Sydney Sweeney does an ad for jeans, media throws a hissy fit

[Chrkeller]

Machiavellian said:

Chrkeller said:

Genuinely and sincerely don't know.  That is what I'm trying to understand and have been for almost a year now.  The presidential election didn't shock me, but the senate and house shocked me.  There is something here that we don't understand, which is why the blanket "because dumb" is frustrating.  It isn't value add.  

If it wasn't for covid, I think trump wins in 2020.  Speculation but that is my gut.  

I can only go by the friend group I have and he majority of them believe that Trump was going to be better for the economy and their pockets.  I kept asking them why but could not get any real answer or policy they believe he would do that would bring about that result.  I guess you could say that Harris was considered part of Biden regime so Trump offered something different even if they could not pinpoint anything he actually was going to do.  This also comes down to the educated uneducated part again.  Even though the world was going through high inflation due to COVID, Americans either did not care or were just clueless that it was a global situation not local.  They did not care that the US was able to rebound much quicker than the rest of the world instead they only focused what was right in front of them as if looking through fog.

I saw many conversations on the subject at the time and wondered exactly why people believe it was some type of policy from Biden that the world was going through high inflation but that is politics.  The GOP framed it as a Biden issue and of course if you have no real education than its easy to make that group believe it just like Trump making the same group believe Tariffs are paid by the country its levied against instead of the companies within the nation that purchase the goods which then is transferred to the customer.  

A lot of that is fair.  I still think messaging is the biggest issue with liberals.  What they say and what people hear are very misaligned.

I do think a big hit to Biden was the border, the cover up of his mental decline and Harris being directly associated with all of it.  He was just a bad pick out of the gates.  I think someone like Peter B would have won.  It is a real shame because trump shouldn't be president, especially with control with the senate, house and Supreme Court.  

I'll never understand, especially with the mental decline, why the DNC went Biden.  The nail in the coffin was the debates.  It was over at that moment.  Which, going off memory, trump was trying to avoid a debate.  Liberals pushed for it.  Again something I will never understand.

I don't believe stupid is why trump won.  The liberal strategy was God awful.