Trumpers who hated Biden didn't give Biden a chance.
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Yep. This describes a lot of posters here. Five or Ten years ago they wouldn’t be defending the garbage they’re defending now. And they’d never defend a Democrat the way they’re defending Trump, even if they did the exact same stuff. Just imagine if Obama or Biden had staged a coup. No one here would’ve defended them.
Trump won by about 1/2 the absolute vote margin and vote percentage that Biden did. I don't understand how you can call that a "knockout." I mean, it was a clear win, but not a landslide by any means.
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Did republicans ever give Obama a chance in 2009 when he won the popular vote by 8 percentage points more than McCain? Did Trump? Or did they do everything in their power to demean, hinder, and question his presidency? Who was the jerk who questioned Obama’s birth certificate?Trump won by about 1/2 the absolute vote margin and vote percentage that Biden did. I don't understand how you can call that a "knockout." I mean, it was a clear win, but not a landslide by any means.
The size of Donald Trump's 2024 election victory, explained in 5 charts
How big was President-elect Donald Trump’s victory? It was clear, but not a landslide by historical standards. Here’s how 2024 sized up to other recent elections.
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Did you hear about how he lied about being ranked like 12th in the world at a very competitive game, one where to have a rank like that you'd need to be playing the game like it was your full time job. He had the balls to do a live play session and those familiar with the game could easily tell he had spent almost no time playing. He didn't understand how to interact with the map. He wasn't using his equipment space efficiently. He loaded a save or map or something and it was saved as "Elon's Map".
Only really to Americans afraid of the fake Spector of socialism. To every other developed nation they take it as a responsibility to take care of their old and retired folks so they have systems in place to support it. The Scandinavian countries, where birth rates have been below or barely at replacement levels for decades, they have no problems with solvency of their versions of social security, and they have ensconced it into their framework of laws to protect it and make sure it is never a political bargaining chip. Hence they have among the best standard of living for retired people in the world. We could have had that but it has been a pawn in political games in America ever since it's inception and the rich have used their influence to go after it many times. Musk doesn't care if your grandma gets her retirement check, he has no grasp of what that even means, he just knows it stands in the way of the tax breaks he wants, so it has to go. And that's the problem with it in America where the only true deity is the dollar and the billionaires are the acolytes everyone worships and reveres.
The problem is Trump will keep pardoning them. I won't be surprised to see actual racially-motivated domestic terrorist attacks being swept under the rug by Trump as long as the MAGA flag flies. This should get everyone on high alert.
It's not just the amount being put in, it's what they are doing with it. They have done a ****** job of managing the funds and shenanigans around corporate taxes over the decades have eroded what goes in. No major updates to the inputs in decades is a problem as well as it doesn't keep pace with inflation. It's way more complicated than just not enough heads to pay the next level up. One example is the wealth exemption where they only pay into social security up to a limit of like 180k of earnings so anyone making more don't pay on anything earned beyond that amount. There are a lot of ways this is eroded. The top-heavy boomer retirement is just the biggest and most looming threat but politicians have been playing games with social security for decades. Everyone looks at the single straw that breaks the camel's back and not the billion straws already there.
