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Yes it is time for new leadership. I've seen nothing to convince me the democrats are the solution. Both parties are crap until one of them proves otherwise.

05..I responded to 'your question'...

Great signing at a reasonable cost!

Oh, memories....

Wait a minute. We may resemble that remark. Being like minded tends to give off that impression.

I’m starting to think you two are the same person

TDE has definitely done significant damage to our country. I think there is significant data points showing this. I do think that many legacy Dems pay lip service to correcting it while doing little to stop it or benefitting from it themselves. Many of the newcomers though are showing more promise on this front. Regardless, I see next to nothing from the R’s to reverse course.

Did you not read my earlier posts in the thread? My guess is no. I was just reframing the purpose of the thread for Daman.

Agreed! Worthy and deserving.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7DGiCU1F-FM

Yep - you posted about the myth of trickle down economics as I posted this in the other thread ! It's such a good 45 second clip I thought I would post it here too.

It sounds to me as if you are making a wise decision.

Nice

well deserved - he's been a good piece for our front

That's funny. I just posted about that in the "Why the Democrats" thread before reading your post.

Show me where he "supports terrorist".

jihadist; A jihadist is a person who advocates or participates in a violent, militant interpretation of jihad

Now show me.

I think the answer is actually a relatively easy one. It's contained by a quote from Abraham Lincoln in The Gettysburg Address.

"...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"

That's not what we're seeing from the Republican party but what we see Democrats fighting for. Of course every time they do Republicans label that as "socialism/communism" to try and cast a negative label on trying to do things "for the people". This may go back even further than FDR but it's the first time in American history that I know of it being so prevalent. Here are just a couple of such examples.

1. Tax cuts; People can debate the wisdom of tax cuts when someone "claims" to be conservative while spending just as much or more than the other party as they simultaneously give the bulk of those tax cuts to the 1% if they want but that's how things work out.

They claim giving those huge tax cuts to the rich will trickle down to others. That it will create jobs. That's their excuse to hand the vast majority of those tax cuts to the very few that don't need it and won't be spending it. It gets invested and tucked away and does nothing to stimulate the economy. Meanwhile the nation goes even further in debt and the average American gets very little benefit from it. Jobs are only created when the demand for products increase to the point they need more employees are needed to produce those products. That can only happen when the money is put into the hands of the consumers who purchase those products. This is elementary.

Nothing about that is "for the people".

2. Health care; Once again something they wish to label as "socialist/communist" yet democracies around the globe have national healthcare systems. Once again using a negative stereotype to deny the people of having a more efficient, improved and less costly healthcare system. That isn't just talk. We spend more per capita by thousands of dollars per person than any other nation in the world. Yet we're ranked #33 in healthcare systems. And the vast majority of those countries ranked ahead of us have national healthcare.

What they are calling socialist is the same approach businesses use all of the time in this country. They use buying in bulk to negotiate better deals and lower costs. That's the same reason mom and pop stores can't give you the same prices that Walmart can. That's how national healthcare works. The government would be using the purchasing power of well over 300 million people to get better deals and lower prices. I don't hear anyone calling the Walton family socialists for being smart.

There's nothing socialist or communist about expecting your government to use their power and the tax money you pay in to make life better "for the people". Protecting and benefiting the few above all else is s symptom that needs to be medicated. In less than ten years it will have been a century since FDR and the label of socialism has been used as a weapon to trample down anything that gets brought up to help every day Americans and more and more people are beginning to see through that BS. Just like they did in the times if FDR and Senator Joe McCarthy.

It's a scam and a con job.

The democrats on the other hand never seem to be able to succeed because we have the opposing party fighting tooth and nail to either prevent any of this happening to begin with and when we do start seeing a crack in the door they dismantle it and close even that crack. They still have so many convinced that having government do things helpful to the average American is evil.

And they do it all cloaked under the deception of the flag and religion.

There are certainly things the democrats, mainly those on the fringe, support that I don't. But then that's the problem. I don't care how someone "identifies themselves". I don't care if a woman wants to call herself a man or if a man wants to call himself a woman. Why should I give a damn about that? I don't care if someone wants to dress up in drag. Milton Berle was doing that in the 1940's and it was on TV. Lucy dressed up as man and it was on TV. But now? OMG you would think someone shot their mom. But that's what they love to do. Avoid the fact they really aren't helping every day Americans and hide it by continuing to wage a culture war. Because you know, God and stuff.

05...if there is any hope of exposing the corruption in our Government, should voters rely on GOP to expose it..?

Our country is screwed up worse than I have ever seen it..beef prices, diesel, gas, home heating prices are at near record highs and I have not heard one Republican talk about a plan they have to correct this record inflation.

Trump and his GOP now support Russia and Putin over a country fighting for their democracy.

You want more of the screwed up mess Trump and the GOP have created..?

Or are you willing to admit it's time to change the leadership of those now in charge..?

Thanks for the replies, the web resources and advice will be very helpful and at least I know where to get started. I'm no longer able to get useful information from him, hospice is involved and we're in the final days now. Right now, I don't have the time or motivation to get rollling with this, I think I'm just going to sit on them until his son (and myself) are in a better place emotionally and discuss it with him and come up with a plan.

The question, though, is what is attractive about the Dems, not what is so unattractive about Trump.

Agreed about the D with and without Maliek. Honestly, a nice stuffed Veal Chop dinner from Myles would have been nice too!!!!!

Gotta admit, I'm not sure why you asked this question.. I mean it's almost as if you are asking to be beat on.

Trump is the biggest liar ever in the White House.. (Example: No new wars , Lower Prices etc)

Trump is OBSESSED with Decorating... The white house, the Oval Office, The grounds, the Reflecting Pool, This Arch and what the hell is this about with the Kennedy Center... Demanding his Name be on it and hiding the Books so we can't see how well it was being run already.....

Trump spends entirely too much time doing the things that he doesn't need to do and avoiding those things he NEEDS to attend to.

Trump is clearly the Most Corrupt US President in History...

Trump tries to sell the Lie that our Elections are Rigged... In fact, Look back, according to him, The elections he won were the ones Run while a Democrat was President.. 2016 Obama, 2024 Biden. The one he questions most was run by Republicans?

Trump wants/demands a Nobel Peace Prize! Exactly, describe for me, WHAT THE HELL FOR?

I could go on, but I recognize, it's a waste of time.. your mind is closed.

Trump doesn't appear to want Russia to lose the war they started....

As for Starlink/starshield, I'm sure Elon slowed it down.. What I'm not sure of is who, if anyone, ordered him to do it.

He could hand me a $5000 Doge Check, A $2000 Tariff Refund and a $5000 Vote for Republicans check Right now and I still would not vote for anything republican.... Can't trust them!\

While we are at it, can someone tell me what wars he's stopped?

Our D was drastically different without him last year after his injury. I hope Myles bought him a big fat steak dinner in exchange for that sack record.