Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:If the "maintaining of relief programs to balance capitalistic inequities is incredibly popular," then why did a majority of voters double down on a chaos administration, of focusing on the middle part?

Their stated top issues, by historic margins, were the economy and immigration.

Post-election polling showed that 72% of Trump supporters said they wanted the federal government to provide fewer social supports. But in the same polls, 77% of those voters opposed any reductions to Social Security. Strong majorities opposed cutting federal funding for Medicaid. A recent post-election Siena poll found that 80% of Americans support increasing SNAP benefit levels, and only 12% support reducing them.

I simply don't think people really expect Donald Trump to do all the things he says he wants to do. Just like they consistently favored candidates who talked about ending the ACA, and then freaked out because those people tried to end the ACA.

I've never understood this, but I accept it because the evidence is always there. Voters were pretty clear that the number one problem they wanted solved was the increasing economic pressure faced by the working class....so they voted for the tariffs and trade wars guy. I suppose my personal suspicion is that they like it when someone is willing to threaten wild, outlandish things, because they mistake those threats for strong-armed negotiation tactics. But we just poured water out of crucial aquifers in our nation's highest producing agricultural sector ahead of a hot summer, because when he says "there's a magic spigot that California could be ending the fires," it's not a negotiation tactic. It's dead serious.

Either this or they're even dumber than we thought, and think that "social supports" = immigration and nothing else.

BurtReynolds wrote:Not sure the existing left-wing order has much fight left in it, and as the public funding for their propaganda is cut off, they are going to have a hard time. But who's to say what will happen in a few years. Undoubtedly new energy will rise up somewhere.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Mexico’s president’s name is sheinbaum?

dimejinky99 wrote:Game on

wease wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Mexico’s president’s name is sheinbaum?

Heh. Indeed it is

tommy wrote:Let's settle this at Wrestlemania - Bret Hart vs Hulk Hogan