Trump Launches New Communications Platform months after Twitter, Facebook Ban

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Grand Vol said:
Not since Big Tech decided they can silence whomever they want and whomever doesn't agree with their political views...
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While in principle I don’t like big tech silencing, in this case it was appropriate.

Trump will start a civil war to satiate his ego, he needs to be shut down.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
I remember I was once told that research on elephants brains show that they react to seeing humans the way we do seeing a cute kitten or puppy. It made me happy to know elephants thought we were cute. I was very sad to find out that wasn’t true.

I chose to believe that Taft got his fat ass stuck in the tub.
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It's a lie that elephants think we're cute?
 
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n_huffhines said:
IDK who MTG is and I don't even really know who Schiff or Lightfoot are. Maybe (but I doubt it) some of these guys are more divisive but the scale at which they can create division doesn't even come close to Trump. How was LBJ more divisive than Trump? I know him to be divisive among politicians but I didn't know him for especially dividing Americans.

The only person who I can begin to fathom being as divisive as Trump is Joe McCarthy, but even that is a completely different, narrowly focused form of division.
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Try reading some history before replying...
 
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General Jack said:
While in principle I don’t like big tech silencing, in this case it was appropriate.

Trump will start a civil war to satiate his ego, he needs to be shut down.
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Forgive my eye roll, but you went straight to absurd levels here.

I can see you really don't want to be serious about this topic.
 
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Vol737 said:
With the exception of Clinton, the same can be said for every president in last 20 years wrt spending, Trump included. Bush can be categorized the same way, Obama’s was atrocious and Biden now plugging for a 6T spending package. Difference is Trump’s changes to the tax code and unshackling businesses from regulation helped tremendously. Talk to some business owners. No doubt Volker tamed inflation, but that’s about the only thing Carter had going for him.
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The tax burden on Americans did not decrease in any meaningful way and that's why the economy wasn't growing in a real way. The gains from income tax changes were offset by other increases. He increased tariff taxes, for example. Inflation is a hidden tax, and we had inflation.

Democrats are likely going to revert Trump's income tax changes but they're going to keep his tariffs, and we're going to continue to see inflation, so what did Trump actually do for the long-term health of the economy? Not much. And his short-term gains were offset by his mistakes.

Americans paid almost $64 billion less in federal income taxes during the first year under the Republican tax overhaul signed into law in late 2017

This is how much American workers saved during the first year after Trump tax overhaul

President Trump’s tariffs are increasing annual consumer costs by roughly $57 billion annually.

The Total Cost of U.S. Tariffs - AAF

The Trump administration has so far imposed $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products

Tracking the Economic Impact of Tariffs

On an annual basis, when adding the tariffs in effect and the tariffs set to go into effect by the end of 2019, the costs of the tariffs to consumers will be $259.2 billion. That is, the tariffs will cost the average household $2,031 per year, and will be recurring so long as the tariffs stay in effect,”

Trump Tariffs Will Soon Cost U.S. Families Thousands of Dollars A Year
 
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n_huffhines said:
IDK who MTG is and I don't even really know who Schiff or Lightfoot are. Maybe (but I doubt it) some of these guys are more divisive but the scale at which they can create division doesn't even come close to Trump. How was LBJ more divisive than Trump? I know him to be divisive among politicians but I didn't know him for especially dividing Americans.

The only person who I can begin to fathom being as divisive as Trump is Joe McCarthy, but even that is a completely different, narrowly focused form of division.
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Tell me how/why a reality TV/businessman won an election when Hillary had already been handed the crown by the media?
 
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Y9 Vol said:
Tell me how/why a reality TV/businessman won an election when Hillary had already been handed the crown by the media?
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Based on both your responses to me, I don't think you know what this conversation is really about. I have no idea what this has to do with the conversation I'm having.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Based on both your responses to me, I don't think you know what this conversation is really about. I have no idea what this has to do with the conversation I'm having.
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It has everything to do with the reason Trump beat Clinton. Obama divided the country to the point where the country someone like trump.
 
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General Jack said:
While in principle I don’t like big tech silencing, in this case it was appropriate.

Trump will start a civil war to satiate his ego, he needs to be shut down.
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He wouldnt need social media to start a civil war if he was trying to start a civil war...
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Your way?
Your mind?
Your senses?
Your direction?

I don’t recalled ever seeing you in the political forum MiMi and I was just saying hi.
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No just reading through it....Do you need special permission to read or reply to posts here or something?...Hi back at cha.
 
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Y9 Vol said:
It has everything to do with the reason Trump beat Clinton. Obama divided the country to the point where the country someone like trump.
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OK, now the question makes sense. I do not think that's why Trump won. Every president divides. In comparison to Trump, I don't see Obama as a great divider. I mean, I remember when Republicans were appalled by Obama saying "You lost, elections have consequences." We were much more innocent then, so we found that shocking. That's the way Trump talks with Baron playing Monopoly, man did he rewrite the presidential book on decorum.

I think the climate in America played a big role in the 2016 election, as it always does, but Hillary was literally the worst D candidate of my lifetime (until Biden). Trump got a lot of votes against Hillary and he also rallied a lot of people who don't care about politics because his trolling appealed to them.
 
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