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So, she had that Brazilian booty, yeah? That what I love about a lot Brazilian girls/women. A lot of them are also more direct than most women in America, which I find appealing.

According to this article from independent.co.uk, Trump said that the photo of him holding a baseball bat was real, but that he himself never put that photo next to the pic of DA Bragg. He claimed that his social media team put those two "unrelated" photos together. Here's more of his defense: “We put up a story that was very exculpatory, very good story from the standpoint of what we’re talking about,” Mr Trump said, referring to the link of an article that was shared with the photo. “They put up a picture of me, and you know, where I was holding the baseball bat, it was at the White House.” “Make America, Buy America. Because I did a lot of Buy America things and this is a company that makes baseball bats,” he said. “Then they put next to that picture a picture of Alvin Bragg.” “I didn’t do it, they did it,” the former president claimed. “I guess the people that do the paper or somebody put pictures together. But I was holding the baseball bat in order to promote ‘Made in America’.” “What they did is, we posted the story, but they had a picture up that they then put a picture up or the picture was put up that nobody noticed to saw or that nobody thought was bad. These were two separate pictures,” he replied. “They took that picture from the White House and they put it up and then they put a picture of Alvin Bragg up.” “But you know how it was interpreted?” asked Hannity, to which Mr Trump pointed to the “fake news media” and Democrats. Hannity then interjects and asks: “It wasn’t on your post on Truth social?” “What they did is, we posted the story, but they had a picture up that they then put a picture up or the picture was put up that nobody noticed to saw or that nobody thought was bad. These were two separate pictures,” he replied. “They took that picture from the White House and they put it up and then they put a picture of Alvin Bragg up.” “But you know how it was interpreted?” asked Hannity, to which Mr Trump pointed to the “fake news media” and Democrats. “Democrats are genius at a few things. They’re horrible at foreign relations. They are horrible at policy. They are horrible at everything,” he said. “But they’re good at a number of things though. Misinformation or disinformation, depending on your definition.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-photo-alvin-bragg-baseball-bat-b2309173.html

Well, according to the consensus of legal experts, given how long the trials will be for each of court cases that Trump will go through, followed by the appeal processes he will likely go through afterwards, and what have you, the final verdicts for each of those cases probably won't happen until 2025. Therefore, even if he were to go to prison, I wouldn't count on him being imprisoned until way after the 2024 general election is over.

Trump has been threatening the prosecutors with violent imagery: Threatening a prosecutor in office in any way is already supposed to be grounds for a serious arrest:

The MAGA Republicans don't just believe that DeSantis is a copy cat of Trump. They now, see him as someone who is really stabbing Trump and the Republican party in the back. Have you read some of the comments on DeSantis's instagram pics? The ReTrumplicans are now really angry at him for trying to take down Trump an and say that he really should've stayed in his lane by sticking with being governor of Florida. A lot of Republicans in the country are also believing what Trump said about how DeSantis has now been letting Floridians down. Btw, did you see Trump's ad on Ron DeSantis wanting to mess with people's Social Security and Medicaid with his "pudding fingers"? A lot of Republicans are already considering turning on DeSantis: Trump does a much better job than DeSantis with presenting himself to the Republican base as the "True Alpha Male."

That basically goes along the lines of what I've been saying in the "Breaking News: Donald Trump has been indicted again" thread:

This is totally unreal. It's like we are living in a some kind of political thriller tv series or a crime thriller movie and Trump is the main villain of the whole plot.

@VictorB02 With all due respect, we don't want any of your extreme right-wing dogmatic views on any of your posts here in this forum.

According to some polls out there the amount of people in America who support helping Ukraine win the war has been declining significantly. Now, Americans are divided over whether we should continue funding Ukraine for this war. According to University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll with Ipsos, shows that "A plurality of Americans, 46%, said the United States should stay the course in supporting Ukraine for only one to two years, compared with 38% who said the United States should stay the course for as long as it takes. The partisan divide was notable on this issue, with 62% of Republicans wanting to stay the course for one to two years, compared to 51% of Democrats who wanted to stay the course for as long as it takes." https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2023/04/28/americans-show-signs-of-impatience-with-ukraine-war/ Also, it seems that a majority of Republican voters in the US are now opposed to providing weapons and financial support to Ukraine according to an Axios/Ipsos poll. Of course, Trump, Desantis, and other extreme right-wing Republicans in Congress have been vocalization there opposition for supporting Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/ukraine-republican-skeptics.html Will the Biden administration and Congress eventually be pressured to stop funding Ukraine or will they continue to commit to helping Ukraine for as long as it takes even if undermines there political standing with the public?

But all of the Republican elites have clearly said that if Trump becomes the 2024 Republican nominee for president then they will lose. The RNC I believe is legally able to cancel the nomination of Trump like how Congress is legally able to impeach, convict, and remove a sitting president in office and then can vote to bar him from ever running for president again.

How likely do you think the RNC and GOP establishment will block his nomination at the Republican National convention next year?

Some analysts are saying that this federal indictment and the other new indictments that Trump will probably get might very well be what will cause Trump to not even win the 2024 GOP nominee for president, given how much more serious his criminal charges keep getting. I am personally skeptical of this, because most Republican voters are too dumb, too paranoid, and too brainwashed by all of the extreme right-wing propaganda out there, and love Trump too much that they will never ever believe that Trump is a criminal. Instead, they will keep believing more and more that all of these charges made against are the worse witch hunts ever made on anyone and the most unjust partisan attacks ever made against everything that Republican party has always proudly stood by including American traditions, American Christianity, American Whites, and American exceptionalism. In the minds of a MAGA Republican or even a regular staunch conservative, regardless of whatever your reasons are, if you're not 1000% loyal on Trump and American conservatism, then you are without question a traitor and enemy of America. My dad and my uncle both think that there's a strong chance that the RNC leaders and the GOP elites could decide to intervene by not allowing the GOP convention of delegates to grant Trump the republican nomination for president. I am personally skeptical of that happening because would the Republican establishment even dare to risk their political careers by doing something like that?

Most economists, including all of the ones who are centrists and non-partisan, say that the Trump tax cut was just a lavish gift to the rich and corporations that ballooned the national deficit/debt. Even the top bank CEOs such as Jamie Dimon and even other billionaire businessmen such as Warren Buffett thought the tax was a terrible mistake and that actually the taxes on the rich and corporations should've been raised significantly in order to stabilize the economy, reduce economic inequality, and lower the national debt. The extreme right-wing economists were only ones who supported the tax cut. There's no denying it. Think about it. how does a tax cut in a booming economy help bolster economic growth, when corporations and the wealthy already have way more than enough capital to expand their businesses during a boom? You only do a tax cut when the economic is experiencing a downturn or a recession. Also, how are we ever going to pay back the massive debt our country has without ever raising taxes high enough? Btw, no offense, but former UK PM Truss was ousted after she proposed her dumb tax cut policy. Reagonomics never ever worked. Reagan was only successful because he was lucky enough to inherited an economy that already was going to recover from the early 1980s recession and then end his presidency on a high note.

Here's a great article by Paul Krugman on how Biden and the Democrats have been the ones who are truly creating millions of new good manufacturing jobs in America, while Trump and the Republicans are the ones who are stabbing every working-class voter in the back by creating ZERO new manufacturing jobs. Trump's tariff war policy and his disgusting 2017 tax cut law did jack squat to increase investment and job growth in the manufacturing industry. The manufacturing surge that has been happening in the US since 2022 is due to both the CHIPS act and Inflation Reduction Act that Biden and the Democrats initiated and passed through Congress. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/opinion/manufacturing-biden-trump.html Furthermore, all of these new manufacturing jobs are for producing new high-tech up-to-date semiconductors chips and for accelerating the transition to renewable energy in America. Btw, these new manufacturing jobs don't include the other couple million of new infrastructure jobs that will come from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that Biden and the Democrats initiated and passed into law in late 2021.

How do you explain all of the innocent people who tried the best they could to escape the unfathomable horrors of the holocaust? How about all of those poor souls starving in Africa? Where has God been during such situations? Of course a typical response to that question is that “It’s all part of God’s plan.” thinks that there either is no such thing as God or if there is a God then he/she is truly sadistic and was never on our side.

That's what I've been saying. I think the only three social issues that they should stay left-wing on is ending police brutality on racial minorities, unjust criminal sentencing on blacks and latinos, putting an absolute end to all voter suppression on all racial minorities, and getting major long overdue immigration reform. Addressing inequities between whites and non-whites in America such income inequality, employment disparities, education inequality, housing inequality, redlining, healthcare disparities, and what have you would be addressed by left-wing economics. After all of that, I think that we will have established virtually every kind of civil right, social justice, and equal opportunities that any black and brown person in the US could ever want and need.

Should Harris be running with Biden again 2024 or should it be someone else given how much she has been struggling to be an influential or likable enough VP?

I don't believe in a such a conspiracy theory like that. I sincerely doubt that the Biden administration would've wanted that pipeline destroyed. In fact, I am sure that Biden and everyone in his admin wish that the destruction of the pipeline didn't happen because ever since that happened, the US has been forced to exports a significant amount of oil and natural gas to Europe, thereby having made the inflation problem in our country even worse than it already was after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. Furthermore, Biden and all of the people working under him are not the kind of people who would take any pleasure in seeing any of our European allies suffer economically or suffer in any at all for any reason.

Well, then I don't know why he is trolling me. I mean to be clear, the more I learn about how government, politics, international affairs, economics, business, and finances works in the world the more I realize how complex and nuanced all of it is. The military-industrial complex can't, for the sake of constantly making profits, just always force our government to order our military to go to war with another country or even coerce the government to send military equipment and other kinds of foreign to our foreign allies. However, they a lot of times are able to pressure our political leaders in doing so depending what the circumstances are. One reason does have to do with the US wanting/needing to bolster our economy overall, but there are several other reasons such as those pertaining to geopolitical issues, ideological situations, etc.

What are you talking about? How is what I just said a conspiracy theory? The US military-industrial complex is a massive business for our country and whether we like it or not it is still an essential part of the US economy.

Ahh, So, if Ukraine can successfully win this war in some way, then America could make a serious profit off this war, correct?

What if they have the same level of state interference they have but transition towards having the level of democracy and freedom that Europeans have?

Why is some state interference in business not a great thing there? Isn't what they are doing working? Plus, isn't better than the government being laissez faire about their economy? Plus, China already has some some things that the US doesn't even have such as high speed rails throughout the whole country, much greater funding for all kinds of public works and public schools, universal health care, forcing all citizens to get vaccinated and wear masks during COVID emergencies, COVID price controls, limiting children from wasting so much time on video/computer games, high trust in all of their institutions, and more.

I really don't see how he can win the 2024 primary. He's already deemed by too many Republican voters as a traitorous establishment GOP politician, especially after what happened with the Jan 6 event.

But Biden needs to get out there more to sell himself a lot more. He so far hasn't been doing nearly as many interviews as Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Trump did during their first 2 and a half years of their presidencies. Furthermore, most Americans are still not aware of all of the tremendous accomplishments Biden has made. I wonder why VP Harris hasn't been able to do enough to promote the Biden administration.