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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
There's no way in hell America would let Trump become President.
He's pissed off entirely too many minorities, they're gonna show up in droves to stop this monster.
At least I hope so. He wins and I'm straight up leaving the country. No way in hell I could survive here with him in charge.
Oh really when?I don't think that calling Trump a RINO is going to damage him. He's got too much of the insane hard-right fanbase behind him, and he's got enough stubborn bullheadedness to simply ignore inconsistencies.
Being able to make a graceful U-turn, or more likely, a forceful one, is an important skill for a politician. Both Kerry and Romney suffered because they could be dragged down by their complete lack of spine.
The real test of the Trumpster is if he gets the nomination, at which point he'll have to go to the general public with everything he said about immigrants around his neck. Knowing Trump, he'll probably double-down and get quashed by the minority vote.
edited 6th Aug '15 7:40:58 PM by Ramidel
Not blindly hating your enemies is for your own good, not for the sake of 'civility.'
It's not about being nice so much as it is about being understanding. If you sincerely think the only thing motivating someone is malice, you don't understand them and will just embarrass yourself by trying to psychoanalyze them.
I read a book the other day that made an argument amounting to "the Protestant and Catholic disagree on the issue of contraception because one believes in organizing society based on empirical social planning and the other wants to base it on religious principles." Should probably be rephrased as "religious vs secular" for 2015 but whatever. It still makes infinitely more sense than "I guess They must just really hate women or something, I guess..."
But here's the thing, it is based on malice and bigotry.
It has been for a long time and they've done an incredible job of convincing people it isn't. Dog whistles and Reagan have done wonders at enforcing that.
These aren't people who just happen to believe in a different economic theory. These are greedy and hateful people out to make money for themselves and hurt groups they don't like.
edited 6th Aug '15 8:01:19 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?I really hope that Trump becomes the nominee. That would be hilarious. Plus there's no way he could win a general election.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayRe: civility:
Saying Republicans of being racist and wanting to increase the wealth of the rich at the expense of the poor doesn't necessarily violate civility. Claiming, like Fighteer did a couple days back, that Republicans want to:
That kinda does.
edited 6th Aug '15 11:00:53 PM by RavenWilder
Yeah that's the British Conservative Party (recently it's been coming out that there's was a serious child abuse thing happening quite possibly at the heart of goverment back in the Thatcher days, it was all hushed up though and is only coming out now, including reports of Conservative Party conference having drug filled parties with under-age male prostitutes).
Still that does mean Fighter's suggestion might not be entirely hyperbolic, it's certainly not on this side of the pond.
Plus Fighter is allowed to violate civility, he's a mod.

Yeah. Jeb is showing absolutely no charisma.
Which is inconvenient, because if Jeb falls early, Scott Walker becomes the default candidate for the Republican Party. And Walker honestly scares me.