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Trump goes to War with America’s Children…

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by WarDamnGator, May 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM.

  1. WarDamnGator

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  2. Contra

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    Democrats: Want to kill children in the womb for any reason whatsoever. Also want to spread propaganda to brainwash kids into irreversibly mutilating their private parts.

    Trump: “Kids might have 2 dolls instead of 30 dolls.”

    Democrats: “Trump is going to war with children.”
     
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  3. Gatorrick22

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    Yes, the OP is engaging in classic PROJECTION... their favorite Karl Marx move.
     
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  4. pogba

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    Red hats (programming running on their Tesla brain impants): EVERYONE IS EITHER DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN THERE IS NO ROOM FOR THOUGHT
     
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  6. pogba

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    The President is saying children will have lower quality of life due to tarrifs because he thinks that they should. So the boomers got to take the spoils and run up the national debt, making the next generations suffer degraded quality of life.

    I actually agree with him. The generations below the boomers are going to have tough times because of the reckless spending. My problem, is he is doing nothing to actually help address this. Instead, he is degrading our ability to innovate and create in America with tariffs, which are proven to hurt the economy.
     
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    The problem with this is your elimination of choice from the equation. You assume that legal allowance of something is the same as wanting a choice to be made. Also, you assume that people who make different choices than you would prefer have been "brainwashed." Finally, you assume that people shouldn't get to choose the products that they buy.

    You appear to oppose people making choices. You want to dictate their choices for them.
     
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  8. BLING

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    This is so true.

    What fundamentally is a tariff? A tariff is a government getting between the individual/business and their ability to buy an imported product in a free market arrangement.

    There may some some limited number of items where this makes sense (national security, health/biosecurity, whatever). Now let’s hear from a “small government conservative” why a government needs to dictate the trading of toys or textiles. Keep in mind these people are adamently opposed to the govt doing things like imposing safety standards, testing of chemicals, environmental/pollution standards because regulations are bad for business. But ask them about govt imposing 145% tariffs to block business activity entirely… makes total sense! NOT!
     
  9. thedonaldgod

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    Easy, to prevent China from using knowledge and technology they didn't develop against American businesses. American business can not compete because they play fair against competition that does not. China and Chinese companies steal American technology and then use it against us. Those Chinese companies don't have to pay licensing fees or R&D costs like American companies do.

    Also, China is able to use slave labor or darn near slave labor (pennies on the dollar for a whole day). How are American companies supposed to compete against that?

    Never thought I would see the day that Democrats would support using slaves and slave labor. Oh actually, I did, Democrats have done it their entire existence going back to the Civil War and the 1800's. They've just slightly changed who they want to be slaves and outsourced a lot of the slave labor.

    Are you okay buying products from China that you know, most likely, was created using slave or near slave labor?
     
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    Trump's remark on the number of dolls parents may give to their children on Christmas brings to mind Marie Antoinette's statement "let them eat cake" which by the way may or may not be an accurate quote. Although not the least bit atypical of Trump it's another reflection of the Donald's lack of empathy. He has no concept that some parents actually have to make financial sacrifices to purchase Christmas gifts for the children and that his tariffs will almost certainly increase the burden on them considering that approximately 80% of the toys sold in the US are manufactured in China.
     
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    Even worse. Wants govt to make choices for everyone.
     
  12. mdgator05

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    Technically, he wants government to dictate his choices on everybody.
     
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    Three lies by you plus one truth equals bullshit.
     
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    Financial irresponsibility by so many Americans is what runs our economy.
     
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    Why debate this? Trump could shoot a kid in the head on 5th avenue and no one would care. He’s said as much and I think that is the most honest thing he has ever said. It is the ghoul they love. It’s the cruelty they love. If someone somewhere is suffering then they know life is fair.
     
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    They want other people to suffer. I agree. As long as it is not them, they won't even lift a finger. Seems to run contrary to a certain religion.
     
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    Also the party that couldn’t go a few months wearing a mask for public safety, cant suffer calling someone by a preferred pro-noun, can’t suffer the sight of a tan suit on a black president is suddenly ready to suffer shortages. I couldn’t find these goons more laughable.
     
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    There are also statistics, which show journalism for the most part skews left of the general public.
    • Journalists Vote for Liberals: Between 1964 and 1992, Republicans won the White House five times compared with three Democratic victories. But if only journalists’ ballots were counted, the Democrats would have won every time.
    • Journalists Say They Are Liberal: Surveys from 1978 to 2004 show that journalists are far more likely to say they are liberal than conservative, and are far more liberal than the public at large.
    • Journalists Reject Conservative Positions: None of the surveys have found that news organizations are populated by independent thinkers who mix liberal and conservative positions. Most journalists offer reflexively liberal answers to practically every question a pollster can imagine.
    • The Public Recognizes the Bias: Since 1985, the percentage of Americans who perceive a liberal bias has doubled from 22 percent to 45 percent, nearly half the adult population. Even a plurality of Democrats now say the press is liberal.
    The Liberal Media:Every Poll Shows Journalists Are More Liberal than the American Public — And the Public Knows It | Media Research Center
     
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    This all depends on the definition of "liberal." I would argue it is nearly meaningless in the era of populism. The current administration is not remotely aligned to the post Barry Goldwater political spectrum.
     
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    Not only do they need to feel hardship and pain we also need to make sure that we take away their mental health services and food assistance. We need to do this to ensure that there's enough money to give to the Pentagon