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The only reason we have a faction of Americans who support Putin is because Trump told them to. The only reason Trump supports Putin is because he helped him get elected in 2016, tried again to help i 2020, and will try yet again this year.
My hope is that when Trump goes away, this madness in our country will subside and we'll stop giving aid and comfort to our enemy.
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In my opinion, the Democrat party is underestimating the importance of the southern border of the United States and the influx of immigrants into the country. At first, what the governor of Texas (Greg Abbot) was doing with sending immigrants to sanctuary cities like New York was perceived as a political stunt, something which was not supposed to be taken seriously, but the governor has managed to prove his point on immigration and making the State of New York to feel the pressure of having thousands of new people to take care of there. It won't make New York to be one a red State not it could certainly make the American public opinion to flip against Biden inaction on the issue. I have seen reports about the authorities of those cities to feel abandoned by the federal government, since they do not have enough funding by their own to take care of that quantity of immigrants, many coming from Venezuela, by the way.
When most of immigrants were on Texas, Arizona and California, it was difficult for the people of New York to image the dramatic situation Republicans usually talked about on Television and on social media, now that New York is slowly but steadily becoming a "border city" some new yorkers will start to feel what people from Texas have felt for a long time and pay more attention to what both sides of the political spectrum have to say in this matter, whether the Republican solution makes more sense than the Democrat will depend on the political leaning of each one of those open to solutions. Democrats need to be careful on the issue, otherwise, it will become a strong point to rally for Trump, regardless he opposed to fix the problem before or not. Maga does not care about that fact.
If facts don't matter--which for a lot of Trump's voters, they don't--then what Democrats do or don't do at the border won't matter. I think the New York special election showed that Democrats have made a lot of headway among independents with respect to immigration because of the Republicans blocking their own legislation. Democrats, wisely, gave away the farm in that bill, and Republicans turned them down because Trump told them to. And Biden said he wanted to shut down the border (which is political fluff, but fine), but the Republicans are stopping him. What this tells independents is that Democrats want to solve the problem and Republicans just want to play political games and follow Trump's orders no matter how daft. (The more the election can be about Trump himself, the more it helps Democrats, I suspect). And by the way, New York has been a "border city" for a very long time :-). I think they know a thing or two about immigrants there. I really think Republicans stepped in it (or fell into a trap if you will) with their veto of the bi-partisan border deal. Trump may have thought he was being really clever, but instead he just gave Democrats an opening to turn immigration in their favor. |
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Biden is not perfect, he could indeed manage the immigration crisis in a better way and the response to the Hamas attack and the war unleashed in the middle east could have been better to avoid the risks of escalation, but if you take a look at the economy, it seems to be doing good under Biden: record low unemployment, stock market in All Time Highs, inflation going down and the interest rates have been decelerating. If Biden was younger and did not have so many cognitive moments in front of the cameras and off the record, then Trump would be in trouble to defeat him next November. Just my opinion, of course.
Biden is at least trying to manage the border--whereas House Republicans are blocking him from doing so because they want the border situation to be terrible so Trump will get elected. If you want the situation at the border to improve, vote Democrat this November and give Biden a majority in the House so they can pass something that will help. Israel is a no-win situation for any American president because (unless you are extreme MAGA) nobody wants to abandon Israel and leave them at Iran's mercy, but they are responding with awfulness of their own. Meanwhile, Trump just lost his first major court case today, and he'll probably lose a lot more of them before November, and might even be locked up by then. I don't think the election is even going to be close and the only open question is whether Democrats will be able to hold on to the Senate. The GOP turning its back on the border situation for pure politics is going to cost them, as we just saw with the special election in NY. |
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Lol. You are so worried about a few piddly $million that might have slipped into the wrong pockets among Reps, but you simply love the $200 billion that the Deep State used to support all kinds of Ukraine activities, and Middle East stuff to the detriment of the whole economy of the US.
Where in the world are you from that you can be so anti-American?
So you would literally let Trump steal money from you and you'd still want him to be dictator* of the USA (as he promised he would be). Good to get this on the record...  (* No dictatorship is in any way "American"). Also, $200b is less than 1% of the US GDP. You should make up bigger numbers than that. Try $20 trillion next time. |
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And, of course, the flaw in all that you say here is the way Trump is being handled in the courts.
The Deep State is so against Trump because he will destroy their evil if he gets the chance, that even if you thought well of Trump in the past, their wicked words have poisoned your mind against Trump.
So Trump's people can literally steal the money you donate and you won't ever believe it regardless of the evidence, so they can do this with no fear of adverse consequences--so they will almost undoubtedly continue to do this because they'd be idiots not to. The amazing thing is, I suspect there are millions in the US just like yourself. |
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Trump was looking for a second term to finish what he had started.
He couldn't do anything with control of the House and Senate in his first term, and his voters don't care. At minimum, he certainly won't be motivated to do anything in terms of policy, because voters like yourself will always have excuses for him. As a side note, does it ever make you nervous to give one man that much power? Given everything we know about Trump's personal character, what makes you think he will actually care about you if he becomes president? This is a man who ripped off people's life savings before he was president (TrumpU), and pardoned a man who was convicted of ripping off cash supporters of Trump just like yourself (Steven Bannon). Legal and illegal aren't the only things around. There are moral and immoral, for example.
Are you seriously bringing up morality while promoting Trump's reelection? Seriously?  |
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Trump's 'followers' base their ideas about Trump on his performance...
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Trump didn't build his wall, didn't deport all of the immigrants, didn't kill Obamacare, didn't... do any major thing he promised to do except make his followers feel good that somebody like themselves was in the White House for four years--and those followers haven't wavered an inch. I don't really think it has to do with his performance on actual policy, I think it only has to do with the way he conducts himself, e.g. the "feelings" his followers get from him. [...]
Your talk might be sweet, but it is dictatorship directed if it is against Trump. Nobody seems to be able to come up with a list of Trump bad-in-office stuff that approaches the size of Trump's good-in-office stuff listed in the above website.
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So it's aways legal if Trump does it, and it's always illegal if Trump's opponents do it. Sounds like you are on the Trump legal defense team . |
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The US government is becoming more like China or North Korea every day.
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This stuff still happens, but it's actually a lot better than it used to be. Most of the time it's the federal government using harsh narcotics laws to justify this stuff. Thanks to activist orgs like BLM, ACLU, etc. citizens have fought back against predatory prosecutions and seizures. The system is still not perfect, but it's better than it was. And if I recall, local police are the biggest offenders of these kinds of violations, not the feds. |
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Actually, that's the reason why Trump might select Tucker. Trump's 'power' is based in free enterprise, often known as 'The American Dream'. To uphold his own power, Trump needs to keep free enterprise available for everybody... in America. It's called MAGA.
Lazy, ignorant people like to leech off the wealthy. They call the wealthy dictators because they are too lazy to get out there and work themselves into wealth. Or too stupid to try.
Here is where the dictatorship exists. [...]
No, Trump's power is based on blind followers who will accept absolutely every single thing he says as true e.g. that the 2020 election was stolen or that Putin's propaganda is true (because Putin helps Trump get elected, which is the only thing Trump knows about him). And in the last 10 years Republicans have abandoned the "free enterprise" stuff and now want more government stuff just as much as Democrats do, just targeted at their preferred demographics. Put it this way: I suspect that you would still vote for Trump regardless of who his VP selection is, and I suspect that's true for 99% of his voters. If that's the case, the smartest thing for Trump to do is pick somebody who does not threaten him. (If you read your history, you'll see that dictators always do this: they end up being surrounded by morons who give them terrible advise because anybody with a brain is a threat to their power and when you are dictator competence doesn't matter). My money is on Trump picking somebody who is so politically weak on their own that they would have no political power whatsoever without Trump. Tucker, like so many Republicans, is setting himself up for when Trump's age takes its natural course. With Trump getting more incoherent every day, it doesn't look like he'll need to wait very long. I very much doubt Trump would be able to survive for another 4 year term for instance. |
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The "definition" based on dictionaries obviously matters, but at some situations the words could have different meanings in different industries as well. So in crypto, "hodl" is a thing, "moon" means something else, "lambo" is different than just the car, there are stuff that do not mean anything similar as it used to. This is one of them, legal tender of "forcing" people to use, or not use, those are all very valid reasons.
Basically, as long as the other person you are talking to understands what you are saying, then I do not think that it means anything, it should not be a problem, we could very well do whatever we want. I hope that we could see something that changes eventually, but if people understand each other, life is fine.
This isn't the case in politics. In fact, the very opposite is true in that context. In fact, this is the way bad laws get put on the books that cause disasters and end up accomplishing the opposite of what people intended. My guess is that politicians in El Salvador wanted to pump their Bitcoin holdings, and heard the term "legal tender" thrown around in casual discussion, not knowing what the term actually means when you pass a law making a trading instrument "legal tender". Then lawyers needed to draft an actual law and thus had to understand the real legal meaning of the term and they basically put a law on the books in that country that cost them a ton of money to implement and isn't actually followed by over half of the population because it makes no practical sense. Indeed, this is the whole reason I started this thread :-). I would rather people say, "I hope the government uses taxpayer dollars to promote my favorite investment instrument so it will go up in value!" rather than asking their elected reps for a legally loaded term like "legal tender". |
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One thing that can be hilariously noted is that this Putin interview has boosted Tucker into world politics. Maybe Trump will seriously consider him as Vice-president, now.
No chance in hell Trump picks Tucker--he would be too much of a threat to Trump's own power. You don't understand how the minds of dictators work, dude . |
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Is there payment for our posts on Medium?
if there is payment there will definitely be a ban because of copypaste.
Payment? What would that mean? What is the "copypaste" ban? |
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Fun fact: I took a post I wrote here in the Serious Discussion forum and turned it into a Medium article. This is an article about the kinds of anonymity we discuss when we talk about crypto, digital currency, and privacy. Let me know what you think. |
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Tucker Carlson was fired out Fox because his lies and the lies of those he interviewed about the 2020 election in the United States cost Fox almost 1 Billion dollars to Dominion voting Systems, in the biggest defamation lawsuit of the history of the United States. After making his boss to lose such amount of money, it is to nobody surprise someone had to be fired. right?
Tucker Carlson is not an idiot, he is pretty much aware of what he does and he is very good at it, he is someone who sell fear, he is a fear-monger a pawn for propaganda, who is at the service of the Russian government and in favor of the Republican party. The most interesting thing and also one of the most obvious things is that it is just matter of time for him to get directly into politics and not only being a piece of the propaganda machinery for his alleged allies. He will eventually go for the Presidency of the United States, thrus he needs to stay relevant and keep his influence on the Republican voters in the long term, after Trump is gone, he will try; perhaps he may try first to test the ground by running for a seat in the senate, time will tell.
Pretty ironic Tucker show so much criticism against the government of the USA, which allows him to say whatever he wants, if he was born in Russia and tried to critic Putin in the same way he does to Biden, he would be dead in less than one year. Guaranteed.
All of the Fox News cast members lie and lie. His replacement probably lies just as much as he does. I suppose it's possible his firing was part of the Dominion settlement, but it doesn't seem like you would have much trouble finding somebody else to do Tucker's job for a lot less salary. Have their ratings for his time slot moved down at all? I agree he could be eyeing the presidency after Trump goes... |
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It is common to find useful idiots everywhere, there is always someone willing to take the coin and to the job. However is far less common to see how the useful idiot is called "useful idiot" right in the useful idiots face.
As usual, among all the lies, Putin sometimes has a element of truth in what he says: Tucker is effective not a real journalist. He was ejected from Fox because he is simply not a journalist, but rather a cheap wannabe propagandist.
I personally don't think he's an idiot at all, but rather a collaborator with our enemy. And I think Tucker was ejected from Fox because they replaced him with somebody cheaper without losing and revenue. |
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BTW, Republicans defend Israel because it makes sense? May I get you view on why it makes sense? In fact, I am interested to understand what is the Republican global picture of where the US should be in 5 to 10 years, because what I see for now is not "US first".
Ramaswamy is against supporting Israel, which is consistent with what seems to be the Republican viewpoint now. I suspect if Trump were elected he'd leave Israel to Iran and Saudi's mercy. Republicans are following the exact same game plan that lead us to WWII in the 1930s: surrender to the aggressive tyrannies of the world, let them gain a foothold, and don't fight them until they are very powerful. |
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America has a thousand ways that the government protects the rights of the people. Trump doesn't want to lose this, for his own personal gain. But this means that he has to uphold it for all Americans.
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But what about Trump saying he'll let China take Taiwan if they want to? Maybe this is "America first" in some narrow way, but that seems like it would be pretty bad for us in the long run. |
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