Hardkill

If DeSantis was a moderate Republican like Mitt Romney, McCain, Eisenhower, Nixon, or Ford, then I would be okay with him being president. However, his economic policies are still are still too far to the right. There’s no denying that unless you are a right wing extremist or even a Reagan/Bush Republican. Btw, I don’t like his stance on the War in Ukraine. Like Trump, he doesn’t support the need to help Ukraine stop Russia.

Because people in the West are getting smarter and wiser as a collective. That means that more and more people western societies have become increasingly skeptical about the ideas of Christianity or of any kind of religion being supported by any facts. Furthermore, most people in the West have become increasingly influenced by more secular lifestyles and less so by religious lifestyles. This is because the environments of western societies keep getting more and more modern and the faith on religion gets increasingly replaced by faith on science.

But how much of Russia's economy and people is he really willing sacrifice to win this war?

Oh, alright.... Well, he would still ruin the US economy in the long-run if he became president. Not to mention he would appoint even a bunch more far-right wing judges all over the country. Also, if we have another financial crisis or another health related crisis in the US, then he would do a disastrous job of handling it.

Ok fair points, but what about his banning of African American studies and some of the “critical race theory” stuff? Also, what about his banning of mask mandates and unjust control of businesses like DisneyWorld? How about his creepy mandatory period test policy on girls?

Then why is undermining people's freedoms in his state? Why is he bullying Disneyworld, schools, and other businesses in his state? Why has he banned African studies in schools in his state? Why is he being a creep with his mandatory tests for girls to check to see if they have their periods or not?

That's very sad. Do you think that one day the majority of people in Florida will come to regret having a right-wing extremist running their state?

Oh..... but over 5.6 million people voted for Biden in 2020, which was almost half of the entire voting population in that state. So, what do all of those voters feel about him?

Why is DeSantis so popular in Florida when it about as urban, as racially diverse, and as educated as people from New York, California, or Illinois? What do the several millions of liberals, Democrats, women who are not conservative, black people, Latinos who are not cubans, and Miamians in your state feel about him? Furthermore, Florida is one of the 11 states left in the US that have not expanded their Medicaid eligibility for its people. Yet, it's one of the most populous and diverse states in America and is a wealthy state. So, why aren't there enough people in that state not demanding like hell for the Medicaid expansion to happen?

I believe that only moderate Republicans and moderate conservatives in America are perhaps a mix of stage Blue, stage Orange, and some stage Green. Otherwise, most Republicans and conservatives in the US seem to have very little to no stage Green traits.

Okay, I see what you mean with the first part of your answer. As for the second part of your answer, what was wrong with the kind of tax system we had in the mid 1900s, when it was much more fair for everybody before Reagan became president? Even, rich liberals and Democrats like Warren Buffett have said that the tax rates for the rich and corporate are grossly unfair to everyday people. There will be a day of reckoning for all of the greedy right-wing rich pigs like Carl Icahn and Robert Mercer who have been destroying the middle and working classes and have been trying to kill our democracy.

Why have progressives and liberals been unsuccessful with their movement on taxing the rich and corporations a lot? I get that most Democratic and Republican politicians are still heavily influenced by corporate and wealthy donors who don't want their taxes raised, but why aren't most Americans not outraged by this? Given massive economic equality that has been constantly growing since around the 80s, why hasn't there been enough of a widespread social activism by the poor, middle class, working class, liberals, and progressives like what happened around the turn of the twentieth century?

I believe what the GOP have been doing ever since around the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling in 2015, is that they have shifted their targeting of homosexuals and bisexuals to those who are transgenders or queers. The Republican party has been like "Alright fine, gay rights is now considered acceptable by most Americans and the matter has now settled throughout all of America. That means that we can no longer offend gay people or speak out against marriage, otherwise it will really hurt our chances of winning future elections. Therefore, we concede that there's nothing we can do about this issue anymore......But, you know what we can still do? We can still constantly persecute anyone who is a trans or some woke queer. It's the only possible thing we have left for being able to preserve some semblance of sexual/gender norms in our country. Otherwise, our entire society might very well fall apart and God will send us all to hell. Plus, that should be enough to help us win over our fellow conservative voters and hopefully convince enough moderates and independents to side with us."

DeSantis really is becoming a monster. He may not be as unstable or as dumb as Trump, but he's a real creep and has leaned very hard onto fascism. If he became president he could become like the US version of Putin. A cold, calculating, intelligent, knowledgeable, disciplined, merciless, devious, egotistical military veteran and leader of the USA who would know how to really dismantle our democracy much more effectively than Trump was capable of. This is what happened in Russia, after Putin took over his country. Furthermore, can you even imagine what would happen to our country if by 2024 DeSantis became President, McConnell became Senate majority leader again, and the GOP held on to the U.S. House in Congress?

But how did each of those movements succeed in bringing about such changes? How did they persuade the people to not get distracted by such petty culture wars?

So, how did the Populist movement during the late 1800s succeed with pressuring the government to come up with ways to dramatically reduce economic inequality, eliminate unjust working conditions for employees in America, and pass a constitutional amendment that allowed all women the right the vote, and more? How did the labor unions successfully influence FDR to pressure Congress to pass all of his New Deal policies? How did MLK and the other civil rights movement leaders succeed in ending the Jim Crow laws? How did Gandhi and his movement succeed in freeing India from the British empire? How come the feminist movements have been successful? How were liberals and Democrats able to get the government to institute Medicare and Medicaid, then expanding medicaid to those with disabilities, tie COLA to social security, expand the ACA act further, and have Medicare begin to negotiate prescriptions for the first time ever? Btw, why have more and more red states been passing Medicaid expansion into law?

You know, that’s what Cenk and TYT have been saying recently. I wasn’t sure if that was true or not before, but now it is apparent to me that there is enough of a consensus on this matter that that is what is really going on.

To me, it’s sounding like the GOP is reeking of desperation. Many conservatives and Republicans who didn’t want the Respect for Marriage law to be passed by Congress we’re upset that they lost and some of them even cried about it. They are showing great weakness in many ways by the way they are begging and screaming like petulant children who are so mad about not being able to stop all of these changes from happening in the long run. “Our country is dying!!!! Wahhhh!!! Please, don’t take away our right to impose our authoritarian Christian views on everyone! please, please, please, please!! Wahhh!!!” Now, they’ve gotten so incredibly desperate that the have resorted to threatening or codifying violence if they can’t get want they legally. That makes them even more cowardly.

Oh yeah, I've heard of that book. I'll actually read that book. Thanks for reminding me about that.

Oh that's too bad. lol Well, in all seriousness, has your gf had some kind of trauma in the past? A lot of times when a girl has the urge to have sex an abnormal amount of times per day or even per week, it could mean that she's been using sex as a way to cope with the trauma she got from something terrible that happened to her in the past. In fact, a lot of girls who have been raped, molested, or sexually assaulted in some way will often use sex as a way to avoid properly processing the emotional pain of healing from some sort of sexual trauma. They also often feel worthless and that the only value they have as person is that of a sex object because of how damaged their self-esteem and self-concept is. Maybe she was never traumatized ever, but if you haven't asked her about it, then ask her about her past. If she doesn't feel comfortable talking about it in detail, then maybe try asking her in a general way if she's had any kind of trauma.

I I don't entirely buy that. Yes, most Americans are not so informed, but back in the early to mid 1900s the tax bracket for everyone was so much better than it has been since the 1980s and Reaganism/neoliberalism. Back around the turn of the 20th century, the Populist movement, William Jennings Bryan, and Teddy Roosevelt were able to successfully pressure the government to dramatically reduce the massive economic inequality in America. By 1913, the progressive movement was able to successfully push the government to establish the 16th constitutional amendment, which allowed the government to institute the very first progressive tax system. Look at this picture below showing Teddy Roosevelt squeezing all of the money that the fat greedy pigs like the guy on the left had stolen from the poor, middle class, and working class. Actually Bill Clinton and the Democrats in the 90s did an excellent with passing a reasonably good progressive tax system into law that led to the very first budget surplus since 1969. The last time there was a budget surplus in the US was in 2001.

Perhaps, but why not take this as an opportunity for him to have the wildest and kinkiest kinds of sex he could ever have with any girl? Also, what about an open relationship?

Is your girlfriend open to watching porn with you or going to an orgy?

Or Obama, which is one reason why Biden was elected President. A majority of Americans were like "You know, Joe Biden was Obama's VP and Obama was like one of the best presidents ever. He and Biden have been very close friends with each other and they both stand for the values and rights." Another reason a majority of voters also wanted Biden because he would calm down the chaos caused by COVID and Trump and genuinely attempt to reunite the country. Most Americans want a president who is not hyper-partisan and/or unstable like Trump was. Bernie was also too polarizing, too extreme to left, scared off too many uninformed Independent voters and Democratic voters by proudly declaring himself as some kind of socialist, and did strongly convey himself as a religious Jew or Christian.

But according to top economists, Brexit made the UK significantly less wealthy and made the cost goods more expensive more because of less efficient trading between the UK and other countries. Furthermore, didn’t Brexit undermine the country’s foreign relations with those in the EU?