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Hail To The Chief (Read Mod Warning In OP)
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No offense, but good luck with that, at least in terms of holding themselves accountable on any level. In a few years if/when it goes it'll be all "how were we to know he was a fraud, we're the victims here!" - despite it being pointed out over and over and over to them for more than a year now.
And good luck with that too. Remember Bush's "free speech zones" that Republicans were so fond of?
I didn't say hold themselves accountable - I said the people will hold them accountable. And we get that chance every couple of years in elections. As of yet, no party has been able to hold on to power for more than a few election cycles. I have doubt no that this will continue.
And they can try to suppress free speech - I have no doubt that they will. But that doesn't mean people will stop.
In other words, you're being short-sighted and also kind of missed the point. Better luck next time!0 -
metaoblivia wrote: »I didn't say hold themselves accountable - I said the people will hold them accountable. And we get that chance every couple of years in elections. As of yet, no party has been able to hold on to power for more than a few election cycles. I have doubt no that this will continue.
And they can try to suppress free speech - I have no doubt that they will. But that doesn't mean people will stop.
In other words, you're being short-sighted and also kind of missed the point. Better luck next time!
I think you might have misjudged which side of said divide my comments were coming from and what I was getting at to be honest.
Though history will not be kind to this Trump regime if it is anything like expected, that much is for sure. But you'll need a far more pressing media (when Trump lies to their face they just say 'OK' and carry on, BushCo was no different) and due to the religious-like fanaticism a lot of Republican voters have to the point of caring more about their political party than their own country, a large chunk of the US voter base will still find a way to convince themselves it's somebody elses fault, and we'll likely be back in this scenario in 3 or 4 cycles time.0 -
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Jimmy Garlic wrote: »Did anyone see the pathetic speech that slob Micheal Moore gave at the womens march on Washington? The guy has lost every single shred of dignity. All I can feel is pity as I cringe when I see the likes of him protest against democracy and pathetically self implode as they descend into obscurity and irrelevance.
Dunno where you get this idea from. Presumably from your own head.
Moore actually predicted Trump's election, as he knows his state and 'rust belt' folks really, really well. The guy is far from an idiot.0 -
I think you might have misjudged which side of said divide my comments were coming from and what I was getting at to be honest.
Though history will not be kind to this Trump regime if it is anything like expected, that much is for sure. But you'll need a far more pressing media (when Trump lies to their face they just say 'OK' and carry on, BushCo was no different) and due to the religious-like fanaticism a lot of Republican voters have to the point of caring more about their political party than their own country, a large chunk of the US voter base will still find a way to convince themselves it's somebody elses fault, and we'll likely be back in this scenario in 3 or 4 cycles time.
No, I know you're not a Trump supporter - it was clear from your first comment.
American politics is both tricky and completely predictable. One party gets in for a few years and then they get booted out. Unless Trump and his people truly attempt to dismantle American democracy, they will face the same scrutiny they themselves placed on Obama when he was in a similar position in the first two years of his first term. Most wins, including this one, are short term wins. Long term wins take decades in this country due to the back and forth. What's important is that we don't let the GOP hold on to this kind of power for very long. There's not much that can be done about the next two years from the liberal point of view - I agree. But we can do our best to make life very difficult for them by taking advantage of the next election cycle in 2 years.
What's interesting about Trump though is seeing to what extremes he'll go and how quickly he'll lose the mandate which is a weak mandate because, again, he doesn't have the popular vote behind him. The GOP might try to downplay that, but if the roles had been completely reversed and had Hillary won under these same circumstances, I would be very nervous as a liberal.0 -
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http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2017/01/20/america-tries-to-ignore-pale-horse-that-just-appeared-beside-trump/“STAY on Trump, stay on Trump” barked the director in the TV control room, trying his best to maintain a sense of calm order following the sudden appearance of a ghostly pale horse onstage with the newly sworn-in POTUS in Washington DC.
“Camera 2, stay on Trump. Camera 3, 4, wide crowd shots only, okay? Keep an eye on the horse, and keep him out of shot”.
A hush fell across the assembled crowd at the inauguration ceremony when the animal appeared moments ago, cloaked in mist and curling its lips back to reveal some very sharp un-horselike fangs, to the left of Donald Trump just as he was sworn into office as the 45th president of the United States.
The arrival of the horse, whose mane on close inspection seems to be made up of the shrieking, miniaturised souls of the trapped dead, was accompanied by what many described as a ‘terrifying peal of thunder’, or perhaps the bellowing roar of some dreadful horn or similar wind instrument, blown with gusto by some unseen heralder of doom.
Despite the clear ramifications of the appearance of such a beast, Americans are currently doing their best to assure each other that everything is fine, and that sometimes pale horses show up and it doesn’t really mean anything about Trump, America, the world, or indeed the end of days.
“The pale horse? Yeah, that’s probably… that’s probably just a stray horse that wandered onto the stage,” said one inauguration attendee, from under a sweat-soaked ‘Make America Great Again’ cap.
“Nothing to worry about, certainly not a harbinger of anything. Just a horse, showing up, saying ‘hello’ in his own horsey way. Now, let’s just all go home and hug our loved ones, everything is going to be just super”.
UPDATE: A skull-faced rider has now appeared on the back of the pale horse, which onlookers are assuring each other is ‘just part of the show’.0 -
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Amateur hour
:D
Sounds like a somebody not having a clue what they are at 0
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