Republicans

[Animavore]

The only way Americans would get decent candidates for the next presidential elections is if the democrats picked the republican candidate and republicans the democrat. After the selection there would be no voting, but the candidates had to play a hand of black jack with a chimpanzee as the dealer. The winner would be president, and the loser would be fed to a murder of crows.

The chimp for Prez!

That's what happened in the last election.

Pretty sure it was some sort of slithering invertebrate.

[Brian Peacock]

All political ideologies are a form of social contagion. I just hope we find the cure soon.

[JimC]

Hopefully we can say that some of the contagions are less virulent than others - no set of human attitudes to the nature of society and government will ever be free from ideology, in the broadest sense of the word.

[Seabass]

[Animavore]

Didn't know 42 had his own radio show.

[Sean Hayden]

[Brian Peacock]

[Animavore]

These are the people running the country.

http://fayette-news.net/fayette-gop-war ... d-control/

[Tero]

Somewhat optimistic, in that it looks like the rich old white folks have had their time. This Trump era may be the last chance to grab what they can, as the demographics are completely against this group some 50 years from now.

The House and Senate measures shower enormous benefits on households at the top of the economic ladder, a group that by all indications is older and whiter than the population overall. Then it hands the bill for those benefits largely to younger generations, who will pay through more federal debt; less spending on programs that could benefit them; and, eventually, higher taxes.

In that way, the bills would intensify the generational inequity in how Washington allocates resources between the country’s increasingly diverse youthful generations and its predominantly white older population, groups I’ve called “the brown and the gray.” At a moment when political influence is inexorably shifting to the brown, the tax bill represents an 11th hour raid by the wealthiest of the gray.

Republicans’ strength among older whites, particularly those without college degrees and outside major urban areas, has been central to the political gains that gave the GOP unified control of the White House and Congress—and the leverage to advance a tax bill. But the demographic foundation of that political dominance is eroding.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... an/547097/

[Tero]

Pedophile is their man! Democrats will kill babies!!!

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/1 ... es_in.html

[JimC]

Pedophile is their man! Democrats will kill babies!!!

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/1 ... es_in.html

Which is such a waste! They won't grow up to be nubile 12 year olds!

[Tero]

LANCASTER, PA—Saying it was a struggle to keep them open at all amidst all the tedium, local man Eric Meehan told reporters Thursday that his eyes always glaze over whenever a politician starts threatening to plunge him into serf-like subjugation. “God, every time they start talking about this boring stuff, I just completely zone out,” Meehan said in reference to any of the bills circulating through Congress that would consign him to spending his days toiling away to generate profit for others with no chance of ever accumulating wealth of his own. “They just drone on and on about about how they’re going to trap me in an endless cycle of wage labor and make sure I have no hope for prosperity in my lifetime. It’s just, like, ‘Enough already.’ Christ, we get it.” At press time, Meehan had begun spacing out mere moments into the announcement from GOP leaders that their proposed tax legislation had cleared another hurdle to passing.
The Onion

[L'Emmerdeur]

Righteous creeps like Jeff Flake and Charlie Sykes who've expressed their consternation about Il Douche's circus act are really just dismayed that he's bringing discredit to the shitty ideas they believe in.

'The Elephants in the Resistance: Don’t Trust the Anti-Trump Republicans'

In a party that shamefully prostrated itself before Donald Trump, the junior senator from Arizona has stood out as a consistent voice against him. Jeff Flake was even an occasional voice of Republican sanity before Trump’s emergence—for example, crusading against the Cuban travel ban. On October 24, he won fans even among liberals by announcing he was quitting the Senate, giving a speech that accused his colleagues of normalizing “the daily sundering of our country” in ways that have “nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.”

That same day, Flake went on to vote for a Trump-supported measure preventing the people he had been elected to serve from being able to sue financial institutions that defraud them.

How do you solve a problem like Jeff Flake? Some would accept anti-Trump conservatives as a valuable part of the resistance. As Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Bernstein puts it, they show “how broad the coalition against the president is.”

Others maintain that these Republican critics of Trump represent a paradoxical danger: A Republican Party that follows their lead and gets rid of Donald Trump would surely be celebrated in the mainstream media as washed in the blood of the lamb—even though it would remain just as evil as before. It would still include, for example, Jeff Flake, who has voted in line with Trump 90 percent of the time.

Flake isn’t the only Republican winning centrist and liberal hearts. This summer, word in Washington was that people around the popular Democratic governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, were floating trial balloons for a 2020 bipartisan presidential run with Gov. John Kasich of Ohio—a lustfully privatizing and union-busting Republican who has jammed through some of the most invasive abortion restrictions in the country and a law allowing guns in bars.

Then, this fall, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) was feted by the likes of historian Douglas Brinkley as a “real leader” after he called the White House an “adult day care center” bringing us to the verge of “World War III.” This Tennessee hero, however, also wants to gut Medicare and Social Security, disbelieves human-made climate change and stubbornly defended the war in Iraq.

Then came, of all people, George W. Bush, who once upon a time added torture to America’s military arsenal—but in an October speech complained some nameless you-know-who in Washington has introduced “bullying and prejudice in our national life.”

...

The problem [Jeff flake's] book [Conscience of a Conservative] reveals, however, is just how crazy, vicious and non-fact-based conservatism remains even at its most “conscientious.” What else is a debate between a flat tax and a consumption tax, after all, than a contest between different methods of starving the state at the expense of the poor? Or consider his critique of current Republican immigration policy. He prefers the days “when crossing the border could be done frequently and easily”—because then, “the workers didn’t tend to bring their families, because they didn’t intend to stay.” It was better, in other words, when Mexicans kept their heads down as cheap, interchangeable units of labor power. Those were the days!

[Tyrannical]

Pedophile is their man! Democrats will kill babies!!!

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/1 ... es_in.html

Which is such a waste! They won't grow up to be nubile 12 year olds!

Muslims......
Its easy to forum talk, but do YOU publicly denounced them? Vote Pauline Hanson

[pErvinalia]

He does all the time. (the former, not the latter)