Documenting the slow decline of the Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Et tu, Brute....;p
"Perhaps it was fanciful to expect anything more from the G.O.P.’s leaders. After Trump won in November, they made a political deal with him. As long as he pursues their legislative agenda—gutting Obamacare and other government programs, axing regulations, cutting taxes on the wealthy—they are likely to stick with him under almost any circumstances, even as their pact gets ever more Faustian."
"A President enabled by a spineless and supine Congress that fails to exercise its oversight powers isn’t a weak executive at all: he is a potential despot. Using his authority to hire and fire federal officials, he can rapidly remake the government to his own design, appointing loyalists to key positions, eliminating potential threats, and undermining alternative repositories of power."
If Trump ever actually seizes or attempts to seize power, I will enjoy reading the mental gymnastics used by the Trump loyalist in justifying his takeover.
However my best guess is that the Republican Congress will drop him like a hot potato as soon as they no longer need him. (unless he manages to get Ryan, McConnell and other power players wrapped around his finger by then)
That guy has it completely ass-backwards. The GOPe is dragging its feet and obstructing Trump at every opportunity of significance. To think he has them wrapped around his little finger is simply delusional. The Uniparty came fully together and out in the open with Trump's election. They've sent him bills for signature on mostly minor stuff so far, hardly anything relating to his campaign agenda items aside from the coal bill.
Trump is not the real problem.
Crackin me up. Change a few names and that's an article that should have been written in 2009, but wasn't.
Also funny that I can agree with Salon about something - the GOPe is evil.
"I can’t debate someone into caring about what happens to their fellow human beings. The fact that such detached cruelty is so normalized in a certain party’s political discourse is at once infuriating and terrifying."
"The “I’ve got mine, so screw you,” attitude has been oozing from the American right wing for decades, but this gleeful exuberance in pushing legislation that will immediately hurt the most vulnerable among us is chilling."
"The American Academy of Pediatrics urged Pruitt on Tuesday to take chlorpyrifos off the market. The group representing more than 66,000 pediatricians and pediatric surgeons said it is “deeply alarmed” by Pruitt’s decision to allow the pesticide’s continued use."
More people working and a growing economy helps people
every time it's tryed. That is what the American right wing is about.
https://thinkprogress.org/voter-fraud-letter-97dcfc51eb48
“This lack of openness is all the more concerning, considering… Kobach has a lengthy record of illegally disenfranchising eligible voters in Kansas,” she said in a statement. “The courts have repudiated his methods on multiple occasions but often after the damage has been done to voters. Given Secretary Kobach’s history we find it very difficult to have confidence in the work of this Commission.”
From the National Review. Yes, the National Review....
Prediction: Trump will label them fake news.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449145/donald-trump-media-mika-brzezinski-tweet
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/opinion/understanding-republican-cruelty.html?smid=fb-share
"As with Obamacare, this story began with a politically convenient lie — the pretense, going all the way back to Ronald Reagan, that social safety net programs just reward lazy people who don’t want to work. And we all know which people in particular were supposed to be on the take.
"Now, this was never true, and in an era of rising inequality and declining traditional industries, some of the biggest beneficiaries of these safety net programs are members of the Trump-supporting white working class. But the modern G.O.P. basically consists of career apparatchiks who live in an intellectual bubble, and those Reagan-era stereotypes still dominate their picture of struggling Americans."
Never-Trumpers from the git-go.
From innuendoprogress.com. And, would those be the same courts that SCOTUS just slammed 9-0?
From innuendoprogress.com. And, would those be the same courts that SCOTUS just slammed 9-0?
Source?
Never-Trumpers from the git-go.
Source that the author is a never-Trumper? And if he is, how does that invalidate the articles content? For example, are you denying that he displayed fake-news TIME covers in his buildings?
Specific examples are needed, otherwise you response is just a red herring.
It's an opinion piece, FGS. Full-throated ad hominem.
http://www.ourrepubliconline.com/Author/120
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Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting sure sounds like a Russian intelligence operation
If this is how Russia runs 'intelligence operations', we can all sleep well, without fear of any Red Menace.
Hope springs eternal.
I could give a shit about the whole Russia garbage and all the other 'trumped up' pseudocrimes of 'The Time of Trump'.
But I do give a shit about civil asset forfeiture and abuse of eminent domain. Trump's all for the latter, Sessions all for the former.
MIM's (Most Important Missions) 1 & 2 having been accomplished (defeat of Hillary, SCOTUS appointment), approaching time to get off this train.
John Oliver scares you with disaster and then
sells you liberalism. I wonder if he really drinks tap water?
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