Chris Christie Entering the Primaries

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honorentheos wrote:
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It looks like linkedin has banned Vivek Ramaswamy's account. That didn't take long.
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I don't think he has the remotest, minutest, flake of a snowball's chance in hell of winning the presidency but watch him handle this crowd and listen to what he has to say. See what you think. Newark boy's got nothing to lose when he speaks this way.

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Republicans may boo at anyone taunting the cult with anti-fascist sentiments and strong democratic opinions, but they will boo the loudest for anyone insinuating Trump should be responsible for his criminal behavior.
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Moksha wrote:
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekgramaswamy

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ajax18 wrote:
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Repeating Trump is all wrong, all bad, beneath the office of the president etc, isn't going to get Christy anywhere in a Republican primary and he should know that? So why is he doing it? Why not talk a little more about Joe Biden enriching himself and the entire family through his son Hunter's influence pedaling? Perhaps talk about the fact that the Biden family has illegal guns and doesn't pay their taxes in spite of their call for gun control and for the rich to pay their fair share.
Respect to Christie for not taking these ‘suggestions’ seriously.
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Why not talk a little more about Joe Biden enriching himself
You mean why not lie like Republicans expect? You're right -- Republicans want to be lied to endlessly and told a simplistic story about the villains of the left trying to ruin the common man and only a hero like Trump will defeat these forces, establish world peace, and send the economy to the moon.

You're right, he's certainly playing a contrarian hand by not lying to you, Ajax. And like a five-year-old, I'm sure it really pisses you off that he won't tell you exactly what you want to hear.

Where Christie makes sense from a tactical standpoint is that sometimes a niche market -- in this case the market for hearing his real opinions and not lies people like you demand he tell you -- can grow and become a significant market presence. You have several others running repeating the same lies you expect them to tell you, but since Trump established the brand of so brazenly telling these lies like nobody else can they don't differentiate themselves enough from what you've already got with Trump. The real question is why do the others expect to have a chance when they can't offer anything that Trump doesn't? While I agree it's a long-shot for Christie, his strategy is still the most sensible strategy out of all the non-Trump R's.
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honorentheos wrote:
Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:52 am
ajax18 wrote:
Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:35 am
It looks like linkedin has banned Vivek Ramaswamy's account. That didn't take long.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekgramaswamy

Are you incapable of fact checking yourself before posting?
Ajax. Comment on this.
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Ajax, what made me raise an eyebrow to your response is the idea that someone with a claimed ‘eternal perspective’ would make their voting decision for themselves and their peers, for leadership of this country, based on satisfying the petty revenge fantasies surrounding the children or relatives of the candidate in question.
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Why not talk a little more about Joe Biden enriching himself
You mean why not lie like Republicans expect? You're right -- Republicans want to be lied to endlessly and told a simplistic story about the villains of the left trying to ruin the common man and only a hero like Trump will defeat these forces, establish world peace, and send the economy to the moon.

You're right, he's certainly playing a contrarian hand by not lying to you, Ajax. And like a five-year-old, I'm sure it really pisses you off that he won't tell you exactly what you want to hear.

Where Christie makes sense from a tactical standpoint is that sometimes a niche market -- in this case the market for hearing his real opinions and not lies people like you demand he tell you -- can grow and become a significant market presence. You have several others running repeating the same lies you expect them to tell you, but since Trump established the brand of so brazenly telling these lies like nobody else can they don't differentiate themselves enough from what you've already got with Trump. The real question is why do the others expect to have a chance when they can't offer anything that Trump doesn't? While I agree it's a long-shot for Christie, his strategy is still the most sensible strategy out of all the non-Trump R's.
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Christie drops a three pointer:

-Explained that for 5% of our military budget we degraded Russia’s strength by 50%
-Most of that defense budget money went straight back into the US economy
-Most donated hardware is older generation gear already being replaced
-NATO now has two new members and Ukraine will soon be the third. All these new members have strong, experienced military and will make excellent contributions to Nato and its budgets.
-the future overhead cost to the United States will drop dramatically. Especially with all these new NATO members, the US stands to save trillions as it saves on fuel, troops, bases, fleets, etc. Thanks to Ukraine, Russia's military is now a paper tiger.

Great speech. Nothing but net.

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