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ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#164001: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:04:41 PM

[up]Not just a non-white woman-another educated lawyer without the decades of built up corruption crap thrown at her by the Republicans, who also happens to be a triple minority by ancestry.

edited 23rd Dec '16 5:05:18 PM by ViperMagnum357

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#164002: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:12:04 PM

What my foolish idealism wants me to believe is that Harris's status as a woman of color would infuse her genuinely progressive supporters with the kind of passion that's needed to defeat the GOP right now. The kind of "holy shit, this is something new" fervor that could really mobilize the base.

But that, again, is probably wishful thinking on my part. By 2020 (assuming we still have anything resembling free and fair elections at that point), racism and misogyny may have been mainstreamed to the point where she really just doesn't have a chance. Self-proclaimed liberals may take one look at her and go "Blasian? I don't even know what that is. I'm going to vote for another four years of Fuhrer Trump. Just give him a chance."

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#164003: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:14:27 PM

Nah, at most I think the democrat base might be a little (or very) demotivated by then but I don't expect progressives are going to like Trump any better 4 years from now. Even in the best case scenario where he's just a mediocre crony capitalist president, a lot of people could probably be swayed to vote against him.

I'm more worried about the voter suppression.

edited 23rd Dec '16 5:18:04 PM by Draghinazzo

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#164004: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:20:16 PM

Fingers crossed. The way I see it, there are basically two possibilities for the decent people in America going forward. Either they get so demoralized and beaten down by all the horrible shit that they essentially give up (which has already been happening to all too many people, and he's not even president yet), or we muster our resolve like never before and rise up like a tidal wave.

I still have just enough faith in humanity left that I think the latter is more likely, at least on the grand scale. But this is all operating on the assumption that the nation still exists in a recognizable form in four years. Which is what that passion is needed for - preserving our systems of democracy and making sure he can't turn us completely into an autocratic vassal state to Mother Russia.

Also, agreed. I'm going to keep on saying it - if we don't retake some serious lost ground against voter suppression over the next 2-4 years, we're basically screwed. And Jeff Sessions does not bode well for that.

edited 23rd Dec '16 5:21:18 PM by RBluefish

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#164005: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:34:35 PM

Similar to his request for names related to gender issue work, Trump is demanding a list of names of those assigned to work on things related to extremism internally and abroad from State Department and Homeland Security. Link

edited 23rd Dec '16 5:35:54 PM by carbon-mantis

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#164006: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:36:13 PM

...There are a number of possible explanations for this, and none of them are not scary.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#164007: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:36:17 PM

Re: #163974

Just to ask the obvious, possibly dumb question, is it at all unusual for the Trump administration to be asking for this stuff? I know the energy department flat out refused so that's a sign the answer is yes, but I'm thinking best to ask even if it's unnecessary.

edited 23rd Dec '16 5:37:50 PM by sgamer82

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#164008: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:38:23 PM

The strong impression I've gotten is that this is not a normal part of the presidential transition.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#164009: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:49:23 PM

He seems to be specifically wanting names of political appointees. Worry is he'd likely purge Obama's appointees and whatever programs they were assigned to and replace them with his own.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#164010: Dec 23rd 2016 at 5:53:49 PM

The fact that he's asking for this type of information isn't inherently bad. A reasonable president might want to know exactly how many people NASA has working on climate change to gauge how important climate change is to NASA.

But the specific things Trump is asking about are...alarming to say the least.

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#164011: Dec 23rd 2016 at 7:55:53 PM

The Night of Long Knives is coming.

Trump delenda est
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#164012: Dec 24th 2016 at 3:41:22 AM

... Say, what would happen if between now and January 20, Trump tripped over his own feet and fell down a flight of stairs in Trump Tower, and ended up having a fatal head/neck injury, with nobody but his cronies and other Republicans in the vicinity? I don't see how that could be twisted into him becoming a martyr for the Republican cause.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#164013: Dec 24th 2016 at 3:42:13 AM

He and his Republican cronies would say it was a plot and their voter base would believe them.

We live in a post fact political world now.

Oh really when?
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#164014: Dec 24th 2016 at 3:43:50 AM

And he'd be replaced by Mike Pence. Which doesn't seem like a very good replacement to me.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#164015: Dec 24th 2016 at 3:47:02 AM

Eh, honestly literally everything Mike Pence wants is gonna go through anyway. He won't be gaining any new power.

Oh really when?
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#164016: Dec 24th 2016 at 3:57:15 AM

Pence is a repugnant person and would be a nightmare for civil rights, but here's the thing - that's going to be the case either way. He's already shaping up to be one of Trump's viziers - the power behind the throne.note 

But Pence is at least somewhat stable. Under Fuhrer Pence, I wouldn't be as afraid of a nuclear war being started with a tweet, or Europe being destabilized overnight because of an infantile grudge. Would we rather have two bigots, one stable, one terrifyingly unpredictable - or just the one, stable, bigot?

It's bad either way, no question about that. But getting rid of Trump can only be an improvement.

edited 24th Dec '16 3:57:34 AM by RBluefish

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#164017: Dec 24th 2016 at 3:59:21 AM

Pence at least has a measure of maturity. Compare his reaction to the whole Hamilton thing with Trump's tweet.

OTOH, isn't Pence a TPP supporter? If he were POTUS, he'd be signing that thing in a heartbeat.

edited 24th Dec '16 4:00:53 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#164018: Dec 24th 2016 at 4:03:01 AM

So will Trump is the thing. There's nothing on Pence's agenda that won't get passed with Trump in power.

Oh really when?
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#164019: Dec 24th 2016 at 4:07:51 AM

Trump has gone on record saying he's against TPP. Then again, he's said a lot of things which he didn't mean in the end.

I'm not sure if it's better or worse that Pence is better at maintaining a Mask of Sanity. Still, at least he's less likely to start a nuclear war.

...When the best thing you can say about someone is that they probably won't get us all nuked to kingdom come...

Geebus, how did we get to this point? sad

Disgusted, but not surprised
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#164020: Dec 24th 2016 at 4:11:21 AM

Trump has also surrounded himself with people very much for it. Expect him to sign it.

Oh really when?
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#164021: Dec 24th 2016 at 4:18:29 AM

Yeah, I brought that up myself a while back. With Pence as POTUS though, TPP would go from "probably going to happen" to "definitey going to happen".

If Trump's serious about playing hardball with China, he may very well sign the TPP.

edited 24th Dec '16 4:19:54 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#164022: Dec 24th 2016 at 7:40:44 AM

I dont ike to call Trump a nazi, after all they fight the russian.

Tzar Trump? vozhed trump? someone know how to said "collaborator" in russian?

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#164023: Dec 24th 2016 at 7:44:35 AM

Oh, look who's crawled out of a Cold War bunker to cozy up to Trump.

Henry Kissinger

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#164024: Dec 24th 2016 at 7:53:05 AM

kill it! KILL IT WITH FIRE.

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#164025: Dec 24th 2016 at 8:02:02 AM

<sigh>

I'll go get the Stingers.

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele

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