Dave Burton@ncdave4life
Dave BurtonAug 5, 2025
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1/10γ That's the point, Brian! When it comes to taxes & spending, there's not a dime's worth of difference between Democrats and Trump. That's why @Elon Musk lost patience with @Donald J. Trump.
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Tariffs are taxes, and 9Γ is a BIG tax increase.
But it hardly scratches the deficit. Do you have any idea how enormous Trump's $2 trillion/yr federal deficit is?
usgovernmentspending.com/federal_defici
usdebtclock.org
For each family of four, the federal government is adding $23,500/year to the national debt.
AND IT IS GETTING WORSE.
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Tariff revenue could at best cover about 5% of the federal budget, and that's optimistically ignoring the cost of the probable consequent recession (or worse).
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Brian D Waterbury@BrianDWaterbur1
Aug 05 25
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And a President Harris would not have done so exponentially? GTFO
2/10γ Trump is much more like a Democrat than a conservative Republican. W/r/t his personal conduct, he resembles Bill Clinton or Gary Hart.
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump
3/10γ But Clinton had better manners than Trump. Trump is a narcissist, and a foul-mouthed, hypocritical, lecherous creep, who contradicts himself constantly.
4/10γ There are some bright spots. For instance, Trump 2.0 is showing more respect for real science than Trump 1.0 and the Democrats did.
sealevel.info/learnmore.html
5/10γ But Trump resembles Biden in many ways, none of them good. Both men lie constantly, and both even stole troves of government documents from the White House when they left office, some of them classified top secret.
theweek.com/articles/65170
I miss principled, conservative leadership.
6/10γ It's been over 16 years since we had a POTUS who I would trust to watch my dog for the weekend.
7/10γ On 1/17/2025, just before he left office, President Biden tried to amend the U.S. Constitution by decree & wishful thinking, to ratify the defeated ERA.
Three days later President Trump tried to amend the U.S. Constitution by decree & wishful thinking, to end "birthright citizenship" for children born to aliens here temporarily or illegally, contradicting the plain language of the 14th Amendment.
BOTH of those acts SHOULD be offensive to every American, and especially to every conservative. But as far as I can tell, the vast majority of people offended Biden's executive overreach on 1/17 were fine with Trump's on 1/20, and the vast majority of people offended by Trump's executive overreach on 1/20 were fine with Biden's on 1/17.
"Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form [of the Constitution], it is binding upon themselves collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption, or even knowledge, of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives in a departure from it, prior to such an act."
- Federalist #78
8/10γ Both Trump and Biden are showing obvious signs of cognitive decline (though Biden's has progressed further than Trump's).
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Dave Burton@ncdave4life
Dave BurtonJan 24 24
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Remember when Biden thoughtfully defused the "Trump stolen top secret documents" issue, by getting caught with stolen top secret documents?
Now Trump's returning the favor, thoughtfully defusing the "Biden elderly cognitive decline" issue, by showing signs of cognitive decline, himself.
Maybe that's why he won't debate Haley.
When Biden, of all people, or at least his campaign team, wants to talk about the issue of cognitive decline in elderly candidates, you know there's something seriously wrong with Trump.
He sounds drunk, but he's famously a teetotaler, so it's not booze.
Is he ill? Maybe he just took too much cold & flu medicine. I hope so! But I fear that it's a much deeper problem.
Maybe that's why Scott & DeSantis endorsed him: they've seen how Trump is declining, and they're angling for the veep slot, figuring that he won't last four more years.
Biden & Trump are much more alike than their allies are willing to admit. They're both elderly men showing signs of early dementia. They both lie with disturbing regularity and practiced ease. They're both divorced & remarried, and they're both rich old white guys.
For both of them, a moist finger held in the wind is their only moral compass, and both of them have flip-flopped between being pro-life and radically pro-abortion, when it became politically expedient for them to change their views.
Thankfully, Nikki Haley is not at all like them.
9/10γ Perhaps worst of all, both men determine their "convictions" based on a moist finger in the political wind. In fact, both of have completely reversed their positions even about murdering unborn babies, when it was politically convenient.
10/10γ So, yes, I know the Democrats are as bad as Trump. I know Biden tried to amend the Constitution by decree, and he lied constantly, just like Trump. I know Biden is even more pro-abortion than Trump, and he's as much of a tax-and-spend Keynesian as Trump.
But THOSE ARE NOT GOOD EXCUSES for the GOP's abandonment of conservative principles! Biden & Harris are Democrats, so I expect it of them. We used to be able to expect better from Republicans.
Dave Burton
Dave Burton@ncdave4life
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