Lindsey Graham said God won't ask why he voted to acquit Trump

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Vic

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No he didn't. He campaigned on raiding the Fed to give the american people a gigantic handout which is exactly what he did in 2017. His tax plan clearly showed what the new brackets would be and that poor people wouldn't be paying anything. That takes money to do and why he's added a couple Trillion to the deficit.

Don't re-write history. He campaigned on reducing the deficit and debt in 2016, not increasing it.
 

JEDIYoda

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No he didn't. He campaigned on raiding the Fed to give the american people a gigantic handout which is exactly what he did in 2017. His tax plan clearly showed what the new brackets would be and that poor people wouldn't be paying anything. That takes money to do and why he's added a couple Trillion to the deficit.
DONALD TRUMP PROMISED TO ELIMINATE THE DEFICIT IN 8 YEARS. SO FAR, HE HAS INCREASED IT BY 68%

uring the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump made an aggressive promise on federal finances: He would eliminate the budget deficit within eight years. Now, three years into his presidency, the deficit is 68 percent higher than when he started.

Trump inherited a deficit of $585 billion when he took office in January 2017. That was 58 percent lower than the $1.4 trillion former President Barack Obama inherited in 2009 following the financial crisis, a number his administration slashed over two terms.

According to the latest Congressional Budget Office data released on Monday, the full-year deficit for 2019 is estimated to come in at $984 billion, just shy of the $1 trillion that many analysts were expecting. In 2018 the figure was $779 billion and in 2017 it was $665 billion.

"Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit—at an estimated 4.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—was the highest since 2012, and 2019 was the fourth consecutive year in which the deficit increased as a percentage of GDP," the CBO said in its report.

"He's got no hope of eliminating the deficit," Danny Blanchflower, professor of economics at Dartmouth College and a former monetary policymaker at the Bank of England, told Newsweek. "The only possibility is for him to increase the deficit...This looks much like the policy on Syria: Uncoordinated chaos."

During the last election, Trump said he could clear America's $19 trillion of gross federal debt within eight years. To do that would mean eliminating the federal deficit, the negative difference between income and expenditure which keeps adding to the debt pile. It is now $22 trillion.

We're not a rich country. We're a debtor nation...We've got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt," Trump told The Washington Post in April 2016, several months before the election he would win. "I think I could do it fairly quickly...I would say over a period of eight years," Trump added, and suggested he would do so by renegotiating trade deals and creating trade surpluses.
 
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Jhhnn

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Don't re-write history. He campaigned on reducing the deficit and debt in 2016, not increasing it.

Trump lies about everything & gets away with it. Speedy is just trying to get in on the action.
 

Moonbeam

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So apparently the new republican platform is promoting ignorance, bigotry, racism, lying, corruption, and the destruction of the planet for personal profit. I mean, that is kind of what its been for awhile, but now you're just openly admitting it.
He's been badly hurt and enjoys seeing others suffer. Pointless trying to get back at him for that. His self punishment is beyond what we can imagine. If you want to destroy that platform he unwittingly supports, he will need to be helped.
 

cytg111

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No he didn't. He campaigned on raiding the Fed to give the american people a gigantic handout which is exactly what he did in 2017. His tax plan clearly showed what the new brackets would be and that poor people wouldn't be paying anything. That takes money to do and why he's added a couple Trillion to the deficit.

Can anyone translate this for me?
 

TheVrolok

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You forgot pro-Lord Emperor and anti-democracy.

But seriously, if you put all of your pro's and anti's together and look at them holistically, it reads pro-have your cake and eat it too. Like pro-spending but anti-tax, for example.
lol, the guy claimed the most corrupt (number of scandals) administration in history, with an impeached president, which has obstructed justice at every turn and impugned the integrity of our intelligence systems is "pro law and order." What a fucking clown.

This has been the least "pro law and order" administration of all time.
 

Fenixgoon

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lol, the guy claimed the most corrupt (number of scandals) administration in history, with an impeached president, which has obstructed justice at every turn and impugned the integrity of our intelligence systems is "pro law and order." What a fucking clown.

This has been the least "pro law and order" administration of all time.

what "pro law and order" really means is "pro worship of the state and its authority". not literal worship mind you, but unquestioning acceptance of authority.

that's how you end up with people who say that a black person should have respected the police more, despite systemic biases against people of color and innumerable documented cases of officers abusing their power, even against white people, and not being held accountable
 
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TheVrolok

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what "pro law and order" really means is "pro worship of the state and its authority". not literal worship mind you, but unquestioning acceptance of authority.

that's how you end up with people who say that a black person should have respected the police more, despite systemic biases against people of color and innumerable documented cases of officers abusing their power, even against white people, and not being held accountable
"Law an order" has become synonymous with "complete support of the strong (all powerful) unitary executive."
 
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BUTCH1

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Nope, pro-1st, pro-2nd, pro-life, pro-family, pro-jobs, pro-church, pro-blue collar, pro-spending, pro-renegotiation on trade, pro-military, pro-stock market, pro-law and order, pro-sun tanning; anti-illegals, anti-PC, anti-tax, anti-red tape, anti-socialism.
You mean "pro birth" really, all those who claim THEY demand a woman bear a child have done NOTHING to plan to help for those who would be forced to bring a pregnancy to term and take care of an infant. That, conveniently, becomes " someone else's problem". Chip in, offer to baby-sit when this person needs to work, change diapers for a week and lets see if your OK with "pro birth".
 
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Jhhnn

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Can anyone translate this for me?

It's uncanny how people will lie for for Trump to protect him. They all do, from his closest advisors to anybody who'll vote for him again. It's pigeon drop politics, where the marks think they're in on the scam.
 

JEDIYoda

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Actually what Linsey mean`t to say was God will nor have a chancew to ask me because i will be immediately put on the Express going down!! Do not pass go!1 Do not collect 100$
 

HomerJS

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God may ask Lindsay, "why did you swear on my name promising something you had no intention to fulfill?" "Why have thou blasphemed?"
 

kage69

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That's the convenient thing about a made-up deity. When something doesn't match your narrative, just keep making things up.

Yup. Love of control, greed and ego masquerading as piety. Pretty much the essence of American evangelicalism and most organized religion. That they weave it into politics for decades and then act like it's no big deal to back a criminal and traitor like Trump, really makes it all the more puke worthy. Their jesus said to love prostitutes, not become them, IIRC.