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How will they rule ??!

  • YES - Qualified

    Votes: 41 82.0%
  • NO - Disqualified

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .
Suspending elections, arresting the media, imprisoning and killing political opponents, shutting down, arresting, and seizing property of the church. Maybe he needed his country invaded.

Understandable why the Dems love him. Their vision of America at work.
Martial law during a time of invasion. The monster.

He also removed long-standing immunity protections from government officials. So, I could see why Republicans hate him.
 
Didn’t answer either of my questions.

1. Who is the smart people currently running the country you speak of?

2. Is gas and groceries included in that inflation number you speak of?
  • FOOD AND BEVERAGES (breakfast cereal, milk, coffee, chicken, wine, full service meals and snacks);
  • HOUSING (rent of primary residence, owners' equivalent rent, fuel oil, bedroom furniture);
  • APPAREL (men's shirts and sweaters, women's dresses, jewelry);
  • TRANSPORTATION (new vehicles, airline fares, gasoline, motor vehicle insurance);
  • MEDICAL CARE (prescription drugs and medical supplies, physicians' services, eyeglasses and eye care, hospital services);
  • RECREATION (televisions, cable television, pets and pet products, sports equipment, admissions);
  • EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION (college tuition, postage, telephone services, computer software and accessories);
  • OTHER GOODS AND SERVICES (tobacco and smoking products, haircuts and other personal services, funeral expenses).
 
You’re acting like all of that was before the invasion. It wasn’t, it was to supporters of the country they’re at war with after that country invaded.

Martial law during a time of invasion. The monster.

There’s always a “reason” to be a dictator thats strips the rights, abuses, and kills your own people.

If Ukrainians can go bar hopping and clubbing all day and night then they can also vote, go to church, and report the news.

We were sold a bill of goods on supporting them because of their overwhelming desire for democracy and to be “like the US.” It’s been anything but.

Rinse wash repeat for the neos though.
 
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  • FOOD AND BEVERAGES (breakfast cereal, milk, coffee, chicken, wine, full service meals and snacks);
  • HOUSING (rent of primary residence, owners' equivalent rent, fuel oil, bedroom furniture);
  • APPAREL (men's shirts and sweaters, women's dresses, jewelry);
  • TRANSPORTATION (new vehicles, airline fares, gasoline, motor vehicle insurance);
  • MEDICAL CARE (prescription drugs and medical supplies, physicians' services, eyeglasses and eye care, hospital services);
  • RECREATION (televisions, cable television, pets and pet products, sports equipment, admissions);
  • EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION (college tuition, postage, telephone services, computer software and accessories);
  • OTHER GOODS AND SERVICES (tobacco and smoking products, haircuts and other personal services, funeral expenses).

Core inflation excludes gas and groceries. I’m not an economist and I’m pretty sure Sam isn’t either. Would make sense to quote the lower number when propping it for political reasons though.
 
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We fought wars to save people from the likes of you and those like you. Sad our education system failed so miserably.
You seem to think lots and lots of people think like you. They don't. Have you seen the latest polls? Harris is ahead. 6 of 6. She's even closing in on Texas and Florida. And I presume other states that formerly seemed safe for Trump. The bubble has burst. The emperor not only has no clothes, he sags everywhere. Weird, as they say. Today in North Carolina, he was supposed to talk economics. Instead, he'd keep going back to tampons. Trump has some kind of cognitive problem -- in addition to his savagery -- and it's obviously getting worse.

Something has happened but it isn't clear what. The end of McCarthyism is often traced to that speech by Joseph Welch: "Have you at last no shame?" It really wasn't that simple, but it's close enough. People finally had enough red baiting and manufactured anxiety. In the 19th century, the Know Nothings bubble burst right as they were at their peak. Trumpism with its racial dog-whistling, homophobia, manufactured crises, and ludicrous conspiracies. Whatever fog the country has been wrapped in since 2015 ... it appears to be blowing away. Relief from his ludicrous fantasies and perverse ambitions is what people want. Maybe Biden dropping from the race was what did it. They wanted to be free from Trump but were afraid of Biden's age.

Don't be the last guy at the party.
 
Core inflation excludes gas and groceries. I’m not an economist and I’m pretty sure Sam isn’t either. Would make sense to quote the lower number when propping it for political reasons though.
The Department of Labor market basket includes gasoline via the motor fuel index.
 
You seem to think lots and lots of people think like you. They don't. Have you seen the latest polls? Harris is ahead. 6 of 6. She's even closing in on Texas and Florida. And I presume other states that formerly seemed safe for Trump. The bubble has burst. The emperor not only has no clothes, he sags everywhere. Weird, as they say. Today in North Carolina, he was supposed to talk economics. Instead, he'd keep going back to tampons. Trump has some kind of cognitive problem -- in addition to his savagery -- and it's obviously getting worse.

Something has happened but it isn't clear what. The end of McCarthyism is often traced to that speech by Joseph Welch: "Have you at last no shame?" It really wasn't that simple, but it's close enough. People finally had enough red baiting and manufactured anxiety. In the 19th century, the Know Nothings bubble burst right as they were at their peak. Trumpism with its racial dog-whistling, homophobia, manufactured crises, and ludicrous conspiracies. Whatever fog the country has been wrapped in since 2015 ... it appears to be blowing away. Relief from his ludicrous fantasies and perverse ambitions is what people want. Maybe Biden dropping from the race was what did it. They wanted to be free from Trump but were afraid of Biden's age.

Don't be the last guy at the party.

This gibberish is to be expected from people who can only create problems and have never created anything else.
 
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You seem to think lots and lots of people think like you. They don't. Have you seen the latest polls? Harris is ahead. 6 of 6. She's even closing in on Texas and Florida. And I presume other states that formerly seemed safe for Trump. The bubble has burst. The emperor not only has no clothes, he sags everywhere. Weird, as they say. Today in North Carolina, he was supposed to talk economics. Instead, he'd keep going back to tampons. Trump has some kind of cognitive problem -- in addition to his savagery -- and it's obviously getting worse.

Something has happened but it isn't clear what. The end of McCarthyism is often traced to that speech by Joseph Welch: "Have you at last no shame?" It really wasn't that simple, but it's close enough. People finally had enough red baiting and manufactured anxiety. In the 19th century, the Know Nothings bubble burst right as they were at their peak. Trumpism with its racial dog-whistling, homophobia, manufactured crises, and ludicrous conspiracies. Whatever fog the country has been wrapped in since 2015 ... it appears to be blowing away. Relief from his ludicrous fantasies and perverse ambitions is what people want. Maybe Biden dropping from the race was what did it. They wanted to be free from Trump but were afraid of Biden's age.

Don't be the last guy at the party.

I personally don’t want everyone to think like me and never said otherwise. Diversity of thought is very important, much more so than race, gender, etc.

Liberals have some good ideas, but suck at executing as they tend to be alarmists and emotional, which leads to disastrous results despite good intentions. Example; EVs. A novel idea that may very well be the future, but it’s technology that isn’t feasible today. The tech itself isn’t there yet and the infrastructure basically doesn’t exist at all. Didn’t stop the left from overspending in an extreme way with horrible, but predictable results. Many more with climate change, etc.

The right tend to be stuck in their ways too much. Many examples of that.

The tug of war between the left and right is actually a VERY GOOD and necessary thing, even if it’s heated and argumentative.

The problem we have today is the left is going full authoritarian and shutting down all communication with anyone outside their ever changing and radical belief structure. Silencing political opponents, which was going very well for you until Musk threw a wrench in it, jailing political opponents, assassination attempts, subverting elections, and outright election fraud. These are all things that occur in nations falling into socialism and communism. It’s also not good at all and it’s incomprehensible so many are on board with it. Speaks to true evil by those leading the charge, and ignorance by many following.

I don’t care about Trump, Harris, Biden etc. We’ve had democrat leaders and Republican leaders throughout our history as that pendulum has swung like it was always meant to.

The major problem occurring today is one party is breaking that pendulum completely and that NEVER ends well. The saying goes you can vote your way into socialism, but you can only shoot your way out. Now it will take A LOT more to get to that point. There will be a significant amount of time and suffering before that becomes a serious idea. Likely not in our lifetime. However, that’s the road we are going down and leaving for our kids and grandkids. Very very sad. Even more so seeing people like you who openly cheer for it or are just too stupid to know the difference.
 
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Don't be racist dion.

We all know it's anyone who crossed the border five minutes ago.

It's the same the world over. You can just show up in any country and declare you are a citizen and they just take you in.
Everyone “running a gas station” did not jump a fence to get here. They are not illegal immigrants.
 
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There’s always a “reason” to be a dictator thats strips the rights, abuses, and kills your own people.

If Ukrainians can go bar hopping and clubbing all day and night then they can also vote, go to church, and report the news.

We were sold a bill of goods on supporting them because of their overwhelming desire for democracy and to be “like the US.” It’s been anything but.

Rinse wash repeat for the neos though.
Dude, that’s idiotic. You’re saying he WANTED to be invaded and almost murdered just so he could turn into a dictator and suspend the press? It’s Ukraine. He could’ve done that minute one. Yanukovych was shooting protestors dead in the streets just a few years before that. Ukraine is not America, your standards don’t apply.
 
Dude, that’s idiotic. You’re saying he WANTED to be invaded and almost murdered just so he could turn into a dictator and suspend the press? It’s Ukraine. He could’ve done that minute one. Yanukovych was shooting protestors dead in the streets just a few years before that. Ukraine is not America, your standards don’t apply.

Not at all. But like Clinton said “never waste a good crisis.”

Yes, exactly my point I make over and over. Ukraine and Russia, both corrupt to the core, can both fall off the map as far as I’m concerned.

Time will tell if Z yields his dictatorial powers. I’m highly skeptical.
 
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He was doing most of those things before the war.

They just want to justify their authoritarianism. You know if war broke out now with US involvement, the current regime would try the same stuff here. Heck, if you live in a deep blue state, they came close during Covid.

Imagine a war with Russia. Suspended election due to Russian interference, round up all the people who disagree with it, Sambo would be searching the net far and wide for Putin lovers to turn in on the snitch line. Lol
 
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