Do you finally regret supporting Donald Trump?
No supporting OP needed
What policies would Harris have implemented that would make life better for the middle class or poor?
I can't recall any other than I am not Trump and I'd do nothing different than Biden
What Trump has done for the middle class in terms of medical insurance has basically been to reverse Obamacare to the extent he can. As a result probably 20 million Americans could lose health insurance. A study done about 15 years ago showed that for every 800 people uninsured 1 person dies each year. This study compared MA with other parts of the country that had similar age and ethnicity counties (at the time MA had 97% of their population insured based on Romneycare). As of now several million people have already lost insurance. If 20 million Americans become uninsured as a result of Trump then 25,000 of them will die each year as a result of Trump's policies. Under Harris none of this would have happened.
The other thing Trump has done for the poor and middle class is undo DEI. So we are back to the racial prejudicial times before the civil rights act (to some extent at least). Harris would have done none of that.
And tariffs. lol. Harris would also have done none of that.
Also the war in Iran. Trump undid the Iran treaty signed under Obama where Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons for 20 years (if I remember correctly). And now we are creating a war against Iran with Israel to bomb nuclear weapon facilities in Iran.
Seriously, after Covid Biden had gone back to the economy that Obama had developed after George W Bush's catastrophic financial disaster and that Trump inherited and basically didn't change his first 3 years. Harris would have just kept it going rather than wreck things with Tariffs and war. My guess is that Harris would have attempted to do what Biden did in terms of health care to get even more people covered.
The other thing that Harris would have done is extend the building of wind turbines in the US which Trump has halted to the extent he can. This would have created many jobs in the US. As it stands Trumps gutting of clean energy helps coal, oil, and gas companies that do not focus on work in the US. And the air quality kills people. Every year. About 60,000 Americans die each year from air quality issues (worldwide it is 6 million to 10 million people dying each year). And global warming related issues and deaths.
Harris would not have upped the tax breaks for the wealthy. My guess is that taxes would have gone up for the wealthy and possibly down a little bit for the middle class. But in any case the deficit wouldn't have gone up to the extent it has under Trump.
I think if we went back 50 years and ran different permutations of administrations, the middle class would still be roughly where it is today. Partisan politics is mostly about convincing The People who have no power that they do so they don't revolt against the people who do have all the power.
I mean how head in the sand stupid do you have to be to not even be willing to concede that even if you truly believe Kamabla woulda done nothing, that the absence of self-inflicted nonsense like universal tariffs and the iran war by itself make things better off?
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I mean how head in the sand stupid do you have to be to not even be willing to concede that even if you truly believe Kamabla woulda done nothing, that the absence of self-inflicted nonsense like universal tariffs and the iran war by itself make things better off?
That's just paper money moving around. Same with maga complaining about all the money we spend on immigrants; it's not taking food off anyone's table.
I mean how head in the sand stupid do you have to be to not even be willing to concede that even if you truly believe Kamabla woulda done nothing, that the absence of self-inflicted nonsense like universal tariffs and the iran war by itself make things better off?
applied poorly, like anything in life, tariffs are bad
applied well, they can be a valid economic strategy, looking at the countries who had the most gdp growth since the 80s, everyone but ireland employed tariffs massively and ireland got wealthy more by being a corporate tax haven than anything else
trump went about tariffs in a horrific manner, but that doesn't mean tariffs themselves are bad
the united states used to get 90% of their revenue from tariffs, during our gilded age and industrial revolution we had tariffs far higher than anything today
the reason why all corporate interests are anti tariff now is because all corporations are global, even gm, who solely exists today because tariffs gave them the room to operate despite that france and england made much better cars, is a major advocate against tariffs simply because for all intents and purposes they are no longer an american company and need to import their vehicles and parts the same way a japanese brand needs to do
Trump torpedoing progress on slow normalization and moderation of Iran was pretty insane. Kinda like with Obamacare, republicans made a huge deal out if it for elections but deep down they knew it was better than anything they had. Unfortunately Trump was some mix of a true believer in right wing talking points or simply never gave it any thought
I mean how head in the sand stupid do you have to be to not even be willing to concede that even if you truly believe Kamabla woulda done nothing, that the absence of self-inflicted nonsense like universal tariffs and the iran war by itself make things better off?
She had a goofy laugh, tho.
Reminder: Kamala didn't have a goofy laugh. If you thought that, you are either racist, misogynist, or stupid. Most likely all three.
Reminder: Kamala didn't have a goofy laugh. If you thought that, you are either racist, misogynist, or stupid. Most likely all three.
Dude lives in a world where you can only make fun of white males. Commentary on anyone else's characteristics or demeanour is racist or sexist.
Dude lives in a world where you can only make fun of white males. Commentary on anyone else's characteristics or demeanour is racist or sexist.
Like they say, the winners write history.... and dictionaries. Go count the demeaning, degrading, etc terms for women and other races versus white males and get back to me on who’s been fair game. I mean, I’m so short on pejoratives, if I want to insult another white guy I have to borrow material my cultural ancestors came up with for everyone else.
you don't want to be agreeing with housenuts geez. he bats like 0%
Just a tip.
Personally I don’t give two shits about kamabla’s laugh, rather, I only care about the health of btc which is down 22% since trump was inaugurated
Trump definitely the hero cryptobros deserved, not the one they needed
Housenuts fine. And I've agreed without almost everyone in this forum at one point or another.
I've even 'liked' SRM a time or three.
addendum: I 'liked' SRM's post above, so maybe I'm up to four likes for him.
Personally I don’t give two shits about kamabla’s laugh, rather, I only care about the health of btc which is down 22% since trump was inaugurated
Trump definitely the hero cryptobros deserved, not the one they needed
bitcoin would be at $300k in the kamala timeline because DEI made it illegal to go down
Personally I don’t give two shits about kamabla’s laugh, rather, I only care about the health of btc which is down 22% since trump was inaugurated
Trump definitely the hero cryptobros deserved, not the one they needed
bitcoin would be at $300k in the kamala timeline because DEI made it illegal to go down
Tragically, you actually believed this to be a gotcha
Theory: trump will send my shitcoins to the moon!
Reality: trump tanked my shitcoins!
Cope: Kamabla woulda been worse
Feel free to apply this logic to any other alleged reason a single issue voter chucked it to Trumpy
Too bad we don;t have guys as smart as you running the country..... oh wait that seems to be exactly the problem right now 😀
bitcoin would be at $300k in the kamala timeline because DEI made it illegal to go down
There is no way those policies were real.
