jhu72 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2019 8:54 am
holmes435 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2019 12:35 am
jhu72 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:55 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:51 pm
jhu72 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:48 pm
So where are all the self righteous republicans telling us how terrible Muslims are. Every extremist attack by a white man is just a mental problem. Every Muslim attack is something else, evil of the worst kind perpetrated by an individual or group who hates use for ... etc. Religious fanaticism! So a Saudi national attacks and kills a number of Americans and wounds others, and there is no outrage, no comment, f.....g crickets by the outrage for lunch bunch. Your president is acting as the Saudi public relations officer over this affair - crickets from the outrage for lunch bunch. If Obama had done this, we would never hear the end of the outrage.
Hypocrite republican scum bags. All of you!
nah, not all of us are hypocrites, nor scum.
But you're right about the Trumpists.
Pretty crazy isn't it?
Apologies to decent / sane republicans, a real minority of a minority. Why are you still a republican?
Because he needs to be the bedrock of the party. There are tens of millions of decent Republicans out there. They can steer the party back towards right leaning as opposed to far-right and whatever compass point Trump is on. They are people who independents and Democrats can actually compromise with.
We need the reasonable portions of both parties to stop thinking they have no power and start voting in primaries. ( and to eliminate first-past-the-post elections that got Trump elected in the primary). If you make fun of and denigrate them, much like Bandito does anyone non-Trump, it creates divides.
We need to find common ground. AND NOW.
Mine is not a comment directed at MDlax or the other traditional moderate republicans on this site, of which there are a small number. These are good people. Nationally, there are a small number of these reasonable, sane republicans that recognize the truth of Donald Trump. But this number is very small and they seem to be doing far less to reclaim their party than the democrats are. We are nonetheless indebted to them. The vast majority of republicans in this country are about to be labeled mindless scum bags - BY THIER OWN ACTIONS or inaction. I for one will no longer give them the benefit of the doubt. I am certain I am not alone in feeling this way. It is time to fish or cut bait for these people. Do they support a democracy or not? I am tired of the excuses, the spin, the bull beans non-defense they offer for the scum bag in chief. It is about to move into the realm of this not being "just politics".
thanks Holmes.
Quite understandable, 72.
I assure you that the R's who constitute that small set who were never Trump supporters and yet remain registered R's (many have indeed unregistered) share your disgust at those R's who purported to see him as a con man, a cheat, a gross misogynist, a serial liar, a racist...etc yet have since gone all-in on Trumpism, including adoption of the most outrageous lies, regardless of damage to our democracy and general polity.
And for the true believers, it is truly cult-like behavior.
For the good of the country, the fever needs to break, and the hypocrites need to wash out.
I think that's going to take a sweeping, ignominious loss at the ballot box for the GOP, most importantly at the Presidency but also down the line. I'll be voting D in the national election for POTUS, no matter who the Dems put up from the current group (though I do care). I don't have many other options as a GOP voter in MD and my reliably D district, though I have happily supported our antiTrump kowtowing GOP Gov. I'll continue to support GOP folks who stand against Trumpism.
Beyond the 2020 election, however, I am concerned about the reality that those R's who are moderate in tone and policy, those who do work across the aisle, may be those most vulnerable to either be primaries or are those who are in purple states who will get beaten in such a landslide. That leaves an even more hardened minority in office. But if Trumpism is defeated ignominiously, the GOP will need to re-think quite a lot.
Trumpism has painted the GOP in an untenable demographic position, skewing to older, whiter, and less educated than Dems. Policies and hyperbole are all designed to inflame those constituents, damn the costs demographically to others.
Its unsustainable as a majority.
Watching Kevin McCarthy right now spit and spew. Came out of the box lying, claiming that "Schiff subpoenaed journalist phone records" Lie. Now just lied again about FBI "spying" on Trump Campaign.
He's the sort of guy who needs to lose, but likely won't in his gerrymandered district. Argghh.
gee...thanks Hillary and now Schiff.
