I voted for Trump twice and don't regret it. Politics is transactional, and as far as the transaction goes, I think got more than I expected from his term. I don't agree with every unhinged thing the guy says, but somewhere on Earth-2 life has moved on from Covid, the supply-chain issue has recovered, and Russia and China continue to push what they can get away with, but they have a blustery unpredictable US president to contend with.
Since we aren't in Earth-2 and this is what we get, if he runs for election in 2024, Trump needs to have serious primary challengers who call him out on the stuff he could have done but didn't do - like cleaning up these Federal agencies. The guy seemed to be fine with a "Deep State" so long as they were a good boogey-man instead. It would have been nice if he actually fired a lot of the DNC apparatchiks, though. My expectations for 2024 are low, but one can always dream.
I didn't vote for Trump in '16 but I did in '20, because of what he was able to accomplish. I walked away from of my daily reads and places I interacted with in '16 because it got so toxic when I didn't jump on the Trump Train. Boorish hyperbole is not a selling point to me. Fighting and bullying are not synonymous, one can be truthful and assertive without being a dumba** about it.
The whole pressure on Spotify is gruelingly dull. We've seen this movie over and over again. Check out Allum Bohari's book or Breaking the News by Alex Marlow and you'll know all about Sleeping Giants and the rest. Still, it represents another assault on Freedom of Speech, so it has to be taken seriously. I hate it. Neil and Joni have become what they once rebelled against. Stay with Substack.
Trump's statement isn't "foundational". I deeply disagree with it however. It's a terrible statement/suggestion to make. If he wants to lose again, keep bringing 2020 up. Soon he'll have enough years under his belt to match Hillary's claim the election was "stolen". In Trump's case, it wasn't stolen but it WAS rigged. Please read Mollie Hemingway's book "Rigged". THAT said, I'd vote for him again as he has a way of landing (eventually) on the right position on an issue. Like getting out of Afghanistan. Properly. [BTW, it's been 5 months since the calamitous withdrawal.] And Syria. If he brought Grenell and Pompeo and Navarro back, and did not have the Deep State trying to undermine him and was rid of the false accusation of Collusion with Russia, he could have a successful "first" term.
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A vote for Trump was always the lesser of two evils, although I was much more confident (in a eyes wide open way) in my 2020 vote than my 2016 vote despite my total antipathy to Hillary!. Trump's behavior after his loss in 2020 was deeply, deeply disturbing but Biden has managed to plumb new depths of total awfulness in just one year that Trump clearly was the lesser of two evils. I'm fine voting that way since I've had so much practice. Since Presidential elections are contests between only two candidates that have a hope of winning (except for 1992 but that was a strange year) every now and then I can actually vote for candidate I want (1984 for instance) but typically it's a matter of just trying to limit the damage. Government isn't everything, at least I tell myself that. I try to be realistic and only vote for someone who has a hope to win but in 1980 I voted for Ed Clark because by the time I voted Jimmy Carter had already capitulated so my vote no longer had a hope of affecting the outcome. Democrats have gone so far off the rails after Bill Clinton I'm left hoping the Republicans become the only party and then split to keep us from one party rule. Always look on the bright side of life.
Statement implies it was a thought out, edited, vetted piece of writing released to the media. He was rambling, like he does a lot, and when rambling he often gets things wrong.
His policies were good for America. And he isn’t mad he didn’t get his cookie. As someone who saw election shenanigans in my county, a county that helped swing a purple state, you will never convince me there wasn’t election fraud. We simply don’t know if it was widespread enough to steal the election, people like Pence made sure we wouldn’t be investigating.
Trump's statement makes perfect sense to me. It's basically a version of the legal principle of "the exception proves the rule." You don't need a law banning something if the Constitution already forbids or proscribes it.
YMMV.
We've never met, we aren't friends, but if I'm ever in Indianapolis I'd happily buy you a soft drink.
EDIT: Dude, I'm sorry, I forgot you don't imbibe. My bad for posting at midnight. No offense intended.
I voted for Trump twice and don't regret it. Politics is transactional, and as far as the transaction goes, I think got more than I expected from his term. I don't agree with every unhinged thing the guy says, but somewhere on Earth-2 life has moved on from Covid, the supply-chain issue has recovered, and Russia and China continue to push what they can get away with, but they have a blustery unpredictable US president to contend with.
Since we aren't in Earth-2 and this is what we get, if he runs for election in 2024, Trump needs to have serious primary challengers who call him out on the stuff he could have done but didn't do - like cleaning up these Federal agencies. The guy seemed to be fine with a "Deep State" so long as they were a good boogey-man instead. It would have been nice if he actually fired a lot of the DNC apparatchiks, though. My expectations for 2024 are low, but one can always dream.
I didn't vote for Trump in '16 but I did in '20, because of what he was able to accomplish. I walked away from of my daily reads and places I interacted with in '16 because it got so toxic when I didn't jump on the Trump Train. Boorish hyperbole is not a selling point to me. Fighting and bullying are not synonymous, one can be truthful and assertive without being a dumba** about it.
The whole pressure on Spotify is gruelingly dull. We've seen this movie over and over again. Check out Allum Bohari's book or Breaking the News by Alex Marlow and you'll know all about Sleeping Giants and the rest. Still, it represents another assault on Freedom of Speech, so it has to be taken seriously. I hate it. Neil and Joni have become what they once rebelled against. Stay with Substack.
Trump's statement isn't "foundational". I deeply disagree with it however. It's a terrible statement/suggestion to make. If he wants to lose again, keep bringing 2020 up. Soon he'll have enough years under his belt to match Hillary's claim the election was "stolen". In Trump's case, it wasn't stolen but it WAS rigged. Please read Mollie Hemingway's book "Rigged". THAT said, I'd vote for him again as he has a way of landing (eventually) on the right position on an issue. Like getting out of Afghanistan. Properly. [BTW, it's been 5 months since the calamitous withdrawal.] And Syria. If he brought Grenell and Pompeo and Navarro back, and did not have the Deep State trying to undermine him and was rid of the false accusation of Collusion with Russia, he could have a successful "first" term.
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Regarding Ghost - Tell them you will switch with conditions: 1 Every time you get suspended they pay you 20% of the previous 12 months gross revenue. 2 Every time you get banned they pay you 100% of the previous 12 months gross revenue.
A vote for Trump was always the lesser of two evils, although I was much more confident (in a eyes wide open way) in my 2020 vote than my 2016 vote despite my total antipathy to Hillary!. Trump's behavior after his loss in 2020 was deeply, deeply disturbing but Biden has managed to plumb new depths of total awfulness in just one year that Trump clearly was the lesser of two evils. I'm fine voting that way since I've had so much practice. Since Presidential elections are contests between only two candidates that have a hope of winning (except for 1992 but that was a strange year) every now and then I can actually vote for candidate I want (1984 for instance) but typically it's a matter of just trying to limit the damage. Government isn't everything, at least I tell myself that. I try to be realistic and only vote for someone who has a hope to win but in 1980 I voted for Ed Clark because by the time I voted Jimmy Carter had already capitulated so my vote no longer had a hope of affecting the outcome. Democrats have gone so far off the rails after Bill Clinton I'm left hoping the Republicans become the only party and then split to keep us from one party rule. Always look on the bright side of life.
Statement implies it was a thought out, edited, vetted piece of writing released to the media. He was rambling, like he does a lot, and when rambling he often gets things wrong.
His policies were good for America. And he isn’t mad he didn’t get his cookie. As someone who saw election shenanigans in my county, a county that helped swing a purple state, you will never convince me there wasn’t election fraud. We simply don’t know if it was widespread enough to steal the election, people like Pence made sure we wouldn’t be investigating.
Trump's statement makes perfect sense to me. It's basically a version of the legal principle of "the exception proves the rule." You don't need a law banning something if the Constitution already forbids or proscribes it.
YMMV.
We've never met, we aren't friends, but if I'm ever in Indianapolis I'd happily buy you a soft drink.
EDIT: Dude, I'm sorry, I forgot you don't imbibe. My bad for posting at midnight. No offense intended.