by cbeach | 2025-09-25 09:19:43+00:00
> A simple search of "Jan 6th fatalities" disproves this; more people died.

Only if you include drug overdoses and deaths due to natural causes, which happened after Jan 6th. Let's not clutch at straws.

> Trump claimed he won despite not winning

If he did, it wouldn't be the first time an election loser did this in recent history:

"Clinton repeatedly voiced her skepticism about Trump winning the 2016 election. She specifically said, "Trump knows he's an illegitimate president." She told The Atlantic "the election 'was not on the level,' and again ... she called Trump’s win illegitimate. She piled on to this by saying, 'You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,' clearly referring to how she saw her 2016 campaign."

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trumps-denial-second-b...

Doesn't mean that Trump (or Clinton) are dictators that thwarted the political process.

> How about the price of eggs and gas?

Inflation has reduced in the US since Trump took office. It soared to 9.1% under Biden.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthl...

> How about resolving wars "on day 1" that he precipitated during his first term? He actively sides with Russian propaganda relating to Ukraine. Ukraine is not the aggressor. The fight is over Ukraine soil... and Putin wants mineral rights to Ukraine. He perpetuates the loss of life in Ukraine and literally rolls out the red carpet for Putin.

Trump cannot win, can he? If he ratchets up pressure on Russia, he's an aggressive warmonger about to start WW3. If he tries to negotiate and arbitrate with Russia (which will mean concessions, because that's how negotiations work) he's "siding with Russian propaganda" and "rolling out the red carpet for Putin

> RE Department of War: It's clear what he wants the organization to be. Take a step back and ask yourself why he would want this name change? Why devote resources to the name change? What message is he sending with the change? Think critically here because you and I can still both see this change and agree it happened.

Honestly who cares about the naming of a govt department? It might have had a more innocuous name prior to Trump, but previous presidents started more wars.

Actions matter more than words. I hope we can agree on that.

> Whataboutism isn't a winning strategy anymore ... For both of our sakes, please back your claims with verifiable references.

You raised the subject of political violence and insinuating that the Trump regime has specifically presided over violence. I explained that if you compare it to the actions of the Dems and their supporters, there is actually less violence from the Right than the Left. We must put patterns into context for an objective analysis.

Asking ChatGPT:

"Given the data I was able to locate, the number of well-documented assassination or attempted assassination cases against prominent figures in the U.S. over the past 20 years is relatively small (probably on the order of a dozen or fewer for high-profile figures). Among those, significantly more appear to have targeted right-wing figures (e.g. the Trump attempts, Charlie Kirk) than left-wing ones — though that does not mean left-wing figures were never targeted."