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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
i don't think "moderate" and Trump go very well together, but if my experiences in my country hold true elsewhere, it might just be that people have some VERY screwed up priorities.
Down here in Brazil we have a politican pretty similar to Trump in a lot of ways, except he's much less comical (which only makes him more frightening). Apparently a lot of support for him is along the lines of "Ok so he's racist, sexist, and a homophobe BUT he's not corrupt like all our other politicians!!!", when there's no real indication that the latter is the case and he's made a buffoon of himself on multiple occasions, he just doesn't have the media lambasting him and his every mistake 24/7.
I have heard/read that some of the support for Trump is along similar lines, the whole idea of "he can't be bought".
It's like, yeah ok, but he's still a raging asshole so that's pretty much worthless.
edited 20th Jul '16 10:01:10 PM by wehrmacht
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Any chance Canada can get in on that?
And in another case of the GOP being classless assholes, here are some Hillary Clinton souvenirs for sale at the RNC. These things are truly disgusting.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/republican-convention-attacks-hillary-clinton-1.3687478
Republican Platform part 3: The Good, the Bad and the Trump
GOP platform proposes turning EPA into a commission.
They'd probably argue that this mostly meaningless pandering meant to rally the troops and sway the defectors. After all the platform is non-binding.
Still the fact that the GOP is pandering this hard to the far-right is probably not a good sign. From an objective standpoint, this is the most conservative platform in the history of the Republican Party.
edited 20th Jul '16 10:23:12 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Republican Platform part 4: "Forget it, Jeb. It's Trumptown."
First openly gay Republican on GOP Platform Committee: ‘Why Am I Even Here?’.
Republican Party platform calls North Korea a 'slave state'.
The Republican Platform and the Federal Government.
A basic rundown of their demands:
- Cut the pay and benefits federal employees receive.
- Union representatives in the federal workforce should not be allowed to be paid for conducting union business and that federal workers shouldn’t be compelled to join a union or pay dues
- Attempt to end the TSA's union.
- Impeach IRS commissioner John Koskinen.
- Reform the VA.
edited 20th Jul '16 11:26:25 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Republican Party platform calls North Korea a 'slave state'.
Half expected them to call them a model of democracy, but apparently they're not that crazy. Oh, right, Communism. Forgot about that old boogeyman.
A panel crafting the Republican Party’s platform on trade has removed all references to the TPP trade agreement, citing Donald Trump’s rejection of the deal and the difficult politics that Republican incumbents are navigating.
I can't even call this a silver lining. This is just part of Trump's "fuck all trade agreements" plan. Hillary is opposing the TPP for being crazy, Trump is opposing it for not instantly giving America the world.
edited 20th Jul '16 11:32:01 PM by Discar
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Oh wow, she's part of a party that systematically apposed LGBTQ rights and the wonders why people say such 'hurtful' things.
Like. Miss, really? Come down to the south and enjoy the radiant heat of bigotry wafting off of our republican leaders. Enjoy the sound of your rights being subjugated to other people's religious convictions.
The Republican Party being a paragon of liberty and equality? Give me a goddamn break.
"Half expected them to call them a model of democracy, but apparently they're not that crazy. Oh, right, Communism. Forgot about that old boogeyman. "
Considering is the same damn party that pander to the sore loser sof ex-slave states, in what can be consider the biggest Alt-right version of a safe space, where the war as never lose, black and lincon are trigger words and dead black man are consider a healthy way of venting.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"So the day after Chris Christie gave a scathing speech at the RNC against Hillary Clinton, leading a crowd shouting "Guilty!" and "Lock her up!", Hillary released a video recorded back in February of Christie hugging her and having a friendly, jovial chat.
"All I do is hug Democrats. It gets me in trouble all the time."
edited 21st Jul '16 1:40:57 AM by RavenWilder
Laura Ingraham accused of doing a Nazi salute during her speech.
Yeah, she did pretty much make an intentional salute briefly, it's fairly obvious. Just a reminder that the right-wing was really into Nazism back in the day before Hitler started actually waging war, America actually started fighting them, and the Holocaust was revealed. Charlie Chaplin was pretty much hounded constantly even after the war because he dared to criticise the Nazis, amongst his other left-wing views and his refusal to participate in the McCarthyism communist witch-hunts.
edited 21st Jul '16 2:22:36 AM by Cronosonic
Cruz swerved into libertarian territory
in his speech where he refused to endorse Trump.
Gone were the hard-edged appeals to the religious right. In their place were lines like “gay or straight, the Bill of Rights protects the rights of all of us to live according to our conscience” and “The Internet? Keep it free from taxes, free from regulation.” Cruz even reminded the audience, implicitly, that he supports letting each state decide whether to legalize marijuana, which puts him well outside the mainstream of the party.
“We deserve leaders who stand for principle,” Cruz said, again contrasting himself with Trump. “Unite us all behind shared values. Cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect, from everybody.”
When the delegates in the Quicken Loans Arena realized that Cruz was reaching the end of his remarks with no endorsement in sight, many began to boo. Some threatened Heidi Cruz, who had to be escorted backstage.
The senator didn’t back down. In an apparent allusion to the failed, months-long campaign by some of his supporters to free the GOP delegates to “vote their consciences” in Cleveland, Cruz urged “those listening” not to “stay home in November.”
“Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution,” Cruz said.
The message was unmistakable: It’s OK if you can’t stomach the thought of voting for Trump. Vote for true conservatives instead.
Right beneath Cruz’s podium, the delegation from New York — Trump’s home state — howled in disgust.
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The delegates booed. Cruz’s speech was over. Their backs were turned to him.
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Word began to spread of Republicans accosting the senator backstage; GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson reportedly refused to admit Cruz to his suite.
Predictably, Trump weighed in on Twitter.
“Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn’t honor the pledge!” Trump wrote in reference to the vow Cruz made last September to support the eventual nominee. “I saw his speech two hours early, but let him speak anyway. No big deal!”
Others were less sanguine. “I think it was awful,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told CNN. “I think it was selfish. To say cute things like: ‘You should vote for the candidate you believe in from the top of the ticket to bottom’ — this is the kind of Washington talk that people in this country are repelled by. I sat there shaking my head.”
The bet Cruz is making is that by 2020, many of his fellow Republicans will see things differently.
The Laura Ingram thing is really needless muckraking. If that little wave was meant as a Nazi salute then I've inadvertently said said Heil Hitler more than I'd care to admit.
edit- Video
, they're claiming the part towards the latter half where she's pointing to cheering crowd members is the "salute."
edited 21st Jul '16 5:09:32 AM by carbon-mantis

God, does he even have a soul?! Everything he says just scares me more and more. How are his more moderate supporters able to ignore these things?