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POLITICAL THREAD

How will they rule ??!

  • YES - Qualified

    Votes: 41 82.0%
  • NO - Disqualified

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
Maybe because 175 billion to Ukraine is a lot more than 4 billion to Israel.
Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid $310 billion

 
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Cold war programming. I catch myself buying into it all the time. It's hard to break. Plus, if you only listen to a couple news sources and they hit a subject hard they still tend to believe they can't all be lying but....


so if you watch fox news you disprove of trump?
conservative networks crush other networks in viewership.

Fox News topped primetime in 2024, averaging 2.38 million viewers, up 30% from a year earlier. MSNBC averaged 1.22 million, up 1%, and CNN posted 685,000, up 18%. In the 25-54 news demo, Fox News was up 40% to an average of 294,000, followed by CNN with 147,000 up 17%, and MSNBC with 133,000 up 9%.

In total day, Fox News averaged 1.46 million viewers, up 21%, followed by MSNBC with 791,000, up 2%, and CNN with 481,000, which was flat. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 186,000, up 26%, followed by CNN with 91,000, down 3%, and MSNBC with 84,000, down 2%.

 
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You miss the part where it states "illegal" protests? That part is concerning that our educational institutions are allowing this.
Define what an illegal protest is?
Was jan 6 an illegal protest?

The part that is concerning is that you aren't applying any criticality of how broadly its defined or how it could be abused.
 
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Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid $310 billion

It is a big problem. However, they are a far better investment than Ukraine. That’s a fact.
 
I know im unusual cynical but I just don't believe anything coming out of china. We have zero sources there and rely solely on the ccp who cant be believed.

If they were really struggling so much, they wouldn't financially and politically be kicking our a$$ so hard in every move. They own everything, everywhere.

Now there is even less hope we will catch up. Xi will be in power another decade at least. Usaid was the only way to combat our 4 year turnover but they got so corrupt they had to go.

So if china is struggling, it sure doesn't look like it based on their share of world power they keep gobbling up.
In the 80s it was Japan doing the exact same thing and everyone was freaking out because the Japanese were buying up every piece of real estate they could get their hands on. Look at them now.

China is trying to build a leverageable position by acquiring real estate. I can't say just how much trouble they are in, but the world has backed off on investing in their country and the real estate bubble that is about to pop is very real.

If you want a bellwether of China's economy, watch Africa.
 
Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid $310 billion

Oh? Is that since 1948?

Very comparable.

And that joke journalism counts aid to Egypt and others, as 'helping' Israel.

Nonetheless, I'm inclined to agree with the over arching premise.

Don't send them another DIME either!

We have a deal?
 
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The status quo over the last 25 years is to outsource everything to China, Mexico and India and then borrow from China, Japan and Saudi to lessen the impact of doing that to our society (e.g., drop $2T of deficit cash on the population).

Trump realizes this is not sustainable. We have to reset the economy. There will be short term pain similar to what Reagan had to do in the 80’s.

What’s your answer, btw? Keep sending all our jobs to China and spending $T of borrowed money?
And the thing is, I'm sure there have been hundreds if not more politicians over the years who are aware of this, but they didn't have the balls to push what needed to be done because they either didn't want to ruin their political careers or worse, were benefitting significantly from the status quo. That's why we needed Trump. A man who is already rich beyond his dreams, and really doesn't give a flip what people think of him. Oh, and while I do agree he loves himself A LOT, I think he loves the country even more. Otherwise, he wouldn't risk taking another bullet to save it.
 
The status quo over the last 25 years is to outsource everything to China, Mexico and India and then borrow from China, Japan and Saudi to lessen the impact of doing that to our society (e.g., drop $2T of deficit cash on the population).

Trump realizes this is not sustainable. We have to reset the economy. There will be short term pain similar to what Reagan had to do in the 80’s.

What’s your answer, btw? Keep sending all our jobs to China and spending $T of borrowed money?
Economy was fine before Rump F'd it up.
 
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Like I said, you’re going to learn the hard way, but I bet you’ve learned a lot of things the hard way over the course of your life.

Trump will leave office in 4 years with higher unemployment, higher deficit, and much lower GDP growth than prior to this term. Likely most here will also see a reduction in the value of their homes and retirement savings.
The hard way like the libs are getting it while being bent over the hickory stump?
Cute.
 
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It is a big problem. However, they are a far better investment than Ukraine. That’s a fact.
You sure about that? Over the past 60 years the US has spent trillions upon trillions of dollars to counter Soviet and Russian aggression in the cold war. Over the past 3 years the Soviet military and economy has been shattered. The Russian threat to the US has basically been neutered outside of the nuclear threat. No loss of US blood on the battlefield and US expenditures for Ukraine are still only a 5-6% of the military budget.

Ukraine may be the best military investment the US has ever supported.
 
You sure about that? Over the past 60 years the US has spent trillions upon trillions of dollars to counter Soviet and Russian aggression in the cold war. Over the past 3 years the Soviet military and economy has been shattered. The Russian threat to the US has basically been neutered outside of the nuclear threat. No loss of US blood on the battlefield and US expenditures for Ukraine are still only a 5-6% of the military budget.

Ukraine may be the best military investment the US has ever supported.

Why in the ever loving world should I care? There's no commie USSR. There's a dictator in Russia. There's a dictator in Ukraine. The world is full of dictators that have no, fake, or unopposed elections. That's endless war if your gonna take them all on.

Over the last 500 years, that real estate has been under Polish, Lithuanian, Ottoman and Russian rule. Ukraine has been independent for a hot minute doing the US bidding.
 
What's really sad about that poll is that Trump is under 50% with the two older age groups. Especially 65+. Maybe the old saying that you get more conservative/wise with age isn't really true?
What it says to me is that older folks are more experienced/knowledgeable & thus not as easily swayed by the latest fads. - like Trump who isn't conservative by a long shot. Tariffs & higher deficits are good moves, but they're not conservative. Women over 65 were Harris' highest vote group & there are way more women over 65 than men. I mean it's good to be a single man over 65. FIL was getting hit on in Kroger at 81.
 
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