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Its been ~8 months in office now. Can we please stop with this whataboutism? Pray do tell what is this guy's plan to reduce the national debt? The BBB seems to be increasing the national debt to unmanageable level.


Did you catch the part where Trump repeatedly claimed to reduce the debt once in office and has since done the opposite (despite the smoke and mirrors called DOGE).


So you're saying that if we want something we should vote for the opposite?


No, they're saying you shouldn't vote for the proven insurrectionist and known con artist.

You've been conned. I would feel bad, if this wasn't, like, con number 401.


If you don't like it campaign for meaningful opposition. Trump was elected after the Republicans were critiqued by the right.


I don't understand this comment.


Well you certainly shouldn't vote for the con artist with a proven track record of blatantly lying. Especially when he keeps mentioning the subject, salivating at the prospect of having another turn at the trough.


No, start considering the source. If a mental patient tells you that a stock is a good investment, do you buy? No, so why listen to a man who lies with every word he speaks?

If Kamala had been elected president the debt would've grown, but at a lower rate than under Trump, and her policies would've benefited regular folk, not just gazillionaires.

Kamala also isn't in the Epstein files and doesn't have a history of sexual assault, and certainly wouldn't have moved that absolute demon Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security club fed because she was willing to provide testimony to deflect from Kamala's crimes (of which there are none).

Shall I go on?

You chose one of the most incompetent, nonsensical, unethical, greedy, lecherous humans on this planet, who also has an absolute lack of morals or empathy, because he said he'd reduce the deficit / debt? What did you think was going to happen?

I hope you take this misstep as an opportunity for self reflection.


Had Kamala instead campaigned on curing cancer and making all Americans billionaires, you would have voted for her instead?


Well, _previously_ ol' mini-hands ran on decreasing the deficit, and then massively increased it with tax cuts. In the words of another expert on increasing deficits, "Fool me once shame on you, fool me - You can't get fooled again".


One campaigned on reducing the deficit; one did not. It seems reasonable to expect a smaller deficit from the one who campaigned on that, doesn't it?


Unless he has a track record of promising things and not delivering. Perhaps even on this specific issue.


Woah, all the replies are misreading me in the same way.

Yes, Trump seems to lie even more than a normal politician. In that sense, sure, you shouldn't expect that he's going to do anything about the deficit. You knew (or should have known) that when you voted.

But what I meant was, because he ran on the issue, we have grounds to judge him for not doing what he said, in a way that we would not have been able to judge Harris had she won.


You're aware that he served a first term where you could've looked at his track record with deficit spending, correct? Before COVID, while the economy was doing good, Trump was still spending government money like crazy.

See: https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt


Trump is a lifelong pathological liar (among other things). There is no meaning in anything he promises. He has no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself. He is a lecherous, repulsive menace.




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