US Presidential Election, Nov 5th 2024

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They are amazing.

They knock on your door, in any Spanish city, and speak PERFECT Spanish to you. I promise you. They are white Americans, but they come to Spain learning perfect Spanish.

Always perfectly clean. Always perfectly polite. Remarkably innocent. They look like robots.

There are no Spanish people like that.

This is what I mean by American education.
 
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They are amazing.

They knock on your door, in any Spanish city, and speak PERFECT Spanish to you. I promise you. They are white Americans, but they come to Spain learning perfect Spanish.

Always perfectly clean. Always perfectly polite. Remarkably innocent. They look like robots.

There are no Spanish people like that.

This is what I mean by American education.
Ask them what they think about evolution and find out how educated they are. It's easy to be polite when you're trying to sell someone something.
 
You will never see American children bothering everyone in a restaurant while their parents watch quietly from their table. In the Spanish case you will ALWAYS see that.

I could give you several examples I've seen personally of exactly that happening in recent months over here.

Kids everywhere are not being taught respect. They're also not taught to question the information they're getting online, or from their friends or the media.
 
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They are amazing.

They knock on your door, in any Spanish city, and speak PERFECT Spanish to you. I promise you. They are white Americans, but they come to Spain learning perfect Spanish.

Always perfectly clean. Always perfectly polite. Remarkably innocent. They look like robots.

There are no Spanish people like that.

This is what I mean by American education.
The people going to live in a foreign country to 'learn the language' aren't average Americans. They come from a position of privelage in order to be able to do that.

I bet they weren't educated in one of those schools where the teachers have to beg for resources.
 
Thanks for your honesty here Dax.

A few things I'd push back on though:
I liked his foreign policy World View. Which for better or worse can be summarized as let's make deals not war.
You can summarise it further in that Trump is transactional, any deal done is far more likely to be for his financial benefit as opposed to the benefit of the US, its allies, and the world as a whole.

But as importantly, I specifically have an antipathy towards people who try to stop their political opposition anywhere other than the ballot box.
Is it not the Republican party doing their best to subvert the vote of Americans? The party that also promoted conspiracy theories about voter fraud and unfounded claims that the Democrats would cheat?

Wasn't Trump if not outrightly saying it, then heavily implying that his political opponents are the enemy and they belong in jail/dead, or any media that criticise him should be cancelled/taken off air?

They'd rather he was impeached on some trumped up charges or jailed for failing to declare he paid Stormy Daniels.
I know your feelings about Jan 6th, so I wont go over that. The first impeachment was not a 'trumped up' charge, he tried to extort a foreign government for his own political benefit and he was backed by a heavily partisan Senate. As for Stormy Daniels, he's charged with campaign finance law violations, falsifying business records, tax violations, and conspiracy to commit fraud, all are crimes.

Are you of the opinion that the President should be immune to the law whilst in office, after office, or even running for office?

But if you really want to know why I voted for him... It's quite simple. I voted for him because they tried to kill him and those who disagreed with him rejoiced.
When you say 'they tried to kill him' who do you mean by they?

And if I might add, I'll never regret it.
I'd caution never say never, but I truly hope you don't ever come to regret it.
 
The people going to live in a foreign country to 'learn the language' aren't average Americans. They come from a position of privelage in order to be able to do that.

I bet they weren't educated in one of those schools where the teachers have to beg for resources.
Yep, Mormons get intensive private language tuition before they go and continuing private language tuition when they get to their destination. With Spanish, they're almost certainly not starting from zero, because it's such a common second language to learn in the States. And they are learning with a very particular purpose in mind. You often find with language learners that use it to do a particular job that they will be very fluent at doing that job, but not so good when they have to step outside that topic and have a normal conversation.
 
Lots of self-reflection for the Democrats, they need to work out a strategy to compete, not against a political opponent, but against a cult of personality. A man who stands for nothing becomes a mirror, reflecting back what others wish to see.

They need to focus on how to better deliver the message that their policies will be better for working and middle-class Americans, and for the love of God stop fannying around at events with millionaire celebrities. Their endorsement helps galvanise the base, but has little impact on everyday Americans.

The left too often is dragged into culture wars which heavily benefit Republicans. They need to stop trying to win the argument, they need to change the argument in order to win.

Take the trans kids in sport issue, turn it around. Are you more concerned about your daughter losing a swimming race to a trans child, or getting killed in another school shooting?

They also need to go into the Lion's den more, Harris should have done the Rogan podcast, calling him out on his previous comments about Trump. Do more interviews and town halls on Fox, I remember 2016 when Sanders, and then Buttigieg did a Fox town hall and ended with standing ovations, the Fox anchors didn't know how to respond. More of that is needed to win.
 

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