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Trump Privately Pressuring GOP Senators To ‘Kill’ Border Deal To Deny Biden A Win
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Way to really care about the country Donnie. Reeeeeaaallly great.
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GOP congressmen were literally complaining about not having any accomplishments to show during this term, and their strategy is to keep doing nothing? Awesome plan dudes, keep it up.
Then Democrats will get to say they made huge concessions on parole and asylum during these talks, and Trump tanked it. That’s a much better space politically than they were in just before these Senate talks began. But, it doesn't matter since the voters will be set early and won't remember that Trump owns the problem.
So 5-10 years ago, this would be political suicide and the rhetoric was never this violent and polarized.
I worry where we will be in the next 5-10 years if this trend continues.
We're going to be fighting Fascism at least until Trump is too old or senile to keep going. He has a death grip on the party, but at least nobody else thus far can take up his mantle.
They are fragile people. If that dude shits his pants on television their entire identity immediately falls apart.
Come to think of it, check him for diapers.
The bitch of fascism is always in heat. When he croaks it his supporters won't suddenly turn into rational people, another piece of shit will pick up the torch.
Straight out of the Nixon playbook.
In all but the particulars this is the Nixon/Humphrey election.
Swap out Vietnam for border
Swap out the eve of the election for a year before the election
Swap out an evil pseudo-intellectual for an evil fucking idiot
I fucking hate Trump so much dude
I know Repubs don't actually want a functioning government, but JFC, when half the govt actively, publicly and LOUDLY works against it, it's no surprise it's so fucked up.
No surprise there. Senate Republicans want another delay in a Democrat win to fuck over America. Remember how Iran delayed releasing hostages so Reagan could use it against Carter?
^^ This comment wins.
Well, not just America. Remember that part of the border deal crap involves Republicans agreeing to fund military aid to Ukraine. Ukraine is defending themselves from Russia. Putin runs Russia. Trump really likes Putin, far more than any normal person would.
Trump is a fucking traitor.
Also, there's a non-zero chance we'll get dragged into a war with Russia if Putin attacks a NATO country after Ukraine. Senators know that if we don't fund Ukraine now, it will be much worse for everyone later, and potentially having Trump at the helm during that time would be an unmitigated disaster.
There are more than a few articles about how people had to sandbag things to stop him from trying to unilaterally withdraw from NATO.
Maybe if this happens again, with most of the adults purged from the room, next time, if there are any left, one adult will just pull out their revolver and sandbag this up properly for everyone.
Don’t tempt me with a good time
That wasn't even the first time. Nixon tried to sabotage Vietnamese peace talks in 1968 to hurt LBJ. It worked then too, the only thing that matters when you want power is winning.
It goes back and back like that. I mean, they shot John in the head in broad daylight.
AKA Kissinger's job interview.
Someone should check on Kissinger and make sure they're still dead. Don't want to risk that Kissinger is a lich. While you are at, take a shit on Kissinger grave for us.
The last halfway decent repub was Eisenhower.
And Ike was apolitical. He joined the Republicans because he felt the Democrats were too strong and he wanted levity between the two.
For fun look up his presidential platform to see how...progressive... Republicans used to be and how far theyve fallen.
Shit you don't even have to go that far back, Reagan, their neo-liberal god, would be lampooned in today's GOP. He passed gun-control and gave amnesty to those here illegally - both of which we should do again. He also ignored a pandemic resulting in millions of unnecessary deaths, just like our last Republican president, you know the one who stole Reagans motto, Make America Great Again. Yea Reagan did that first, that was his schtick and they both fucking failed HARD at that.
Traitors, all of them.