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Speaking of black Republicans, this is what the Hodgetwins or Conservative Twins said about the Capitol Riot back then:

Despite the fact that the majority of women, the solid majority of latinos, and the vast majority blacks throughout the whole country still vote Democrat, what's your take on why their has been a significant amount of support blacks, latinos, and women from the Democratic party to the Republican Party ever since 2016? Has it been because of Trump's right-wing "populism"?

True. The vast majority of African-Americans began to side with Democrats around the turn of the 20th century when the Democratic party back then became the party of organized labor and immigrants. This trend continued on during Woodrow Wilson's Presidency. Then, during the FDR era, black voters further increased their support for the Democratic Party due to the Great Depression and FDR's empathy for and appeal to minorities. When FDR passed away and his VP, Truman took over as president, Truman passed an executive order that allowed blacks to integrate with whites in the military for the first time ever in history. Truman, also declared to the public during his presidency that the Democratic party has now become the party of civil rights. This of course caused anger and resentment amongst most of the Southern Democrats within their party during the mid 1900s. Later on, Democrats in the 50s and early 60s continued their strong support for the civil rights for all people of all races/ethnicities, gender, religion, etc. as the civil rights movement was happening. JFK during his presidency tried, but failed to get the civil rights and equal voting rights acts passed during his presidency before he got assassinated. From what I understand, when JFK's VP, LBJ, took over as president, the combination of the powerful influence from the civil rights movement, the trauma of JFK's death, large Democratic majorities in Congress, and LBJ's great legislative acumen and aggressive pressure on Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 finally resulted in the passage of that landmark law. Afterwards, when LBJ defeated Barry Goldwater, who was perceived as a right-wing extremist at the time, in an overwhelming landslide and the Democratic party won an even greater majority of liberals and democrats in Congress, that's when LBJ and the Democrat where able to pass the other landmark civil rights and voting acts along with the rest of the Great Society laws during the rest of the 60s.

What do you mean you can't? Why don't you try it out yourself?

@LiberatedMonkey It's a medium size city. It's not nearly ideal for finding many attractive single girls to cold approach. I actually used to live in a city that has only about 135,732 residents, and it took me a few years to successfully get laid with a very few amount attractive girls/women I cold and warm approached. In fact, one of them became my very first girlfriend ever who I was with for almost 3 years. She was hot. There were several other girls in the city I met who I didn't get laid with, but at least got to date. Also, what really helped me to improve my social life, social skills, meet new girls, etc. was going to meetups, bars, clubs in that small to medium size city I lived in every week. My sister also helped me a little bit to meet new girls. So, if you have any siblings that you're close with, then they might help you meet even more young girls. So, it is still certainly doable, and probably even more practical in a city like yours which is obviously much larger than mine. However, it's probably going to take you a lot longer to achieve some real success with hot girls than it would if you were living in or nearby a big city, particularly if you are hardcase newbie like I was.

Joe Biden just turned 80 years old today. Happy birthday to him. In one sense, it is amazing that America, which is the third most populous nation in the world, and is still undoubtedly the most powerful nation on the planet, is actually being lead by a President who is now that old. Yet, for many people, his age has become a worry not just in terms of his electability, but also with regard to running the country. My dad is actually the same age as him and he thinks that Biden has gotten too old to continue handling the extremely high demands and responsibilities of the job. Then again, my parents and I think that he has done an absolutely fine job as President overall and was fortunately able to make a very significant amount of progress for America. Furthermore, practically every policy he implemented through executive order and practically every provision within each of the major pieces of legislation he passed with Congress have all been popular. Almost all of these policies, not only have been excellent and much needed for America, but they also became immediately popular as soon as they got either passed into law or done through executive order compared to the initial unpopularity of some of policies done during either the Clinton administration or the Obama administration. For example, although the ACA became one of the best laws ever passed in US history and in recent years finally became popular, it first started off as being relatively unpopular during the earlier years of the Obama's presidency because it was wrongly perceived by the majority of the people as a big government socialist policy in large part due to both the unfair negative attacks on it by the GOP and the failure of the Democratic party to frame it in a way that would appeal to the people's culture values of American tradition. That sadly became one of the big reasons the Dems got totally crushed in the first midterm election during Obama's presidency. Another example is the the major tax hike law that got passed during the Clinton administration in the early to mid 90s. While that tremendously helped to balanced the nation budget (to the point of creating a historic national surplus) and made corporations and rich people really pay their fair share of the wealth to the working and middle classes, it still started off as a very unpopular bill. That along with Clinton trying to pass his own version of a national healthcare law (which he unfortunately failed to achieved) became one of the main reasons why the Dems badly lost in the first midterm election during Clinton's presidency. On a sidenote, it also back then sadly became the first time the Dems lost the House after controlling it in Congress for over 50 years. This time however, Biden and the Dems seem to have successfully framed everything they have gotten done since beginning of Biden's presidency as being relatively, moderate, nonpartisan, non-socialistic, very pragmatic, quite popular, and traditionally American and forward-looking at the same time. Furthermore, Biden has presided over the best first midterm election ever compared to any Democratic president since JFK in the early 60s and one of the best 3 to 5 midterm elections for any party holding the white House within the entire history of the country. Additionally, presidential historian Allan Lichtman, who has accurately predicted every presidential election since 1984 (except for the Bush vs. Gore anomaly which was an extremely close race and sadly got unfairly rigged by both the conservative leaning SCOTUS and the outdated electoral college system), says that Biden absolutely needs to run again in 2024 despite his age because he is still the incumbent and he would prevent any unnecessary intra party conflict for the Democratic nomination from ever happening if he were to run again. What do you guys think?

So, then is our country doomed to becoming a perpetually polarized country until the end of time? Or will ever come a time when there will be a widespread great quieting of all extremely divisive information from every echo chamber in the country if our country ever gets to the brink of a second real civil war?

How do you think the divisive and antagonistic rhetoric on social media, Fox News, and others outlets will ever cool down? Or do you think that it's all just going to keep getting worse and worse and worse until an actual conventional war breaks out?

Sadly yes... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/19/trump-musk-twitter/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert

Don’t worry guys, she already said that she is “100% confident” that she’s going to win. ? oh yeah, check out Cecily Strong doing a spot on impersonation of her on SNL recently:

Trump totally let COVID in America undoubtedly become an unmitigated disaster. If he had handled it competently, then about half of the amount of people who died from COVID would still be alive today and we probably would've had about less than half of the total amount of cases that have occurred in the country ever since around December 2019. However, I wonder if the disastrous effects of COVID economy recession we had in America could've actually been mitigated if Trump had somehow done a much better job of handling. The economies in other developed countries such as those in Europe, Canada, Australia, etc. I think were all devastated by the pandemic as much as the US economy was, if not even more so. What do you say about that?

Best first midterms results in 60 years for the Democratic Party holding the presidency. It also was the third or 4th time in all of US history where the party holding the White House did well in a midterm election.

Biden’s approval rating went down a bit after the “disastrous withdrawal” from Afghanistan. However, I believe that in the long run, the American people are going to appreciate it.

There were a number of painful losses and disappointments for the Democrats for the 2022 Midterms. Therefore, they did not have the blue tsunami that they had truly hoped for. However...... They actually achieved a unique overall victory that rarely if ever happens for the Party holding the White House! They flipped a US Senate seat blue in Pennsylvania and every incumbent Democratic US senator throughout the entire country won re-election (which they say has is the first this has happened within about the last 100 years , gained a net total of 2 governor seats throughout the entire USA, and only lost less than 10 seats. Biden has presided over the best first midterm election compared to any other Democratic president in modern US history since JFK in 1962. Moreover, prior to the 2022 midterms, there have actually only been 3 to 4 midterm elections within the entire history of the country where the party holding the White House has done as well as the Democratic Party did this time around. According to my knowledge, the only few times in US history where the party in power has done this well in a first or second midterm election before 2022, were FDR and the Democrats in 1934, JFK and the Democrats in 1962, Clinton and the Democrats in 1998, and Bush and the Republicans in 2002. So, Michael Moore was in many respects more accurate in his prediction than almost every other pundit and pollster out there who all predicted that the red wave would happen. Boy, were they spectacularly wrong about that: Btw, check out what the legendary Presidential Historian, Allan Lichtman, says about both the results of the 2022 midterms and the future of the Republican Party:

Ah! So, now you say that Trump no longer has a serious chance of winning in 2024. Did the disastrous outcome of midterms for the GOP, especially for every MAGA freak out there, changed your tune on that?

I think and hope that this ends up finally being a big mistake for Trump.

The shift to more red in Texas is only temporary. If you if you look at the trend of electoral history, Democratic presidential candidates have in the long run been winning more and more of a greater percentage of the votes in Texas since 2000 to 2020. Also, Beto O’rourke was close to defeating Senator Ted Cruz in the 2018 senate midterm elections. Its not just because of the increasingly amount of Latinos in Texas. Since 2000, there have been a number of other factors that have been making the state more liberal including: the growing amount of black people and asian people having migrated from the western and northern states, the growing number of young liberal folks having also migrated from the northern and western states, increasing amount of urbanized areas and densely populated areas, and increasing amount of smart and educated people. Also, despite Texas being one of the most religious states in the country, as time goes on, there will be more secular people in Texas as the younger generations take over the older generations. Younger generations generally are more open minded because they usually grow up in more contemporary environments that influence them to either have more liberal religious/spiritual beliefs or become agnostic or become atheist. Older generations tend to be more dogmatic because they are generally more set in their beliefs during older age and usually have grown up in more old fashioned environments that influenced them to have more conservative religious beliefs or have more traditional values.

Listen to this from Michael Moore: That's why we gotta put in the work to get out the vote for all Dems ASAP.

Many liberals and progressives, including president Biden, have been accusing big corporations including oil and gas companies of price gouging ever since the beginning of the pandemic. That's why they have been floating a windfall profit tax proposal on all corporate profits. “Record profits today are not because they’re doing something new or innovative. The profits are a windfall of war,” Biden said from the Roosevelt Room, alongside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. “Enough is enough.” Bernie Sanders recently said "...In a time of soaring corporate profits, are you prepared to support a windfall profits tax, or you're going to allow prices to continue to rise? Are we going to move forward in addressing the absolute greed in the healthcare industry and in the pharmaceutical industry, which is driving up prices?" Centrist economists including Zandi, Summers, and Furman say that the idea that corporations have been price gouging during the pandemic is all bogus and that a windfall tax would a costly mistake. Summers just said, “I’m not sure understand the argument for a windfall profits tax on energy companies,” Summers said on Twitter Tuesday morning. “If you reduce profitability, you will discourage investment which is the opposite of our objective.” “If it is a fairness argument, I don’t quite follow the logic since even with the windfalls Exxon has underperformed the overall market over the last 5 years,” said Summers. What do you guys think is the truth?

Alright then, let's get the FBI and the SEC on top of this.

I get that having a nationwide ban on all assault weapons throughout the entire country probably won't dramatically reduce the amount of gun violence that occurs in America. However, that shouldn't mean that nothing should be done at all to seriously reduce gun violence problem we have in the US. Biden and Clinton in the 90s were able to successfully pass the Federal Assault Weapons Ban Act within the Clinton Crime Bill the Biden Crime Law, which became a 10-year ban that "included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ammunition magazines that were defined as large capacity." The results were mixed and it probably didn't lead to a major plummeting in overall gun violence, but from what I understand, it likely helped reduced the amount of mass shooting and murder to some significant degree. Some experts on this matter say that the ban it probably would have reduced gun violence to a greater degree if it was implemented for much more than 10 years. Biden lately has been saying that he's going to get the federal ban on assault weapons passed again through Congress (somehow): Let me know your thoughts on this.

Oh no!

Well, actually maybe they are beginning to learn: Zakaria points out how the right-wing rhetoric has become much more dangerous than the left-wing rhetoric. I don't think that CNN has any of their news anchors make any kind of comparisons like that before.

Leo has talked about how cable news channels such as CNN have to stop being too centrist and making false equivalences. CNN and other mainstreams outlets like them have to call out the problems right-wing extremism that have been going on and not compare it or try to balance it with the problems associated with left wing extremism. Well, Eric Deggans from NPR actually recently told CNN those same things: https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/08/22/media-critic-warns-about-the-pitfalls-of-false-equivalence.cnn Even, A top legal analyst, named Jeffrey Toobin, who used to work on CNN, said a couple years ago that he regrets his role in making false equivalences between Hillary Clinton and Trump during his time on CNN: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/01/29/cnns-jeffrey-toobin-i-regret-my-role-in-hillary-clinton-false-equivalence/ Perhaps CNN will eventually learn from their mistakes?