Comments by rickdugan

===> "Spoken like a true uneducated MAGA Rodent. The price of eggs went up because avian flu decimated the domestic poultry population, with an estimated 800 MILLION birds being euthanized in 2021 and 2022." @Thin-1-Incher: Even if I bought this as the sole source of price inflation for eggs, and I don't, do you have a similar explanation for the price increases on almost all of our other food supplies?" That's the problem with you hyper-emotional half educated dudes.. You assume emotional positions and then scurry to find one-off data points which seem to support your emotional stance, even if that means ignoring the most obvious answer staring you right in the face. I'm guessing that you never took Economics in college. Or shame on you if you have and you still don't understand this. When you flood an already strengthening economy with a ton of excess money, inflation is the inevitable result. Biden was amply warned that this could happen, but he ignored those warnings. In the spirit of never letting a good crisis go to waste, he took the opportunity to try to dramatically expand the dependency class and buy votes in the process. One small blessing at least was Joe Manchin finally serving as the adult in the room when the Inflation Enhancement Act was negotiated or it could have been even worse.

That should have been "sourced" lol.

"We're talking about uneducated idiots here who think Biden deliberately raised the prices on eggs and beer LOL" You don't need to be educated to understand that you're purchasing power has been pummeled and the Dem Department of Education is trying to force your school to let boys in your daughters' locker rooms. But if you WERE educated, you'd understand that blowout spending by a fiscally reckless administration absolutely fueled U.S. inflation, especially in categories like food. 80% of our food supply, most definitely including eggs and our domestic beer, are soured within our own borders. This was the painfully predictable result of trillions in unnecessary "stimulus" spending that never should have happened when the economy was already recovering naturally when Biden hit the scene. But you keep hanging on to all that Thin-1-Incher. 😉

What a difference 8 years can make. This time around, 21% of black males voted for Trump. For black men under 45, that number was 30%. Only the Dems could fuck things up so badly that, after everything Trump did, he is more popular than ever. I guess they didn't think that blacks and Hispanics would care about things like losing real purchasing power or about boys being allowed in their daughters' bathrooms and locker rooms. Smh.

Like I say to so many of these, I'd fuck her for free, but I wouldn't pay for it. She's attractive, but those fake tits are just awful.

I already have Netflix and it's a slow Friday night, so why not? The added bonus is the chick fight leading up to it - for some reason I find Serrano to be very hot.

It would have handcuffed colleges and primary schools around the country, virtually all of which receive federal funds.

The Title IX changes were hardly innocent. Notably they included restrictions on discrimination based on "sex characteristics" and "gender identity." I'm not sure if you're just ignorant or being disingenuous, but either way you're wrong. This would have neutered the laws of several states which protect women and girls from getting beaten up in competition sports and having biological males in their locker rooms and bathrooms.

A better link for my favorite Trump ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hAFHB54gE

^ Better than supporting the snakes themselves. 😉

One of my favorite Trump ads, lol: https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+add+is+for+us&rlz=1C1RXQR_enUS929US929&oq=trump+add+is+for+us&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRiPAjIHCAIQIRiPAtIBCDQzNTZqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:04a44e89,vid:x8hAFHB54gE,st:0

@wld4tatas: They never admit the unpopular policies that they support. Instead they try to sneak them through the back door using their regulatory agencies. In the case of transgenders competing in sports, Biden's Department of Education tried to reinterpret Title IX to include transgender rights. Had that gone unchallenged, the DOE would have used it as a cudgel on any school that tried to keep biological males out of girls' playing fields, locker rooms and even bathrooms. Fortunately a number of states challenged this in court and won, quite recently actually. Not surprising, it did not get much coverage from the mainstream media. But given Kamala's stated support of government funding of transgender surgery for prisoners, there's no reason to believe that a DOE under her oversight wouldn't try again. This is sadly all part of the Dem's "the ends justify the means" approach to governing. The Dems won't hesitate to bend, break or change the rules to accomplish their goals. This includes trying to firebomb the filibuster, a desire to pack the Supreme Court, attempts to do an end run on the electoral college and trying to use their regulatory agencies to ram through sweeping policy changes that should properly be passed by Congress. Because of course they know what's best for all of us rubes, even if we don't.

@dusty, did I miss where Steve Bannon as hired to be part of the upcoming administration? Trump cannot be responsible for the behavior of every person who used to work for him, lol, including those who decided to align themselves with the Heritage Foundation.

Dusty, our housing supply is local. So too are our insurance rates. 80% of our food is sourced domestically. We have ample ability to influence global energy supply using our own natural resources. We are also the largest economy in the world and can influence global prices of goods sourced overseas in a number of ways. So yes, Trump has plenty of tools in the arsenal. A good start would be for us to stop spending like children with credit cards who don't think that the party will ever end. So yes,

===> "Trump will ride the economic coattails of his Democratic predecessor once again, and claim credit for any marginal improvement he is able to eek out." Marginal improvement? Obama oversaw the most anemic recession "recover' in the history of the country. Labor force participation plummeted during his tenure, thanks in no small part to him giving out free healthcare to anyone who voluntarily reduced their incomes, including a flock of early retirees. The economy was so shaky that the Fed has to keep it on 0% interest rate life support during his ENTIRE tenure. Under Trump, the economy finally became healthy enough to begin normalizing interest rates. Labor force participation actually improved, as did real wage growth. Now Trump will be inheriting an economy on the tail end of a government spending blowout sugar high that has benefitted some and hurt others. He's also inheriting a national debt that is so high that interest payments alone are more than our entire defense budget. Biden has made a real fucking mess of things and normalizing it is going to be a challenging exercise.

Harris lost because people saw the disaster of the Biden Administration with their own eyes and Kamala did nothing to communicate how she would be different. Probably because she had no intention of being different, so at least I'll give her credit for not lying about it. But too many in the media have spent the last 4 years excusing and whitewashing Biden's many mistakes. So now that they are on record for doing so, they can't backtrack now. So messaging it is, lol.

That old Project 25 straw man again, which Trump neither wrote nor ever endorsed? You're really going to cling to that in the face of everything I posted above? 😆

None of the liberal media gets it. They still think it was a messaging problem. If only the knuckleheads in the electorate understood how good things really are, they all tell themselves, then they would have never have put the Bad Orange Man back in office. They don't get that almost half the country has lost real purchasing power since Biden has been in office, with inflation on their core household expenses (rent, food, electricity, insurance premiums) outpacing wage growth They don't get that people really care about border security. They don't get that a solid majority of Americans oppose the woke policies that were being quietly pushed on them by an alphabet soup of regulatory agencies, including attempts to strong arm schools into allowing boys on girls playing fields and in their locker rooms and ESG mandates driving up auto and other prices. They don't get that a majority of Americans saw the lawfare waged against Trump for what it was. Now maybe if it had been limited to the Georgia and federal cases it might have been viewed more seriously. But those cases in NY were a joke, both basically speeding ticket violations that were contorted, by both the prosecutors and all too complicit judges, in unprecedented ways to be treated as major crimes worthy of extraordinary punishment. They don't get that folks can see that the world has become a much more dangerous place since Biden took office. After our hasty and disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and our willingness to , other bad actors obviously became emboldened. But don't believe your lying eyes, they keep saying. All that matters is the Bad Orange Man is a felon and is...well...bad. Don't worry about all that other stuff - listen to our messaging instead, they say. It's about joy. Don't worry that Kamala has dodged every policy question posed to her, except to say that she wouldn't have done anything different than Biden. Just don't vote for the Bad Orange Man and all will be good, trust us, they say. 😉 Well, obviously the voting public believed their eyes over the Dem messaging. But sadly, all the Dems take from it is that they need to message better next time, lol.

It will never happen. The Dems have never been big on loyalty and definitely don't reward failure. When a Dem nominee loses a Presidential election, the small mean ankle biters that run that party are usually sprinting for the hills with their skirts hiked up in order to distance themselves from the failure. Nope. Harris will inevitably be going the way of Dukakis, Gore and Hillary. She's done in politics.

@25: In the case of abortion, there is a competing interest involving the life of the child. And "need" is a strong term to apply to abortions. While some are truly medically necessary, the bulk of them are convenience killings.

Nope, still not funny. He came across as a whiny arrogant twat who thinks he knows better than us what's good for us. Just another faux intellectual who has been drinking the soundbite hyperbole Kool-Aid with little understanding of ground-level economic issues.

@LapHunt: Don't forget Barack Obama actually standing at a podium accusing black men of being sexist if they did not support Kamala. The messaging was equal parts atrocious and utterly tone deaf. Over and over in poll after poll, people were expressing deep concerns about Biden's economic and other policies. But instead of addressing these concerns head-on, she ducked policy questions and continued running a campaign of identity politics mixed with attacks about Trump's character. Because to all too many Dem politicos, the game is not really about issues, but rather all about messaging and feel good narratives.

@Ilb: Not only non-MAGA Senators, but also Tea Party members of the House that want spending cuts. He is going to have to negotiate on a number of items. In fact, I think that the House is going to be his tougher adversary. The way it looks now, Republicans are poised to take 53-54 seats in the Senate, so he can afford a defection or two. But assuming a clean sweep, his margin in the House looks like it will be razor thin.

Estafador, everyone benefitted the last time. Real wages were rising and inflation was low. In fact, his economy was so strong pre-pandemic that it was the first time since the Great Recession that the Fed was able to get the interest rate off of the floor. And accusing him of being responsible for the pandemic is moronic.

@misterorange: Yup. The only states she was able to win were those that would have gone blue no matter who was running. She wasn't able to win a single swing state and Trump even flipped Michigan back to himself. What a shit show.