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Polling continues to improve for Biden especially in battleground states: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/26/swing-state-poll-biden-trump-kennedy

Well yeah.

Reddit makes money doesn’t it? I think I understand business and real estate of course. I have trouble with some of this other stuff.Never got the bitcoin thing, or the GameStop story either.

I appreciate the explanation. But- if the stocks goes way up due to Trump promoting it, and then he sells his own shares for a few billion in cash, and then the stock proceeds to crash and is worthless, isn’t that a Ponzi scheme? Isn’t it simply a transfer of money from Trump’s followers to Trump himself without any kind of compensation?

Thanks. I don’t think it’s necessary though. This thread is designed for those who want to seek me out and have discussions. All of those people are welcome no matter how much they might disagree with me, or think I’m a moron, or whatever. If you want to talk to me I’m happy to talk to you. If you’re not interested that’s fine too. In most cases I don’t think the topics are going to be that confusing to anybody.

I honestly don’t understand the Truth Social story. How can a company that has never done anything but lose money (49 million in losses last year, with no hope of future profits, suddenly be with 11 billion? How can Donald Trump walk away with 3 billion in cash? For once this is not an attack on Trump from me. If he can pull this off and it’s legal and not underhanded, more power to him. I never resent anyone who makes money fairly in our system. But that doesn’t mean I understand what’s happening here. Is this s a Ponzi scheme? Can someone explain it to me?

Mexico’s Lopez is a socialist, a populist, and much closer to Trump than either man will acknowledge (except possibly for the fact that Lopez appears to be an actual tough guy whereas Trump is a coward who only appears like an “alpha” to his most slavish fans.) But Lopez is essentially correct in identifying the roots of the migrant situation and the way to resolve it. We need to lift our trade embargoes on Venezuela and Cuba, reduce all tariffs with Latin America, and give economic aid in ways that will help build Latin Amarican economies. I know you nativists don’t want to hear any of this but it’s the only way you’re going to deal with the issue. All of your proposed restrictions, suggested deportations, tightening the border, won’t do a damn thing in the long run.

You’re going to be very disappointed, you won’t understand it, and you will assume fraud because Trump will tell you that’s what it is. But all of those states other than possibly Georgia will narrowly be in Biden’s column on Election Day.

I think you’re overly cynical and pessimistic.

Hey @Jon_mx as much as I disagree with 99% of your political views, I think your analysis of the Ohtani issue is spot on. I think Shohei is innocent. That being said I still don’t understand how Ippei managed to a bookie to give him over 4 million in credit. And I’d like to know how he got into Ohtani’s account. But don’t think Ohtani was involved,

Well I’m not going to go back and count. But I do think that a bit of self-examination is in order for you.

The time has come, as of this morning, to cut off all U.S. monetary aid to Israel.

The FACT is that nearly half of your posts are related in some way to gay and trans people. That’s a hell of a lot of posts. I think obsession is a reasonable assumption at this point.

You know, you obsess on gay issues nearly as much as Maximum Overkill. Maybe the two of you ought to compare notes? Or even get a room.

Are you trying to let us know here that rednecks are homophobic? Gee, that’s a new thought… I’m guessing a lot of those who chose not to attend are deathly afraid of their own sexuality. That’s usually the reason people are so anti-gay, and why they’re so obsessed with this topic. Something you might be a little familiar with?

The bond reduction makes good sense to me. Maybe we will now stop heating about what a victim he is? I doubt it.

People keep telling me this. But I try to respond to you anyhow.

This sort of a response is when I know I’ve won the debate. No rebuttal; only “Fock off.”

The proposed Texas law presents an obvious truth about attempts to “fight” undocumented immigration: there is no way to do it without racism. How are police to identify who is an undocumented immigrant? Simply put, by stopping Hispanics and asking for their papers. Beyond the cost of such efforts (much higher than the supposed economic burdens of undocumented immigrants even now) such moves will create racial tensions and an impossible situation.

1. Brilliant branding by Trump (like insisting on his name on the Covid checks.) I will admit that Trump is a genius when it comes to stuff like this. 2. Many black people are dissatisfied with Democrats for not getting stuff done like the George Floyd Act, voting rights act, etc. Illogically some respond by voting for the other side which opposes these proposals and are the reason they didn’t happen , but that’s the price we pay for binary politics. Don’t get me wrong I very much approve of our two party system but one of the drawbacks is you’re always forced to choose one or the other. You can’t truly express your frustration with one side unless you choose the other. 2. Actually the numbers suggest that black voting for Democrats during the Obama era was the true anomaly, for pretty obvious reasons. Once Obama left the scene the black voting percentages reverted to the figures from before.

I think what you wrote here is a fair analysis for some black people, sure. For most black people who vote Democrat? I don’t agree. Do most of them do a deep step by step analysis? Of course not. Do they do some kind of analysis? Of course they do. Is it a reasonable, though simple analysis? Here I suspect we may differ based on our philosophical beliefs. But I think that when you have a guy like Donald Trump representing the other side (rather than say a traditional Republican like Bush or Romney or Reagan) then it becomes a whole lot easier for a black oerson, IMO, to vote Democrat. And that is my honest answer.

You’re wasting your time. Byrd, much a couple Republicans I can think of, repudiated the racism if his earlier years. Biden correctly gave him the benefit of the doubt. It’s very silly of you to bring this up. Joe Biden supports ending institutionalized racism in our police forces, increasing education benefits for black people, supporting the inner cities, restoring voting rights that Republicans are trying to remove. This is why the vast majority of African-Americans, as well as most of those who give a damn about racism, will be voting for him. Whatever reasonable claims Republicans may have made in the past about this issue has been destroyed by their support of Donald Trump. Until he’s gone you don’t even get to talk about this subject because you have no credibility.

The current first page of this forum demonstrates how only a couple of people here can pollute all reasonable discourse with truly ugly and moronic rhetoric- it’s the main reason I’ve chosen to stick in this thread. Of course they pollute this thread as well, just look at the last couple of posts. But they’re easier to bypass here. The latest insipid argument, brought to us by the same morons who post that Joe Biden is a pedophile, is that there is no difference between the racist Democratic Party of the pre-Civil Rights era and today’s progressive, pro-woke Democrats. Actually to call this an “argument” is probably too complimentary. It can only be offered by people with no sense of history and those who feel guilty that the party they support is featuring an open bigot as their leader. They should feel guilty; they’ll never live it down.

Fani Willis: “The train is coming”. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/23/politics/fulton-county-da-fani-willis-says-the-train-is-comingfor-trump-and-his-co-defendants I love her. This isn’t like the New York case, which I’m unsure about. Here Trump is very clearly guilty and he really belongs in jail. They tried to make a big deal about her relationship with the other DA and that was really stupid- who cares? It has nothing to do with the case. Really hoping this is the one that takes Trump down.

Polls are starting to turn towards Biden: https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-leads-donald-trump-eight-polls-1882336 Here’s the problem for Trump: he’s got no room to grow. Biden does.