SaintsInDome2006

If only there was an AG and a DOJ that Trump supporters could trust who would investigate such a thing. - IIRC they indicted Hunter Biden over a line in his own book.

I'm only going to agree with you about every single thing about Smollett. And Harris had a lot of problems as a candidate but her rush to support him without knowing the facts is a pretty good example of her flaws. - Eh I tend to vote for conservative judges. My problem with judge races (at least here) is no one shows up to vote for them, liberal and conservative the voters don't care.

The guy is a fraud. He never should have been let out of jail IMO (well until his sentence ran out).

They have a lot to do with reality, they're sworn statements. The persons who stole Ashley Biden's diary were indicted and it was so unbelievable that even the worst of the worst right wing blogs didn't want to touch it. If everyone from Breitbart to Rebel News and even Garrett Ziegler won't touch it that says a lot.

IIRC data was also seized during the raid and arrest in Palm Beach FL. That data disappeared. The US Attorney then was Alex Acosta, who of course Trump named as his Labor Secretary.

That was Epstein's M.O., you're right, but again, that was Trump's friend, not Biden's.

The tape of Epstein talking about his long relationship with Trump.

There's only one president who has ever been sued by someone claiming they were assaulted by him as a minor. And it was not Joe Biden.

I don't think any Congressional Dems have ever compared Trump to Hitler. You know who did? Vance.

Rum & Coke / Bob Marley.

Actually IMO my approach is if people generally are doing better that’s more important than if I personally am doing well or not, that’s the most important part of politics or government.

Ah, I see, sure, Biden had cognitive and physical deficiencies. And that affected the fact that Putin bombed and shelled Ukrainian cities and towns throughout Trump's administration?

IIRC this was part of the Biden Inflation Reduction Act. I had no idea it was this successful.

I think in general we have a problem in this country with distraction and attention spans. It's reflected in the current president but yeah both parties are affected.

Just so I'm clear, are you asking about the 2019 cease fire?

This is an odd comment, war raged in Ukraine between Russia, who was invading, and Ukraine, who was defending, the entirety of the Trump administration. Russia was shelling and bombing cities. There was even a cease fire which Russia, just like now, completely ignored, which happened under Trump1 just like it's happened under Trump2.

I wasn't being partisan. I was against the ACA (Obamacare). But it's not exactly a controversial statement to say the GOP is far more against state intervention, subsidies, regulation, call it what you will than Dems. Almost the whole GOP is against that. I was acknowledging that yes there are some Dems against it too. - And the whole point about the ACA is true here too. The costs do not go away, they get shifted, and state interference might even drive the costs up not down. Here Trump is the one sticking his hammy fists into the market and ok if you want to say it's necessary for self-defense or manufacturing jobs or other laudable reasons I might even agree with you but don't forget just like Obama there are still costs, someone's gonna pay.

I don’t know, but maybe. I’m personally against pharmaceutical advertising & for campaign finance reform.

Federal and provincial law provides for subsidies - that means the government pays for the drugs. IIRC they also have government negotiated prices.

One of the most amusing things in the Zelensky-Trump presser at the WH was when Zelensky pointed out that Russia had broken numerous cease fires, including in 2019, and Trump says, 'who was president then?'

I'm really surprised you say this and I think you know. They have publicly funded health care.

Look HT I'm only going toi agree with you if you want to point out that the Dems are just as manipulated as the GOP when it comes to health care.

China used to howl they hated the WTO because the US controlled the majority on the top commission. Trump hasn't even bothered to appoint the commissioners. The whole point is conflict on the global and US media and frankly many Americans love it.

See my last point. Congress can easily require that medications or certain of them be made here. But Republicans and many Dems don't, they won't, and Big Pharma would raise holy hell. The other people that will object are consumers: these same medications will go way up in price. The Feds will have to subsidize medicine. It's a tangle.

I've heard this debate and it came up in Covid. The main point of the debate is that if we go to war with China we will be up sh1+s creek. I don't think it's unreasonable, but by the same token a trade war with China increases the likelihood we go to war with China and economic integration lessens it. The answer to this is probably regulation, but guess who doesn't like that.