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> Or how about when on a Trump rally just before election they said that everyone in the democratic party are degenerates every single one of them, what a wonderful compassion these republicans have.

The phrase was by Roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. This was at the Madison Square Gardens Rally in New York (MSG NY Rally) which had about 19 other speakers. All of the other speakers succeeded in not getting any negative publicity after the rally since Hinchcliffe absorbed it all. It was topped by Biden responding calling half of America that!! Then Trump started driving around a Garbage Truck for the photo ops after that.

Republicans are as welcoming as your local church. Even if you don’t believe any of the views, you’re still welcomed in. Most Republicans, except the most religious, are former Democrats but most Democrats have never been former Republicans. That’s why they’re so welcoming — because they were once just like you.

>And Republicans want to you have families? Sure if you don't need IFV, if you're not gay or trans.

Huh? Trump is very much pro-IVF and then Kamala copied that too like no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, or no tax on social security. Many things that he considered sending her a MAGA hat for since she was copying him on these.

He wouldn’t copy her on taxes for unrealized capital gains though. Probably her worst policy idea overall as that would’ve nuked the economy if that had ever happened. Congress probably wouldn’t have let that pass, but did we really want to take on that risk?

Anyways, nothing is changing for the gays or the trans communities. They still get gay marriage. Trans men just can’t play in women’s professional sports. And conservative families just don’t want to think their kid is going to be turned gay or trans by teachers in school. Nothing’s changing for the gay adults or the kids of far-left liberal parents who want their kids to turn gay or trans as the ultimate form of virtue signaling to their adult peers. It can still happen at home or outside of school. Kids are a captured audience and many believe in keeping political talk outside of the classroom. Some people don’t want their kids to grow up to be little Ella Emhoff’s (Kamala’s heavily tattooed stepdaughter who couldn’t even dress up past street clothes to go to her step mom’s electoral delegation).

>Why are all of the latest policies globalists first and Americans last? I don't care about conspiracies like """globalists""", I care about my country, charlatans and demagagues are far greater threat than your perceived reality of "globalists".

First, It’s not a conspiracy if it’s true. Second, you dodged my question. Calling anyone who raises concern, a charlatan or a demagagues is typical for someone that can’t come up with a response to a debate. Attempting to gaslight the other side with namecalling was not the solution to winning this last election. I don’t know how one can believe that party unwilling to have these difficult and uncomfortable discussions is going to fix any of these problems.

>Why are all of the companies instituting mass layoffs? For different reasons, one of the big one being automation.

I felt myself moving more to the left and closest to the center after reading that. I take pride in changing my view as new data and information arises. It turns out that however we know the picture is not so simple as solely automation. Increasing taxes such as the change in section 174 of the IRS tax to disallow deducting software R&D as a qualified business expense happened for many reasons. One of those reasons is because our government has so much wasteful spending so it vacuums more money out of the private sector to keep up with rising National Debt and rising interest payments on the National Debt. Due to the interest on our debt, a lot of that money doesn’t make it to the public sector, it just goes to pay treasury bond holders, who now in aggregate collect more money than the entirety of the defense budget! Trump was the only candidate supporting the Department of Government Efficiency thanks to Elon Musk’s influence in his campaign. If it weren’t for Musk, there wouldn’t be a DOGE.

The November JOBS report by the BLS showed that the only two sectors with job growth is healthcare (because people can’t live without it) and Government job growth. Analysts at the DOW Jones estimated 112k jobs would be added to the economy in that JOBS report but only 12k were added. Has Bidenomics been working? I like & support Biden because he is our President but Bernie Sanders, may have done a better job with the economy and some other areas. Bernie is the longest serving Independent in U.S. congressional history but he might’ve been made a marionette on the DNC establishment’s leash on the Democrat ticket.

It might not be wise to remain on the losing side. Nowadays tech startups and small tech founders are favoring the Republican side due to less stifling regulations for small business creation. However, large tech companies still favor the democratic side for the regulations that stifle new competition.

You may already know this but typically Republican congress members solicit money from lobbiests by cutting regulations while Democrat congressmembers solicit money from lobbiests by creating more regulations. Businesses lobby either side based on whether they want more or less, sometimes playing both sides. Democrat congressional leaders can also attract money from lobbyists by threatening businesses with new regulations if they don’t pay up. Ex: Elizabeth Warren. Some view that as paying “their fair share” while others view it as a shake down from a party that spends forever-increasing amounts of other people’s money. I view both perspectives as having some merit.



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