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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Well that was a hell of a non-sequitur. Also, that depends entirely on where you live and the layout of your home. I live roughly 3 miles from a State police barracks, and my home is cozy enough that a baseball bat would serve me far better than a gun would in home defense.
edited 28th Apr '18 9:10:46 AM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"I’m not quite sure what was said, but anyone who wants to keep a gun in their home should remember that the risk of accidental death almost triples in gun owning households. Suicide and homicide risks go up significantly as well. If you buy a gun your chances of getting shot go way up.
They should have sent a poet.I thumped that post for being off-topic (and dumb), and apparently that was taken as a hint to ramble on about guns for half a page? I don't get you guys.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"OK, OK, we'll stop too.
Back on topic: it appears that Trump does not grasp what the midterm is going to look like for Republicans
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edited 28th Apr '18 11:59:01 AM by TheWildWestPyro
Hardly surprising. His thinking is that he doesn't want it to happen therefore it won't. And if it does its will be everybody's fault but his. If, and I still think it's a bigger if than most people here, the Democrats win either the House or Senate, much less both, expect calls for investigations into "voter fraud" and holding up seating any Democrats until those investigations are completed.
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As I've said it before but I'm fairly confident that the Republicans will eventually curse the fact that Donald Trump won the election, the damage he can cause them is rather incalculable.
That's not something he can do, he'll absolutely make excuses about it but he simply doesn't have the power to stop duly elected officials from taking their rightful positions.
edited 28th Apr '18 1:21:57 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangThe loss of the House ends Trump's legislative agenda for at least 2 years (and for fuck's sake I hope its all over by 2020), while taking the Senate stops the bleeding on the Supreme Court and the worst of his appointments. Any reasonable person would be concerned with this, oh wait...
edited 28th Apr '18 1:54:31 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.If the Democrats take Congress I see three possible results.
1. Trump's agenda is defacto dead in the water reducing him to a lameduck President that is likely voted out come 2020.
2. The Democrats gain enough votes to impeach and remove Trump, if this happens then a Democratic victory come 2020 is pretty much guaranteed and whomever holds the position as President will just be a lameduck.
3. The Democrats stop Trump's agenda which causes him to feel more and more pressure until in frustration he resigns and bitterly complains about the deep state hijacking his Presidency.
I think #1 is the most likely one but I wouldn't dismiss either #2 or #3.
edited 28th Apr '18 1:57:41 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
#2 doesn't happen unless a substantial number of Republican Senators play ball, which won't happen barring (maybe) a truly massive escalation of one or more of his scandals.
I suspect it will be a mix of #1 and #3, though I doubt he'd ever resign unless he's facing imminent impeachment or the indictment of his inner circle (and possibly himself for State level charges).
edited 28th Apr '18 2:16:45 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
That's true. But its also true that partisanship (especially on the right) is far more prevalent now than it was in the 70s. Furthermore, the GOP back then could (and did) live without Nixon, the modern GOP's fate is tied to Trump in at least the short-medium term (which is all they ever account for).
I could see a decent number of Republicans playing ball with impeachment, if they take enough of a beating in 2018; the ones up for re-election in 2020 are not going to want to share a ballot with a liability like that.
Though the Prisoner's dilemma they'd find themselves in is that while they'd want him to be impeached, they wouldn't want to have to justify voting for impeachment to Trump's base.
Watergate was Nixon ordering a bunch of his cronies to break into the Democratic Party Headquarters to find dirt or information they could use in the coming election then lying about it and doing his best to cover it up. During the process, it was also discovered he'd used his authority to go after a lot of political "enemies" and bug rivals.
I think Trump is a bigger deal because while this is certainly illegal and pathetic, it doesn't necessarily involve cooperating with a foreign power to fix an election.
edited 28th Apr '18 4:16:11 PM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.

I highly recommend you guys get firearm training and learn how to carry a weapon, if you live in the US. Being self-aware and responsible, as well as having the tools and knowledge to defend yourself is very liberating and also just something you should know. You shouldn't have to rely solely on an outside force for your protection, especially given how incompetent and honestly pretty racist American police can be.