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I’m saying we need every vote. Every vote counts, even in Connecticut.
Except it’ll be called “Guiness Shot” or something.
Here in Chicago a vote for Trump is as useful as relieving oneself into the teeth of a 50 mph gale.
Yet I do it because I long ago announced to my family that if I ever vote (D) they need to bring me to the neurologist because me voting for a (D) is the first obvious indication I’m suffering from dementia.
Back in either ’08 or ’12 when my then 80-something year old mother told me she was voting for Obama I told her we’d use that as evidence against her at her competency hearing.
And it would be good to have a popular vote win, because the “but he lost the popular vote!” was one of the tools used by Dems to oppose everything Trump and the Republican Senate and (initially) House tried to do.
It’s only one-sided because you are not paying attention to what I’m saying. Again, I wasn’t looking for him to eliminate the deficit or pay down the debt. I ONLY wanted him to not make it worse. That didn’t require 3 or 4 per cent growth.
I vote for Republicans all the time. I live in a Congressional District that hasn’t elected a Republican since before I was born. I’m not interested finger wagging about the “real world.” I’m well acquainted with it.
But you don’t get how 3%+ growth helps everything? That’s disappointing.
Where do you get that from my comment? Of course I know how growth helps but I wasn’t talking about growth. I was talking about the deficit that he increased. In the real world that happened. We weren’t at 3 per cent growth but the growth rate did increase. We had almost full employment and we had growing deficits. That is simply in no way, shape or form praiseworthy.
P.S. If I were Kayleigh McEnany, I’d ask Jonah, “Do you kiss your daughter with that mouth?”
Alas, I remember what happened every time the Republicans tried to do the right thing and address the deficit: the Democrats demagogued the issue to their political advantage. See: 1986 Senate elections.
This is why deficit hawks are sometimes called “Suicide Republicans”. Trump is too canny a politician to allow himself to get trapped that way.
In any case, I think it was Milton Friedman who liked to point out that every $1.00 tax increase resulted in $1.50 in new spending, so that raising taxes would increase the deficit it was intended to reduce.
I am really late to this party but will this ever feature culture again?
I was also really surprised by the partisan point Jonah made that Republicans were fools for wanting to reign in Twitter/Google/Facebook but how will it work out well for them. The reason is for the health of the Republic…not Republicans. They have exceeded their influence and authority and are a danger to our civil way of life. A big danger…probably not. But a danger. So they should have their protections removed and work in the market like everyone else being a publisher or a platform. Its not all about your team … which seems like something Jonah should understand. They are censoring the Press Secretary of the President of the United States. Just because its not your team doesnt mean it is not a serious problem.