I'm starting to think some somewhat reasonable people need to bite the bullet and work for Trump. Otherwise more nightmares will come. Sessions alone scares the shit out of me as a minority.
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Slurpy2k20
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It's a fucked up situation. Imagine someone raped people you care about, and the only way to reduce the chances that he'd rape even more people is if you offer him your help and support. Every fiber in your being is telling you to rip his head off and to fuck off, but for the greater good you have to smile and join his team.
I feel like there is a difference between him doing some of the most to oppose him pre-election (on the GOP side) and him taking a role in the administration to represent the US with a modicum of dignity. I also don't think that he'll be a shield for the Trump administration that will somehow legitimize him, at least not yet.
I agree. But I think the intent was to make him crawl and we'll still end up with a loon like Bolton. I hope and pray that I'm wrong.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Sure, I agree.
Just chipped in $25 to Foster Campbell's Senate race in Louisiana. It's a hell of a long shot, and we've lost much closer races already, but it's the last chance at picking up one more Senate seat and narrowing the GOP's majority even more.
Yeah and we'd look at them like cowards even if they are intentionally jumping on the grenade to save us. With that said if that doesn't happen then I'm gonna want to jump out of the window every time I see a new cabinet hire. And o god judges too and whoever else he can appoint.
Biden is working on his cancer moonshot.
Charters in Boston have been really successful - the problem is that the model is going to be super hard to implement elsewhere https://t.co/eGEyZzC48d
cooljeanius
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So many people make use of same day registration... heck, even I had to do it in the primary because my address had changed! Fuck Chris Sununu.
cooljeanius
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I'm guessing Dems weren't as excited to vote for Van Ostern because he wasn't a woman. (NH Dems are basically a women's party here)
Oh please tell me he's being for real here and won't back down.
Kai Dracon
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Wouldn't it be nice, haha, oh oh, if some republicans, for a change, looked into their pants and miraculously discovered their fucking balls, with regards to standing up to their own party being Literally Evil.
Seems unlikely. But stranger things have happened.
Seems unlikely. But stranger things have happened.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Imagine if we could make some more white people in Mississippi anti-racist.
That would be two more Senators.
That would be two more Senators.
jack_package_200
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Had an old man in red MAGA hat scream at me on the bus
"Don't sit next to me, faggot!"
I don't know why he went with a homophobic slur. I figured I was a straight as they come.
"Don't sit next to me, faggot!"
I don't know why he went with a homophobic slur. I figured I was a straight as they come.
At least now you know, though that can't be the easiest way to find out.
jack_package_200
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If any good came out of the election, Donald Trump's awfulness turned my once conservative father into a woke supporter of Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and the LBGT. I imagine he wouldn't care if I were gay.
Poodlestrike
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Right now, it's really hard to take any kind of statement of resistance from the Republicans seriously. They just spent the last 8 years in absolute perfect lockstep, and now they've got this crazy new base to deal with. On the other hand, maybe it's just that it was easier for them to be united in opposition, and now that they're actually governing you'll see the cracks appear...
A Human Becoming
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In Louisiana, if ~30% of white people had voted for Obama in 2012 he would have won the state: he got roughly 13%. Bill got 33% of them the year he beat Dole. I don't have demographic data for this year, but I imagine <40% would have been needed for a Hillary victory.Imagine if we could make some more white people in Mississippi anti-racist.
That would be two more Senators.
I take you aren't brown? His go to slurs didn't even make sense to him so he had to go third tier.
RustyNails
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Oh look, McCain grew a spine after he won his election.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia are the white whales.
If white people there were even just indifferent to black people, we would dominate the Deep South.
But, well... you know :/
VendettaRed07
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DNC needs to get their shit together and throw everything at this race. Regardless of how slim the odds are. Get people to help him out
maquiladora
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Absolutely no way Romney gets the State job.
I kinda hope he does, he could probably represent our interests better abroad than any other clown trump picks.
While I doubt I'd agree with Romney on much, I think at heart he's at least a semi-decent man.
metalslimer
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I think Romney would actually do a pretty decent job as SoS. The problem is even if he gets the job, I think he would be locked out of making any actual consequential foreign policy decisions. He will never be a part of the inner circle of Trump.
Romney's brave as fuck if he takes that job. That'd basically be agreeing to clean up after every Trump mess on an international scale. How do you even attempt to do that? I feel he's almost guaranteed to end with a worse reputation than he started simply because of Trump's decisions.
Romney's basically going to have to tell everyone that nothing Trump says counts since in 2020 everything will go back to normal (we all hope) when he leaves office. It's going to be the international relations version of Community's gas leak year.
So apparently we probably have grounds for impeachment on Day 1 if Trump doesn't bother to divest his assets: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-poi...hs-ethics-lawyer-says-73e14789a935#.fmdvuein3 (This is coming form W's ethics lawyer.)
Actually getting that ball rolling is an entirely different matter.
Actually getting that ball rolling is an entirely different matter.
Linda McMahon is likely the person most qualified for the position they're being rumored to be in contention for. (of the non-Romney names.)
That's terrifying.
https://twitter.com/joenbc/status/799930765811269632
Calling him a stupid motherfucker is being too kind. This kind of false equivalence makes me want to scream. Mike Pence believes in GAY CONVERSION THERAPY. Believing that marriage is only between a man and a woman is NOT THE SAME THING.
Calling him a stupid motherfucker is being too kind. This kind of false equivalence makes me want to scream. Mike Pence believes in GAY CONVERSION THERAPY. Believing that marriage is only between a man and a woman is NOT THE SAME THING.
RustyNails
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Lol just saw your unban. I would have liked seeing your post on Comey's fuckery during election night loss
Yep. The media has failed this country.
I don't think he wants it but he'll take it if it's offered.
I mean, I don't think anyone ever thought Romney was an actively bad person (much like with Dubya) - Beck appears to have legitimately been mentally ill.
RustyNails
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msnbc with Joe Scarborough and Andrea Emailz Mitchell has ruined the media landscape in favor of Trump so much. Their false equivalence has played spendidly to Trump's advantage. Obama never persecuted the transgendered and the minorities when he held those views. Which these idiots fail to understand. Mike Pence would not have so much stank on him if he held those views personally but never pursued them in public setting, making lives miserable for everyone. Like, Tim Kaine is against abortion but he never campaigned on making it ILLEGAL for everyone.
I am really done with mainstream media after this election. I will watch a segment now and then but yeah this is idiocy.
I thought Romney was just an asshole and didn't give a shit about anyone but the rich or Mormon like him. I hated him within the realms of politics, I never even really considered what I'd think of him as a human being because we never reached that point. I could articulate this better with hand gestures, but what I'm saying is Trump has broken that fucking boundary to such an insane degree that my retroactive perception of people like Romney and Bush has changed completely. Like Maher said, we don't know how good we had it. Even Cheney seems better because he was evil but smart. Trump and his people are not only way more evil than Cheney, but fucking stupid about it.
Romneycare was beta Obamacare lol.
Bush was a well-intentioned idiot. Not a bad person, just completely incompetent.
I can't even listen to the panels with Trump surrogates anymore. I just can't. Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Brian Williams, and maybe one or two CNN programs are the only MSM shows I can still tolerate.
That reminds me, Maddow giggling and laughing about the election results as it was happening was fucking bizarre to me. Was that an expression of disbelief, or coping with it? I never saw her as someone who just wouldn't care.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Beck is a grifter who realizes that there's no room left on the right for crazy conspiracy theorists. I'm pretty sure there will be demand for conspiracies from the left in the next few years and Beck can provide the conspiracies.
Bush started a war over a feud.
Romney is fine.
Bush started a war over a feud.
Romney is fine.
shinra-bansho
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Congress is neither going to initiate the impeachment process nor find him guilty. Regardless of what he does. The checks and balances are broken due to insane partisanship.
I don't think people underestimated Trump for the most part they overestimated America.
Pretty much, everyone from the campaign to the average guy on the street thought America was better than this. Turns out we aren't.
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