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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the nazi wants to build concentration camps to murder the brown people. This is in line with his platform.

The irony with this is that the vulnerable people crossing the border would otherwise pick up low wage manufacturing and menial labor jobs that create wealth for the nation and farmers, but it seems that republicans are banking on poor white babies to grow up and accept those jobs in 14 years and be good republican voters. I don't see the pendulum swinging so hard to the right that the strategy would ever work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In his first term, Trump’s plans

Who gave this idiot a time machine?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In his first term, Trump’s plans to send troops to “war” on the southern border were thwarted. This time, he’s talking about sending up to 300,000 there

There's a complete sentence there you didn't read.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Raise your hand if you're a fool who forgot how reading works!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A fool would deny they made a mistake. Humans make them, the smart ones admit to them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Who told you I'm human‽ That was supposed to be a secret!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I'm still finding it extremely unlikely he's electable. Not saying we shouldn't take it seriously, though.

Over the years many conservative anti-vaxxers have died from covid, boomers are dying off, and anyone who wasn't already a trumper isn't exactly lining up.

Most economic indicators are trending very well; meanwhile the abortion topic continues to backfire tremendously.

2022 proved polls don't sufficiently capture millennial and zoomers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that's only half the battle. What do you do when his legions of supporters decide they don't like losing and take it out on the rest of the country?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Let them string themselves out. They will lose. It will backfire as did January 6th.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm GenX, and I wouldn't answer a poll if you paid me. I will vote, and I will never vote for a Republican for the rest of my life. If there's no Dem candidate on the ballot for a specific office, I leave it blank so they can see how many votes they're not getting when they don't run a candidate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's not how polling works

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

It's not, but evidently polling isn't capturing these groups effectively. Again, as 2020 and 2022 proved.