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Let me think. I’ll type as I think.

I agree with the righties that we need to have balanced budgets, but they only talk about balanced budgets these days. They don’t do them. When they get power, they spend like drunken sailors.

I don’t agree with them on justice. Jails don’t work. They suck for everyone, especially society. Who decided that if someone commits a petty crime, we should send him to hardened-criminal school aka jail? Don’t be surprised if a hardened criminal gets released after that petty thief was imprisoned.

I don’t agree with them on freedom. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one, as Mr. Spock once said.

I don’t agree with them on warmongering. Every major war in US history that I’m aware of was waged under a Republican. Clinton bombed the hell out of Yugoslavia but that was still a minor war.

I don’t agree with them on healthcare but we’ve been over that a million times.

I don’t agree with them on immigration. Especially the US dreamers. That’s just stupid.

I don’t agree with them on Trump of course. Or his conspiracy theories.

I don’t agree with them about taxation. Corporate tax should be much higher. Taxes on the rich should be much higher, including absolute wealth taxes.

I agree with them about free trade, but as with balanced budgets, they just talk about free trade. When they get in power, they put up tariffs and tear up agreements.

I know, I agree with them about some oil pipelines. Not all. I just think transporting oil by truck and rail is more dangerous yet.

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As a former member, I would like some respect shown for drunken sailors and their effect on local economies.

LBJ owns the Vietnam War.

I continue to hate republicans

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Fair enough. You would remember that time better than I would as I was just born when he took office. Many people blame Nixon for that war.

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I was 18-19 when I was in that neighborhood.

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Don’t strain yourself. There’s a long blank list of things we agree on.

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Surprising. I wasn’t aware you’re were so talented.

Don’t stop now. You’re taking me back to one of my fondest spending years. It was 2009 and Obama was drunk on banking money. We, the people, had to eat that.

Do you have a problem focusing? You were sharing what you agreed on with umm righties. Fortunately, I agree with you. In a merciful world the penalty would be death. Instead, we hate them so much we put them in prison.

We can’t help that. Biden first.

Well I’m so sorry about that. If all the rich people would die, Republicans could lay down their guns and declare victory.

We have and I can only add that it should have been called Obamascare.

If you don’t agree with me on immigration you are by default agreeing with the premise that illegals should be allowed to climb over walls and bring their baggage of lawlessness into our law abiding country. That is the equivalent of allowing your neighbor to visit you without knocking, while you are away and your wife is taking a shower. Are you okay with that, Reg, because it sounds like you’re okay with that.

I don’t care.

We don’t agree because You think so tiny. We should bankrupt some of them and hold a tribunal.

That happens when you have a trade deficit.

Why not all?

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Still better than the cultural-marxist propaganda I am hearing out of the other corner.

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Hey, I consider myself to be a very moderate supporter of President Trump.

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any supporter of trump is an extremist.

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You mean because you disagree with him on vaccines?

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Yeah, You are right. That and his positive tweets about a sodom month which lead me to unsubscribe to his twitter. Also, from his personal life, he surely is the most cool president ever, but not someone I deeply admire. I do admire Trump, but moderately.

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Was he cool when he incited the resurrection?

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Michele, Obama nearly balanced the budget, in between two Republican presidents who ran multi-trillion dollar deficits.

Instead, your fat orange leader cut their taxes.

I already said why. Because sometimes they are better than the alternative. When a country is dependent on foreign oil, it has to choose between trucks/trains and a pipeline. Sometimes trucks/trains are the right decision. Sometimes pipelines are.

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Did nearly balancing the budget (coming closest in 2015 within 450 billion) cause Obama’s record holding 8.6 trillion dollar deficit?

Don’t you worry. Our idiot commander in chief will correct Trumps mistake.
https://www.oann.com/bidens-massive-6t-budget-to-cut-economic-growth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bidens-massive-6t-budget-to-cut-economic-growth

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Michele, your cherry-picked, out-of-context stat means nothing. Let me add some context. Obama inherited Bush’s multi-trillion dollar deficit and nearly balanced the books from that incredible hole. Trump took Obama’s nearly balanced budget and dug a giant new hole, right back to multi-trillion dollar deficits.

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Then take my cherry picked, out of context stat and stick it in your Trump dug, giant new hole.

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are you aware of world war II?
are you aware fdr was a democrat?

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you always forget the korean war
truman
democrat
civil war
lincoln
democrat
world war one
wilson
democrat
oops
lincoln was a republican

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maybe cuz he ended it?
nice touch that “many people”
very trumpian

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here is from wiki
which were you not aware of?
(sorted by casualties)

Overview[edit]

Note: “Total casualties” includes wounded, combat and non-combat deaths but not missing in action. “Deaths – other” includes all non-combat deaths including those from bombing, massacres, disease, suicide, and murder.

War or conflict Date Total U.S. deaths Wounded Total U.S. casualties Missing Sources and notes Deaths as percentage of total population
Combat Other Total
Total 1775–2019 666,441+ 673,929+ 1,354,664+ 1,498,240+ 2,852,901+ 40,031+
World War II 1941–1945 291,557 113,842 405,399 670,846 1,076,245 72,491 [20]See Note DA below 0.39%
Civil War: total 1861–1865 214,938[26] 450,000~ 655,000~ [c][27] 2.1%
Civil War: U.S. Army 140,414[26] 224,097 364,511 281,881 646,392 [28]
Civil War: Confederate Army 94,000[29] 195,000+ 290,000+ 194,026 483,026
World War I 1914–1918 53,402 63,114 116,516 204,002 320,518 3,350 [20][d] 0.11%
Vietnam War 1955–1975 47,434 10,786 58,220 153,303 211,454 1,584 [20][60][61]
Korean War 1950–1953 33,686 2,830 36,516 92,134 128,650 7,564 See Note E below