The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

Rick_Kitchen · August 2, 2019, 3:13am

Hurd, whose district runs along the border, has opposed WALL from the beginning.

Sage_Rat · August 2, 2019, 3:17am

I like Tim Scott. Of times I’ve seen him in hearings, he seemed to be simply and straightforwardly doing his job. To some extent, I hope he stays in on that basis. On the other hand, once the last African American in the Republican party leaves Congress, I do feel like that might get people to sit up and take notice. He might do a better job of doing his job by retiring or switching sides.

running_coach · August 2, 2019, 3:20am

Voting record
115th Congress 94.8% voted with Trump
116th Congress 51.2% voted with Trump.

And if his district wasn’t on the border?

Snowboarder_Bo · August 2, 2019, 3:41am

Sweet!

Nope. Just what I think after adding it all up. The people who created the mess didn’t lose money, they gained it. The people who lost money also lost property. Guess who had the money at the time to buy up all that now-cheap property? My own state saw a zillion-fold (approximate) increase in the number of single family homes not owned by single families after 2008; I know other states saw likewise. They set up the system so they were protected, then used that system to make money while simultaneously costing others money, time and property. When real estate value deflated, they were there with ready liquid capital to take advantage of the situation. AND they convinced the American public to give them money because of the crisis they created.

Now that they know they can work that kind of thing successfully, I’m figuring they’ll do something similar at least once every 8-10 years. Trump getting elected meant they could pretty much go all out on that and other subversive (and profitable) schemes and aims they’ve had; no need to wait around and do it once a decade if no one can or will stop you, after all. And just look at all those Judge/Justice positions that they’ve managed to fill!

asahi · August 2, 2019, 3:55am

Try2B_Comprehensive:

Here’s how I see this playing out: Many of these red state welfare queens yuk it up for now. “Hur Hur, we are definitely not the marks this time. Things are finally as they should be- liberals have to get up and go to work every day, and we just hang out and collect billions off of them in exchange for nothing. No point farming when there is no foreign market anymore, but we farmers are absolutely essential because, gotta eat, right?” And it does continue like this, for awhile. Cue the grievance of the Old Confederacy which boiled down to, “We would rather rebel and kill our countymen than do this work ourselves!”

Thing is, it is actually the farms that are essential, and not really the farmers. And without foreign markets, the farms aren’t actually essential anymore, either. And anyway, the aquifers are getting used up, and it could take decades or longer of leaving them alone for them to recharge.

The debt grows. And grows. The interest payments eat into the purchasing power of the US, even while borrowing $1T a year. Climate change takes stronger root. Destabilizing policies of the present result in destabilization in the future. The currently seemingly placid global economy hits a speed bump, or more likely a crisis.

At last! The conservative dream is achieved! It is simply no. longer. possible to provide public funding for a whole raft of programs, and golden, glorious CUTS are the only solution.

Hooray! All those freeloading senior citizens finally have to choose between getting a job, the bums, or dining on cat food in tents on sidewalks and in alleys for the rest of their golden years. Medicare goes out the window, no more sucking on that teat, you parasites. The massive medical industry implodes without Medicare, requiring more cuts because the economy just shrank again.

What else to cut? Um, these “farmers” are more like parasitic squatters, yanno? They don’t actually do anything except mooch off of the rest of us. Why didn’t we see what welfare queens they were before? Why in the everlasting name of Jesus Herbert Walker Christ don’t they get real, productive jobs? Seriously, wtf?

And they are cut off. And they go bankrupt. And the oligarchs buy all their land, and it is all very similar to the Soviet communalism land grab only it’s cool, because it is Capitalism.

The End.
“If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given.” Tao Te Ching 36

This is definitely within the realm of the possible. I absolutely agree that the goal of the GOP is to ring up so much debt that we’re faced with a choice: pay for the military, or pay for social programs. And when Democrats say, pay for social programs, the right will call the left traitors.

Nava · August 2, 2019, 3:58am

I don’t think he uses enough long words for that.

Johnny_L.A · August 2, 2019, 4:04am

Try2B_Comprehensive:

Here’s how I see this playing out: Many of these red state welfare queens yuk it up for now. “Hur Hur, we are definitely not the marks this time. Things are finally as they should be- liberals have to get up and go to work every day, and we just hang out and collect billions off of them in exchange for nothing. No point farming when there is no foreign market anymore, but we farmers are absolutely essential because, gotta eat, right?” And it does continue like this, for awhile. Cue the grievance of the Old Confederacy which boiled down to, “We would rather rebel and kill our countymen than do this work ourselves!”

Thing is, it is actually the farms that are essential, and not really the farmers. And without foreign markets, the farms aren’t actually essential anymore, either. And anyway, the aquifers are getting used up, and it could take decades or longer of leaving them alone for them to recharge.

The debt grows. And grows. The interest payments eat into the purchasing power of the US, even while borrowing $1T a year. Climate change takes stronger root. Destabilizing policies of the present result in destabilization in the future. The currently seemingly placid global economy hits a speed bump, or more likely a crisis.

At last! The conservative dream is achieved! It is simply no. longer. possible to provide public funding for a whole raft of programs, and golden, glorious CUTS are the only solution.

Hooray! All those freeloading senior citizens finally have to choose between getting a job, the bums, or dining on cat food in tents on sidewalks and in alleys for the rest of their golden years. Medicare goes out the window, no more sucking on that teat, you parasites. The massive medical industry implodes without Medicare, requiring more cuts because the economy just shrank again.

What else to cut? Um, these “farmers” are more like parasitic squatters, yanno? They don’t actually do anything except mooch off of the rest of us. Why didn’t we see what welfare queens they were before? Why in the everlasting name of Jesus Herbert Walker Christ don’t they get real, productive jobs? Seriously, wtf?

And they are cut off. And they go bankrupt. And the oligarchs buy all their land, and it is all very similar to the Soviet communalism land grab only it’s cool, because it is Capitalism.

The End.
“If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given.” Tao Te Ching 36

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Nava · August 2, 2019, 4:09am

It was international. In many countries, Principles of Accounting and Principles of Lending got thrown out the window because “hey, if the Americans can do it, so can we”. The specifics of what happened in each country when the bubble burst were different, but they boil down to “the coziest a bank was with the politicians, the better off it came out”. In Spain, the majority of Savings Banks disappeared (including a couple whose loans portfolios were in fact healthy), eaten up by the now-renamed Caixa (then a well-trod retirement pad for Catalan politicians, now for politicians from several regions); Caixa itself or the also-surviving Bankia (retirement pad for politicians from Madrid) were among the banks whose bad loans were reshuffled into a newly-formed “bad bank”, with those they thought they’d be able to sell easily remaining in the books of the original entities (which aren’t being as capable of offloading them as they thought).

Johnny_L.A · August 2, 2019, 4:10am

Or as Joseph Heller wrote:

Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major’s father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen.”

Try2B_Comprehensive · August 2, 2019, 4:25am

Go ahead. It’s my last, best chance at renown.

Rick_Kitchen · August 2, 2019, 5:15am

At tonight’s Nuremberg Rally, Individual 1 promised to cure AIDS and childhood cancer.

Nava · August 2, 2019, 5:37am

Bu-bu-but he’d already promised to cure cancer! Oh wait, we’re supposed to have forgotten about that, sorry.

bobot · August 2, 2019, 11:11am

Trump supporter jumps out of truck and lets his fists do the talking outside of Cincinatti Klan rally.

Kobal2 · August 2, 2019, 11:53am

What do I care ? I got neither. Call me when he promises to solve world hunger, cuz I’m peckish.

Gyrate · August 2, 2019, 12:02pm

Is he just going to suggest keeping children away from windmills?

JohnT · August 2, 2019, 12:53pm

Hurd is the only Republican who had a district which touched the Mexican border. There’s a good chance that, come 2021, not a single Republican comes from a district which borders Mexico.

Also, going around Twitter: there are more Reublican men named Jim in the House than there are Republican women running for reelection.

Fun fact! There are as many African-American GOP Congresscritters are there are GOP congresscritters named “Rand”.

Snowboarder_Bo · August 2, 2019, 1:22pm

Here’s just the 1:06 video.

I love the chants of “lock him up” as the police take him away.

running_coach · August 2, 2019, 1:51pm

Remember this one next time Hurricane Dipshit yells about Antifa.

Johnny_L.A · August 2, 2019, 2:04pm

I think we’d see a post like this:

k9bfriender · August 2, 2019, 5:13pm

Too bad the protestor wasn’t armed, or this story could have made the “Guns are Great, mmmkay” thread.

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