If Trump Were To Be The Nominee In 2024

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  1. 19Crib

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    Trump will run on economics and table top issues. First will obviously be get oil pumping again to lower general transportation costs.
    Democrats will run on “I hate Trump, You hate Trump, Let’s all hate on Trump some more!” Certainly a winning message.
     
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    ya know, xerox has this wonderful new futuristic technology that can actually copy documents, making it possible to sell out your country to multiple enemiexs, terrorists, and competitors.
     
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    I think Saudi Arabia is more likely than Russia or China.

    I'm not saying he did it, but he's certainly not above doing it.
     
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    IMO, any candidate who runs on 1. cutting the size and power of government, and 2. transferring at least half of the money saved back to the productive working class, would win easily.
     
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    The Civil War exposed the DP as the party of hate in America. Some things do not change.

    “A California man accused of flying across the country with plans to break into Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s home to assassinate him was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury, officials said.

    The single count of attempting to kill a U.S. judge added new details about what authorities say Nicholas Roske, 26, had with him when he arrived via taxi cab to the conservative justice’s home just after 1 a.m. in Chevy Chase, Md., last week.

    In addition to a gun, burglary tools and a pair of boots with padded outer soles that could allow stealth movement inside a house, the indictment asserts that Roske brought 37 rounds of ammunition, a black mask, a “speed-loader,” a gun-mounted aiming laser and “hard-knuckled tactical gloves.””
    WASHINGTON POST, Man accused of Kavanaugh murder plot indicted by federal grand jury, By Dan Morse, June 15, 2022.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/15/new-indictment-kavanaugh-assassination-plot/
     
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    LOL. Yeah, you go through all that work and then keep the originals boxed up in your house.
     
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    I disagree that he is not above doing it.
     
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    That works until you have to specify what part of the government you’re cutting.
     
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    At this point I doubt that it will matter to voters so long as half the money saved is transferred immediately into the bank accounts of the productive working class.
     
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    Maybe. I'm not sure there general electorate is quite willing to sacrifice anything to hand checks to the working class. E.G. Slashing Social Security and Medicare to send workers checks probably isn't going to fly. Similarly, making major cuts to the Defense budget in order to fund stimulus is probably going to stir up a lot of resistance from certain voter segments.
     
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    Of course, they will oppose any reduction of existing direct transfer payments that hurts them.
    So, give them double the money back.

    A smart politician would have started with this epic boondoggle:

    "1. PAYING FOR A WAR ON CREDIT, NOT IN CASH: ...
    Estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020: $2 trillion.
    Estimated interest payments on that $2 trillion so far (based on a higher-end estimate of interest rates): $925 billion.
    Estimated interest costs by 2030: $2 trillion.
    Estimated interest costs by 2050: ***$6.5 trillion***.

    THE WARS END. THE COSTS DON'T:
    Amount Bilmes estimates the United States has committed to pay in health care, disability, burial and other costs for roughly 4 million Afghanistan and Iraq veterans: $1.6 to $1.8 trillion.
    Period those costs will peak: after 2048.
    ABC NEWS, The cost of the Afghanistan war, in lives and dollars, The nearly 20-year American combat mission in Afghanistan was the United States’ longest war, By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press, July 12, 2021. (emphasis mine)
    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/cost-afghanistan-war-lives-dollars-78802965
     
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    What?
     

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