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Welp, ICBMs going both ways in the last couple days.

True, but if interest rates and inflation are your significant motivators for who you favor, asking in October would have been the play.

Better than never asking them.

I wasn’t trying to suggest anything other than it’s a little late for this election to be asking those kind of questions.

He said he didn't vote for Trump. So That's good.

Maybe I am misinterpreting, but you seem to have gone into the ballot box with the idea the interest rates and inflation were the faults of Biden’s polices. I think if there is one thing you can say Biden did well on, it was listening to the experts and staying out of their way.

Thank you all. I'm not trying to argue FOR tariffs, or say they are a good thing. I'm ignorant about them and would like to be a little less ignorant.

There’s no shortage of info about tariffs and the harm they do to economies. Trumps plan has been universally condemned by leading economists both here and around the world. Here’s a little article for your consumption: https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-tariffs-impact-economy/#:~:text=Tariffs are trade barriers that,percent tariff on Mexican imports.

Tariff costs almost always get passed on to the customer. They tend to contribute to inflation.

If you (generic “you”) think the economy is bad now (it’s not) and inflation is out of control, just wait until companies would have to pass along their tariff costs to consumers. No amount of whatever relief we would get for lower federal taxes is going to make that up. And the rich can afford to pay more for stuff. Everyone else suffers. We’d be right back to the robber baron days which someone else already mentioned.

I don't know anything about tariffs. If you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind indulging me, why are they a bad thing? Thanks in advance...

As I think project 2025 is awful and would set the country backward, and that tariffs would destroy this country, and that I don’t hate gays and women and ethnicities, hope they do nothing.

Thank you for correcting me on that. A quick Google search would have told me that the house and senate were red in 18, my bad.

This certainly doesn't match reality at all. Not only did Republicans control both the House and Senate, but they nearly universally worked with Trump. One exception I can think of, thanks to Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and John McCain voting no, was not allowing Trump to dismantle the Affordable Care Act without something to replace it. Democrats regained the House during the midterms, but Republicans maintained control of the Senate throughout Trump's term.

Your information is out of date. Trump has 76.8 million votes, 49.9% of the total. That percentage has continued to trend downward, so it is unlikely he crests 50% again.

When Trump was elected the first time, I believe there were many people In the house and in congress, on both sides of the isle but I believe maybe more blue because they held the majority at the time, that hated the man so much they refused to work with him even if toward a common goal that would have benefitted the country. I also feel that Republicans refused to work with Obama, although for much different reasons. Now that congress and the house are red I'm curious if there will be more of a willingness to work with Trump. Do you also believe that Trump was such an ass that some people couldn't/wouldn't look past their own hatred of the man to work with him and do you also wonder if congress and the house turning red will mean anything different(better, hopefully) this time around? Or, am I seeing things that weren't there?

I've been here for quite some time and well aware of how many people on this board communicate. I would say there is a stretch going from seeing Trump fail than the country succeed to suggesting someone wants to have the country burn is a stretch too far. Just work to clarify or don't engage. Let's keep it at a better level. As I said above, I am aware of how he communicates. Each individual chooses how they respond to that however. if one cannot control how they respond, that's on them. Personal attacks, especially one's that suggest someone wants to watch the USA burn, are not going to be allowed here.

LGR invites this with the way he communicates.

Good, lord. Mine too. Their job is not to inform. It’s to get you to watch tomorrow.

This is incorrect.

I don't watch Fox news, or CNN, or any news for that matter. I'm sure I miss alot of good, and bad, but I believe my life is less stressful since a cut out the news.

My opinion of LGR is based on reading a decade plus of LGRs posts. If you have a different opinion than me, I respect that. I'll never tell you you're wrong for not seeing things the way I do. Can I hold a conversation at a much higher level? Yes, of course, and I am, with others. LGR is combative and condescending. I truly believe, based on his own posts, that he'd rather see Trump fail than the country succeed. If me drawing attention to it is a source of discomfort to him, maybe he should give his posts a second read before hitting the submit button. Case in point - Gonna be fun when things one after the other implode.

It is one of the most powerful bills in a long time. Gina Raimondo (former governor of Rhode Island) is a badass. As secretary of commerce, she basically brokered it. It does way more than dumbass’ tariffs will ever do to strengthen our country. It’s why Trump or Fox never mention it even though it was completely bipartisan and supported on both sides of the aisle.

I had not heard of this and had to Google it, thank you for bringing it to my attention. It seems like a great thing. My only concern is the little bit I've read on line talks about what we are going to do, not what we have already done. I hope Trump, along with a red congress and house, don't ***** it up. My uneducated opinion is America producing our own semiconductors seems like a big deal.