Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 2)

A very good and courageous speech there, hats off to him. But at which point does it become dangerous for him and other people openly speaking up against the gang?

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It is hilarious that in his argument for cutting interest rates, he cites…falling interest rates

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The four servicemen who died on an exercise in Lithuania last week are due to arrive back in the US today and Trump will not be in attendance. Instead he will be at his golf course to host a LIV event. In his first term he attended only the first 4 transfers that occurred on his watch and sat out the remaining 100. We have well sourced reporting that Trump explained away his disinterest in participating in those transfer ceremonies because of his disparaging views over the people who died while serving the US.

Yet the right put significant investment into attacking Biden for disrespecting our troops for allegedly looking at his watch at one of the ceremonies he attended, which his team explained as him actually turning to his dead son’s rosary beads.

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https://x.com/ArtCandee/status/1908198160834388230

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Manufacturing is coming back in two years.

https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1907925550154527105

But not those green energy jobs we’ve already ploughed money into setting up that will enable us to compete in a sector that is actually important to our future economic strength and national security. No we’re hell bent on killing that sector and are happy you in the press will never make us reconcile those things.
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What is his problem with the armed forces, exactly?

I’ve heard him referring to serving personnel as ā€œsuckersā€ and wounded soldiers as ā€œlosersā€.

If a British politician spoke like that, they would be finished in public life. Do Americans have a general dislike of the military?

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Because he’s a self-serving loser who cannot envision sacrificing for others?

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So two years after the first Mars colony

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If you ask an American they will tell you they love their military and respect our service men and women. But it’s all for show. It serves less as a real commitment and more a way to do demonstrate performative patriotism by doing trivial things like letting our service men and women board a plane early.

Listening to their views about the wars they were made to fight in? Fucking commie pussies!

Being willing to support them when they return home? Get a job you fucking slacker

Trump has a duality about a lot of things where he has diametrically opposed views about something that cannot be reconciled and the Military is no different. He does all the pandering you are supposed to do as an American and a politician. But the idea of service, or even sacrifice, is totally alien to him and is something that only suckers and loses do. I dont think this is revealing about Trump. But the lack of accountability for it he has had from his voters, people who tell themselves and anyone who will listen, that they love the military, should be revealing to people. Many in the press reacted to those McCain comments back in 15-16 like they expected it to end him. It did not. That should have been a paradigm changing moment for how they thought about Trump’s place in our politics, or even what patriotism meant to the average American, but vanishingly few people in the press learned much from that.

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Bitch, your policies often change before you get to the end of your sentence.

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So, selling the country off then.

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But we do get a free dinner at Applebee’s once a year.

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Jesus, is making you go to Afghanistan not enough? When will this madness end.

That’s why I didnt vote for Harris because I didnt want to be drafted and then made to eat to at that shithole place

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Just amazing stuff here - dont worry about this dip because the market was doing well under the last guy

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For those who say ā€œthe federal government doesnt control presidential elections, there is no way Trump could use government to steal the next oneā€

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