Notice that's their top concern. Not hurting Americans, not pissing off allies, not a recession, not handing off the title of World Superpower to China, but losing their jobs is their top concern.
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I really hope some of the non-MAGA Republicans in the House and Senate start to realize their careers might be over if they don't do something. People aren't going to forget. And once Trump is out of the picture, they don't have anybody else with an iota of whatever qualities make people listen/like/follow/adore him.
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Hahaha oh well, next.
Its what happens when you let the children try to lead. Bless their heaaarrrts.
I sometimes have this weird fantasy where Trump is an actual genius, and his plan all along was to destroy the Republican party. I imagine him sitting on the crapper with a McDouble in one hand and his phone in the other, trying to come up with the most insane tweets he can, getting frustrated that his plan is taking so long and thinking to himself "why are these people liking this shit? It's obviously bat shit crazy!"
Then I come back down to this Hellscape reality and sigh as I accept that the world is just full of stupid, greedy, selfish people, and Trump is an avatar for all the worst human impulses, and that tens of millions of people would gladly follow him off a cliff so long as they get to drag the rest of us over the edge with them.
I truly hate this place.
It's such a fucking nightmare...
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Sure is telling that his biggest worry is republicans losing power and not the sort of fucking depression that was the cause last time.
What does he expect. Libertarianism is basically enacting the policies that led to the great depression. Trump is reacting in the way that made it worse, but you are the kerosene to his spark. Expect great depression when you get what you want.
I hope he is right. We could do a lot of good if we kept them out of office.
GOP should be banned from American politics. They have repeatedly violated the constitution at this point and are clearly compromised.
Completely agreed, but I'm pretty sure we'll need new leadership for the Democratic party if we want them to make this happen
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Yep. It also got a democrat elected 4 terms as president. Tax rates climbed up to 95+ percent for millionaires.
And you know those good times that conservatives say they want to go back to? Those times when a blue collar worker could earn enough to buy a house, pay the mortgage, support a stay-at-home-wife and family, and then send those kids to college? That's the society that those decades of democrat control led to. That's what another 60 years of democrat dominated congress could lead to again. In fact, a huge blow out election like that may be the only thing that can save, not only this nation, but maybe even the whole world, if it's not too late already.
When exactly was America truly great? When it was founded on the back of slavery? When it expanded with a ruthless genocide of the Native Americans? When it had to have a Civil War to demand that slavery be abolished? When it ignored the emancipation of slaves, and adopted Jom Crow laws? When corporations were allowed to exploit its workers with low pay, dangerous work environments, child labor, and no protections? When companies hired goons to murder their activist employees for standing up for, and organizing their workers? When America was booming after WWII, and corporate America still exploited and discriminated against minorities and women? When it had a draft for the corporate war in Vietnam? When it assassinated great leaders with the potential to do great things in the future like MLK and RFK? When it re-wrote the tax code in 1974 to bake in Trickle Down economics, and cause the biggest shift of money from the middle class to the wealthy in history, which continues to this day? When Reagan fought his illegal war in Central America, selling weapons to our bitterest enemy to fund it, and giving protection to gun/drug smugglers, who flooded America with cheap cocaine, launching the crack cocaine scourge? When Regan repealed the Fairness Doctrine, allowing the Conservative Propaganda Machine to grow unchecked for decades? When the Republican party stole the 2000 election, and the Dems allowed it?
And now we've reached the point where a triumvirate of 2 foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, and the most prolific traitor in American history have joined to treat America as a fat, weak, lazy target to be exploited as ruthlessly as possible.
So when exactly were we fulfilling the dreams of the Founding Fathers? When were we ever truly great?
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I think they were talking about the 1880’s as being the time when America was “great.”
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Rand Paul deserves to be wiped out with the rest of them.
Wouldn't that be nice.
Nicer would be the utter destruction of the Republican Party, followed by a split between the Corporate Democrats and Progressives into two parties.
Or if the current R leadership becomes irrelevant, the Dems win for many terms in a row, and the new generation of Rs decide to appeal to the left by doing another party swap
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Wiping out the Republicans? I don't see a downside with that.
The path to get there would be a pretty big downside. Some of us would say worth it, but that’s a privileged position and likely one we’d regret. Big time rock and a hard place energy.
GOP should have been banned from American politics already.
We’re never should have fallen to two parties like Washington and other founders warned against.
We've always had two major parties from the very beginning. But Washington was right. Perhaps the way things were set up was the problem. If only we had ways to change how the government worked and the rules weren't set in stone.
/s, because that's also what some of the Founders wanted to see happen. If anything that's what fell, the adaptability of the system to changing times.
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So… yeah. But at the same time, I’m not convinced we’re going to even have elections in 2028, much less elections that are actually free, open, and not largely orchestrated towards the success of The Party behind the scenes.
Nah. I now have confidence his base is actually that dumb.
He doesn't give a shit about the mass starvation, shantytowns, global economic depression, and rise of Nazism into the largest war in human history that left hundreds of millions dead. No, he's worried because his party wasn't in power.
Fuck yourself with the largest, sharpest cactus that exists on the planet, you slimy, snivelling pathetic excuse for a fucking human, Rand Paul.
He doesn't have a party, he follows money and his popularity with his crazy fuckin base. The Republican party bought him just like they bought Reagan and I'm still not sure how anyone could be fooled by the exact same playbook.
Oh no, what if democrats gain power and give us all healthcare and actually take care of the sick and poor. Wouldn’t that be terrible?
Oh no, what if democrats gain power and give us all healthcare and actually take care of the sick and poor. Wouldn’t that be terrible?
It would be unexpected.
Means they will have another go at undoing all that, is the circle of shit life.
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Always putting country before party 🎉