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Kim D's avatar

Geeze..............does authenticity mean nothing? He's just another Obama character, slick and smart but acting for the other side. When will people realize there is no difference between the Ds and Rs? Listen to what General MacGregor has to say. He appears to be someone to trust who has been on the inside.

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jjinUK64's avatar

Gen MacGregor is supporting Trump, as is his right.

I think there is a strange false-binary being set up, whereby if you like Trump, you have to hate Vivek (or RDS or whoever).

I don't think that's true — you can like both. There will be many people who want to vote for RDS or Vivek in the primary to propel them forward, but would absolutely support Trump in the general. They should be free to do so, the USA is not a dictatorship!

Aside from speaking well, I really don't see any similarities between Obama and Vivek. Their platforms could not be more opposite to each other, and Obama was a cultivated creature of the Dem-party machine, brought to us by the Teamsters in Chicago. Vivek, by contrast, is funding his own campaign, and getting no help from any of the GOP-side billionaires or party machinery.

I actually find it quite sad that public discourse (and rhetorical skill) has so declined since the 60s that now you literally cannot even *speak well* or people will call you a shill. Absolutely crazy. Listen to politicians from pre-Bush II... they spoke well. It was a requirement of the job back then. So few people speak well these days, that we have become used to low-IQ dullards communicating with us in the form of memes and hysterical screeching. Depressing.

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Fuzz's avatar

Agreed. A young creative mix of educated reason with some street spice mixed in; natural, like from both sides of the tracks. The idea is to come across so people can "hear" you. Truth is King... it rings or it doesn't. Individual sovereignty is always the goal.

...bullshit has a stink to it, even dogs pick up on it. It starts with you in the mirror every morning, reminding yourself to "act" free if you wanna B free. Fuzz

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Kim D's avatar

It is my understanding that General MacGregor is not a stuanch supporter of President Trump. In fact he has said he does not agree with his bully tactics in regard to dealing with foreign nations and hopes that he has learned much from his mistakes in his first term. As for the similarities between Vivek and Obama, what do you think about his plagiarizing Obama's speech? https://www.tiktok.com/@rukiddingme0/video/7284589061958847790

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jjinUK64's avatar

Honestly... I think this is silliness of the highest order.

And Republicans deserve to lose if this is the level of the discussion being had.

These are common phrases.

At least 2 of them are cribbed directly from Ronald Reagan, and the 'American ideals' one was Woodrow Wilson, but vast numbers of politicians have said some version of all of these.

TikTok supercuts of recycled classic rhetoric... is not it.

I only care about the substance, this is fluff. I'm interested in the meat of the policy proposals, the track record of the candidate, and whether I can understand the funding and backing. In all 3 of these areas, Vivek and Obama have literally nothing in common.

The *only* thing they have in common is that they are talented orators (as more candidates should be). I take this TikTok stuff as a sign of appallingly low standards, and of China's depthless efforts to encourage us to tear ourselves apart from the inside over utter nonsense, while the west burns.

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