American Politics

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3035784]It took you a week to come up with this garbage.

Again, your putting words in my mouth. I never claimed anything on the percentage of immigrants or non immigrants smuggling drugs in. I clearly stated 19% is way too high. My opinion is that the 44% Hispanic Americans have strong family ties to the cartels in Latin America and are probably first generation Americans or even born in those countries. As I already stated, it is irrelevant to what is important. What is important is stopping Americans from dying from fentanyl..[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/dea-nominee-cartels-mexican-government/[/URL]

Every Mexican President for the last 40 yrs has been on the Cartels payrolls espec AMLO, and now his protege Sheinbaum.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3035904]Oh, right. Like the data gatherers at the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, everybody at Indeed is also lying, reporting fake news and needs medical help.

I almost forgot.

But, hey, since Trump and his MAGAs are hiding from the BLS Reports because they are as typically and predictably crappy as virtually every other Repub policy and stewardship results of the past 100 years, guess what it is reporting.

Yep. Another "Worst since" a previous Repub policy and stewardship handoff to an incoming Dem, who then went on to recover all the millions upon millions of jobs that Repub, guess who, wiped out with one disastrous policy decision after another for four solid years. And now that same failed Repub president, guess who, is doing it all over again.

You know, I think some MAGA here reminded us how intelligent, worthy and deserving the Greatest Generation was in the past.[/QUOTE]Hoover, who had long been associated with the more progressive wing of the Republican Party (he had even pondered a run as a Democrat in 1920), was a proactive president who proposed numerous government actions in response to the Great Depression.

Is it a clean sweep of Dem wins today to add to the already amazing record of special election wins for the Dems since Trump began his 2nd Trump's Pandemic and Wipe Out Millions of Jobs term? I think it is:

[B]Democrats win Virginia governor, attorney general races, NBC News projects[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/virginia-governor-election-spanberger-earle-sears.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Democratic candidates will win the Virginia governors race and the states attorney general election, NBC News projects.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger will defeat Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, becoming Virginias first female governor.

Democratic state attorney general nominee Jay Jones will unseat Republican incumbent Jason Miyares, NBC projects.[/QUOTE]Interesting how different things turn out when a particular election outcome does not hinge on a Repub-favorably rigged Electoral College system where a tiny handful of angry Muslims spread across the only three swing states that mattered can be manipulated by the criminally indicted leader of a foreign country into swinging less than a single percentage point of the total votes in those three states in order to install The Worst President in USA History again so he can once again produce The Worst Economic and National Security Results in USA History.

Did any Repub MAGA Trump endorsement prevail today? Not sure. I'll have to check with the lying, fake and under-medicated news reports.

Funny, most famous US town all over the world, where he started his business, is now against senile ignorant Trump. Unlike middle West where people don t know over their street, people of highest level may wake up about the old orange.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3035930]Hoover, who had long been associated with the more progressive wing of the Republican Party (he had even pondered a run as a Democrat in 1920), was a proactive president who proposed numerous government actions in response to the Great Depression.[/QUOTE]Dammit! I knew there were many more lame Repub excuses for why every Great Depression, Great Recession and Massive Jobs Destruction of the past 100 years or so occurred as a direct result of Repub policies and stewardship and none of the great economic recoveries, great economic expansions and historic jobs creation that I forgot to cite!

Thanks for the reminder.

So now we can add "but he was really a Democrat" to that growing list, as was also the lame Repub excuse for Eisenhower's 3, count 'them, 3 Recessions during his presidency, culminating in one of the worst jobs creation records of all time.

Ok. To recap:

A Wild Coincidence!

It's Just Bad Luck For Repubs!

It's Just Good Luck For Dems!

A Weird Economic Cycle That For Whatever Reason Hates Repubs and Loves Dems!

Must Be a Witch's Curse!

But he Was Really a Dem!

Fake News!

Please update me with any more lame excuses you MAGAs can come up with.

But for the love of god and all that is holy, never, never, never go near the most blatantly obvious real and true reason for it; Repub policies and stewardship are crap, either because they are too stupid to think of and produce better ones or, far more likely, because they WANT to produce Great Depressions, Great Recessions and Massive Jobs Destruction.

The latter being more generous to the Repubs in that to go with the former one can then only conclude Repubs are the absolute dumbest, most ignorant, feckless and incompetent pols and voters that ever existed on the Planet.

Where there's smoke there's fire! Make Donald Chump a lame duck president with the mid-terms in 2026!

[NOPARSE]In various key election 2025 races, around the country (NY, NY, PA, VA, CA) the Democrats, just destroyed MAGA/Repubs and WON convincingly, in what appears to be a good bell weather test or referendum, for the 2026 elections.[/NOPARSE]

[B]Democrats sweep key races in 2025 elections in early referendum on Trump[/B], Nov 5th, 2025. [URL]https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-day-2025-voting-results/[/URL]

Just wanted to say THANKS to the MAGA Fuhrer, for the great assist and all the MAGA candidate endorsements!

P.S: With results like these (I suspect the Fuhrer knew was coming), is it any wonder why, the Commander in Cheat, is looking to redistrict, gerrymander, rig, con, swindle and lie, his way towards winning in 2026?

[QUOTE=Spidy;3036014][NOPARSE]In various key election 2025 races, around the country (NY, NY, PA, VA, CA) the Democrats, just destroyed MAGA/Repubs and WON convincingly, in what appears to be a good bell weather test or referendum, for the 2026 elections.[/NOPARSE]

[B]Democrats sweep key races in 2025 elections in early referendum on Trump[/B], Nov 5th, 2025. [URL]https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-day-2025-voting-results/[/URL]

Just wanted to say THANKS to the MAGA Fuhrer, for the great assist and all the MAGA candidate endorsements!

P.S: With results like these (I suspect the Fuhrer knew was coming), is it any wonder why, the Commander in Cheat, is looking to redistrict, gerrymander, rig, con, swindle and lie, his way towards winning in 2026?[/QUOTE]They need to move right and they are moving further to the left lolololololol.

WOW A Communist born in Uganda and a couple more feminist vaginas on the very blue East Coast NJ and Va.

There's an axiom, when you're in a HOLE stop digging LMMFAO.

Allahu Akbar indeed.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3036035]They need to move right and they are moving further to the left lolololololol.

WOW A Communist born in Uganda and a couple more feminist vaginas on the very blue East Coast NJ and Va.

There's an axiom, when you're in a HOLE stop digging LMMFAO.

Allahu Akbar indeed.[/QUOTE]Trump effect: to make a not even born in USA Muslim becoming mayor of the most famous town of whole America, so funny, when he hates Muslims. Wake up USA when your MAGA is really falling very down, when always bullshiting is not enough to work.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3035928][URL]https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/dea-nominee-cartels-mexican-government/[/URL]

Every Mexican President for the last 40 yrs has been on the Cartels payrolls espec AMLO, and now his protege Sheinbaum.[/QUOTE]On a negative note, the drug cartels were going to be hurting when pot was legalized, and they needed a new revenue source. It is funny how the prescription opioid "crisis" came into being once pot was legal, and the drug cartels were able to use fentanyl and heroin to shore up their losses in pot. It is almost as if the DEA is controlled by the cartels.

There will be never be drug legalization in the USA because the government makes too much money and it is not just the feds. This is a must read if you want to understand how law enforcement and drug dealers operate. [URL]https://www.texasobserver.org/exclusive-the-man-behind-hidalgo-countys-biggest-law-enforcement-scandal/[/URL]

The drug dealers had more honor in that county than law enforcement. "Word had rippled through the county that a prison gang affiliated with the Gulf Cartel had been authorized to shoot Hidalgo County deputies because too many drug loads had been stolen by crooked cops."

Jonathan started receiving death threats, says a former narcotics investigator. "There's still something of a code of honor among drug dealers," he says. "You don't just go and jack anybody's dope because at the end of the day that guy might be working for the same guy you're working for. But then you have these independent gangs and all they do is steal dope, and they don't care. Well, Jonathan fell into that group. They didn't care who they stole dope from, and they didn't have any alliance with anybody. They were working for themselves and that's where they got their troubles. "

MDS, there was a bit of a mob presence where I grew up and I noticed the mob always had the best restaurants. LOL. Maybe that is because they wanted a lot of volume to launder their money.

Thing is Vegas is now being run by hedge fund guys and not the mobs, and I never thought I would say this, but Vegas, a city where I had so many good times, has just had the joy sucked out of it. The Democratic douches are claiming Vegas is down because of Trump but it is down because instead of it being a fun place, the hedge guys are fucking you over every chance they get. It used to be on average you would lose a few hundred in the casino but you would be at the $5 buffets and $2 shrimp cocktails and the great shows, and you had a good time. I told myself someone has to pay for all the amazing light shows.

But even if you won big, Vegas would still get your money as you buy the $100 cheeseburger or blow your winnings at a strip club. You would blow $100 at a blackjack table and get a free Coke. Now the free cokes are gone and if you go to the gift shop, they charge you $8 a coke.

Vegas needs the mob guys back in charge of the casinos.

Thing is you are right in that the cartels have a lot of power and that can be a good thing. Of all the countries I looked at and how they handled Covid, I thought only Sweden had better policies than Mexico, and I think that was in large part because of the cartels.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3036035]They need to move right and they are moving further to the left lolololololol.

WOW A Communist born in Uganda and a couple more feminist vaginas on the very blue East Coast NJ and Va.

There's an axiom, when you're in a HOLE stop digging LMMFAO.

Allahu Akbar indeed.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/11/01/fetterman-on-newsom-moving-to-center-everyone-will-try-to-go-to-center-but-the-internet-is-forever/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/11/02/fetterman-the-democrats-own-the-shutdown-this-is-an-absolute-fail/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/11/01/maher-dems-still-seem-to-ignore-blue-collar-workers/[/URL]

[B]Retailers are raising prices to meet tariffs. Amazon is hiking more than others[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/amazon-target-walmart-raising-prices-tariffs.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Prices on Amazon, Walmart and Target have all increased this year as retailers grapple with higher costs due to tariffs.

Amazon prices rose more those at Walmart and Target across several shopping categories, according to an analysis of online pricing data by research firm DataWeave.

Because third-party sellers are more vulnerable to tariffs, marketplace vendors often have no choice but to pass higher costs onto the shopper.[/QUOTE]And when you consider this is how the Stable Genius Smart Businessman made "Trillions of dollars flow into the country from other countries" and can't possibly be causing prices to rise but instead he is putting more Big Beautiful Extra Money into Americans' pockets to pay for everything they want, even childcare, then you know this fake news is only trying to make our lord and savior look bad:

[B]Supreme Court justices appear skeptical that Trump tariffs are legal[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/supreme-court-trump-trade-tarrifs-vos.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Supreme Court justices seemed deeply skeptical about the legality of aggressive tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump against most of the worlds nations.

Conservative and liberal justices sharply questioned Solicitor General D. John Sauer on the Trump administrations legal justification of the tariffs, which critics say infringes on the power of Congress to tax.

Lower federal courts have ruled that Trump lacked the legal authority he cited under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose the so-called reciprocal tariffs on imports from many U.S. trading partners, and fentanyl tariffs on products from Canada, China and Mexico.[/QUOTE]Oh and BTW, as everybody knows even better, this is not a pipe:

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3036043]Trump effect: to make a not even born in USA Muslim becoming mayor of the most famous town of whole America, so funny, when he hates Muslims. Wake up USA when your MAGA is really falling very down, when always bullshiting is not enough to work.[/QUOTE]Please tell us where the 100 million euros plus in Louvre gems have gone?

[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/23/zohran-mamdani-my-politics-are-built-on-extending-human-rights-to-queer-and-trans-ugandans/[/URL]

He will make a priceless National TV avatar for GOP TV spots.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3035804]Sure, sure, sure, every Great Depression, Great Recession and Massive Jobs Destruction of the past 100 years happening as a direct result of Repub policies and stewardship and none of the great economic recoveries, economic expansions and historic jobs creation is merely a wild coincidence.[/QUOTE]Oh so the 20's, 50's, and 80's were not great times economically?

The Dow tripled from 1920 to 1929 and did not 300 again until Eisenhower came into office.

[URL]https://www.investopedia.com/historical-us-unemployment-rate-by-year-7495494[/URL]

Unemployment rate was 3. 2% in 1929 and 24.9% in 1932. What great Democrat policies are you talking about?

And the Fed? Oh yeah, they were perfect!

But eventually, in 1929, the Fed's board worried that speculation was out of control, and abruptly slammed on the brakes by contracting the money supply and raising interest rates, Smith notes.

The Fed's move to cool the stock market worked a little too well. "They got the stock market to come down," Richardson explains. "But then it came down a lot, and it came down very quickly. ".

The definition of a Democratic who thinks the only issues with government are Trump and Republicans. Everybody else in government is perfect.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3035804]Oh, and you are dead wrong about poor widow Elon Musk and his ilk not needing Social Security. Anyone who hopes to sell anything to anyone in America needs Social Security more than I do.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=EihTooms;3035804]Nobody knows anything about economics except the desperate Wingers who insist on the above.[/QUOTE]That Musk needs social security more than you do speaks volumes about your intelligence with economics.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3035804]If anyone wants to succeed in such a thing he damn well better hope American families have more and not less discretionary spending money in their pockets[/QUOTE]How do families have more money in their pockets when you Dems tax the crap out of them?

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3035804]because they need to take in mom, dad, drunk uncle, old maid auntie to house, feed, medicate and pay for because society has little or no use for someone in their 80's but will possibly live until 95+.[/QUOTE]The government actually pays people to care for seniors and for good reason. Given how selfish your generation has been, who wants you old farts around anyway?

It is amazing how all your posts are about how stupid taxpayers are and how angelic you parasites are.

[QUOTE=TheCane;3036007]Where there's smoke there's fire! Make Donald Chump a lame duck president with the mid-terms in 2026![/QUOTE][NOPARSE]Agreed! The BIG WIN, by Democrats across the country, had the MAGA Fuhrer, in a bit of tiff, saying that Repubs lost, [/NOPARSE]due to the fact, [B]his name wasn't on the ballot.[/B] Talk [NOPARSE]about hilarious, as if that'd have made a difference. Funny as hell[/NOPARSE]!

Since it's clear from the results, that had his name been on the ballot, with the worst presidential approval ratings and the longest government shutdown in history, everyone knows, the Repubs would have lost even more spectacularly, than the double-digit losses, they just suffered.

But rightly so, the MAGA Fuhrer, also cited, the government shutdown a [I][b]“big factor, negative for the Republicans”[/b][/I].

I'm never one to so the MAGA Fuhrer, right about anything, since every other word that come out of his mouth, is a lie, but in this case, let's hope he's correct!