The 2024 Presidential Race Thread

Next Day Err

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The irony of the Left insisting everyone be vaccinated but attacking the guy responsible for getting the vaccines to market.
He doesn't get an All Day Pass for getting out of the way and letting experts work. It's still an achievement he could be running on but he can't because his base doesn't trust science and hates experts. They want their stupid "everyman" who "says it like it is" to validate their own feelings of hatred, etc.
 

Next Day Err

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Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age

He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own “beautiful” body. He relishes “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when he presumably means Iran. As late as last month, Mr. Trump was still speaking as if he were running against President Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race.

He's old and he's strange. You wouldn't elect him to your local school board. But you're going to vote for him for President of the United States.
 

Next Day Err

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Can a convicted felon run for local school board?
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vantexan

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He doesn't get an All Day Pass for getting out of the way and letting experts work. It's still an achievement he could be running on but he can't because his base doesn't trust science and hates experts. They want their stupid "everyman" who "says it like it is" to validate their own feelings of hatred, etc.
I believe the "experts" were telling us if we got vaccinated we wouldn't get the virus, wouldn't transmit it, and it was totally safe. Not to mention they told us it came out of a wet market in Wuhan.

The reason his base doesn't trust experts is because more often than not the so called experts get it wrong.

And for all the talk about Trump wanting to be a dictator the most authoritarian thing we've seen since 2017 was the shutdown of the country due to the pandemic. Might have been necessary at first until we had a better understanding of who was at risk, but the resistance to end the shutdowns exposed who the real authoritarians are in the U.S.
 

DriveInDriveOut

Inordinately Right
I believe the "experts" were telling us if we got vaccinated we wouldn't get the virus, wouldn't transmit it, and it was totally safe. Not to mention they told us it came out of a wet market in Wuhan.

The reason his base doesn't trust experts is because more often than not the so called experts get it wrong.
Some people desperately want experts to tell them what to do. They need it. Free thought and making your own decisions is a terrifying prospect for certain people.

They're willing to completely overlook and deny when the experts are wrong, because the alternative would be them having to make their own decision and take responsibility for the results.
 

Pullman Brown

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In a recent post, I stated "On all these issues the Democratic Party is demonic, and must be stopped." By "issues" I had specified not only abortion (even with all the backpedaling done by Trump, there is still significant difference between the two Parties on that issue), but also such issues as:

*The chemical castration and mutilation of minors
*Allowing males in female restrooms and sports
*Court appointments legislating their 'woke' agenda from the bench without regard for Constitutional safeguards
*Censoring and criminalizing speech and violating free exercise of religion
*Election cheating through an illegal immigration scam that threatens to turn the nation into a one-Party, California-style state
*Banana-Republic politicized prosecution of their chief political opponent

I received a little flak for saying that the Democratic Party's stance on these issues is "demonic." I will not back down. I believe the characterization was apt.

A Party that makes its two twin idols, both grave sins, "LGBTQ" immoral coercion and the taking of human life through abortion for all nine months of pregnancy is demonic on these issues. All the more so because they accompany these demonic positions with demonic efforts at censoring and criminalizing speech and inhibiting free exercise of religion.

Let's get personal here.

Yes, if the state tried to take my child from me or transition my child without my permission to a false "gender," thereby permanently castrating my child, that would be a demonic case of child abuse, pure and simple.

If "LGBTQ" laws passed by the state caused me to be investigated by police with possible jail time for something I said about "LGBTQ" matters, or caused me to lose my job for my beliefs, or demanded from me compelled speech regarding transgender pronouns or names (a blasphemy of my Creator), these too would be demonic actions by the Democratic Party.

An Executive Order interpretation of "sex discrimination" in Title IX to permit boys in female restrooms, locker rooms, and sports, assaulting female privacy and modesty and taking awards away from real females is demonic.

Forcibly indoctrinating my children in school with "LGBTQ+" propaganda that allows for no dissenting viewpoints to be shared, that teaches them to regard dissenters to this ideology as hateful and ignorant bigots, that confuses my child about his or her own sexuality, and which sexualizes my child at the youngest school age with the abomination of Drag Queen Story Hour, and which refuses parents the right to be informed and to opt-out their children from such "LGBTQ+" struggle sessions, yes, all these too are demonic policies.

Passing laws protecting school officials and teachers to lie to me about my minor child's gender transition and treating me in the legal system as a child abuser if I encourage my child to harmonize her or his self-understanding with biological reality constitutes demonic stances.

And of course promoting and even bragging about the killing of children in the womb, even past viability, with no protection for that human life other than a consultation between the mother and her doctor, allowing a virtually unlimited option at any time for the "emotional health" of the mother, and even revoking lifesaving medical care for babies born after botched abortions (which Walz did and Harris supports) is demonic.

I could go on. But this is enough to justify the use of the word "demonic" for political idols of the Democratic Party.


Robert Gagnon
 

vantexan

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The experts saved millions and millions of lives with the vaccines globally. You are just wrong.
So you're saying that the vaccines that didn't prevent infection or transmission saved lives? How about just saying the truth? The virus affected the elderly and those with serious underlying health issues at a vastly disproportionate rate to the general population.
 

Pullman Brown

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It's the government's fault that folks believe wild theories about their involvement in nefarious activities—even when they're wrong.

In the same way that a pathological liar is at fault even when people believe they're lying when they're actually telling the truth for once.

If you lie about a huge percentage of stuff, people will assume you're lying all the time—and they're right to do that.

Brian Suave
 

fishtm2001

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Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s agenda for a potential second Trump administration, includes dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Agency—the U.S. agency that forecasts weather—and greatly limiting the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s ability to respond.
 
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