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Barbara Lee's avatar

I’ve change a lot in the last 4 years. I’ve learned to love an acerbic sometimes very inappropriate speaker (President Trump) for his truth and courage while despising a kindly old man pretending to love children while sinking Americans into poverty and tyranny that enriched his family and destroyed ours. (ExPresident Biden) let us never be deceived by superficial looks again!

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SR Miller's avatar

Barbara, glad you’ve come around to appreciating POTUS Trump - can’t say I ever had that issue; even in 2015 when, at best, I thought DJT would only be able to give the rest of the crowd a swift kick in the their collective rumps. I don’t watch much TV/video for "educational" purposes: initially it was because the video info dump was too slow (even today with a repeatedly fracture brain, video usefulness can only go so far), then I discovered that video could be deceptive and that it was more informative to just listen to politicians. I recall the great experiment of the Nixon-Kennedy debate: those who watched thought JFK won while those who listened sided with Nixon. I think it served me well with 💩 💩 🧠 as just listening one could feel the dementia that was riddling our nation - didn’t need to see the vacuous eyes. What he emphasized, his tone…

Where my mind went to immediately with your comment was listening to POTUS Trump interacting with the school girls a couple weeks ago - his tone, humor, inflection, that’s the grandfather, the caring man the country needs/needed. As for being inappropriate, perhaps the thing we’ve been needing as a country - discard the facade of {????} that politicians seem to cloth themselves in; that even being a billionaire with creature comforts most of can only imagine, POTUS Trump still comes across as the guy you’d enjoy sharing a pot of tea with. I can see POTUS Trump up in the steel, on bare concrete floors, inspecting a high rise rising high joshing with the men. America doesn’t need Leaders who are above it, we need our brothers ( AND sisters) leading.

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CMCM's avatar

That photo of Trump surrounded by all the happy little girls is iconic. They clearly liked him and were having fun, and you could see he liked them as well. Compare to Biden being around one isolated young girl here and there and sniffing her hair, and the girl having a shocked look on her face. The contrast couldn't be more stark.

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Les Power's avatar

Wise words indeed. Thank you.

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James Goodrich's avatar

Hi my friend hope all is well!!

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CMCM's avatar

One interesting comparison between Biden and Trump is to look at their children: Trump's adult children are loving, successful, well adjusted, happy and supportive of their father. None of them is a drug addict or alcoholic.

Biden's relationship with his two living children is very complicated. Both have battled substance abuse and seem to have been at odds with their father for long periods of time. The family appears quite dysfunctional.

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SR Miller's avatar

I have made the same comparison myself, many times.

AND, look at the grands: Miss Kai, posed and capable before a huge audience and national venue.

By all indications the Trumps are doing something right. [of course, I suppose, there could’a been some sort’a bargain struck with the father of lies… 🤣]

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