Sean Mooney

Ponderosa/Bonanza Steakhouses closed a bunch of stores by 2002 and the loss is still felt. Thanks Biden!

So it isn't the fault of politicians for attempts on Trump then correct?

For the second time now...yes. I've only spoken to January 6th. It is my belief that you can't just say "no one suggested to them anything..." because that would indicate Trump is not aware of the power of his words whether implicitly or explicitly stated. I think he is aware and should have known how some people there would take what he was saying.

Target could've been used in my example as well. From my house- Walmart is a 5 minute drive. Target is a ~12 minute drive....I'll take the 5 minute drive even if Target is a nicer store in general.

I already see where this is going....but I'll play along to give you another chance here. You were excusing away the 01/06 mob as seeing what BLM did and thinking they could do it too. You also said no one suggested anything to them, yet they felt empowered to take such action. I said this- which essentially is saying Trump has to take some blame for January 6th at least because he knows how some of those people in that crowd were going to take his words. He isn't an idiot.

You could turn this all around, swap Biden and Trump's names and post it towards a vast number of posters here.

Exactly....and that gas station might at some point give way to the Walmart that will open another mile down the road which allows you to do all that as well without feeling like you might need to be hyper cognizant of your surroundings.

So am I reading this correct that you want to absolve Trump of blame?

And again- Walmart has a pharmacy. Target has a pharmacy. Costco has a pharmacy. Wegmans does. Hell Giant does. I can go into Giant, give them my refill stuff, go grocery shopping, and grab my script on the way out. Long gone are the days of "Go to Walgreens, drive a half a mile down the road through traffic to go grocery shopping. Drive a half mile back and cut across traffic to grab my script." Americans want convenience and the system has given us that. Unfortunately a byproduct of that is some places becoming relics.

If we want to we can. To do that we also need to acknowledge the role of things said- again either implied or explicitly laid out- as influencing certain pockets of citizens. Are you prepared to apply that logic evenly to both situations?

Be it January 6th, the BLM, or any other event in history like those things there are obviously people there for true blue reasons of expressing outrage. There will of course always be people who use that as the jumping off point for causing chaos. People did it in the summer of 2020, people did it January 6th. Here's where I differ. Trump is not a dumb person. He recognizes what he is saying- despite it being implied or as coded as possible- and had to know some people were going to take what he said in a wild direction. I just do not believe he is completely unaware that he has devotees who will walk the ends of the earth for him when he says things like "I could shoot someone and people would still support me."- paraphrasing that comment obviously. But let's say he is unaware of that.....once everything started happening on January 6th you can see how people are taking your words. Why wouldn't you step in quicker to try and diffuse it? This all is the equivalent to me of someone planning an outside picnic despite storm clouds rolling in. You ignore it, and ignore it and set out food only for it to being pouring down rain and you think "Oh man...now it's raining." And I'm sure you will say now "BLM, Summer 2020." And yes- I agree there were politicians saying stuff there that either implicitly or explicitly- that they should've known how it would've been taken.

Social media has ruined political discourse in a lot of ways. People make up stories, share them for likes and views, they get watched and it conditions someone's world view by shrinking what they see. Then people have to go above and beyond the first crazy story to keep getting views and likes. This is pretty much me too and I feel your pain. I am a Republican at heart as that is what I registered as when I could first vote and I was for many of their policies even up through the beginnings of Trump (like up through the first few months of his Presidency) but the complete fealty to Trump has turned me off from them. On the flip side- I appreciated Obama and what he was trying to do but then as the Democrats far left started pushing further into crazy town they lost me. Give me a moderate candidate on either side and I could be swayed away from being an independent as I am registered right now. Jerry- let's say you don't parrot what Trump says. I'm willing to accept the premise. But would you agree there are plenty of posters here who accept what Trump says at face value at all times and/or spread nonsense stories from the far right and pass them off as gospel?

Sears was pretty famously mismanaged too leading to its demise. It's a shame that people are so beholden to businesses anymore that a business declining has to be the politician's fault and not the fault of bad management.

Walmart has it..Target has it....usually cheaper than at Walgreens

Using betting market odds to determine who is "in the lead" is almost as equally as dumb as using polls.

The HT posting cycle: 1.) Get called on something he said 2.) Deny it 3.) Get shown evidence of what he said 4.) Accuse person of being triggered and insult them and/or their manhood we are here 5.) Post some other nonsense trying to pretend like he is a better person than another poster 6.) Return to step 1

I see again you don't want to comment on unoriginal insults.

I'm sorry- who are you?

Her homies is down and they aroused her anger...... fool

You are trying to explain logical economics to a person who doesn't know how to post a link from the Internet to a forum. You'd have better luck trying to run outside in the rain and not get wet.

They keep turning him down

There is the traditional HT non-sequitur to the conversation at hand

Take some lithium

Yeah she should've done that. Again- things do not have to be either/or. And he did it- it went poorly and now he is complaining about everything again

Win or lose Trump will complain about the voting. If Harris loses- Dems will complain