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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

  1. Dog8Cats

    Dog8Cats Well-Known Member

    Trying to keep things civil ...
    The economy and the "Please don't call me a Nazi" explanations might be their explicit explanations of their "Why I voted for Trump."

    I don't think I'm alone, however, in suspecting that if inflation were microscopic, the arrows on Ragu's money-supply kitchen whiteboard were heading in the right direction and Democrats didn't hurt their feelings, they'd still have found a reason not to vote for the Black woman. Now, they wouldn't say it was because she was a Black woman, but it might just be that she was a Black woman.
     
  2. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Four weeks ago, too. In much of Florida, anyway.
     
  3. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

  4. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    In 2020, Trump loses and the racists riot
    In 2024, Trump wins and they stay quiet
    They say Trump is so savvy, but I don't buy it
     
  5. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    It came to me last night that Trump only lost in 2020 because of the pandemic and how he botched it. So I have no idea how many voters may have thought, "OK, we punished him for that. Now we will punish Biden and his surrogate Harris for inflation." The inflation was part of the pandemic, really, but that's a tough connection for people to make.
    I can understand why voters could overlook Trump's scumbag nature. Most of them are as transactional as he is. What's most discouraging and I think the root cause of the distress many here and elsewhere feel is that attempting to illegally seize power in 2021 including the use of a violent mob storming the Capitol, in no way disqualified Trump from returning to office in the minds of a majority of voters. To me, that means my follow citizens are not patriotic. They don't believe our system of government and the rights it provides are more important than their economic situations and their social anxieties.
     
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  6. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    It’s been like the that for four years?
     
    Last edited: Nov 8, 2024 at 8:11 AM
  7. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    thousands of hours of diner-based forensics to understand why teh mad lol y u mad tho
     
  8. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Myopic hatred of Biden-Harris just empowers the absolutely worst people

     
  9. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Does anyone really think the prosecutions helped him win this and maybe it would have been best not to hold him accountable because it looked like a witch hunt to his supporters?
     
  10. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I sure don't. The MAGA base's persecution complex is so strong that if it wasn't this, it'd be something else. And the swing and new voters who put Trump over the top certainly didn't rank it as a concern during the campaign.
     
  11. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Help me out, @I Should Coco . You told us last night that we should try to find out the Trump voters' motivations. But I'm having some trouble with this one. Your thoughts, please.
     
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  12. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    I haven't really posted anything about the election. I honestly can't even articulate my thoughts on it other than disbelief it what the country I love has embraced.
    Like others, I have to unplug from it. If a good portion of the country wants to let one cult leader drag down an entire nation, so be it. I refuse to let him dominate every hour of every day of my life for another four years.

    If you need me, I'll be over in one of the weather-related, motorsports, or kayaking threads.
     
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