r/millenials • u/Any_Try4570 • 4d ago

Last night’s debate just shows how bad our presidential candidates are now

Even as a conservative, I do NOT want Trump in office. Dude is old, an asshole and all he talks about is how great he is. And Biden is just sick. Dude is NOT mentally there.

Half the time he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and doesn’t remember where he is. And of course Trump tried to capitalize on that last night with a few comments.

Like why is our government still filled with so many old people. And if you think I’m just being a “right wing conservative, I hate some of the republicans too. Just look at Mitch McConnell. Dude basically had 2 strokes on camera!! Why is he still in office??

Like we have 120 million people in the US older than 35 years old. We can find TWO fucking people younger and better for the democrats and republicans? Like come on. We can’t find 100 people in the senate that aren’t old and senile??

Edit: sheesh, totally did not expect for this post to blow up like that

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u/TessandraFae 4d ago edited 3d ago

Correct. The Heritage Foundation is the mastermind, the machine and money behind the Republican party, and what they have planned is absolutely awful. They intend to send us to the Dark ages with a full blown theocracy known as Project 2025. No rights, no justice, no education, and no hope.

If they win, there will be no more elections. They'll see to it.
John Oliver breaks it down here, but the wiki is provided as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

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u/CptKillJack 4d ago

I'm only going to touch on housing. Housing is expensive because corporations are treated as individuals and buy up all supply in order to rent and keep supply for purchase low to make more money. It's not greed per say, they are just using the levers available to them. But it's why we don't have a supply of ready houses for new home buyers.

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u/WolfpackEng22 4d ago

Housing is expensive because construction has not kept up demand. Mostly due to localities blocking development

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u/Fit_Psychology_2600 4d ago

You mean like we did with his awesome first term?

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u/gfunk5299 4d ago

More crazed fear mongering. Why did t Trump do this in his first administration, since you seem so well aware of what his plans are. Are you in the secret meetings?

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u/mapsoffun 4d ago edited 4d ago

He installed the Federalist Society/Heritage Foundation partisan hacks on SCOTUS who have since overturned Roe, affirmative action, and just today the Chevron deference in which now federal judges can make decisions on policy/regulations rather than deferring to subject experts across federal agencies. He also installed a frightening number of lower federal judges who are purposefully set to send more cases to SCOTUS to overturn decades of legal precedent.

Edit: added in Heritage Foundation.

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u/gfunk5299 4d ago

“There will be no more elections”. I believe that was stated above. Your little rant doesn’t equal no more elections.

Try again proving you are smarter than a 5th grader.

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u/mapsoffun 4d ago

First off: it wasn't my rant. You asked what the previous administration did that was so bad (though maybe you were only referring to "no more elections" specifically--it wasn't clear). I named two things he did that were, in fact, bad and are deeply unpopular.

As to your condescending question above, the non-partisan federal workers who are in the administrative state (who serve across multiple administrations) were some of the primary guardrails preventing Trump from stopping the peaceful transition of power. Project 2025 wants to change those roles to Schedule F so that the current people can be fired to install partisan /political appointees who will do the administration's bidding. Trump actually did create an Executive Order in October 2020 to this effect, but him and his minions didn't have the internal infrastructure to do anything significant with it between then and January 2021 because they were too busy trying to overturn the results of the election.

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u/gfunk5299 4d ago

That was an educated reply.

My point was project 2025 does not equal “no more elections” and that’s assuming you can make the mental gymnastics to leap to Trump equals project 2025. The post I was referring to is not an intelligent educated post. It’s extreme fear mongering at best.

Any post that legitimately claims project 2025 will happen under Trump and will result in no more elections is not an intelligent post.

I have no problems with informed educated posts and political disagreements. No more elections does not fall in that category though.

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u/gfunk5299 4d ago

And my condescending question isn’t condescending. It’s pretty simple. We had elections in 2020 and beyond, did we not? So my question, what did trump do in his first administration to have “no more elections”? It’s a pretty simple question and answer.

But the post implied that project 2025 proves it’s a given if Trump gets elected, there will be no more elections after 2028. You really want to stand behind that take as being an educated intelligent post?

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 3d ago

It really means that the elections won't decide the winners. They'll still hold them like most dictatorship do.

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u/Prestigious-Owl-6397 3d ago

He tried to have fake electors sent in 2020. He'll hold fake elections.

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u/DrTheBlueLights 3d ago

But Biden made it very clear that our election system is the safest in the world and even suggesting it could be manipulated is “election denial” and should prevent those who ever exhibited it from holding office. So you don’t need to worry about the election. ;)

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u/Prestigious-Owl-6397 3d ago

You're purposefully conflating two different election topics. The claims about voter fraud were about mail-in ballots, and those claims were proven unfounded. Sending in fake electors and appointing election officials who will not honestly count votes is different.

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u/DrTheBlueLights 3d ago

There are also significant (I think potentially more plausible) claims of election subversion from the so-called “fortification” of the 2020 election by Meta (donated almost all physical dropboxes, which contained unspecified but proprietary big data tech), Microsoft (Azure Government Cloud is how the voting data from states is securely transmitted to DC), and Google. If these forms of interference are possible and can make subtle changes to the mosaic of laws and election procedures without anyone noticing or needing approval, we will probably never have another valid election. The risk of getting prosecuted for it has been shown to be a literal 0, and the reward is that tech companies get to choose a president who they find less threatening.

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u/mattcj7 3d ago

He pointed out very legal things most presidents do while in office and tried to claim their fascist policies.

Biden ignores Supreme Court rulings and tries to subvert congress which are fascistic/dictatorial.

Yet trump is labeled the dictator

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u/Fit_Psychology_2600 4d ago

Don’t you know, Trump is going to end democracy? 🙄🙄🙄

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u/gfunk5299 4d ago

I’ve heard, still not sure why he didn’t end democracy his first administration. I guess he will this time though, for sure!!! /s

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u/gfunk5299 4d ago

It’s amazing how the left preach about being enlighten, informed, intellectuals, then you fall into the trap of spewing out this. You really, really think you are soooo much smarter than everyone else that you know this is a fact of what’s going to happen???

You sound super intelligent right now.

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u/TessandraFae 4d ago

Yes.

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u/gfunk5299 4d ago

Just proved my point. Thank you

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u/Dry_Masterpiece8319 4d ago

☝️🤡=not smarter than a fifth grader

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u/gfunk5299 4d ago

If this is all some super elaborate plot, why didn’t it happen between 2016 and 2020??? Let’s see you prove to be smarter than a 5th grader now.

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u/gfunk5299 4d ago

And the people that believe project 2025 is some secret Trump plot are smarter than a 5th grader???

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u/picklednspiced 3d ago

Secret plot? It’s a published fact!! Geezus, the orchestrators are boldly laying it out for us to see, educate yourself!