Tainari88 wrote:The MAGA backed dipshit did not get re-elected? How could this happen?! 
Well, here it is a brawl on the radio nad in debates. These Mexican presidential candidate debates are an all out brawl verbally. But it is weird. They are not allowed to talk to each other facing each other or so on...they have to shut up till it is their turn and then have to do graphs by hand on a paper and show it within a timed response. It is so entertaining. Lol.
They are really talking trash about each other on TV. The presidential elections are June 2nd, 2024 and everyone has their political candidates pictures out in their front gates and doors and driveways. It looks great. A lot of people backing MORENA. A good thing!
https://www.youtube.com/live/qC0sV-bNN6 ... TibswrXfaH
I predict that Trump MAGA people will create a big stink if they do not win. Lol. I am psychic. NOT.
As I was bored , yet again , I decided to watch the entire debate , even though it was over 99% in Spanish . I found it to be no more or less exiting than any telenovela . There was a sign language interpreter , but it would have been nice if there were also an English interpreter . After all , given the relative low cost of living , more and more Americans have been moving to Mexico .
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/more-americans-living-mexico-effects-locals-rents-rcna56662 ,
https://internationalliving.com/best-places-live-mexico-u-s-expat/ Which actually brings me to the main theme of the debate , from what I an American Anglophone could gather anyway , which was inflation . I do not actually think that compared to America inflation is all that high in Mexico . That and or the currency exchange rate between our respective countries is very much disproportionate . I mean according to
Jorge Maynez , the average salary in Mexico is less than 10'000 dollars a month . My father makes a little over four times 10'000 $ just by hauling Amish around , in his van . So the cost of labor sure isn't inflated down in Mexico . Now as to the performance of the respective candidates , I felt that the before mentioned Maynez , from what I gathered , did the best . Xóchitl Gálvez was mostly just hurling inflammatory , if not defamatory invective at Sheinbaum, even while keeping a pleasant looking smile on her face . If this debate where to have been set in the U.S.A. instead , Galvez might have even gotten charged under the new law against anti-Semitic rhetoric , being that Sheinbaum , for those whom might not know , is a Jew . The thing is though , some of the matters brought up , such as the Line 12 train derailment , and Sheinbaum owning 8% shares in a factory that is one of the most heavily polluting companies in Mexico , could do her real damage , I think . Some of the more outrageous charges , that she stole funds from the indigenous population , and used it to buy a number of houses , might not have any substance . The only negative thing that Sheinbaum could hit back with involved a supposedly corrupt business deal concerning the construction of a shopping center, that Galvez was allegedly involved in . This I suspect might not even be considered to be a corrupt practice in a country with less regulation of businesses , such as namely the U.S.A. Over here there is a lucrative real estate market , with people being priced out of their homes . Real estate agents , and house flippers , are now making a killing off of such gentrification . I sure don't own four houses . I only have one tiny house , no bigger than a shed , adjacent to my parents house . And we might end up having to move away and downsize , due to the increase in property tax . And that's not even mentioning all of the people who are being left with no house at all . So I feel that there needs to be more affordable housing , both in the United States of America , and Mexico . I think that , based upon my training in high school , as a Young Politician , what both Sheinbaum , and Galvez would do well to keep in mind the
hierarchy of needs . All this talk about financial prosperity and social equality is altogether meaningless , if there are no concrete plans on how to meet the basic material needs of the people . I think that Maynez did well in presenting specific proposals to improve infrastructure and to shore up the social safety net . This is what I find to be of the most immediate importance . Well that and improving access to healthcare , especially preventative care , such as vaccine access , as only one in three children in Mexico are vaccinated against routine diseases . This coupled with those stubborn sensationalists in the U.S. who refuse to have themselves and their children immunized , as they are more fearful of side effects from the vaccines than symptoms of the viruses , could wind up causing a public health crisis at the border . So on these bread and butter issues I feel that Maynez triumphed , based upon what little I could comprehend . Also , as an aside , as shallow as it may be , I felt that Maynez was the most charming , and I appreciated that he used both English and American Sign Language to communicate that he loves us . Plus even Galvez , as catty as she was behaving , appeared better looking than Sheinbaum , in that she has a larger bosom and a more chic hairdo . Sheinbaum had a severe looking tight ponytail , and practically no bust at all . In the more image conscious America , this would also hurt her to some extent , as popular appeal matters more so than even policy . This is my impression regarding the strengths of each candidate's campaign . But all of them alike are more fresh and vibrant than the literal old guard presidential candidates here in the United States of America , in my opinion .
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