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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Honestly, Arnold would probably be pretty moderate as POTUS. He'd appoint a Kennendyesque justice, favors immigration reform, isn't overtly hostile to LGBT rights, and won't threaten 70 year old alliances because of his ego.
But he's in an awkward position, too far to the left for the Republicans, but too far to the right for the Democrats.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Asides from the fact that her voice is creepily robotic, she claimed that the House Ethics Committee had approved the trip. But wasn't it controversial to begin with because it was a secret until recently?
Her trip is controversial because she wouldn't shut up about how wonderful Assad was afterwards. Once again, that woman's gotta go.
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New Survey coming this weekend!Yeah. It is great people are turning against Trump, but so far he haven't done anything different to what he promised and acted before the election. What did this people think it would happen.
They thought he wouldn't or couldn't actually do the things he said. They expected things to be normal and for normal forces to continue to act, and so they recklessly voted for the antithesis of normal, and now nothing is normal anymore.
For the record, I'd extend it to believe the politician - you should assume that they intend to at least try to do everything they say unless they have given evidence otherwise.
edited 6th Feb '17 11:09:13 AM by Balmung
I wonder too of some held out hope that advisors and Congress child rein him in as needed, which seems naive at best and downright silly in hindsight. Not to mention the sheer stupidity of choosing a leader based on his having lackeys to mitigate his obvious incompetence.
edited 6th Feb '17 11:08:32 AM by sgamer82
So here's an ad I saw on reddit today.
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I can see they're taking their opposition to Trump seriously.
@danime: IIRC, the actual term doesn't show up, but is an accurate portrayal of Winston's job.
Direct all enquiries to Jamie B GoodYeah, a lot of Trump supporters had one or both of two opinions about the malicious things he claimed:
- It's just politics talk. Every politician talks like that. Sure, he's behaving monstrously, but politicians ARE monsters, every single last one of them, so he's just saying what it takes to get elected. Any politician in the world would be saying the same things.
- Sure, he's made a lot of shitty promises, but nobody in their right mind would ever let him do it. The party will reign him in and keep him under control, because it's really the GOP who has all the power. He's just going to be Paul Ryan's goofy mascot or something.
We've talked a lot about how anti-intellectual rhetoric had a major impact on the election, but anti-political rhetoric was a big part of it as well. It's long been taken as fact in America that politicians, like lawyers, are the scum of the universe.
As a culture, we hate politicians. We mock them in every sitcom. We tell jokes like, "We should send politicians into space instead of astronauts, because you don't have to bring the politicians back." That one came from Stephen F*cking Hawking.
This had a major effect on Trump's "outsider" reputation.
These words have already been brought up but cannot be stressed enough: believe the autocrat.
edited 6th Feb '17 11:45:27 AM by TobiasDrake
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