Polls: Society & Politics

For those who don't know or aren't from the US, currently you have to be at least 35 before your eligible to run for President of the US.

Bonus question, should other non 2 party candidates get secret service protection? Weather you agree or not, it's my opinion all presidential candidates should have access to secret service protection no matter who they are.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rfk-jr-given-secret-service-protection-after-trump-rally-shooting/ar-BB1q4JZI?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Everyone has the photo below as their profile photo or a photo of him as a profile photo. You do this because everyone else does it, or because you want to be like all the cool kids

LEADER:
1. the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country: "the leader of a protest group"

FOLLOWER:
1. an adherent or devotee of a particular person, cause, or activity: "a freethinker and follower of Voltaire"

2. a person who moves or travels behind someone or something.

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?

Armed man in ski mask arrested while approaching Republican National Convention perimeter in Milwaukee - Armed man in ski mask arrested while approaching Republican National Convention perimeter in Milwaukee www.msn.com/.../ar-BB1q6Lux?ocid=sapphireappshare

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.”