1) Republicans used to support Free Trade.
- To call Trump using tariffs to lower tariffs anti-free trade is completely moronic Joe. You can agree or disagree with the approach, but this is just stupid
No, guy, Trump is not a free trader unless his businesses benefit. he has caused trade wars that have hurt farmers.
- You're full of shit. I left the Republican party 30 years ago because they had no interest in smaller government. W went on a spending orgy twenty years ago when he got both houses
Why do you think that's new? They ALWAYS go on spending orgies.. Good presidents buy houses and bad presidents buy bombs.
3) They used to think paying off porn stars was a bad thing.
- Empty rhetoric
Quite the contrary... The Republicans in 1998 IMPEACHED a legitimately elected president because he lied about an affair with an intern.... They've been preaching the family values nonsense for 40 years to get dumb white people to vote against their own economic interests. (And frankly, I've fell for it for years.. Now I'm older and wiser.) But now you have a guy who cheated on all three of his wives, paid off a porn star and a playboy model to keep their stories out of the paper, and there are fairly credible accounts of sexual assault on his part, not to mention the "Grab them by the *****" tape. And the same GOP that screamed about cigars 20 years ago are totally good with this.
So you are mad a the Republicans for these, and you went to the party that's worse. Yeah Joe, sure
Actually, here's the thing. Back in the 1990's I was one of you wingnuts who screamed about Clinton's "immorality", but economically, I did pretty darned good under Clinton. I went from a crappy job out of the army in 1992 to a pretty good one in 2000. My income increased, I sold my property at a considerable profit.
By the end of Bush's term... I had a busted 401K, an underwater mortgage and had to suck up a 20% income reduction after my previous job screwed me after I got hurt.
Obama- Frankly, wasn't unemployed one day when Obama was president and saw a pretty substantial jump in my income. Not that I think Obama had a lot to do with it... the choices I made helped a lot.
Trump has fucked it all up again. I'm not hurting as bad as I was in 2008 this time because I knew that this guy was going to **** it up and spent the last four years getting ready for that - paying down my debts, building up a reserve of savings, etc. But man, even I didn't think he was going to **** it up this bad. I expected an economic downturn, I wasn't expecting the Zombie Apocalypse
So.... Riots, Plagues, economic disaster... you really think the Democrats can make this "worse"?