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he’ll be reelected unless he ends up indicted
he’ll be reelected unless he ends up indicted
I fundamentally disagree, but…go for itIt's trivializing Jan 6 but but what the heck.
Won’t deny it, but there’s the recency thing: that wasn’t the original plan.Trump and MAGA Jumped the Shark when they denied Jan 6 was anything but an attempted coup and attempt at overthrowing an election that they lost.
It's all been downhill for them ever since.
Or as you say, they "woke" a giant.
aiee! Libertarian Apocalypse.I fundamentally disagree, but…go for it
Won’t deny it, but there’s the recency thing: this wasn’t the original plan.
the original plan was more like this: https://alec.org/publication/article-v-handbook/
If this is your first exposure to ALEC, the “American Legislative Exchange Council”, you might want to look around & take notes
A fist made of 2x4s…
just you wait. Culture war will be coming to Chinese eateries for having WOK on the name.Coffee makes you WOKE! I sure as shit hope so!
If the magats boycott coffee they will suffer withdrawal, while coffee prices drop for the rest of us from lack of demand! In war sacrifices have to be made, cause they is taking over!
Woke’s no joke: breakfast cafe’s name awakens US conservative ire
Carmen Quiroga called her cafe ‘Woke’ to signal to customers ‘Wake up and have a coffee’. What could possibly go wrong?www.theguardian.com
Actually I think it will work out OK for her, lot's of publicity, if she was located near a university...just you wait. Culture war will be coming to Chinese eateries for having WOK on the name.
right but not right.Sorry, back on track. Time frame, cause & effect come into play when considering the timeline. Not intending to assert mine as correct. Onward!
So a bunch of core indicators began turning around in the midst of Trumps first year, but GOP generally had become less and less solid as the party voices went chasing the fringe, and EVERYTHING started making it seem like GOP were all equally crazy through out the term. Still, like I say, the more extreme the less support. This was in part because of the increasing radicalization of of the voices: true conservatives are rightly spooked by extreme language from known sources of trouble.
Slow process. I could say the first big crack was at practically any point, and I could make a point in its favor, but I come back to the 2018 midterms: GOP had been on the March for decades, and they had almost enough governors, state legislatures, & seats in congress to force an article 5 convention, adopt a pre written constitution (like the one Chile just finally replaced), and have it ratified & signed before anyone could read it who was outside the effort. I tensely anticipated that the few remaining that they needed would be theirs following the election.
I was wrong. Instead of gaining the few they needed, they lost state power all over the map (not totally unlike this midterm past in some ways). They could try again some other time, but there was more in motion than just that, and those things couldn’t really be stopped. It wasn’t supposed to be about Trump at all, but about imposing a new, billionaire-friendly constitution on the nation, but they had momentum, they had inertia, they had their now-hair-afire “troops” worked up. They couldn’t just close up shop.
Being at this point in it up to their hairlines, they pulled out a whipped-together Plan B, a hodgepodge of bolted-together ideological parts and the usual suspects, in one last desperate lunge to grab the brass ring & all the marbles via “direct action”. Pull it off, and they’re all scot free & buying rounds, right?
Completely agree that Jan 6 was a hastily enacted attempted antidemocratic coup that was the outcome of Republicans losing their grip on power through the elections of 2018 and 2020. The roadmap for state enacted amendments to the constitution was written in 2012, a time they were nearing the apex of their power. 2016 marked their time of maximum power in office but maybe not with the public. It was 2017 when they took off their masks and there was no question who was in control and what they planned to do. They went after the ACA, Medicare and Medicaid and the public woke up to the fact that Republicans aren't just the smiley face of Reagan but were hard core radicals who didn't care if tens of millions of people lost access to healthcare or lost rights they once thought safe, including reproductive rights, the right to vote and the right to privacy.Sorry, back on track. Time frame, cause & effect come into play when considering the timeline. Not intending to assert mine as correct. Onward!
So a bunch of core indicators began turning around in the midst of Trumps first year, but GOP generally had become less and less solid as the party voices went chasing the fringe, and EVERYTHING started making it seem like GOP were all equally crazy through out the term. Still, like I say, the more extreme the less support. This was in part because of the increasing radicalization of of the voices: true conservatives are rightly spooked by extreme language from known sources of trouble.
Slow process. I could say the first big crack was at practically any point, and I could make a point in its favor, but I come back to the 2018 midterms: GOP had been on the March for decades, and they had almost enough governors, state legislatures, & seats in congress to force an article 5 convention, adopt a pre written constitution (like the one Chile just finally replaced), and have it ratified & signed before anyone could read it who was outside the effort. I tensely anticipated that the few remaining that they needed would be theirs following the election.
I was wrong. Instead of gaining the few they needed, they lost state power all over the map (not totally unlike this midterm past in some ways). They could try again some other time, but there was more in motion than just that, and those things couldn’t really be stopped. It wasn’t supposed to be about Trump at all, but about imposing a new, billionaire-friendly constitution on the nation, but they had momentum, they had inertia, they had their now-hair-afire “troops” worked up. They couldn’t just close up shop.
Being at this point in it up to their hairlines, they pulled out a whipped-together Plan B, a hodgepodge of bolted-together ideological parts and the usual suspects, in one last desperate lunge to grab the brass ring & all the marbles via “direct action”. Pull it off, and they’re all scot free & buying rounds, right?
I otoh want him to have downright unnatural longevity. It will obviously not happen overnight, but more than one big conviction is headed his way. I don’t want him missing out.
The Atlantic: Some Republicans 'can't wait' for Trump to die
4,531 views Jan 31, 2023 #msnbc #republicans #trump
Staff Writer for The Atlantic, McKay Coppins, joins MSNBC's Ali Velshi to discuss his reporting that finds many in the GOP want Trump out of the way before 2024 and are secretly hoping his health or an indictment will solve their problem.
Democracy won out- they'll never have that shot again..I'm not going to get into Trumps Billionaire Friendly Tax Cut or anything else he did to lick their assess since he thought he was one of them- they used his ass to the nth level. Jokes on you Trump.Sorry, back on track. Time frame, cause & effect come into play when considering the timeline. Not intending to assert mine as correct. Onward!
So a bunch of core indicators began turning around in the midst of Trumps first year, but GOP generally had become less and less solid as the party voices went chasing the fringe, and EVERYTHING started making it seem like GOP were all equally crazy through out the term. Still, like I say, the more extreme the less support. This was in part because of the increasing radicalization of of the voices: true conservatives are rightly spooked by extreme language from known sources of trouble.
Slow process. I could say the first big crack was at practically any point, and I could make a point in its favor, but I come back to the 2018 midterms: GOP had been on the March for decades, and they had almost enough governors, state legislatures, & seats in congress to force an article 5 convention, adopt a pre written constitution (like the one Chile just finally replaced), and have it ratified & signed before anyone could read it who was outside the effort. I tensely anticipated that the few remaining that they needed would be theirs following the election.
I was wrong. Instead of gaining the few they needed, they lost state power all over the map (not totally unlike this midterm past in some ways). They could try again some other time, but there was more in motion than just that, and those things couldn’t really be stopped. It wasn’t supposed to be about Trump at all, but about imposing a new, billionaire-friendly constitution on the nation, but they had momentum, they had inertia, they had their now-hair-afire “troops” worked up. They couldn’t just close up shop.
Being at this point in it up to their hairlines, they pulled out a whipped-together Plan B, a hodgepodge of bolted-together ideological parts and the usual suspects, in one last desperate lunge to grab the brass ring & all the marbles via “direct action”. Pull it off, and they’re all scot free & buying rounds, right?
Local news died as we all went online, magazines were the first to go along with local newspapers and with them went editors and local reporters. The same thing happened with TV and radio as it went from local to state, then regional news, when market share became diluted with more options. It is this lack of local news reporting and lack of local community engagement that brought you George Santos, an online fraudulent image from an internet scammer with no one from the local press or TV station to take a close look at him.Saw a reporter from Wash. Post on news this morn., shes digging deep on the state of politics in the US and how social media has enabled extremists are enabled to consolidate their views and influence the rep. party,and how the Constitution's framers had no way to anticipate this modern digital phenomenon that's hijacked the political discourse,she also states that the House of Reps. originally had a ratio of 1/30k and is now at 1/750K which advocates for a uncapping of house membership #'s. This could go a long way towards a complete redrawing of these ridiculous gerrymandered districts while also increasing the representation ratios,another 200-250 seats w/more geographically sensible districts would be good. As for the effect of social media in politics I think the loss of print media has had a major effect here,even if physical newspapers are unpopular they still could be consumed online,it's the loss of a vetted news product w/oversight,and confirmable sourcing that is enabling this misinformation,conspiracy spewing news in a tunnel BS that now pervades our society. I think philanthropy can help here in the establishment of non profit newspapers funded by well healed donors,conservative or progressive,who lament the lack of vetted,reliable impartial,objective news. The loss of all the print newspapers at the local level is stunning,driven by money hungry shareholders and conglomerates which were allowed to gobble up portfolios of local newspapers. Maybe it's to late or unfeasable to rectify this,but this loss combined w/the proliferation of unverified online news sourcing/ social media radicalization has blurred reality and empowered fringe beliefs into the mainstream.
9 minutes? I thought 'oh boy here we go..'Considering how many older voters the republicans have, social security and Medicare should be third rails for them! This is seriously stupid policy and asking people to fuck themselves over an unpopular agenda.
Let's talk about Social Security and why the GOP is going after it....