jrober38

Sure. But the deficit is now $1.1 trillion dollars. From 2009 to 2017 all the right cared about was the debt and deficit. The Tea Party formed to protest government spending. Where are those people now? Where's the outrage over Trump ballooning the deficit to the level it's at, despite the economy doing better than it's ever done over the past 50 years. When economies grow, governments typically reduce the deficit in an attempt to pay down debt. When things are really good, you usually save for a rainy day. Trump is doing the exact opposite, and the deficit is going to be completely out of control when things inevitably slow down.

I don't think everyone on the right is a racist. But I do think all racists are drawn to the right, and Donald Trump. I just saw the video of the Illinois gas attendant accusing strangers of being illegals just because they're speaking Spanish. I'm 100% certain that guy is a racist, and I'm equally certain he's a Trump supporter. Nowadays everyone gets labelled as the most extreme version of their party. Not all Republicans are racists. Not all Democrats are socialists. Using those extremes isn't helpful, because it makes those extreme positions seem mainstream, which they're mostly not.

No I'm just looking at 2016 compared to now. Since Obama left office, Trump's military spending and tax cuts for the rich have increased the deficit by over 100%. When the economy slows down, without changing the tax code, the US might be looking at a yearly deficit of close to $2 trillion. Where'd the Tea Party go?

I can't imagine open warfare happening, but I do believe that the US is broken, and probably beyond repair in it's current state. The government system was great when established, but in 2019 when California (40 million people, 6th largest economy in the world) has the same sway in the Senate as Wyoming (577k people, would have the world's 95th largest economy), there's going to be problems. The biggest issue as I see it is that the Federal Government is too big, and holds too much power. Things would be much better if States were allowed more authority to govern themselves as they want. There's no mechanism that allows it, but it may also be beneficial to let states leave the union if that's what they want by overwhelming majority.

It's so hypocritical. As I said a few days ago, under Obama Republicans constantly cried about how the country would go bankrupt. Over 8 years he steadily reduced the deficit. Now, in 2.5 years, Trumps has ballooned the deficit by over 100% despite the economy doing great. When things inevitably slow down, the US government's deficit and debt are going to explode to levels that haven't been seen before.

I wouldn't expect you to understand why single use plastics are a problem.

My kids' rights ultimately don't matter if they're dead due to a world war. More importantly though, finding ways to use less energy and water and reducing your carbon footprint has next to nothing to do with their rights. Today Donald Trump literally started selling plastic straws on his website to raise money and troll climate change believers. The fact that it is a joke to some people is what I find most concerning.

I think people laugh because they're convinced it's not happening. I don't think it's a funny issue. I have two kids under 4 and I very much worry about the world they're going to grow up when they're my age. Can you drink salt water? Can you irrigate a farm with water from the ocean? There are mass droughts all over the equator right now. Why do you think so many people are leaving Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala?

About 140 years of hard data. Prior to that you'd have to dive much deeper into physical accounts of how crops grew, etc to measure what the climate was doing in certain parts of the world that kept records. These type of charting records go back about 1,000 years. Don't you think that's going to be too late? If it happens and the world gets another 2-3 degrees Celsius warmer, our grand kids are all going to die in a nuclear war as countries go to war over water and food resources.

Civilization won't end in 10 years, but it might in 50 unless things correct. If things continue, billions of people will starve, and a world war will begin with many of the belligerents having nuclear weapons. The world is hotter than it's ever been before on record. If that continues, our kids are in major trouble.

I don't understand the purpose of joking about this. Making light of a changing climate, and the consequences it might bring doesn't make any sense to me.

Actually she got 110,000. The Republican got 19,000.

Expecting over 30% of voters to break from their party isn't a realistic expectation. I'd be surprised if something like that ever happens.

80% of NYC voted for Hilary. Trump is wildly unpopular there. With a similar turnout next year (NYC votes Dem by roughly a 4-1 difference over the past 4 Presidential Elections), you can't honestly expect more than 30% of the voters in that district to flip sides and vote a Dem for Pres and a Republican for Congress. I get that you want it to happen, but it's never going to happen. The math isn't even close to adding up.

I think you put way too much emphasis on who the Congressional candidates are and not enough on who is at the top of the ticket. That district is never going to vote for Trump, and it's unbelievably unlikely that people will vote for a Dem for President in overwhelming fashion and then pick a Republican for congress.

She's extremely valuable. She's literally tearing apart the Democrat Party from within. She won't stay in line, and contradicts Democrat Leadership every chance she gets. Oh, and she's been on the job 6 months. Imagine the influence she'll have in 6 years. At that point she'll be even more powerful, which means the Dems will have been pulled farther left. The farther left the Dems go, the more electable Republicans are. Without AOC CNN and MSNBC would still be showing kids in cages at the Southern Border this week.

Why on Earth would the Republican's want to get rid of her? She's their best chess piece at winning reelection in 2020 and beyond because her social policies are so unpopular nationally. They don't want to defeat her. They want to make her the face of the Democrat Party for years to come.

Almost 50% of the district is Latino. 10% is African American. The math doesn't add up. She's wildly unpopular on a national scale but she'll win again in a landslide.

I'm sorry but the Republican party isn't going to dump money into a race in a district that they've lost 13 straight times by a huge margin. There's no money because they have zero hope of winning. What you're saying doesn't make any sense here. They need about 120,000+ votes to win in a district that usually generate 15-30k GOP votes. The math just isn't there.

The results were practically identical to 2016. I just looked and pretty much every Congressional election in that district has been between 70-30 and 80-20 for the past 15 years.

It's not happening. You don't win 80-20 and then lose 2 years later in a Congression District that has been all Democrat for 26 years.

AOC got almost 80% of the vote in the election. She's not going anywhere.

Doubtful. Pelosi knows they can't win with AOC's policies as part of the Presidential Platform, which is why she's trying so hard to shut her up. Unfortunately AOC is a crusader and an ideologue. She's under no threat of losing her seat next year and accordingly will continue pushing her policies until the cows come home. Pelosi has no control over her, and it's probably going to destroy their chances of winning the Presidency next year.

Considering he tweets this stuff practically everyday, I don't see how I could be wrong. It's all there right on his tweeter feed. Trump uses his sound bites to control the narrative. They have zero plan whatsoever on how to fix immigration, and now instead of the media focusing on kids in cages, and the inhumane treatment of some people at the Southern Border Detention Facilities, that entire news cycle is gone. Now the Democrat Party has now been labelled as socialists with the face of the party having become 4 Congresswomen whose politics don't resemble anything close to the Democrat Leadership's. It was brilliant on his part, and he's become a very savvy politician over the past couple years knowing how to attack his opponents. Every attack Trump conducts via Twitter is very calculated. He hovers over the line of inappropriate, and probably crossed it this week, but it changed the narrative and it fires up his base and the bottom line is CNN and MSNBC aren't showing pictures of kids in cages anymore. Short term goal, achieved.

I agree. He has tons to talk about, but he has never been able to stay on message. For 3 plus years now, Trump gets off on firing up his base, and to do that and have crowds cheering for him at his rallies, he's forced to talk to them about immigration because that's the red meat his base eats up. If Trump could stay on message, and just talk about the things you just listed, his approval rating would be considerably higher. But he can't, and he never will, because that's not who he is and it's not why he got elected in the first place.