can you be specific? like… i read ur comments, even the precedent ones and is like “i liked trump for all the things he did” but u never actually say what he did that u liked… and then “i don’t like biden and the left for all the things they did and would do” but u never actually say what is so bad that they did or would do… is like an extremely long word salad of nothingness.… i have a few questions to try to force you to take a real position:
- what would it take you to regret voting for Trump and admit that he is a disaster as a president? (be realistic no zombie apocalypse scenario allowed)
- what are 10 good things that Trump did in his previews 4 years? (i am talking the creme de la creme the best you got the reason why you believe he is so great, be specific no stuff like “less taxes” that alone means nothing i want you to say what exactly he did)
- what are 10 things you voted Trump to do in this new term? (again the best you got the reason you voted him and you need to be specific stuff like “less regulation” makes my brain boils since it has no meaning… what regulation are we talking about? do we want lead in bread? i don’t understand be specific...)
- what are 10 bad things that the Biden administration did? (you said there were a lot so i am looking forward to hear the 10 worst they surely must be so awful if they steared you to the right… again be specific no stuff like “i didn’t like how they handled this thing”, i want to know exactly what they did that you deem as so incredibly wrong to go on pair with the Trump administration)
- what are 10 bad things that the Kamala administration would have done that were gonna be so incredibly bad to go in pair with what we got… before you said there were a lot of them but you didn’t actually said any specifically… which is frustrating imo
btw wring long things is fine and cool but only if in the end it helps conveying what you have to say and you can actually get to the point… otherwise i may as well use ChatGPT and ask it to “stretch this comment in 3 pages without changing anything”… which i am sure we agree would be counterproductive to comunication…
A. T.
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well… changed your mind?
do you still believe all of this?
it sounds like you haven’t actually thought this throw and so you cannot actually come up with anything at all… you are trying to say that you not being able to come up with anything is justified by the impossibility of it? that to me sounds unreasonable and irrational… but let’s look at the points that you did write down since that is the only thing i can actually address because “vibes” are meaningless...
Some good things Trump did in his first term:
*You mentioned hated my mentioning ‘lowering regulation’ but he clearly did (I forget the numbers, but he genuinely reduced them). I liked the method through which he did it, and the fact that it happened, not based on individual regulations. He implemented a simple rule with two factors. The factors were that the agencies had to get rid of more regulations than you formed anew, and that the estimated financial impact of compliance needed to be equal or less than the current rules. I thought that was brilliant and every president should do it until we get down to a reasonable amount of regulation.
what method? like… you wrote 10 sentences on how great he lowered regulation but you have not mentioned a single regulation… a single law he passed a single thing he did specifically… you see how frustrating this is? it sounds like a movie phrase like “they defeated the evil” but reality is not a movie we need specific things are not black and white… so this point is out
*Kept inflation low
this point also invalid since Trump administration didn’t implement any policy to actually make inflation low… so it could be argue that the economic climate of his presidency was just good and it did not need any tampering… if anthything Trump policies added a staggering $7.8 trillion in national debt even in a time of economic prosperity making those cuts unnecessary someone could argue...
*Kept unemployment low
American unemployment has been “low” for the past 12 years as far as i am aware it was low even during the Biden administration which had to deal with a pandemic… so unless you can mention something Trump actually did to lower unemployment this point also goes… again i asked for things the Trump administration DID not a description of American economy as it always was… this is your top? the best of the best you could come up?
*No new foreign wars
again… what did Trump do that was somehow preventing foreign wars druign that time? this point is so irrational i find myself at a loss of words to see it wrote on a community such as this… if the sun rise tomorrow is it thanks to Donald Trump? the fact that a metorite didn’t strike earth between 2016 and 2018 was it thanks to Donald Trump?
*Reduced taxes on business (lower marginal rates), reduced taxes on individuals (increased standard deduction)
what taxes? be specific? how was it good? these general statement of “he defeated the evil taxes” is what i don’t like…
*Spoke directly to the populace frequently on the theme of America and Americans being great
every single president did that… so… like… is this the BEST of Trump? 4 years administration and the top of the top someone can say about him is that he did some speeches where he said america good? what president hasn’t said so in the past 200+ years? lol
*Did not support anything I find especially bad (obviously this is important, no matter the vagueness!) (Whatever you find outrageous, I obviously don’t agree it happened, who is responsible, and/or the interpretation thereof)
the most subjective point there can be… i could write an entire book about things Trump supported in 4 years that are horrendous… i am not sure how someone can say he didn’t support anything “bad”… but again this is so vague it feels like you are unwilling to mention what you actually want to mention are you afraid?
*Worked within the structure of our government (also vague but important)
is interesting how you recognize the vagueness of such statement… why write it at all? what president didn’t “work within the structure of our government”? lmao… Trump spent his last year saying the election was stolen and orchestreting a way to delay the certification of the vote with false electors… his lawyers were disbarded and his speech fomented a moab to the capitol… how more away you can go from the structure of the government then that?
*Was clearly the person actually doing the job
”the job”? what is “the job” he did? are there president that weren’t doing their job?
*He picked judges for the supreme court that support textualism and originalism (which are the only schools of jurisprudence I can support)(I strongly favor textualism if there is any conflict)
so… supreme judges are basically the lottery for a president so i am not sure what to do with this point either… also what is the source for this statement? to me it seems he just choose the judges most loyal to the republican party… like it is reported in numerous media format so your interpretation that he picked them because of “textualism”… like i am not entirely sure Trump would know what “textualism” is or mean...
Some things I voted for Trump to do in his new term:
*Most importantly, continue his governance from the first term since I think it went well. (Only as vague as it has to be.) Try to make America stay great. Protect America from its enemies. Etc.
point means nothing so i will jump it
*Enforce the border, preventing as much illegal immigration as reasonably possible while also preventing smuggling of things like drugs or weapons or whatever, and more generally, enforce the laws the left doesn’t (vague for obvious reasons, but obviously including things like deporting illegal aliens, keeping public order, and prosecuting rioters). Most laws are enforced by states of course, so I don’t and didn’t expect him to have much effect on most crime, but still.
any source for the claim that he would do such thing? just because he says so? this point is very opinionated and tries to insult the left as people that don’t enforce laws for some reasons i fail to understand… anyhow… during his first term the numbers of deported were not any higher then before… as of now Obama still stands as the president who deported the most illegals and despite the irrational mainstream belief that Biden administration didn’t enforce the laws on immigration they actually DID do just that… they also tried to pass a bipartisan law which would have finally put a stop to the loopholes used by immigrants the law was about to be approved and pass senate but Trump with a now reported call to republican senators stroke the law down because otherwise he would have not been able to use the immigration issue in his presidential campaign
*Prevent his tax cuts from expiring
what tax cuts? what benefits do they have? again with “the evil taxes”
*Be willing to confront China to prevent their bad actions from having the effects they desire. (Vague because those actions are chosen by China, and I object to the leadership’s choices but don’t know in advance what they will be. I also don’t know the ideal way to confront China.) China cannot be allowed to become a great power under current leadership (which I believe is evil).
we are beyond vague at this point… i will just ignore this “point” and move on...
*Prevent Kamala Harris from becoming president
this the BEST reason to elect Trump? without any actual explenation just “kamala bad trump good” what even is the argument?
*Prevent the Democrats from accruing more power in general
eh… didn’t you say you were a “long independent” lol… also this is not an argument without a reason again… let’s move on…
*Make deals with foreign powers but walk away from bad ones
what powers? what deals? like… seriously… is this a bot? am i speaking to a bot that cannot mention specific stuff cause is not in the tokens so it cannot grab it or something?
*Support Israel against terrorist governments (including Hamas and Iran’s government) rather than hamstringing them
no president has ever supported terrorists let alone hamas lol didn’t you say you didn’t want foreign wars interventions? lol
*Prevent rogue nations like Iran from getting nukes (whether by peaceful means or not)
so… you want war? like actual war with iran? for what doing something that they are already doing? it feels like is not war you are against is just that you want your personal war...
*Prevent lawfare against Trump from making the party guilty of it win
source? evidence that this was a thing ever? to me sounds like he just got away with crimes he did commit… you are free to post evidence tho...
Some reasons Biden was a terrible president:
*He was mentally incompetent for at least a large stretch of his presidency! We don’t even know which parts he was competent during. He was completely unwilling to admit this and remove himself from the presidency. I despise Kamala Harris, but he should have made her acting president after voluntarily stepping down, especially after it became clear to the world that we had a mentally incompetent president. (Luckily there were none of our foes used that fact to their fullest advantage.) He presumably never realized how incompetent he was, which means he certainly couldn’t have planned for his own lack of capability in planning things.
this is your opinions you don’t have any evidence to prove he was incompetent at all… awkward video clips on the internet are not evidence of mental incompetence lmao… if that were the case Trump would be classifiable as a mentally disabled too so you can either show evidence of this or agree that is not a point at all… from my prespective Biden seems pretty fine i detatch myself from using memes and random clips as a way to define someone persona let alone mental capacity… i don’t think is rational to do so… people really liked this gossiping and the for profit media run with it… as simple as that… the only reason we don’t speak about Trump mental incapacity every single day is because he show it so much that is not even newsworthy… imagine having a mentally handicapped firend, the first time you meet them maybe you uknowledge the situation but the 300th time? nobody would click such articles cause everyone already knows it...
*Border enforcement was a complete and utter joke. A country that has no border is incredibly vulnerable. (See what Israel just did to Iran.)
source? evidence? what do we define as “joke”? what policies are we talking about? very vague random irrational statement to make imo… let’s stick with factual points
*He never achieved anything positive of which I am aware.
sounds like you have ignored a lot then… just at the top of my head the Biden Administration passed an historical bipartisan infrastructure bill which benefits are still in the work to this day, anything from rebuilding over 200,000 miles of roads, repaired 12,000+ bridges, and funded 72,000 infrastructure projects nationwide you can see each project in the bill itself on google… so this already invalidate your point which was “he did nothing”… as a cherry on top some republicans from the current Trump administration are even posting multiple projects pictures on twitter boosting about how great they are without realizing that in said pictures you can actually see the Biden signature on the project paper itself which is usually outside of each project construction place… i can give you link if you want i find it funny...
*Inflation was the highest since Carter! (Also a one term president for obvious reasons.) His policies of pumping way too much money through the government are the likely cause (including the absurdly misnamed ‘Inflation Reduction Act’).
we had a pandemic… what money do you deem unnecessary? again vagueness makes this point invalid… it just has no meaning unless you can tell me what is wrong with what was done and why… anyone can say “inflation bad” but is not a real point
*The selection of egregiously incompetent people for his administration, like Kamala Harris. He selected both her and supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson based on what appears to be demographics / DEI. He selected people in general based on demographics. (This is both super racist and super sexist.)
evidence that they were selected on those basis? why would we say they are incompetent? from my perspective seeing you saying this without any evidence makes it look like you are the “super racist and super sexist” here...
*The feeling that politics got a lot more divisive during his term (which also occurred during the Trump and Obama presidencies, to be fair)
why would we say this? can you point me to something Biden did? cause otherwise there is no point here… but thanks for unknowledging that Trump a president that tried to overturn an election which he lost can at least be classified as “divisive” lol
*He supported lawfare against Trump (I believe that none of it was justified), severely damaging our traditions against it (and inviting retaliation).
evidence? source? just your opinion? let’s move on...
*Clearly extreme corruption involving enriching himself and his family through his son Hunter’s accepting money to put people into contact with, and get favorable treatment from Joe Biden
evidence? source? what he did do exactly? was it the same as Trump appointing each of his family members as government employees or using his president position to promote a crypto scam? or getting other countries to invest in his social network company? or getting gifted airplanes? if you have anything anything at all pls share… otherwise… again… let’s move on...
*Unprecedentedly pardoning people (especially his son) for things they did over an extremely long period of time and not even in a restricted category! (Obviously after the election)
his son pardoning was due to the fact that during the presidential campaign Trump and some Trump followers (like the now appointed president of the FBI) promised to utilize the DOJ to go after Biden’s family for no other reason other then political reason… this is why he had to pardon every member of his family… btw you say “especially his son” what other pardon do you disagree with? pls either mention them specifically or non at all since is not useful otherwise… frankly i would have done the same… it surely is not the same as pardoning convicted criminals that assaulted multiple police agents for no reason during a ridicolous assault to the capitol...
*I feel that he had absolutely no respect for the constitution, laws of the land, or the importance of faithfully executing his duties as president.
like… what did he do? either tell what he did against any of this things you mention and why is bad or you may as well not be saying anything at all...
*The world became a more dangerous place under his watch (including Hamas’s actions, Russia’s invasion, China getting a more advantageous position, etc)
what did he do that made hamas worse or the world a less safe place? you didn’t say what he did… like… i literally asked you for specifical things that was done not vague general nonsense… please be rational...
Some reasons I believe Kamala Harris would have been a terrible president:
*I am Californian, and she literally never did anything I heard of in state politics that was positive. When I compared her to her (also a Democrat) opposition in statewide office, I very clearly knew I should vote for her opponent.
just at a first glance Kamala Harris espablished the California’s Bureau of Children’s Justice in 2015, while serving as Attorney General of California. do you deem that as nothing positive? interesting...
*Even Democrats generally said she was incompetent before they ran her
source? like who? do we care? when we say “democrat” who are we talking about? like… any democrat? any person on twitter saying something bad about kamala? is this a rational thought to have? there were republican saying bad things about Trump… hell there is an entire community called “republicans against trump”
*She had no vision for America that made any sense. I can’t even say what she might have claimed it would be.
so you don’t know what her vision is but you deemed it terrible? did you read like… her political agenda on her websites? was pretty clear to me… do you need a link?
*She failed to do her duty to the country and invoke the 25th amendment to remove Biden from the presidency when he was mentally and physically incompetent, putting her ambitions ahead of her loyalty to the country, and leaving the US in a vulnerable state without leadership if something drastic happened. (Even Kamala Harris would have been a better choice for that interim than Biden.)
evidence that this was the case? some funny video clips on youtube of an old man falling down some stairs? lol
Some terrible things Kamala would do as president:
*Continue her wretched performance in border control (and likely worsen it)
you still have not mentioned what was that is “wretched” you just say it is without saying why what did she do… very irrational imo
*Continue to promote DEI in her administration and the country / not select for merit
unless you can pinpoint to instances of this happening and explaing why and how it was wrong and bad this is not a real point done in good faith...
*Wealth taxes (the worst likely tax)
”oh no the evil taxes” is not a real argument… what taxes are we talking about? wealth taxes were not even in the campaign agenda at all… why would they be implemented? why are they bad? as far as i am aware the only tax mentioned in her campaign was a capital gain tax for people with income above something like 500k a year (around that you can google actual numbers) which althow she mentioned in a few speeches this had no chance what so ever of actually passing anyway… so what is the problem? but again… no wealth tax was mentioned… i just thought maybe you are confusing the 2
*Price controls (the worst likely economic policy) / anti-‘price gouging’ laws (ensuring you get shortages instead)
what price controls are we talking about? what laws was proposed? “price control bad” is not a rational argument...
*Continue and escalate lawfare against opponents since it would have worked against Trump in this scenario
evidence that this was the case at all?
*Raise tax rates in general (marginal, corporate, and miscellaneous) / let the Trump tax cuts expire (even with the Trump tax cuts, rates were still too high)
”evil taxes” meaningless point let’s move on...
*Fail to reform the government at all
i don’t think we can get more meaningless then this… you are basically doing ad hominem attacks at this point we are beyond all that is rational
*Egg on rioters and support law breakers from the office of the presidency / fail to faithfully follow the constitution and faithful execute our laws
source? evidence? why do we think that? random words?
*Serve as an example that parties can simply decided who our next president will be
we vote the president
*Be extremely weak in foreign policy / lead from behind
saying things without any reason is very irrational… unless you can quote anything that would justify thinking this to me it sounds just sexist tbh
*Fail to prioritize the needs of the country to have a functioning market, cheap prices, abundant surplus of goods, physical safety, and equal enforcement of laws because she believes that would inhibit ‘green energy’ and DEI
random words basically…
oof that was painful to read… i don’t see any actual point being made unfortunatley i only see irrationality in you words which failed to actually say anything besides showing a lot of bad faith… btw you still missed a question
- what would it take you to regret voting for Trump and admit that he is a disaster as a president? (be realistic no zombie apocalypse scenario allowed)