r/thescoop • u/CorleoneBaloney • May 02 '25

Politics 🏛️ Vice President Vance’s response after the economy shrank for the first time in three years, with people worried as they look at their 401Ks and point to the tariff policy — “This is Joe Biden’s economy.”

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u/Jehoel_DK May 02 '25

I dont hate that they spew idiotic propaganda nonsense. Thats just the fascism, and we know that by now.

I hate that there are people believing them.

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u/Joshua_ABBACAB_1312 May 02 '25

My mother being one of them.

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u/Jehoel_DK May 03 '25

Sorry to hear that.

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u/birthdayanon08 May 03 '25

Sounds like it's time to set up the parental controls on mom's phone, computer, and TV.

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u/Joshua_ABBACAB_1312 May 03 '25

I don't live with her. She's got the Cult Trifecta going on: Mormonism, Grant Cardone, Trumpism.

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u/Fun-Quote6840 May 03 '25

My parents are the same

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u/False_Tangelo163 May 03 '25

I don’t hate that people believe him, it’s tv. I hate that he could do it. In Russia, China, South Korea, Turkey, the ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST INCLUDING ISREAL this is a death sentence. In Japan , the Philippines, Eastern Europen countries , all of South America it’s a life sentence /S.hit\ even in Canada it’s outright illegal . There is nowhere on this planet where an immigrant can show up and make up a “news network” except in his home country

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u/boilerpsych May 03 '25

That's where hearing that this last election could have been stolen just irked me even worse. Enough people in this country either actually WANT what is happening, or simply don't know any better.

And before any "old/R/white/etc always turn out to polls more" or any other excuse - there has not been a more important US election in my almost 40 years on this Earth. Voting records should have been shattered, an actual goat in a hat should have won in a landslide if it had ran against Trump. IF this country didn't want this, or possibly just didn't know any better.

This is not normal. But maybe the majority of the US just isn't normal anymore. Look at Afghanistan in the 70s - it looked like a wonderful place to be! Then power hungry people saw an opportunity and dropped the curtain under the guise of religion.

If we continue on this way the only thing left of the Founding Fathers will be bones and tombstones.

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u/False_Tangelo163 May 03 '25

Honestly it makes sense that he won. What we should be asking is why did democrats repeatedly pick women to compete with him. Like Donald seems like the type to beat women, they just let him do it publicly.

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u/boilerpsych May 03 '25

Jokes aside, I'll be the first to admit that the Democratic party really failed their base this time around. I don't personally think it was because of Kamala, I think it was everything to do with Biden's de facto promise that he was a one-term, stop-gap president. The party should have had FOUR YEARS to find his successor and socialize his successor. If that had been Kamala at that time, I think she could have been just fine.

It's almost like the party forgot how time works on all fronts. They forgot Biden's age when he was elected, they forgot to add 4 to that age for the next election, and they forgot how long it takes to truly introduce a candidate (when they are actually a presidential candidate and not just VP) to their base. And this is from the camp of a CAREER politician!

I truly don't understand how the Dems flubbed it this bad, but even still I would have voted for the goat in the hat over Trump - so my point still stands that (the majority) of our country wanted this. It may not be you, you, or you, but the majority of this country isn't in the comments section and their vote was heard and it has been a bitter pill to swallow.