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2024 GOP Platform?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by sierragator, Mar 28, 2024.

  1. Trickster

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    It’s the worst GOP Congress in memory. Totally dysfunctional.
     
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  2. Trickster

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    But mostly revealing.
     
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  3. homer

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    Agree

    I wish I could pick and choose as I’m left and right depending on the issue.
     
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  4. Gator715

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    The only policy argument in favor of tariffs is a short-term pressure point on other countries to enact or enforce other policies that favor the US.

    All else being equal (which is essential), free trade is a net benefit for the greatest amount of people.
     
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  5. Gator715

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    I stopped at 1 and 2 because 1 and 2 are not true.
     
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  6. Trickster

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    I tend to also be issue driven.
     
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  7. Emmitto

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    Nah, friends ain’t enough. A long list of buds in jail, in foreclosure, in a mid-60’s career switch, or just circling the drain.

    You have to be in on the actual crime, and even that only gets you by temporarily unless you are directly related. Kushy is as far removed as you can get, which means he is Ivanka’s poo rag forever whether he likes it or not.

    It’s basically the kids and a handful of pardons that will unironically require an 8th Circle of Trumplandia beyond the seven navigated to get to prison in the first place.

    Why someone who isn’t maximum desperate for money would sign on to that is a true mystery. Was Rudy G truly so thirsty that he left a life of living large by doing basically nothing to become…THAT?

    Your Bannon types I get. He was toiling away as a nothing special RW troll already, on his own he can’t compete with the true nuts like Alex Jones. As essentially the shadow SOS he took a huge leap in that world. But most of these cronies don’t need that boost, they are already fully vested in the plot, basically unreachable on any meaningful level. Then they insert themselves into literal treason-adjacent scenarios, the ONE WAY they can ruin themselves.

    General Flynn for decades, General WTFlynn in less than 12 months. He has to travel with that carnival and say Q stuff six nights a week for money now. Why??
     
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  8. citygator

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    Charlotte
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  9. channingcrowderhungry

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    Bottom of a pint glass
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  10. docspor

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    I guess now if you bemoan the "everyone gets a trophy" culture that makes you a RINO or radical lefty.
     
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  11. PITBOSS

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    defund and let impoverished children go hungry.

    “Lower-income families with school-age kids can get help from the federal government paying for groceries this summer,….unless they live in one of the 14 states that have said no to joining the program this year……..The reasons for the rejections, all from states with Republican governors, ”



    Florida, other GOP-led states turned down federal money to feed low-income kids this summer; here’s why
     
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