A few of my friends lean to the left and I have learned that constantly pushing certain political conversations when it is clear we won't agree will eventually destroy my friendships with them.
I have convinced my left leaning friends that the left is currently pushing transgenderism in schools and that it is going way too far and that trans surgeries for kids are horrific ideas. I have also gotten them to agree that the mainstream media is constantly pushing propaganda and that feminism gives women way too many advantages. My friends are Asian like me and they agree that the left pushing affirmative action and DEI is horrific. They don't like the leftists pushing cancel culture and silencing people for opinions. They don't want to see Biden vs Trump as the two nominees in 2024 which I definitely agree with them on.
It is not too bad in terms of finding common ground.
Talking about COVID, gun control and Trump is where their otherwise sane opinions goes to hell. They refuse to acknowledge the ramifications of the lockdowns and how shitty the COVID vaxxes are. They still think gun control can help reduce gun violence despite seeing statistics of how gun free zones leads to more gun fatalities. They also really want to see Trump rotting away or receiving the death penalty and I disagree with them on that.
Lacks standing has sadly became the easy way out for judges.
They constantly use it to avoid getting involved in key issues.
The splits are Robert's and Kavanaugh directly side with the libs.
ACB, Thomas and NG concur in their own separate opinion and Alito dissents in his own opinion.
My point is that the combo of Roberts and Kavanugh directly siding with the libs is happening too often in major cases.
Kavanaugh fucked us in the Alabama redistricting case. He fucked us in the Healthcare vaccine mandates. He fucked us in the border Title 41 case.
As far as I am concerned, it was a waste of time to defend him from the Dems' rape allegations.
He has ruled with the left on everything besides Roe v Wade.
Kavanaugh is the worst SC judge that Trump appointed and is the second worst "conservative" judge on the court after Roberts.
Fuck the Federalist society for suggesting Kavanaugh.
TheImp is famous?
The Zuck has been training MMA.
Elon might be making a grave mistake challenging it.
WTF is wrong with these clowns?
Holy shit at this level of incompetence.
I would say the most incompetent is generally Bethesda. Their games are always afflicted with bugs.
What did they do now?
There is anger from people like me because I see people say that they won't vote for the GOP nominee if it is not Trump.
OnlyTrumpers are morons if they don't see how disastrous a Biden re-election is not only for the entire country but also for the one man they idolize. Trump will certainly die in prison if Biden wins his second term.
I am willing to vote for Trump begrudgingly if he becomes the nominee but these clowns won't reciprocate this.
I am fed with people who make excuses for Trump constantly.
This thread is an example of what I despise.
The normalization of transgenderism is unconscionable but some of you have the audacity to say that Trump normalizing it is much better than Jeb Bush merely showing up at an inauguration event for DeSantis in the state he was governor of.
I despise the OnlyTrumpers whose entire strategy is to lie about DeSantis and try to falsely tie him to Bush and Paul Ryan. These people are not judging DeSantis on his actual policies enacted but on guilt by association. Yet these clowns refuse to hold Trump to the same standard. I am sick of these double standards.
My anger is that some Trump supporters here have become abject cultists. Some of you will bend yourselves into pretzels to make excuses for him. That is what makes me disgusted.
There is not one actual policy action that DeSantis has changed with regards to donor complaints. You are complaining about words he used not any actions he has taken.
The main difference between you and me is that you approach your assessment from a lens that Trump is still an anti-establishment force and that it makes him the best candidate.
I will argue that Trump is not even anti-establishment these days. In 2015 he could credibly say that he was an outsider. Today things have changed.
He has created his own establishment in the GOP and conservative movement that I would call Populist Inc. You have grifters like Rogan O'Handley(DC Draino), Sebastian Gorka, Raheem Kassam, Alex Bruesewitz and Laura Loomer who have created their entire careers off Trump's brand. They spend more time attacking fellow conservatives, fomenting outrage and viciously attacking anyone not for Trump. It is a campaign that will fail to win swing votes.
It is tragic that the Trump 2024 campaign is being run by these populist Inc grifters.
You seem to be skeptical of DeSantis because you dislike Dave Rubin and you think that i am coming off too strong.
Meanwhile you don't seem to care about the rise of Populist Inc where they don't even care about winning elections and enacting policy. They only care about grifting off Trump. They would still be happy if Trump becomes the nominee and loses the general. They can just yell it was rigged again and the grift continues.
I see how the Trump 2024 campaign is being run and I have no honest hope that he can win a general election because he absolutely repulses swing voters and the campaign is making terrible optics by vicously attacking his own fellow hires like Jenna Ellis for merely dissenting with them.
Meanwhile DeSantis 2024 can appeal to swing voters and get enough populists to win a general. Clearly DeSantis won't be getting the most extreme OnlyTrumpers like TheImp, DoritoPence and a few others on this board but those people are certainly less in quantity than swing voters.
There is a path to victory for the DeSantis campaign and a likely defeat for the Populist Inc run Trump 2024 campaign.
DeSantis has a good record in Florida that makes me believe he would be a good conservative President and not a Bush retread.
I believe DeSantis has demonstrated he is great on policy and I just think he is much more electable than Trump.
Ken Griffin is a DeSantis donor and he hated that DeSantis took away Disney's ready creek deal and that he signed the 6 week heartbeat abortion ban bill.
I see DeSantis and Trump as the only people in the race. No one else has a shot at winning the nomination.
I see DeSantis as the only guy who has a shot of beating Trump in the primary and Biden in the general.
I view Trump as a flawed former President who hasn't learned from his mistakes.
I think the others like Pence, Haley and Christie are grifters.
The DeSantis coalition does have some donors who despise Trump.
These people would support any rival to Trump who has a chance in the primary to beat Trump.
The difference is that they have no real influence over policy unlike in the Trump camp where Trump passed shitty policies like the first step act because he was influenced by his socially liberal friends like Bruce Jenner and Kim Kardashian.
DeSantis's record shows he will absolutely enact good conservative policy even when some of his donors hate it.
Your criticism of DeSantis supporters like me is laughable when Trump has TheImp and that weirdass DoritoPence guy non-stop simping for him in any thread they show up in.
Yes I am pretty outspoken in my support because I am sick of the people demanding that it MUST be Trump.
If Trump still becomes the nominee I would still begrudgingly vote for him while some of the Trump cultists here would sadly never do the right thing and vote for the GOP nominee if it was not Trump.
Accepting the normalization of transgenderism to rationalize your devotion for Trump.
Jeb Bush merely attended Ron's inauguration. He has not influenced DeSantis' policy and he didn't even actually endorse DeSantis meanwhile the tranny is hanging out at Mar-a-lago and is openly promoting Trump's campaign.
Pathetic rationalization from you.
This is my guess too on why this is even happening at all.
Or is this the mechanism to replace Joe as the Dem nominee for President?
To see Trump's response to the question look at this
People in Maryland probably missing Larry Hogan right now.
Hogan was a squishy RINO but looks like he was still better than this guy.
Paxton is good on policy but he sadly does have some real skeletons in his closet.
Paxton's ethical allegations absolutely harms the Texas GOP and makes it easier for the Texas Dems to eventually win a statewide race again.
Paxton absolutely should not run again and it would be best for the state if he resigned.
Yep, being able to speak the language of the country you live in should be a requirement for citizenship and obviously voting.
I am talking about AEI, Club for Growth and AFP and the generic Chamber of Commerce GOP candidates they push.
We can argue about whether they are really "libertarian" but they certainly call themselves "libertarians".
We need less of these type of people elected regardless of what we end up calling them.
The political right needs to eventually make corporations fear them like they fear the political left.
It will require elected GOP officials to stop being corporate libertarian cucks who hide behind the free market excuse whenever they are asked by the base to fight back against corporations pushing leftism.
DeSantis's fight with Disney needs to become the norm and not the exception.
The day of corporatist squish Republicans like Romney is over.
Good news for sane Texans is that the Texas Dems ultimately cannot resist being retarded even when they are trying to cosplay as Christians and pretend to be somewhat moderate.
The Texas Dems are actually selling buttons saying Ban AR-15s not drag queens in the state that is most fond of the second amendment.
Thank God they will never learn.
Bleak that this is the best Supreme court composition in decades.
Feels bad to go through this loop everytime one of the conservative appointee reveals themself to be another squish like Souter.
How long do we need to yell No More Souters?