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Originally Posted By 128⏩
This may end up being the biggest scandal in a very long time.So happy this Wallstreet stuff is happening under Biden


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Originally Posted By chaunce54⏩
lol imagine if they did?
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Originally Posted By bluebeltATT⏩
For some reason, the words "too big to fail" are coming to mind...lol imagine if they did?
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Putin picked a nice regional commander for America, his name was Trump. But his friend Xi Jing Ping was not happy, so he asked him pick the next one. So he gave him to pick one, and now you have Biden. Word is out that they let King Kong Un pick the next one. Can't wait to see North Korea's turn.
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Originally Posted By NYPat⏩
Why don't you type it up rather than just blow hot air?I always have to laugh when Trumpers can't figure out why people actually support Biden and didn't just vote for him because they hate Trump. I could type up an explanation but Trumpers like to make chit up like "that's why they're called NPCs, maybe one day they'll realize they were useful idiots".
Imagine Qtards calling others "useful idiots". Is there still time for you to donate to Trump's defense?
Imagine Qtards calling others "useful idiots". Is there still time for you to donate to Trump's defense?
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Originally Posted By badreligion⏩
C'mon, man. Typing is hard!Why don't you type it up rather than just blow hot air?
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Originally Posted By NYPat⏩
And I always have to laugh when Bideiots can't explain why their uncle joe is feeling up a 5yr old girl's boobs.I always have to laugh when Trumpers can't figure out why people actually support Biden and didn't just vote for him because they hate Trump. I could type up an explanation but Trumpers like to make chit up like "that's why they're called NPCs, maybe one day they'll realize they were useful idiots".
Imagine Qtards calling others "useful idiots". Is there still time for you to donate to Trump's defense?
Imagine Qtards calling others "useful idiots". Is there still time for you to donate to Trump's defense?
https://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showt...9640773&page=8
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01-30-2021, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted By 128⏩
Funny to see people who know jack**** about finance now commenting on the GME situation.So happy this Wallstreet stuff is happening under Biden


RH almost went under because of this.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gamesto...er-11611867105
But yes Biden personally picked up the phone and called RH to shut it down.
01-30-2021, 08:42 AM
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Anyone who legit voted for Biden..... why? Simply put why did you give him your vote? Even though I do believe there was a steal that we couldn’t stop, I do need it explained to me. Did you think he was the lesser of two evils? Or did you genuinely agree with his political views and thought he’d be a great world leader?
Oh and one more (2 questions if you have the courage to answer them) do you stand by your vote not even 2 weeks into his presidency?
Seems like voters fell for the left wing media’s demonization of Trump and thought Biden could save American and save us from what I have no idea. Like I said need it explained to me.
Oh and one more (2 questions if you have the courage to answer them) do you stand by your vote not even 2 weeks into his presidency?
Seems like voters fell for the left wing media’s demonization of Trump and thought Biden could save American and save us from what I have no idea. Like I said need it explained to me.
01-30-2021, 08:46 AM
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Bu..bu..the media said Trump was bad
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Originally Posted By ****inator⏩
Watch your mouth - you're starting to sound a little white supremistsish.Bu..bu..the media said Trump was bad
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Originally Posted By Mountaineer92⏩

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Originally Posted By ceizer1985⏩
Can't read, but it's probably bs pro hedgie propaganda.Funny to see people who know jack**** about finance now commenting on the GME situation.
RH almost went under because of this.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gamesto...er-11611867105
But yes Biden personally picked up the phone and called RH to shut it down.
RH almost went under because of this.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gamesto...er-11611867105
But yes Biden personally picked up the phone and called RH to shut it down.
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Like the poster above I really wanna know what people voted for.
Was it really because they say things like "an American for ALL people"?
Does social justice matter so much you want the potus to speak to it?
Mind blown.. I honestly don't understand the left other than they're trolling. Shilling or maybe arrogance?
Was it really because they say things like "an American for ALL people"?
Does social justice matter so much you want the potus to speak to it?
Mind blown.. I honestly don't understand the left other than they're trolling. Shilling or maybe arrogance?
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01-31-2021, 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted By Darkhare⏩
It's really simple. I mean, the DNC came right out and said in their leaked emails. These people are nothing but useful idiots that are easily manipulated by media propaganda.Like the poster above I really wanna know what people voted for.
Was it really because they say things like "an American for ALL people"?
Does social justice matter so much you want the potus to speak to it?
Mind blown.. I honestly don't understand the left other than they're trolling. Shilling or maybe arrogance?
Was it really because they say things like "an American for ALL people"?
Does social justice matter so much you want the potus to speak to it?
Mind blown.. I honestly don't understand the left other than they're trolling. Shilling or maybe arrogance?
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01-31-2021, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted By bushmaster⏩
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demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
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Originally Posted By 128⏩
Thankfully, more and more black Americans are realizing that the Democrat party cares not one bit for them and literally only uses them for votes.
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demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
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02-01-2021, 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted By fitnessislife⏩
This is for the greater good. We need to unite, not be divisive.Thankfully, more and more black Americans are realizing that the Democrat party cares not one bit for them and literally only uses them for votes.
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Originally Posted By sandaltan⏩
Except all the tweets are butthurt dumbass Biden brahs bitching about how they got pumped and dumped.literally the only people bitching are butthurt dumbass trump brahs in this thread
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I can't explain how I feel about Biden becoming president without explaining how I feel about the end of Trump's presidency.
I'm a conservative that voted for Donald Trump mostly because I liked the corporate tax cuts, and the way he cut a lot of useless regulations. I also liked the idea of a businessman running the country instead of a politician and generally enjoyed watching The Apprentice and picturing that kind of guy doing for the country what he did for those businesses. But in all honesty, I felt people like me were in the minority among Donald Trump's base. There were a lot of people who identified with MAGA who weren't as fiscally conservative and capitalist as I would have liked them to be, though I hoped the movement might bring people into the Republican party who otherwise wouldn't be Republicans so they could learn about our economic principles and start to understand how important economic freedom and entrepreneurship are culturally for maintaining a society with political freedom and opportunity.
The conclusion I came to by the end of Trump's presidency is that he's a decent man, and a good businessman, but a terrible politician. He doesn't understand optics and constantly says things that journalists can easily take out of context and spin into a negative hit piece. He never seemed to learn from this, and seemed to mock their over the top and obviously feigned moral outrage rather than taking it seriously as the political threat it was. If you listen to a lot of his quotes in context, they sound a lot less damning unless you hear imaginary "dog whistles" in everything. He also wasn't good at picking loyal people, or figuring out how to maintain loyalty. It was like he just expected the people he appointed to work for him without him doing anything to keep them loyal beyond appointing them, not realizing that they were focused on their own political careers and that if they saw more long-term advantage in betraying him than in helping him, they weren't going to help him merely because he had done them a favor. No experienced politician would have missed as many political opportunities as Donald Trump missed to achieve his goals, right down to his final days in office. He tried a lot of things that didn't work or backfired, and achieved what he did do mostly through stubbornness, executive orders, and other Republicans taking up parts of his agenda that they agreed with. For all the bluster about him being a far-right dictator, the truth was he really didn't get a lot done that had staying power and wasn't really conservative enough for my taste since he supported a bumpstock ban and sending people wads of cash during the pandemic. He was just a moderately conservative guy that had a tendency to piss off the wrong people.
A really good example of all this is the events of January 6th. A lot of people believe he deliberately incited violence. I see it differently. I believe he was overly confident that the political pressure of having so many Trump supporters outside the capital would move the people inside to vote against certifying the Electoral College results, and assumed they would be peaceful merely because he ORDERED them to be peaceful. He's used to employees doing exactly what he says, not mobs of people whipped up by political animus. He didn't think about the possibility that they might get out of hand, or how little it would take to agitate them into doing something stupid should the Senate vote to certify. He's the kind of guy who never seems to consider the possibility of losing or failing until after it happens, and doesn't really prepare for the fallout. The reason career politicians tend to believe he incited the riots is because they assume he can "read people" as well as they do, and if one of them did something like that, they would have intended the result. The thing everyone forgets is that Trump has NEVER held political office before. He did about as well in that position as you could expect from someone with that sort of background.
In light of all that, here's how I feel about Biden being president as a Trump voter. I know it's going to suck for us, but I feel relieved that Sanders didn't win. I had a feeling we were going to lose the election, and I was actually relieved when Sanders lost the primary to Biden. I know a lot of Republicans who had the same fear and were relieved that "at least we won't end up with Sanders if Trump loses this for us." As for the question of whether Biden won legitimately? I don't quite trust the mail-in voting thing and think it's unreliable, but I don't think there was enough fraud to overturn the results. So in my view, Biden is the legitimate president, but I still think there was foul play in Georgia and find the timing of it very convenient given the two Senate runoff races in that state not long after the election.
Domestically, we're going to get screwed hard in ways we can't even imagine over the next four years, but I'm optimistic about Biden taking a hard line with China and possibly even bolstering defense spending if we're lucky. I like the way he's taking what Trump started and trying to reach out to our allies to encourage them to side with us against China as well. I never really supported the tariffs on our allies although I did agree with putting more sanctions on China, and Biden is applying the lessons of the Cold War to whatever is emerging between us and China now, which looks very Cold War-like. In a way, I'm glad to have someone with 40 years of foreign policy experience in office right now given the way Xi Jinping is acting, even if they're Keynesian in their economic approach and it's going to cost us big in the culture war. It's not like Trump was exactly a fiscal conservative anyway, sending people wads of cash and being open to bailing out businesses. Besides, people tend to vote for left-wing economic garbage whenever some kind of disaster strikes, and really I think Biden was the bare minimum people were going to accept in this economic climate. Another thing I like that he's doing is prioritizing American companies in government procurement, with his "Buy American" act, which seems like exactly what I would expect a good Keynesian who believes deficit spending by government can get us out of a recession to do. If we're going to pay such high taxes anyway, then yes, of course I'd rather that money go back into the country rather than overseas.
Let's be real here, though. We're going to be living in a culture where everything is taxed to death, "hate speech" is a crime, guns are heavily restricted if not banned, and healthcare is treated as a national security issue. The way future elections will be conducted heavily favors the left now, especially with Washington D.C. potentially becoming a state and mail-in voting being mandatory for all states. Even flying an American flag outside your home will potentially get you suspected of being a domestic terrorist, kind of like in Europe. Essentially, America is going to be run by progressives (it was nearly straight-up socialists which we dodged narrowly with Biden), and I really don't know how we're going to get it back. Unless a miracle happens, free enterprise, free speech, and gun ownership are more or less going to be dead in this country. In other words, we'll be exactly like the average country in continental Europe, which is what I've fought my whole life to avoid. If I wanted to live in that kind of country, I would have gone there, but there's not another place like this one. So now I have to live resentfully under the kind of rules and values I've always hated, and that's just how it is.
The conclusion I've come to though, is that we really can't just focus on America and shut out the world. Communism and socialism have a way of finding their way into your country if you allow them to gain a foothold anywhere, sort of like the virus we've all been experiencing recently. Socialism is a global virus, and the cure must also be global. I used to see America as the last bastion of opposition to socialism, but now I feel like socialism basically rules the world and capitalists like me who are opposed to it are just living in isolated pockets of resistance, trying to make inroads against large, bloated, centralized governments to gain small victories here and there around the world. I don't identify with with over half this country anymore due to their lack of fiscal conservatism, and increasingly identify more with the international resistance to communism, the remnants of what the CIA built in the 1970s and 1980s. I have about as many people from Chile and Saudi Arabia supporting my cause as actual Americans, so what good does nationalism do me? None. I want to globally organize all those who believe in free enterprise and inalienable rights to work together to liberate the world from socialism. Even without an America I can feel patriotic towards, even if it's hopeless, I'll continue to fight for my ideals as long as I can.
I'm a conservative that voted for Donald Trump mostly because I liked the corporate tax cuts, and the way he cut a lot of useless regulations. I also liked the idea of a businessman running the country instead of a politician and generally enjoyed watching The Apprentice and picturing that kind of guy doing for the country what he did for those businesses. But in all honesty, I felt people like me were in the minority among Donald Trump's base. There were a lot of people who identified with MAGA who weren't as fiscally conservative and capitalist as I would have liked them to be, though I hoped the movement might bring people into the Republican party who otherwise wouldn't be Republicans so they could learn about our economic principles and start to understand how important economic freedom and entrepreneurship are culturally for maintaining a society with political freedom and opportunity.
The conclusion I came to by the end of Trump's presidency is that he's a decent man, and a good businessman, but a terrible politician. He doesn't understand optics and constantly says things that journalists can easily take out of context and spin into a negative hit piece. He never seemed to learn from this, and seemed to mock their over the top and obviously feigned moral outrage rather than taking it seriously as the political threat it was. If you listen to a lot of his quotes in context, they sound a lot less damning unless you hear imaginary "dog whistles" in everything. He also wasn't good at picking loyal people, or figuring out how to maintain loyalty. It was like he just expected the people he appointed to work for him without him doing anything to keep them loyal beyond appointing them, not realizing that they were focused on their own political careers and that if they saw more long-term advantage in betraying him than in helping him, they weren't going to help him merely because he had done them a favor. No experienced politician would have missed as many political opportunities as Donald Trump missed to achieve his goals, right down to his final days in office. He tried a lot of things that didn't work or backfired, and achieved what he did do mostly through stubbornness, executive orders, and other Republicans taking up parts of his agenda that they agreed with. For all the bluster about him being a far-right dictator, the truth was he really didn't get a lot done that had staying power and wasn't really conservative enough for my taste since he supported a bumpstock ban and sending people wads of cash during the pandemic. He was just a moderately conservative guy that had a tendency to piss off the wrong people.
A really good example of all this is the events of January 6th. A lot of people believe he deliberately incited violence. I see it differently. I believe he was overly confident that the political pressure of having so many Trump supporters outside the capital would move the people inside to vote against certifying the Electoral College results, and assumed they would be peaceful merely because he ORDERED them to be peaceful. He's used to employees doing exactly what he says, not mobs of people whipped up by political animus. He didn't think about the possibility that they might get out of hand, or how little it would take to agitate them into doing something stupid should the Senate vote to certify. He's the kind of guy who never seems to consider the possibility of losing or failing until after it happens, and doesn't really prepare for the fallout. The reason career politicians tend to believe he incited the riots is because they assume he can "read people" as well as they do, and if one of them did something like that, they would have intended the result. The thing everyone forgets is that Trump has NEVER held political office before. He did about as well in that position as you could expect from someone with that sort of background.
In light of all that, here's how I feel about Biden being president as a Trump voter. I know it's going to suck for us, but I feel relieved that Sanders didn't win. I had a feeling we were going to lose the election, and I was actually relieved when Sanders lost the primary to Biden. I know a lot of Republicans who had the same fear and were relieved that "at least we won't end up with Sanders if Trump loses this for us." As for the question of whether Biden won legitimately? I don't quite trust the mail-in voting thing and think it's unreliable, but I don't think there was enough fraud to overturn the results. So in my view, Biden is the legitimate president, but I still think there was foul play in Georgia and find the timing of it very convenient given the two Senate runoff races in that state not long after the election.
Domestically, we're going to get screwed hard in ways we can't even imagine over the next four years, but I'm optimistic about Biden taking a hard line with China and possibly even bolstering defense spending if we're lucky. I like the way he's taking what Trump started and trying to reach out to our allies to encourage them to side with us against China as well. I never really supported the tariffs on our allies although I did agree with putting more sanctions on China, and Biden is applying the lessons of the Cold War to whatever is emerging between us and China now, which looks very Cold War-like. In a way, I'm glad to have someone with 40 years of foreign policy experience in office right now given the way Xi Jinping is acting, even if they're Keynesian in their economic approach and it's going to cost us big in the culture war. It's not like Trump was exactly a fiscal conservative anyway, sending people wads of cash and being open to bailing out businesses. Besides, people tend to vote for left-wing economic garbage whenever some kind of disaster strikes, and really I think Biden was the bare minimum people were going to accept in this economic climate. Another thing I like that he's doing is prioritizing American companies in government procurement, with his "Buy American" act, which seems like exactly what I would expect a good Keynesian who believes deficit spending by government can get us out of a recession to do. If we're going to pay such high taxes anyway, then yes, of course I'd rather that money go back into the country rather than overseas.
Let's be real here, though. We're going to be living in a culture where everything is taxed to death, "hate speech" is a crime, guns are heavily restricted if not banned, and healthcare is treated as a national security issue. The way future elections will be conducted heavily favors the left now, especially with Washington D.C. potentially becoming a state and mail-in voting being mandatory for all states. Even flying an American flag outside your home will potentially get you suspected of being a domestic terrorist, kind of like in Europe. Essentially, America is going to be run by progressives (it was nearly straight-up socialists which we dodged narrowly with Biden), and I really don't know how we're going to get it back. Unless a miracle happens, free enterprise, free speech, and gun ownership are more or less going to be dead in this country. In other words, we'll be exactly like the average country in continental Europe, which is what I've fought my whole life to avoid. If I wanted to live in that kind of country, I would have gone there, but there's not another place like this one. So now I have to live resentfully under the kind of rules and values I've always hated, and that's just how it is.
The conclusion I've come to though, is that we really can't just focus on America and shut out the world. Communism and socialism have a way of finding their way into your country if you allow them to gain a foothold anywhere, sort of like the virus we've all been experiencing recently. Socialism is a global virus, and the cure must also be global. I used to see America as the last bastion of opposition to socialism, but now I feel like socialism basically rules the world and capitalists like me who are opposed to it are just living in isolated pockets of resistance, trying to make inroads against large, bloated, centralized governments to gain small victories here and there around the world. I don't identify with with over half this country anymore due to their lack of fiscal conservatism, and increasingly identify more with the international resistance to communism, the remnants of what the CIA built in the 1970s and 1980s. I have about as many people from Chile and Saudi Arabia supporting my cause as actual Americans, so what good does nationalism do me? None. I want to globally organize all those who believe in free enterprise and inalienable rights to work together to liberate the world from socialism. Even without an America I can feel patriotic towards, even if it's hopeless, I'll continue to fight for my ideals as long as I can.
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Originally Posted By beeftaker1960⏩
I can't explain how I feel about Biden becoming president without explaining how I feel about the end of Trump's presidency.
I'm a conservative that voted for Donald Trump mostly because I liked the corporate tax cuts, and the way he cut a lot of useless regulations. I also liked the idea of a businessman running the country instead of a politician and generally enjoyed watching The Apprentice and picturing that kind of guy doing for the country what he did for those businesses. But in all honesty, I felt people like me were in the minority among Donald Trump's base. There were a lot of people who identified with MAGA who weren't as fiscally conservative and capitalist as I would have liked them to be, though I hoped the movement might bring people into the Republican party who otherwise wouldn't be Republicans so they could learn about our economic principles and start to understand how important economic freedom and entrepreneurship are culturally for maintaining a society with political freedom and opportunity.
The conclusion I came to by the end of Trump's presidency is that he's a decent man, and a good businessman, but a terrible politician. He doesn't understand optics and constantly says things that journalists can easily take out of context and spin into a negative hit piece. He never seemed to learn from this, and seemed to mock their over the top and obviously feigned moral outrage rather than taking it seriously as the political threat it was. If you listen to a lot of his quotes in context, they sound a lot less damning unless you hear imaginary "dog whistles" in everything. He also wasn't good at picking loyal people, or figuring out how to maintain loyalty. It was like he just expected the people he appointed to work for him without him doing anything to keep them loyal beyond appointing them, not realizing that they were focused on their own political careers and that if they saw more long-term advantage in betraying him than in helping him, they weren't going to help him merely because he had done them a favor. No experienced politician would have missed as many political opportunities as Donald Trump missed to achieve his goals, right down to his final days in office. He tried a lot of things that didn't work or backfired, and achieved what he did do mostly through stubbornness, executive orders, and other Republicans taking up parts of his agenda that they agreed with. For all the bluster about him being a far-right dictator, the truth was he really didn't get a lot done that had staying power and wasn't really conservative enough for my taste since he supported a bumpstock ban and sending people wads of cash during the pandemic. He was just a moderately conservative guy that had a tendency to piss off the wrong people.
A really good example of all this is the events of January 6th. A lot of people believe he deliberately incited violence. I see it differently. I believe he was overly confident that the political pressure of having so many Trump supporters outside the capital would move the people inside to vote against certifying the Electoral College results, and assumed they would be peaceful merely because he ORDERED them to be peaceful. He's used to employees doing exactly what he says, not mobs of people whipped up by political animus. He didn't think about the possibility that they might get out of hand, or how little it would take to agitate them into doing something stupid should the Senate vote to certify. He's the kind of guy who never seems to consider the possibility of losing or failing until after it happens, and doesn't really prepare for the fallout. The reason career politicians tend to believe he incited the riots is because they assume he can "read people" as well as they do, and if one of them did something like that, they would have intended the result. The thing everyone forgets is that Trump has NEVER held political office before. He did about as well in that position as you could expect from someone with that sort of background.
In light of all that, here's how I feel about Biden being president as a Trump voter. I know it's going to suck for us, but I feel relieved that Sanders didn't win. I had a feeling we were going to lose the election, and I was actually relieved when Sanders lost the primary to Biden. I know a lot of Republicans who had the same fear and were relieved that "at least we won't end up with Sanders if Trump loses this for us." As for the question of whether Biden won legitimately? I don't quite trust the mail-in voting thing and think it's unreliable, but I don't think there was enough fraud to overturn the results. So in my view, Biden is the legitimate president, but I still think there was foul play in Georgia and find the timing of it very convenient given the two Senate runoff races in that state not long after the election.
Domestically, we're going to get screwed hard in ways we can't even imagine over the next four years, but I'm optimistic about Biden taking a hard line with China and possibly even bolstering defense spending if we're lucky. I like the way he's taking what Trump started and trying to reach out to our allies to encourage them to side with us against China as well. I never really supported the tariffs on our allies although I did agree with putting more sanctions on China, and Biden is applying the lessons of the Cold War to whatever is emerging between us and China now, which looks very Cold War-like. In a way, I'm glad to have someone with 40 years of foreign policy experience in office right now given the way Xi Jinping is acting, even if they're Keynesian in their economic approach and it's going to cost us big in the culture war. It's not like Trump was exactly a fiscal conservative anyway, sending people wads of cash and being open to bailing out businesses. Besides, people tend to vote for left-wing economic garbage whenever some kind of disaster strikes, and really I think Biden was the bare minimum people were going to accept in this economic climate. Another thing I like that he's doing is prioritizing American companies in government procurement, with his "Buy American" act, which seems like exactly what I would expect a good Keynesian who believes deficit spending by government can get us out of a recession to do. If we're going to pay such high taxes anyway, then yes, of course I'd rather that money go back into the country rather than overseas.
Let's be real here, though. We're going to be living in a culture where everything is taxed to death, "hate speech" is a crime, guns are heavily restricted if not banned, and healthcare is treated as a national security issue. The way future elections will be conducted heavily favors the left now, especially with Washington D.C. potentially becoming a state and mail-in voting being mandatory for all states. Even flying an American flag outside your home will potentially get you suspected of being a domestic terrorist, kind of like in Europe. Essentially, America is going to be run by progressives (it was nearly straight-up socialists which we dodged narrowly with Biden), and I really don't know how we're going to get it back. Unless a miracle happens, free enterprise, free speech, and gun ownership are more or less going to be dead in this country. In other words, we'll be exactly like the average country in continental Europe, which is what I've fought my whole life to avoid. If I wanted to live in that kind of country, I would have gone there, but there's not another place like this one. So now I have to live resentfully under the kind of rules and values I've always hated, and that's just how it is.
The conclusion I've come to though, is that we really can't just focus on America and shut out the world. Communism and socialism have a way of finding their way into your country if you allow them to gain a foothold anywhere, sort of like the virus we've all been experiencing recently. Socialism is a global virus, and the cure must also be global. I used to see America as the last bastion of opposition to socialism, but now I feel like socialism basically rules the world and capitalists like me who are opposed to it are just living in isolated pockets of resistance, trying to make inroads against large, bloated, centralized governments to gain small victories here and there around the world. I don't identify with with over half this country anymore due to their lack of fiscal conservatism, and increasingly identify more with the international resistance to communism, the remnants of what the CIA built in the 1970s and 1980s. I have about as many people from Chile and Saudi Arabia supporting my cause as actual Americans, so what good does nationalism do me? None. I want to globally organize all those who believe in free enterprise and inalienable rights to work together to liberate the world from socialism. Even without an America I can feel patriotic towards, even if it's hopeless, I'll continue to fight for my ideals as long as I can.
I'm a conservative that voted for Donald Trump mostly because I liked the corporate tax cuts, and the way he cut a lot of useless regulations. I also liked the idea of a businessman running the country instead of a politician and generally enjoyed watching The Apprentice and picturing that kind of guy doing for the country what he did for those businesses. But in all honesty, I felt people like me were in the minority among Donald Trump's base. There were a lot of people who identified with MAGA who weren't as fiscally conservative and capitalist as I would have liked them to be, though I hoped the movement might bring people into the Republican party who otherwise wouldn't be Republicans so they could learn about our economic principles and start to understand how important economic freedom and entrepreneurship are culturally for maintaining a society with political freedom and opportunity.
The conclusion I came to by the end of Trump's presidency is that he's a decent man, and a good businessman, but a terrible politician. He doesn't understand optics and constantly says things that journalists can easily take out of context and spin into a negative hit piece. He never seemed to learn from this, and seemed to mock their over the top and obviously feigned moral outrage rather than taking it seriously as the political threat it was. If you listen to a lot of his quotes in context, they sound a lot less damning unless you hear imaginary "dog whistles" in everything. He also wasn't good at picking loyal people, or figuring out how to maintain loyalty. It was like he just expected the people he appointed to work for him without him doing anything to keep them loyal beyond appointing them, not realizing that they were focused on their own political careers and that if they saw more long-term advantage in betraying him than in helping him, they weren't going to help him merely because he had done them a favor. No experienced politician would have missed as many political opportunities as Donald Trump missed to achieve his goals, right down to his final days in office. He tried a lot of things that didn't work or backfired, and achieved what he did do mostly through stubbornness, executive orders, and other Republicans taking up parts of his agenda that they agreed with. For all the bluster about him being a far-right dictator, the truth was he really didn't get a lot done that had staying power and wasn't really conservative enough for my taste since he supported a bumpstock ban and sending people wads of cash during the pandemic. He was just a moderately conservative guy that had a tendency to piss off the wrong people.
A really good example of all this is the events of January 6th. A lot of people believe he deliberately incited violence. I see it differently. I believe he was overly confident that the political pressure of having so many Trump supporters outside the capital would move the people inside to vote against certifying the Electoral College results, and assumed they would be peaceful merely because he ORDERED them to be peaceful. He's used to employees doing exactly what he says, not mobs of people whipped up by political animus. He didn't think about the possibility that they might get out of hand, or how little it would take to agitate them into doing something stupid should the Senate vote to certify. He's the kind of guy who never seems to consider the possibility of losing or failing until after it happens, and doesn't really prepare for the fallout. The reason career politicians tend to believe he incited the riots is because they assume he can "read people" as well as they do, and if one of them did something like that, they would have intended the result. The thing everyone forgets is that Trump has NEVER held political office before. He did about as well in that position as you could expect from someone with that sort of background.
In light of all that, here's how I feel about Biden being president as a Trump voter. I know it's going to suck for us, but I feel relieved that Sanders didn't win. I had a feeling we were going to lose the election, and I was actually relieved when Sanders lost the primary to Biden. I know a lot of Republicans who had the same fear and were relieved that "at least we won't end up with Sanders if Trump loses this for us." As for the question of whether Biden won legitimately? I don't quite trust the mail-in voting thing and think it's unreliable, but I don't think there was enough fraud to overturn the results. So in my view, Biden is the legitimate president, but I still think there was foul play in Georgia and find the timing of it very convenient given the two Senate runoff races in that state not long after the election.
Domestically, we're going to get screwed hard in ways we can't even imagine over the next four years, but I'm optimistic about Biden taking a hard line with China and possibly even bolstering defense spending if we're lucky. I like the way he's taking what Trump started and trying to reach out to our allies to encourage them to side with us against China as well. I never really supported the tariffs on our allies although I did agree with putting more sanctions on China, and Biden is applying the lessons of the Cold War to whatever is emerging between us and China now, which looks very Cold War-like. In a way, I'm glad to have someone with 40 years of foreign policy experience in office right now given the way Xi Jinping is acting, even if they're Keynesian in their economic approach and it's going to cost us big in the culture war. It's not like Trump was exactly a fiscal conservative anyway, sending people wads of cash and being open to bailing out businesses. Besides, people tend to vote for left-wing economic garbage whenever some kind of disaster strikes, and really I think Biden was the bare minimum people were going to accept in this economic climate. Another thing I like that he's doing is prioritizing American companies in government procurement, with his "Buy American" act, which seems like exactly what I would expect a good Keynesian who believes deficit spending by government can get us out of a recession to do. If we're going to pay such high taxes anyway, then yes, of course I'd rather that money go back into the country rather than overseas.
Let's be real here, though. We're going to be living in a culture where everything is taxed to death, "hate speech" is a crime, guns are heavily restricted if not banned, and healthcare is treated as a national security issue. The way future elections will be conducted heavily favors the left now, especially with Washington D.C. potentially becoming a state and mail-in voting being mandatory for all states. Even flying an American flag outside your home will potentially get you suspected of being a domestic terrorist, kind of like in Europe. Essentially, America is going to be run by progressives (it was nearly straight-up socialists which we dodged narrowly with Biden), and I really don't know how we're going to get it back. Unless a miracle happens, free enterprise, free speech, and gun ownership are more or less going to be dead in this country. In other words, we'll be exactly like the average country in continental Europe, which is what I've fought my whole life to avoid. If I wanted to live in that kind of country, I would have gone there, but there's not another place like this one. So now I have to live resentfully under the kind of rules and values I've always hated, and that's just how it is.
The conclusion I've come to though, is that we really can't just focus on America and shut out the world. Communism and socialism have a way of finding their way into your country if you allow them to gain a foothold anywhere, sort of like the virus we've all been experiencing recently. Socialism is a global virus, and the cure must also be global. I used to see America as the last bastion of opposition to socialism, but now I feel like socialism basically rules the world and capitalists like me who are opposed to it are just living in isolated pockets of resistance, trying to make inroads against large, bloated, centralized governments to gain small victories here and there around the world. I don't identify with with over half this country anymore due to their lack of fiscal conservatism, and increasingly identify more with the international resistance to communism, the remnants of what the CIA built in the 1970s and 1980s. I have about as many people from Chile and Saudi Arabia supporting my cause as actual Americans, so what good does nationalism do me? None. I want to globally organize all those who believe in free enterprise and inalienable rights to work together to liberate the world from socialism. Even without an America I can feel patriotic towards, even if it's hopeless, I'll continue to fight for my ideals as long as I can.

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