• BillyClark@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    FTA:

    Thirty-five percent said gas prices would have gone up the same amount under a Democrat, while only 34 percent of Trump’s 2024 voters believe gas prices would have gone up more under a Democratic administration.

    Am I reading this correctly? 69% of Trump voters think gas would have been the same or worse with Harris?

    I seriously doubt that any of these people thought for one moment about what they said, but this is actually a complicated issue. Would Iran have closed the Strait of Hormuz if only Israel had attacked them? My guess is that they wouldn’t, but it’s just a guess.

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      4 months ago

      It could very well be that Israel wouldn’t have attacked Iran in the first place if Trump wasn’t president.

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      4 months ago

      if only Israel had attacked

      Do you think Harris wouldn’t have backed Israel? Biden’s policy on Israel seemed to be publicly aligning 100% while quietly whispering, “Are you sure you know what you’re doing, Bebe?”

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        Love it when people know everything that might have happened, as long as it makes Republicans look less shitty

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          I can’t believe I’m the first you’re hearing this from, but a common criticism of Harris’ campaign was her failure to distinguish herself from Biden.

          “What, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?”

          “There is not a thing that comes to mind”

          She even campaigned as the only one who could stop Trump. Which sounded very similar to Biden’s campaign for the soul of America.

          So, yeah, I guess I was misled into thinking they both might govern the same way.