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I don’t really believe what McConnell is saying here, at least domestically, there is a direct line from Reagan’s policies to Trump, just in Reagan’s day the Republicans were politer about their racism and spoke in dog whistles like “welfare queens”. but Reagan was every bit as much as Trump and Musk are for hurting poor people and doing away with the social safety net so I have no doubt Reagan would fit right in with today’s Republicans.

They also have to know where the food bank is and have a means of getting there. I really don’t like passing judgment on the way poor people spend their money. I’d rather pass judgment on the way billionaires like President Musk and Jeff Bezos spend their money, they have more money than they will ever be able to spend but they don’t use any of it to help society.

You don’t have to hang out in alt right circles to see this. I’ve seen the first comparison on line and I never read anything remotely right wing. Not only is the comparison laughable but blatantly racist.

Unfortunately I don’t think any of them will feel any consequences, Fox News or whatever right wing news source their constituents get their news from will tell them the Republicans aren’t to blame (even though they are) and they will continue to be reelected. This is why we need a Fairness Doctrine that prevents blatant lies. I’m sorry for being pessimistic but experience and the recent election has shown that voters are stupid.

I have no idea if he said this but I’m sure he thinks it. He the richest man in the world said before the election that if Trump won that the American people would be in for a lot of suffering. It angers me that people voted for this.

Exactly, which is why I have never voted for a Republican, they only care about making the rich richer and screw the poor and this has always been the case as long as I’ve been alive with Republicans, it’s not new to Trump. But the US is a rich country now, it just doesn’t help its own citizens due to Republican politicians.

Your post made it sound like you believe the US government should be helping poor Americans, which is something I believe too, but you’re never going to get this if you’re voting for Republicans. Republicans believe in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and think that poor people are suckers. The Democratic party is far from perfect but you are much more likely to get policies that help poor Americans if you vote for Democrats. There is no reason why a country as rich as the US can’t support its own citizens and aid poor people overseas.

And when I worked in an office I had coworkers who watched tv shows on their work computers, maybe they were on their lunch hour, I don’t know. But being in the office doesn’t make people productive, there’s plenty of gossiping and goofing off going on in offices.

I hate the Capital One commercials with the Capital One guy, both the one where we find out he lives and sleeps in the bank and the one at the career fair where everyone is more interested in what the Capital One guy has to say than both Derek Jeter and the astronaut.

I’m mixed on DEK. I loved Picket Fences(first 3 seasons only, the show majorly went down hill when Kelly left to focus on Chicago Hope), loved The Practice (except the last season which was unwatchable) , didn’t care for Ally McBeal, was meh on Chicago Hope and hate Boston Legal(I’ve never seen an episode but that’s basically what the last season of The Practice was and I resent it). Also I hate the West Wing. I saw it for the first time in 2020, but I don’t think it would have made a difference if I watched it while it was airing. The characters are all too moderate and too focused on compromising with Republicans like it’s some noble thing to be lauded. Sometimes compromise is necessary, for example Obamacare never would have passed without its, but I don’t think compromise is something to be strived for or something that should be a goal of Democrats. Just look at Obamacare, it could have been a lot better if Democrats hadn’t been forced to compromise. Basically I believe that when Democrats compromise, Americans lose.

I have nothing against white South Africans in general but I have issue with Trump wanting them to immigrate to the US at the same time he’s deporting thousands of minorities. I’m a white American who’s always been anti Trump as is the rest of my immediate family so I appreciate that people understand that not all of us support him, though I do have to say that I’m suspicious of every white person I see until they prove themselves to be anti Trump and I live in a blue state so I know at least half of them are probably anti Trump but I trust no one, so many of my mom’s friends in NJ like him.

It is foreign aid and doesn’t directly affect us here, but I saw the director of USAID on Colbert and she said that the work they do eradicating diseases like Ebola in other countries is the reason we don’t have these diseases here. So it does indirectly affect us and if their aid is completely cut off these diseases will spread worldwide.

I was young when Reagan was elected, but Reagan is the cause of a lot of the problems we have today. He substantially cut taxes for the rich while raising taxes on regular people and cutting the social safety net and eliminating the Fairness Doctrine, which is the reason Fox News and other biased right wing media outlets are allowed to exist.

I think he doesn’t even like 3 of his children. And yet last week Colbert was showing clips of a whole bunch of Republicans calling him Daddy. The delusion is astounding.

I just watched last night’s episode, I don’t really approve of Colbert implying that Reagan wouldn’t approve of everything Trump is doing, Reagan was just as bad, he was just more polite about it.