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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Are we going down that road again?
Lots of money is excellent for drowning your sorrows, news at 11.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotOkay, the argument given by the article writer on her Twitter is this:
Basically Trump would be proving he's just another Republican. No actual turn in policy. Damages Trump's Street Cred.
edited 24th Nov '16 6:59:10 PM by PotatoesRock
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If America is gonna grow, the Republicans either need to get their act together and be a SANE opposition party after Trump (no climate change denialism, no threatening of LGBT rights, no bullshit religious fundamentalism, etc), or they need to go. They're proving more and more that they're a threat to ALL americans. Minorities in particular definitely, but they consistently make the lives of even their white base worse too if they're not wealthy.
Republicans are Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
.
The republicans must change, or add hispanic to the definition of white, which would spell the end of the democratic coalition's club, the demographic threat. If they really don't adopt either strategy it would certaining spell their end in a couple of generations. They are at a crossroads indeed...
Trump is such a weird crossroads for the party tho. He seems to be for everything and nothing. Like he became whatever the constituency wanted him to be. A vessel.
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It's funny that Paul Ryan is such an Ayn Rand fanboy, since he and the rest of the GOP have more in common with the looters from Atlas Shrugged or Ellsworth Toohey from The Fountainhead than they do with John Galt or Howard Roark.
Trump's a populist demagogue, which is something very dangerous.
edited 24th Nov '16 7:28:54 PM by M84
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Problem is that for them to add hispanics to the definition of "white" would probably require their current voterbase to do the same. Which they almost certainly won't. I mean, in the long run it might be possible, since the Irish weren't considered "white" once upon a time but as of this moment I don't think it's gonna pass.
I mean, as it stands most americans don't understand the distinctions between latinos and hispanics to begin with.
edited 24th Nov '16 7:32:41 PM by Draghinazzo
I'm not so sure. Marco and Ted are rather known. I don't think that the anti-hipanics will care that much if it means getting the fastest growing sector of the populace into the fold. Right now it might seem absurd, but the republicans aren't stupid, they already knew this back in the Romney Post-Mortem. And even if it seems contradictory, they gained a share of hispanics with Trump compared to Mitt.
If Trump damages the U.S.A's relations with Mexico by following through with his plans to scrap NAFTA and strong-arm them into paying for the wall via a trade war, I imagine that would not lead to anything good for the people of Latino and Hispanic descent who are already in the U.S.A., undocumented or otherwise.
He also might be mucking around with Cuba again.
edited 24th Nov '16 7:41:31 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
Fun fact: the wall would require an insane amount of cement to build. Guess where the U.S.A. gets a lot of its cement?
Mexico.
BTW, Trump's idea of threatening a trade war with Mexico to make them pay for the wall — like so many of Trump's ideas throughout his life — is a really bad one.
edited 24th Nov '16 7:50:33 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
I pretty much expect Trump administration to accelerate automation even more.
If there is really going to be a wall between USA and Mexico - they'll use humongous 3D printers
. Which, I will confess - makes me half-squee cause I love robots even though I also see them as harbingers of doom.
edited 24th Nov '16 7:55:25 PM by probablyinsane
Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.

If animal insults, I prefer to use animals not visible to the naked eye because.
Like amoebas or MRSA or the Ebola virus.
Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.