[purgey helps encourage GOP plans to shake it off, nominate Mitt Romney and appeal to independents going forward]

No one wants Mittens except you

Going up against a once-in-a-generation talent, incumbent President. Lol.

Do you think a well put together and hungry Romney could have beaten a doddering and cringey Biden this year?

Honestly I think he could have

No he would not have. Obama being popular doesn’t change the fact Mitt Romney was an awful candidate. Joe Biden to his credit was one of our most popular recent VPs to one of the most popular recent Presidents. More importantly, he promised us truaninonashufodopressure and badakathcare, something Mittens would never have promised us. Mittens on the other hand is a billionaire establishment elitist who is nowhere close to being conservative or populist losing the Tea Party/Trump vote and so unlikeable that he wouldn’t win over independents.

You know Romneycare had a public option.

So-called conservatives in this country clearly have no problems supporting insanely wealthy people: interestingly Mitt Romney’s net worth is “only” about $250 million

(Not even a real billionaire!)

Anywho. I think Mitt Romney in every way has more of a middle-class outlook than the orange-skinned celebrity-in-politics born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Just admit that the vast majority of Americans you’ve cast your lot with are civically and historically and scientifically ignorant, have a deep-seated desire to be gaslit, fed sweet little lies by a carnival barker, and have been indoctrinated to view politics as a zero-sum sports game and it will all make sense.

Trump has done more for this country than the past 4 administrations combined. I could literally give you a tour of my city of all the businesses and manufacturing plants that have popped up thanks to Trump’s America First business friendly policies. Trump’s tax cut means I am able to save up money so I can get the things I want in life like a cabin in the woods with a nice lot of land. Not to mention the historic peace deals in the Middle East. So yeah, I don’t care if he’s a billionaire. Plus he’s a populist, not an establishment elitist like Mittens.

Your side has literally been rioting in the streets and burning down peoples’ businesses since May, sabotaging the Trump administration with bogus accusations and investigations, and calling for far left positions like reparations, open borders, and ending capitalism that regular American people do not want. Your side has no credibility to tell people what is right and wrong and the sooner you can see what the far left has done to this country, the sooner you can help to actually fix things and come together for the good of the nation.

Hope this helps

Not sure if you care, but AntiTrumpet just threatened me with death.

Do you have a link?

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He's threatened people with violence before, and does little but insult and harrass people, as a check of his comments shows. I'd ban him, but that's not my call.

Alright, I'll delete that comment and check out his profile

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has been hateful and even posted p**n (that has been flagged by me and taken down) because they hate someone or something. heres my memechat
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Ah, a porn spammer. Away he goes...

Trump’s spray tan is not a race.

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Well what do you expect me to do about it?

Thanks for taking a look

Lol and here he is

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I think this meme should be unfeatured — I clapped back at him in the comments and someone deleted it i assume him

In theory be okay with it (even though SNs in featured memes aren’t usually okay) but not if he’s gonna fight fair

I'll talk with kewlew about it

Those Progressive Democrats you love to hate have been warning against the dangers of “free trade” economic orthodoxy for decades, and have been gaining ground. The Democratic Party is nothing like Bill Clinton’s which went gaga for NAFTA — nor is the Trump Republican Party anything like Reagan’s in this respect, clearly.

Despite Trump’s efforts to paint Biden as a toady of Beijing, there’s a lot less daylight between Republicans and Democrats on trade issues these days than you might believe if you listen to FOX News and similar outlets exclusively.

In other words, one of the exceedingly rare benefits of Trumpism is already Democratic orthodoxy. Probably why Biden won the endorsements of a huge number of trade unions.

I think the country would have followed a similar economic trajectory under Clinton, because it already was under Obama.

Trump tax cuts gave middle-class households like ourselves a small boost but not enough to be worth the other considerable downsides of the Trump Presidency IMO — plus, that’s not free money, it’s also lost revenue that will have to be paid for in a sense by our children and grandchildren or maybe even by ourselves when we’re older.

Anyway: If you think Trump’s economic populism is worth his personal corruption and self-dealing, gaslighting of America, unprecedented undermining of faith in democratic process that he has been doing for months and that we witnessed especially for a few months a couple nights ago, his flailing about on Covid, head-in-the-sand attitude on climate change (another bill that will come due in our children’s and grandchildren’s and our own lifetimes) and other horrors, then you made a deal with the devil that 70 million other Americans were also willing to make.

Many more than I expected.

So you’re in good company, but I’m in better company.

One of the very first things Trump did when he became President was take us out of the Trans Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that the Obama/Biden administration enrolled us in. So if you think Biden is some beacon of protectionism, I got a bridge to sell you.

"Trump tax cuts gave middle-class households like ourselves a small boost but not enough to be worth the other considerable downsides of the Trump Presidency IMO"

Disagree, but if you're advocating for even lower taxes, I'll march right alongside you.

"plus, that’s not free money"

Yeah, that's MY money! Taxation is theft.

"it’s also lost revenue that will have to be paid for in a sense by our children and grandchildren or maybe even by ourselves when we’re older."

Or instead of taxing everyone through the roof, the government can learn to budget properly and stop spending money on policing the world, invasive intelligence agencies, or completely overbloated government programs.

I don't care if you don't like Trump, he has my support, just like I'm guessing you don't care if I don't support Biden. He's done more for this country than the past 4 presidents combined. If that means putting up with someone who's kind of a dick, that's fine with me.

Then you landed on orange.

Taxation isn’t theft; it’s a necessary part of living in society. All countries have it and all citizens benefit from the things it provides.

Poor people pay too much and rich people pay not enough. I support undoing the Trump tax cuts to the extent they give away to billionaires and place more burden on our national debt, i.e. deferred taxation for ourselves and our children.

That’s what I advocate.

As for the “riots” and much greater number of peaceful protests that took place this summer, there’s a lot of justifiable anger at the way blacks are still mistreated in this country.

MLK said it best. You either agree with him or you don’t.

No. There is no justification to riot in the streets and burn down an innocent person’s livelihood. I have no problem with an actual peaceful protest, it’s your First Amendment right after all and what happened to George Floyd should never have happened. However, as soon as you get violent, you’ve lost any sort of support from the public as you should, and the police crackdown will be completely justified.

There are proportional and non-proportional responses to civil unrest. Trump and his team were much more in the non-proportional camp.

Best of all is listening, addressing the problems and preventing the anger from erupting in the first place: as MLK explained.