re: So tariff checks only going to people making under $100k?

Nobody is getting checks.

I mean, I vehemently disagree with what he’s doing but frick it, I’ll take it.

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If you are making more than 100k, have a 401k and a house...the government has been heaping mounds of cash into your net worth for decades.

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Explain this, intelligently. I am a net contributor to the government, to an outrageous amount. How the frick is government "heaping mounds of cash" into my net worth?

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When inflation goes up, rich folks get richer, poor folks get poorer

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Define rich and define poor. Just saying words because they sound good is not intelligence.

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I think sending out checks is like putting a bandaid on a dam breach

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Agreed.

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but I can at least realistically see that the rich have gotten far more generous handouts than the poor and middle class.

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Again, define rich, poor, and middle class. Do you believe that the rich are born rich?

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With Populists, expect Populism

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What is your definition of populism?

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His loyal core applauds this sort of thing. He courted populists; this was the inevitable result.

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MAGA posters will never understand or admit that.

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So you think that Trump supporters are closet commies?

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Burgeoning. Look at the defense of his economic central planning on this board.

None of which "this board" would have supported pre-2016.

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People are going to see

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Who, specifically?

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or really helping anyone

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Again, who is demanding "help" and what sort of "help" is being asked on what issues?

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and will vote for the alternative (the opposing party).

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That's not really an outlier, and is way more common regardless of party.

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Last week was a warning shot

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I don't fully agree with this.

1) New York - there hasn't been republican influence in that state for a very long time. New york going from super liberal to socialist isnt' a big "shift", especially when their option was Cuomo.
2) New Jersey - NJ has suffered the 4th highest outward migration in the country. Makes sense that the guy that only lost by 3% last time has now lost by more. The NJ that got tired of the leftist shite simply moved to Florida.
3) VA - Frankly, Youngkin winning last go round was a perfect storm and likely won't happen again until the Democrats completely frick up the state again. Which will happen sooner than later. This go round, you had a gov't shutdown (DC workers live in VA, not DC), an already very Democrat area, and Youngkin stopped the schools preying on children. So, there was nothing to fight against. But, with the triumvirate of lefties that won, those issues will pop up again. And the VA dems will eventually vote back in another Republican to yet again fix the mess they caused before reverting back to the same policies that got them that way.
4) Prop 50 in California - Highest migration out of any state in the country. It's only natural that a leftist state would continue to drive away R voters.

While i agree the right shouldn't take this lying down, this isn't some "blue wave". This was leftist states doing leftist things.

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His loyal core applauds this sort of thing. He courted populists; this was the inevitable result.


MAGA posters will never understand or admit that.

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They cant say they werent warned.

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Knowing Trump the most important aspect of this will be that his name goes on the welfare checks

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Trumpfare.

Its welfare for baws.

-critical mass of people who swing elections.

-people who vote for the things representatives say they’ll do, and hold them accountable for those things.

-not arguing it’s an outlier, just the opposite. not sure your point here.

-didn’t you lose a ban bet to me specifically pertaining to midterm results and then go on to pretend you didn’t remember (we provided receipts for you though)?

The margins (not so much the results) of those elections and way down ticket flips in weird places should be very alarming for republicans going into 26. If you can’t see that, I don’t think you’ve learned much from your previous mistakes.