Posted on 12/28/2022 9:03:32 PM PST by thegagline
Former President Donald Trump pledged he will never cut Social Security if elected again to the White House in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News here earlier in December.
“We’re not cutting Social Security,” Trump said. “It’s very simple. It’s a simple answer. We’re not cutting Social Security.” *** “We have to protect it. It’s a contract with the people,” Trump said of Social Security. “They go in. They work and they do. They put their blood, sweat, and tears into Social Security and then you have a guy like a Paul Ryan or others that want to destroy it. We have a contract. *** Then when they talk about Social Security, they’re going to destroy Social Security so they can build more windmills all over the place that don’t work? It’s not going to happen with me.”
*** Trump also warned of another “trap” he said Democrats laid for Republicans that he said too many fell into, which is on abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. *** Even so, Trump argued that Republicans must support what he called “the three exceptions”—for rape, incest, and the life of the mother—to any measures banning abortion, or else they face electoral elimination in most of America. *** “Now, I think a lot of Republicans didn’t handle the abortion question properly,” Trump told Breitbart News. “I think if you don’t have the three exceptions, it’s almost impossible in most parts of the country to win. If you don’t have three exceptions—I said to a very nice man running for governor of Pennsylvania, ‘If you don’t have the three exceptions, you can’t win.’ ***
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If Trump wants to be a serious candidate in 2024 he needs to talk about the problem he helped to create, the Covid vaccine, which has killed and injured so many Americans. The last I read he said it was a great achievement of his administration, while DeSantis is impaneling a Grand Jury to investigate it.
HAHAHAHA - not any more !
Consider two things.
First: the source. In this case Breitbart.
Second: A quote...
“A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent. “
William Blake
Now use yer noggin.
trump is sadly right about the three exceptions on abortions... the only way to get rid of abortion all the way is to change the culture. this truth about the 3 exceptions might change to just the life of the mother if we can change hearts of those that support abortion and that is a slow process that at 56 years in age I might not be around for
He is right on the politics of the two third rails for the GOP.
No Deal.
Even if it was the consequence of rape, the baby is still innocent and deserves better than to be jabbed in the skull and murdered. Change my mind.
Trump accomplished more his first month than any other president has accomplished their first term.
I agree with his Social Security stand.
I believe the only allowed reason for abortion is to save the mother’s life. And that needs to be well documented.
Agreed
“Trump has gall, to be sure. Recall when he loved Ryan - TrumpRyanCare.”
Trump has NEVER loved Ryan. Recall when he criticized and mocked Ryan over his Social Security reform he proposed during a presidential election, when McCain was running.
That is probably one reason Ryan hates Trump.
You’re wrong in your thinking, unfortunately. What you consider success is what the nihilists and commies consider failure, for them. Why would someone hate Trump so much? How many people do you know who could build a skyscaper...let alone actually do it?!
These are reasonable positions. What’s your problem with them exactly?
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Haha. All the TDS whining makes me Smile!! Go back the Democrat party where you Open Border Cheap Labor losers belong!!
“Trump has NEVER loved Ryan.”
Well... I never saw them kiss or anything.
But The Don took Paul’s side on TrumpRyanCare and badmouthed the only good guys in Congress - the HFC. Gov Ron DeSavage is a founding member of HFC, another point of distinction.
Also, Ryan was Right about SS. Trump was and is wrong.
A rapist’s unborn child is still a human being. Republicans are fooling themselves if they think that the three exceptions will protect them politically from Democrats who want abortion with no exceptions. If a politician is going to oppose abortion, he needs to go all the way.
100% PRO LIFE. Well, 99.9% (LIFE of the mother), Not “HEALTH” of the mother.
Being for the 3 exceptions, takes abortion (politically) off the table.
Dying on a hill worth dying on, is still DYING!
You can’t help save babies, if you are DEAD.
Politics is “the art of the possible” .
What we saw in the last election is that attempting to ban abortion entirely will mobilize enough feminist resistance that it will ensure your candidate loses. It is a current fact of life.
Incrementally chipping away at abortion works. Incrementally fixing the culture is the long term solution. Trying to do it all at once by decree DOES NOT WORK. Ensuring your own defeat does not help the unborn at all.
Someone needs to tell Lindsey and Thune.
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