SE Hoya Containment Thread (aka Politics)
01-06-2021
, 05:31 PM
01-06-2021
, 09:18 PM
fact check: mostly true
lol domahhh
evergreen
they still either don't get it or don't care, prob the ladder
people always delude themselves into thinking they're immune, but then
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CBC coverage is hilarious. they have this random black woman on as one of the panelists, she was pretty RU$TLED 4 hours, and just now she said no seriously Drumpf is literally Hitler. the reasonable guy (Frum maybe?) said calm down, he's more like Berlusconi, who basically destroyed Italy. good times.
yes sir
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he won't be as conservative as his campaign suggests. He's a lifelong dem. Just like Obama wasn't the uber-left prog that Democratic Underground and Daily Kos were hoping for.
Regarding the Supreme Court seat: he's almost drawing dead to nominate someone right of Scalia. And... we did pretty OK with Scalia for years and years.
Everyone just take a deep breath. The Republic will be OK.
Regarding the Supreme Court seat: he's almost drawing dead to nominate someone right of Scalia. And... we did pretty OK with Scalia for years and years.
Everyone just take a deep breath. The Republic will be OK.
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Combine that with the most right wing group of conservatives this country has ever seen controlling every level of the federal government now. A group that takes pride in denying science, hateful rhetoric, a VP who has fought for conversion therapy and forcing women to have funerals for their miscarriages. A President supported by a group of voters who are expecting their new glorious leader to put his political opponent in prison, build a giant boondoggle of a wall along the US/Mexican border, kick all Mexicans and Muslims out of the country, overturn Roe v Wade, and destroy freedom of the press. Positions that are trivially easy to make happen when you control every level of the Federal Government, have an electoral mandate, and openly campaigned on these promises.
THIS IS FINE THOUGH! Won't affect me at all.
THIS IS FINE THOUGH! Won't affect me at all.
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Literally the only way that you can come in here and be like hey whats the big deal nothings gonna change is if you've paid zero attention to what the republican party's agenda has been for the past 8 years, and/or don't understand how easy it is for a party to enact policies they really want to push when they control every single level of government.
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So we're back to the argument of what if Trump is just a buffoon and doesn't believe anything he actually says? If I grant you that, at best he's still a rubber stamp in the executive branch for a government that is controlled at every other level by a historically conservative republican party. One who feverishly wants to overturn abortion rights in our country, overturn obamacare without any plan to address the problems that causes, and carry out an agenda specifically targeted to disadvantage african americans, latinos, muslims, women, and the lgbtq community.
Best case scenario we're looking at vast increases in our already record level defense spending, drastic cuts in social safety net programs, and drastic cuts in taxes that benefit only the wealthiest in the country while simultaneously driving up the budget deficit while the SCOTUS is stacked with conservative justices that will set back social progress in the country for decades.
Best case scenario we're looking at vast increases in our already record level defense spending, drastic cuts in social safety net programs, and drastic cuts in taxes that benefit only the wealthiest in the country while simultaneously driving up the budget deficit while the SCOTUS is stacked with conservative justices that will set back social progress in the country for decades.
(they didn't get caught this time bc the media didn't look) ominous
indeed
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This is exactly what I meant when I called her a negligent, reckless, stupid politician. We should be turning the screws on the Democratic Party and dismantling it to rebuild something viable. That something has to include - here's a shocker - more people. And it has to countenance something else - you play to win the game. Democracts, for my ****ing LIFETIME, EXCEPT for Obama, have never done that. They are so bad - so, so bad - at the game.
The Republicans have the wrong ideas, the wrong pitch, the wrong goals, the wrong values, and no credibility about anything. They are flaming garbage. But they know the game, and the Democrats don't even know the ****ing rules.
The Republicans have the wrong ideas, the wrong pitch, the wrong goals, the wrong values, and no credibility about anything. They are flaming garbage. But they know the game, and the Democrats don't even know the ****ing rules.
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So what can we expect in Trump's first year in office?
-AHA gone
-NAFTA amended
-At least 1 super-conservative SC justice appointed
-Massive spending cuts
-Tax breaks for the rich
-Global warming expedited
-Anti-vaxxers rejoicing
-Wall builders making it rain
-Putin Swagging
-AHA gone
-NAFTA amended
-At least 1 super-conservative SC justice appointed
-Massive spending cuts
-Tax breaks for the rich
-Global warming expedited
-Anti-vaxxers rejoicing
-Wall builders making it rain
-Putin Swagging
01-06-2021
, 09:25 PM
01-06-2021
, 09:31 PM
Patriot Games
But, nah.
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“This is wrong and not who we are. Be peaceful and use your 1st Amendment rights, but don’t start acting like the other side,” he Tweeted on Wednesday, responding to a video of police fighting with pro-Trump demonstrators. “We have a country to save and this doesn’t help anyone.” Earlier on Wednesday, Trump Jr. had said: “It should be a message to all the Republicans who have not been willing to actually fight, the people who did nothing to stop the steal.”
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The president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, took it one step further, calling the demonstrators “American Patriots” in a tweet before backtracking. “No. Peaceful protest is patriotic. Violence is unacceptable and must be condemned in the strongest terms,” she wrote. It is unclear what those terms are.
But, nah.