? Why is it such an important issue for you/others with a similar sentiment?

Will Musk actually work in the government under Trump and cut a lot in spending?

Hard to believe Musk worked with Trump in this election...from the not too distant past.

“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it,” the 45th commander-in-chief claimed.

"Conservatives are already predicting Donald Trump will file federal charges against Anthony Fauci."

"The conjecture comes as figures like Elon Musk have called for the arrest of the infectious disease expert who served as one of Trump's leading medical advisors during the Covid pandemic."

dailymail.co.uk

Conservatives think Trump will file charges against liberal icon

https://www.facebook.com/DailyMail

The conjecture comes as figures like Elon Musk??called for the infectious expert's arrest, after the NIH admitted to Congress it funded risky 'gain of function' research earlier this year.

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It is a piece of AGREED upon BIPARTISAN legislation. It is an incentive for people to go into public service (government workers, non profit organizations) who in general, don’t make a lot of money but public service is of significant importance to our society.

Basically, if you take out a federally funded student loan. When it goes into repayment status, you pay on an income driven monthly payment. If you work for a qualified employer and you make 120 or ten years of qualifying payments during that time, you can have your loans forgiven. Obviously you cannot be in default and late payments don’t count. It forces you to be responsible and pay on most of the loan but due to your public service, the fed may forgive the remaining balance. I used it for my own education and i would like to do the same for my children. Take put parent plus loans for their education if necessary and either pay it all back myself or work another 15 years as a public servant to have them forgiven.

I know it has nothing to do with the final results but I am curious. Why would blacks and minorities vote for trump? I would be happy with one good reason.

I think all individuals who voted for Trump, did so for the same reasons. It doesn't matter the color of your skin, where you come from, or who your parents are. My perception is this is how Trump approached all potential voters, the same way. He didn't change his message.

On the other hand, in my opinion, the other side went deep into identity politics.

The good news, in my opinion, is people are finally starting to see through this.

I think you'll see in the future a political class that will adopt this idea and then D's and R's can compete on good ideas, rather than ideas designed to appeal to your "victim" status.

I am black but i did not vote for Trump. However, what i hope for is more funding for our hbcus and making sure state governments who by law are supposed to provide a certain amount of funding are made to abide by the law so we need oversight. With affirmative action being removed, we have seen a drop in black enrollment at some of the most prestigious universities, but a rise in hbcu enrollment. We have also seen scholarships targeting black students taken away so it is even harder for many black students to attend some PWIs. Even blacks who make good money are largely income based. Meaning, very little inheritance, properties etc so not many have 80-90k laying around to pay for some of our prestigious universities and make too much to get aid.

Barack Obama 69 million votes

Hillary Clinton 65 million votes

Joe Biden. 82 million votes

Kamala Harris currently @ 68 million votes

She'll end up around 72 million + or -

Trump 2016 63 million votes

Trump 2020 74 million votes

Trump 2024 currently at 73 million

Likely to end up at 77 million + or -

What happened to that extra 10 million votes Biden received in 2020? These numbers show that Democrats will come out in huge numbers to vote for an old white man, but won't show up to vote for a black man, a white woman, or a black/Indian woman in close to the same numbers!? How do you explain this, is your party racist? Misogynistic? Or maybe Joe's total was juuuuuuust a bit inflated😂.

My hope is that the democrats actually reflect and look to bring a decent candidate in four years. Not a DEI or looney like Bernie but an actual normal person. The cult following of trump will begin to fade very quickly because now there’s nothing to “fight” for. Believe me his followers are very lazy people and will not show up for JD Vance like they did for him. So if the democrats move back to the center they can avoid an embarrassment like this.

As others have pointed out, no one is going to run around and storm the Capitol carrying JD Vance flags.

I give it 50/50 chance that Trump and JD Vance will have some kind of problem with each other and JD Vance's political career will be done.

The only normal Democrats either switched parties or sound like Republicans.

The Democrat party is now the party of the LGBTQ, poor inner city, and Hollywood elites. That is basically it.

Its the party of the educated. For better or worse, the higher educational attainment one has achieved, the more likely they are to vote liberal.

You want it protected because you have a vested interest. Got it.
I don’t mind it all that much, personally. That said, we have way too many government workers. Need to curb some of that bureaucratic bloat.

You are right. All the PhDs in gender studies and table place setting are voting liberal.

Think about how dumb your post is. lol

What happened to those 15 million missing voters from 2020?