Who do you think is going to win and why?

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Anonymous wrote:My sense is that Trump will win. Harris is uninspiring and unintelligent, and the lack of primaries meant that she was never really battle tested. This is on Biden for picking her for VP and on the Democrats for not challenging Biden earlier. There are easily a half dozen other Democrats who ought to have been able to thrash Trump, and we’re left with Harris instead.

So many eloquent and intelligent Dems like Pete, Klobuchar, Whitmer - and we get DEI candidate Harris.

Biden should have not run for a 2nd term and there should have been an open primary.

Even if Harris gets elected, she will be such a colossal failure, that this election will be a test case for years to come.

Of course there should have been an open primary with Biden out of the way but that wasn't Harris' fault and you are underestimating her potential.

I’m Indian and I know something about Indian women.

After watching all her interviews I can confidently say that she will be in the bottom of the ranks among the women I know. She will not lead well. Put quite simply, she is not intelligent or has real world experience.

I am scared for America.

Harris will win because America is scared of what might come with a second Trump term. Our adversaries and enemies saw Trump completely freeze and do nothing for three hours while our government was under attack under his watch a few years ago. Just imagine what another global super power could do on our soil if the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces takes three hours to muster the courage to lead a counter-attack. Scary stuff!

Only hyperventilating Democrats are scared of a second Trump term. Noise aside, the first Trump term wasn't that bad. The thing to be afraid of in the present moment is the risk that Kamala Harris will become president. She is completely incompetent for the job and will be disastrous for the country.

You're mostly right. His first term wasn't all that bad as far as what actually happened relative to his childish rhetoric. He almost made it to the end of his term without any major event happening that would cause him to show his true colors in action. Unfortunately for him, a mob of hundreds stormed the US Capitol and were roaming the halls looking for prominent leaders to hang a few weeks before the end of his term. That situation brought in the need for Trump to respond immediately as Commander-in-Chief and then Trump proceeded to disqualify himself or as Don Jr. put it "ruin his own legacy" by ignoring all pleas for help and guidance for three hours. That really happened. I'm not a Democrat and I don't think Trump is necessarily evil but I care enough and pay attention enough to realize what he did in that moment is absolutely disqualifying. Not rocket science.

Also am I the only one who remembers how he grossly mismanaged COVID?! SO MANY PEOPLE DIED because of how he handled it - or didn't handle it!

You don't get to say "well he was mostly fine except when we faced the sort of catastrophic crisis we really need leadership for."

And he wasn't mostly fine! But also he had some people around him that first time who didn't LET him do the worst things he wished for. He is not going to have those people around him this time. If you want to see what an unchecked ID looks like, when it holds the nuclear codes, well I think you're wrong - I do not want that, I am sure.

This!! How do people forget this? Covid wasn’t going to be good no matter who was in charge. But he spent that whole time downplaying it and shirking his responsibility for dealing with it, because he was more concerned with his own reelection. He had no plan. Why would we want someone back who showed that they cannot handle a crisis?? We don’t have to guess at how we would respond; we already know he isn’t capable of stepping up. He’s too self-absorbed.

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Anonymous wrote:My sense is that Trump will win. Harris is uninspiring and unintelligent, and the lack of primaries meant that she was never really battle tested. This is on Biden for picking her for VP and on the Democrats for not challenging Biden earlier. There are easily a half dozen other Democrats who ought to have been able to thrash Trump, and we’re left with Harris instead.

So many eloquent and intelligent Dems like Pete, Klobuchar, Whitmer - and we get DEI candidate Harris.

Biden should have not run for a 2nd term and there should have been an open primary.

Even if Harris gets elected, she will be such a colossal failure, that this election will be a test case for years to come.

Of course there should have been an open primary with Biden out of the way but that wasn't Harris' fault and you are underestimating her potential.

I’m Indian and I know something about Indian women.

After watching all her interviews I can confidently say that she will be in the bottom of the ranks among the women I know. She will not lead well. Put quite simply, she is not intelligent or has real world experience.

I am scared for America.

Harris will win because America is scared of what might come with a second Trump term. Our adversaries and enemies saw Trump completely freeze and do nothing for three hours while our government was under attack under his watch a few years ago. Just imagine what another global super power could do on our soil if the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces takes three hours to muster the courage to lead a counter-attack. Scary stuff!

Only hyperventilating Democrats are scared of a second Trump term. Noise aside, the first Trump term wasn't that bad. The thing to be afraid of in the present moment is the risk that Kamala Harris will become president. She is completely incompetent for the job and will be disastrous for the country.

Ah yes, those hyperventilating democrats like John Bolton, John Kelley, Mike Milley, Liz Cheney, Chris Christie, and Mike Pence.

Nobody cares about those people. Are you now telling me that I should be concerned about what John Bolton, a Cheney, and Mike Pence think? Absent Donald Trump, you'd be stomping around claiming every one of these people is also a fascist bent on destroying the country. It's too Donald Trump's credit that these people are against him.

Only in your twisted mind. They abandoned him because he’s TOO crazy and TOO radical for them.

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Anonymous wrote:My sense is that Trump will win. Harris is uninspiring and unintelligent, and the lack of primaries meant that she was never really battle tested. This is on Biden for picking her for VP and on the Democrats for not challenging Biden earlier. There are easily a half dozen other Democrats who ought to have been able to thrash Trump, and we’re left with Harris instead.

So many eloquent and intelligent Dems like Pete, Klobuchar, Whitmer - and we get DEI candidate Harris.

Biden should have not run for a 2nd term and there should have been an open primary.

Even if Harris gets elected, she will be such a colossal failure, that this election will be a test case for years to come.

Of course there should have been an open primary with Biden out of the way but that wasn't Harris' fault and you are underestimating her potential.

I’m Indian and I know something about Indian women.

After watching all her interviews I can confidently say that she will be in the bottom of the ranks among the women I know. She will not lead well. Put quite simply, she is not intelligent or has real world experience.

I am scared for America.

Harris will win because America is scared of what might come with a second Trump term. Our adversaries and enemies saw Trump completely freeze and do nothing for three hours while our government was under attack under his watch a few years ago. Just imagine what another global super power could do on our soil if the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces takes three hours to muster the courage to lead a counter-attack. Scary stuff!

Only hyperventilating Democrats are scared of a second Trump term. Noise aside, the first Trump term wasn't that bad. The thing to be afraid of in the present moment is the risk that Kamala Harris will become president. She is completely incompetent for the job and will be disastrous for the country.

You're mostly right. His first term wasn't all that bad as far as what actually happened relative to his childish rhetoric. He almost made it to the end of his term without any major event happening that would cause him to show his true colors in action. Unfortunately for him, a mob of hundreds stormed the US Capitol and were roaming the halls looking for prominent leaders to hang a few weeks before the end of his term. That situation brought in the need for Trump to respond immediately as Commander-in-Chief and then Trump proceeded to disqualify himself or as Don Jr. put it "ruin his own legacy" by ignoring all pleas for help and guidance for three hours. That really happened. I'm not a Democrat and I don't think Trump is necessarily evil but I care enough and pay attention enough to realize what he did in that moment is absolutely disqualifying. Not rocket science.

I know people like you are fixated on J6 just like you were focused on "Russian Collusion" before that. Nobody cares.

LOL.. Russian collusion was a bunch BS. We all know that. What we also know is that Trump's inaction while our nation's Capitol was under attack is a well documented fact that you can't dispute. People with at least half a brain do care about having a POTUS that will act immediately when there is an attack on the sovereignty of our country as opposed to a POTUS that cowers in a corner of The White House for three hours not knowing how a Commander-in-Chief is supposed to act in a big moment like that.

You're only defenses of Trump's inaction that day are either "it didn't really happen" which is like saying 2 + 2 isn't 4 or "nobody cares if our POTUS refuses to defend the country as long as the economy is good". Those are piss poor defenses. Grow up and act like a true American.

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Anonymous wrote:Franklin & Marshall has T+1 in popular vote, 3 or 4pts more than he needs for electoral college.

They are most left leaning pollster out there. Had Hillary up 11 and Biden 8! Brace for impact!

Voted for Trump, but it definitely seems like they are overcounting Trump support this time around.

Pollsters are missing the young women.

This is going to be 2016 in the other direction.

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Anonymous wrote:My sense is that Trump will win. Harris is uninspiring and unintelligent, and the lack of primaries meant that she was never really battle tested. This is on Biden for picking her for VP and on the Democrats for not challenging Biden earlier. There are easily a half dozen other Democrats who ought to have been able to thrash Trump, and we’re left with Harris instead.

So many eloquent and intelligent Dems like Pete, Klobuchar, Whitmer - and we get DEI candidate Harris.

Biden should have not run for a 2nd term and there should have been an open primary.

Even if Harris gets elected, she will be such a colossal failure, that this election will be a test case for years to come.

Of course there should have been an open primary with Biden out of the way but that wasn't Harris' fault and you are underestimating her potential.

I’m Indian and I know something about Indian women.

After watching all her interviews I can confidently say that she will be in the bottom of the ranks among the women I know. She will not lead well. Put quite simply, she is not intelligent or has real world experience.

I am scared for America.

Harris will win because America is scared of what might come with a second Trump term. Our adversaries and enemies saw Trump completely freeze and do nothing for three hours while our government was under attack under his watch a few years ago. Just imagine what another global super power could do on our soil if the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces takes three hours to muster the courage to lead a counter-attack. Scary stuff!

Only hyperventilating Democrats are scared of a second Trump term. Noise aside, the first Trump term wasn't that bad. The thing to be afraid of in the present moment is the risk that Kamala Harris will become president. She is completely incompetent for the job and will be disastrous for the country.

Ah yes, those hyperventilating democrats like John Bolton, John Kelley, Mike Milley, Liz Cheney, Chris Christie, and Mike Pence.

Nobody cares about those people. Are you now telling me that I should be concerned about what John Bolton, a Cheney, and Mike Pence think? Absent Donald Trump, you'd be stomping around claiming every one of these people is also a fascist bent on destroying the country. It's too Donald Trump's credit that these people are against him.

Only in your twisted mind. They abandoned him because he’s TOO crazy and TOO radical for them.

No, they are opposed to him because he ran a lot of neocons out of the Republican Party. They are pining for him to lose so they can regain influence. Unfortunately, the dumb Democrats are welcoming these terrible people with open arms.

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Anonymous wrote:My sense is that Trump will win. Harris is uninspiring and unintelligent, and the lack of primaries meant that she was never really battle tested. This is on Biden for picking her for VP and on the Democrats for not challenging Biden earlier. There are easily a half dozen other Democrats who ought to have been able to thrash Trump, and we’re left with Harris instead.

So many eloquent and intelligent Dems like Pete, Klobuchar, Whitmer - and we get DEI candidate Harris.

Biden should have not run for a 2nd term and there should have been an open primary.

Even if Harris gets elected, she will be such a colossal failure, that this election will be a test case for years to come.

Of course there should have been an open primary with Biden out of the way but that wasn't Harris' fault and you are underestimating her potential.

I’m Indian and I know something about Indian women.

After watching all her interviews I can confidently say that she will be in the bottom of the ranks among the women I know. She will not lead well. Put quite simply, she is not intelligent or has real world experience.

I am scared for America.

Harris will win because America is scared of what might come with a second Trump term. Our adversaries and enemies saw Trump completely freeze and do nothing for three hours while our government was under attack under his watch a few years ago. Just imagine what another global super power could do on our soil if the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces takes three hours to muster the courage to lead a counter-attack. Scary stuff!

Only hyperventilating Democrats are scared of a second Trump term. Noise aside, the first Trump term wasn't that bad. The thing to be afraid of in the present moment is the risk that Kamala Harris will become president. She is completely incompetent for the job and will be disastrous for the country.

You're mostly right. His first term wasn't all that bad as far as what actually happened relative to his childish rhetoric. He almost made it to the end of his term without any major event happening that would cause him to show his true colors in action. Unfortunately for him, a mob of hundreds stormed the US Capitol and were roaming the halls looking for prominent leaders to hang a few weeks before the end of his term. That situation brought in the need for Trump to respond immediately as Commander-in-Chief and then Trump proceeded to disqualify himself or as Don Jr. put it "ruin his own legacy" by ignoring all pleas for help and guidance for three hours. That really happened. I'm not a Democrat and I don't think Trump is necessarily evil but I care enough and pay attention enough to realize what he did in that moment is absolutely disqualifying. Not rocket science.

I know people like you are fixated on J6 just like you were focused on "Russian Collusion" before that. Nobody cares.

LOL.. Russian collusion was a bunch BS. We all know that. What we also know is that Trump's inaction while our nation's Capitol was under attack is a well documented fact that you can't dispute. People with at least half a brain do care about having a POTUS that will act immediately when there is an attack on the sovereignty of our country as opposed to a POTUS that cowers in a corner of The White House for three hours not knowing how a Commander-in-Chief is supposed to act in a big moment like that.

You're only defenses of Trump's inaction that day are either "it didn't really happen" which is like saying 2 + 2 isn't 4 or "nobody cares if our POTUS refuses to defend the country as long as the economy is good". Those are piss poor defenses. Grow up and act like a true American.

There was no attack on the sovereignty of our country on January 6. There were some idiots rioting, at best.

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Anonymous wrote:My sense is that Trump will win. Harris is uninspiring and unintelligent, and the lack of primaries meant that she was never really battle tested. This is on Biden for picking her for VP and on the Democrats for not challenging Biden earlier. There are easily a half dozen other Democrats who ought to have been able to thrash Trump, and we’re left with Harris instead.

So many eloquent and intelligent Dems like Pete, Klobuchar, Whitmer - and we get DEI candidate Harris.

Biden should have not run for a 2nd term and there should have been an open primary.

Even if Harris gets elected, she will be such a colossal failure, that this election will be a test case for years to come.

Of course there should have been an open primary with Biden out of the way but that wasn't Harris' fault and you are underestimating her potential.

I’m Indian and I know something about Indian women.

After watching all her interviews I can confidently say that she will be in the bottom of the ranks among the women I know. She will not lead well. Put quite simply, she is not intelligent or has real world experience.

I am scared for America.

Harris will win because America is scared of what might come with a second Trump term. Our adversaries and enemies saw Trump completely freeze and do nothing for three hours while our government was under attack under his watch a few years ago. Just imagine what another global super power could do on our soil if the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces takes three hours to muster the courage to lead a counter-attack. Scary stuff!

Only hyperventilating Democrats are scared of a second Trump term. Noise aside, the first Trump term wasn't that bad. The thing to be afraid of in the present moment is the risk that Kamala Harris will become president. She is completely incompetent for the job and will be disastrous for the country.

You're mostly right. His first term wasn't all that bad as far as what actually happened relative to his childish rhetoric. He almost made it to the end of his term without any major event happening that would cause him to show his true colors in action. Unfortunately for him, a mob of hundreds stormed the US Capitol and were roaming the halls looking for prominent leaders to hang a few weeks before the end of his term. That situation brought in the need for Trump to respond immediately as Commander-in-Chief and then Trump proceeded to disqualify himself or as Don Jr. put it "ruin his own legacy" by ignoring all pleas for help and guidance for three hours. That really happened. I'm not a Democrat and I don't think Trump is necessarily evil but I care enough and pay attention enough to realize what he did in that moment is absolutely disqualifying. Not rocket science.

Also am I the only one who remembers how he grossly mismanaged COVID?! SO MANY PEOPLE DIED because of how he handled it - or didn't handle it!

You don't get to say "well he was mostly fine except when we faced the sort of catastrophic crisis we really need leadership for."

And he wasn't mostly fine! But also he had some people around him that first time who didn't LET him do the worst things he wished for. He is not going to have those people around him this time. If you want to see what an unchecked ID looks like, when it holds the nuclear codes, well I think you're wrong - I do not want that, I am sure.

I would actually be curious as to how Democrats think Trump seriously mismanaged Covid. I say that for a couple reasons: (1) He actually did a lot of things that Republicans did not like, caving to the more Democrat-minded restrictions; (2) he helped get the vaccine out pretty quickly, which liberals love; and (3) other countries faired just as bad (just as liberals point to for the inflation issue), and if anything, the countries that did better were ones that just decided to get it over with early with less restrictions, which is something Trump did not do because of pressure from the more progressive side of the aisle.

Don't even get started. Remember how they howled when he tried to shut down flights from China? Remember when they refused to use the navy hospital ships in NYC because it would make Trump look competent? Remember when that bastion of MAGA, the CDC, mysteriously distributed faulty covid tests to labs in March 2020?

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I think Trump, and I think because voters have a sense of being gaslit by Democrats:

Crime is not down, as anyone who has been robbed in the past four years (after never having been robbed before) and been told that the cops don’t even want to take a report knows. This is also known by all the people who can’t walk into their local drugstore to shop since so many of the goods are under lock and key.

Immigration is not an untrammeled good, as anyone who lives in a mostly lower-income community, especially with kids in public schools, knows.

Inflation is not mostly under control, as anyone who has to watch a grocery budget closely knows.

Boys who want to take the spot of girls and have access to girls’ private and safe spaces are not the victims and are not more important than those girls, as anyone with a minimal amount of common sense and respect for girls knows.

Spreading US military resources out around the world makes the US more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, as anyone who has studied military history knows.

Leaning in hard on identity as being the single most important aspect of a person is just an effective and corporate-backed anti-labor move, as anyone who has noticed that all the corporations with their millions spent on DEI somehow neglect to support the creation of a “Lower Class” internal affinity group.

And so on.

The Republicans lie all the time too, but they don’t make their lies out to be fundamental truths the same way. The Democrats have adopted all these positions with the fervor of evangelicals. It is a demand for belief, not just a policy statement. And people don’t like being ordered to believe truths they feel in their bones aren’t true.

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Anonymous wrote:My sense is that Trump will win. Harris is uninspiring and unintelligent, and the lack of primaries meant that she was never really battle tested. This is on Biden for picking her for VP and on the Democrats for not challenging Biden earlier. There are easily a half dozen other Democrats who ought to have been able to thrash Trump, and we’re left with Harris instead.

So many eloquent and intelligent Dems like Pete, Klobuchar, Whitmer - and we get DEI candidate Harris.

Biden should have not run for a 2nd term and there should have been an open primary.

Even if Harris gets elected, she will be such a colossal failure, that this election will be a test case for years to come.

Of course there should have been an open primary with Biden out of the way but that wasn't Harris' fault and you are underestimating her potential.

I’m Indian and I know something about Indian women.

After watching all her interviews I can confidently say that she will be in the bottom of the ranks among the women I know. She will not lead well. Put quite simply, she is not intelligent or has real world experience.

I am scared for America.

Harris will win because America is scared of what might come with a second Trump term. Our adversaries and enemies saw Trump completely freeze and do nothing for three hours while our government was under attack under his watch a few years ago. Just imagine what another global super power could do on our soil if the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces takes three hours to muster the courage to lead a counter-attack. Scary stuff!

Only hyperventilating Democrats are scared of a second Trump term. Noise aside, the first Trump term wasn't that bad. The thing to be afraid of in the present moment is the risk that Kamala Harris will become president. She is completely incompetent for the job and will be disastrous for the country.

You're mostly right. His first term wasn't all that bad as far as what actually happened relative to his childish rhetoric. He almost made it to the end of his term without any major event happening that would cause him to show his true colors in action. Unfortunately for him, a mob of hundreds stormed the US Capitol and were roaming the halls looking for prominent leaders to hang a few weeks before the end of his term. That situation brought in the need for Trump to respond immediately as Commander-in-Chief and then Trump proceeded to disqualify himself or as Don Jr. put it "ruin his own legacy" by ignoring all pleas for help and guidance for three hours. That really happened. I'm not a Democrat and I don't think Trump is necessarily evil but I care enough and pay attention enough to realize what he did in that moment is absolutely disqualifying. Not rocket science.

I know people like you are fixated on J6 just like you were focused on "Russian Collusion" before that. Nobody cares.

LOL.. Russian collusion was a bunch BS. We all know that. What we also know is that Trump's inaction while our nation's Capitol was under attack is a well documented fact that you can't dispute. People with at least half a brain do care about having a POTUS that will act immediately when there is an attack on the sovereignty of our country as opposed to a POTUS that cowers in a corner of The White House for three hours not knowing how a Commander-in-Chief is supposed to act in a big moment like that.

You're only defenses of Trump's inaction that day are either "it didn't really happen" which is like saying 2 + 2 isn't 4 or "nobody cares if our POTUS refuses to defend the country as long as the economy is good". Those are piss poor defenses. Grow up and act like a true American.

There was no attack on the sovereignty of our country on January 6. There were some idiots rioting, at best.

Oh sweetie, bless your heart. Yes, when a mob of hundreds breaches security of our nation's Capitol Building and chases our most prominent leaders from the House Chamber to the basement shelter while they are seeking to locate our VP to "hang", that is most certainly an attack on the sovereignty of our nation. I can't think of a situation that would more appropriately be defined as an attack on sovereignty of a country.

Oh but none of that actually really happened because our Commander-in-Chief at the time did his job and acted immediately to assist in re-securing the Capitol and the safety of those inside, correct? That's what you think, huh?

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Anonymous wrote:I think Trump, and I think because voters have a sense of being gaslit by Democrats:

Crime is not down, as anyone who has been robbed in the past four years (after never having been robbed before) and been told that the cops don’t even want to take a report knows. This is also known by all the people who can’t walk into their local drugstore to shop since so many of the goods are under lock and key.

Immigration is not an untrammeled good, as anyone who lives in a mostly lower-income community, especially with kids in public schools, knows.

Inflation is not mostly under control, as anyone who has to watch a grocery budget closely knows.

Boys who want to take the spot of girls and have access to girls’ private and safe spaces are not the victims and are not more important than those girls, as anyone with a minimal amount of common sense and respect for girls knows.

Spreading US military resources out around the world makes the US more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, as anyone who has studied military history knows.

Leaning in hard on identity as being the single most important aspect of a person is just an effective and corporate-backed anti-labor move, as anyone who has noticed that all the corporations with their millions spent on DEI somehow neglect to support the creation of a “Lower Class” internal affinity group.

And so on.

The Republicans lie all the time too, but they don’t make their lies out to be fundamental truths the same way. The Democrats have adopted all these positions with the fervor of evangelicals. It is a demand for belief, not just a policy statement. And people don’t like being ordered to believe truths they feel in their bones aren’t true.

Great post

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Anonymous wrote:I think Trump, and I think because voters have a sense of being gaslit by Democrats:

Crime is not down, as anyone who has been robbed in the past four years (after never having been robbed before) and been told that the cops don’t even want to take a report knows. This is also known by all the people who can’t walk into their local drugstore to shop since so many of the goods are under lock and key.

Immigration is not an untrammeled good, as anyone who lives in a mostly lower-income community, especially with kids in public schools, knows.

Inflation is not mostly under control, as anyone who has to watch a grocery budget closely knows.

Boys who want to take the spot of girls and have access to girls’ private and safe spaces are not the victims and are not more important than those girls, as anyone with a minimal amount of common sense and respect for girls knows.

Spreading US military resources out around the world makes the US more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, as anyone who has studied military history knows.

Leaning in hard on identity as being the single most important aspect of a person is just an effective and corporate-backed anti-labor move, as anyone who has noticed that all the corporations with their millions spent on DEI somehow neglect to support the creation of a “Lower Class” internal affinity group.

And so on.

The Republicans lie all the time too, but they don’t make their lies out to be fundamental truths the same way. The Democrats have adopted all these positions with the fervor of evangelicals. It is a demand for belief, not just a policy statement. And people don’t like being ordered to believe truths they feel in their bones aren’t true.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Trump, and I think because voters have a sense of being gaslit by Democrats:

Crime is not down, as anyone who has been robbed in the past four years (after never having been robbed before) and been told that the cops don’t even want to take a report knows. This is also known by all the people who can’t walk into their local drugstore to shop since so many of the goods are under lock and key.

Immigration is not an untrammeled good, as anyone who lives in a mostly lower-income community, especially with kids in public schools, knows.

Inflation is not mostly under control, as anyone who has to watch a grocery budget closely knows.

Boys who want to take the spot of girls and have access to girls’ private and safe spaces are not the victims and are not more important than those girls, as anyone with a minimal amount of common sense and respect for girls knows.

Spreading US military resources out around the world makes the US more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, as anyone who has studied military history knows.

Leaning in hard on identity as being the single most important aspect of a person is just an effective and corporate-backed anti-labor move, as anyone who has noticed that all the corporations with their millions spent on DEI somehow neglect to support the creation of a “Lower Class” internal affinity group.

And so on.

The Republicans lie all the time too, but they don’t make their lies out to be fundamental truths the same way. The Democrats have adopted all these positions with the fervor of evangelicals. It is a demand for belief, not just a policy statement. And people don’t like being ordered to believe truths they feel in their bones aren’t true.

Disagree. Republicans DO make their lies out to be fundamental truths.

They lie and say Trump won in 2020 and that it was stolen from him. That's one of their fundamental truths anymore.
They lie and say Trump never did anything wrong, committed no crimes or malfeasances and that the government is "weaponized" against conservatives. False, but they've made it a paranoid, fundamental truth.
They lie and say Democrats will confiscate everyone's guns if they get elected.
They lie and call Democrats "Marxists" and "Communists"
They lie and call Democrats "Satanic"
They lied and claimed the vaccines were more dangerous than COVID itself
They lied and claimed COVID was a hoax

A stunning amount of Republicans say they believe these things in polling. That makes them fundamental truths.

The Republicans tell lie after lie after lie, all intended to divide and demonize, and without any real solutions either. Yet here your big overwhelming issue is that Democrats play the optimists and downplay inflation or crime - with the irony being that Trump's economic policies would worsen inflation which would likely drive crime back up as well. So even as your "feeling of something being off" may have some limited merits to it, your response to it is to get nasty and vicious and support a guy who will pursue the exactly wrong policies rather than actually pursuing solutions and having meaningful dialogs.

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And ordered to believe those truths at the expense of their livelihoods. At my job we were encouraged to write DEI statements and add pronouns. My boss said it wasn't required but "would be considered in all advancement path decisions."
Every doctor at my hospital was required to take the knee for a stupid photo op in summer 2020.

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Let's not forget "they are forcing school kids into sex change operations" and all of the other crazy things they insist are truths...

Also ironic how the Republicans have done a complete 180 on many of their previously close-held policies and beliefs, like "use the military to project power around the world" as was used by Reagan, Bush, etc - now it's "we need to bring everyone home" isolationism. Really weird. But ultimately we know that it's all because of just a few things - Ukraine and bowing to Putin, and Israel. And anyone watching from the outside sees the Republicans twisting and contorting themselves into pretzels to thread the needle on it.

It really IS weird.

And here we are all being gaslit by the MAGAs to believe that this is what Republicans always believed and stood for, despite anyone being able to read some history for themselves and plainly see this is NOT the case.

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Wow, the Post decided not to endorse Kamala. Now, would this be happening if she were on pace to win?