Inspired by another question, what policies are the Republicans running on?
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July 3rd, 2024
And like the other question, no comparisons.
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Screw the little guy
Trickle down economics must work, look at all the six digit vacations Clarence Thomas gets.
We don’t need EPA, DOJ, FBI and really don’t need to have the Federal Reserve System – - – Trump will control the interest rate all by his onesie !
Don’t forget start a needless trade war with all your allies,give the Uber rich more tax deductions,blame everything on the Democrats, and cuddle up the the worlds most ruthless dictators.
Their platform is simple:
anti-women
anti-freedom
pro-dictatorship
pro-christianity
anti any race but white
-Christianity in government.
-Prevent wars (Trump says he can do it).
-Ship out undocumented immigrants.
-More tariffs (I will not Biden kept the Trump tariffs in place).
-Vouchers for schools.
-Anyone can buy a gun.
-Cut women’s healthcare.
Make America Great Again
Probably with some added amens and Liberian flags
Drill baby drill. Drill in Alaska, drill in National Parks, damn it all.
Women should keep their legs closed and if they get pregnant, they were whores in the first place and need to pay the price. If their lives are at stake from having a baby, too bad.
Re-do government so it favors Republican policies and their agenda.
Bible quotes in schools, let’s start introducing Christianity into schools.
Cut taxes on the rich, after all, they’re the Republican politicians’ friends and donors.
The reality is is that in four years of a Biden administration, there been absolutely no structural or systemic changes to anything at all.
When you understand the underlying ideology, you will be able to predict what they’ll change and not change when in power.
The major donor and lobbyists, which support both parties to varying degrees, are only interested in maintaining the status quo.
The politicians, who are practically all extremely rich and out of touch with the vast majority of people, are only interested in their careers, and having the privilege and status of administrating this status quo, who may be later rewarded with sinecures in the private sectors, as consultants or even as lobbyists themselves.
The starkest differences are entirely rhetorical. Of course, the Republicans may be a bit more openly sexist and homophobic and get caught with male prostitutes now and again, and the Democrats love to virtue signal about how much they love equal rights and women while getting caught for sexually harassing interns.
There are absolutely no meaningful policy differences between the parties, because they are largely ideologically aligned on all the significant systemic issues related to the functioning of capitalism and the state.
It seems like after every election, the losing party will ponder “where did we go wrong? and point fingers (blame it on the media, blame it on the naysayers, blame it on the 3rd party voters, etc.) and will do some wringing of hands to try to figure out what can be done differently next time, and then everyone goes back to their lives and the winning candidates carry on with their work and appointing people to positions, and then 3 years later, when election time comes up again, here we go again, down into the abyss with doing the best with the candidates before us.
Closing the border.
Limiting non-emergency abortions.
Lowering inflation.
Negotiating with Iran and othe dictatorships rather than needless wars.
Stopping funding of current wars.
Giving the middle and lower class affordable food/gas.
@KNOWITALL: “Stopping funding of current wars.”
Elaborate.
@hat 62% of Republican voters believe the US is helping Ukraine too much.
Most Republicans support Israel but due to multiple concerns, including our own inflation, think additional finding is unjustified.
^ Isn’t the question: “What policies are the Republicans running on”? There is always a large gap between voters’ concerns and politicians’ policies, since funding of campaigns, etc is what drives policy (corporations).
So, are you aware of policies that Republicans are running on that point to “Stopping funding of current wars”? From what I see, the usual behavior of Democrats and Republicans fighting over who supports ethnic cleansing and murder in Gaza most. Sacrificing Ukrainians for a proxy war against Russia on behalf of arms manufacturers is a bipartisan issue, as is support for apartheid and the annihilation of Gaza.
Correct me if I’m wrong. Is there a gap between the two right-wing corporate parties on their support for the war machine? I’m not talking about Republican voters. The party. The policy Republicans are running on.
“Giving the middle and lower class affordable food/gas.” I haven’t heard that anywhere. It’s been typical for Republican policies to not favor the lower and middle classes, but to cut taxes on the upper classes. Typically, Republican policies favor cutting social programs that help the lower and middle classes.
Giving the middle and lower class affordable food/gas.
Those numbers are not controlled by the President. Recent inflation is a global phenomenon. Gas at the pump prices are also determined by global supply and demand. The US became a net oil exporter while Obama was president.;
No candidate is “against” lower food and gas prices. But dishonest people pretend that their opponents cause higher prices.
Feel free to show me an example where gas prices fell under Obama and Biden, and Fox “News” attributed the change to the president.
@jca2 I think someone is hoping that will happen (it is not in either party’s control) ! Gas and food prices are by in large supply and demand.
Correct me if I’m wrong. Is there a gap between the two right-wing corporate parties on their support for the war machine?
Many Republicans support Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine.
Democrats and some Republicans are helping Ukrainiane to expel Russian invaders.
Well, since Trump is the nominee, Here are a few of the things he has on his web page that are policies he wants to pursue:
1. Get America Energy independent again.
2. Do away with unfair trade agreements with other nations (China)
3. Stop being dependent on China
4. Do away with unnecessary regulations to entice companies to not only stay in this country but to expand as well
5. Secure the border
6. End asylum fraud
7. stop the Cartels from controlling the border
8. Round up and deport criminals that are here illegally (gang members, felons, etc)
9. Work to hire and train police officers to bolster the failing numbers in troubled cities.
10. Work to enforce the laws, put law breakers into jail, do away with the soft-on-crime practices.
11. Rebuild the military to re-establish our dominance and leadership in the world.
12. Stop the unnecessary wars, or get us out of the middle of them if possible
13. Get a state-of-the-art missile defense system for the US
14. Re-establish free speech in America, getting rid of bureaucrats that are working to censor free speech, and laying out directives to departments on no more censorship or targeting of Americans
15. Reject Globalism
16. Care for our Veterans
17. Protect parents’ rights
18. Ensure free, honest, and lawful elections
19. Drain the swamp: Goals would be overhauling the bureaucracies to make them more efficient and transparent, push for term limits on Congressional seats, Eliminate insider trading by congressional personnel, and a lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress or the Cabinet.
20. Doing away with a lot of the Green New Deal policies the Dems have pushed because they either cannot be done or are so cost ineffective as to be ludicrous to push.
That’s a start. Some of these are pie-in-the-sky dreams, like trying to get Congress to vote in term limits for themselves, and you can bet Dems will fight tooth and nail against just about everything…because it’s Trump, not because it is a bad thing for the country. And I see things missing that I would think should be on there like cutting the national debt. But these are policies and goals that he has no problems talking about.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA @seawulf575
Trump thinks Veterans and combat killed at F *&KING suckers and losers (he has said so several times)
Shoot all the Democrats, colored, Jews and Latinx !
Send cash to his off shore accounts from his l“oser” donators
Have tariffs with China that are 100% so everything from China costs twice as much ( you and I are paying for that)
End the EPA, DOJ, FBI, IRS and any federal agency investigating him.
Trump is the reason the federal debt is so high ! ! ! ! https://thehill.com/business/4426965-trump-added-8-4-trillion-to-the-national-debt-analysis/
@seawulf575 now lets see if I get this right….
1)The usa is already drilling more under Biden then they did with Trump, so what is energy dependent ?
2)Like rip up any trade agreement in place already like the free trade agreement you had with Canada?
3)Then find another country then can mass produce consumer goods as cheap as China can.
4)I guess that means is let them pollute like crazy,and give them massive tax breaks.
5)Secure the border,I guess anyone caught inside the us without the proper paper should just be instantly deported no questions asked.
6)don’t know how to accomplish that when you want to cut all government departments to bare bones,but ok.
7)Don’t know how the cartels are in charge of the border,but if found to be true I would agree with that.
8)See answer 5 for this.
This is all I have time for tonight, but will try to answer the rest tomorrow.
@Tropical_Willie You are full of nothing but inaccurate comments. It is amazing. And you are so proud of it! Bless your heart.
@SQUEEKY2 Sooooo…..despite you saying you didn’t want comparison you immediately brought in Biden. Huh. And your question was what policies is Trump (or the GOP) running on? Now you seem to want to actually debate the policies. Okay.
We are not drilling more than under Trump. Biden did for drilling what he did for everything else. Screwed it up and then tried saying he did more than his predecessor when he restores some of what he screwed up. He keeps claiming more jobs created than ever before. Yet he hasn’t actually added jobs, he still trying to get back to the number he had before his Covid actions killed them all. He keeps trying to day gas prices keep coming down, but he inherited prices that were at least $1.25 lower than what they are today.
As for trade agreements, getting rid of trade agreements that are bad for the country only makes sense. He isn’t making decisions on what is best for Canada…he isn’t a Canadian POTUS.
The tariffs and production are to equalize costs with us. At one time China was a developing country and we had tariffs that cut them enormous slack, enough that it became impossible for us to compete. When they were using effectively slave labor and not having to pay tariffs, they could produce far cheaper than we can. So manufacturing jobs fled the country. Getting rid of that unfair advantage, cutting taxes on business, etc. all help build jobs in this country.
Secure the border. You realize that deporting anyone caught inside the border without proper papers is exactly what Canada does, right? It is what every country does. Why do you, a Canadian, believe we, the United States of America, should just allow everyone who wants to come to just walk into our country and not be allowed to deport them? If this is the sort of border you support, why aren’t you campaigning in Canada to get it?
@Tropical_Willie
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/27/biden-trump-first-presidential-debate/about-those-suckers-and-losers-00165625
When you have a disgruntled former employee that got fired come back years later to start the lie and you have 20 other people that were there at the same time saying it never happened, I’m gonna go with the 20.
As for the Reuters article, I know this seems odd to you but the only people they actually cited by name and position were those answering for the Trump campaign. They said there were “nine people interviewed by Reuters” who are never named or mentioned even if they work for the campaign at all. They could have been talking to someone working for the Biden campaign for all we know. But let’s look at the issue at hand a little closer.
You are worried Trump will take over the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, the EPA, etc. Here’s a clue on basic Civics Class: they all work under the Executive Branch and the POTUS. They are not agencies that sit out there in space by themselves, though that is what Dems want…control of agencies by unelected bureaucrats. And looking at the behavior of the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, etc for the past 10 years or so, they are out of control. The Reuters article made a comment about Trump wanting to change the DOJ despite their mission statement which indicates independence and impartiality as core values. But the DOJ has already ignored that as we can plainly see. They have created the two-tiered justice system. They attack conservatives at the drop of the hat and cover up investigations against lefties. They are in dire need of an overhaul. Fear mongering says Trump wants to weaponize them. Reality says they are already weaponized. Since neither of us have seen the details we cannot say for sure what actions he wants to take. But it is doubtful it will be the horrific thing you are worried about. But just curious, why don’t you care about the weaponization of the DOJ against conservatives?
@Tropical_Willie Ooohh….ya got me! A propaganda piece that doesn’t actually clear anything up being used as proof! Wow.
Everyone should read Project 2025 put out by the Heritage Foundation. That spells out the Republican agenda going forward.
Here’s a link to the webpage:
https://www.project2025.org/
@janbb My take on Project 2025 is that it is an effort to clean up the swamp and reduce the size of the Federal Government. As far as I know, Trump has not used that in any campaigning. It might be somewhere in the background. But in the end, getting rid of useless parts of the Federal Government and getting rid of activists masquerading as officials is really not a bad thing. The danger, of course, is that they replace the scoundrels with scoundrels of their own.
@seawulf575 your right I shouldn’t have compared,but be truthful are those items actual Republican policies or just on Trump’s wish list?
@SQUEEKY2 Those pretty well are conservative goals. Not all Repubs are conservatives, but the party is moving far more to that direction. But here’s the thing when you compare the answers on this question with the one that inspired it: there are articulable goals. That was something I noticed on the other question…no one could really talk about the goals. Someone gave a link to the DNC and it had “goals” listed. Every one of them did nothing but bash Trump. There wasn’t really a goal. They were talking points. Here at least I can easily find a list of goals.
@KNOWITALL(Limiting non-emergency abortions.)
They want to an all out ban on abortions emergency or not, Kate Kox, and that 10 year old Ohio rape victim are proof of that.
In my state the GOP candidate for governor said, “Absolutely no abortions for any reason.”
He “knocked up” his wife before they were married, many years ago, he told her to get an abortion and she did.
@SQUEEKY2 I think you are fear mongering again. Go ask Republican voters in the USA and you will find you are wrong. But let’s look at some of these cases to dig a little deeper.
The 10 year old in Ohio that was raped. She was raped by an illegal alien her mother was shacking up with. The mother knew what happened and continued to defend the rapist. And you are upset she had to go to another state to get an abortion. And, BTW, the Ohio law has since changed which is what the overturning of Roe v Wade was all about…putting the decision on abortion into the states where the people can have more control on changing laws that don’t make sense or don’t work.
Kate Cox (not Kox) was running into problems with Texas’ abortion law. She was pregnant with a baby that had a deformity. The deformity would likely result in it not being alive for delivery. The Texas law gives exceptions for medical necessity…a threat to the mother’s life or permanent damage to internal organs. Her doctor did not give the necessary paperwork for her to meet the exception. And now what you have is a case where an appeals court is trying to rewrite the law from the bench. They are putting a stay on the motion that she can’t get an abortion which effectively says that court is ignoring what the law says and is rewriting it to what they want. Remember the separation of powers? Yeah….that. The legislature writes the laws, the courts interpret the laws. When the courts start trying to rewrite laws, it is a problem.
But all of this is really meaningless. Because I think it would be better for you if you got educated first and then piped in with fear-mongering. If you look, NO states have an out and out ban on abortion. The most restrictive still put in exceptions for the health of the mother and life saving efforts. And there are very few of those.
But I have a question for you. Again, you asked what policies the Republican party is running on. But then you just start spewing left-wing propaganda. Do you really want honest answers or are you just trying to do some Republican bashing?
What does the mother shacking up with the raper, so she is just as the monster that attacked her kid but what does any of that have to do with the victim being denied an abortion in her home state?
As for Cox, she went to court with her Doctor, and it was deemed she did need an abortion,the the doctor said so the court said so, but the AG of Texas said nope, to bad now you say the doc didn’t file the proper paper work.
You sure love your maga idiots.
@seawulf575 Do you think a woman should be forced to keep carrying a fetus with a severe abnormality that it can’t survive? Even Florida 6 week abortion law with DeSantis (who usually is playing to the religious extremist) allows for an abortion for that situation within the first 6 months of pregnancy.
Why are you ok punishing a young child who has a terrible mother and who was raped? Don’t you think the state should protect a child’s well being, or just protect fetuses?
@SQUEEKY2 What it has to do with the issue is that so little of the entire story is ever reported. Why? Because it is not the narrative that is wanted. You pick out a story about a 10 year old that needed an abortion but had to travel to get it. The left screams about how that is horrible that this little girl couldn’t get the abortion she needed. Yet they, just like you, ignore all the underlying conditions that brought on that condition. She was raped when she was 9 years old…probably several times before that, though there is no evidence of that. The rapist was here illegally, which is yet another strike against the open border policies. The mother knew what was going on and was backing the rapist which to me is the worst thing in this whole story. So let’s open up the entire event and see if the access to abortion was the worst thing in the case, since you love to throw this case out as a slam on abortion laws. You also ignore the fact that Ohio laws have since changed which was the whole point of moving abortion control from the federal government to the state governments.
As for the Cox case, the state laws are very clear as to what is needed and when. The doctor did not file the paperwork because Cox did not meet the criteria. Yep, the doctor showed up in court…that is not the same thing. All the doctor had to do was to state that having this child was a threat to the mother’s life and how it was a threat. The doc could do it today. In the end, it wasn’t a threat to the mother’s life so no such claim could be made without threatening his own medical license. You know…falsifying records?
@JLeslie Do I support the Texas law? Yes and no. I support following the laws, but fully believe in changing those that are just plain wrong. I don’t agree with having a woman have to carry a severely deformed child to term. I think the law could have included something about that in it. However, the radical activism of the left sees things like that as lever points: what is “too” deformed? If it is going to add to a parent’s angst and expense to have a deformed child, isn’t that the same as saying it is “too” deformed? Who gets to make the decision and what are the criteria? Suddenly you have a whole lot more lever points to try pushing the boundaries. So I think the TX law could have been a bit more lenient in its wording and restrictions, but I don’t agree with generalities in laws either.
Do I think it is ok to punish a young child who has a terrible mother and was raped? Do I think the state should protect the child’s well being or just the fetus? Wow, did you open a can of worms! Let’s back up a step and ask a few questions: Do you think it was okay for the child to be raped? Do you think it was okay for the mother to know about the rape and let it occur? Do you think it is okay for the mother to back the rapist over her own child? You are focusing on an abortion law that has already been changed, which was the point of moving control of abortion to the states…to change the laws more easily. And it was changed by Republicans. Meanwhile, the rest of this horrible story continues. A person that was in the country illegally was the rapist. Why is nothing being done about the open border? Are you okay with people entering the country illegally to rape and kill our little girls? I suspect the mother was also here illegally, though that is never mentioned. But the mother knew about the rapes and did nothing about them. And then when this story blew up she backed the rapist. How do you think that little girl feels? She was raped, her own mother knew about it and did nothing about it, and then that same mother, the one who is supposed to be the protector for the little girl, backs the rapist. Do you see any of this as punishment for the little girl for daring to get pregnant? Would the little girl see it that way? Should the state step in? Absolutely. Both the mother and the rapist boyfriend should be arrested and thrown in jail for a long, long time. The little girl should be taken from that home and sent to live with relatives. If the mother is, as I suspect, an illegal alien, the little girl should be sent back to wherever the mother was from to live with family members. Isn’t all this what would happen to the child of US citizens in this exact same situation? Removed from the abusive home, taken from the abusive parent, placed either in foster care or if there are relatives, with them? Why aren’t you up in arms about all this? Oh yeah, abortion is the dog whistle of the left. Illegal aliens are to be ignored and protected no matter what atrocities they commit. Victims are to be blamed or used as political fodder. Dual standards favoring illegal aliens over US citizens must be maintained at all costs Isn’t that how the left approaches things like this?
Was it wrong for the mother to back the raper uh yes!!
Should the mother be held accountable again yes!!still doesn’t change a 10 year rape victim was denied an abortion in her own state, and all you can do is deflect, and you have no problem giving me shit when I deflect.
As for Cox the court was ok for her to get the abortion, her Doctor was ok, but that Texas AG said nope, proper paperwork wasn’t filled out, somehow I don’t believe you on that because the Doctor would have known that.
@SQUEEKY2 My point with the 10 year old that you continue to avoid is that the law was changed. That is a done deal. That was right after RvW was done with and it shows things worked the way the REPUBLICANS thought they should…that when laws are wrong they get changed. My other point with this case is that everything about this case was a horror show and traveling to get an abortion was the least of it. There are far more damaging things to this little girl and many of them could have been avoided.
The Cox case you are missing the point where the contention is: The law. You are avoiding it like the plague. The woman wanted an abortion. The state has laws about how to do that. The doctor said she could have an abortion but refuses to actually put forth the paperwork the state requires. It could be done in one afternoon. So why wasn’t it, if it was that dire? The court ruled against the woman, the appellate court decided she could, without any consideration for the law at all. Is that the role of a judge? To ignore the law and just rule on what they want? I’ve even agreed with you that the law may need other criteria, but it is the law. And feelings are not grounds to violate the law. So what’s the next step? This drags on through court or someone violates the law. Meanwhile people can work to change the law.
And if Roe v wade was left alone would any of this have taken place.
The 10 year old wouldn’t have had to leave her state, and Cox would have had the procedure and moved on to try and conceive a healthy pregnancy.
doing away with RvW was simply so your orange God could grab the right evangelical vote nothing more.
@SQUEEKY2 And all this has what to do with YOUR initial question? You asked what policies the Republicans are running on. I answered that. What you are responding to is something that has already been changed by Republicans. Yet you are not acknowledging that. You aren’t acknowledging that the policy of getting the Feds out of your bedroom was a Republican goal. And I find it ever so amusing that those one the pro-abortion side of things screamed about the Dobbs decision saying the Feds have no place in their personal life. That was the entire conclusion of the Dobbs case….abortion is not a subject the Feds are supposed to control.
But you have basically side-lined your own question.
Answer this question 
