American Politics

[Spidy]

You did not watch the interview. You are just repeating what was on MSNBC and in the NYT.

If you going to make false claims, then let my falsely say, you may have watched the FOXY Muse Harris interview, as I did, but you understand nothing, about what you're watching, other than what FOXY Muse tell you to say. (See what I did there? ...kkkk!)

Veep Harris's FOXY Muse interview, drew a whopping eye watering 8.3+ million viewers, that WANTED to watch and listen to Veep Harris. As opposed, to a mingy 3.1 million viewers for Trump. That's gotta STING, w/r to which candidate Americans really want to hear and listen to, speak coherently.

But who can blame Americans, that no longer want to listen to an idiotic and imbecilic pussy-grabbing candidate, again fixated on talking about "size", this time referring to Arnold Palmer's penis, as if it were a Trump/Vance campaign issue, that Americans cared about. Talk about senile and deranged!

More than twice (2x) as many people, tuned-in to see Veep Harris's joyous messages and hear her campaign policies, that better the lives of working Americans, rather than the senile stodgy old man, Trump, looking only to benefit himself and his billionaire buddies.

And the great thing about going into "hostile territory" (or the 'Lion's Den'), was that Harris, is proving to be more presidential, powerful, strong and unwavering in the face of her most critical political opponents, media and pundits. She is garnering, even more support from Repubs, the undecided and independent voters, now get to see more of what a REAL presidential candidate looks like, with REAL campaign policies.

If Harris's interview reaches even 10% of the FOXY Muse audience that watched her clear, concise and convincing speech, that's a BIG PLUS in the Harris/Walz, asset column of their campaign ledger, that will make ALL the difference in some of those key battle ground swing states. Thank you FOXY Muse!

Her strong FOXY Muse interview, is yet another example and reason, why when MORE Americans see and hear Veep Harris, talk about her policies and what she'll do for Americans, the MORE Americans like her. Even in the face of Baier interrupting her 2x as much.

Trump mentioned the interview in an interview with Maria be. It was about 2 seconds of the interview. Baier played the clip where Trump explained what he meant by enemies within in a different interview. Of course, that is not the point. The notion is Trump is going to use the army against his enemies.

You might not like it but there are exceptions to the rule the Commander in Chief cannot use the USA military against American citizens. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...e/75714201007/

And normally I would be aghast at such talk however one stipulation of the rule is "Some sort of violence or conspiracy is depriving others of their Constitutional rights. " ...

So tell me, when the people and the TOP ex-Generals who have worked with Trump, say he's a "Fascist to the Core", do you really think, that constitutional statute, you trotted out, is gonna STOP "wannabe dictator" Trump? Or a SCOTUS induced, tyrant "king" Trump?

Since when have rule of law, constitutional law or statutes of law STOPPED dictators, tyrants and despots, like Trump?

Your attempt to defend the indefensible, can only be, just some kind of sycophant weird, "Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football", joke! Which you Repubs, just love to play with Trump.

As we all know, "Project 2025", dictator on the 1st day" Trump, has repeatedly vowed to "...terminate the Constitution of the United States"

The reality is Kamala went on Fox News and ducked every question, and her team and the media wanted to portray like she went into the lion's den for 30 minutes and acted heroic when the truth is Trump lives in the lion's den...

This is Trump, in the proverbial "Lion's Den", as the headlines read:

• Trump’s team says he’s ‘exhausted,’ bails on even more interviews
• Trump, Who Brags About His 'Stamina,' Is Ducking Interviews Because He's 'Exhausted'
• Trump's decision to skip an interview with The Shade Room
• Trump Too 'Exhausted' to Do Interviews With Unfriendly Outlets ("Lion's Den")
• Harris Throws Gauntlet At Trump For Ducking Debate, Interviews: ‘What Is He Hiding?’
• Harris Dunks On Trump For Being Too 'Exhausted' For Interviews
• Old Man Trump "Exhausted", Nixing Interviews With Neutral Outlets

Ducking debates, sit-downs and cancelling interviews, is Elvis 2008's, sycophant idea of "Trump lives in the 'Lion's Den' " (...kkkk!) (...kkkk!)

Do you even know who senile old-man Trump is?

Trump is MORE LIKE the "Cowardly Lion" who 'lives' in FEAR:

Trump is like a bad senile version of the "Cowardly Lion", (from the Wizard of Oz), that constantly 'lives in FEAR', than any so called 'Lion's Den'. The only difference is, the Cowardly Lion, faces his fears and overcomes them.

The fact is, Trump is RUNNING SCARED! It's plainly obvious that, the MORE people see his rallies, hear him talk (if you can call it that), dance and rant, the MORE voters are literally bored of his childish, imbecilic and doddering antics and hastily turn and look to vote for Veep Harris (or stay on the couch).

[Axel Heyst]

No, Donald Trump is the worst candidate for President I've ever seen!

I get that you hate Trump and think he is terrible. My observation was that Kamala is the worst political candidate I have seen in my life is not a political / philosophical comment. It is merely an observation that the woman sucks on the campaign trail and can't sem to answer a single question without a teleprompter. Do you think Obama would have had a hard time being interviewed by Bret Baier? Of course not. Obama whether you liked him or disliked him was a skillful and adroit politician. Kamala is not! She is worse than Hubert Humphrey, Michael Dukakis, or Gerald Ford. Come on man, admit it. KKK /555.

Facism is something that's properly associated with the right, not the left. So, it would be more fitting for Trump to be the third addition to that dinner table. To be clear, you're the one who just brought up facism. I'm just setting the facts and the record straight.

There are many forms of fascism. Hitler's fascism was formally called National Socialism and yeah, he came at it from the far right. Chairman Mao's form of fascism was called communism and Mao came at it from the far left. Truth be told, the Mao's Cultural Revolution is closely aligned with today's Woke philosophy. It is sad that you and many well-meaning Americans do not see the historical / philosophical connection. Try to think of political ideology as a 360 degree physical object in space like the moon. The far left and the far right meet on the dark side of the moon. Remember it is the Left in America that wants an open border and allow illegal aliens to vote in elections. It is the Left that wants to stack the Supreme Court with leftwing ideologues. It is the Left that wants to grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico to gain 4 Senate seats and a permanent majority. It is the Left that want to get rid of the Filibuster in the senate and pass all legislation with a simple majority. It is the Left that wants to indoctrinate are children in public schools and wants to sexually mutilate their bodies. It is the Left that wants to deny parents their right to raise their children. It is the Left that is against free speech and punishes people who disagree with it's doctrines. It is the left that has taken over Journalism and made it a tool of the party. It is the left that wants to confiscate private property. It was the Left that impeached President Trump twice for nothing IE for political reasons. It is the Left that has unleashed the Justice system on an ex-President and the Number 1 opposition political candidate that they disagree with ie "Lawfare". I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that it is the Left that hates America and wants to fundamentally change it and turn America into a one party dictatorship and it has a blueprint, Mao's Cultural Revolution adapted for American audiences to accomplish the goal. So yeah, Wokeism is fundamentally Fascist or if you prefer fundamentally totalitarian and there is little difference between the far left and the far right except that the Communists (Wokes) are better organized than the far right.

Now Trump may not be your cup of tea, and many people detest his personality, but he is not totalitarian. Can you at least admit this?

[Sirioja]

Funny medical in US, taking under drugged organs and on not even death. Have really to improve, I won t go there for medical.

[Sirioja]

No, Donald Trump is the worst candidate for President I've ever seen! And facism is something that's properly associated with the right, not the left. So, it would be more fitting for Trump to be the third addition to that dinner table. To be clear, you're the one who just brought up facism. I'm just setting the facts and the record straight.

Trump play crazy dangerous clown bullshiting US and so dangerous for women rights. He would make a so bad image for 250 millions US in our 7 billions world.

[EihTooms]

To recap:

The USA Stock Market as measured by the go-to Wall Street standard gained much more since Biden-Harris were elected (with 3 months left to gain even more!) than it gained from when Trump-Pence were elected through to the following election.

Your food costs and restaurant menu prices increased dramatically, almost DOUBLE, from 2018 to 2021 under Trump due to his failed Trade War and Tariffs, continued to increase very, very, very little more through 2021 and have been declining ever since under Biden.

Trump's typically Repub disastrous economic and national security decisions ushered in and exacerbated Trump's Pandemic with all the deaths, massive job losses in the millions upon millions, global supply-chain collapse, hyper-inflation, unavoidable recovery inflation, opportunistic corporate price gouging, skyrocketing costs, business and school closures that followed. And with zero evidence that his ridiculously silly, childish view and response to every serious matter isn't poised to repeat any and every potential "Once in 100 Years" Disaster that comes along as only happened under Repubs over the past 100 years and not under Dems.

Trump deficit spent more than DOUBLE that of Biden both before ushering in and exacerbating Trump's Pandemic (where his one and only economic "stimulus" legislation added $2. 5+ Trillion to the deficit but did not add 1 net gain job in those 3 pre Trump's Pandemic years with it than in the previous Obama-Biden years without it) and in the emergency relief deficit spending in response to Trump's Pandemic where Biden's spending at least helped to create some of the historic job and wage gains produced throughout the Biden-Harris presidency vs the historc job losses throughout the Trump-Pence so-called presidency.

Trump's Tariff plan for a hypothetical 2nd Trump term will skyrocket inflation and costs for virtually everything you, your family and your friends buy.

Trump's economic results were one of if not THE Worst in USA History while Bidenomics has shattered all important positive economic results records and is universally recognized as The Envy of the World.

And now we know Trump's plan for a hypothetical 2nd Trump term will also reduce your earned and deserved Social Security income "the likes of which nobody has ever seen":

Trump plan would speed up Social Security insolvency, budget group says

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/21/trum...ndroidappshare

Donald Trumps tax-cut plans and other agenda items would hasten Social Securitys insolvency, a nonpartisan budget group said.

The Republican nominees proposals would also expand Social Securitys cash shortfall by trillions of dollars and lead to even steeper benefit cuts in the coming years, the group estimated.

Both Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris have vowed to protect Social Security and Medicare.

Of course, never forget Trump and his Repubs' determination to fully and completely outlaw Sex For Pleasure across the country.

It has now been totally and irrefutably substantiated by all available verifiable evidence and data that any vote other than for Kamala Harris and Dems all down the ballot will ensure that you will indeed facilitate every nightmare scenario recapped above.

Choose wisely.

[MarquisdeSade1]

I just voted today! And guess what? Everybody in line had to show a valid Florida driver's license or some other form of legal identification and then sign in before being given a ballot. Left wing fascists say that is racist. But we all know what voting without some form of proof of citizenship is really about. Interestingly the fascists leftists are not hiding their intentions anymore with their last ditch efforts to remain in power. Trump has gained the upper hand on Kamela baby in all the swing states and the Wokies internal polling must prove it. I just love seeing Kamela baby floundering in interviews and on the campaign. Honestly, is she not the worst candidate for president that you have ever seen? LOL. Be honest! But I still expect to see a lot of crap from the Left in these last days before November 5. Fascists hate the idea of giving up power.

Even the dead vote here.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-elect...t-support-her/

I rather be a misogynist than a quintessential cuck, (ala Doug Emhoff) et al.

[Spidy]

Good Reading

A lot of information here in this post. But, I have to say this; my stock and retirement package grew 212% after Trump was elected and held on. It fell 78% when the Dems took office. Like him or not he is good for business. In 20 something years from now the COVD bills will be handed down to people to pay the bills racked up from the Dems just handing out more money. So we need this guy to help bolster savings because at that point I willbe too old to work and hope that my 401 lasts.

Any good fortune you may have had, is most likely the continuation of great economic policies and a surge of continued growth from president Obama, his predecessor's GREAT economic run. Growth in GDP, only grew 0.1%, by the time the convict Trump, left office.

As the "sanctimonious" (in some Repub Libertarian cycles,) President Obama said, "That was my economy!..."

So you telling me, you've done great under the worst president in history vs. me telling you, my portfolio, has done better under the 10th & 14th best presidents in U.S. History, in Obama and Biden (respectively), while our tales of good fortune under different presidents, may make for good bulletin board material, they are pretty much a moot conversational subjective points of arguments on the collective, larger economy as a whole.

Meaning, our own single individual investment successes or failures are not, "bellwether indicators" for an entire U.S. Nation of some 346 million people and doesn't mean much or amount to a "hill-a-beans" and is NOT necessarily an indictment, on the strength or weakness of the boarder markets, GDP, businesses, or the US economy is a whole.

It's JUST FOOLISH, to make such claims!

For me (and what many business pundits, like Goldman Sachs and Fortune are saying is that), Veep Harris, is simply just the better, sane and coherent candidate, for US presidency and for the economy.

You can BOOK IT!...Harris for a President, that governs for EVERYONE! (Not just the billionaires!)
You can BOOK IT!...Harris for an economy for EVERYONE! (and NOT just Trump's bank account)

[Xpartan]

Fascists hate the idea of giving up power.

Can't agree more.

How could I not! I remember Trump's final two months. Vividly!

[Elvis 2008]

Honestly, is she not the worst candidate for president that you have ever seen? LOL. Be honest! But I still expect to see a lot of crap from the Left in these last days before November 5. Fascists hate the idea of giving up power.

LOL. Democratic douches and honesty? That is a good one. Bill Clinton and fidelity, Obama and heterosexuality, Biden and being as sharp as a tack, Harris and solid candidate. Have we not heard those all before?

The latest Polymarket odds are horrible for Kamala and are at 62% for a Trump victory. We are now at a level where the Dems dumped Biden, and it will probably be worst. You can actually see the party tally of early voters, and it is not looking good. https://polymarket.com/.

The interesting part is the WSJ makes the case that a $100 million in bets threw a $2. 2 billion market. Uh, sure.

Then you go the 3:27 part of this video and it is Bill Maher's panel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvjEPVONivM.

Yes, there is Joe Scarborough, Mark Cuban, Bill Maher, and David Hogg, the ultimate dumb Democratic douches extraordinaire, saying it is meaningless. Yes, the betting markets have always been more accurate than the polls but let's toss that out. Mark Cuban has a mutual fund that own a chunk of polymarket so he is an expert, and he makes the genius comment that if you put enough money on anything, it can move the odds. Then it is just foreigner's betting. Nothing to see here, move along.

So for those bets to mean nothing, that would mean the person betting $30 million to win $20 million does not care about $50 million. Then there is the foreigner angle. Only foreigners can bet on polymarket. Oh yeah, that has to be true because we know that there has never been any illegal gambling but even so, who cares? The proof that this is some foreign plot to rig things exists only in the mind of douches. The polls, the early voting, the disastrous hurricane response were all there for the world to see.

The irony is the popular vote is 62% for Harris. Is that one rigged too? Of course not. Anything that is positive for Harris is something the douches believe.

What cracks me up is this is the level where Dems freaked out and dumped Biden and went for Harris, and I bet things get worse still. Like I said, you can see how many voters of each party have voted in certain places.

[The Cane]

I just voted today! And guess what? Everybody in line had to show a valid Florida driver's license or some other form of legal identification and then sign in before being given a ballot. Left wing fascists say that is racist. But we all know what voting without some form of proof of citizenship is really about. Interestingly the fascists leftists are not hiding their intentions anymore with their last ditch efforts to remain in power. Trump has gained the upper hand on Kamela baby in all the swing states and the Wokies internal polling must prove it. I just love seeing Kamela baby floundering in interviews and on the campaign. Honestly, is she not the worst candidate for president that you have ever seen? LOL. Be honest! But I still expect to see a lot of crap from the Left in these last days before November 5. Fascists hate the idea of giving up power.

No, Donald Trump is the worst candidate for President I've ever seen! And facism is something that's properly associated with the right, not the left. So, it would be more fitting for Trump to be the third addition to that dinner table. To be clear, you're the one who just brought up facism. I'm just setting the facts and the record straight.

[EihTooms]

A lot of information here in this post. But, I have to say this; my stock and retirement package grew 212% after Trump was elected and held on. It fell 78% when the Dems took office. Like him or not he is good for business. In 20 something years from now the COVD bills will be handed down to people to pay the bills racked up from the Dems just handing out more money. So we need this guy to help bolster savings because at that point I willbe too old to work and hope that my 401 lasts.

If your stock and retirement package portfolio "fell 78% when the Dems took office" it sounds like you stayed too long at the fair in a volatile, rather risky package that was clearly not diversified enough to justify holding very long at all.

(Rounding to a reasonable whole number and percentage and ignoring dividends) The USA Stock Market as measured by the go-to Wall Street standard S&P 500 Index closed at 2263 on January 20,2017, the day Donald Trump took office.

It closed at 3798 on January 20,2021, the day Joe Biden took office.

That would be a 68% gain after the entire 4 Trump years.

Yesterday, and with 3 months left in Biden's term, it closed at 5854.

That is a 54% gain. No idea where it will close today or what it will do in the next 3 months. But it is not unrealistic to suggest it very easily could match or exceed the gain in the Trump years.

Regardless, I feel pretty comfortable that there won't be a "78% decline" from the day Biden took office to the day Harris gets sworn in.

Now, you referred to two different timeframes; one was "since the Dems took office", which means from inauguration to inauguration, which is what the above calculations reflect.

But your other time frame was "since Trump was elected. " So let's look at what happened from election day 2016 to election day 2020 and then right up to today, 2 weeks before the next election day:

The S&P 500 Index closed at 2163 on November 9, 2016, the day Trump was elected.

It closed at 3369 on November 2, 2020, the day Biden was elected.

That would be a 56% gain "under" Trump.

Yesterday, two weeks before the next election day, the S&P 500 Index closed at 5864.

That is a 74% gain "under" Biden. So far. Quite a bit better than Trump's 56%, wouldn't you say? I would.

It would appear you really should have shifted all of your equity holdings out of whatever hot money, high risk equities you were in under Trump and into a no-brainer, broadly diversified, low cost S&P 500 Index Fund or a Total Stock Market Index Fund the day Joe Biden was elected.

I mean, damn, that would have been a 152% swing into positive gains in a portfolio you barely needed to even think about over the past 4 years under Biden.

And, BTW, haven't you been following along about how Trump added DOUBLE the amount to the deficit as Biden both before Trump's Pandemic and in response to Trump's Pandemic?

Trump ran up national debt twice as much as Biden: new analysis.
June 24, 2024

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/24/tru...icits-election

By the numbers:
Trump added $8.4 trillion in borrowing over a ten-year window, CRFB finds in a report out this morning.

Biden's figure clocks in at $4.3 trillion with seven months remaining in his term.
If you exclude COVID relief spending from the tally, the numbers are $4.8 trillion for Trump and $2.2 trillion for Biden.

[Axel Heyst]

I just voted today! And guess what? Everybody in line had to show a valid Florida driver's license or some other form of legal identification and then sign in before being given a ballot. Left wing fascists say that is racist. But we all know what voting without some form of proof of citizenship is really about. Interestingly the fascists leftists are not hiding their intentions anymore with their last ditch efforts to remain in power. Trump has gained the upper hand on Kamela baby in all the swing states and the Wokies internal polling must prove it. I just love seeing Kamela baby floundering in interviews and on the campaign. Honestly, is she not the worst candidate for president that you have ever seen? LOL. Be honest! But I still expect to see a lot of crap from the Left in these last days before November 5. Fascists hate the idea of giving up power.

[Elvis 2008]

Yet businesses, especially restaurants, are keeping prices high and now portions have been accepted as what they became. So naturally profits are up.

Profits are down not up. The dumb Democratic douches keep posting crap that shows the industry is hurting and try to spin it and say it is good. Foot traffic is down, wages are up, and prices are up due to inflation, and they somehow want to believe the industry is doing well.

This is all you need to know: For the seventh month in a row, the National Restaurant Association Restaurant Performance Index (RPI), which helps dictate the growth or contraction of the restaurant industry, stayed below 100 in June. This is due to the worries by restaurant operators over the broader health of the economy, interest rates, and consumer spending concerns.

And the dumb Democratic douches posted this to show how strong the restaurant economy is! You can't make this stuff up.

[EihTooms]

I would love to kjnow where you eat. In the last year a 14" pizza has gone from 22 to 28 bucks. 30+ dollar menu items are becoming the norm, not the few. Chinese food is the only thing I see holding on. When you got a combo it was like 9. 95. Now its 12.95. Not too bad of an increase. Go to your favorite steakhouse and the cuts that were 20-22 bucks are no over 35-40. So glad your eating out for less but it aint happening in my world!

You should contact that Restaurant Industry Newsletter publisher and staff and ask them if or why they would lie about the statistics and graphs they show for the Total Average Price of restaurant menu items, the Average Food Price, etc.

Also for the follow up link I provided from The Tax Foundation that recapped the food price inflation that began when Trump initiated his failed Trade War and Tariffs starting in 2018, long before the past year.

[WestsideGuy89]

50 Key Restaurant Industry Statistics.
Published August 30, 2024

https://www.therestauranthq.com/tren...nt-statistics/#text=Restaurant%20 industry%20 sales%20 are%20 forecast, record%20%241.1%20 trillion%20 in%202024.

Sure, attracting customers is always one of the top concerns of the restaurant industry. Always.

But that list is loaded with more concerns about competition, supply-chain stressors and labor shortages (Biden's brave and brilliant border policies sure as hell helped the restaurant industry on that count while Trump's will absolutely decimate it!) and, yep, crap management than concerns and worries about customers still showing up with money to spend.

Oh, and here is an extra special super duper bonus factor to note: average menu prices experienced their greatest inflationary surge and increase from 2018 to 2021 and very, very, very little increase after that along with a DECLINE in menu prices starting in 2022.
See #5, and as pictured below.

I forget. Who was president from 2018 to 2021? Was he a "Democratic douche"?

And who was president after that when restaurant menu prices increased only a very, very, very little for only one year and have declined ever since? Otherwise known as addressing and solving a problem inherited and handed to him by his predecessor.

Thanks, Joe.

I would love to kjnow where you eat. In the last year a 14" pizza has gone from 22 to 28 bucks. 30+ dollar menu items are becoming the norm, not the few. Chinese food is the only thing I see holding on. When you got a combo it was like 9. 95. Now its 12.95. Not too bad of an increase. Go to your favorite steakhouse and the cuts that were 20-22 bucks are no over 35-40. So glad your eating out for less but it aint happening in my world!