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  • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

    Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
    After Nixon, it seemed like the GOP changed. When I was young, I remember other kids trying to defend him which as a child was bizarre. Fast forward to W. After Iraq (which I was one of the 20% against) and the financial crisis...I figured that conservatives would be humbled and the GOP would learn and reform in a positive way. Boy, did that not happen.

    It appears that every time in recent memory we've had a terrible GOP president...conservatives have moved to the right, became a bit less honest and less cooperative. Not at all like Germany/Japan after WWII. Not a healthy trait for this country.
    After Nixon, the GOP switched to a movement philosophy that harms the vast majority of Americans. They became secretive and mendacious because they had to. Nixon at least could bring his ideas into the open and ask the public to give them a fair hearing. Starting with Reagan, conservative ideas had to be pre-treated with propaganda because their essence was lethal to democracy and to the fortunes and even the lives of the majority of Americans.

    So we got first the avuncular shell game of Reagan and then the gradual escalation to an ever more fearful, violent, extremist, Manichean worldview culminating in the madness of the Cheney administration and their wholesale torture and invasion. Of course the grassroots right didn't start out evil enough to support that, so it necessitated a full-on re-education of those Useful Idiots to harness their bigotries and anger and fear to keep ginning up the votes. Fundy religion helped for awhile, but it was primarily a political campaign to shut off those minds into the Echo Chamber. That part at least was truly inspired -- by ruining their lives through their policies the GOP drove those people to greater anger which bound them even closer to the very GOP that was destroying them. You can see the results in the dutiful repetition of thought-terminating cliches by our conservative posters here, even today. Now that the effort has entered its second generation it's self-reinforcing by parental training.

    It took 40 years to create this monster and it will probably take 40 more to slay it. The only question is whether it actually mobilizes and comes for us with organized coercive force when it realizes it has lost in the legitimate political forum. GOP cheating in vote suppression and gerrymandering, and Hillary's ill-timed run, has kept that wolf from the door for a decade longer than it ought, but it's coming. The moment of truth will come soon enough. Hopefully when it does, and their leaders (safely from their TV and radio studios) order them into actual armed rebellion, the people will regain their sense, wise up, and turn instead on their provocateurs, and we can be a united country again.
    Last edited by Kepler; 05-22-2018, 03:11 PM.
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    • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

      Totally not political, yo. http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...on-russia-docs

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      • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        It took 40 years to create this monster and it will probably take 40 more to slay it. The only question is whether it actually mobilizes and comes for us with organized coercive force when it realizes it has lost in the legitimate political forum.
        TBD. We're aided significantly by demographics (Hispanics, etc.), but it also depends on if the midwest slide to the right is temporary or permanent. As a country, we'll know quite a bit more after the boomers move on. Importantly, the electoral system will probably always aid the GOP at the country and state levels.
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        • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

          Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
          TBD. We're aided significantly by demographics (Hispanics, etc.), but it also depends on if the midwest slide to the right is temporary or permanent. As a country, we'll know quite a bit more after the boomers move on. Importantly, the electoral system will probably always aid the GOP at the country and state levels.
          Why are you guys to anxious for us to "move on?"

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          • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

            Ha cohens business partner has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors

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            • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

              Originally posted by burd View Post
              Why are you guys to anxious for us to "move on?"
              Your fashion sense.
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              • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

                God, he really is such a POS.

                http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...iving-abortion

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                • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  Your fashion sense.
                  HA!! The Greatest Generation = leisure suits. Who gave us Yoga pants for everyone more than 30 lbs overweight?

                  Wide belts and bell bottoms aren't so bad. Weren't.
                  Last edited by burd; 05-22-2018, 06:34 PM.

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                  • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

                    Originally posted by burd View Post
                    Why are you guys to anxious for us to "move on?"
                    Cause most of you have been destroying this country since you threw away your pot pipe at the end of the 70's, and decided the only thing that mattered was how much money you could accumulate.
                    What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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                    • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

                      Originally posted by rufus View Post
                      Cause most of you have been destroying this country since you threw away your pot pipe at the end of the 70's, and decided the only thing that mattered was how much money you could accumulate.
                      Boomers generally have been destroying the country in this manner or red boomers?

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                      • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

                        Red boomers, though unfortunately they make up the majority of boomers. You seem fine though, you don’t have to move on

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                        • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

                          Originally posted by burd View Post
                          Boomers generally have been destroying the country in this manner or red boomers?
                          No, boomers generally. Although I did qualify that with "most".

                          But if there was ever a generation that so completely turned their backs on their youthful idealism......................................
                          Last edited by rufus; 05-22-2018, 08:33 PM.
                          What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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                          • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

                            Originally posted by rufus View Post
                            No, boomers generally. Although I need qualify that with "most".

                            But if there was ever a generation that so completely turned their backs on their youthful idealism......................................
                            Lets not forget they paid trillions less in taxes than they should have as well.
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                            • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

                              Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
                              Lets not forget they paid trillions less in taxes than they should have as well.
                              Cause acquiring money is all that matters. Any way they can.
                              What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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                              • Re: POTUS 45.33: ""We're rounding them up in a very humane way, in a very nice way."

                                Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
                                Lets not forget they paid trillions less in taxes than they should have as well.
                                And yet you still won’t vote for Democrats.
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