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  1. You actually think you’re doing well so far
  2. Wouldn’t bother. The guy you’re quoting has a fantastic history of parroting bullshit regarding this exact issue.
  3. Oh he’s been doing that for years. Here’s my problem with the take he expressed on the video: 1. Maher himself once said that if this whole thing by Trump is an act, he should stop it. 2. The guy we see in the rallies, videos, newscasts, etc is the one his congress follows. He’s the one for which all these ridiculous pieces of legislation are written. They’re not written for the measured guy Maher is describing 3. The guy we see is the one the SCOTUS is constantly bending the knee to as it cedes its soul vis a vis these horrid rulings for which they’ve become notorious. They’re not doing that for the measured guy Maher is describing. 4. The guy we see is the one proposing 3rd terms, tariffs on everything, tax cuts for billionaires, gutting the government, all this anti-“woke” stuff, etc. That’s not coming from the measured guy Maher is describing 5. The guy we see is the one his idiot voter base follows, not the measured guy Maher is describing. That’s what matters. The fact that he was cool with Maher for 2 and a half hours in almost total privacy? Does not matter at all. And that’s what people hate about the guy. When Maher says “this is why the democrats are unpopular,” no, you fucking dipshit. People from the left loathe the democrats because they’re a right-leaning corporatist lot that is constantly screwing over the working class and has been doing so slowly for the last 50 years. People from the right loathe the democrats because they were conditioned to do so by AM shock jocks and cable news blowhards. There are people in this country who seriously believe no more sacred duty exists in your political life than to hate the democrats, and it’s precisely because people like rush limbaugh told them to. It has absolutely nothing to do with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
  4. With due respect, I disagree There was no other way for this thread to age. It was destined to go this course, and when the OP was penned, one would have been a fool not to roll one’s eyes at it.
  5. Oh it’ll be much worse. 1. the whole argument that’s put forth in favor of tariffing the shit out of everyone is that it’s a more effective way to raise revenues than nominal taxation. There’s never been any evidence given on this; it’s really just a religious belief at best and at worst it’s just a pretext for rich people not to pay taxes 2. Think what that revenue was used to pay for with Smoot-Hawley and now think about how tax revenues are used today. Smoot-Hawley was passed at a time that was pre-Medicare, pre-Medicaid, pre-social security, pre-welfare (at the federal level), pre-education department, pre-pretty much anything that assists people in the middle and lower classes of the economic ladder. Smoot-Hawley wasn’t even effective enough under the old system when we had a gold-standard dollar and now this shit is supposed to be effective? Effective how? You’ll notice though that’s where they come in with their bullshit about undermining those programs. Undermine education, undermine health, undermine social safety nets. Coupled with the tariff bullshit and the very inevitable tax cuts for the wealthy, that’s them telling you “we know tariffs can’t pay for all the shit our budget calls for and we don’t care. We don’t want to pay taxes. We want you to pay taxes that will subsidize our businesses so that we can make all the profits and assume none of the risks, but we couldn’t be bothered to give two drops of monkey shit if your kid has a measles vaccine, education, or food to eat tonight. Fuck you, pay me.”
  6. Hangover pic is the most accurate depiction of this whole thing. Presented as smart, yet it’s brought to you by the same guy that said “ruh-tard.”
  7. Didn’t say anything about supporting Trump. Said you’d make excuses for tripping over yourself, as you always have.
  8. Wouldn’t matter because you’d just offer the same ridiculous excuses anyways.
  9. It’s already there in plain words. And it doesn’t even matter because the point is you attributed to him the capacity to admit to being wrong. The schizo nature about these tariffs? Yeah that has to do with reciprocity w/r/t what sort of grift he can work out of them. It has nothing to do with a measured reaction to how damaging they are to average Americans and the economy. He couldn’t be bothered to give two shits about that, just like he (contrary to what you believe) couldn’t be bothered to give two shits about his deportation policy ultimately being inflationary. Hell, his tariff policy IS inflationary even with the psychotic nature factored in. Markets do not appreciate uncertainty. You know less about your own side of this argument than most of us know about both. Again, the only way he’d take the quoted response you said you “expected” him to take w/r/t inflationary effects of his deportation policies is to first admit to being wrong about them. There’s no way around that. You don’t correct/alter a policy that you think is right, and it’s naive/dense/stupid/foolish to believe otherwise. Seriously, I’ll let you even pick which word you feel most comfortable using. Regardless of which word hurts your fee-fees the least, you don’t have to literally say “he’d admit to being wrong” in order to clearly imply that you believe it. Or to put it another way, if you really don’t believe he has the capacity to ever admit that he’s wrong about anything, why the fuck would you expect him to correct one of his own policy decisions after seeing its adverse effects?
  10. RE: mass deportations “This isn’t an inflation contributor, and if it becomes one, I’d expect Trump to react to that and loosen and have some sort of Bush era guest worker program. ” The only way that it is even possible to harbor such an expectation is if you believe that fucking clown has the capacity to admit when he’s wrong. Clearly
  11. @Rex Kramer certainly believes in that belief
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