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Thanks for the well thought out response. Many of us probably grew up in one of those towns. Our family moved to the area to work in the local factory or mine. The factory closes, local businesses shut down, no jobs and no hope, people turn to drugs and alcohol and the cycle gets repeated. Your only chance is to move away. I'm not against unions. My grandpa was a union president. During his time they were fighting for living wages and safer work conditions. He has asbestos in his lungs and many of his friends died young. His father worked in a gypsum mine and he saw the toll it took on his health. But unions have also become greedy. There isn't a union representative in the country who is running on the platform of "we make a good living already let's just all relax and enjoy it." Workers want higher and higher wages. Not because they need it but because they want multiple cars, a boat, all brand new iPhones for their entire family. Everyone posts online about their vacations and how great their life seemingly is and others see that and expect the same. It's rotting people's brains. It's never going to be enough. What's the answer? This is where people's political and personal ideals come into play. We all have our own thoughts. I don't know who is right or who is wrong but I think we all want the same thing. We want to be happy and create a nice life for ourselves and our families. Many people don't get that opportunity and it's an endless struggle. I'll give some of my thoughts- If we just automatically charge huge tariffs on imports then the cost of everything is going to go up. I think we will need a more nuanced approach that limits imports and also gives incentives for home grown products. It will take a long time to build up the production power to then say ok we don't need these imports anymore, tax the hell out of them. Instead of billions of dollars going overseas, I'd like to see more investment here in our country. We are spoiled in that we have a ton of land, great natural resources, and a first world economy. We also have the best military. Nobody is invading us, we don't need to be leading NATO. Focus on what's going on at home for once. And so then how do you fix the people? This is tougher and is really the crux of the matter. We can have the jobs and the resources but if nobody wants to work for an honest pay then it's all for naught. Socially, morally, politically, religiously, we all have our own ideas. Mine as someone who is more "conservative" (yet still independent) is that strong families, love of God, and personal accountability is important. If you are born into a broken home, you are already at a disadvantage so stop normalizing that. If you don't have religion then who cares if you are a piece of crap, there's no consequences. And if you aren't personally accountable then you will just do whatever is easy and doing the right thing is almost never the easy thing. What can Politicians do? -America First -Unity -Focus on education and merit -Stop enabling victim mentality and laziness -Less powerful unions -Stop the rhetoric and hate

The American worker used to be the gold standard. "Made in America" meant something. Now it's a bunch of whiney babies that would rather stay home and play video games and do drugs because why bother. The entitlement is off the charts

I'd like to see manufacturing jobs brought back but unions and whiney brats make that difficult. Because of social media everyone thinks they should be the Kardashians. If you work at a factory you should expect to make a middle class salary on average for your area of the country. If you think you deserve 6 figures like UPS guys then that's why your job gets offshored or replaced with AI/Machines. It's greed on both sides.

All of the US Olympic sports teams have people who hate this country. It's disgusting. I will definitely not be watching. I'm guessing after Trump wins they will all protest the 2028 games by raising their fist or something. Wow so woke and powerful. Hopefully they are on the list to be deported

This is exactly what will happen. It's the only way they can even the playing field. I said before the attempt that they will need to take Trump out because he's winning fair and square but they tried and failed. Now they need to make it look like his side are the violent crazy ones. I expect some fake bomb threat at the DNC convention or a fake plot to kidnap someone. It won't even be anything violent it will be the threat of something which they can just make up

Hillbilly Elegy is on Netflix if anyone hasn't seen the new VP's life story

Now that I'm more informed on the situation, I think Trump already had the JD Vance crowd locked up. Doesn't really move the needle like pandering to the people of color, women, etc voters. Poor hicks in the middle of nowhere Ohio were already team Trump

Well there you have it. Probably a safe pick at this stage of the game

It's more likely that they were already in that phone and that's how they knew to leave that rooftop empty. I'm sure Edward Snowden will chime in but to suggest the government can't hack into your phone is hilarious. A 13 year old can get into a phone these days

Vance or Youngkin. Who would be better?

This looks pretty official I can think of 2 big reasons why she would be a nice choice

Is he good?

Hey man...you got anymore of that Trump?

I think they should wait. They already have all of the media coverage. This would drown that out

#WINNING

Josh is great, don't get me wrong. As you mentioned, to be the best he would have to be so much better than Mahomes to match their coaching and core players or any other advantage he may or may not have. But Mahomes gets it done time and time again. It's really no question at this point who is the best. There are a good number of people in TSW that say Josh is better. Seems obvious that he's not but if I state my case I'm usually pretty quickly called a troll. If there was a poll on who is the best QB in the NFL it would likely go: Mahomes 67% Lamar 13% Burrow 9% Josh 4% Other 5% Those are also the current betting odds for President.

Depends, are you one of the idiots that has Josh Allen as the best QB in the NFL? I'm betting on Patrick Mahomes, not because I want him to be but because my vision isn't so clouded out of loyalty to one side that I can't face reality

Check the betting lines. I trust people that have money to win/lose more than whatever polls say. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/futures-rise-higher-odds-trump-victory-after-shooting-2024-07-15/ Market is predicting a Trump win and people are trading as such

I think it will be Vance. I want it to be Tulsi.

Just checking in to see the lefties still going nuts lol. Trump is so far ahead I can't believe they are even wasting their energy. Trump will be your President elect in 16 weeks so get used to it

Right because if you use it to save someone then you are no longer the good guy. They will drag you through the mud in the media about how racist you are and a vigilante and they will show high school graduation pics of the killer about how nice they were and how they were turning their life around and fail to show their gang photos. There are no good guys, everyone just needs to look out for themselves

The only myth is that you will still be a good guy if you use it. I'm prepared to go to jail if I need to in order to protect my family. They will call me a racist and every name in the book but as long as my family is still alive that's all that matters to me. I will not be a hero though I would only use if there was no other choice. I'm not the guy running into the mall to stop anyone, I'm getting my family to the parking lot. Sorry, you guys are on your own and you will wish you had a gun too.

Illegal, also can be easily printed on a 3D printer in like 30 min

Correct but also that an "assault" weapon is not a category of gun so by banning "assault" weapons they could just ban any gun they want by saying it could be used in an assault (all guns). They use that word specifically to try and set a legal precedent for banning all guns including "hunting guns" or whatever they decide. The current laws ban automatic weapons. The shooter used a semi-auto which is basically what every single modern gun is. So if they want to ban that type that's pretty much everything including hand guns. There's nothing stopping him from taking that shot with a bolt action sniper rifle so the "ban the AR-15" crowd should know it wouldn't stop what happened yesterday and in fact wasn't even the best tool for the job. Also, many guns can be modified to automatic so by banning them they are just putting law abiding citizens at a disadvantage vs criminals who already don't follow the law. Most of the kids in Chicago have $5 Glock "switches" that make them full auto.

What's an "assault" rifle?