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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/824816015150346240
HOW THE FUCK?!
New Survey coming this weekend!So Pence, Ryan and Priebus are the Starscreams.
Bannon is The Dragon in Chief.
And Trump is the Big Bad.
And I guess Kushner is the Dragon.
Conway is the Dark Chick.
Spicer and Conway pull double duty as the Mouth of Sauron.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.I think it is extremely important that we adhere to a standard of non-violence. If you witness someone being assaulted, call a cop. The local police, by and large, still do their job. If it's a cop doing the assaulting, you can use your body or an object as a sheild of some kind, but you cant counter-attack because that will send you to prison. And never physically assault someone because of something they said. That costs us public support, and we need public support to throw these asshats out in two years.
Really, anger and violence simply feeds their narrative. They love that stuff, nothing would please them more or fulfill their agenda better than becoming engaged in a never ending war in the streets. Violent people have violent goals, by hitting back you are just giving them what they want.
Answer kind with kind, offensive speech demands a strong, vocal answer. Physical attacks require that you defend yourself, but only using a proportional response (again, because otherwise you will go to prison). Usually this means escaping the situation if possible, fighting back only when cornered.
These are basic protest skills. They have been learned by hard experience over many years and protests. Please don't undermine the movement by a disproportionate, impulsive response.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.Thinking it over, I know that ObamaCare is not popular with Conservatives and Alt-Righters, but if Trump really decides to keep it around for 2 years as a way to try and crush Democrats, I think that might just explode in Republicans faces. Democrats can say "See? They didn't have a good plan to replace ObamaCare! Even Trump wants to keep it around! We'll fix it if you give us a Chance!" And that kind of Political Maneuvering, while it might make Alt-Righters happy, would make your standard Conservatives and Neo-Cons think Trump and the Republicans were lying, and either stay at home or willingly vote against them.
It's a risky proposition, but it's possible that Democrats could make this Albatross hang around Trump's and Ryan's neck instead...
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Dear lord, Trump wants to be a King. I'm starting to think we really do need a Modern Whig Movement in this nation.
edited 26th Jan '17 7:58:12 PM by DingoWalley1
Trump wants to be remembered as a King? What, like Carlos II of Spain who was quite possibly the furthest low the Hapsburgs reached? Okay!
Yeah, that was kind of nasty to Carlos. Maybe more like Ivan the Terrible, who has the added bonus of being Russian.
And then a couple generations later, when the US was embroiled in civil war, the British monarch, Queen Victoria, was ruling over the largest empire in human history. Oh yeah, the Americans really showed the British who was boss.
edited 26th Jan '17 8:20:40 PM by Zendervai
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Ivan the Terrible famously expressed regret
◊ at least once in his life, an emotion that Trump is physically incapable of in all likelihood.
edited 26th Jan '17 8:24:59 PM by Eschaton
Jon D. Freer, a Conservative 'Thinker' who wants Birthright Citizenship made Illegal, might join Trump's Team
. Thank god Birthright Citizenship is protected under the Constitution, but God Damn does Trump's Administration get scarier and scarier.
This might be one of Bannon's moves.
Madeleine Albright is "ready to register as a Muslim" in protest of Trump
. She's a Christian with Jewish ancestors. (Whether this is possible is unknown but the gesture is appreciated.)

... He's going through with it, isn't he? He's going to try to make ObamaCare a Democrat Albatross, isn't he?