He's likely white (like me) and also lives in a conservative state. The notable effects Trump has in such a place are rather minimal. My state has only recently shifted left and hasn't earned Trump's ire yet.
Trump hasn't directly affected my life directly, but his policies have hit me around the edges. My taxes will be going up slightly since my household income puts me in the working class, some of the stuff I buy has gotten more expensive due to his tariffs (most notably KerryGold butter), and I was always worrying he would shut down the border in a fit of rage and my job (plastics but close to 50% was in support of the auto industry) would close shortly after.
Of course, there is the extensive crap that doesn't affect me directly that worries me despite being targeted elsewhere (Othering rarely limits itself), the effect of single handedly destroying the value of America's word and all that will eventually entail, but if one isn't paying close attention they might not think of what that will mean in the long term.
The partisan judges worry me immensely since they seem to have the mentality that corporations should always have more rights than actual people (this is the part most likely to affect me directly), and weaponizing the first amendment against civil rights is going to come back and bite us big time.
And now we have the who debacle with the Coronavirus 'response', and I have to use quotes to describe that since it only counts as a response in the most generous of terms.
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In 2017 and 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) undertook an investigation into Russia’s interference campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. election. The Committee’s investigation came on the heels of an Intelligence Community assessment, which found:
“Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”
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But to this level? I find that harder to believe. She would have reacted sooner, worked towards preventing the economy from completely tanking, she wouldn't have stolen and hoarded supplies that are suppose to go to states, she wouldn't have downplayed it and say it would have magically gone away, and so on.
Things would have been a whole lot better if we had some competency in play.
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Very conservative state as I basically said when I brought up that Trump got 60% of the vote here. So really the only way to make my presidential vote matter is 3rd party in hopes that someday we will get better options than crap sandwich #1 or crap sandwich #2 which is what the liberals and conservatives throw at us.
The only direct way Trump has affected me is the tax cuts he passed means more money in pocket overall. I'm aghast at some of the stupid things he says but policy wise he really isn't that much different. Many people are blinded by partisan blindness acting like immigration camps on the border are something new and didn't exist during the Obama years.
On the flip side Obamacare screwed me up the ass without lube. My employer attracted employees with its great benefits despite pay that was actually lower than comparable jobs in the region. Our health insurance plan was considered the gold standard of the state. Then comes Obamacare and our benefits fell under the tax that great plans like ours would get as a penalty for being too good. So our benefits and healthcare got gutted while having our out of pocket monthly costs go up astronomically. Our pay didn't go up though. So basically the net effect was a massive paycut and reduced benefits.
I'm basically fed up with both sides as all they do is screw you.
That's a lot of whistleblowers.
Here's the first of 13 coming this week and next.
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On Obamacare I wasn't affected - my job at the time had health insurance, but in the Upstate NY area I was in at the time insurers didn't like providing care there unless they could make a killing rather than the modest profit they got, so our insurers changed every 3-4 years, and costs were always going up every year already. The only change the ACA did for me was provide someone for our insurers to blame for the price jumps they were hitting us with before anyways.
I have always maintained that the so-called cadillac tax on insurance was poorly thought out - I don't think they collected very much revenue since most companies just cut insurance to avoid paying it (with the exception of those guys with big offices, of course) and pocketed the money entirely while blaming everything on Obamacare. While half of it is the fault of the law, the other half was just corporate greed (or bureaucratic bean counting) hiding behind a ready made excuse to do what they had wanted to do for years.
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You still haven't explained why you feel like this about Hillary Clinton. Why is she worse than Trump? You're saying he's good compared to Clinton.
Every vote matters, this sounds more like an excuse to than anything. Except third party's aren't relevant, you can vote for them all you want that won't any less true.BTW, my vote didn't matter anyway as I'm not in a swing state. Trump got 60% of the vote while Clinton got a measly 27%. So even if you give every third party vote to her she still loses by a huge margin.