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PoliGAF 2017 |OT5| The Man In the High Chair
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THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
BoogieWoogie
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That Miller talk where he slams the fucking Statue of Liberty.....
Every fucking day. Every fucking day there's just something else that's disgusting and horrible from this piece of shit administration.
Every fucking day. Every fucking day there's just something else that's disgusting and horrible from this piece of shit administration.
TumblingHippo
Member
Why do we even bother with a Statue of Liberty anymore.
Dominican Power
Member
I need to watch video of this presser.
Isn't your second reason mutually exclusive with the concept of a secret ballot?
also, why should we combine the process of campaigning with voting into one prolonged procedure?
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Deleted member 231381
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No. You can always lie. I might have been a Hill$hill all along! You also don't have to speak - you can choose to remain silent, and that's okay. However, you still have to at least listen.
I mean, they conflict in caucuses, which are imperfect examples of republican democracy, but in general it's perfectly possible to have versions of republican democracy and the secret ballot at the same time.
I love Survivor but I'd really rather not be playing it when I vote in a normal election.
Basically, the poem associated with the Statue of Liberty doesn't matter because it wasn't there on day one. We should all ignore its message.
tedrotheredro
Member
and who snuck that poem on there? After all, the statue's only there to show all the other countries how great we are, but they're not allowed here unless they're a software developer.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Stupid France and their giant statues of women
timetokill
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Prof. Bathtub
Member
The stance makes sense if one considers the bill of rights was not in the constitution from day one either.
AnotherNils
Member
The Orange Turd is probably going to be the first president to never have a majority approval rating.
On Gallup he's only had two days where he even had a plurality approval rating.
Stupid reconstruction amendments keep getting in the way.
The same thought crossed my mind.
whyamihere
Banned
woof.
I think it's time for another rally.
jack_package_200
Banned
On the discussion of how primaries are done, I honestly think you should actually be a member of the party whose primary you wish to participate in. Same day registration sounds really easy to fuck with and astroturf. However, the deadline for registration should be reasonable unlike New York which had an insane deadline to register for the party. A month before the primary date seems reasonable to me..
I don't really see a problem with anything else beyond ending caucuses and doing mail in votes.
I don't really see a problem with anything else beyond ending caucuses and doing mail in votes.
Atomic Playboy
Member
I don't know why we care what Stephen Miller thinks anyway. He's from California, which I think you'll find was NOT a state when the Constitution was adopted, which I'm pretty sure makes him not American. That's how this works, right?
Also, how the fuck is that guy only 31? He looks like he's been possessed by the ghost of a 57-year-old Nazi accountant.
538 Aggregate hits a new low at 37. The downward trend is reallllly persistent.
I think the big story in the numbers is pretty simple. A lot of people want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, or refuse to admit they were wrong. Steady drip of bad news + health care debacle + time would tear anything down, let alone a guy taking office at 45.
I don't see any reason to expect the point a month bleeding to stop. But that means we're sub 30 heading into the mid terms....
I think the big story in the numbers is pretty simple. A lot of people want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, or refuse to admit they were wrong. Steady drip of bad news + health care debacle + time would tear anything down, let alone a guy taking office at 45.
I don't see any reason to expect the point a month bleeding to stop. But that means we're sub 30 heading into the mid terms....
CrimzonSamurai
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Only if we can stop acknowledging the existence of Rhode Island by that measure, too.
whyamihere
Banned
What's shocking about the 538 numbers is that there really hasn't been a huge upswing ever. It's a pretty slow, steady decline.
Aaron Strife
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If Trump loses to a Democrat in 2020, I wonder what their approval rating looks like. I could see polarization being bad enough that they don't see the usual high 60s that Clinton, Bush and Obama enjoyed at the start of their terms, but Trump is also just such a revolting person I imagine that contributed a much greater deal than just hardcore partisans digging in their heels.
The latest The Weeds is pretty good: The Weeds: the quiet comeback of school segregation.
The first part talks about the subject of the episode title, the latter half goes over what Trump's new WH cast might actually mean about his upcoming priorities.
The first part talks about the subject of the episode title, the latter half goes over what Trump's new WH cast might actually mean about his upcoming priorities.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
And it's pretty much all self-inflicted.
Spotlight effect.
Trump's numbers only ever went up once the media stopped paying direct attention to him.
Any time, either deliberately (RNC) or not (Debates, Access Hollywood, etc.) they always went down.
And in that office, you can't avoid the spotlight!
If Trump loses in 2020, he literally won't exist to the party in 6 months time.
Officerrob
Banned
Exactly, 99% of elected Republicans would not say the name Trump
whyamihere
Banned
Which is c r a z y
I wonder how his cult of personality will react to that though.
He dragged the national party down so fucking hard I can't imagine anyone even gives a singular fuck about that cult. Like he's literally a losing proposition, better to just do what they usually do and leech off that anger with someone who isn't completely incompetent at the head.
Republicans never bring up Bush Jr (well, aside from Lindsey Graham) and he looks like a goddamn saint to the GOP compared to Trump.
Once Trump is out of office it'll be like he never existed, as far as they're concerned. Guaranteed. They're going to try and sweep him under the rug in record time.
Once Trump is out of office it'll be like he never existed, as far as they're concerned. Guaranteed. They're going to try and sweep him under the rug in record time.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
He won't have one by then if he ends up looking like such a loser.
The last GOP president that they will acknowledge is Ronald Reagan.
Fenderputty
Banned
Maybe? They'll still be forced to appeal to his nationalist base that's basically only upset he's feuding with Sessions.
Like I agree the eGOP will want to distance themselves, but I'm not sure the base will let them.
BobTheFork
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LOL as if Christie would waste nachos by dumping them on someone.
He'll say the election was stolen from him in 2020 and could try to incite violence for all we know.
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