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They WANT The POOR to STARVE to DEATH (Original Post) ihaveaquestion Aug 2025 OP
GOP: Hurt the poor. Help the rich. Sneederbunk Aug 2025 #1
Make no mistake about it BoRaGard Aug 2025 #2
Deja vu, Herbert HOOVER UTUSN Aug 2025 #3
They only want their big donors to thrive sakabatou Aug 2025 #4
Please--who is the speaker on the left? He's speaking truth. Timeflyer Aug 2025 #5
From the comments... "Richard Ojeda is a retired military colonel running for Congress from North Carolina." ihaveaquestion Aug 2025 #7
Thank you. Timeflyer Aug 2025 #8
The problem is that the people Blue Full Moon Aug 2025 #6

UTUSN

(77,795 posts)
3. Deja vu, Herbert HOOVER
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 12:07 PM
Aug 2025

KRASNOV is all about *marketing* and replaces his void of education with appropriating other people's historical slogans that were successful or got attention in the past (brought to him by his think tank squirrels), no original creativity. Kristi NOEM's saturation commercials taunting immigrants to self-deport turn out to fit HOOVER's policies that included Birthright Citizens, nauseatingly.

KRASNOV even appropriates NIXON: "I am not a crook" - "I am not a dictator". and "It's not illegal when the President does it" - "the right to do whatever I want". The difference is that NIXON had the old fashioned remains of a sense of History and a bit of shame.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover
.... ... At the same time, Hoover opposed congressional proposals to provide federal relief to the unemployed, as he believed that such programs were the responsibility of state and local governments and philanthropic organizations.[173]

Hoover had taken office hoping to raise agricultural tariffs in order to help farmers reeling from the farm crisis of the 1920s, but his attempt to raise agricultural tariffs became connected with a bill that broadly raised tariffs.[174] Hoover refused to become closely involved in the congressional debate over the tariff, and Congress produced a tariff bill that raised rates for many goods.[175] Despite the widespread unpopularity of the bill, Hoover felt that he could not reject the main legislative accomplishment of the Republican-controlled 71st Congress. Over the objection of many economists, Hoover signed the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law in June 1930.[176] Canada, France, and other nations retaliated by raising tariffs, resulting in a contraction of international trade and a worsening of the economy.[177] Progressive Republicans such as Senator William E. Borah of Idaho were outraged when Hoover signed the tariff act, and Hoover's relations with that wing of the party never recovered.[178] ....

Hoover seldom mentioned civil rights while he was president. He believed that African Americans and other races could improve themselves with education and individual initiative.[202] Hoover appointed more African Americans to federal positions than Harding and Coolidge combined, but many African American leaders condemned various aspects of the Hoover administration, including Hoover's unwillingness to push for a federal anti-lynching law.[203] Hoover also continued to pursue the lily-white strategy, removing African Americans from positions of leadership in the Republican Party in an attempt to end the Democratic Party's dominance in the South.[204] Though Robert Moton and some other black leaders accepted the lily-white strategy as a temporary measure, most African American leaders were outraged.[205] Hoover further alienated black leaders by nominating conservative Southern judge John J. Parker to the Supreme Court; Parker's nomination ultimately failed in the Senate due to opposition from the NAACP and organized labor.[206] Many black voters switched to the Democratic Party in the 1932 election, and African Americans would later become an important part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition.[207]

As part of his efforts to limit unemployment, Hoover sought to cut immigration to the United States, and in 1930 he promulgated an executive order requiring individuals to have employment before migrating to the United States.[208] The Hoover Administration began a campaign to prosecute illegal immigrants in the United States, which most strongly affected Mexican Americans, especially those living in Southern California.[209] The federal government also supported the Mexican repatriation which saw anywhere from 300,000 to two million Mexicans and Mexican Americans repatriated, deported, or expelled to Mexico during the 1930s primarily during Hoover's term. Forty to sixty percent of them were American citizens.[210][211][212] While the federal government encouraged repatriations, they were largely organized by state and local authorities with support from private entities. The Hoover administration deported 34,000 people to Mexico between 1930 to 1933. It was however more common for people to repatriate voluntarily.[213][211] Some scholars argue that the mass repatriations was a policy of Hoover's administration.[211] According to legal professor Kevin R. Johnson, the repatriation campaign meets the modern legal standards of ethnic cleansing, as it involved the forced removal of a racial minority by government actors.[214] ....

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ihaveaquestion

(4,798 posts)
7. From the comments... "Richard Ojeda is a retired military colonel running for Congress from North Carolina."
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:38 AM
Aug 2025

Here is his campaign website: https://ojedafornc.com/

I don't know much more about him... though I've seen him on various shows and podcasts. He is a pretty impressive speaker.

Blue Full Moon

(3,651 posts)
6. The problem is that the people
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:16 AM
Aug 2025

The problem is that the people, the republicans are hurting, don't care. Right now, they are still getting food assistance & health care. They don't believe that it's going to be taken away from them. Senior centers are still open. They say it's state. The Federal gives the state funds for programs

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