I really hate her and don’t want her as a representative. That having been said, she is a little more like what their party should be. If we are gonna stick with this piece of shit two-party system, then the party platform should be different solutions to what we agree are the problems. I don’t understand how the fuck we got to a point where everybody is struggling to make ends meets, and one party is saying that it’s difficult to make ends meet and we need to regulate businesses better while improving social safety nets for the people; the other party says that the problem is that trans people and brown people exist so the solution is to just erase them. And 1/3 of the country is just like “idk man, I just live here, I’m not interested in politics.” Idk how the country survives as a democratic republic after this. Forget recovering from this.
It depends on who you ask.
Trump claims that prices aren’t actually that high (lie) and also that they’re lower than under Biden (lie) and also that the prices are worth it to keep a nuke out of Iran’s hands (lie because he’s the one who terminated the deal in his first term that was doing exactly that).
Vance claims that the racist scapegoating of brown immigrants was him misspeaking (lie) and that he’ll aim to do better (lie because he immediately did it some more right after that).
Others have lied that “illegal” (undocumented) immigrants are siphoning things like welfare, food stamps, and other assistance programs from Americans. But you need a social security number to claim those things, which is how you know it’s a fucking lie. They’ll also lie about them stealing good jobs, but the jobs they’re working are the shitty jobs, and them being underpaid is both something that their employers are doing to exploit vulnerable people and also how prices on things like produce and textiles has been so relatively cheap until now, since they’ve chased so much of the labor force out.
I don’t understand any argument for how immigrants could be causing higher prices. It would only make sense if we were seeing a scarcity, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is petroleum products, caused by this stupid illegal war, which hasn’t even begun to cause the insane high prices on everything else yet due to the shipping industries depending so heavily on diesel. It will really take off right after the blue wave, and chuds will blame dems despite not even being sworn in yet. It’s as predictable as the scary “caravan” heading to the border right before the election.
there is a grain of truth to the “immigrants stealing good jobs” lie, quite a few buisnesses were preferentially hiring foreign workers because they could pay them less including iirc TSMC and other big tech companies
Sadly true. And yet, they go after the immigrants and not the business owners for some strange reason…
And if you’re a complete sociopath, the ‘less brown people will fix things’ makes a bit of sense too. Less people means less competition for jobs, so more good jobs and higher wages since there would be fewer employees to go around. (This is also why they also want women out of the workforce.)
That’s basically all the racists want, is everything in the country for themselves and their little groups. It’s the dark side of tribalism.
and one party is saying that it’s difficult to make ends meet and we need to regulate businesses better while improving social safety nets for the people;
*One wing of one party. The centrists absolutely aren’t saying this.
Touche. With any luck, that is the new direction of the party soon and these controlled opposition establishment dickweeds will be the fringe wing. Or, better yet, fucking extinct.
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I really hate her and don’t want her as a representative. That having been said, she is a little more like what their party should be. If we are gonna stick with this piece of shit two-party system, then the party platform should be different solutions to what we agree are the problems. I don’t understand how the fuck we got to a point where everybody is struggling to make ends meets, and one party is saying that it’s difficult to make ends meet and we need to regulate businesses better while improving social safety nets for the people; the other party says that the problem is that trans people and brown people exist so the solution is to just erase them. And 1/3 of the country is just like “idk man, I just live here, I’m not interested in politics.” Idk how the country survives as a democratic republic after this. Forget recovering from this.
Vote. Prove me wrong. Please.
I thought the republicans were acknowledging that the cost of living is higher, but blaming it on immigrants
It depends on who you ask.
Trump claims that prices aren’t actually that high (lie) and also that they’re lower than under Biden (lie) and also that the prices are worth it to keep a nuke out of Iran’s hands (lie because he’s the one who terminated the deal in his first term that was doing exactly that).
Vance claims that the racist scapegoating of brown immigrants was him misspeaking (lie) and that he’ll aim to do better (lie because he immediately did it some more right after that).
Others have lied that “illegal” (undocumented) immigrants are siphoning things like welfare, food stamps, and other assistance programs from Americans. But you need a social security number to claim those things, which is how you know it’s a fucking lie. They’ll also lie about them stealing good jobs, but the jobs they’re working are the shitty jobs, and them being underpaid is both something that their employers are doing to exploit vulnerable people and also how prices on things like produce and textiles has been so relatively cheap until now, since they’ve chased so much of the labor force out.
I don’t understand any argument for how immigrants could be causing higher prices. It would only make sense if we were seeing a scarcity, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is petroleum products, caused by this stupid illegal war, which hasn’t even begun to cause the insane high prices on everything else yet due to the shipping industries depending so heavily on diesel. It will really take off right after the blue wave, and chuds will blame dems despite not even being sworn in yet. It’s as predictable as the scary “caravan” heading to the border right before the election.
there is a grain of truth to the “immigrants stealing good jobs” lie, quite a few buisnesses were preferentially hiring foreign workers because they could pay them less including iirc TSMC and other big tech companies
Sadly true. And yet, they go after the immigrants and not the business owners for some strange reason…
And if you’re a complete sociopath, the ‘less brown people will fix things’ makes a bit of sense too. Less people means less competition for jobs, so more good jobs and higher wages since there would be fewer employees to go around. (This is also why they also want women out of the workforce.)
That’s basically all the racists want, is everything in the country for themselves and their little groups. It’s the dark side of tribalism.
you are more likely to know a buisness owner than an immigrant if you live in a rural town far from the border (or know that you know one anyway)
*One wing of one party. The centrists absolutely aren’t saying this.
Touche. With any luck, that is the new direction of the party soon and these controlled opposition establishment dickweeds will be the fringe wing. Or, better yet, fucking extinct.