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How much is the total of this government spending?

Maybe he just changed his mind on healthcare?  That's possible.  If politicians didn't expect other politicians to change their minds, there would be no point in arguing.  There would just be a solid vote.  Obamacare took years to make.  Someone had to have their mind changed.

The one exception to this is if there is corruption.  Corruption is fucked up!  But changing your mind is OK.  I mean, if you want abortion banned, and Biden changed his mind on abortion, you'd be giving him credit.

Let politicians change their minds (as long as corruption isn't the reason).

RFK is essentially a republican by what he talks about.  Like he can be against the vacciene and still run as a democrat.  But if he's going to do that, he would say something like, "I'm unvaccinated, I don't like vacciene mandates, and I think Trump is a bigoted racist, I think we should end deportations, I think we need Medicare for all paid for by the top 1%" (I mean, he ran as a democrat for a reason; it's not like he would be a DINO).  Right wingers that like RFK should try and figure out what his left wing views are before they decide to vote for him; he's left wing on something; otherwise he would be running as a republican.

There was a time when I liked RFK.  Him being against vacciene mandates and Citizens United; I agree with him on that.  Then he was saying shit like COVID was created to spare Jewish people (which to me, it code for he thinks the Jews started COVID).  It was at this point that I decided to not back RFK anymore.  RFK being on Epstein's plane 2x further cemented my belief against him.

If RFK didn't fuck up these 2x, I'd have no problem supporting him.  I got vaccinated, but I don't agree with vaccine mandates.  But if you say stupid stuff, don't expect me to vote for you (stupid is defined very strictly, any abortion position from (ban unless to save the mother's life with the penalty being the same as murder) to, (legalize up until the moment of birth and repeal the Hyde Amendment) wouldn't be in the range of what I classify as stupid, but saying something like, "The Jews started COVID" to me is stupid.

On what?

John McCain is left wing on healthcare (at least by American standards in that time).

How do you criticize right wing ideology (which isn't consistent in any way)?

So wouldn't you then vote Christie or Haley over Biden?

If X=Being a Neocon, Y="other shitty policies", Christie and Haley have X, Biden has X+Y

If all these values are negative, wouldn't X>X+Y?

Like when?

Alright; but then how is Trump different from Haley or Christie in your view that justifies you voting for Trump over Biden but not Haley or Christie over Biden?

But then don't be afraid to criticize the GOP on issues where you disagree.

What about Chris Christie vs Joe Biden?  Or Chris Christie vs Marian Williamson?  Or Chris Christie vs Dean Phillips?

I think you would vote for your least favorite republican (assuming it's Chris Christie) over any democrat running for POTUS.

He should. It’s only the morons watching FOX and other fake news that believe the economy is bad.

There’s the old saying, morons will be morons.

All but 3, they don't like capitalism.

That was referring to the passage of laws.

The Constitution explicitly says the states run their elections, which includes enforcement of disqualification.

Think about it. These people were banned from Federal AND state office. Are you suggesting Congress would prevent people from running for state offices, such as governor? That’s ridiculous 

 “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11780 votes, which is one more than we have. 

Whether a jury is biased is irrelevant to the facts showing the defendant to be guilty. Trump supporters love to pretend there's no such thing as reality, it's all just my opinion vs yours.

DC: Deranged Court.

Absolutely, I would tax the hell out of estates after about $10 million. It's insane that people who work for a living have to pay 20-25 percent of the income they worked for but people who literally did nothing can get millions handed down to them and pay nothing.

It also helps to ensure the meritocracy the political right loves to boast about.

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No, I am pretty... sure that killing 20,000 civilians in two months is genocide, not irony.

It’s called war crime.

do you understand what price gouging means. If I raise my prices by 400% and people are still buying my products, that is both price gauging, and capitalism working as intended. 

I don't think you did. It says there has to be collusion. Two companies raising prices because they can isn't illegal. Even if those raises are price gouging.

this is going around in circles. If they all raise prices independently of each other, it isn't illegal. There has to be collusion in order for it be a crime.

you aren't making any sense. You link to sources that say it requires collusion, then argue the opposite. Link the exact quote that says that companies raising prices independently of each other is illegal.

lol, if I light a fire right before selling a house, does that mean fire wasn't an issue when I owned it? Trump set the economy on fire, then lost the election. If he had won, inflation would have been the same. Just because the inflation didn't jump to 10% the moment trump make decisions, doesn't mean his decisions didn't cause it.

this sort of logic is endemic for republicans. Republican candidates push shitty policy that causes problems. The problems take a few years to become really bad, but by that point they have lost the election. Democrats spend years dealing with the mess they made and fixing it. But repubican voters go "Look, it was only a problem under the democrats" and completely ignore the fact that republican policy caused the problem in the 1st place. But then the cycle begins again.

What's kind of funny is that before inflation, Democrats and the media regularly trashed Trump for not spending enough. Some of the plans proposed by a Democrat Congress would have doubled what Trump spent. That would have been hilarious to live through. Careful what you wish for.

To be fair, Trump did set the stage for inflation, Biden just managed to hit it out of the park with his massive corporate giveaway BBB spending stimulus.

no, it isn't. In order for it to be illegal, they have to collude. IE they need to come to an agreement that they will work together to raise prices. If they see the market will support them charging more, there is nothing illegal about raising prices. 

this is false. It is only illegal if the competitors are working together. If both companies decide, independently of each other, that they can get away with charging more, there is nothing illegal about that.

not exactly, no. Profit is the cornerstone of capitalism. Much of the time, it is more profitable to undercut your rival so you can sell more. But if undercutting your rival only increases your market share by a little, then you can make alot more money if you just raise prices and they do the same thing. With covid, people were expecting inflation. There was a reasonable explanation as to why prices were going up. So companies just kept raising prices far in excess of what they actually needed to.

I'm really not sure if you didn't understand that or not. But yes, Covid, and the policies it triggered, caused the inflation spike. And trump was the one doing that, not biden.

contrary to capitalism? You defitely don't know what capitalism is if you think it is contrary to capitalism. And you're wrong. It isn't illegal.

are you insane? Trump was being directly paid by billionaires. They used to rent out whole floors of his hotels and then not stay there. The Saudi's were especially large payers of trump. Ivanka got tons of money from China. Trump was, and is, king of crony capitalism.

so your statement is inflation was stable until trump. Then biden inherited his mess....

you think that companies raising prices is illegal? You don't know how capitolism works do you? It's only illegal if they get together and collude to set a price. If they see their competitor raising prices and say "hey, we can raise prices too". That's not illegal. 

how could he do that? It isn't illegal to price gouge. I'm starting to think you don't know how capitalism works.

lol trump spent trillions in an inflationary period. Your partisan blinders are really bad.

you are contradicting yourself. There must be collusion. IE they have to be working together. If all companies choose to raise prices at the same time and don't communicate about it, that isn't illegal. that's capitolism.

ok, he does right this minute. But trump did a few years ago. Bush did a few years before that. They definitely didn't go after anyone who donated to them. So to pretend you are outraged that Biden isn't doing something when people you support act either the same way or worse, is childish.

they could, assuming it wasn't a trend everywhere. If all businesses are gouging at the same time, then there is nowhere to go for cheaper alternatives. 

lol this is just a sad comment. You made absolutely no argument at all, and yet pretend like you know more than me.

Do you have any idea how hard the republicans would fight against investigating corporations? Are you really pretending like going easy on corporations is a democrat thing?

name some, specifically. Name a law that doesn't allow a company to set a price they want to set. Companies have a wide latitude to set whatever price they want. The idea is that competition will force them to lower prices. but when all companies realize they can make more money by raising prices and that they can get away with it, competition stops forcing down prices. And there isn't really a government mechanism to do anything about it.

and those same kinds of people fund all the republicans too. SBF also gave huge amounts of money to republicans, you know that right? These people all fund both sides.

If it costs McDonalds 1 dollar to get the materials for a burger, they have to sell it for 3 dollars profit so they can pay everyone's salaries and the business costs. 

If all of a sudden it costs Mc Donald's 2 dollars to get the materials for a burger and they then sell the burger for 4 dollars, that's a huge profit margin drop, and they will be gone very soon.

what does "Biden could put the DoJ in them" even mean? It isn't illegal to raise prices. Basically, it's like their costs have gone up 8%, but they raised prices 40%. It isn't illegal to do that. It's shitty, but I'm not aware of any laws banning them from doing it.

The only place it crosses the line is if there is price fixing going on. IE all the companies that sell a specific product get together and decide on a price they will sell at to fix the price there. There have been cases of that caught in the last few years. But mostly, it's just the downsides of poorly regulated capitalism.

If the government wanted to do something about that, they would definitely need laws passed through congress. And the republicans would 100% block anything the democrats tried to do to help people. 

Hamas isn't the source of the problem. It is a symptom of the problem. As long as Israel continues to treat the palestinians like garbage, a group like Hamas will exist. Even if Israel gets exactly what they say they want, Hamas ceases to exist. A new Hamas would come into existence tomorrow. You can't murder 10's of thousands of civilians and then expect their family members to not want to fight back. The only end to this cycle is to actually negotiate and resolve the underlying issues. As long as Israel continues to treat force as the only solution, they will never be able to end the violence. And they don't even want to. netanyahu is actually a supporter of Hamas. He likes their terrorism justifies Israeli violence and undermines negotiations. 

what ideas are you saying he should support? Since a large chunk of inflation over the last few years is just corporate greed jacking up prices because they can get away with it, ultimately, the only way he could do anything about it is some sort of price fixing law. But that would be been seen as massive overreach, and probably rightly so. So i'm curious what actions you feel he could take.

Remember that the 2017 tax cut reduced the top corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent—a 40 percent reduction. 

What a great way to bankrupt the USA. No wonder Putin loves Trump.

no, it's not. I assume you hate joe biden and the democrats. So you are not pro-democratic party. does that mean you also hate america and all the american people? You can oppose a government or even hate a government and still support the people of that country. 

For example, I support the people of Israel. They have a right to exist and be happy. Their government are genocidal monsters who are murdering 10's of thousands of innocent people. I support the palestinians. Their "government" are genocidal monsters who murdered thousands of people. 

But Hamas being monsters does not justify the mass murder of civilians. Some civilian casualties are inevitable in war, but Israel is WAY over the line. They've bombed hospitals, refugee camps etc. They told people move to area X because we are going to bomb area Y. Then proceeded to bomb them as the civilians went to area X. Then bombed area X too for good measure. 

Time travel would enable anyone to wipe out humanity by simply going back in time when we were fish.

 Are YOU really being serious? Fucking midwit

That was just too much for you so you felt the need to end the conversation there and ignore everything I said in that part and elsewhere.

Wow.

No. Vermin are diseases infested pests that need to be exterminated. Using that language to describe others is to suggest they are subhuman and therefore undeserving of rights. 

I think fascists (in terms of those who support the ideology) are deeply misguided and dangerous to the rest of us. The antedote against that is education. Fascists only enjoy the power the rest of us give them through our own ignorance and manipulability.

The reason you don't blame Bernie Sanders for the shooting of Steve Scalise is because you recognize how patently absurd that would be. Nothing about Bernie or his rhetoric suggests in any way that he would have wanted that, meanwhile the effects of Trump's rhetoric has had a tangible and unmistakable effect on public sentiment towards political violence.

It is not a coincidence that support for political violence is at a generational high at the same time we have a president who reminisces about the good old days when the political hecklers would be carried out in a stretcher and refers to his political opposition as vermin. 

It's not a coincidence that the first time we've ever had a president refuse to concede defeat and leave peacefully is also the first time we have ever seen the US capitol overtaken by mob rioters and Congress being forced to evacuate instead of certifying an election.

Nearly every single J6 rioter has admitted they were there because they thought Trump told them to be there, the guy who mailed the pipe bombs was specifically targeting the people Trump was attacking, and the guy who attacked Paul Pelosi did so because he was radicalized by Trump rhetoric.

People like you would pretend it's all just coincidence, but anyone who's ever studied the impact of political rhetoric saw all of those coming and warned us all for years. Trump not only ignored all of that, he's only turned it up higher. To say he's not doing this intentionally defies all credibility.

And if everything I've said was just TLDR for you, Google stochastic terrorism. It's not that complicated.

The false equivalences from Trump supporters is incredibly tiring.

First of all, I think you know Trump is guilty of at the very least some of the charges against him, unless you really think lying to the FBI about the nuclear documents you're hiding next to your toilet is legal.

If you want to know why a top presidential candidate is being charged, look at that candidates actions, then ask yourself why the candidate isn't even attempting to argue the facts or the law in court.

But setting that aside... Open fascist? If you know anything about how fascism actually works you would know that Joe Biden is the opposite of that in every way. You're clearly not being serious.