2024 US Presidential Election

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The basic difference between progressives and populists is that if a populist doesn't like you they may block you yet not bother to report you, while a progressive would not only block you but insist on reporting you.

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Really? “Populists” wouldn’t organise a vicious hate campaign?
You know if, for example a librarian opposed book-banning?

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I feel that he will win this election and do it without cheating

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There was a lot of cheating and attempts at cheating from the Republicans last time. What makes you think this time will be any different? I predict more cheating, not less.

Well, you can't have both, the youth are generally more feeling-oriented. And Trump is quite the failed businessman, he cons other businesses, abuses the rules, all out of greed and a sense of entitlement that makes everything a one way street for him.Have you never felt "Huh, that's odd" when the stock markets are doing well and he proclaims it's because the market is responding to the sheer possibility that he'll become president soon.Only for the stock market to go down and have him blame that on Biden.If you really like him, tell me one significant thing that he's taken responsibility for in his presidency, I'm talking mistakes here, there's plenty, name one thing where he clearly stated that he was wrong and he'll have to do better in the future or some variation of that.Man, that question can probably be applied to his life in general. He always shifts the blame, he never takes responsibility.On a secondary note, have you seen the absolutely unhinged fundraising mails his campaign has been sending out? Talk about feeling-oriented. They're crazy weird, but they're doing it because they're pretending to show feeling.From the mails telling you Trump loves you and wants your support, to talking about guillotines, the so called dem pocalypse, or how democrats want him dead. It's pretty unhinged, so you can't say they're not being feeling-oriented when something like that is going on.

Oh, the irony.--Percy

He disagrees with a whole platform that I am sure he has not read.

You will have to explain that word to him.

And that's just after you said:I'm expecting Harris to win. Trump is doing a fine job of sabotaging his own campaign.

Ummm, you forgot rapist. In addition to liar, misogynist, hater, mentally-retarded sociopath, tRump is also a rapist. And deplorables are those who have a choice, yet willfully and purposefully choose and support the rapist.To wit: for deplorables, being a rapist isn't a faulty bug, it's a HIGHLY desirable feature. Oh, good . . .Antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy)
Antisocial personality disorder - Wikipedia

We would settle for "unfit for office". Do we really want someone affecting our economy when they don't even understand the basics of how tariffs work?

Phat is simply the product of the Christian Cult of Ignorance.

the problem with having a businessman run the government is that a government is not a business. The purpose of a business is to generate profit, the purpose of government is to serve it's citizens. Donald Trump has no interest in serving, I'm sure the thought has never crossed his mind.

I feel like the tariff issue got lost because the Investors Business Daily article you quoted from is so incomplete and misleading. Let's try again: I followed the link and read the whole article. It was either written by a child (i.e., someone just out of school), or by someone in a tremendous hurry, or by someone determined to obfuscate and minimize the actual effects of tariffs.It is American importers who actually pay the tariff to the American government, but they have to somehow recover or compensate for those additional costs. Most commonly importers simply pass the additional cost of the tariff on to the consumer.But it isn't that simple, something the Investors Business Daily attempted to make clear but failed. There are feedback effects, too. For example, because importers usually pass the tariff costs on to consumers, tariffs often reduce demand for a product, and reduced demand causes the exporter to drop the price of the product, easing the impact of the tariff on the importer. This means that a 25% tariff in goods won't necessarily result in a 25% increase in prices to consumers.But that's not what a government wants to happen when they impose a tariff. There are a variety of reasons for imposing tariffs, but by far the most common one is to protect domestic industries. Imposing a 25% tariff on a $100 item causes it to cost $125 and making it less competitive with domestic products, so the exporter might drop the price to $80, and a 25% tariff on an $80 item causes it to cost $100, which is what it was originally. This often starts a trade war where the government raises the tariff again causing the exporter to lower the price again.But the feedback and side effects are just complicating factors. American importers usually just pass on the costs of tariffs to consumers. It is American consumers who pay the cost of American tariffs, not foreign countries like China.This means that Trump is lying when he says that China is paying for the tariffs. And he's lying when he says the 2020 election was stolen. And he's lying when he says Harris was hiding the fact that she was black. The lying just goes on and on. And you want to vote for this man?--Percy

Reason, logic and evidence mean nothing to followers of a cult. Given a choice between Jesus of the bible and the convicted felon, people like Phat will alter Jesus to fit into the Trump cult. This is proven out by the fact it has happened already. Looking at Phat's religious beliefs over the last 20 years we can see that he has embraced the anti-Christianity, anti-spirituality and dehumanization of Trumpism

She lacks experience in foreign policy and Democrats in general do not understand economicsPlus she is pro Palestinian and anti Israel

Even if all that is totally true - of course it isn't - you should embrace her in both arms. Is that the worst you can come up with?Trump, the bankrupt, rapist, convicted criminal, serial adulterer, humourless narcissistic liar - not to mention the little episode with the Capitol - he's the kind of guy that you as a "Christian" should support instead?