Polls: Society & Politics

It troubles me when grown ass adults don’t know the difference.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than a thousand points since it was confirmed that President Trump was okay after the shooting. Coincidence? How much do you think it would have gone down if he had been killed?

"These books come from a Missouri public library. When I am in office, they will burn."

MO GOP candidate for Sec of State Valentina Gomez

Earlier this year, GOP VA representatives Rabih Abuismail and Livingston representative Kirk Twigg both championed burning books.

"I think we should throw those books in a fire," Abuismail said. Meanwhile, Twigg said he wanted to "see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff."

Project 2025

Project 2025 proposes that the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as the Department of Justice, be placed under direct presidential control - a controversial idea known as "unitary executive theory" as well as firing tens of thousands of schedule F employees and replace with Trump loyalists.

On immigration the plan is to increase funding for more wall, eliminating visa categories for crime and human trafficking victims, increasing fees on immigrants and allowing fast-tracked applications for migrants who pay a premium.

On climate, it proposes slashing federal money for research and investment in renewable energy, continue to stay out of Paris climate accord and calls for the next president to "stop the war on oil and natural gas".

On the economy, it would raise tariffs on imports causing inflation, slash corporate and income taxes, abolish the Federal Reserve and even consider a return to gold-backed currency.

On abortion it proposes withdrawing the abortion pill mifepristone from the market, and using existing laws to stop the drug being sent through the post. It also suggests that the department of Health and Human Services should "maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family.

Tech & Education portions would see pornography banned, and tech and telecoms companies that allow access would be shut down. It calls for school choice and parental control over schools, and ends what it calls "woke propaganda". It will eliminate a long list of terms from all laws and federal regulations, including "sexual orientation", "gender equality", "abortion" and "reproductive rights". as well as ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools and government departments as part of what it describes as a wider crackdown on "woke" ideology. It will abolish the Dept of Ed and end political indoctrination.

This seems to be the constant accusation on the Right. Be it BLM or the Vietnam war.

Republicans under Trump have increasingly advocated violence as a way to gain power because they know their unpopular positions cannot lead their candidates to victory in free and fair elections. In this moment it appears they are projecting their own behavior onto Biden and the Democrats, blaming them for advocating violence when in fact, Biden and the Democrats have tried hard to enact commonsense gun safety laws and have consistently condemned the violent language and normalizing of political violence by Republicans - which they routinely write off as a "just joking."

Biden spoke to the nation, warning that Americans need to “lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies. We’re neighbors. We’re friends, coworkers, citizens. And, most importantly, we are fellow Americans. And we must stand together.” He condemned the violence, noting that “[a] former president was shot” and “an American citizen killed while simply exercising his freedom to support the candidate of his choosing…. There is no place in America for this kind of violence or for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can’t allow this violence to be normalized.”

The framers of the Constitution, he said, “created a democracy that gave reason and balance a chance to prevail over brute force. That’s the America we must be, an American democracy where arguments are made in good faith, an American democracy where the rule of law is respected, an American democracy where decency, dignity, fair play aren’t just quaint notions, but living, breathing realities.”

Biden rejected the weird idea that criticizing the Republicans’ extremism was polarizing. While they can “criticize my record and offer their own vision for this country,” he said, “I’ll continue to speak out strongly for our democracy, stand up for our Constitution and the rule of law, to call for action at the ballot box, no violence on our streets. That’s how democracy should work.”

We see billions of dollars being handed to illegal aliens and other countries, but who has paid close attention to our own infrastructure?

What has really improved in our infrastructure since Xiden has been in office?

I know my county has half a million people but still has 2 lane interstates in many portions

They already have facial recognition. Now it’s “ad recognition”….

Someone asks a question and the only answers are along the lines of "Yes, I agree with you" or "No, I'm an idiot."

The asker is basically fishing for compliments from like-minded people and has no interest in listening to opposing view points.

He lived in San Francisco after attending college at Yale - two marks of what the MAGA movement traditionally consider as being from the "elite" and "woke". He has NO legislative or executive experience other than the past 17 months in Senate where GOP colleagues have described him as "green" and "trying his best". Democratic senators describe their interactions with Vance as surprisingly cooperative and productive, focusing on specific issues where they can find common ground leading to accusations of being a RINO.

In 2016, he viewed Trump as unfit for office, calling him "reprehensible" and even comparing him to Hitler.
Vance expressed concerns about Trump's impact on marginalized groups, stating that Trump made immigrants & Muslims fearful.
He found Trump's behavior embarrassing, particularly after the Access Hollywood tape scandal, and urged fellow Christians not to apologize for Trump's actions.
Vance considered Trump's rhetoric and policies to be at odds with his own values and beliefs at the time.
He went so far as to call himself a "Never Trump Guy" and admitted he "can't stomach Trump" in interviews. Vance even refused to vote for Trump in 2016, instead supporting independent candidate Evan McMullin.

During Trump's 2016 campaign, Vance called Trump an "idiot" and "America's Hitler" and admitted to not voting for him

Quotes from Hillbilly Elegy:
"What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It's not your fault that you're a loser; it's the government's fault."

"Whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, 'The feeling that our choices don't matter.'"

"We don't study as children, and we don't make our kids study when we're parents. Our kids perform poorly in school. We might get angry with them, but we never give them the tools—like peace and quiet at home—to succeed."