Colin Unger

Trump is the first president to talk openly and negatively about the american military industrial complex since Dwight Eisenhower. He somehow found a way to stand up to them and stop the spread of war while still satiating republicans by dropping the odd bomb and talking up how great America is. I don't think he got as close to war with Iran as you would think. America doesn't go to war unless they invade someone. Iran isn't going to be invading the United States anymore than they would China. It's a death wish. My biggest concern here is that if Trump loses you will never again see a Republican who takes the approach that Trump does towards war. It will end up being business as usual and the neocons who left the party or were flushed out will return and take over the party again. It's going to be really concerning. My hope is that if Trump wins again he will be viewed similar to Regan in having a winning formula of policies including his policies on war. He will be then followed by Republicans who continue some of his policies like standing up for factory workers and fighting economic wars rather then military wars. Someone who is much better spoken and doesn't constantly offend everyone. If Biden wins with guys like Colin Powell at his side how do you think that the Republicans will try and defeat the democrats the next time? Well.. by moving further to the right than Biden is on war. That's scary as hell. In terms of Justice Reform Trump has already made big inroads on the issue passing a historic bill to that effect and removing many of the draconian polices that Biden among others had implemented. Im not convinced that Biden is the guy that's going to actually get these kinds of reform bills passed. He's not going to be able to work together with enough senators to do so. Not even Obama could get these types of bills passed. I guess i can tolerate Trump's pandering to evangelicals more because I know he's just pandering. Clearly he hasn't become and Christian and he doesn't care about these issues. Its much more difficult for me to stomach these types of policies coming from a true believer like Andrew Scheer.I greatly prefer secular conservatives to religious ones. I would consider voting for the conservatives federally next time if my local candidate wasn't Ted Falk. The new leader of the conservative party is secular and pro choice. Its not at all irrational to dislike the democrats given the way they have treated Bernie Sanders. I had no problems with the democrats when Obama was president I can assure you of that. I don't know what anyone would want to identify with a political party or adopt and defend all the policies of one political party over another. I take things on an issue by issue basis. I won't conform to a specific dogma.

What i don't like about him is that he's far too right wing for me on war. Im sure establishment democrats will vote for him but many progressives will pass. I don't even think he's a moderate democrat. He's a right wing democrat. He brought in the horrible laws that throws people in jail for being addicted to drugs. But I don't like he the most because he was the candidate that was used to block Bernie Sanders. Biden was very few people's first choice. A lot of people were preferring Buitigag in the right wing establishment democrat lane because they felt Joe Biden was too old. I don't view Biden as a serious candidate to be President. He's the candidate who was used to block Bernie and is now being used to try and win the white house back but is unlikely to be making real decisions and unlikely to fulfill his term. On social issues I'm left leaning and I thought I was on war as well but it doesn't look like the democrats are actually anti-war. I like some progressive ideas when it comes to economics and some right wing ideas. I like Universal basic income to replace old age pension and welfare. As wellfare is anti-productive because its really hard to get off of wellfare. Its hard to go from wellfare to fulltime employment. The natural step for many on wellfare would be to work part time at first but the problem is that a large percent of their welfare income is reduced when they work part time minimum wage so they often don't bother. Universal income would make more sense and would provide for full incentive to at least work part time. I don't agree with progressive on the tax code though. I think that if the wealthy had to pay 90% tax rate it would cause a negative trickle down effect. When it comes to law and order I'm a fan of it. I want enforcement of laws but I also want many things legalized like drug use. Having drugs being illegal makes them that much cooler to young people which i think ends up increasing their usage. Weed is one thing but when they start getting into stuff like crystal meth it really can ruin their lives. I'm a believer in requiring people who are caught doing drugs to seek education on drugs as well as programs designed to help them get off of drugs rather than sending people who have an addiction to jail for possessing drugs which further damages their lives and their prospects of getting clean. Overall I identify most as being progressive but really I'm an independent. It does nothing to the point I made that it's common sense that there's something fishy about the Hunter Biden story. At most it speaks negatively towards Rudy Guiliani and his lack of credibility.

You don't need to make things up to make Joe Biden seem unappealing. He does a fine enough job of that on his own. I'm not going to speak to the legitimacy of the leak but it deserves to be vetted. One thing is clear and that's that the whole thing seems extremely fishy. A man who was kicked out of the military for drug use and has zero expertise in oil and gas and is given 20 million dollars a year to sit on the board of a ukrainian oil and gas company while his father is the Vice President of the United States. What's one thing about that that makes sense? One thing people need to keep in mind about Fox News and other Networks is that there is a big difference between the journalistic integrity on a show like Hannity or Tucker and the actual news hour. Hannity and Tucker are hosting shows that are primarly there for entertainment purposes and are opinion based. Similar to the difference you'd see during CNN's news hour and Don Lemon.

It's since been authenticated when Biden's lawyer asked if his client could have "his" laptop back.

Ok. I’m glad there are so many great sources out there that never make mistakes.

IMO they should get rid of the birther rule. You can be the governor of California and be born in Austria. But you can't be born outside of America and be president.

He would work the birther angle against any competitor who wasn't born in Canada. He hit every competitor that opposed him with as much furocity that he could regardless of if their name was Bush or Cruz.

I believe that simply jogging people’s memory that Trump was just as vigorous a birther on Ted Cruz says all we need to know about whether birtherism is racially motivated. I’m not implying that Obama was bad. I’m saying that a Biden Presidency would be somewhere in between Obama and Bush and a return to normal. Obama is someone I would have voted for both times had I been an American. My only real complaint about him was that I was expecting more of anti-war President and that didn’t end up being the case.

True. But we aren’t being offered better. It’s Trump or Biden. Biden would be worse than Obama and slightly better than Bush.

Instagram memes. Jkjk I read articles on the internet. YouTube. Democracy Now, Jimmy Dore, Styxhexenammer ect. One of the benefits of Trump losing is that things will hopefully get back to normal. However, it don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that Trump is going to lose. If Trump loses it will sure be interesting to watch what happens. I expect some fireworks either way. Personally I expect more violence if he wins than if he loses.

I agree with everything you’ve said here. I’ve never intended to suggest that Trump isn’t a gong show.

I can honestly tell you that I do not watch the mainstream media anymore. After those whole Russiagate misinformation media failure I decided to stop watching it because I didn't want to continue to be misinformed. The whole "shithole countries" thing would be an example of xenophobia if he indeed said that. I'm well aware the Trump is xenophobic. Its the kind of thing I could see him saying but witnesses are split on whether he said it or not. In terms of birtherism. Trump was wrong to get involved with the movement. He probably had a more credible case to make when he started the Ted Cruz birther movement.

I've looked into it and you appear to be mostly correct. Certainly more correct than I was. The Senate Democrats led by Harry Reid used the nuclear option to eliminate the 60-vote rule on executive branch nominations and federal judicial appointments. And then Harry Reid extended it to the Supreme Court as a response. I believe that the filibuster is still in place because I have heard talk that the democrats may be planning to remove the filibuster in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option I had almost completely forgotten about Kavanaugh. However, I think we can all agree that he was foolish and unwise to have made these comments? My point was that customarily the supreme court nominee doesn't weight in on current politics and that there is good reason for that. It would not reflect well on them to do so.

There is definitely hypocrisy on in this regard on both sides. Both sides are saying the opposite as to what they said when the roles were reversed. Classic politicians.

When it comes to political parties there is always shenanigans on both sides. The fact remains that the process became partisan when the democrats changed the laws to require only a simple majority. I don’t think anyone can envision a scenario now where this process won’t be completely partisan. You don’t think the democrats would want Supreme Court justices who would want to remove people’s rights to bare arms? To further back my statement Roe V Wade is an example of where democratic appointed justices made a ruling that created new law. BTW. I’m in favor of a women’s right to choose and I’m in favor of stricter gun control. But that’s outside of the larger point.

That’s somewhat disingenuous. Just because I think that some of the most outlandish attacks on Trump haven’t been vetted doesn’t mean that I hold him in high regard. There were multiple democrats running in the primaries who I thought would present a large improvement over Donald Trump. But just like last time they ended up stacking the deck against these candidates and nominated one of the few candidates who would be worse than even Trump who has only produced a few positive outcomes during his presidency.

The process of choosing Supreme Court justices has become more partisan since the Obama Administration changed the rules to allow for a simple majority in the senate in order to approve a Supreme Court pick. You might be surprised though that often these picks don’t end up voting the way that the president who chose them is hoping. The Republicans hope to choose justices that will not create new law when voting them in. The Democrats hope to put in picks who will make rulings that will create new law so that they don’t have to. I could be wrong but I think that there are very few Supreme Court nominees in the past who have weighed in on current politics. Not sure why she should be expected to.

Hadn't heard of this one. This certainly seems worth exploring to determine what would have been different had this team still existed.

Yeah same. Probably 15 minutes and done. I can assure you I wouldn't wait 10-11 hours to vote. One vote is meaningless anyways. Even if my one vote would decide an election I'm not convinced id wait 11 hours given there's very little true difference between large tent parties lol

There have been times when he's failed to condemn White Supremacists upon request. However, that is because he's insulted by the request. Why does he have to constantly be asked that question when he's condemned White Supremacists so many time. I view it more as an ego thing where he's not going to be a puppet to every request the media makes of him. Especially when he's already done it so many times. Its really laughable and also a lie at this point when people like Joe Biden suggest that Trump to this day has yet to condemn white supremacists. The statement where he said there there were good people on both sides he was talking about protesters who were against tearing down statues who had showed up. Not the neo-nazis.

Was that intended for me? I don't think a nominee for the supreme court wants to give an indication of how they would rule on something in the future that might be much more complex than the simple questions that are being asked. Additionally, these types of questions could be construed as injecting current politics into a supreme court nomination hearing. I could see a nominee not wanting to inject themselves into politics. Politics should not be their role.

Mortality rate is the ratio of covid cases to deaths. The death rate in this article is the number of deaths with Coronavirus being listed as at least one death factor compared to the overall population. This reminds me of when CNN horribly told Americans that they should not look at the Wikileaks documents themselves because this could be illegal and only get their wikileaks news from them. They don't want people to see what's actually be said they want to crop one liners and manipulate reality to match their political leanings.

If only WHO was all on the same page.. https://disrn.com/news/who-official-stop-using-lockdowns-as-primary-virus-control-method?fbclid=IwAR30YkB12EtHkF2GH5lPf6kdGZDEqo2KPcW-CBJ018u2mZfzY-OV_rwvYks

The biggest error in judgement on Covid response in the states was New York governor Cuomo. He literally implemented a policy that required nursing homes to accept clients who already had covid which ended up leading to a massively high fatality rate in New York.