I see this as a hostage negotiation. Republicans had taken the country hostage and have a gun to its head. That gives them a certain amount of power, a power they have no desire to give up.
Unfortunately, in a hostage negotiation, at no time does the hostage negotiator get to threaten to kill the hostages himself, no matter what leverage it would give him.
A very apt analogy. Well said.
The ‘end’, the future is their personal bank accounts. That’s it THEIR personal bank accounts. Not their supporters, not the country not the world. Whoever has the most toys when they die wins. That’s it.
The First Minister of Scotland has withdrawn from a conference organized by the BBC because Steve Bannon was invited. The BBC identified Bannon as a ‘powerful and influential figure … promoting an anti-elite movement’.
“An anti-elite movement,” really? BBC, you are being just frightfully misleading, there.
Bannon is not anti-elite. He’s anti-democracy, anti-peace, and anti-humanity. Bannon profits by manipulating the rubes to vote against their own self-interest. The actual elites love that, because their own self-interest is being served by the foolish self-sabotage the rubes perform under the impression that they’re ‘sticking it to those snotty people who look down on us.’
So, sure, Bannon fools rubes into thinking they’re sticking it to “the elites,” but that’s an illusion. Odd that the BBC is supporting his efforts.
This implies that Trump is bothered by the attentive response many voters have shown to Democratic candidates who have repeatedly pointed out that benefits from the vaunted GOP tax cut are NOT showing up for working and/or middle class people.
Trump wants to short-circuit the inevitable thought many are having (that Republicans haven’t really done all that much for them, other than empty claims). He wants voters to vote Republican out of faith that Republicans will actually do something for them in some vague future.
The real story is how Trump and the GOP are going to redefine their America. They’re going after immigration, and they’re just getting started. Legal immigration is going to be cut down sharply.
But that’s just the beginning. Jim Crow version 2.0 is already quietly underway. Look at what’s happening in Georgia and North Carolina with voting rights - just the beginning. Once you prevent blacks from voting, the next step is to keep blacks under control, by jailing them for minor crimes, allowing discrimination in the private sector, and making it obvious where their ‘place’ in society is.
[QUOTE=Sherrerd;21279455This implies that Trump is bothered by the attentive response many voters have shown to Democratic candidates who have repeatedly pointed out that benefits from the vaunted GOP tax cut are NOT showing up for working and/or middle class people.
Trump wants to short-circuit the inevitable thought many are having (that Republicans haven’t really done all that much for them, other than empty claims). He wants voters to vote Republican out of faith that Republicans will actually do something for them in some vague future.[/QUOTE]
Oh sure: you know that and I know that. As you say, tho, many people don’t know that and will be fooled by these words, as happens with every goddamned ridiculous lie a Republican says. And holy fuck Republicans tell a lot of lies.
I’m seeing now the same thing I saw when Bush was president. I remember the academics were sure that Bush was going to pay a price for his administration’s lies in selling the Iraq war, and they were just flat out wrong. In the eyes of the average Ameritard, Bush was ‘decisive’, ‘tough’, ‘bold’, presidential. Trump is this - on steroids. American voters are like battered wives. They get smacked around and keep coming back for more. Americans believe that as long as they have a job, then the president is doing his job, and if they don’t have a job, then it’s someone else’s fault. We’re too stupid to run a democracy.
(my bold) The problem is that Republicans voters have been doing that for years! And they still haven’t figured out that is never going to happen. Look at the way Republican candidates are suddenly all about “protecting pre-existing conditions” in healthcare reform. Except they voted to get rid of the program that did exactly that. And had years to come up with some other plan and wouldn’t do it. They know that their voters are concerned about that and they need the rubes to accept that lie and vote for them anyway. And they will.
You left off, “and are currently filing lawsuits to do away with pre existing condition protection.”
Underline mine. In the US and due to felon disenfranchisment, that’s actually been working the other way 'round for decades.
Josh Hawley, the MO GOP AG running against Claire McCaskill for her Senate seat, is one of the state AGs involved in the lawsuit to end protections for pre-existing conditions. Then he has the balls to not only run an ad with a sob story about his son who has some sort of vague chronic pre-existing condition and how Hawley is fighting to protect those with pre-existing conditions, but then acting all butthurt when people accuse him of using his son as a “prop”.* And the voters are just eating it up, which is why the race is still neck-and-neck when any same person would expect it to be no contest.
Doubling down on his claim that you’re a “baby” if you question his claim that the caravan coming up though Mexico is full of “criminals”, Trump now is claiming that it’s full of “unknown Middle Easterners.” One wonders what Middle Easterners think that the best way to get into the US is to fly to Central America and try to break through the border of Mexico and then the US.
What’s next? “They have a cave troll”?
It’s very easy. That’s why the 9/11 hijackers did it that way. :smack:
Cave trolls and Goblins know a shitstain when they see one - and even they won’t associate with Trump.
Let me see, the highest earned income in the US is, what, a CEO who makes something like $75 million a year, so “middle class” must mean the middle third, which would be those who make between $25 and $50 million …
The caravan is probably easier than tunneling from Mexico into all the abandoned Walmarts.:eek:
I’d link to the sites that pushed this conspiracy theory in combo with Jade Helm but many are flagged as a danger to your computer security.
Fiendish!
Work-shy Jewish gypsies.