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Standout [312]
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Would love to get the Trumpers opinion on this.
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Mar 26, 2024, 9:11 AM
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Honest opinion, more than Trump good, liberals bad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/business/jeff-yass-shares-trump-media-merger.html
Jeff Yass, a major investor in Tik Tok, supports Trump’s campaign and is the largest institutional shareholder of what will become Truth Social/Trump Media. Because of this monetary support, Trump flip flopped his anti-Tik Tok stance he held during his presidency, when he tried to ban it, to now coming out against the proposed ban. Does it bother MAGA that Trump is so easily and transparently bought and paid for, and that his stance on issues can so easily be swayed by whoever he financially benefits from?
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Based on news reports I have heard on Fox, NBC and CBS, I do not support TicToc.
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Mar 26, 2024, 9:28 AM
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To your point, he did what all politicians seem to do, form opinions based on $$$.
He's no different than anyone else in the swamp on this matter.
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Re: Based on news reports I have heard on Fox, NBC and CBS, I do not support TicToc.
Mar 26, 2024, 9:30 AM
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Swampy?
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"All hail Zuckerberg !!!" $400M spread around during 2020... Who got it?***
Mar 26, 2024, 4:26 PM
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There is quite literally nothing Trump could do or say that would cause his cult
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Mar 26, 2024, 9:31 AM
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to abandon him. At this point he’s down to just the most loyal stooges, the flag flyers and people who include Trump in their supper blessings. Look at his coalition, it’s the “permanent disability” crowd of destitute uneducated white people, internet edgelords and groypers, Fox News addicted grandpas, antivaxxers, and conspiracy theorists.
What Trump says and thinks today, at this moment, is all that matters.
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Re: There is quite literally nothing Trump could do or say that would cause his cult
Mar 26, 2024, 9:37 AM
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And yet, he is neck and neck in the polls with Biden. And both of them won their primaries handily. It's Bozo vs. Weekend at Biden's. I don't get it.
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I prefer to sit back and watch the forest burn, instead of arguging about which
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Mar 26, 2024, 9:59 AM
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is the tallest tree.
Just think about this critically for a second. Pretend politics doesn't exist and just assess the situation.
In 2016 we had a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Trump won. How bad must Hillary have been? Then we had 4 years of Trump, with January 6th as a grand finale. We then elected Joe freaking Biden as the only other choice? And now Joe Biden is a mumbling, stumbling, demented octogenarian and we're limited to Trump vs. Biden Part 2? How exactly does the beacon of liberty and freedom, the most powerful nation on Earth, the richest nation on Earth, with 400 million citizens, wind up with such poor choices of humans to lead the free world?
THAT IS THE BIGGER QUESTION. Until the voters realize we don't have a democrat or republican problem, and as such we don't have a democrat or republican solution, until people realize that, we're doomed. Politics is a luxury well-functioning democracies enjoy when their government is working well, and is well-led. When the government begins to fail (as all diverse democracies do in time), politics stops having consequences as the nation's leadership becomes damaged. There is only one constitutional solution to our problems, and it will never be allowed to happen because those with power in our dysfunctional government stand to lose the most. We fought a Civil War in the past, rather than try this solution. And we will fail before this solution is tried. It is what it is.
I'm squarely apolitical at this point. And I majored in political science, and our scenario was never discussed in any POSC course. It was discussed several times in history courses though. We are on a road many other nations and empires have been down before. We are not unique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed8CTu3FOZA
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Re: I prefer to sit back and watch the forest burn, instead of arguging about which
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We need 4 political parties. Outside of the fact that there is no Dem or Pub I can vote for, another reason I will be voting 3rd party (or not at all) is to hopefully have a good showing for another party. It will be a losing effort, but a great election to 'waste' a vote.
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Re: I prefer to sit back and watch the forest burn, instead of arguging about which
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Mar 26, 2024, 10:20 AM
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And, putting 80 percent of the population in underground pods and hooking them to the internet could be a good option as well. I think many would be happy.
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Re: I prefer to sit back and watch the forest burn, instead of arguging about which
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Mar 26, 2024, 10:38 AM
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That would work for me, underground probably cheaper than blasting them into space
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"Them?"... Nothing like showing your ELITISM, eh doc...? You so spehshill.***
Mar 26, 2024, 11:48 AM
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Yes, the peons, the peasants, the proletariat. Ugh, gross.
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Mar 26, 2024, 12:02 PM
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Our virus/vaccine depopulation plot failed, but we’ll come up with a new plan soon.
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Are you still begging the peons to pay your student loans?***
Mar 26, 2024, 12:08 PM
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Im sorry, I dont field questions from adults who ride bicycles***
Mar 26, 2024, 12:10 PM
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I take my electric bikes with carts on every camping trip... I'm mid-60s.***
Mar 26, 2024, 1:55 PM
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Re: Yes, the peons, the peasants, the proletariat. Ugh, gross.
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At least most of them are tagged now
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Muhuhahahahah***
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Re: There is quite literally nothing Trump could do or say that would cause his cult
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Mar 26, 2024, 10:08 AM
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Your math doesn't add up. Biden and Trump are essentially tied in most current polls.
One could just as easily point out that Biden voters will vote Biden even if he suffered a Fetterman like stroke without the recovery.
I don't know who you're running with but I can assure you there are many well educated doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc in the Upstate who will be voting Trump based on policy over Biden.
There are a lot of Trump voters possessing brains significantly of a higher order than an ice cube.
I agree there are those who seemingly worship Trump which is quite odd to me, but the country is pretty evenly split between 2 very flawed candidates and everyone who is voting Trump is far more than a few end of the road uneducated stooges. That same mentality is why Hillary lost.
Biden has to earn votes. He has yet to close the deal.
It's a shame there isn't a viable 3rd Party option that can actually win, but packaging every Trump backer as an essentially clueless rube is simply incorrect.
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The failure of Trump and his base to understand the opposition
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Mar 26, 2024, 10:21 AM
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ultimately cost him the last election. The failure of anti-Trumpers to understand Trumpers may very well cost Biden the election this time around.
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Trump could call a private thug militia to Washington to attack The Capitol
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in an attempt to prevent a peaceful transfer of power to a duly elected president by force and so called smart people who supposedly dislike Trump would pretend it never happened in order to justify their support of him.
It's not just the Trump crazies that won't abandon him. It's the ones who should know better and just rationalize and normalize the crazy.
You don't even have to make up potential scenarios. They've already happened.
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No, see, Trump is totally a billionaire, and thus immune to the persuasions
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Mar 26, 2024, 9:32 AM
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of other people with money. He's an outsider, and that's why he's a threat to the system. This is just canon at this point.
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Breaking news
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Mar 26, 2024, 9:34 AM
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Politician spinelessly influenced by major campaign donor.
I sure hope this doesn’t become the norm!
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What happened to "he can't be bought"?***
Mar 26, 2024, 10:07 AM
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Turns out he can. Shock. Horror. Surprise!***
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Oh lawt! Don't tell his biggest fans.***
Mar 26, 2024, 11:52 AM
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The other wrinkle in this is that he also opposes the ban
Mar 26, 2024, 9:39 AM
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because it would help Facebook/Zuckerberg, who he has a personal vendetta against. So it accomplished the goal of enriching himself and his friends, as well as plays into his grievance politics that he is basing his campaign on.
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The ban would also help Trump, so your argument is destroyed.***
Mar 26, 2024, 10:10 AM
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Trump himself cited that as a reason for opposing a ban.
Mar 26, 2024, 10:31 AM
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Also, your point about it helping him reinforces that he will base his policy stances on what will help him personally on any given day.
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Cue the now standard normalization defense of all things Trump.
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No matter how crazy, he's just a regular Joe.
People are going to hurt themselves bending over backwards to pretend he's not what he is.
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His views "evolved" like Bammy on abortion and Brandon on blacks.***
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Re: Would love to get the Trumpers opinion on this.
Mar 26, 2024, 11:36 AM
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loan repayment
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Re: Would love to get the Trumpers opinion on this.
Mar 26, 2024, 12:16 PM
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Yes, it's bothersome, but not unexpected. Too common.
If he is still rabid anti-left, that trumps the rest of it...
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Because owning the libs is all that really matters, right?***
Mar 26, 2024, 12:18 PM
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More like cancelling the 'cancel culture'... Somebody needs to.***
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So yes***
Mar 26, 2024, 12:33 PM
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No. It's considerably more nuanced than that. That's just a start.***
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I choose neither (for the third election in a row)***
Mar 26, 2024, 12:59 PM
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