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    SteveSBrickNJ said:
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    Fact check: Biden keeps saying billionaires pay 8 percent in taxes. Not really.

    “Look, folks, you know how many billionaires we have in America today? One thousand. You know what their average rate - tax rate - federal tax rate is? Federal tax rate is 8.5 percent. Raise your hand if you’d trade your tax rate for 8.5 percent. I’m serious. Think about this. There’d be $40...
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    That article is based on 2014 tax rates. Trump gave them a tax cut, and killed the program that reports the data. So we don’t know how much they pay anymore. 🤷‍♀️
     
    What do you Biden supporters think the Biden Administration will do to respond to the 3 American Service Members killed in Jordan by Iran backed Proxies?
     
    SteveSBrickNJ said:
    What do you Biden supporters think the Biden Administration will do to respond to the 3 American Service Members killed in Jordan by Iran backed Proxies?
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    Don’t know as I lack information. I guess that they might shoot missles at Hezb’allah but that is my guess only.
     
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    SteveSBrickNJ said:
    What do you Biden supporters think the Biden Administration will do to respond to the 3 American Service Members killed in Jordan by Iran backed Proxies?
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    I wouldn’t consider myself a Biden “supporter,” but based on his history, experience, and demeanor, I would expect he will discuss it with several advisers experienced in various disciplines, and use their advice and expertise to respond appropriately.
     
    FullMonte said:
    I wouldn’t consider myself a Biden “supporter,” but based on his history, experience, and demeanor, I would expect he will discuss it with several advisers experienced in various disciplines, and use their advice and expertise to respond appropriately.
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    I personally hope would is deemed to be appropriate is something VERY STRONG and not a one strike-one location thing. We need to send a message that is very very clear and thus a deterrent.
     
    SteveSBrickNJ said:
    What do you Biden supporters think the Biden Administration will do to respond to the 3 American Service Members killed in Jordan by Iran backed Proxies?
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    Why are you asking just Biden supporters? I'll give my opinion anyhow. I think they will strike the group that they say conducted the attack. I think they will communicate with everyone they have to right before the strike to try to keep things from escalating.
     
    Re: the question put forth by Steve

    Biden will consult with his military, national security advisors, likely CIA and maybe even FBI. He would also likely talk to the UK, France, Germany and Israel.

    Perhaps a better question would be what a Republican president would do and Trump or Haley in particular.
     
    This could go in a few threads
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    During the eight years he served in the Iowa state Senate, Tod Bowman was a self-described “door knocker”, trekking to the front porches and patios of constituents in the rural counties he represented to appeal for votes.

    They would, in turn, tell Bowman, a moderate Democrat, of their concerns – that government assistance programs amounted to a “handout”, that too many undocumented migrants were entering the country, that Barack Obama, the president for much of Bowman’s time in office, was planning to take their guns away. Occasionally, whoever opened the door would start interrogating Bowman before he even finished introducing himself.

    “Are you a Democrat or a Republican?” was the typical demand, Bowman remembered. The former high school teacher and wrestling coach came up with his own disarming reply: “I’m an Iowan.”


    By 2018, such encounters were happening more and more frequently, and that November, voters in the farms and small towns that made up Bowman’s eastern Iowa district replaced him with a Republican.

    While Bowman believes a combination of alienation from the national Democratic party and dislike of some bills he supported led to his defeat, he saw only one man to blame for the rising hostility he faced on the campaign trail.

    “Trump certainly made it almost acceptable in our psyches to name call, to lie, to manipulate, to be very aggressive instead of civil,” Bowman said in an interview at his house in the town of Maquoketa. “I really feel he’s changed politics, probably, if not forever, for a certain, significant period of time.”

    Beyond altering the tone of American politics, Donald Trump’s ascension to the helm of the Republican party undid progress Democrats had made in winning the trust of voters in rural areas nationwide, and many of their election victories ever since have relied on support from cities and suburbs. Whether this trend continues could prove crucial in deciding the victor of this year’s presidential election, where turnout in rural areas could tip swing states towards either Trump or Joe Biden. It will also play a role in determining control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the latter of which Republicans are trying to gain by winning seats in Montana, West Virginia and Ohio.

    Few states exhibit the consequences of rural voters shifting away from Democrats better than Iowa. Once viewed by the party as a swing state, Trump won Iowa decisively in 2016 and carried 31 counties that had twice voted for Obama – the most of any single state. In the 2020 election, Biden won none of them back, and the president this year is not expected to campaign for victory in the Hawkeye state.

    The rise of Trump also undid a fragile tie that voters had unknowingly reached in Wyoming, a town of 523 people in Bowman’s district that was, at the end of 2015, the only community in Iowa with a population of more than 500 evenly split between registered Democrats and Republicans, according to a Des Moines Register analysis.

    The next year, Wyoming voters overwhelming voted for Trump. So, too, did the surrounding Jones county, which supported a Republican candidate for the first time in 28 years. Wyoming voted again for the New York real estate mogul in 2020, and today, there are more than twice as many registered Republicans than Democrats in town, according to the county auditor.…….

    In November, Democrats’ continued control of the Senate will hinge on the re-election of imperiled lawmakers from Montana and Ohio, both red states where rural voters are plenty. And in the expected rematch between Trump and Biden, turnout by right-leaning voters outside of population centers could determine if it is the former president or the current president at the inauguration next year.

    For Democrats, “You’re not looking to win some of these rural counties, you’re looking to cut the losses, maybe by two or three points, which could make a difference in a close race,” said Robin Johnson, an adjunct political science professor at Monmouth College in Illinois, who has consulted with the party on how to improve their rural support.

    In his view, Democratic candidates have suffered in rural areas because they neglected campaign tactics that work. Chief among them: yard signs, which he says can greatly boost their visibility.

    “When I was working campaigns, you were taught that yard signs don’t vote. But in rural areas, it’s important because your neighbors notice. If you’ve got a sign up for a Democrat and you normally vote Republican, it kind of gives an okay to consider that person,” Johnson said.

    Two years ago, Amsler ran for a state house seat representing an area that included Wyoming. He met many voters who spoke approvingly of Biden and were supportive of his candidacy, but didn’t want to display a yard sign for his campaign.

    “I’m afraid of what those fanatics will do to my lawn, to my home,” they’d tell him.……

    www.theguardian.com

    Why Trump made rural Americans turn their backs on Democrats

    Trump shifted rural voters away from Democrats: ‘He’s made it acceptable to name call, to lie, to manipulate’
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    LA - L.A. said:
    Why are you asking just Biden supporters? I'll give my opinion anyhow. I think they will strike the group that they say conducted the attack. I think they will communicate with everyone they have to right before the strike to try to keep things from escalating.
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    There's definitely an innuendo behind specifically targeting Biden supporters on the response. And the appropriate response is, why not ask Trump supporters? Well we know:

    www.salon.com

    How Trump dodged his own Benghazi

    Two years after four U.S. soldiers were killed in Niger, Republicans have swept the whole affair into oblivion
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    apnews.com

    Pentagon ends reviews of Niger ambush that killed 4 soldiers

    The Pentagon has officially concluded its reviews of a 2017 ambush in the African nation of Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead.
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    www.providencejournal.com

    Trump, aides on tape laugh about Niger ambush that left 4 US soldiers dead

    President Donald Trump drew laughs from some of his aides as he joked about what a “rough business” terrorism is while discussing an ambush in Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead last year, accor…
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    I wonder who they plan on voting for? Hopefully it won't deliver this country into the hands of a right wing authoritarian leader/government.

    I wonder if this will just effect Biden or all down ballot Democrat's. Certainly a Republican controlled congress won't hear their concerns more than a Democratic controlled congress would.

     


    Rest of the post:

    - Said if you don’t vote for him, “then you ain’t black”

    - Extended penalties for people under 21 charged with selling marijuana

    - Endorsed segregationist senators

    - Opposed busing because he didn’t want his kids to grow up in a “racial jungle”

    It's not surprising that Biden isn't polling well with blacks especially when you consider the economy as well.
     

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