Where does Mac1958 actually stand on the issues?

[Mac1958]

You're not fooling anyone.

Well, I just laid out my positions on the issues and my priorities. Again. They're right there.

You're free to think whatever you want. We both know this is ONLY about my opinion of Trumpism. Your messiah is all that matters to you.

Too bad.

 

[Rambunctious]

Where does Mac1958 actually stand on the issues?​

 

[Orangecat]

Well, I just laid out my positions on the issues and my priorities. Again. They're right there.

You're free to think whatever you want. We both know this is ONLY about my opinion of Trumpism. Your messiah is all that matters to you.

Too bad.

Again, you're not fooling anyone, kid.
Post a laughing emoji if this truth makes you uncomfortable.

 

[BackAgain]

Get the money out of politics and hamstring the politicians:

1. Short, strict term limits

For whom? We already have two year terms for Representatives. Six years for Senators is fine. Four year terms for Presidents (limited to two terms). Everything else is up to the voters.

2. Publicly-funded elections

What difference would that make?

Bipartisan redistricting commissions

Might be helpful.

4. Ranked choice voting

A very bad idea. But the subject of other threads already.

5. Non-partisan primaries

Another terrible idea. I don’t want a bunch of liberal Democratics having any say in which person gets the GOP nomination in any race. And, conversely, I would enjoy picking my own opponent but the Democratics might not like my say in their nominations.

Make those changes, or most of them, and you change motivations, incentives and behaviors damn near overnight.

Some have some value, as I noted. But some are just awful.

It is going to be difficult to achieve, but each Party should be reigned in by its own constituents.

 

[martybegan]

Yes, Guns. I can't get past "if guns are outlawed, only outlaws would have guns". I agree with that point.

And I don't think a few more requirements on background checks are the end of the world. Give and take.

Here's the reality: You guys clearly think that anyone who says Trump is a con man must be a commie. You're wrong. You're not paying attention.

That's on you, not me.

No, I think they are a hypocrite because their own pols have been selling a bill of garbage for decades, it's just a flavor they can stomach.

 

[JGalt]

Well, I just laid out my positions on the issues and my priorities. Again. They're right there.

You're free to think whatever you want. We both know this is ONLY about my opinion of Trumpism. Your messiah is all that matters to you.

Too bad.

In case you haven't noticed, "Trumpism" isn't what's destroying the country these days. How would this Forward Party address issues like these, and why are you so hesitant to criticize what the Democrats are doing? Here a verifiable list of things which have occurred or are taking place during the presidency of Joe Biden:

• Promised on several occasions that he would "end fossil fuels"

• Later stated “We’re going to need oil for at least another decade”

• Gasoline that rose over two times the price it was in 2018

• Ended Keystone XL pipeline while waiving sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2

• Suspected US involvement in the bombing of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline

• The price of oil jumped up to $130 per barrel

• Drained US Strategic Oil Reserve to the lowest level since 1984

• Begged Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil

• Inflation rate rose as high as 9.1%, which was almost 5 times higher than it was in 2019

• A recession

• Dumped billions of dollars down the black hole of "Global Warming"

• U.S. household wealth down $13.5 trillion in 2022 - Second fastest decline on record

• Average middle-class family came up about $6,000 short of purchasing power

• The DOW dropped 6,700 points in only a year

• Stock market lost $9 trillion dollars worth of value in only two years

• Retirement accounts lost $3 trillion dollars

• 30 year fixed mortgages rose by 4.43% in only two years, to 7.75%

• Home prices soared 43% in only two years and housing sales slumped

• Median asking rent prices rose 79.7% in only two years

• Bankrupted landlords by excusing rent payments

• Grocery prices increased by 13.5% in only two years

• The price of electricity rose by 15.8% in only two years

• Hefty tax increases on the lower and middle class

• 84,000 new IRS agents arming and training to be home invaders

• Use of DOJ and FBI to harass political opponents

• A broken election system corrupt with fraud, sometimes taking months to count

• Wholesale mailing of ballots, ballot drop boxes, and illegal ballot harvesting

• Used a complicit media to lie, distort facts, and disseminate disinformation

• Conducting covert raids on American citizens and confiscating personal property

• Supply line disruptions, backorders, items out of stock or unavailable

• Massive backlog of cargo ships at US ports in 2022

• Sporadic shortages on grocery store shelves

• Air transportation disrupted, thousands of flight cancellations in 2022

• FAA system outages that disrupted thousands of flights in 2023

• Food-processing plants mysteriously burning down

• Record prices for eggs and poultry

• Record number of ecological disasters, train derailments, chemical spills, and fires

• Thousands of small businesses destroyed in order to benefit mega-corporations

• Continuing monumental trade deficit with China

• Allowed Communist China to operate "Police Stations" in American cities

• Allowed Chinese spy balloon to cross entire country, spying on military sites

• Used a $400,000 missile to shoot down a $12 hobbyist balloon over Alaska

• More COVID deaths than in 2020

• Vaccine mandates which caused deaths and debilitating health conditions

• Vaccine mandates which caused massive job losses for those who refused compliance

• Continued government funding for Planned Parenthood

• Eliminated Medicaid work requirements

• Increased food stamp giveaways by more than $1 billion a month, without Congress

• A whole generation of kids physically and psychologically damaged by prison-style lockdowns

• Subjecting young girls to creepy boys posing as "transgenders" in girl's locker rooms

• Stealing women's ability to fairly compete by allowing transgender males in women's sports

• Subjecting children to pornographic "Drag shows" and grooming them to be sex objects

• The promotion of transgenderism in schools, resulting in the genital and fertility mutilation
of children and adolescents by unethical medical practices and Big Pharma.

• Mass shootings occurring sometimes three times a week

• An exponentially-spiraling epidemic of violent crime and drugs

• Shutting down private prisons and turning inmates loose

• Fentanyl seizures up 745 percent

• 100,000 fentanyl deaths during Biden's first year of presidency

• 120% increase in opioid deaths in just two years

• Encouraged illegals to "surge" across the border without reason for amnesty

• A neutered Immigration and Customs Enforcement, virtually stopping arrests and deportations

• 4.9 million illegals crossing US border within only two years

• Added non-citizens to the census

• Immigration policies that dispersed COVID, crime, and potential terrorism throughout the US

• 900,000 "gotaways" who eluded apprehension and disappeared into American communities

• Record numbers of illegals dying while crossing the border

• Border Patrol arresting 98 who were on the terror watch list in 2022, 3X the last 5 years combined

• A President who wouldn't visit the border and said he had "More important things going on."

• A dishonorable withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 American soldiers their lives

• $7.12 billion worth of US military equipment and weaponry left to the Taliban

• Hundreds of US citizens and Afghans left behind in Afghanistan after the withdrawal

• People falling out of the wheel wells of aircraft leaving Afghanistan

• A weakened US military more concerned with "political correctness" than creating soldiers

• A weakened US military via destructive anti-white racism and transgender-promoting policies

• Record low enlistment numbers

• A revitalized Russian oil industry, despite US sanctions

• A war in Ukraine that has cost the US billions of dollars and killed thousands

• Increased possibility of nuclear war with Russia

• Traded an America-hating lesbian doper basketball player for a terrorist Russian arms dealer,
while leaving an American Marine in a Russian prison

• North Korea continuing to expand their nuclear enrichment and missile programs

• A stronger Iran increasing their funding for Hamas and Hezbollah

• China became more energy and militarily dominant

• A senile, angry, and incompetent president who fell off of a bicycle, fell up stairs, insulted
half the people in America, labeled people as "terrorists", divided the country, and tried to incite
a civil war.

 

[martybegan]

My bias is specifically against the sociological/cultural phenomenon that is Trumpism. And I've said, a thousand times, that it's not about Trump.

Before that, my crusade was against the Left's PC/Identity Politics bullshit. You could utilize the search engine here, enter "Regressive Left" and my name, and you'll see.

I have no use for either fucked up party, and more than anything else I'm anti-ideology.

I've said all of that, many times.

But you seem to hold Trump and the right to a higher standard, or at least you give the left more of a pass because you relate to them ideologically.

 

[Mac1958]

But you seem to hold Trump and the right to a higher standard, or at least you give the left more of a pass because you relate to them ideologically.

I think that Trumpism represents, literally, a broad and deep sociological/cultural crisis that has us on the edge of seeing our institutions crumble.

As little as I think of the Left and its positions on the issues, this is a bigger danger, right now, at this moment. That's my perspective. It doesn't make me evil or a "commie".

 

[martybegan]

I think that Trumpism represents, literally, a broad and deep sociological/cultural crisis that has us on the edge of seeing our institutions crumble.

As little as I think of the Left and its positions on the issues, this is a bigger danger, right now, at this moment. That's my perspective. It doesn't make me evil or a "commie".

That's the institution's fault, not Trump. They decided to go in against an elected President and subvert anything he tried to do. Now they continue it with a baseless political prosecution.

And what the people angry at this get in response is "shut up, dupes". Not a way to win an argument or win over anyone to your views.

Thinking the right can do worse to the country than the left can makes you naive. It's the blind spot created by your belief in the end results wanted by the left but quibbling over the methods.

 

[Mac1958]

...but quibbling over the methods.

The methods are the whole problem.

For the life of me, I don't know how Republicans think that acting like petulant, ignorant middle school bullies is a smart strategy for long term success.

 

[martybegan]

The methods are the whole problem.

For the life of me, I don't know how Republicans think that acting like petulant, ignorant middle school bullies is a smart strategy for long term success.

We learned it from watching the left.

We just seem to be more threatening for some reason. Oh I know the reason, on your side the women can be more masculine than the men.

 

[jwoodie]

I think that Trumpism represents, literally, a broad and deep sociological/cultural crisis that has us on the edge of seeing our institutions crumble.

As little as I think of the Left and its positions on the issues, this is a bigger danger, right now, at this moment. That's my perspective. It doesn't make me evil or a "commie".

These are breathtakingly illogical statements that are completely contradicted by actual occurrences.

1. What sociological/cultural crises occurred during Trump's presidency?
2. If any, were they greater than what has occurred under Biden's presidency?
3. How would Trump's second term as President represent a "bigger danger" than his first term?
4. Your "perspective" has been well documented.
5. It doesn't make you evil or a "commie" but it does make you illogical and naive.

If you wish to dispute these statements, please respond by the number.

 

[Mac1958]

your side

 

[Oddball]

He asked for it, here it is.

Mac1958

Might as well ask to plot the flight path of a housefly.

 

[martybegan]

In a binary political system you either relate more to one side or the other. To deny that is to deny the system as it stands.

This isn't a parliamentary system with coalitions and such, it's Dems or Reps for now and unless the system is changed that's how it's going to be.

 

[Mac1958]

In a binary political system you either relate more to one side or the other. To deny that is to deny the system as it stands.

My "side" is against the two whacked-out ends. THAT'S my side. And I'm sure as hell not alone.

I've been patient, and I've explained everything. Thanks for the thread.

 

[martybegan]

My "side" is against the two whacked-out ends. THAT'S my side. And I'm sure as hell not alone.

I've been patient, and I've explained everything. Thanks for the thread.

And I've stated before, even if you stand in the middle of the road, you have to lean towards one side of it.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Correct. The Forward Party is about how to address the issues. Fixing the system to stop motivating and rewarding the worst instincts of its participants.

I'm 100% for that.

The Forward Party is really a figment of your imagination. It does not exist outside your fantasy except for 6 states where they have conned people in signing up to support their idiocy.

 

[Votto]

He asked for it, here it is.

Mac1958

What about children undergoing a sex change?

Where do they stand on that?

 

[Mac1958]

What about children undergoing a sex change?

Where do they stand on that?

They appear to be okay with it, at least some of them.

I'm strongly against it.

Thanks for bringing that one up.