Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 9/25/2024 8:43 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:07:17 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:
 

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:52:22 +1000, Mad Hamish
<newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
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Meanwhile Trump is twice divorced, has cheated on all 3 wives, was
besties with Epstein for about 15 years until they fell out over
realestate (Epstein went to Trump for advice about how do do something
after he'd bought a house, Trump then outbid him for it) and a fair
proportion of people he picked as part of his administration have said
he shouldn't be president again...

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All of which completely causes me consternation as to why far too many
evangelicals love Trump. The only reason I can see is that the
Democrats have swerved far to the left since Clinton. (Who was nearly
as much a horn-dog as Trump)

 Clinton was the last fiscally-conservative President we had (if you
want proof, consider that his last budget left his successor with a
1.2B surplus -- promptly used to finance a Tax Cut for Rich People).
 This made more like the traditional Republicans than the tax-and-spend
Democrats. Republicans today, of course, are spend-and-spend
Republicans, which is why they are as responsible for the size of the
National Debt and the Democrats are, if not somewhat more so.
 Fiscally-speaking, it is a sad day when tax-and-spend Democrats are
the Party that at least /tries/ to keep the budget from escaping
completely from control.
 

Over the last 40 years (basically ever since Reagan) the US deficit has increased under Republican administrations and decreased under Democratic administrations.  And its not just because of what each proposes to spend, a lot of it is from who they give lower taxes to.
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