Quote (Bart1989 @ 9 Nov 2024 15:09)
That last one is reason enough he should win. And he did.
Normally I see jokes about countries that have oil and people saying "watch America bring them democracy" but right now I think this should get a serious tone. We could use some of Trump's democracy in Europe. All our countries are just as corrupt, if not worse, than yours is right now.
My country Singapore is pretty Good. We don't need Trump's democracy to be honest.
Europe on the other hand is basically sucking the NATO (lead by USA) Pacifier. They utilized American's taxpayers for military security while earning a ton of money for themselves.
Look at Germany's rise to a economical powerhouse (We are talking about after WW2 history not before) after the Berlin Wall fell. How much EU spend on their security, how much US and US Taxpayers spend on EU's security.
But then again to be fair to EU, it takes two hands to clap, America's Foreign Policy Establishment are willing to go along because of their own agenda and policy controlling EU.
So in a way both are at fault for what is happening in Europe at the moment.
Quote (Goomshill @ 9 Nov 2024 15:17)
What could republicans have done to appeal to voters in 2020?
Sometimes the chickens are just coming home to roost, sometimes an act of god smites you down. Consequences of either your own mismanagement or just larger trends outside of your control. Its not an issue of messaging or outreach or door knocking. Democrats just ran one of the most expensive campaigns in history and outspent Trump significantly, but more people watched Trump sling fries at mcdonalds and ride in a garbage truck than listened to a whole speech by Kamala trying to explain how she pinky swears to stop inflation.
Taking centrist positions on social issues instead of being freaky zealots will appeal to the middle and pick up voters, but it won't bridge the kind of gap that exists from the economy, or wars, or a pandemic, or whatever becomes the main issue of 2028.
They have been talking about forgiving student loans for example.
Imagine the Student Loans they are able to forgive for the amount of money they ran on their campaign.
Absolute Farce.
This post was edited by Hamsterbaby on Nov 9 2024 01:19am