What if Trump is the reaction to that? Those who felt bullied by their job sent overseas and then told they should be grateful for the privilege they have by media and celebrities who made 4X to 20X what they do?
Trump delivered on bringing manufacturing jobs back in record numbers. [
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2] And, I am worried Biden will drop the tariffs and watch those jobs go back overseas. It’s telling how despite Biden’s benefit to China and Mexico’s economy, neither will endorse him yet [
3]. That’s probably because of how Trump bullied them.
But, employment doesn’t mean shit if the US is in a winless civil war between the cities and the country.
And it didn’t dawn on me until COVID and the riots, just how far CNN’s Trump pissed off 20-40% of the country. Trump is right the media is full of shit with their click-bait headlines and focus on hot take opinions over reporting. (Watch or read an interview and tally how many statements an interviewer makes over questions. Who’s getting interviewed here?) But, Trump’s fighting with the media wasn’t constructive. He didn’t try to better them. He lied and manipulated fact as much, if not more, than they did. (How can you call someone a list while lying??) His fight was only to raise ratings which benefited each other until the riots started and it was apparent a significant portion of the country hated both Trump and CNN [
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That’s pretty much when I checked out. Trump didn’t respond to any of that positively. Biden didn’t either. They both went to Minneapolis after the coals were cold. But, Trump was president and he was still tweeting divisive bullshit while not taking action to put out the fires he started.
Biden is also a lying sack of shit as seen by the Thomas anecdote. Also, there was a tell-tale moment in the debates where Biden pulled the absolutist card shaming Bernie for saying something good about Mao. As much of a blow hard capitalist as I am, Bernie is right in recognizing the good Mao did. (I can’t find the clip, but Bernie said everything I wanted about black white politics) And if I disagree with Bernie’s economic politics, his honesty trumps that, because you can trust Bernie to be Bernie.
Biden won, so the Democrats made the right choice. I just don’t fully understand it. He’s a piece of shit that was just lucky enough Obama chose him to be VP. And I still voted for him, because Trump never recognized his mistake of COVID and the riots and continued to be an antagonizer.
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