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nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#250151: Jul 24th 2018 at 6:37:17 PM

[up][up]At least until they invent killer robots. Then the rich man will finally no longer have to fear the wrath of the masses.

Edited by nightwyrm_zero on Jul 24th 2018 at 9:39:04 AM

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#250152: Jul 24th 2018 at 6:38:27 PM

A question, how likely does the Blue Wave currently look right now? I can't find a consistent answer.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#250153: Jul 24th 2018 at 6:40:14 PM

There's a good deal of speculation that there will be a bunch of seats that change hands but the simple fact is that the fascist heart of Trump's supporters remain unmoved.

Even as they start eating their children.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
DeathorCake Since: Mar, 2016
#250154: Jul 24th 2018 at 6:41:47 PM

[up][up][up]

Have to wait slightly longer after that so that the robots become cheaper than just paying the taxes that serve as comparatively cheap and reliable asset insurance.

Edited by DeathorCake on Jul 24th 2018 at 1:46:04 PM

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#250155: Jul 24th 2018 at 6:45:25 PM

[up][up][up]Hard to say for sure, but momentum is building continuously.

[up][up]We don't need to change the minds of Trump's base, only the independent dupes.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#250156: Jul 24th 2018 at 6:50:39 PM

The Trump faithful will not change their minds on this. Whether it's due to genuine devotion to Trump and / or the GOP, blind hatred of the "libs", unwillingness to admit they fucked up in 2016...they won't change.

But like Crimson said, we don't need them to change their votes to win.

Edited by M84 on Jul 24th 2018 at 9:50:34 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#250157: Jul 24th 2018 at 6:51:13 PM

We need to encourage as many people as we can to vote democrat this year and 2020, i'm completely serious it looks like the U.S. is actually becoming a dystopia and nobody seems to notice, i'm utterly terrified right now.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#250158: Jul 24th 2018 at 6:53:05 PM

People do notice. It's just that there really isn't much we can actually do until election day aside from protesting. And last time I checked, people do still protest and campaign.

Disgusted, but not surprised
MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#250159: Jul 24th 2018 at 6:56:43 PM

So we've found the idol whose alter the GOP and alt-right and bourgeois worships. How widespread is Mac Lean's article?

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jul 24th 2018 at 6:58:55 AM

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#250160: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:10:54 PM

So if Trump is voted out next election, what happens to the GOP?

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#250161: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:12:09 PM

[up]Nothing. What happens to the GOP depends entirely on the midterms. Which is why this election is so important.

JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#250162: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:13:27 PM

[up][up][up][up][up]There's a protest going on at the White House right now. Has been for some time. I'm posting it here because I haven't seen it anywhere in the fucking MSM.

Edited by JBC31187 on Jul 24th 2018 at 7:13:34 AM

RainingMetal (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#250163: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:13:36 PM

I wonder if there's a chance that a new conservative party will be founded, one that will correct the mistakes of the current GOP while still maintaining the "good" conservative values (such as respecting the 2nd amendment without being the NRA's bitch, seeking to find less antagonistic ways of solving overwhelming immigration, focusing on national defense, etc).

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#250164: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:14:56 PM

Why would it?

Oh really when?
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#250165: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:15:09 PM

[up][up]

while still maintaining the "good" conservative values

There are no 'good' conserative values. Not after the GOP has run any and all conservative values into the ground.

Edited by kkhohoho on Jul 24th 2018 at 9:16:54 AM

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#250166: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:16:12 PM

[up]x5+[up]x6 If Democrats outperform Republicans severely in 2018 and 2020 (so much that it makes 2006 and 2008 look like jokes in comparison), to the point that Trump is a 1 term President, expect the Republicans to go into crazy mode again; a new extreme right organization, most likely Trumpeteer in nature too, will pop up, be propped by the remaining Koch Brother, and will try their hardest to take over everything again come 2022.

It happened in '94 when Clinton won, and it happened in '10 with Obama's victory. The only major difference might be that the Right can't go any further Right, especially if Millennials keep voting past 2020.

Edited by DingoWalley1 on Jul 24th 2018 at 10:16:16 AM

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#250167: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:16:31 PM

I mean anything's possible but they would likely need to identity and remove anything contamination of what I now dub "Buchanianism" (for lack of abetter term) to be effective at being an actually moral conservative party. The odds of which are make a snowball's chance in hell look more probable.

Even if such a party forms, the GOP would be the bigger fish shark and would likely try to consume the fledgling party or re-corrupt them back into their fold.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jul 24th 2018 at 7:18:17 AM

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#250168: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:16:44 PM

Has anybody been spreading the word for this november? Not as many people place as much importance on the midterms like they do the presidential election.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#250169: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:27:13 PM

The Democrats are a conservative party.

Because all sane conservatives left to join it.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#250170: Jul 24th 2018 at 7:39:51 PM

"“Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves,”

Is this guy a sith? because that sound like one, I half expect him to shoot lighting out of is ass.

But yeah, I feel right now the GOP is going to is very limits witout tearing apart(feel apropiate to make a FATAL joke and if you make one, shame on you), there is a point where polarization goes before going into a clivage and is clearly they already pass it.

I will said the GOP will be kick and let to rot, as they should.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#250171: Jul 24th 2018 at 8:03:45 PM

[up] I really hope so, there's only so much the country can take before it becomes a dictatorship or collases on itself like tbe Soviet Union.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#250172: Jul 24th 2018 at 8:07:28 PM

We're not Soviet Union bad...yet.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#250173: Jul 24th 2018 at 8:10:26 PM

Reposting this CNN article in response to people asking about the Blue Wave. TLDR; all the statistical and historical signs are in the Dems favor, and things are looking better now (for the House, the Senate will of course be a knife fight to even hold their ground in, but there's little that can be done there, math is math) than at any point since 2016.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/politics/house-2018-midterms/index.html

And I wouldn't call the Democratic Party conservative; they are a big tent, fundamentally moderate party that includes plenty of conservatives, but they hardly dominate the other power blocs.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#250174: Jul 24th 2018 at 8:10:57 PM

@Charles Phipps: Not really. The Democrats are still considerably left compared to most conservative parties world-wide.

Leviticus 19:34
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#250175: Jul 24th 2018 at 8:14:08 PM

So we've found the idol whose alter the GOP and alt-right and bourgeois worships. How widespread is Mac Lean's article?
I would like to know this too.

Also, someone please tell me that this could serve as fuel for a federal investigation into this criminal conspiracy against the government and/or the general public by the Koch brothers.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

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