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GOP is in a state of total disarray at the end of their majority rule of both Congressional chambers, Trump alienating GOP, Politico reports
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Oh all things can be true. They're all trying to rid the shitty flabby orange populist bronco and would love nothing better than to put up some kind of a unified direction. But the truth is, principle-free mob stupidity, even when effective in the short-term, isn't a feasible strategy for anything in the long run for a reason.
The mood back home this holiday has shifted for me. My Oklahoma Trump-supporting family reached a breaking point.
Mom: "He's an imbecile! He's not listening to his fellow Republicans or advisors! He's insane and needs to go!"
Dad: "I agree. It's high time Pence took over."
... that's still HUGE coming from my old neck of the woods.
Mom: "He's an imbecile! He's not listening to his fellow Republicans or advisors! He's insane and needs to go!"
Dad: "I agree. It's high time Pence took over."
... that's still HUGE coming from my old neck of the woods.
They're still missing the point and disregarding the fact that his fellow Republicans are the ones who have been shielding the country from his idiocy and treachery as hard as they can lie, but at least it's a start.
I totally understand. I'm in the deep South.
See, this is the thing though. For all the reports and doomsayers of the Republican Party they have minor setbacks but their base is consistent and gets their shit together EVERY election. Some may not be happy about Trump, but they will still pull that lever for R. Nothing is learned, nothing changes with these people. Democrats and liberals on the other hand need some apocalyptic event like Trump to barely change one part of Government but are far from consistent. It's an obstacle Democrats need to find a solution to.
I mean, the stock market cratering has probably got a lot of the Trumpers out of things to praise him for.
So they've effectively realized that Trump has taken the Republican party away from them. It's now the Trump Party and they're not getting it back. I wonder how they're going to react to this when they realize that even if he goes to jail, the average American Republican will want Trump to run for office from prison...
They'll never really be in disarray. They are party above country. When the chips are down they always fight for themselves (which = the wealthy and corporations, not their vast constituency who are dumb as ballsacs and vote against their own self interests). These same kinds of stories were posted after their crushing defeats in midterms past, after losing to Obama both times, etc.
To be fair, history has taught us, repeatedly, that exploiting stupidity is one of the best investments any politician can make. It's like solar energy, free cheap, always there, and even more accessible and reliable than sunlight. Stupidity is like a self-perpetuating machine, creating more of itself where there was none before. If you don't have any morals why would you ignore such a useful resource?
Corker, Flake, Graham, Murkowski - even McCain -- all of them enabled and encouraged it for more than two years and we better have their mewling explanations on deck every time they try to pretend they were rebels from now on until they retire to K street and military consulting graft.
Reaping and sowing
And lol at the one Senator who was complaining about talk radio, those people made the modern Republican party and now you've lost control
And lol at the one Senator who was complaining about talk radio, those people made the modern Republican party and now you've lost control
Burn the party to the ground. Salt the earth where it stood. Post the skulls of conservatives as a warning that only monsters roamed there.
That is huge, honestly. Its an anecdotal example, but its telling that even some of his base is starting to crack.
That's true. For a while there it seemed like the base would be willing to die for him no matter what, even if he told them he was going to kill their own families. The racism really seemed to overrule just about every sense of self-preservation they had.
Yep, its the classic GOP anonymous sources going at it yet again lmao.
There's been one version or another of this narrative going around since Donald won the primary and I'm suspicious of it. The Repubs still hold a tremendous amount of power and have demonstrated they'll use every possible dirty trick to hold on to it. They must be actively resisted, not counted on to destroy themselves.
Now they don't have the house and they blew their last chance of doing something while they still had it. There's never gonna be a wall now.
Upon reflection, Trump has been allowed to live in a fantasy land from the moment he was sworn in. The GOP protected and excused almost everything he did because they needed a warm body to rubber stamp their desires. For all Trump's rage over being investigated he probably can't comprehend how easy he's had it.
Uh, but Beto voted against the majority of Democrats on various appropriations bills 1% more than the average Democrat. He's "trash"
This was always the end game. Stick with Trump, even if you know he's a dangerous loon, because he's kinda popular with your gerrymandered base and still useful in his role. Then, when things fall apart, you and your supporters have a nice little scapegoat to blame all the ills of the world on without having to change anything or self reflect on how your actions caused thus, not one man.
except this time there's 2 major resignations from the White House that people have been credited to keep Trump in check.
The end is near for your president. The only difference is on how he's going to leave the White House.
Two supreme court seats and tax cuts to line their pockets is what it got them!
Complete control of the government for two years, and absolute no accomplishments beyond that (and that tax cut is hugely unpopular, do you know how terrible you have to be to make a tax cut unpopular?). Because they are in disarray and can't govern. They wasted a trifecta to this degree because their caucus is such an ineffective mess, and their president a clueless moron.
Everyone here knows they will find some new evil shit that they want to do to the poor / minorities that will help them patch things up. luckily they will no longer have the house.
Its probably the stock market. So we all know that's not the real measure of the economy but its only been 10 years since the images of the dow crashing equates to really bad times for regular folk and its seared in peoples minds, I know it is is mine. As a grown ass man it doesn't feel like 10 years and to watch this chaos so relatively soon is unnerving to me let alone people way closer to retirement. The republicans are on the loosing side again they are gonna own this anchor again.