[thepostman]

You may be right but Hillary was always a horrible candidate and didn't have much appeal with a lot of people who settled and voted for Trump. Biden may not be a great candidate either but he was still well liked with swing voters and I think he still would've been a bigger challenge to Trump than Hillary ended up being in swing states. But ultimately, Trump probably still would have pulled it off.

[TH Spangler]

D's need to find someone asap. When R's win back the house Joe is finished. Hearing on he and Hunter are coming. Issues should have been reveled before 2016.

[thepostman]

What would be great is if the R's would focus on conservative ideals and not stoop to the D's level and go on one witch hunt after the next. That is wishful thinking though. But really I'm all for gridlock in Washington. Can't screw things up too much if they aren't doing anything

[TH Spangler]

What would be great is if the R's would focus on conservative ideals and not stoop to the D's level and go on one witch hunt after the next. That is wishful thinking though. But really I'm all for gridlock in Washington. Can't screw things up too much if they aren't doing anything

Tried that doesn't work. Our countries economy and freedoms are being compromised by foreign money.

[Purple Haize]

What would be great is if the R's would focus on conservative ideals and not stoop to the D's level and go on one witch hunt after the next. That is wishful thinking though. But really I'm all for gridlock in Washington. Can't screw things up too much if they aren't doing anything

Unilateral disarmament isn’t a good policy

[JK37]

What would be great is if the R's would focus on conservative ideals and not stoop to the D's level and go on one witch hunt after the next. That is wishful thinking though. But really I'm all for gridlock in Washington. Can't screw things up too much if they aren't doing anything

Getting elected and governing have become mutually exclusive.

[JK37]

D's need to find someone asap. When R's win back the house Joe is finished. Hearing on he and Hunter are coming. Issues should have been reveled before 2016.

Give me Joe Manchin

[alabama24]

2016 was an election of two unelectable people. The party choice of Biden was an (over) reaction to the (unelectable) Hillary. Biden was a bland, electable candidate. If Biden had been the candidate in 2016, he'd have won. Easily.

And we would have been 4 years further along in our decline.

No. The "decline" would have just been a decline in different ways.

[TH Spangler]

D's need to find someone asap. When R's win back the house Joe is finished. Hearing on he and Hunter are coming. Issues should have been reveled before 2016.

Give me Joe Manchin

Manchin Gabbard would beat Trump. DeSantis Scott would do better agaisnt those two.

[alabama24]

I disagree. He would not have been treated with the fawning he is now. He would have actually had to go out and campaign, something he didn’t do in 2020. Which was brilliant strategy and would not have worked in 2016

You can disagree, but you'd be wrong.

1. I wrote: "If Biden had been the candidate." That implies that he got through the primaries. Once he was the DNC candidate, of course he would be "fawned" over.
2. On the other hand, Trump was "fawned over" (don't dare say he wasn't) UNTIL he won the nomination.
3. Biden was barely electable this go around. In 2016 he was much more "electable." His age and health made him much less electable this go around. I still don't believe he will make it to the end of this term without significant health issues.
4. The Hiden Biden strategy was a brilliant strategy because 1) His health and 2) His challenge to keep moderates, progressives, independents, and "disgusted with trump republicans" in play.
5. In 2016, Trump won many moderate, blue collar Democrats. Biden would have been able to keep many more of those than Hillary did. In 2020, Trump lost enough of those to cost him the election.

[Purple Haize]

This seems sort of like the actions an Authoritarian would take

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 05488.html

[thepostman]

Yeah but you expect that from a democrat. When a person who is a representative from the conservative party I don't expect to hear that kind of craziness. OK, I expect it now because that is where we are but it isn't true to conservative ideals. That is why I am always way more critical of republicans when they try to use the government to overreach than I am for democrats. I am less shocked by how little fellow conservatives feel about republicans using the government to do their bidding than I use to be but it sure is sad to see.

[Purple Haize]

I don’t recall Trump asking for specific people to be fired. Or that the WH put pressure on organizations to fire anyone. Sure he sparred with them. But that was mutually beneficial.

[thepostman]

I mean he did call for a reporter to be fired and I know there were others where he either came right out and said that or hinted at it. Especially with media members.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-v ... in-1529849

[TH Spangler]

That was some very poorly sourced reporting by Jennifer Griffin.

Her source was probably NPR's Greg Myre.

[paradox]

I don’t recall Trump asking for specific people to be fired. Or that the WH put pressure on organizations to fire anyone. Sure he sparred with them. But that was mutually beneficial.

There's an interesting article in Bloomberg today regarding Biden and Tesla. Biden is supposedly all-in for EV and addressing climate change. Yet he dismisses Tesla. Why?

Musk is no conservative. He's a freethinker. Dems don't like it.

[thepostman]

That was some very poorly sourced reporting by Jennifer Griffin.

Her source was probably NPR's Greg Myre.

Ahh so it is ok for the president to call for the firing of someone from a private business if you agree with it but if not, then it is a no go. Got it.

[paradox]

Trump was crazy. Even silly at times. And it was entertaining to watch. However, he didn't actually impose on anyone's rights or force something against the public will. The closest thing that could be loosely interpreted that way would be the three Judges appointed to the court. A GOP president usually appoints one liberal judge for good measure. Trump didn't do that. Turned out to be a savvy move. Without it, he'd be over at this stage. He would be diminished to a fringe candidate, lacking wider appeal within the party.

[stokesjokes]

https://www.businessinsider.com/alexand ... ani-2022-2?

Hey, Trump’s being sued for one of his authoritarian moves

[paradox]

By definition he'd pretty much have to be. As it's well understood that he's obviously an Islamophobic Russian Nazi Zionist Cracker.

[TH Spangler]

Seems Vindman's Ukraine is center stage again.

Was afraid this kind of mess would happen with Jake Sullivan and company leading.

[TH Spangler]

Hope Sullivan welcomes as many Ukraine refugees as possible. They value liberty and freedom and don't care for communism. I won't hold my breath

[paradox]

This is unreal. But like they say, truth is stranger than fiction. Apparently, the Biden administration is reporting that a battalion of angry middle-aged Karens has been dispatched to Ukraine in order to yell at the Russians. However, upon landing in Europe, they began yelling at each other instead. The yelling ensued after an unexpected outbreak of carpal tunnel syndrome combined with gassy hot flashes. NATO is guaranteeing their immediate and safe return to the US.

[Just John]

Seems Vindman's Ukraine is center stage again.

Was afraid this kind of mess would happen with Jake Sullivan and company leading.

Sullivan's fault Putin invaded Ukraine?

[thepostman]

Can't blame Putin. That wouldn't be politically advantageous. Which is all that matters to some.