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probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#158401: Nov 24th 2016 at 6:41:29 PM

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.
Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#158402: Nov 24th 2016 at 6:44:38 PM

How exactly would Romney stab Trump in the back?

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#158403: Nov 24th 2016 at 6:48:11 PM

[up][up]Are we going down that road again?

So someone finally realized that Ivanka Trump did actually respond to her father's comments about dating her if she hadn't been his daughter: She would have Maced him if he hadn't been her father.

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 idiot
probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#158404: Nov 24th 2016 at 6:53:31 PM

[up] Animal welfare aside. Vipers and spiders are generally harmless to people.

So, imho - those insults are also kinda weak in the scary factor.

[Mod edit: Please do not make such a comparison.]

edited 25th Nov '16 5:15:28 PM by Berrenta

Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#158405: Nov 24th 2016 at 6:54:10 PM

How exactly would Romney stab Trump in the back?
It wasn't mentioned, but it seems the implication is those close to Trump are concerned Romney spoke negatively of the President-Elect before the convention and isn't an automatic patsy and yesman. Basically that there's nothing insuring Romney will be a loyal crony who won't sell the Administration out if things go pear-shaped.

Okay, the argument given by the article writer on her Twitter is this:

"The concern for some of those opposed to Romney - that Trump is viewed by GOP base as antidote to Romneyism/Bushism"

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

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#158406: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:05:45 PM

[up] Like what happened when Sanders endorsed Clinton?

Disgusted, but not surprised
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#158407: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:06:09 PM

Help us, Willard Mitt Romney, you're our only hope.

-Hologram frizzles and repeats-

Help us, Willard Mitt Romney, you're our only hope.

Thanksgiving Edit: Oh, my God, I'm a turkey. [lol]

edited 24th Nov '16 7:07:04 PM by Parable

probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#158408: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:09:00 PM

I want to hope that the Republicans destroy each other. But I'm also afraid that we'll get stuck in the crossfire.

Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.
tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#158409: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:09:12 PM

wild mass guessRomney wants in on the Trump administration because of the supposed Mormon prophecy that the nation will be saved by a Mormon when the Constitution is "hanging by a thread"wild mass guess

Trump delenda est
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#158410: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:13:47 PM

[up][up] 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.

probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#158411: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:17:51 PM

[up]

Republicans are Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#158412: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:23:13 PM

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.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#158413: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:23:33 PM

[up][up][up] 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.

[up] Trump's a populist demagogue, which is something very dangerous.

"If you're asking me who I'd promote...Jefferson has my vote! I have never agreed with Jefferson once...We have fought on like 75 different fronts. But when all said and all is done…Jefferson has beliefs; Burr has none."

edited 24th Nov '16 7:28:54 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#158414: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:25:55 PM

[up][up] 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

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#158415: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:31:51 PM

[up][up][up] Or, and this is what I would expect to happen even under a democratic administration albeit at a slower pace, use their monopoly on political power to weight things further and further in their favor until the United States has become a de facto one party state.

vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#158416: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:34:49 PM

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.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#158417: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:37:46 PM

[up] 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
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#158418: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:42:38 PM

[up] It would certainly damage relations with Mexican Americans, but I feel people tend to greatly overestimate the degree of solidarity that exists between different nationalities that are grouped together in the United States.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#158419: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:42:52 PM

In the alternate universe where Trump lost by a landslide, I could definitely imagine a GOP build around Rubio and Cruz designed to cater to hispanics. The Trump GOP, however, is likely to be whiter than ever.

probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#158420: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:43:56 PM

The Wall...

I'm torn between how ridiculous this all is and horror.

Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#158421: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:46:19 PM

[up] 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
probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#158422: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:48:03 PM

[up] The workers too.

Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#158423: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:50:06 PM

[up] And of course, NAFTA — the deal Trump wants to scrap — is what makes the labor and materials easier to procure in the first place.

Disgusted, but not surprised
probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#158424: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:55:12 PM

[up] I pretty much expect Trump administration to accelerate automation even more.

If there is really going to be a wall between USA and Mexico - wild mass guessthey'll use humongous 3D printerswild mass guess. 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.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#158425: Nov 24th 2016 at 7:59:34 PM

I just hope the workers don't end up like the poor guys who died building the Great Wall of China.

Disgusted, but not surprised

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