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Which government secrets do you hope Trump releases?
Will Democrats claim Trump is "disqualified" on January 6, 2025?
Will Dems will try to impeach Trump for a third time?
Did the left actually believe the claims about Trump that they made?
Will she win her race?
Will the left try to persaude electors to abandon Trump?
Will Biden resign before Trump is sworn in?
My Prediction: Trump Wins
What realistic, positive policy has Harris proposed?
Seems like she just says whatever to sound good
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I haven't blocked a ton of leftists, but enough so that there are only 8 threads showing on the first page for MG, and 6 on the second. I think there are supposed to be 15 threads per page by default.
I think it would be better if you had made this comment about the American system in general, rather than about the most recent election after Trump was elected. In other words, if you had stated your concern *prior* to the election, it would have come across as carrying more credibility.
So it is a problem that relatively few people have been voting in elections for decades and decades? Well, yes and no. As you say, people will complain about such and such an elected official but can't be bothered to vote for someone else. Or, others will be too apathetic and will simply not vote out of laziness, which is sad. On the other hand, having a voluntary election system means that the people who do vote are more likely to be motivated by patriotism and concern for the common good, and also to be educated about the candidates. One could argue that it's actually better if only motivated people cast ballots because that suggests the uneducated voters, or the lazy voters, are voluntarily excluding themselves from making important decisions.
So depending on how you look at it, it could be a positive or a negative.
Let me explain this one more time so you can understand my point, since it appears you did not:
<i>The winner of the U.S. presidential election ALWAYS gets a small fraction of all eligible voters in the modern. ALWAYS.</i>
In every presidential election going back to 1976 (if not before), the winning president has only won 1/4 to 1/3 the overall popular vote. In other words, <b>in every election, about 2/3 to 3/4 of the voting population *does not vote* for the person who becomes president</b>.
To put it in even more plain language, your post here about lack of participation is simply a restatement of the norm. For you to zero in on Trump and say "Trump did NOT get anywhere NEAR what could be considered resounding support from the American people" is pointless, unless you also declare a universal statement that "no president of the modern era gets anywhere near what could be considered resounding support from the American people".
Trump got nearly 78 million votes, which is the second highest popular vote in history. Claiming he "doesn't actually" have the support of the nation because many people did not vote is in itself a lack of "keeping things in perspective".
I'm really surprised that they were paying him $7 million/year. That seems crazy.
But I thought I heard that this is exactly what is going to happen. There's simply no realistic way that 20 million illegal immigrants (or whatever the number is) could be caught and physically removed. Because of this, Trump's new plan would require some sort of penalty on businesses, which would reduce demand for illegal immigrant hiring. Whether these are aggressive penalties or not is up in the air, but I'd have to think that this would be part of it.
Based on what I have seen so far, Trump Administration 2.0 is going to be much more competent and efficient than Trump 1.0. Last time in 2016, he had to throw an administration together, and he then had to fight against people on the inside who opposed him. Now, he's got the people's mandate, and he has people in place who can help him, so I expect he'll get more things done this time.
I don't think this will be a "door-to-door" sweep. Rather, it will start with deporting people who are caught for other crimes, and probably punishments for employers who hire illegal workers. The plan probably also will incentivize self-deportations by illegal immigrants.
Yeah, it's like Trump learned his lesson from last time when he had to throw his administration together. Let's also hope he learned how to avoid some of the problems last time with the Michael Flynn issues.
I went back and checked, it was actually in his interview with Rogan where he talked about it. Trump said that he would release the files fairly quickly after becoming president.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1850429391341322356
I think when Trump was asked about it in an interview, he said that there were actually a few people still alive. However, I wonder if Trump would do it anyway.
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