What if the Republicans Win Everything Again?
If you read this whole article…it’s out to the ledge.
All the more reason for getting out the vote. The voting rate in the USA is low compared to most developed countries. If Americans wanted change, it would be easy enough to get it simply by going out and voting.
And people need to remember if they don’t vote in 2018, they might not be able to vote by 2020.
With that name, he’s sure to be Deep State!
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I wonder. Does Trump [del]thinkbelieve[/del] somehow has something resembling a notion* all those guys in yarmulkes down in Israel are the National Israeli Accounting Team?
- The kind that’s got nothing to do with sewing.
Why would you think a vote in 2016 for Trump was an informed vote?
I wish people wouldn’t harp on that tune. It might just discourage voters and keep them home.
The GOP’s electoral advantage should be viewed just as a built-in handicap we must accept. If I played Go with you, I’d let you start with nine stones on the hoshi points. If we had a boxing match, I hope you’d tie one arm behind your back. Play with a professional golfer and you’d get to subtract 10 points from your score.
It’s too bad the D’s can’t pick up an easy 4 electoral votes by splitting California and New York into two states each. I’m not sure how you split New York to get two blue states. Make Long Island with two boroughs an entire state? (Splitting the Big City across two states would seem unprecedented —even Istanbul, spanning two continents, is in a single Turkish province.)
Squeak out victories in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia or theRust-belt states and it will be the R’s complaining about electoral college disadvantage. (Unfortunately those are the precise states where the GOP is imposing hideous voter suppression measures.)
Fuck the ledge. Why would I want to be a stain on the ground? If it gets worse, I would want my demise to amount to something. I do not want to go full asahi, but it could come to that.
That’s just it,. the 2016 was an uninformed vote.
I can forgive the person who voted for trump because he thought that trump was going to personally give him his coal job back, make sure that he has affordable and accessible healthcare, and insure the same for his children.
He was fooled, he was scammed, he may have even been conned. But he can learn, maybe, and cast a more informed vote in 2018 and 2020.
I seriously doubt that the majority of trump voters will be swayed from trump’s conman rhetoric, but we may manage to pick off a few on the fringe.
The trick is to aim for an expensive looking car.
Indeed, I can name at least one person, Brian Kemp, who is exactly the kind of person the “second amendment solutions” crowd would be talking about if they were anything other than a bunch of craven right-wing lunatic shitheads.
Hi, Bone.
The burned* soy bean farmers in southern North Dakota are the first to come to mind. If they don’t vote Heitkamp after the shit deal they were dealt, they can rot along with their crops.
*ok, no Spinal Tappy instant conflagration or self-immolation stuff.
Well, maybe. He strikes me as a bit thug-like, but maybe that’s a regional thing.
But Weisselberg definitely has the nitty-gritty goods on Trump Organization doings. I continue to have high hopes for state charges.
Yeah, I tend to agree about Cohen. But maybe…
More likely is he had a come to Jesus moment when the FBI came a knockin.
Can state charges do anything against a sitting president? Seems like he may be bullet prof if the senate won’t impeach. Quite crazy. The founding fathers never thought they had to add a codicil about the president being a complete and total crook. Sort of like saying “Hitting your thumb with a hammer is likely to hurt”.
But here we are with Mitch, Ryan and the gang trying to get as much as they can before the shit hits the fan.
Yeah, that’s the problem the FF never foresaw: a corrupt Congress, ignoring a President’s high crimes and misdemeanors for their own personal profit.
As for what state charges could do: my impression is that our best hope is that the prospect of Don, Jr. and Ivanka being charged could be used to pressure Donnie to resign. ‘You can keep what you’ve grifted if you will let the nation move on with a President who is unhampered by this multitude of potential criminal and civil vulnerabilities.’ Something like that.
And that is ultimately what it may come down to. The president may manage to find himself immune to any form of prosecution or even civil suit, but even Kavanaugh is going to have difficulties justifying why his family should enjoy the same immunity.
Then, I guess it matters if he cares. He can send Jr and Eric to jail, along with Ivanka and her husband, and still have Tiffany and Baron, who, as far as have heard, have not done anything that would receive attention from the law.
I think Jefferson’s “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” was meant to cover that.
Not that I’m advocating direct action yet.
Of all the disturbing things we have learned about thump every day and sometimes several times a day, this might be THE most disturbing of all. What? you ask, Have we finally reached bottom? You tell me.
‘It doesn’t matter.’ ‘We’ll see.’ The Trump Doctrine is sounding more fatalistic every day.
My bold.
This is why he is the Pubbies dream [del]puppet[/del] candidate. Because he doesn’t give a fuck about anything except the next win. Content, context, long-range thinking, ultimate goals, principles, values, consistency-- none of those things matter. Therefore he can be used for any purpose the Pubs want, because he has no interest in where the Ship of State is sailing. Nothing matters.
Trump says he’s working on another tax cut, but this time it’ll be for the middle class:
“What worked last time? Let’s just say we’ll do more of that!”
:rolleyes:
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. When you understand that the current Republican credo is that the end always justifies the means, everything they do makes sense. It’s not honorable, it’s not ethical, it’s not decent. It’s the opposite of all those things. But their only defining goal is to obtain the result they want.
As Steve Bannon recently put it in an interview with Michael Moore when asked why Republicans keep “winning” against Dems, Bannon said something like, “We’re willing to take head shots. You guys have pillow fights.” He’s right.
I don’t believe the way forward for Dems/liberals/progressives is to engage in head shots. If we sacrifice our own decency as they have, we will accomplish nothing. But it’s good to be aware of where they’re coming from and why there is no bottom in their race to the bottom. There is quite literally nothing they won’t sanction in their quest for absolute power.