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> Let's not clutch at straws.

You are talking about not starting wars abroad but then dismissing death in our capital directly caused by Trump's actions. Please make this make sense. The people who died are in direct connection to Jan 6th.

eg: Brian Sicknick: The U.S. Capitol Police officer died the day after the riot, having suffered two strokes. While the medical examiner ruled his death from natural causes, they noted that "all that transpired played a role in his condition"

That's not straw clutching. That's two strokes from severe stress (physical and otherwise) because of the actions of Jan 6th rioters/looters/seditionists.

>> Trump claimed he won despite not winning

> If he did, ...

Stop moving the goalposts. Trump resisted letting go of power despite clear information that he lost. He also intentionally set things up to fail during Biden's administration. Yet another example: Afghanistan.

> It soared to 9.1% under Biden

Let's look at the shape of the graph, shall we? Notice how there is a steep climb driven by a global economic meltdown from Covid? Notice how it turns around? Let's compare to the global inflation rate [1]. Interesting how the global economy shows the same curve. It's also interesting how the US inflation rate ends up doing better than the global inflation rate.

Speaking of Covid, Mr "Covid is a hoax but let's inject bleach to fix it" set policies and rhetoric that resulting in 1.2 million Americans dying from Covid.

> Trump cannot win, can he?

It seems that we agree on this point. However, the position he chose to take was that of alienating our allies and embracing our enemies. Most people arguing from your position are unaware that Ukraine gave up its nuclear program under the express promise that Russia and the US would defend Ukraine against aggression eventually solidified by the trilateral statement. By doing so, he broke long-standing promises that have serious repercussions for other allies on the public stage.

Those promises were broken along with other destabilizing actions as part of DOGE.

> Honestly who cares about the naming of a govt department?

Again, then why do it? Why devote resources to making this change? What purpose does it serve? I know you don't want to think about it because it hasn't been digested under the reality inversion layer of Fox and friends. ... but actually why?

In politics, words can have as drastic effects as direct actions. If they don't matter then why utter them? Why pay teams of people to draft a speech? Why create technology at great expense that allows words to flow from one side of the planet to the other less than a second? Words definitely matter. Flipping a word in a department name from one meaning to its antonym not only sends a message to the world, but also to everyone in that department. Making that change to the department with the most funding in the US government and the largest funded military in the world ... is not a triviality.

> ... Among those, significantly more appear to have targeted right-wing figures ...

I don't care who was targeted, I care about who did the targeting. Being in a mosh-pit means you are more likely to get injured; Being injured/killed and being right-wing does not equate to the left instigating that violence.

Given that you can make ChatGPT say anything you want, please include the prompt.

Eg: Thomas Crook (the Pennsylvania Trump assassination attempt) was a registered Republican.

Looking at Trump's dialogue vs any other modern president, he speaks in incendiary language with other violent rhetoric to try and portray himself as a strong man. With recent advances in image/video generation, he has extended it to sharing imaginary videos of himself.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/256598/global-inflation-...



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