Just like the economy, he will be dead before it harms him. It’s somebody else’s problem. He has stated as much. What a guy.
All the while, the senate is just kicking the can down the road. They’ve got theirs after all, why should they worry?
And these assholes have convinced those of… lesser means… to support them, because, “Don’t worry, we are really on your side”
Are they deplorable as Hillary stated? Sure, that exists on both sides. I’ll just call Trump’s base easily manipulated. That’s the kindest thing I can do.
It needs to be said: the GOP’s intransigence with respect to global warming is likely an existential threat to a significant portion of the human race.
If we do nothing about it, then there will be droughts, there will be famines, there will be island and coastal flooding, there will be storms, all of a quantity and severity this generation has never seen. The human race will surely survive, but the number of people this planet can support will be reduced.
The Republican Party is, quite simply, traitors to the human race. This should be shouted from the rooftops.
JFTR, ‘being a traitor’ and ‘having committed treason’ are two different things. The latter implies the former, but not vice versa.
Treason is a specific crime which (as you say) is mentioned in the Constitution.
A traitor is someone who betrays, and betrayal isn’t a crime in and of itself. To cite the most infamous instance of betrayal, Judas committed no crime when he betrayed Jesus.
I doubt very much that is what Sage Rat was saying. And this has fuck all to do with political advantage. It has everything to do with people that support a criminal.
Neither you or HD will shout from the rooftops as you are happy to have a moron for a president. I will vote. That worked until republicans accepted and invited foreign countries to play with our elections. My shouting is done from here. For now.
If by “you”, you mean the Democrats then I can’t really speak for their intentions.
If you literally meant me, then I was simply stating the reality of things, as they are today. The people vote based on the economy in that precise moment, regardless of who or what caused it to be in that state (good or bad). Protesting, putting up signs, calling people, wearing t-shirts, placing stickers on your bumper, it’s probably all mostly moot. Either the economy is for you or against you, and you’re just boned with the current map, as a Democrat, unless the economy is in your favor.
My point was that the answer to that is up to the gods, not to us, and the gods aren’t real. Frying sausages isn’t something that will actually work and any call to get frying shouldn’t be read as an endorsement.
I would, however, contend that it’s not an ugly thing to wish for though. No one died in the Financial Crisis. No one even died in the Great Depression. There’s no bump in the death rate during those years that anyone has found (so far as a quick Google says).
Depressions and recessions are certainly bad, but it would also be bad to lose my arm. If the alternative is that the gangrene gets to my heart and kills me, though, I’d rather that we cut earlier than later.
I couldn’t see Manchin flipping under a D President, it wouldn’t make sense. I could see it happening had the Senate been 50/50 in 2018 and Pence was still VP.
Manipulating them is very easy but it requires exploiting their racism, xenophobia, misogyny, ignorance and insecurity. We’re not willing to stoop that low.
I know, I know, “liberals are the real racists”, etc.
“Rick Snyder simply polluted Flint’s drinking water. I’ll order the Michigan Air Guard to carpet bomb that God forsaken place and be done with it.” :rolleyes: