Search Results: is he really just busy

If I had to choose a favorite or noteworthy year, it would likely be 2004.

I remember these times as being more normal, tranquil, and full of nostalgic and fun memories.

In year 2004, I lived in a suburb within Knox County, TN called Farragut. This area was always known to be more upscale and more affluent. Many upper middle class families lived here. At that time, the town was not busy, bustling, or sprawling with people, yet it was not too rural and definitely not empty. It was just right I suppose.

I was around 10 years old and in the 3rd and 4th grades. I had a best friend named Nick whom I used to go over to his house and hang out. He had a PS2 and loved to skateboard. I was always jelly of Nick because all the girls liked him more haha.

Life as a kid was more simpler those days. We had technology but it didn't dominate our lives. I remember somewhere around that time iPods were cool. I remember Gameboy SPs and the GameCube. I loved to play Super Mario Sunshine, Zelda Windwaker, and Crash Bandicoot Wrath of the Cortex. Overall, we could find joy in playing outside while also watching cartoons and playing video games. I liked Codename Kids Next Door; Dexter's Lab; and Ed, Edd, and Eddy. This was also the era where SpongeBob was still good (it went downhill after the movie).

I remember I had an awesome, fun babysitter. We used to be goofy and make noises. I remember her showing me a website called farts. com that had a spoof video of Britney Spears called "Oops I Farted Again." We used to bust out laughing so hard we couldn't breathe and were crying.

I don't remember my parents struggling financially at that time. My parents were happily married and I used to play in the backyard and had a clubhouse which I learned later on my dad really built as a storage shed.

On Monday the RNC approved a platform, the document that outlines the party’s position for the administration they hope to put into power. The evolution of GOP platforms since 2016 shows the evolution of the GOP. The 2016 platform fell pretty much within the norms of the genre, celebrating the nation and attacking the opposition before calling first for tax cuts—standard for the GOP since 1980—open markets, and deregulation of business and finance, as well as a smaller government. It called as well for an end to gay marriage, protection of gun ownership, and opposition to abortion.

In 2020 the GOP did not write a platform, simply saying “[t]hat the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President's America-first agenda.”

Today's platform, is basically just lifted from a Trump rally teleprompter. The only real sign of the old party is, of course, the platform’s promise to make the Trump tax cuts (which have already added $2.5 trillion to the national debt) permanent. Otherwise, it portrays a world that reflects Trump’s dystopian vision rather than reality, then promises to fix that dystopia either with vague promises or with culture war victories. In odd passages, it promises to do what Biden has already done: conquer inflation, bring supply chains home, revive manufacturing, and save the auto industry.

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale has been kept busy correcting the Republicans’ repeated lie that there is a violent crime wave in the U. S. under Biden; the opposite is true. Both violent crimes and property crimes have plummeted since the Trump administration. Republicans are also saying that Democrats “have eroded the American energy dominance that President Trump delivered.” In reality, while Biden is trying to shift the U. S. to renewables, Dale noted that “the U. S. under Biden is producing more crude oil than any country ever has…"

Do republican voters just not care about any of this? How did that happen?