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actually having had a different president would have probably been better. A lot of things were communicated poorly, Trump was very divisive in the public opinion and seemed to fail basic communication tactics regularly and did some very questionable things.I genuinely think that any other of the republican presidential candidates would have done better but that said, probably not by a big margin. I think though, they would have had a better chance at reelection.

Unless you live here, you won't see what's really going on. Trump is controlled by no one. That scares the democrats because Trump saw where the democrat party was taking the US. Trump wanted to "Clean the Swamp." Anyone who doesn't see how dirty the swamp is. should look past their blindfold. For example take a look on how much Pelosi made between 2020 and 2022. Look at Joe and Hunter Bidens investigations right now.

Divisive? It was Obama that told his followers to get in other people's faces and argue with them. The democrats that showed illegal immigrant children in cages, saying Trump put them there, while knowing those pictures were taken in 2013 when Obama was in office. It's Biden who can't give a speech without taking a jab at republicans. Why do you think there is such a mass exodus from the democrat party right now. People are starting to actually see what is going on.

You ain't black if you don't vote for Biden? What type of crap is that? Democrats applauded that? That is telling people that you can't be what you are unless you vote a certain way? What would happen if Trump came out and said "You ain't Asian if you don't vote for me."

Biden telling everyone that he understands what it's like to lose a child in war and that it was hard for him to see his son, Beau, come home from Iraq in a body bag. His son died, from a brain tumor, 5 years after he came back from Iraq.

In my circle, I am called the Putin apologist, just for saying that for the billions we sent all we have seen is a tit-for-tat game between 2 corrupt countries that has brought no real tangible result all we got is a stalemate. But you don't hear that in the news they are jerking off at the idea of Russia collapsing which they have been wrongly predicting since the early 2000s. For all the shrinkage their economy saw in the initial year of the invasion their GDP actually grew in 2022 and is still increasing.

We were told their air travel would disappear because they couldn't get parts to maintain their aircraft, what happens is they just have the maintenance done in Turkey or China. Currently, Russia's 2023 deficit is projected to come under the initially predicted sum, this is mainly due to now selling oil to China and India undercutting the Middle East. Add the fact Russia's national debt is extremely low compared to Western nations we can safely assume Russia will be holding out for a while. None of this should be taken as me defending Russia I am not in the slightest just pointing out the reality of things.

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They enjoyed good jobs, pensions, unions(somewhat), and a middle class. And affordable homes too. Now they're retired or soon retiring and don't care about that stuff anymore. They're just looking out for social security now.

That is completely understandable. The problem is, people like this don't sit back and think "how is this truly going to affect me?" My ex supervisor believed the same thing. He said he will vote for whoever supports the unions the most because he will then make more money. Well, you can make all the money in the world, but if live is too expensive, it doesn't matter how much money you have. Like I mentioned before. I'm making over $10k more, right now, than I did 3 years ago. For the first time in over 10 years, my wife has had to get a job to help pay the bills.

Russia is way too big and advanced to lose against Ukraine. I did some digging around and found Ukraine is losing their buts. At this rate, it's just a matter of time before they will fall.

I also remember someone saying that Trump failed at negotiating tariff taxes? Just like every other US president, he didn't get exactly what he wanted, but he didn't rollover and take it either. All other countries were charging ridiculous tariff taxes on US goods, while we charged very little. Trump tried to discuss a flat rate, but nobody agreed. He even suggested removing the tariff tax. Of course, that was denied also. So, he jacked up our tariffs to match theirs. Sounds pretty fair to me.

Oh Fauci the little man with the god complex another one that needs to be locked up

Like I mentioned before, Trump is not the greatest at a person. As a president, The USA was much better than the current and previous administration. Facts prove that.

People say Trumps is terrible because of his tweets. Well, I'll take his stupid tweets over Biden's stumbling speeches with blatant misinformation.

It drive me crazy that there are people who ignore how many accusations, the democrats have towards Trump, that were found to be false, but still believe the democrat law makers are not purposely trying to come up with ways to destroy Trump. Look at the Steele Report. How many of you democrats have looked into this? Why are more democrats mad at their party for the lies they spread? Adam Schiff kept telling everyone that there is tons of unquestionable evidence that shows Trump is guilty of colluding with Russia. The report shows that there is zero evidence and the FBI, Obama, Clinton, and Biden all knew the claims were false but still pushed it.

Oh Fauci the little man with the god complex another one that needs to be locked up.

I think that's why he retired. I think he's trying to disappear.

Did you all hear about the hidden Chinese COVID lab that was found out here in Reedley California? They found it back in December 2022 but didn't release the info until recent. That was only because info leaked out so they had to act before heat came down.