I don’t trust Trump personally at all. I just try to be polite to keep conversation going. A random Finn bashing your president would not be very fruitful.
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This is at least one problem with the “bull in the china shop” you get with trump
The exact thing people love about him, his unpredictably and and devil may care nature of politics, leads to things like this on top of getting the things you might want.
And best of all there was literally no indication he had this on his mind before November 5th… I wonder, would you have voted for him if it was one of his key campaign issues?
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I meant after reviewing the video, in real time there wasn’t a way to know and the cops were 100% right there
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A million times over, with zero hesitation.
I’m up late again, on account of being keyed up for a fight but nobody punching me in the face this time (yet).
The USA dodged a literal and metaphorical bullet in this last election. I cannot begin to fathom what four more years of open borders would have accomplished in terms of entrenching one party rule. Empowering illegal migrants to vote across many states aside, the social chaos, violence, and degradation of the public schools are all costs that can’t be easily calculated when a politician asks for the best interpretation of the numbers to present to the public.
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Since youre up… Heres my last post for tonight, and its something completely off topic from where we’ve been and really more in the food for thought realm, a bit of “be careful what you wish for” idea I had been mulling over for a while
I think its pretty clear that Trump 2.0 is a different animal than Trump 1.0, who was mostly a Washington newbie and seemed to be partially relying on the those who knew the lay of the land to help him navigate the scene
Imagine Trump wins in 2020 and he still has Pence, his old cabinet and advisors. Sure there would be a bit of turnover but you dont get anywhere CLOSE to the group of people he has now or the agenda hes enacting
You dont get Revenge Tour Trump without that loss…
And as of Jan 20th, 2025 Trump would be gone (leaving out any 3rd term fantasies)… As a bonus, No J6 would have happened because he wouldnt have had the Save The Steal stuff because he wouldnt be up for reelection anyway.
in a way him losing in 2020 only expanded his influence and prolonged his political career
No real point here… I was just kind of reflecting on the irony of the very thing the left wanting and the right not wanting in 2020 (a trump loss) possibly turned out to be the best thing for Trump over all
I wonder if you asked 100 Democrat voters, knowing what we know now, would you rather just give Trump 1.0 four more years and be done with him now, or have our current iteration of Trump and his admin what would they take?
I also wonder how it will play out for political scene in the future, Will this swing the pendulum back even harder left in 2028 (assuming Trump doesnt cancel all upcoming elections or somehow win a 3rd term or become King of America 
) or does Trump successfully pass the baton to the next MAGA candidate (maybe even his son, setting up a political dynasty… I doubt it because I dont think they have “it” like their dad does, but who knows?)
Again, no real point… just some musings on a Thursday night, feel free to ignore or muse along with me
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US politics have been particularly interesting to follow for the past 10 years or so. I rarely dvelve deep in the details of the inner policies, but the polarization is true. The two party system kind of incites it.
I think you should arrange a MMA fight between candidates during the next elections. Hahah.
I completely agree. The nation had to experience being governed by whoever was running Biden’s teleprompter.
I’m not a devout religious man, but the whole situation smacks of providence.
If I were to transport myself back 20 years, and think about all of the gripes I had with government at the time as a young progressive, I couldn’t begin to imagine such a dramatic display of government corruption being laid bare for all of us to see.
Trump’s cabinet is a remarkable collection of wildly diverse people. Real diversity, not just skin color or dressing like the opposite sex. I believe the Treasury Secretary is a homosexual man, and he seemed sharp as a tack to me.
They all seem quite bright, which is a nice change of pace. Tulsi remains the most alluring enchantress ever to grace the halls of government. The Democrats could have had her, but she got like 1 percent of the vote.
I try not to be hyperbolic or overly optimistic, but this all seems to be coming together quite well.
I’ve never had more faith in the federal government, and that is a wild thing for me to say. No magic 8 ball I ever shook has given me that kind of prediction for my future.
It really has been, and what you’re seeing here is about 10 years of personal interest on my part.
The polarization is a product of Democratic Socialism. By design, it introduces policies that are incompatible with core American aspects of government. You can reach a middle ground if there is a disagreement about public school funding levels.
There is no middle ground with transgenderism. There’s no middle ground with open borders. There is no middle ground with equity.
Those concepts were all introduced recently in a deliberate effort to get us at each others throats to entrench Democrat power so massive amounts of money can be extracted from the population.
The wonderful thing about core American values is that they allow for things like transgenderism to exist in society. We don’t get to beat each other up or make each other say things we don’t believe to be true. That’s America, and Democratic Socialism cannot tolerate that kind of social order.
Social justice must be pursued instead, and it has been here in Lewiston, Maine.
Here these aren’t seen as absolutes you need tp switch on/off.
We have a multiparty system, where different parties have different values and views about these topics. Some of the arguments are well grounded, others less. The democratic process will end up to some kind of compromise.
They aren’t here either, and never have been until Democratic Socialists began imposing the ideology in public schools and broader aspects of government.
Today in Maine, teachers and students must employ the every-shifting vocabulary of transgenderism, or face penalties imposed by the government.
From my point of view, requiring someone to declare that Laurel Hubbard is a woman is no different than requring a person to declare that Jesus was God’s only son.
You cannot have a policy like that while also having a First Amendment to protect freedom of speech. That is one example of the incompatibility that these policies introduce.
In classrooms we can think freely what makes or makes not Hubbard a woman or Jesus a messiah.
These topics aren’t hot takes in our politics either. Immigration of course is, so are economics (like everywhere) and security policy/defence.
There is no problem discussing about immigration. There are anti-immigration parties in several goverments across the Europe currently. The topic is heated thought.
That’s how my classrooms in Indiana were too. They aren’t like that at all in Maine today. Our spend per student is the highest in the nation and our outcomes are the worst. This state used to lead in education. Schools are dangerous, secretive, and oriented towards the wellbeing of the adults involved, not the students.
Instead of a functioning institution we get lofty sounding concepts and meaningless platitudes.
That’s the Democratic Socialist difference.
X has been feeding me that story for 3 days lol, with picture, of the crazy juxtaposition of the dude compared to the girls he’s “competing” against.
You’ll never see that story in MSM. Maybe in a week in the NY Post. I drank the kool aid, made X my first go to for news, haven’t looked back.
Stopped by to post this gem (I was wrong, wrong!) LOLLL:
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on October 4, 2022, that effectively ruled out negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This decree was based on a decision by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on September 30, 2022, which declared it “impossible” to negotiate with Putin. The decree itself does not ban all negotiations with Russia outright but specifically targets talks with Putin as its leader, leaving open the possibility of dialogue with a different Russian president in the future.”
Annexing Canada?
I would have hoped for a different conservative candiddate instead, but if it were still between cheeto man and hyena lady, id go for cheeto dust every time.
I 100% trust the rabid Left to legally contest even a surplus funded tax refund.
Which would absolutely be illegal, and overruled by SCOTUS, just like Biden trying to forgive student loan debt by de facto doling out money w/o Congressional approval; then spewing braggadoccio about circumventing SCOTUS. “The Supreme Court blocked it. They blocked it, but that didn’t stop me.”
(btw, if Trump is such a threat to democracy, please enlighten me as to when he has boasted about circumventing SCOTUS)
I went to a rally to see the live, in person presentation. He explained there that he did rely on a lot of beltway people to get staffed up, cabinet appointments, etc. and that he wasn’t going to make that mistake again. It seems, as he explained, that people stacked his deck the way They wanted it rather than the way that he would rather have had it.
So his appointments this time around represent the people he found in the interim to be most qualified for what He wants, rather than what the beltway insiders want.
I really hope not. I’d much rather see more center/left & center/right than more of the extremes. Honestly, I’ve been left in the lurch as a middle class middle of the road nobody pretty much my whole adult life by both parties with no one even remotely representing my interests, let alone tangentially or even interest adjacent.
Love 'em or hate 'em- at least Rick Santorum had the decency to walk up my street one day and shake my hand before lying to my face when I lived in his district. And Tim Murphy hired the company I worked at to take down a big maple tree in his yard.
Other than that it has just been one long clownshow of wealth, bias, and personal enrichment. 
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If those 100 Democrats had any brains, they would want to erase the last four years of the absolute worst political leadership of the entire history of the USA.
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See, as I’ve said, same stuff on both sides. They’re all Nazis.
Governor Mills has responded to Trump and insists Maine will not comply with Title IX, and presumably the rest. The #resistance is on.
Unrelated to the brewing showdown, I saw this post on X and thought it made a really great point. One of my pet peeves in life, not just politics, is when people change their accents and/or ways of speaking depending on who they are talking to. Hillary Clinton, Biden, and Kamal Harris all did this. Hell, Biden somehow grew up black, Puerto Rican, Zoroastrian, Sunni Muslim, whilst operating an 18 wheeler to deliver civil rights supplies to the downtrodden of this land, or something like that.
Total tools I’ve known do it in real life do, too.
There’s nothing more embarrassing than traveling from the cornfields to a party in the city and your one white friend instantly begins speaking like his name is Stacks.
Trump is the same guy no matter who is speaking to, and they call him the racist and the fascist.