That reminds me of the only gun that I ever really, really wanted. It was a pristine condition FN C2 7.62 mm with a bipod. I would have gladly bought one if they had let me, but we were in the process of destroying the entire stockpile at the time.
Is it? I thought first-year “migrants” were overwhelmingly Not Yet Citizens with the Right to Vote.
You do realize you surrender copyright protection when you post at SDMB? I will be reposting your messages under the HashTag #You_thought_American_wingnuts_were_dumb?THEY’RE_EVEN_DUMBER_THAN_THAT!!!
I apologize to all for reading some of Annoyed’s posts. I don’t think it will happen again.
Not quite. Both had a certain status thrust upon them at birth. Trump wasn’t born into the presidency.
Again, thinking this is just a fluke and he is an imbecile that will eventually be his own downfall is just asinine thinking at this point. I thought for sure he’d be an ineffectual president, at best, unable to negotiate with either side and the Senate would band together to assert their power and independence from the Executive branch. I thought they’d have a common enemy. But Trump has figured out how to split the legislative branch and keep them infighting, which keeps him in power.
He is a worthless leader, but he is just good enough at riling and instigating that he could get to and stay in power. The Queen never had to do any of that.
If the Queen started doing any of the crazy shit that Trump does, she would have been moved out of her position pretty darn smartly. There are ways.
You’d vote for eternal damnation for all mankind over everyone having affordable health care?
Strange.
what ways are you envisioning that Trump be moved out? There are 4, none of which are presently showing any signs of happening any time soon.
That’s hardly surprising; the Right wants to cause as much evil and suffering and destruction as possible, it’s only natural that Satan would make a good fit for them. His main drawback from a right-wing point of view is that he’s supposed to be highly intelligent, while the Right idolizes stupidity.
Yeah, but it’d be so worth it just to watch libs’ heads explode!
I said, IF THE QUEEN …"
I did not say “TRUMP SHOULD BE…”
I’m not envisioning any way Trump be moved out, because your system of governance is fucked, your electoral process is fucked, and I’m afraid that when the history of the USA is written 100 years from now, this decade will be the one that historians say is the decade where you fucked yourselves.
In order to find a country with a reliably right wing population I think your looking at places like Saudi Arabia, and Taliban controlled sections of Afghanistan, North Korea,. But somehow I don’t think that those are the sort of places he had in mind.
Heh again: even fundamentalist, no-full-suffrage-for-women Saudi Arabia is far to the left of the US Republican Party on some issues such as universal health care, and has less restrictive abortion laws than Alabama. Similarly, North Korean labor laws mandate paid maternity leave and other protections for working mothers that would have most American rightwingers spluttering in indignation (not to mention the de facto economic dominance of women in N. Korea due to draconian restrictions on men’s eligibility for paid labor). Even the brutally oppressive Taliban is more supportive of contraceptive use than many US conservatives!
The modern US rightwing movement is truly sui generis in today’s world. Even the most backwards repressive anti-modern regimes on earth can be counted on to have some areas where their policies are less regressive than those of many American conservatives.
Annoyed: answer this.
Nobody has said otherwise. Why do you feel the need to create this strawman?
All people have said is that Trump isn’t winning. People have made it clear what they mean by this. Trump won the presidency, but hasn’t accomplished much else. So he’s not “winning” by their definition. Not losing is not the same as “winning.”
You keep saying that, if he wasn’t Trump, we’d call him a successful president. I argue the exact opposite: if he wasn’t Trump, you wouldn’t see what he’s accomplished as being remotely successful.
You’re just crafting semantic arguments. Those are fucking stupid. Both sides agree that Trump is dangerous. Both sides agree that Trump has currently avoided the consequences. It is fucking stupid to keep debating over whether the word “winning” is appropriate.
All you are doing is manufacturing disagreement where there is already consensus. And fighting Trump needs us to work together, not tearing each other apart.
If it was just a simple matter of healthcare and nothing else, I’d vote for healthcare.
But it’s not.
Any maneuver right now is too late. The left has made the illegal immigrant vote one of the foundations of their long term plan, and it should have never happened.
But that’s just how sleazy they are. Can’t capture the white vote? Import brown votes to offset them. Can win with the electoral college? Remove it. Need more congressional representation? Include illegal aliens & jam refugees in certain districts.
All the while blocking voter ID laws and screaming about gerrymandering.
It’s fucking filth, pure and simple, and people who knowingly support it as a way to sway the electorate are towing a line that’s real close to treason.
Care to back up any of these lies?
And it’s toeing the line, you moron.
Oh noes, the grammar police.
My back-up are the Democrats themselves. They apparently can do whatever the fuck they want with the electorate with impunity as long as they don’t say it out loud.
Apparently you can’t back up your statements.
You misspelled evidently.
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