Post by sharksrog on Nov 5, 2021 14:34:59 GMT -5
Boalsburg
President Trump repeatedly declares, “Republicans will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions… You’ve been hearing it from me for a long time.” He’s actually said that 28 times. And yet right now, Trump lawyers are actively supporting a lawsuit in Texas, that’s headed to the Supreme Court, which would dismantle the ACA and its pre-existing condition protection.
These kinds of deceptions are the tactics used by Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who said, “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes accepted as truth.”
As of 1/20/20, Trump has told 16,241 documented lies, and displays many more characteristics of a fascist, including villainizing those who are different, using his “enemies” as unifying scapegoats, protecting corporate wrong-doing, extolling the “virtues” of other countries’ dictators, suppressing organized labor, hijacking the rule of law and rampant cronyism. These are deeds and actions from the fascist’s playbook.
For those who support Trump because he “tells it like it is,” it should be clear that he doesn’t.
For those who support him because of the stock market’s performance, think about your grandchildren who might live without democracy, who may be denied health care, who will be unfairly burdened by a ballooning federal deficit created by Trump’s tax cuts that made the rich richer while failing American families. They might also be choking on the toxic air resulting from his indiscriminate rollback of 50 years of environmental protections.
Please don’t let Trump manipulate you into tunnel vision.
This was written BEFORE the pandemic added trillions to our debt.
Which president has cost us so many lives, so many trillions of dollars, so many hospitalizations, so many long-term effects and placed our democracy in such peril? We won't be seeing many of the effects until later, but didn't he do just about as well with climate issues as he did with the pandemic?
I'm with Reed in that I didn't pay much attention to politics until recently. It was only when after supporting Trump initially I took a closer look and realized some of the danger he brought that I became more concerned.
Back when I supported Trump, my wife and I had dinner with a friend of hers (and mine to a lesser extent) who was on the local Democratic committee. I teased her about Trump. She went along with my jokes, and the more she drank, the funnier she thought I was. Now when I talk to my Republican friends, it usually gets to where they say, "I don't want to talk about it," and so I don't. I desperately wish I could say they provide me with answers, but sadly they don't.
I've had the same lack of answers from Boly and Matt. I would simply LOVE to find out what it is that they see that allows them to support Donald. But the more questions I ask, and the more I study, the worse my opinion of Trump becomes.
Matt tells me he's better off since Trump became president. So am I. I was also better off during the previous administration. In fact, I can't think of many if any administrations that I wasn't better off after. But after Trump's administration, many were out of jobs, and hundreds of thousands were dead. He promised the Mexicans would build the wall, and they didn't. He promised a tax cut, but I was disappointed that it favored businesses and the wealthy more than the lower and middle classes. He promised to rebuild our infrastructure, and he failed. He promised to balance the budget, but despite saving a trillion dollars by NOT fulfilling his infrastructure promise, he was $2 trillion behind BEFORE the pandemic.
And then because of the pandemic, the deficit grew by another $6 trillion.
He told our country's biggest lie ever, and it begot an uprising that threatened our democracy. He withheld foreign aid trying to get a foreign government to dig up dirt on his election opponent's son. He tried to strong arm the Georgia Secretary of State into manufacturing votes.
(Ironic, isn't it, that that Secretary of State now points out that one huge reason Trump lost in Georgia was because 28,000 people, many of whom voted for Republicans down the ballot, abstained from voting for president?)
Trump lost the House, then he lost the presidency. They with his Big Lie, he cost the Republicans control of the senate. With Trump not on the ballot, the Republicans won back some offices this past Tuesday.
Trump was so bad that even though he ran against the hated Hillary Clinton and then in Joe Biden a politician who had retired (not exactly the toughest competition a presidential candidate faced), Trump fell a combined nearly 10 million votes short of winning the popular election against either candidate. Two pitiful performances, even though because we're not a pure democracy, he was (properly) declared the winner once. He was so used to winning without winning the popular vote, he thought he could pull off winning the election despite being trounced in the electoral vote.
Abraham Lincoln, considered our best president ever, failed to win office SIX times before winning the presidency. Yet Trump somehow deluded himself into believing that he couldn't lose unless the election was rigged. That's one problem with electing what Matt has called a narcissist. The problems with electing Trump were many, but, man, he's a great washer of brains.
Jesus told his disciples he would make them fishers of men. Trump made his disciples washers of brains. I've never seen so many politicians say such horrible things about a man, then turn around and support him in his lies.
President Trump repeatedly declares, “Republicans will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions… You’ve been hearing it from me for a long time.” He’s actually said that 28 times. And yet right now, Trump lawyers are actively supporting a lawsuit in Texas, that’s headed to the Supreme Court, which would dismantle the ACA and its pre-existing condition protection.
These kinds of deceptions are the tactics used by Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who said, “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes accepted as truth.”
As of 1/20/20, Trump has told 16,241 documented lies, and displays many more characteristics of a fascist, including villainizing those who are different, using his “enemies” as unifying scapegoats, protecting corporate wrong-doing, extolling the “virtues” of other countries’ dictators, suppressing organized labor, hijacking the rule of law and rampant cronyism. These are deeds and actions from the fascist’s playbook.
For those who support Trump because he “tells it like it is,” it should be clear that he doesn’t.
For those who support him because of the stock market’s performance, think about your grandchildren who might live without democracy, who may be denied health care, who will be unfairly burdened by a ballooning federal deficit created by Trump’s tax cuts that made the rich richer while failing American families. They might also be choking on the toxic air resulting from his indiscriminate rollback of 50 years of environmental protections.
Please don’t let Trump manipulate you into tunnel vision.
This was written BEFORE the pandemic added trillions to our debt.
Which president has cost us so many lives, so many trillions of dollars, so many hospitalizations, so many long-term effects and placed our democracy in such peril? We won't be seeing many of the effects until later, but didn't he do just about as well with climate issues as he did with the pandemic?
I'm with Reed in that I didn't pay much attention to politics until recently. It was only when after supporting Trump initially I took a closer look and realized some of the danger he brought that I became more concerned.
Back when I supported Trump, my wife and I had dinner with a friend of hers (and mine to a lesser extent) who was on the local Democratic committee. I teased her about Trump. She went along with my jokes, and the more she drank, the funnier she thought I was. Now when I talk to my Republican friends, it usually gets to where they say, "I don't want to talk about it," and so I don't. I desperately wish I could say they provide me with answers, but sadly they don't.
I've had the same lack of answers from Boly and Matt. I would simply LOVE to find out what it is that they see that allows them to support Donald. But the more questions I ask, and the more I study, the worse my opinion of Trump becomes.
Matt tells me he's better off since Trump became president. So am I. I was also better off during the previous administration. In fact, I can't think of many if any administrations that I wasn't better off after. But after Trump's administration, many were out of jobs, and hundreds of thousands were dead. He promised the Mexicans would build the wall, and they didn't. He promised a tax cut, but I was disappointed that it favored businesses and the wealthy more than the lower and middle classes. He promised to rebuild our infrastructure, and he failed. He promised to balance the budget, but despite saving a trillion dollars by NOT fulfilling his infrastructure promise, he was $2 trillion behind BEFORE the pandemic.
And then because of the pandemic, the deficit grew by another $6 trillion.
He told our country's biggest lie ever, and it begot an uprising that threatened our democracy. He withheld foreign aid trying to get a foreign government to dig up dirt on his election opponent's son. He tried to strong arm the Georgia Secretary of State into manufacturing votes.
(Ironic, isn't it, that that Secretary of State now points out that one huge reason Trump lost in Georgia was because 28,000 people, many of whom voted for Republicans down the ballot, abstained from voting for president?)
Trump lost the House, then he lost the presidency. They with his Big Lie, he cost the Republicans control of the senate. With Trump not on the ballot, the Republicans won back some offices this past Tuesday.
Trump was so bad that even though he ran against the hated Hillary Clinton and then in Joe Biden a politician who had retired (not exactly the toughest competition a presidential candidate faced), Trump fell a combined nearly 10 million votes short of winning the popular election against either candidate. Two pitiful performances, even though because we're not a pure democracy, he was (properly) declared the winner once. He was so used to winning without winning the popular vote, he thought he could pull off winning the election despite being trounced in the electoral vote.
Abraham Lincoln, considered our best president ever, failed to win office SIX times before winning the presidency. Yet Trump somehow deluded himself into believing that he couldn't lose unless the election was rigged. That's one problem with electing what Matt has called a narcissist. The problems with electing Trump were many, but, man, he's a great washer of brains.
Jesus told his disciples he would make them fishers of men. Trump made his disciples washers of brains. I've never seen so many politicians say such horrible things about a man, then turn around and support him in his lies.