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The state of the democratic party

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Feb 27, 2021.

  1. GOATuve

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    Your feelings are hurt
     
  2. astros123

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    You need help
     
  3. GOATuve

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    Yeah because I am the one who moved to Denmark because Trump was elected.
     
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    agreed…Tim Walz probably sweeps
     
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  5. Reeko

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    100% facts…some of the most pathetic and worthless groups of people you’ll find

    all these Jill Stein/Trump/Undecided/Couch 2024 groups can fck off…they’d gladly screw over millions in this country for their performative activism

    they should go bother and put pressure on the Trump admin they helped elect, but we all know they won’t

    these morons are out here shouting and screaming like lunatics at Dem town halls…meanwhile, they wouldn’t dare harass a republican
     
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    Timeline filled with the weirdos damaging Teslas, harassing random Americans driving them.

    Do the pea brain liberals not realize they were the party of EV’s.

    All you are doing is pushing more voters to become libertarian/ out of your party. Keep doing it. The party of violence.
     
  7. GOATuve

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    What a ridiculous post
     
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    Nobody is watching that
     
  10. Space Ghost

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    Jon Steward finally realizing what it means to vote Democrat. Endless grift.

     
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    Ultimately. We will all learn(some of us already understand this)that things like Climate change, DEI, administration in many fields, LGBTQ, were all used for some form of grifting.
    That one side never really cared about any of this. They just legitimately did all of this for scamming purposes.
     
  12. Space Ghost

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    Bingo. The Democrat establishment doesn't give a **** about any of those people. They were props used to entrench their establishment. DEI was used to bolster government spending to prop up the economy knowing very well future administrations would cut the graft. Looking back over the last 4 years, very little time went into productive means for the entirety.

    This is why Democrats now have approval rating is the low 20's.
     
  13. adoo

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    ur too stupid to understand
    • the infrastructure bill, one
      • that Trump 1.0 campaign for but failed to deliver


    Biden bailed up the 78-yr old convicted felon by signing into law, in his first year in office, the Infrastructure bill.

    then there is also the CHIPs act
     
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    Love how you’ve redefined “grift” to mean any government spending that doesn’t meet your personal definition of “caring about people.” By that logic, every U.S. administration and Congress in history has been grifting - how much depends entirely on your political viewpoint. But of course, that’s not what grift actually means. If you want a real example, look no further than the recent POTUS meme-coin - that’s textbook grifting.

    There’s plenty to debate about the effectiveness of government spending, but instead of engaging with that, you resort to lazy talking points - "DEI this," "woke that," and other recycled political buzzwords.

    Meanwhile, this administration is actually taking steps toward more effective governance :cool::

    “Current Policy Baseline” Gimmick Could Explode the Debt-2025-02-27
    A $2 Trillion Cut Compared to $86 Trillion in Spending-2025-03-13
    Massive taxpayer exodus in the U.S? IRS braces for huge $500 billion revenue hit - DOGE cuts spark taxpayer revolt
     
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    The bureaucratic state is a large reason why China is kicking our asses and only a few monopolies rise to the top, which they then pile onto that vicious cycle through regulatory capture.

    It's happened plenty of times in the past and it's still happening with a mostly unassuming public who occasionally learns about one case through john oliver.

    I dunno whether Biden did this because of lobbyist cronies or to "Trump proof" through stifling EU-like red tape. Seems more like the former.
     
  16. Space Ghost

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    "caring about people" is an extremely intentional and vague statement. i do care about people and I am concerned about taxing them into oblivion. See how that works? I can make it fit just about any narrative.
     
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    That's my point. You throw out political slogans and redefine terminology instead of actually engaging with specific points.

    How about this - let’s start with housing. We have a MAJOR housing issue, and Democratic policies have done more harm than good. Be specific about why that is and what changes you’d want to see.
     
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    China uses bureaucracy to keep out unwanted actors. When its something they want, it goes straight to the top with near unlimited funding.

    I do not view the authors of the bill as incompetent. They know that by the time any real movement happens in regards to actual deployment of the bill, technology will be very different. Seems more like a huge bucket of money to be appropriated at a later date.
     
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  19. Space Ghost

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    The housing issue is not as dire as many want to claim. I could not afford a house in my mid 20's. It wasn't even a consideration, much less trying to buy in a high demand dense population.
    The problem is that United States has hollowed out the middle class. This has been talked about for 20 years. Democrats did it. Republicans did it. Its not going to be "lets throw 5 trillion at this and fix it before the next election". Its going to take 20 years to recall and rebuild many of those healthy middle class jobs.
    Americans have come very accustomed to instant gratification to a point none of us would have imagined 20 years ago. Nobody wants recessions. Nobody wants to go out to help their neighbors. Nobody wants to get dirty or sweaty. Throw it away or pay someone else to fix my problem. They would rather eat cold highly processed unhealthy food delivered by an immigrant than get off their lazy ass and fix a meal in their own kitchen.
     
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    You didnt answer the question, you just gave anecdotal evidence about yourself and got on a weird soap box.
     

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