Why Can't Harris Answer A Question.

[Argentbear]

Not really. Tariffs make sense in preservation of American industry and the overall economy.

Nobody can still explain why other countries use tariffs themselves if they're so bad.

If Trump gets his way the Tariff he imposes will be the second highest in the world, only Bermuda woudl have a higher tariff rate

 

[Argentbear]

And Trump is an idiot when it comes to economics. How many times have Trump businesses failed?

Most of Trump's enterprises have failed.

Trump Airlines
Trump Beverages— Trump water, Trump Fire , Trump Power, and Trump's American Pale Ale
Trump the Game — Milton Bradley tried to sell it. As did Hasbro.no one bought it.
Trump Casinos — He bankrupt the Trump Taj Mahal,
the Trump Marina,
the Trump Plaza in New Jersey,
the Trump Casino in Indiana.
Trump Castle Hotel and Casino
Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts
Trump resorts The Plaza hotel
Trump Entertainment Resorts
Trump Tower Tampa
Trump Magazines — Trump Style and Trump World and Trump Magazine
Trump Mortgage company—
Trump Steaks —
Buckhead Beef $715,000.
Trump's Travel Site — GoTrump.com
Trumpnet — A telephone communication company
Trump University or the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative
Trump Vodka
Trump Fragrances — Success by Trump, Empire by Trump, and Donald Trump (yes you too can smell like an old orange man)
Trump Mattress
dozens of condo and apartment buildings
Truth Social it still exists but it is on life support

 

[Copernicus]

Most of Trump's enterprises have failed.

Yes, this has been how he has operated since he ran into all those bankruptcies caused by his mismanagement of casinos that he bought. He has turned himself into a celebrity brand name. He puts his name on everything. That's why his website has all of those products that people can purchase now, even though it isn't clear when, or if, they will actually receive what they purchase. He is a professional grifter.

 

[Twilight Hue]

But Trump still had his bible printed in China...so not much of incentive. Or is it different when Trump sells out?

Estimates were around 115000 shipped from Hangzhou. Yea. There's certainly a conflict of interest with that, but China is one of the biggest exporters of Bibles which I find very ironic in a country that is extremely hostile to religion.

 

[SkepticThinker]

Better than the complete airhead the left wing is backing.

Psst ... you're the one backing an airhead who thinks asylum seekers are people seeking mental asylums. Who thinks there were airports during the Revolutionary War. Who thinks the sound of windmills causes cancer. Who suggested injecting disinfectant into the body to prevent COVID. Who said the Constitution should be dissolved because he lost the 2020 election. Who thinks exercise depletes the body's reserves of energy. Who looked directly at a solar eclipse and then pointed at it for others to look. Who says stuff 'like, "I'm, like a stable genius" and on and on and on.
There's your airhead.

You and Trump are projecting again.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

if we were to produce more coal and oil, what would be the relative price of the energy produced.

I wonder why there's any cost at all with the free energy sources. We went solar in 2011, which paid for itself in six years. Now, we don't pay for electricity, and we heat our water for free as well using propane only for the oven top and outdoor grill, which cut our propane costs by 2/3 as well.

Why should Trump go on 60 Minutes

For the same reason he should have debated Harris a second time: so that he doesn't appear weak and afraid of her. She's been campaigning on it.

Did he make the right choice? The world has already seen them pair off in debate. Another debate and the 60 Minutes interviews would likely have turned out the same, with the consensus outside of the MAGA-sphere being that he was outmatched, and MAGA voters unaffected.

By refusing to go head-to-head with her, he adds weak and afraid to outmatched. Trump would rather snipe at her to friendly audiences from a safe distance where nobody is asking him questions such as rallies or else he has sympathetic people asking him softball questions, although that hasn't been working well for Trump either, since he can't stay on script and has little insight or impulse control left. Trump wouldn't be able to do his little shuffle for a half hour outside of friendly venues.

But still, does any of that matter to the American electorate? Half already see Trump as unfit for the job, and the other half are indifferent to Trump's moral and intellectual failures. The few undecideds or swayable voters are apolitical people who don't watch debates or hear Harris taunting Trump about his apparent cowardice. So who would be affected by Trump ether debating or refusing to do so?

Still, it's interesting to see fear in this malignant narcissist with delusions of grandeur and unjustified self-confidence that he is the smartest person in any room he's in. It's suggests a degree of insight about his reality. He understands how much he was humiliated, which is apparently the most powerful trigger for him. Kimmel humiliated him at the Oscars and Trump is still fuming over that and giving Kimmel free press. And he's never recovered from Obama roasting him to his face in an annual, televised White House dinner (Trump never returned for another, which apparently is his MO when humiliated):

Trump is appealing to the blue collar worker and not the intellectual snob.

It sounds like you're the snob here.

Trump doesn't appeal to blue collar workers. He appeals to rural, undereducated, white males consuming and susceptible to conservative indoctrination media. He doesn't appeal to blue collar workers with college degrees, nor black, brown, or female blue collar workers. It's not working in the trades or service industries like hotels and restaurants that makes one a Trump supporter. It's indoctrinated grievance. It's their gullibility which leads to bitterness. It's the willingness to believe that their lives aren't what they were hoping for because of "DEI hires," Jews replacing them, and Haitian immigrants, Venezuelan gangs, and illegals getting their FEMA dollars and stealing the good jobs from them.

She has practiced lines that she says over and over again and when she is asked any specific questions she makes sure everyone knows she comes from a middle class family with an opportunity economy.

Walz does that more than Harris. He comes off as everyman. A former coach and schoolteacher, he grills and works under the hood of his car.

Kamala had educated and professional parents, but no silver spoon, hence the job at McDonalds, the mention of which for some reason set Trump off culminating in another embarrassment for him where he showed whoever was watching how out of touch he is with their world when he demonstrated how out of his element he was. Imagine Harris doing the same thing. She knows how to do a job like that because she's done it before.

Something similar happened with Walz and Vance when it came to ordering donuts and connecting with the workers. Vance was awkward. He didn't seem to know how to order donuts, and couldn't relate to the staff, whereas Walz was comfortable with both.

I will take Trump's expertise in economics over that silly little chart any day of the week.

Trump bankrupted two casinos. How is that even possible?

He tanked the American economy with his mishandling of the pandemic.

And now, Nobel laureate economists, who actually ARE experts in economics, warn that Trump will stimulate inflation and recession with his tariffs.

Also, it looks like he'll die broke.

He's hardly an expert in economics or anything else except grifting and gaslighting.

That's not what Trump is saying and he's a degreed economist.

It's a bachelor's degree. Experts in economics have PhDs. Trump couldn't get a job as an economist. He's not qualified.

The only thing detailed and articulate with Harris is her meaningless word salad.

Meet Ginger. She probably would agree with you about Kamala:

 

[Subduction Zone]

I wonder why there's any cost at all with the free energy sources. We went solar in 2011, which paid for itself in six years. Now, we don't pay for electricity, and we heat our water for free as well using propane only for the oven top and outdoor grill, which cut our propane costs by 2/3 as well.

Nothing is free in this world. Those prices take into account the cost of the equipment, setting it up, maintaining it, etc.. The costs of a coal plant are not just the cost of the coal either. But yes, it is pretty obvious that over the lifetime of a plant of any sort that "free energy" will be cheaper. If we keep adding more and more wind there will be a bit of an increase in the prices because a method of storing excess energy must be found that can be quickly tapped for times of little wind. There are quite a few options depending upon location.

For the same reason he should have debated Harris a second time: so that he doesn't appear weak and afraid of her. She's been campaigning on it.

I think that Trump realized that as bad as running away looks it would look even worse for him to have his rear end handed to him as happened last time.

Did he make the right choice? The world has already seen them pair off in debate. Another debate and the 60 Minutes interviews would likely have turned out the same, with the consensus outside of the MAGA-sphere being that he was outmatched, and MAGA voters unaffected.

Oh, okay. You do understand why running away and lying was a good campaign method for him. He cannot afford to have his base wake up and realize how flawed that he is. This is mostly a cult here. A cult that has followers that can sway others to believing that Trump may

By refusing to go head-to-head with her, he adds weak and afraid to outmatched. Trump would rather snipe at her to friendly audiences from a safe distance where nobody is asking him questions such as rallies or else he has sympathetic people asking him softball questions, although that hasn't been working well for Trump either, since he can't stay on script and has little insight or impulse control left. Trump wouldn't be able to do his little shuffle for a half hour outside of friendly venues.

But still, does any of that matter to the American electorate? Half already see Trump as unfit for the job, and the other half are indifferent to Trump's moral and intellectual failures. The few undecideds or swayable voters are apolitical people who don't watch debates or hear Harris taunting Trump about his apparent cowardice. So who would be affected by Trump ether debating or refusing to do so?

Still, it's interesting to see fear in this malignant narcissist with delusions of grandeur and unjustified self-confidence that he is the smartest person in any room he's in. It's suggests a degree of insight about his reality. He understands how much he was humiliated, which is apparently the most powerful trigger for him. Kimmel humiliated him at the Oscars and Trump is still fuming over that and giving Kimmel free press. And he's never recovered from Obama roasting him to his face in an annual, televised White House dinner (Trump never returned for another, which apparently is his MO when humiliated):

It sounds like you're the snob here.

Trump doesn't appeal to blue collar workers. He appeals to rural, undereducated, white males consuming and susceptible to conservative indoctrination media. He doesn't appeal to blue collar workers with college degrees, nor black, brown, or female blue collar workers. It's not working in the trades or service industries like hotels and restaurants that makes one a Trump supporter. It's indoctrinated grievance. It's their gullibility which leads to bitterness. It's the willingness to believe that their lives aren't what they were hoping for because of "DEI hires," Jews replacing them, and Haitian immigrants, Venezuelan gangs, and illegals getting their FEMA dollars and stealing the good jobs from them.

Walz does that more than Harris. He comes off as everyman. A former coach and schoolteacher, he grills and works under the hood of his car.

Kamala had educated and professional parents, but no silver spoon, hence the job at McDonalds, the mention of which for some reason set Trump off culminating in another embarrassment for him where he showed whoever was watching how out of touch he is with their world when he demonstrated how out of his element he was. Imagine Harris doing the same thing. She knows how to do a job like that because she's done it before.

Something similar happened with Walz and Vance when it came to ordering donuts and connecting with the workers. Vance was awkward. He didn't seem to know how to order donuts, and couldn't relate to the staff, whereas Walz was comfortable with both.

Trump bankrupted two casinos. How is that even possible?

He tanked the American economy with his mishandling of the pandemic.

And now, Nobel laureate economists, who actually ARE experts in economics, warn that Trump will stimulate inflation and recession with his tariffs.

Also, it looks like he'll die broke.

He's hardly an expert in economics or anything else except grifting and gaslighting.

It's a bachelor's degree. Experts in economics have PhDs. Trump couldn't get a job as an economist. He's not qualified.

Meet Ginger. She probably would agree with you about Kamala:

“The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine” Trump cannot run away from justice forever. It is catching up with him. The info that is coming out ahead of the insurrection trial, largely due to the USSC interfering for Trump, is looking very devastating. It is a pity that the case will not be televised because it is in federal court.

 

[Pogo]

I wonder why there's any cost at all with the free energy sources. We went solar in 2011, which paid for itself in six years. Now, we don't pay for electricity, and we heat our water for free as well using propane only for the oven top and outdoor grill, which cut our propane costs by 2/3 as well.

The cost is the lifetime total cost for installation, construction, maintenance, taxes, etc over the life of a new installation divided by projected output at some price. up front costs may be recouped in short time periods but you aren't counting renting your roof space to a utility etc. Anyhow, cost of the sun is zero and I'm not sure how they calculate the otherwise cost of fuel for the other options, but I can't see them going down.
Bottom line is Solar and Wind are already cheaper than anything else though also not included is connection to the grid which doomed a local project to place a solar farm on a closed landfill for now due to the it's location and rewiring the local grid to accept the power. It was approved for a few million dollars, but due to it's location, it would have cost nearly that much again to connect it to the grid. This same problem is slowing down installation in other areas as there is very little cooperation and foresight in building a next generation power grid.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Psst ... you're the one backing an airhead who thinks asylum seekers are people seeking mental asylums. Who thinks there were airports during the Revolutionary War. Who thinks the sound of windmills causes cancer. Who suggested injecting disinfectant into the body to prevent COVID. Who said the Constitution should be dissolved because he lost the 2020 election. Who thinks exercise depletes the body's reserves of energy. Who looked directly at a solar eclipse and then pointed at it for others to look. Who says stuff 'like, "I'm, like a stable genius" and on and on and on.
There's your airhead.

You and Trump are projecting again.

So desperate. Just watch what actually happens when Trump takes office.

 

[Argentbear]

So desperate. Just watch what actually happens when Trump takes office.

If it happens one of the first things is that the military will have to decide if it is going to act as Trump's personal hit squad

 

[SkepticThinker]

So desperate. Just watch what actually happens when Trump takes office.

Yes, you appear extremely desperate, supporting such an airhead of a man who is clearly in cognitive decline.
Notice how you have nothing at all to say in regard to the myriad examples given.

You've made it very clear you don't support airheads. And yet .... you do.
How's that cognitive dissonance taste?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Yes, you appear extremely desperate, supporting such an airhead of a man who is clearly in cognitive decline.
Notice how you have nothing at all to say in regard to the myriad examples given.

You've made it very clear you don't support airheads. And yet .... you do.
How's that cognitive dissonance taste?

Well I guess I could say my airhead will do a lot better than your airhead will. ;0)

 

[SkepticThinker]

Well I guess I could say my airhead will do a lot better than your airhead will. ;0)

I love that you continuously just keep stomping all over your own standards you set for others, because ... Dear Leader Trump.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I love that you continuously just keep stomping all over your own standards you set for others, because ... Dear Leader Trump.

No. I care about those that support a country's own citizens first and foremost.

 

[SkepticThinker]

No. I care about those that support a country's own citizens first and foremost.

Then why support a narcissist who spends all his time talking about himself, defrauding people out of their money, and making himself and his rich buddies richer? You imagine that such a person cares about you?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Then why support a narcissist who spends all his time talking about himself, defrauding people out of their money, and making himself and his rich buddies richer? You imagine that such a person cares about you?

A lot more than the Democrats who feign caring, but in reality coddle the hive mind elites that control it.

 

[SkepticThinker]

A lot more than the Democrats who feign caring, but in reality coddle the hive mind elites that control it.

So you think a narcissist who has spent his life defrauding Americans really, super duper cares personally about Americans?
That's called "feign caring."

See what you did there? You just projected again.