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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
What happened that they did switch places?
@On Kanye: I'm beginning to think the only reason he would run for President in '20 is to purposefully make himself look bad, so Trump looks good.
Wait, I'm a dumbdumb and didn't read the whole thing. Weren't those two like besties like a moment before? At least, Kanye seemed to admire Trump in some way.
edited 19th Jan '17 11:40:38 AM by FergardStratoavis
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Also, the Republicans originally represented northern factories, mercantile interests in the cities, and more modestly the urban and urban adjacent interests on the east coasts. Their original opposition to slavery was economic, with the South's refusal to industrialize leaving money on the table. However, after 1850 and continued unrest like Jay Hawks and incidents like John Brown, the writing was on the wall-there was going to be a fracture where economic policy was the sugar-coated topping on serious, perhaps irreconcilable differences in culture, specifically the gentry and slavery. One of the primary reasons Polk and Buchanan are so hated-they saw what was coming and made it worse, while kicking the can down the road and guaranteeing a future president would deal with a split nation.
edited 19th Jan '17 11:50:34 AM by ViperMagnum357
Re: the switching of Democratic and Republican political ideology.
It actually has its origin in the GOP's birth as essentially an anti-slavery Single-Issue Wonk party. After the passage of the 13th and 14th amendments, the banking panic of 1973, the corruption in the Grant cabinet, and Hayes's betrayal of the blacks, the GOP was left asking, "And then what?"
So they became the party of urban industrialists, financiers, and Old Money. Then you have the Progressive Era, where the GOP returned to its roots as a liberal party, before the conservative Taft faction seized control of the GOP's platform. The New Deal hardened its pro-business beliefs, and the Civil Rights era brought in disaffected Southern Democrats.
"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."@167387
: and I'll remind everyone that it's also like my country, so there is still a chance people tell him to go fuck himself in 2020. Or maybe even before that
, but this part is not a good thing anyways.
Abandoning ship and leaving more posts open for his lackeys.
I find the JBA much more sympathetic now (They hate how the modern US government has strayed so far away from the ideals of the founding fathers), and they wanted to nuke New York, Los Angeles and Nashville!
edited 19th Jan '17 12:06:01 PM by Bat178
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Also leaving a huge competence gap, let us not forget.
Fun fact: the US government will effectively have no executive branch as of the 21st.
A lot of this smells like Bannon's doing. He's probably behind some of the worst of the cabinet appointments as well.
Because half the cabinet appointments only make sense if the person choosing them actively wants to damage the government and the nation. Which is exactly Bannon's stated intention.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."What I find particularly worrisome is that even Republican Senators bombed them with questions. If even the evil circle doesn't have much understanding that does not bode well.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanHave we ever had a government that's been as corrupt and inept as the incoming one seems to be?
edited 19th Jan '17 12:19:52 PM by kkhohoho
Andrew Jackson, maybe? Hard to say. We have certainly never had a government with as little governing experience.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
And you have every right to enjoy that schadenfreude. The problem is that a corrupt, incompetent U.S. government can have catastrophic effects on global affairs.
According to 4 of Trump's biographers, this is Trump's doing. He wants in-fighting.

And they were from the time the two parties switched places.
Continue writing our story of peace.