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Trump did not ask them We've been told in this thread that Trump asked his fans to be peaceful and not assault the Capitol. However, he now wants the people who disobeyed him to be released. Knowing the Donald, he's not the kind of guy who likes to be disobeyed! Or does he think they actually did not disobey him and deserve to be rewarded for it? ???? Donald Trump calls for the release of hundreds of his supporters arrested in connection with the January 6 Capitol riot https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-calls-release-hundreds-133313979.html

Two nice pieces of (patriots ????) fascists.

A MAGA's nest, it seems!

It's a thread about reasons for not voting for Republicans, not about reasons for not voting for Biden. ????

Several analyst think it may be a trap. Knowing how desperate Putin is, it may not be a trap using conventional means.

So nothing about reducing inflation on short-term, as it's a global issue. Oh! I forgot, the GOP has a secret solution but doesn't disclose for fear of being imitated! 1, Has been assessed as slightly reducing inflation 2. Cancelling student debt may have an impact on inflation, but spread over time 6. The energy sector has stopped new projects during the pandemic, and are not using the permits they already have. The main reason is the uncertainty about prices. It takes years before exploiting new projects, and they don't know if the selling price will be worth the investment. In any case it cannot have an effect on short-term. The only way to trigger investment is to guarantee prices (which Biden does for orders aiming at refilling the strategic reserve, but the quantities are too low anyway). It can probably not have much effect on prices later, unless it is so massive that it can influence global prices.

Close the border with Canada?

You don't know the difference between 41% and 23%?

Unless there's something else which is unknown to me, you may have a point, for once.

Well, I'm not really surprised.

To which post are you replying?

My point, which you perfectly understood, was that if election deniers and/or who have been ok to overturn election results are elected in 2022, they will be in a position to overturn the next elections (ex 2024). They may refuse to certify elections, etc...

Did they try to overturn the vote?

That was not my point and you know it

2024 for the time being

The next ones.

Because there is a risk that, if elected, they will try to overturn elections again in one way or another.

I see. You mean this case, in which an ex-president refused to return classified documents, tried to hide possession of these documents, etc...? Documents he was illegally keeping, according to a law he considered as being so important, that he actually strengthened it, when he was president. He got a taste of his own medecine! ????

What are you talking about?

From your link, " mostly peaceful protests". Anyway, did they assault the Capitol in order to steal elections?

As I mentioned before it is not an exercise of formal logic. Same as when some people want to have a fight. They will use any pretext in order to start a fight: he looked at me, he looked at my girlfriend, etc...

It's not that simple. It's not just about an exercise of formal logic. They believed (or pretended to believe) it because that's what they wanted to believe, as they could not stand losing. They were given this pretext and they happily seized it.

So the Republicans would have a "secret" solution that no one else in the whole world has ever thought about? Hmmm.....

Most of them may have been blowhard wannabes, but they assaulted the Capitol because they did not like the results of the elections. And some people try to minimize the significance of it: after all they were harmless, too stupid, etc... As if it were not something important. And that's exactly what is doing a lasting harm to system. If after all, It's not that bad, why not do it again or do something similar next time. It confirms how the U.S. is <deleted>#$% up! Including some posts In this thread! In other democratic countries, there would be no assault of Westminster, the Assemblée Nationale, or the Bundestag, in the hope of overturning elections. And in case it would have happened, no major political party would try to justify it, excuse it, or try to minimise its significance.

I wouldn't bet he's irrational. His main concern is the survival of his regime (basically, himself). Being a nuclear country protects his regime from external intervention. What happened to Sadam Hussain will never happen to him. It also protects him internally because it allows him to stress the argument that the country is under threat and that it justifies his regime.