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2020 Presidential election

In all seriousness, I'm not sure somebody can win on a campaign based on reducing the debt or deficit.

It would basically be, vote for me and I'll take away/reduce certain programs/benefits/cuts, so that we can save money. People won't go for it. I like to think of it as a toothpaste bottle. Once that spending is out there, getting it reduced is almost impossible.

And this goes for both sides. Republican farmers like their handouts just as much as anybody, trust me on that. Everybody wants to reduce a program they don't use, never the ones they do.

Long story short, I don't think our deficit ever gets reduced until we're practically forced to, and it will be too late at that point. We're screwed.

That's the problem with Democracy. We all want free stuff.
 
Trump tweets racist attacks on the squad.

I am still trying to find the racist part of his tweet. Telling people to go fix the problems where you come from and then come back and show us how is not racist.

Three of "The Squad" were native born Americans, so of course telling them to "go back where they came from" makes no sense in the first place.

Further, if "The Squad" were 4 white women descended from colonial American forebears, Mayflower descendants even, would Trump have included "go back where you came from" as part of his put down of them?

By telling them to "go back", he was emphasizing their non-white status, and not their country of origin, which was the United States in the case of 3 of the 4 women. Therefore, his put down was a classic example of "otherizing" them by race.

This isn't rocket science. It's not that difficult to understand what Trump was emphasizing in that tweet. If all the women were descended from Northern Europeans, no way does he tell them to "go back".
 
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