What's new
By:

The Biden Administration and All Things Politics

The Thriller said:
I thought republicans were the big tent party who values diversity and hated cancel culture?

Click to expand...

The Republicans have have a purity/loyalty test since the Contact With America. I don't know when the earliest use of RINO is, but I'd guess it was right around that time.

Since 2016 there has been an unspoken oath any Republican needs to make to MAGA. Many fake the words, but they have to say them. The GOP is Trump's party right now. No one in the party has figured out how to end this. I know many want it to go away, but no one seems to have put any strategy in place to make it happen.

Trump has stumped the GOP.

It was basically a stealth coup. Stealthy like a Trump rally is stealthy about their racism.
 
Gameface said:
The Republicans have have a purity/loyalty test since the Contact With America. I don't know when the earliest use of RINO is, but I'd guess it was right around that time.

Since 2016 there has been an unspoken oath any Republican needs to make to MAGA. Many fake the words, but they have to say them. The GOP is Trump's party right now. No one in the party has figured out how to end this. I know many want it to go away, but no one seems to have put any strategy in place to make it happen.

Trump has stumped the GOP.

It was basically a stealth coup. Stealthy like a Trump rally is stealthy about their racism.
Click to expand...
To me the Trump Travesty (as it should be known going forward) was very telling for many republicans. It outed their true character and reinforced what many suspected all along, that racism and corruption to the level of treason runs rampant through their ranks. Many who were previously republican and could see it for what it was, and who weren't actually racist or corrupt, found themselves fully disenfranchised (I think of my dad here, who feels like no one represents him now in American politics) and it really polarized the party and solidified many as exactly what what was suspected all along. It was telling in a way not many events in American history has exposed one party or the other since the obvious cluster-**** of the civil war era. I do not know where they can go from here. It is also very disturbing how tight a hold Trumpism has on the rank and file, who are so completely blinded by everything that it is truly terrifying to think about. The fact that we had a true insurrection and full-on assault against our very political structure simply brushed aside with little to no accountability speaks volumes for how far we have fallen. At the risk of being maudlin, is this what it felt like in the waning days of the Roman empire?
 
Archie Moses said:
This is certainly no attack on what you think.

Do you listen as well as you hear?

You say, "cherry picking" while I say interesting, educational and I have nothing to refute his points.

It's like you're rolling your eyes to some serious **** that no one wants.

If this dude is cherry picking, argue his points. I lived in Palo Alto for years. I agree with him.
Click to expand...
Do you understand what "cherry-picking" means in this context?
 
Gameface said:
The Republicans have have a purity/loyalty test since the Contact With America. I don't know when the earliest use of RINO is, but I'd guess it was right around that time.

Since 2016 there has been an unspoken oath any Republican needs to make to MAGA. Many fake the words, but they have to say them. The GOP is Trump's party right now. No one in the party has figured out how to end this. I know many want it to go away, but no one seems to have put any strategy in place to make it happen.

Trump has stumped the GOP.

It was basically a stealth coup. Stealthy like a Trump rally is stealthy about their racism.
Click to expand...
I think it began under Newt where he worked to vilify the "other side." He passed out terminology that Republicans had to use or else face blowback from his own party. However, this is something new. What's Cheney's crime? Is it refusing to demonize Democrats the way Newt wanted? Is it for voting for liberal legislation? Or is it for refusing to go along with Trump's insurrection?

That's what's really disturbing. Ideology has nothing to do with this. Bernie Sanders could be a Republican right now if he pledged allegiance to Orange God King.
 
The Thriller said:
I think it began under Newt where he worked to vilify the "other side." He passed out terminology that Republicans had to use or else face blowback from his own party. However, this is something new. What's Cheney's crime? Is it refusing to demonize Democrats the way Newt wanted? Is it for voting for liberal legislation? Or is it for refusing to go along with Trump's insurrection?

That's what's really disturbing. Ideology has nothing to do with this. Bernie Sanders could be a Republican right now if he pledged allegiance to Orange God King.
Click to expand...
Yeah, it was Newt who wrote the "Contract With America" and if I remember correctly he published it in the TV Guide, which I think was one of the most widely subscribed to magazines in the U.S. at the time. He changed the rules of the game. It started this new era of us not having two parties that don't always agree with each other and work to move things in their desired direction while always keeping the best interest of the U.S. as the primary concern to an us vs them battle of good vs evil.
 
One Brow said:
Comparing the amount of housing being built in the aftermath of the housing bubble versus the population is disinformation. Housing was down all across the country in that period. That said, I agree California could do better. NIMBY is a human-wide issue.

This is a long video of cherry-picking that pretends the Democratic party is progressive. Based on such a fundamental lie, the video can't help but be full of lies.

Strong confusion of causal direction in the last part of the video.
Click to expand...
The Democratic Party itself frequently presents as progressive in my opinion. The premise of the video holds water. I think we could agree that the Dems talk a big game but consistently find a way to under-deliver. There are two conservative parties in the US. One is obviously worse but the other is kinda trash too.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
In sports terminology, she plays too much for the name on the back of the jersey and not enough for the name on the front. Many teams have cut ties with many players for that same "crime".
Click to expand...
Which is odd as she's voted for Trump's proposals more than many of his stronger supporters, but it's about what's said, not about the actions.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top