American Politics

[Canada]

But is just a sign of how ignorant those blinded by partisan politics can be.

Your statement does not hold up to the factual records:

https://www.unbiased.com/discover/re...oad-statistics#Why-are-Americans-retiring-abroad.

Stop hating and get your facts straight!

Facts are that it is cheaper to live in Thailand than to live in USA. And ridiculous expensive to live in California. I am 100% sure it is cheaper to buy a nice condo in Thailand rather than California. I checked condo prices in Thailand on my last trip and they are very reasonable.

[Sirioja]

Trump turned $1,000,000 of family money into billions. Please tell the world how a smart guy like you far exceeded Trumps billions. You are just a hateful French loser jealous of Trump success. There are several French in eastern Canada with similar views living off of government handouts. They praise the stupid Canada leaders because they live off the government and trash Trump because of the success of the USA. France and Canada are in serious financial trouble. You should be more concerned on your government.

Lying, Trump was elected twice for president of USA. When I'm 100% French since generations, I much prefer to live in France where better foods, better quality and freedom. Majority of Americans don t seem to be happy about Trump.

[EihTooms]

When dumb Dems like you show contempt for how someone votes, you push people to vote Republican because they are no longer voting for a candidate but voting for their right to vote. You Dems tried to rig the 2024 election by raiding Trump's house, suing him over a bogus rape charge, trying to defund him in a fraud case, and then trying to put him in prison. Then after all that failed, some intelligence insiders tried to have Trump assassinated twice as a candidate.

As for Democrats, having a candidate who did not win a primary was fine. Lying about Biden being as sharp as a tack was fine. Putting up as a nominee someone chose by the elites and who only won 1% of the primary votes in 2020 was fine as well.

And you call someone stupid who looked at all that and called it bullshit? LOL. That you accepted all that bullshit as caviar speaks volumes about how dumb you are.

And here we go again in the LA mayoral election. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...re-piling-fast

ChatGPT can't find a single example of a 3rd place candidate surging, days after Election Day, to overtake 2nd place.

It couldn't find 1 example in all of American history.

That's what's happening with Nithya Raman & Spencer Pratt.

LOS Angeles has 3rd world country elections.

Mail-ins arriving before Election Day:

Bass: 38.1%.

Pratt: 27.9%.

Raman: 20%.

Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:

Raman: 37% (+17% surge).

Bass: 34.9% (-3% drop).

Pratt: 19% (-9% drop).

If Raman overtakes Pratt, the November ballot will feature two Democrats, freezing out the candidate who ran as the race's most prominent outsider voice on crime and homelessness in a city that has become a symbol of both.

End of link. Trump voters like myself look at this and say you Dems are completely fine with cheating. So what happens next? This is super easy to predict. You dumb Dems will go back to your playbook and pay off some "expert" who will swear that this election just like in 2020 was totally fair. What you won't do is say mandate voter ID or place restrictions on mail in ballots.

As long as you Dems call people who are concerned about election fraud "dumb" you will never win another presidential election. The Democrats who show contempt for how someone votes tells me they are against fair elections. Heaven forbid you have to put up appealing candidates versus cheating.

No, the reason you vote for Repubs instead of Dems is because you prefer Great Depressions, Great Recessions and wiping out millions of jobs, business bankruptcies and failures.

Obviously.

Like you, Canada pretends to be so concerned about and supportive of entrepreneurs, businessmen and women, employees, presumably American farmers etc, people he imagines made such an intelligent and informed decision to vote for Trump, probably all three times, and other Repubs over the decades blah blah blah and that I and others like me don't know shit about how to expand an economy, build rather than destroy a business, create jobs and hire people rather than destroy jobs and fire people and so on.

Here's the big problem with that conclusion; for more than 30 years I have only voted for Dems and for longer than that I have not voted for a Repub. Which by definition means I have never voted for a Historic Economic Downturn, massive business failures and wiping out millions of jobs but have instead only voted for historic economic recoveries, thriving businesses and, depending on how godawful Trump"s favorite Repub agenda and policies turn out over the next 3 1/2 years, quite possibly every net gain private-sector job created in the past 30 years.

But anyone who didn't vote for Dems all along the way has voted for Great Recessions, massive business failures and historic jobs destruction.

If Canada could have voted in the 2016 and 2024 USA elections surely he would have voted for Trump and helped him win those elections, as you probably did.

Sorry, guys. That means I am actually a smarter businessman and certainly made better business decisions for the sake of their own farms than the dumb farmers who voted for Trump at any time but especially to vote for him again in 2024 after what his failed Tariffs and Trade Wars did to them the first time around even before the economic ravages of Trump's Pandemic kicked in.

And your vote for Trump instead of Harris in 2024 was an absolute, four square approval and facilitator of record high USA farm bankruptcies, pathetic private-sector jobs creation and lower hiring rates.

While MAGAs are doing cartwheels and backflips over the one recent BLS reported jobs creation of 172,000 jobs, my vote for Biden-Harris in 2020 produced about 37 such months during those Dems' 4 years in the White House. And that was before a so-called potus fired and threatened to fire more BLS officials unless they rigged the count or the reporting of the jobs numbers to make him look good.

[SubCmdr]

But is just a sign of how ignorant those blinded by partisan politics can be.

Most people who retire in countries outside USA do it because they can't afford to live in USA.

Your statement does not hold up to the factual records:

In 2022, 5.1 million U.S. citizens lived abroad, including 3.9 million civilians, 1.2 million service members, and government-affiliated Americans.
38% of Americans who retire abroad choose Europe as their destination.

Neighboring Canada and Mexico are the top choices among expat retirees, with over one million US retirees collectively choosing to move here.

Take a closer look at where American expats tend to settle (excluding ex-military personnel) to get an idea of the best place to retire abroad as an American:

Mexico : 799,248
Canada: 273,226
United Kingdom: 170,771
Puerto Rico: 159,515
Germany: 152,639
Australia: 116,620
Israel: 76,794
South Korea: 68,050
France: 61,668
Japan: 58,340
Most of these countries offer standards of living similar to those of the US, favorable climates, and a fair or advantageous exchange rate for the dollar. The cost of living is also similar or lower, with countries like France and Mexico also offering more affordable medical care.

https://www.unbiased.com/discover/re...oad-statistics#Why-are-Americans-retiring-abroad.

Stop hating and get your facts straight!

[EihTooms]

The supposedly dumb Trump supporters you talk about are successful business owners hiring hundreds of employees, they are CEO's, CFO's and presidents of large corporations, they are small business owners, they are hard working employees earning $100 K+ annually. It is great being a dumb Trump supporter making millions of dollars. But I suppose millions a year is small potatoes for a highly intelligent Biden or Harris supporter like you who makes millions a year now retired in Bangkok. Most people who retire in countries outside USA do it because they can't afford to live in USA.

Farm Bankruptcies Hit Six-Year High in April.
May 28, 2026

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/...high-in-april/

Wow. If my non MAGA Math is correct, this is the highest since Trump was president last time. Yet those dudes voted for Trump again.

You and your hundreds of employees must think that was very, very smart of them, right?

Continuing the remarkably consistent "Worst News Since a Previous Time a Repub was so-called president"" historical phenomenon!

[Elvis 2008]

Trump is not nearly as blitheringly stupid as he is 100% certain his supporters, followers and voters are:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY4sU...o5MTEyNXk1eQ==

When dumb Dems like you show contempt for how someone votes, you push people to vote Republican because they are no longer voting for a candidate but voting for their right to vote. You Dems tried to rig the 2024 election by raiding Trump's house, suing him over a bogus rape charge, trying to defund him in a fraud case, and then trying to put him in prison. Then after all that failed, some intelligence insiders tried to have Trump assassinated twice as a candidate.

As for Democrats, having a candidate who did not win a primary was fine. Lying about Biden being as sharp as a tack was fine. Putting up as a nominee someone chose by the elites and who only won 1% of the primary votes in 2020 was fine as well.

And you call someone stupid who looked at all that and called it bullshit? LOL. That you accepted all that bullshit as caviar speaks volumes about how dumb you are.

And here we go again in the LA mayoral election. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...re-piling-fast

ChatGPT can't find a single example of a 3rd place candidate surging, days after Election Day, to overtake 2nd place.

It couldn't find 1 example in all of American history.

That's what's happening with Nithya Raman & Spencer Pratt.

LOS Angeles has 3rd world country elections.

Mail-ins arriving before Election Day:

Bass: 38.1%.

Pratt: 27.9%.

Raman: 20%.

Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:

Raman: 37% (+17% surge).

Bass: 34.9% (-3% drop).

Pratt: 19% (-9% drop).

If Raman overtakes Pratt, the November ballot will feature two Democrats, freezing out the candidate who ran as the race's most prominent outsider voice on crime and homelessness in a city that has become a symbol of both.

End of link. Trump voters like myself look at this and say you Dems are completely fine with cheating. So what happens next? This is super easy to predict. You dumb Dems will go back to your playbook and pay off some "expert" who will swear that this election just like in 2020 was totally fair. What you won't do is say mandate voter ID or place restrictions on mail in ballots.

As long as you Dems call people who are concerned about election fraud "dumb" you will never win another presidential election. The Democrats who show contempt for how someone votes tells me they are against fair elections. Heaven forbid you have to put up appealing candidates versus cheating.

[EihTooms]

Since no MAGAs have a clue what to think of Eisenhower's June 1960 Operation Mobile Yoke in his total commitment of the USA Military to fight his Vietnam War or can figure out why on Earth President Biden didn't adamantly oppose Trump's April 2020 deal with OPEC to jack up the price of oil and gas for the next couple of years, immediately fight tooth and nail to break that deal in 2021 or even trash and lambast Trump for jacking up the price of oil and gas all through those subsequent years as being "not my fault. That was Trump's doing. It never would have happened on my watch" blah blah blah a la Trump and so on, here is another MAGA Pretzel Brain Twister for you:

Please explain what brilliant "tools" Repub Ronnie Reagan gave then President Carter's appointed Fed Chairman Paul Volcker at the end of 1979 that helped him to begin systematically lowering the rate of inflation, virtually month over month beginning in early 1980, months before the November 1980 election and a year before Reagan took office in late January 1981, continuing into 1981 and beyond except for a 3-4 month minor uptick in the second half of 1981 but still long before whatever "tools" Repub Reagan could have possibly given Volcker to lower the inflation rate, as is clearly shown in the USA Rate of Inflation by Month Historical Table in the link below that I assure you was not made up by me as I went along just to make Carter look good and Reagan look bad.

I mean, what "tools" did Repub president Reagan give Volcker to do that other than the Repubs' favorite and most often applied method and "tool" to lower the rate of inflation; a historic economic collapse with historic jobs destruction, historic skyrocketing unemployment rates and business failures. Which, sure enough, Repub president Ronnie Reagan did apply to the issue. But not until his 2nd year in office, long after Carter's appointed Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had done what needed to be done to lower the rate of inflation way, way back in the last months of 1979, which began to take full effect at the beginning of 1980.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.co...flation-rates/

Take your time, MAGAs. I see a couple of you have invested much time and posting in revising the history of the inflation rate in this way as well as avoiding my other two previous questions, at least as of this writing. So I understand it might require a bit more of your time to unravel this particular Magical MAGA Revisionist History Mystery.

[Tiny 12]

The supposedly dumb Trump supporters you talk about are successful business owners hiring hundreds of employees, they are CEO's, CFO's and presidents of large corporations, they are small business owners, they are hard working employees earning $100 K+ annually. It is great being a dumb Trump supporter making millions of dollars. But I suppose millions a year is small potatoes for a highly intelligent Biden or Harris supporter like you who makes millions a year now retired in Bangkok. Most people who retire in countries outside USA do it because they can't afford to live in USA.

Trump turned $1,000,000 of family money into billions. Please tell the world how a smart guy like you far exceeded Trumps billions. You are just a hateful French loser jealous of Trump success. There are several French in eastern Canada with similar views living off of government handouts. They praise the stupid Canada leaders because they live off the government and trash Trump because of the success of the USA. France and Canada are in serious financial trouble. You should be more concerned on your government.

An interesting statistic, Quebec's GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power is 46,000 USD, compared to $65,000 for Canada as a whole. And including provincial taxes Quebec's tax burden is higher than Canada as a whole.

France of course is a basket case compared to the USA, with GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power of $68,568 compared to $94,430 for the USA. French government expenditures are 57% of GDP compared to 37% for the USA.

Yeah, undoubtedly Sirioja makes a lot less than Donald Trump. From his posts though I bet he does better than most Frenchmen. And he'd do a lot better still if he moved to the USA, where he wouldn't be burdened by high taxation and high gasoline prices. That's important because he likes muscle cars.

I've shown Tooms more than once that Republicans have historically borne much more of the federal tax burden than Democrats. If he replies to your post though he'll undoubtedly try to confuse the matter by comparing red and blue states. I think he actually does OK financially, but when they both have a good year I bet Trump pays 100 x or more tax than he does. Hard to say though because California taxes the hell out of people and Tooms' real estate is in California.

[Canada]

Being graduated and being clever are quite different and Trump show to the world his lack of cleverness and knowledge of the world. For sure, he is megaloman and schizophrene and has big problems with women, so often in Epstein files and would be in jail if not protected. When he bought so many people in his life, when he was made with his family money, I would not be surprised his graduation was also bought. Anyway, when I started to work, my boss was graduated from Polytechnique school and I m pretty sure higher level than university of Pensylvania, but he was so inefficient for work, he didn't understand how to be efficient, even he was from the highest level school. Funny, people came to beginner I was, to avoid him and not waste time, he didn't stay for long at his job, not good enough, even highly graduated.

Trump turned $1,000,000 of family money into billions. Please tell the world how a smart guy like you far exceeded Trumps billions. You are just a hateful French loser jealous of Trump success. There are several French in eastern Canada with similar views living off of government handouts. They praise the stupid Canada leaders because they live off the government and trash Trump because of the success of the USA. France and Canada are in serious financial trouble. You should be more concerned on your government.

[Canada]

Trump is not nearly as blitheringly stupid as he is 100% certain his supporters, followers and voters are:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY4sU...o5MTEyNXk1eQ==

The supposedly dumb Trump supporters you talk about are successful business owners hiring hundreds of employees, they are CEO's, CFO's and presidents of large corporations, they are small business owners, they are hard working employees earning $100 K+ annually. It is great being a dumb Trump supporter making millions of dollars. But I suppose millions a year is small potatoes for a highly intelligent Biden or Harris supporter like you who makes millions a year now retired in Bangkok. Most people who retire in countries outside USA do it because they can't afford to live in USA.

[Canada]

After Capitol when Biden was elected with democracy, Trump is now trying to fuck midterms when Americans, not me, don t seem to agree with his politics, lies, behavior. But USA are not a democracy, as long is Trump. If Americans who don't agree went in streets versus him, he would have to run away and hide, even too fat as told his doctor.

Just sick.

[SubCmdr]

Wharton School is highly regarded for graduate students, not so much for undergrads. This was especially the case in the late 60's. Undergrads had an acceptance rate of 50%, and higher for junior transfers lke Trump. Saying he got a business degree from Wharton is not the flex he thinks it is.

Those writing about politics of the man who sits in the biggest chair in the world are not flexing the way they think the are. If they were then they would running for the office of the President of the Dis United States of America.

It is not the critic who counts...

[John Clayton]

Agreed. I'd add that Ivy League schools like the University of Pennsylvania don't graduate many stupid people either. Trump graduated from the highly regarded Wharton business school there...

Wharton School is highly regarded for graduate students, not so much for undergrads. This was especially the case in the late 60's. Undergrads had an acceptance rate of 50%, and higher for junior transfers lke Trump. Saying he got a business degree from Wharton is not the flex he thinks it is.

[SubCmdr]

In my adult lifetime, I'd put Reagan first, Clinton in his second term at number two, and George H W Bush at 3. The rest were in one way or another crappy presidents.

1. Obama 2. Clinton 3. George H W Bush.

[SubCmdr]

We may not have same meaning for intelligence.

I am using the English Language! Intelligence: the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations.

when Trump twice elected president of not MAGA at all USA, is not more than a great liar and robber. When he started in business, he didn't pay tax, he tries to rob everybody. Wake up USA when he fucked You so deep with his peace promises and now in the wall versus Iran but not changing anything, but making inflation and for Americans who are so blind and nave fucked by his daily bullshits, same than Putin with Russia, kind of twins. His little dog, Hesgeth didn't come, when facists are not welcome in France.

You are describing actions and expressing your opposition to his policies. This has nothing to do with the intelligence of the man himself.

Only Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump are the U.S. presidents who lost re-election after their first term and were later elected again to serve non-consecutive terms. Cleveland, a Democrat, served from 18851889, lost in 1888 to Benjamin Harrison, and won again in 1892, serving from 18931897. Trump, a Republican, served from 20172021, lost in 2020 to Joe Biden, and won again in 2024, beginning his second non-consecutive term in January 2025.

Cleveland is the first president to achieve this feat; Trump is the second.
Both lost their immediate re-election bids but returned four years later.
No other former U.S. president has successfully won the presidency again after losing a re-election bid.

Even if you don't think Trump is intelligent, is he certainly unique in the history of the Dis United States of America.