• ZeusIsNotDead@exploding-heads.com
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    1 year ago

    Is it weird that I’m just kinda neutral on him?

    I liked 2016 Trump. Some of the stuff he promised was actually good, and compared to Hillary… yeah. But then instead of draining the swamp he left it as is. He didn’t end the for-profit wars. He saw how much cheaper it would be in terms of both money and lives to cut off the insurance companies’ blood money and use the european system while on the campaign trail, but then ignored them entirely once in office. The twitter stuff was amusing, but in terms of actual policy he was a standard politician. The only difference was that he didn’t hide his corruption, embarrassing both the Dems and Reps in the process. By 2020, Trump vs Biden just seemed like 2 old men that are both bought and paid for vying for who gets to sit on the golden throne to sell out the american public for profit. Just like 90% Obama, 9/11 Bush, Clinton, and however many presidents before them.

    So yeah. Just kinda meh on him. He’s a politician. Just like all the others, D or R.

  • Wigglehard@exploding-heads.com
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    1 year ago

    In many ways, he was disappointing to me however, I think the Covid pandemic and that idiot cop kneeling all that dudes neck causing riots were unfortunate circumstances no one could’ve predicted, ur thoughts?

    • i-liek-french-toast@exploding-heads.com
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      1 year ago

      Not OP but I think I more or less agree with you.

      I don’t worship him like some folks do. But I don’t hate the man either.

      I think if he didn’t have the mainstream media being a bunch of soy drinking cucks and everybody working against him, then he probably would have been a lot more successful. Anyway, I largely agreed with his policies (pro-gun, build a wall, don’t take shit from China/North Korea/etc, drain the swamp, lower taxes, and so on).

      But I’m not blindly pro-trump either. I didn’t care for that snakey ex-Verizon lawyer he put at the head of the FCC, I think he should have pushed for stricter penalties on corps that want to be US companies but use offshore resources/replace workforce with visa’d workers/layoff workers solely to screw them out of promised pensions/etc, and I think he should have pardoned Snowden on his way out.

      That said, if the left was willing to find less polarizing candidates than Hillary, I’d have been fine with someone other than Trump.

      Don’t think he has any intentions of running but everything I’ve seen with Josh Hawley (Missouri senator that is very much against big tech’s corrupt bs) makes me wish he was.