No, I'm just pointing out that there are a lot of people who are hyperventilating so hard about Trump's election that their capacticy for honesty reasoning appears to be greatly diminished.
C'mon guy, you seem smart. Use your brain and I bet you can answer your own question. Here's a hint: all else equal, I'd rather have you than a random non-vet in the role.
> You can't even bring yourself to mention that the Defense nominee has actually served in the Army, and is a decorated veteran
The amount of copium with his pick is incredible. Hegseth is woefully underqualified to be the SecDef. He was in Army Natl Guard, not Army. He spent a year at Guantanamo in 2004, deployed to Iraq in 2005-2006 and Afghanistan in 2011-2012. That's it. The rest of the time was ARR and IRR. He has never held any public office at any level.
I'm not trying to dismiss his military service itself, it's fine, but to imply it remotely qualifies him to be the SecDef is beyond reason. He's a junior officer fit to lead a company (100-200 soliders) at best.
It isn't unhinged, or partisan to be extremely wary of everything someone who tried to overthrow the government by insurrection does with their newfound power. Yes, I am frightened by what he has already said, and done. If you aren't then I have to wonder why. He really wore out the "give him a chance" excuse many people made for him in 2016. There really is no "maybe" about it.
1. Trump got the US out of the TPP, which to this economic populist, was amazing. If you think that NAFTA led to the blue collar backlash against the Democratic party that got us to this electoral result, TPP sez, "hold my beer!"
2. Trump bungled the fuck out of his first go round. I expect lots more of the same.
3. There are two other branches of government; we will see how they act. Maybe the Senate Democrats will RtFM section about the "Filibuster" button, especially with Manchin and Sinema gone?
4. Lots of left/center left/progressive media hyperventilation about the potential bad stuff, but only today, after the election did I hear that RFK Jr. thinks that DTC advertising of prescription drugs should be banned, and that SNAP (fka "food stamps") should not be allowed to be spent on (for example) soda. We already regulate what WIC can be used for; why not SNAP? Are there other policies we are not hearing because they don't play as well for clicks? Idk? Yes, I think the guy is misguided on vaccines, horribly so, but post-COVID, we are already in an environment where it is easy to opt out of vaxxing your kid or yourself if you so choose. I dont think RFKJr represents a big change here.
5. Lots of terrible things we were promised during T45 just didn’t happen. The worst, Roe v. Wade, was horrible, yet here in my very red state, we passed an amendment such that, we now have more abortion rights than when RvW was a settled precedent.
Thank you for perfectly exemplifying the tendency to ignore reality while you are hyperventilating.
My primary issue is economic security for all. My polical priorities could rougly be described as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
What you completely seem to have missed while you were hyperventilating, or you are purposely misrepresenting, is my claim that things are not likely as bad as you are still crying about.
Soda was one example of many: obesity is perhaps the biggest current challenge in chronic health care, in America. A while back, a liberal NYC administration went so far as to try to tax soda for just this reason.
But by all means, yell at me more online based on your own strawmen. It's entertaining.
Your ad-hominem "wetting the bed" and "hyperventilating" attacks are pointless, and have nothing to do with reality. And just more proof that it's pointless to argue any of this with anyone that thinks trump might not be so bad. Goodbye.
You must be the little piggy who built his arguments out of straw because I sure never said Trump "might not be so bad." I think Trump is a terrible person!
I do think that Trump's first administration was not as bad as the worst case picture painted by the left about all the terrible things that were going to happen. Democracy held. We even elected Joe Biden (*yawn*).
Trump is absolutely going to try some crazy shit. But if you are going to lose your shit because he nominated some people you don't like, you will be so worn out by all the media circus, when the time your actions could be meaningful, you will be exhausted and useless.
Save your energy. Stop acting like the person in the movie who loses their shit at the first sign of crazyness and is a net detriment to the team. This isn't the fight, dude.
I'm not sure how "liberal" the soda ban was. It was championed by Michael Bloomberg, who was at least nominally a Republican during his tenure. I know Bloomberg is trying to rub his nutsack all over the Democrat party now, but that's fairly recent and while he was mayor of NYC his administration was not considered "liberal" at the time.
