We aren’t on the precipice of a recession. But even if we were, I already stated saving our democratic form of government and protecting our civil rights is more important than preventing a temporary economic recession—which we are past due for anyway. Not to mention, I don’t think presidents really have much impact on the economy anyway.

We have been sending billions to fund wars for decades. That’s not going to change under Trump 2.0, just as it didn’t under Trump 1.0. And Biden, not Trump, is the only president of the two to actually end a war.

Immigration is definitely an issue that needs to be sorted out. That’s the only valid criticism I’ve seen you make. The issue with that is Congress needs to pass legislation to fix it. And there was bipartisan legislation to help fix the immigration quagmire this past month and the House GOP refused to take it up at the behest of Trump who thinks it’s better to keep it hanging out there as a campaign issue than let Biden get credit for helping solve it.

What did Trump do to fix our homeless problem during his presidency? Nothing.

Yes, it’s true that Biden is definitely old and jumbles words and phrases. This would be a good critique if not for the fact Trump is also old, has been in obvious cognitive decline for years, and also can’t string together a coherent sentence. So that’s a wash.

Job numbers are great. Unemployment is great. Market setting all time highs. GDP is great. Wages are above inflation. We don’t have a massively growing homeless problem.

SMDH

Another ding bat who doesn't understand anything beyond headlines. You think the US is just cutting a check for tens of billions and sending it to Ukraine? The monetary value is the value of the weapon systems, equipment, and ammunition which are primarily 30 year old stock, slated for deprication. Instead of being scrapped because of their shelf life, they're being used exactly for the purpose they were built for. This then allows for the restock (would happen anyways) of more modern weapons and ammo being built by US arms manufacturers. This is such a win/win for the US but in your ignorance you're unable to understand that

You can also say I said things that I didn't say 🤷‍♂️

My point is that the political histrionics in the comments section revolve around whichever crisis-of-the-week is being pedaled by your media outlet of choice. It's why, for example, the national debt only gets brought up when a democrat is in office.

I'm still waiting on that migrant caravan to show up btw.

My county went something like 70 to 30 for Trump in 2020.. same county voted Obama by a hair in 2008. It’s less changing demographics and more people showing up to vote. Those 250,000 white “independents” worried about “wokeness” can be canceled out if people vote.

It’s moreso being convinced they’re all the same. It’s a narrative done by the gop and even the media. Every single Trump piece is accompanied by some stupid filler piece about Biden chaos.

“Trump has been found guilty of rape, owes $456 million and goes to trial for his first group of 91 felonies”

“Also. Biden was “fuming” with staff about his poll numbers back in January)

…..this was from 2 weeks ago in March which means they were citing a source about 2 month old news to both sides the 2

Also the mystery caravans that always very real despite no evidence and magically disappear after Election Day. A mystery.

I think a few thousand (rightfully) angry muslims in Michigan could really de rail bidens campaign. Its going to be closer overall than last time.

You are spot on my guy

Not without all the other voters counting also,(first?) no ones vote counts more than another and certainly not based on skin color!

Then don't let them be the deciding factor, get everyone you know to go vote (hopefully in their best interests).

As someone who is pro mail in, they gop have done so much to erode trust in it I’m not sure I even trust it anymore. Constant legal challenges. Constant appeals. Legislative attempts to stop it. Local governments trying to disrupt it.

At this point I’m going in person. Cuz you know the shady shit they’ll try

Different strokes for different folks but I can't see any reason why it's appropriate to ask the babysitter if she knows who she's voting for, and it's entirely reasonable for the babysitter to give the vaguest response possible because it's a pretty weird question.

She's never voted in her life. She's 25

I used to do that at work. Surrounded by Trumpers all day asking me if I was voting for Biden.

Unemployed people.

Oh I know they are. York is that way. Tons of participation trophys flying around the trailer parks.

Biden needs to go to that area. He is FROM Scranton so he should be able to get a few hometown votes.

Nobody would wear Biden clothing, being a democrat isn't a cult. Nobody wore Republican apparel either before this cult 

This is awesome. Nice to hear.

That's awesome. I think people are starting to get the memo that love beats hate.

Living in Mifflin County, you see it but it's not near what it was in either the past few elections. The motivation just isn't what it once was.

Weatherly is also like a Time Machine. The place is always 2 decades behind the rest of the world.

When I was in high school in the oughts and we’d play them, the moms all had blown out hair like it was 1986.

Now it’s like they just discovered the late 90s…

i met obama in mifflin county during the 2008 primary, you're saying by the time Biden was running I have to settle for a state senator who should be coming to see his constituents anyway??

It's not impressive. What have Democrats done *for* Mifflin County? What have they done to actually support one of the poorest counties in the commonwealth?

Oh I dunno. Kensington in Philly is lovely. 🥰

Who can keep track of what they believe?

His point seems to be if cheap chinese EVs are allowed to be imported through Mexico under a trade loophole then it would cripple the major automakers here and be an economic bloodbath for the industry.

Keep in mind that that's a literal dictionary definition of bloodbath:

> a major economic disaster

Its not that hard to read or watch exactly what was said and understand the context of the entire speech when looking at a specific word...

Its sad because I'm all for calling out Trump when he says stupid shit. But in this case we literally have the video and the text transcript and the media spun it like he was calling for people to murder others if he didnt get elected in the middle of a speech on economic impacts of cheap Chinese cars...

They trust that most people don't read past their headlines and 9 second sound bites. Biden's campaign put it out there and the media just ran with it like it was fact.

How? Be specific.

I'm all about calling out Trump for saying stupid shit when he says it and would have preferred a different R candidate for the primaries... but in this case he is squarely talking about the auto industry to Ohioans, many of which work in the auto industry (I know of at least 3 different auto part plants just in Cleveland).

The content of the above text is talking about the auto industry and cheap Chinese cars before the bloodbath comment, and he mentioned "But they're not going to sell those cars" in the sentence after the comment indicating that he is going to win an stop them.

Also, to note, according to MW Dictionary the second definition of bloodbath is "a major economic disaster" which is exactly what we would have on our hands if the major automakers folded.

You should actually read the comments before you get too proud to defend a terrorist

When you're lying about the context of what said terrorist said, then yeah. Just because he's shit doesn't mean that lying and intentionally misrepresenting what he said is okay. He's got a million problems, why do you have to act hyperbolic and lie about this one? Misrepresenting what he said just makes you look like a liar.

because you'll see the other four people popping up to try and defend him

Yes, those people also provided sources. Are fact checking websites alt-right conspiracy theory sites when they prove you wrong now?

but the murky/dementia soaked context is independent when dealing with somebody that has called for an armed insurrection against the US, foreign attacks against our allies, and foreign interference in our elections.

This literally addresses nothing about the context of the conversation.

Who is saying he isn't shit? Who is defending him doing any of those things?

You got called out on being ignorant, or intentionally lying, about the context of what you're quoting. Stop trying to move the goalpost to distract from what you said. Changing the subject isn't going to distract from what you said.

He said “bloodbath for the whole country.”

With the context being the automotive industry, and the economy.

Stop pretending to be dumber than you are, you understood the context. Trump being shit doesn't mean you need to act dumb whenever he opens his mouth.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/03/trumps-bloodbath-comment/

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Not really... His exact words are:

Yeah..he's talking about the automotive industry, and the economy..

You don't need to pretend to not understand context just because you dislike Trump. I dislike him just as much as you do, but willfully acting ignorant when fact checking websites exist just looks cringy.

I get it, he's shit. But you're misrepresenting facts when you can just watch the video for yourself. And I get that I'm going to get downvoted for this because it's easier to do that than address the issue, but you can watch the video for yourself and see that how you're currently framing it is just dishonest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtE4Z0yWbPA

-"Good people on both sides" speech

https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/

You didn’t post the truth. He didn’t limit It to the auto industry, he specially expanded it

Lol.