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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
One reaction the election I understand but don't agree with, (yet) is that at least Ted Cruz wasn't elected. It means the Religious Right lost it's stranglehold on the party, but I don't agree since now the much further right Stormfront users have at least a major portion of control.
I wouldn't keep my hopes up for impeachment though, not until we'd get a good source or even bad source like TMZ to report this and spread it as a meme to the public. Which could happen, or they could try the "Everything bad about us is Fake News" thing that works so well with their base.
Cruz is cut from a different cloth than Pence - he's a Dominionist. Who has been declared the messiah by his father. Pence is awful - his political career would have ended had he not become VP because Indiana hates him, but he's nowhere near that.
Pence's end goals suck, but Cruz actually wants the end of the world to happen. It's awful, but someone who will be awful to LGBT people is better than a man who will both be awful to LGBT people and who will deliberately try to arrange things so the end of the world will happen. I wrote a paper on Ted Cruz once, and one thing I found is that his father actually preached once that if it won't happen on its own, the Gog and Magog prophecy (the Dominionist interpretation has a ton of countries, including Ethiopia of all places, but not including Iran, invading Israel and failing miserably) should be deliberately triggered to essentially force the end of the world.
But he's the "Sane" one.
>.<
New Survey coming this weekend!Schwarzenegger calls for redistricting reform.
Sometimes I wish Arnie was an American born citizen so he could run for president.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Nah. If we were to have Amended for Arnold, he'd probably have won 2016 handily from both sides. He's broadly popular across the spectrum, even more so than John Mc Cain used to be.
As for Mattis...well, he's not wrong, except that Trump is going to "moderate his commitment" anyway.
edited 15th Feb '17 8:35:16 AM by Ramidel
That EPA bill is horrifying. Because god forbid that you live in a country that isn't a blasted unliveable wasteland with undrinkable water and no food.
And who founded the EPA? Why, Richard Nixon, of course.
I mean, seriously, what the hell? The Republicans are stomping on their own legacy because they can't remember what's actually theirs and what's actually Democrat related. The National Parks thing is in the same boat. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the biggest driving forces behind them, and he was a Republican.
edited 15th Feb '17 8:34:15 AM by Zendervai
He's got a few personal scandals (though that didn't stop the Orange One), and his record in California is mixed. He'd have had a rough go in the primaries, especially with another celebrity there.
The GOP would brand him a RINO, and Democrats would see him as a Blue Dog at best.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I'm not totally convinced that it was even a good idea at the time, but my understanding is that the purpose at the time the Constitution was written was to prevent European nobles from running for President and the U.S. ending up an elective monarchy. Ditto the "no titles of nobility" thing. Because there actually were some Federalists who tried to field minor nobles for such a purpose.

The problem with impeachment is just that: there are too many Republicans involved to throw anyone overboard. All they're going to do is pull together and throw a middle finger, and it's not like they can be arrested until their terms are up.
All we can do is keep up the pressure and try to steal the House in 2018 (long shot due to the gerrymanders, but Trump was also a long shot), and then sweep the administration in 2020.