HeloDude

Right now I give the election a 50/50 toss up. That all being said, if Kamala wins, then the economic pain that continues/gets worse is owned by those who voted for her. The people who will be screwed the most are the low and mids of the middle class. By definition I’m in the upper class and while I will continue to be annoyed with the sticker shock when I go to the grocery store of Walgreens, it won’t affect my life much. But for the others I mentioned…those who are trying to improve their lives by making good decisions, they’ll have to continue to make touch choices when it comes to their budget. To be fair, I don’t think that Trump would be some miracle cure to the economy since we as a country have lost our ways economically, and both political parties have F’d it up. But I’ll vote for the guy who wants less regulation and is pro-business any day over someone who is desiring price controls.

But according to the left, JD Vance is “weird”…

No, it’s really not. I’m able to think for myself without having Putin influence me. Your argument is the same as those saying someone was pro-Saddam Hussein if that person was against the invasion of Iraq. I can be anti-Putin and also anti spending $175 Billion thus far on supporting Ukraine. Nothing will ever get cut if the argument is “X is only tens of billions of dollars”.

$175 Billion…sorry, there you go. https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine

Afraid not…and it’s irrelevant if some of that money appropriated for Ukraine goes to our military industrial complex. It only continues to add to our current $2 Trillion deficit. You can think this helps our economy, but I very much disagree.

Dude, you’ve lost me if your position is that someone can’t be against giving hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine without believing/being part of some “Russian propaganda” nonsense.

If you don’t think that all of our unnecessary spending doesn’t add up, maybe you’d be been listening to too many clowns.

He’s a leftist who is (in a fancy way) suggesting that inflation was due to “corporate greed” vs a massive increase of the money supply without an associated economic growth (ie too many dollars chasing the same/fewer good and resources).

Why would I do this for you?—do tedious work to prove something that is obviously a fact, even if you want to bear around the bush rather than agree. If you don’t want to believe that inflation hasn’t drastically increased from 2019 to today, then that’s ok as you can have your head in the sand. I previously told you that our weekly bills have increased with no significant changes to our weekly purchases, but yet asked me again anyway, which shows you don’t care to engage in a real conversation.

The UK was never a free country…neither are we.

Well, the grocery bills increased quite a bit since 2019, without much change in what we generally purchase. If I had to guess it’s an increase of at least 25%, if not more. Is my argument any less accurate if I have not directly compared receipts from 2019 and today of an item by item list?

Well, I thought most educated people would be smart enough to realize the negativity of the “unstable debt” with how it relates to causing high inflation, reduced purchasing power, etc…you know, things that people generally don’t like.

Thanks for the clarification…but just so I understand, this isn’t costing the American taxpayer any money, is that what you’re suggesting? https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/10/joint-statement-on-f-16s-for-ukraine-from-u-s-president-joseph-r-biden-dutch-prime-minister-dick-schoof-and-danish-prime-minister-mette-frederiksen/#:~:text=The Danish and Dutch governments,operational F-16s this summer.

Enjoy your inflation and reduced purchasing power…

I very much would like for all of this to be “up to them”, but unfortunately our federal government seems to love giving them hundreds of billions of dollars of money/resources, putting us further and further into an unsustainable debt. Giving them F-16s will only most likely lead to spending more money/resources, especially training and mx costs. But hey, our defense industry appreciates the business.

So we gave them F-16s, but no/not sufficient training. I wonder what their mx will be like. Where have I seen this before?

I’m talking about actual legal betting on who is going to win. People on both sides talk really tough that they’re “so confident” their candidate will win, and yet they would never put money on them winning. Even before Biden dropped out I thought that the election favored Trump, but I wouldn’t bet $10K on it…maybe I would bet a nice dinner and that’s about it.

The fact that you like Walz confirms everything that we already thought about you.

So how much money are you putting on Kamala since you’re 100% sure she’s going to win?

This sucks—may he rest in peace and condolences to his family/prayers to his injured children. Don’t forget to hug your kids and loved ones every chance you get.

Like a real attack, or will it be similar to whatever that was a few months ago?

Do you honestly think that Trump would want to suspend the Constitution if he had the power to do so? If your answer is yes, then we just disagree entirely. And the rest of your nonsense is just that, nonsense.

The only thing I can think of is that the highest “senior leaders” believe that he’s a solid yes man and will push to implement the change they want.

Of course this is a response from someone who gets called out for their BS—you were also called out similarly a while back as well. But again, you recently said that we should be concerned that Trump has said he’ll terminate the Constitution…but then afterwards you admit that it will never happen. So why should I be concerned about something that you and I both agree will never happen? However we look at it, the odds are extremely likely that either Trump or Kamala will be the next President, so of course I’m going to vote for the one who I believe has better policies/screws me the least. All that “Trump is a fascist” stuff is just hyperbole nonsense.

So you’re making a big deal about something that you even admit will never happen—so why should any of us care?