Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "Triggernometry"
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I used to be a Democrat. I agree with everything Brianna is saying. I'm sorry, Trump is objectively awful. I know there are true believers out there who think that he is a god-fearing Christian who will save them but he isn't.
The list of things Trump has said and done is so extensive that if I were to even try to summarize it this comment would be longer than anyone would be willing to read.
Trump has said on many occasions that people who serve their country are suckers. I served, am I a sucker? He said that the honorable John McCain wasn't a war hero. He was and I would have voted for him. By 2016 Trump had more than 4,000 lawsuits brought against him some of them he bragged about.
He said that only a sucker pays their bills, he wouldn't pay his contractors and subcontractors when he was a builder in New York, he would force them to bring an action against him and then he would settle for pennies on the dollar. These were working people, working Americans, they needed to be paid and he didn't want to pay them because he wanted to keep the money.
This is the man who said he would sleep with his daughter if she wasn't his daughter and who routinely walked into changing rooms at his pageants, making the teenage girls very uncomfortable. Remember his pretend University that he used to cheat people out of money telling them they would have a real degree when they weren't getting anything that would help them get a job?
More than 4,000 legal actions by 2016 and that doesn't count all of the subsequent actions and convictions after 2016.
You can claim that Trump has not been treated fairly but if any other politician had done any of the things that he has done they would have immediately lost their career.
Trump doesn't scold people, he validates their worst impulses. He has also benefited from a series of bros, each with their own audience. I want to quote a paragraph from the Atlantic:
"It’s not just one type of talkative bro who has boosted Trump and made him more palatable to the average American. Trump has steadily assembled a crew of extremely influential and successful men who are loyal to him. Carlson is the preppy debate-club bro. Rogan is the stoner bro. Elon Musk is the tech bro. Bill Ackman is the finance bro. Jason Aldean is the country-music bro. Harrison Butker is the NFL bro. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the crunchy-conspiracist bro. Hulk Hogan is the throwback entertainer bro. Kid Rock is the “American Bad Ass” bro. And that’s hardly an exhaustive list. Each of these bros brings his own bro-y fandom to the MAGA movement and helps, in his own way, to legitimize Trump and whitewash his misdeeds."
I agree with that. He has a lot of people with influence, each with their own unique audience. These are groups the Democratic party should have tried to reach but they didn't.
Brianna is right, the Democratic party has become much too woke, too concerned with appearances. The average American doesn't want to hear about the federal government paying for transition surgery for trans people who are in prison. They don't want to hear about pronouns, land acknowledgments, they want to know how their groceries are going to get cheaper. They want to know that their kids won't be indoctrinated in school.
I agree with those things. I hope RFK is able to make some headway in the area of health. Almost 70% of American adults are type 2 diabetic or pre-diabetic. You don't have to be overweight to be in that category. The average person gets more than 60% of their caloric intake from processed food and that rises to over 80% in some communities.
We had so much death from covid because we are unhealthy. Most Americans eat a terrible diet. Who benefits? Fast food and processed food are a trillion dollar industry and then the pharmaceutical industry comes along and offers drugs to address the symptoms of the diseases people get from eating the standard American diet. They don't offer cures or solutions because there isn't money to be made in curing disease, the money is made in monthly prescriptions and procedures. In maintaining the person and continuing to be paid.
There's a lot that has to change but I don't think Trump is the solution. He is not a good person and there is risk to our democracy.
I wish Biden had stepped down sooner and the Democratic party had held a primary instead of deciding who the nominee was going to be. I also wish the Democratic party would back away from the extremes. The fact that we have Democrats who celebrated Hamas, that was enough for me to no longer be a Democrat in addition to all of the messaging and extreme leftist BS that has lately overtaken the party.
I hope they're able to move back towards the center where most Americans are.
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@nathansawyers6102 a teenage girl died in Texas last week. She was pregnant with a dying fetus, she went to three emergency rooms and was not able to get care because they were afraid of lawsuits. She is the third teenager to have died as a result of the new laws on abortion.
Project 2025 is draconian. In the case of rape or incest or in a child under the age of 16, the option to end a pregnancy should be a given (I think that limitations on abortion are fine but it's not okay to let a teenager die). Some states have no such exemptions, a 14-year-old who has been raped or the victim of incest can be forced to carry the pregnancy.
With regard to Media bias, it exists on both sides. The average American no longer gets their news from the New York Times or CNN, they get it instead from other platforms that tend to skew to the right. When he says tackling media bias he means leftist bias. He's happy to have bias that works in his favor.
The Democratic party has not spoken to the average American. Parents don't want their children to be indoctrinated, why would they have to say what their pronouns are? That grates on most people. Brianna is trans and she thinks it's wrong also.
Kamala talked about the federal government paying for transition surgery for trans prisoners, people who have committed crimes. Why would she talk about that? In fact the federal government has not paid for a single transition surgery, why make that something you talk about instead of the very real concerns people have?
She should have instead talked about what her administration was going to do to lower the price of groceries, housing, gas, to address some of the issues people care about. She didn't do that.
It's also true that Trump didn't do that but it would be silly to claim that they are judged by the same standard. She's black and a woman and like it or not that is a factor. At the best of times that would have been difficult for her to overcome and this was not the best of times.
He had a lot of influence in his favor:
"It’s not just one type of talkative bro who has boosted Trump and made him more palatable to the average American. Trump has steadily assembled a crew of extremely influential and successful men who are loyal to him. Carlson is the preppy debate-club bro. Rogan is the stoner bro. Elon Musk is the tech bro. Bill Ackman is the finance bro. Jason Aldean is the country-music bro. Harrison Butker is the NFL bro. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the crunchy-conspiracist bro. Hulk Hogan is the throwback entertainer bro. Kid Rock is the “American Bad Ass” bro. And that’s hardly an exhaustive list. Each of these bros brings his own bro-y fandom to the MAGA movement and helps, in his own way, to legitimize Trump and whitewash his misdeeds."
That's from the Atlantic, I've been citing it because I think it's accurate. They have helped whitewash a lot of his misdeeds and the fact that people disliked her messaging so much that they were willing to overlook the things that he has said and done.
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