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Reporters, I beg you: When voters claim they have doubts about Trumpβs personality but support βhis policies,β ask one simple question:
Which policies?
The stammering will be more interesting than anything they have to say.
Unfortunately it's easy to say border and the mistaken belief that Republicans are good for the economy/inflation.
But it's still funny to see so many stammer.
Speaking of the border, what kind of cognitive dissonance is going on with Republicans right now when 1) Trump built a big, beautiful wall to keep immigrants out and 2) There's a crisis at the border due to all the immigrants flooding into the country.
Did Trump not build the wall? Was the wall not effective?
That's just the thing, he didn't build the wall. He spent 4 years talking about it and didn't even start. That's all it ever was: a bunch of hot air. Now I don't really hear much talk about walls anymore, probably because his base has the memory of a goldfish and can't recall any talking points Fox didn't provide them with that week. Now it's inflation that is the issue the wedge into every conversation, and honestly I'm not entirely sure they know anything about it besides "that's when prices go up". Like there's a dial in the oval office that controls it and Biden cranked it up just to be a dick. It would funny if not for the coup a few years back.
He did build some of it though. Just part of that happened to blow over in a stiff wind and the remainder has proven remarkably vulnerable to sawzalls.
You forgot how it's easy and convenient to climb, you can even clip a rope ladder on it for children and old people
Although you might want a tetanus shot...
I have had conversations with people who thought that Trump built the wall but that Biden "welded it open." I wish I were kidding.
They support his stance on immigration, abortion, the war on Christmas/Christians, wokeness, communism, trans people, antifa, and whatever other bogeymen they've heard about on Fox or OANN. They don't care about actual policy, they just care that he's "their guy."
They will say "The economy" with literally 0 understanding of the long-term effects of his economic policies, permanent tax cuts for corps, permanent tax cuts for the very wealthy, "tax cuts" for everyone else if you disregard the removed write offs and credits that also "sunset" (what a nice word) just after when he believed his term would have ended before losing.
Whenever someone is vague, ask them what specifically about "the economy" (or whatever vague answer they gave) they like.
The problem wasn't the tax cuts, but that they also increased spending. If you're going to cut taxes, you also need to cut spending.
I think we should increase taxes and cut spending because we're way over budget. Cut the military budget a bit, increase IRS funding to actually enforce our tax laws (they generally more than pay for themselves), end "use it or lose it" accounting so agencies don't feel the need to blow their budgets (maybe allow 50% of unused budget to roll over or something), cut subsides to things that don't need subsidies, etc. In terms of raised taxes, tax stock compensation as income, perhaps with an exclusion for the first $50k or so. There are plenty of other loopholes where revenue can be increased by reducing exclusions.
If you're going to cut taxes, you also need to cut spending.
That's almost correct. Tax cuts are spending.
Lol ... trying to use logic with devoted MAGA supporters ... about the only thing mouth foaming MAGA idiots react to is bright lights, candy and a cattle prod.
We really shouldn't refer to them as MAGA supporters or MAGAts. They're Nazis.
Like actual Nazis. Nazis were amazingly stupid. Hitler was widely considered to be a raving moron that riled people up. He had lots of his "friends" killed when they were determined to be a problem to the party. The wealthy supported him because they would make a bunch of money, in a "help me help you" sort of way. When he began losing corporate support, guess what changes he had to enact?
I say screw the attempts to label these traitors anything else other than modern Nazis, and let them get angry and flustered when they can't name things that aren't Nazi policies.
When you call them Nazis, watch them suddenly care about political correctness.
There's a Christian politician here in Norway who is in love with T-rump. During the last election he was interviewed on TV and asked why he supports a man who lies and does other unchristian things. His answer was
"π Trump π is π against π abortion π Trump π loves π life π"
What a knuckle-dragging knob
Come on. The dude canβt even speak in complete sentences let alone have policies.
But that's his power. With raw charisma and word salad, anyone can hear whatever they want. All you have to do is cope hard enough
Agreed, that and an under abundance of self-reflection. Oh sorry, momentarily forgot another commonality.
How nice of you to say, it's always nice to have your insight recognized
Been doing this for years. You know they're just repeating media propaganda, asking about specifics is the way to go.
"What specific policy do you object to. Name one."
Always met with cricket chirps.
That'll show em
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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