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DGenBen
I get it, to be honest both parties & both candidates were / are shit.
But looking at the big picture and forgetting about just lobbing shit at the party you don’t like:
I like that Trump is antiwar and anti-foreign entanglements. Hope he keeps that up. Shaking up the Federal Bureaucracy is not a bad thing at this point whether he does it for himself or not.
Three letter agencies & government bureaucracy is / are out of control and who’s going to fix that? Dems? Hahahaha.
If he’s offensive and full of bullshit I don’t care just on these two issues alone.
Democrats are inoffensive, politically correct, & talk a good game about being for the little guy, but what policies do they actually enact? Endless wars (along with the neocons) endless regulation & government overreach, moving us towards becoming a police state (As do many Republicans)?
No one cares anymore about what politicians say or how they come off. They care about the tangible things like no more endless wars, reduced government spending, lower prices etc. etc.
At this point he could wear a swastika, grow a Charlie Chaplin mustache and just speak solely in four letter curse words and racial epithets but if he gets the major tangibles moving in the right direction he will continue to have majority support,
I agree about Trump being anti-war but I don't know if that's the right move with Putin. With Israel it clearly was. The problem with Putin is you have no clear idea where it will stop. Fucked if you do and fucked if you don't. Israel has dug their own grave IMO.
The shaking up federal bureaucracy is something I tend to believe he can also do.
Endless regulation. I tend to believe the regulation is good but big business has a huge interest in sending the message of its evil because it slows down their accumulation of wealth. (It also keeps smaller players from getting in... that's also quite bad) Moving us towards a police state - I'd say Republicans are more about that. The weird shit where you rat on your neighbor if they had an abortion and can get paid when you had nothing to do with it???? Republicans look aside but thats as hardcore police state as anything in my lifetime. All the get the cops off people's backs are pretty much liberal cities. (Very often to their detriment). I feel you have that one completely wrong and don't think we'd agree at all. There isn't that much protecting people or the Earth itself from being poisoned. Or any of the numerous ways the monied can fuck the non-monied.
The problem with lowering prices is that tariffs are mostly going to go in the opposite direction. So instead of a normal war, you have a trade war. A trade war tends to impact the lower classes. It literally becomes a backdoor tax on the lower classes. Couple that with Trump wanting to lower taxes for wealthy. Thats the biggest problem - we hear about reduced government spending but never increasing taxes on wealthy. Due to basic math, the rich have a discretionary income that is far far larger than working class people. They simply don't/can't spend what they make. Then given compound interest the accumulate a larger portion of the wealth which they in then have to invest it. Well they run out of shit to invest in. And what they can invest in has to maintain returns which in late stage capitalism almost always means taking value away from the consumer. There aren't many advances left. So they sit around and think about how they can provide less and charge more. All the ENDLESS stories about how private equity makes things shitty for everyone. Of course the rich can ignore these issues through various means.
Then you have the standard Trump support who as Steinbeck said, 'the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires'. So true.
The effect is that it rigs the game so lower classes can't even buy homes anymore. They work their knuckles bloody trying to get ahead. You can still do it in this country but it is so hard. It wont' get any better under someone like Trump. We have to have an income tax that is far more top heavy or a wealth tax for the very wealthy. Otherwise this shit will keep happening. The game becomes increasingly rigged. The media as it is just works to make working class people hate each other. It is crazy to me that so much of the thought is based on entitlement. Once you go down the path of the left or right you just see endless senses of entitlement all through differently tinted glasses.
Trump will not fix this. He's won by blaming the brown man. They aren't totally wrong. We have to stop immigration too. Too many trashy people setting up here. Or people who don't have our values. Although Trump followers seem to often be anti-education but somehow think we can compete globally without it. Contrast this with China or asian countries. Our time at the top is rapidly winding down.
Anyway Trump is the opposite of the solution for this. Immigration , shaking up bureaucracy, and forcing NATO to pay more seem to be things I can kinda get behind. I'm just not sure the bureaucracy is such a bad thing. That's what keeps planes from crashing and shit like that. Trump doesn't even want to pay for basic infrastructure.
And this isn't even touching on the 'drill baby drill' shit. 2 years back to back global heating records. I called how bad it was about to get 2-3 years ago and was mocked by the weird with the dick fetish and Crimm. That alone makes it very hard to get behind. Trump doesn't like windmills because they make his property look bad. He isn't looking out for anyone. He's a completely petty wannabe tyrant. Those who still worship him - well good for you but it has become quite apparent what sort of person you are in various ways. Not really worth attacking Trump directly. Everyone knows who he is by now except for a few... as you see witnessing this forum.
Ultimately hes just too corrupt to do the job.
I have a friend who applied at Tesla. They said 60-70 hour weeks if you work here bub. Thats because they have a ton of immigrants on those h2b visas (or whatever the name). Thats why Elon loves it so much. I guess we get cheaper cars but they also just had a huge margin. But anyway, this goes to show you how Elon runs business but hes now in charge of our government.
Good game.
