Comments by "No Fate But What We Make" (@SonoftheAllfather) on "Yes, Trump Has a 2020 Election Edge: Answering Bloomberg's Five Queries" video.

  1. @6gorillion Jive:  The candidate that should have won the Democratic primaries (but was cheated out of it) was not a Democrat. What does that say about the Democratic party and furthermore, what does that say about their voter base? I'll tell you what it means. It means that 1.) the Democratic party can't be trusted and 2.) the Democrats' politics don't represent what the American Left really wants. The same goes for the GOP, but the difference is, our primaries were not rigged even though there was massive discontent amongst the GOP, and we nominated our populist outsider. Then he won against your imposter who should have never been nominated in the first place. Trump won because the GOP did not meddle and allowed the American people to decide on the nominee, and his policies are what conservatives actually want.
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  2. @ 6gorillion Jive: You realize that the Democrats filibustered the confirmation vote of Gorsuch and he was still pushed through with the nuclear option? You also realize that Obama nominated a Leftist and (not surprisingly) another Jew, to replace Scalia, but the Republican majority successfully blocked it? You also realize Neil Gorsuch is the youngest associate justice ever to be appointed, and the American Bar unanimously rated him "well qualified," the highest rating they offer? How again is that not a victory for Trump and the Right?
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  3. @6gorillion Jive:  I'd like to drop the truth on this thread as well, and remind you that leftism is not liberalism. The two have almost nothing in common. Liberalism is the backbone of American conservatism. Conservatism is only trying to CONSERVE classical (sane) liberal values, as well as traditional (sane) social values.
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  4. @ 6gorillion Jive:  Leftism is not liberalism. The two have almost nothing in common. Get real.
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  5. @ Manfred Byron: The Sanders-Warren socialists and the ID politics SJWs are basically one and the same. I recall Sanders saying White people don't know what it's like to be poor.
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  6. @6gorillion:  Horseshit. Liberalism has far more in common with conservatism than it does with leftism. The Left has become a Marxist abomination, and liberal is a hijacked, false moniker at this point. Just a few of the issues in which leftist values are antithetical to liberal values: race; capitalism; nationalism; view of America; free speech; gun rights; view of western civilization; view of religious values. Consider why libertarianism and minarchism is largely viewed as right-wing...do you think liberty (liberalism) might have something to do with it? If you openly identify as a member of the Western Left in a modern context, you are fundamentally more socially and economically Marxist than you are liberal.
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  7. @ 6gorillion: You think they are spelled similarly by mere coincidence? LOL Did you consider that maybe they have the same root word (LIBERTY) because they are interrelated and similar philosophies? Liberalism is the closest thing to libertarianism and conservatism (the conserving of liberal values). It was only after social Leftists (Marxists) hijacked the term and coined it as "social liberalism," that there was even a need to differentiate real liberalism as "classical liberalism."
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  8. @ Browns Fan:   "Free (or more affordable) college" There is no such thing as a free education (or lunch). Bernie Bros can't seem to conceptualize that. Redistributing someone's hard earned wealth to pay for a freeloader's Master of Fine Arts degree in Tantric Pottery is not rational or just by any stretch of the imagination. There is a massive amount of taxpayer subsidized financial assistance for college students as it is, and the military is always an option. That is how I obtained my education. "ending foreign interventionism" this is not an explicitly Progressive value, and is shared by most on the New Right. Try again. " single payer healthcare" is unsustainable in this country. We already provide single-payer healthcare to a population 3 times the size of Canada's. The most pertinent example of socialized healthcare in the U.S. is the VA healthcare system, which costs taxpayers 166 billion annually to provide piss poor healthcare to 8.7 million veterans. If the same amount of money per capita were spent on the entire 350 odd million citizens (plus the legal and illegal residents) of the United States, is would cost 6.2 trillion dollars a year. FYI, the entire federal spending budget in 2015 was 3.8 trillion. Get real. Universal healthcare is not feasible nor sustainable in a country this size, despite its popularity. Progressives are fucking cuckoo. Nothing they want is feasible or reasonable without raising taxes to completely oppressive levels. That is pretty much socialism at that point, and you might as well start nationalizing industries while you're at it.
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  9. They will probably run a Hispanic. They know that they could win Florida, the Southwest, and maybe...*gulp*...Texas...if they run a Hispanic.
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  10. @ Browns Fan:  The progressives are fucking retarded. You cannot have populist economics while simultaneously supporting suicidal Leftist policies like welfarism, mass immigration, and identity politics. So, no...they don't have a platform either, not one that will work, anyways, and everybody knows it. Even the majority of progressives know this, but are too mired in cognitive dissonance and suicidal altruism to admit it. People are wise to the fact that progressive ideology is becoming more and more insane by the minute. They won't vote for it, even if the DNC somehow allows the people to nominate someone that isn't a neoliberal.
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  11. @ Browns Fan:   Trump has been significantly less of a warmonger thus far than your champion Obunghole. Him and the your last candidate were instrumental in creating ISIS, destabilizing the entire Middle East and North Africa, and causing the migrant crisis in Europe. Their foreign policy was catastrophic, so pray tell, what are you basing your claim upon (that Trump is a warmonger)? The fact that he blasted one Syrian airbase and postured after Kim threatened to nuke some other country and even a U.S. territory...again...?   "You're simply just jumping on the failures of the VA and assuming they would also occur in a single payer system (which they wouldn't)."  Based upon what evidence? Spamming a Leftist rag like the HuffPost is not evidence. HuffPost articles are not research either. Why don't you "research" something that isn't an opinion piece with an unquestionable Left-leaning bias? That would be like me posting a Breitbart article as evidence or "research."  I gave you actual data about the VA, which is exactly the type of inept bureaucratic nightmare that an all encompassing socialized healthcare agency would likely turn into if it were to be instituted in this country. Albeit, single payer systems are a little bit different. As far as single payer goes, we already spend massive amounts of both our mandatory and discretionary federal budget on single payer healthcare (over 1 trillion a year on Medicare and Medicaid) and we are subsidizing about 55 million elderly people and 50 million poor people on those programs. That is 105 million people, but still less than 1/3 of our population...so...it would cost over 3 trillion dollars for everybody. The federal government receives about 2 trillion a year in tax revenue to put that in perspective. So, it is still unsustainable. It would be less disastrous than socialized healthcare, but disastrous none the less. Research the federal budget; it is important to understand where the money goes and how much money there is for the government to spend before you start advocating for things like single-payer healthcare or "free college." Progressives want all these things, but they don't consider how it'll be paid for. Most of them don't even know how much we already spend on healthcare. Consider how much we are taxed and then how much it would cost to sustain the things you want. If the numbers don't add up, the only way to pay for it is to raise taxes, and nobody likes paying taxes.  https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/
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