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UTEE97

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  1. Oh, Bill, how does buyer's remorse taste like?
  2. Fucking this! It's fine to bring back strategic manufacturing to the stateside, but who cares about who makes the toys my kids will play with for a day or two? It's unimaginable to think that people in charge of running the treasury and the commerce department don't understand this. Not a fan of what Elon has become but I like this post below by him where Friedman talks about the free market. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1909169096391811304?t=Bu5BrSF0jCT3xaEhqXtX6w&s=19
  3. Wealth wasn't enough for them. They also wanted clout, so they chose a side they thought would give them that.
  4. That's not a country I would want to visit now. If you decide to explore the towns where your ship docks, perhaps stay with a group of people. Good luck!
  5. It will be interesting to see who flinches first. Unfortunately, neither leaders care about their own people.
  6. I think we will be alright after the midterms. It has to be!
  7. The problem with you is that you are not very intelligent. You didn't understand a single point of my posts. I pointed out what caused swing voters to tilt the election. You can feel one way and still understand what motivates the others. I put you on ignore because you're not worth my brain cells. You can do the same and move one.
  8. This guy is hilarious.
  9. Ackman is getting what he deserves. He waged an all out war on DEI and thought Trump would help his cause.
  10. Back to economy. I have spurred with people who think tariffs will bring back the jobs and make America stronger in the long run. We already have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world at around 4%. Will bringing back the manufacturing jobs make people switch from their higher paying service jobs to lower paying manufacturing jobs or are we just trying to find jobs for the 4% that's unemployed? Is reaching full employment even possible? Why does America need to compete with the likes of Bangladeshi and Vietnamese laborers? They say, well, we need a fair and balanced trade. They are putting tariffs on our products, so we need to retaliate until they come to the table. The reason these poor countries levy tariffs is to tax their rich on imported luxury goods. In Honduras, they charge ~40% tariffs on imported golf cart, not because they want to help their local producers. It's to tax their rich. They don't make golf carts. I think a lot of people, who never lived in those countries, understand this.
  11. It's a republican propaganda that resonated with the swing voters enough to put a mand man in office. Elections are dirty. You have to have a message that resonates with the swing voters (because majority doesn't matter anymore) or you spend the next four years crying about it.
  12. Did we "educate" them? Perhaps if we mock them more, they will learn their lesson. Are we willing to sink the boat so these people learn? I don't think you can change people and their beliefs.
  13. So you rather lose the election, watch your country get destroyed by a mad man than figure out how to win over the people who decide the election? Got it.
  14. Come again? It's your solution that we tell people they are part of the problem and they should stop it?
  15. The first step to fixing a problem is understanding and acknowledging a problem exists. I mentioned in my first post that I thought the democratic party was starting to lean too far left, which many took an issue with. Despite how you personally feel about the far left's agenda, you have to acknowledge how the swing voters feel. A liberal voting for a dem in a firm democratic state doesn't make a shit. A swing voter who is put off by the far left will have a material impact. The fact that the dems couldn't win over the swing states in an election where the other candidate was a convicted criminal should have told you how poorly the dems ran their campaign. Personally, I align ideologically with the people who are attacking me here. My differences have to do with what I feel the swing voters needed to see and hear. It's a game of thrones and you better play dirty to win it. I am angry at the dems because they didn't listen to those voters and that they let Biden wait so long to drop out. Dems haven't had a charismatic candidate since Obama. Biden won because people wanted anyone but Trump. Then people forgot how terrible the first Trump presidncy was and the Republicans blamed Biden for the inflation. I am sure the dems will win it in the next election no matter who runs because people would want anyone but Trump. The most concerning thing for me, as I watch my portfolio drop almost a million bucks in a month or so, is the apparent breakdown in checks and balances. All branches leaning one way is a recipe for disaster. Neg away!
  16. I am typing as I am getting my kids ready for school. Thanks for fixing my spelling mistake. You, sir, are very smart.
  17. You wonder why this country is so divided. Nobody listens or tries to understand where people are coming from, so the root cause never gets addressed.
  18. Too many fucking morons on this board. I now understand why people dislike this board so much. Enjoy your eco chamber. I am out.
  19. What does the House have anything to do with the Presidential elections? The richest states currently don't decide Presidential elections.
  20. Guess we have Lithuanian ties now.
  21. I said "reluctantly' because I didn't find her an exciting candidate. I still voted for her because I thought if she just steered the ship, we are good, much better than the alternative. I usually vote for the candidate, not the party. Also, California votes have no impact on the general elections, which I find to be ridiculous because the state contributes the most to the gdp. I think we should change the electoral college to popular vote, but that's a discussion for another day.
  22. While I don't disagree with who to blame, I think you need to be strategic. What is right may not win you the election. Counting on people in rural America to not be racist or sexist is not a winning strategy. Trump won because he told those voters what they wanted to hear. You have to know your audience and can't always expect them to behave rationally.
  23. The guy was negging and attacking my posts before I responded. I usually try to stay out of politics because it brings the worst out of people, but these are desperate times. If we don't act, the country is going to be run by a lunatic cult for a long time that is undoing everything that made this country the envy of the world.
  24. You lower the national debt by cutting government spending, having a good gdp growth and increasing tax revenues. This administration is attempting to fix one while tanking the other two. That's not going to lower our debt.
  25. What is a financial deficit? Does he mean a trade deficit? We are richer than China in every metric imaginable, but I guess we need them to buy our products more for some reason?
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