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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
edited 16th Jun '18 8:22:13 AM by Kaiseror
I doubt too many Congressional Republicans will be implicated by the investigation. They may have made use of Trump, and are his ideological allies, but there's probably little institutional unity from which a corruption case could be built in this context. There are exceptions, though: Devin Nunes, for example.
"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."Oh I hope that fuckhead Mc Connell goes to jail if he helped Russian interference. What is up with Bernie? I didn't hear that part yet.
In a news I did not expect, the Southern Baptists have withdrawn support for the Republican party and dismissed their former leadership.
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I think that was just a jab at Sanders over being, in the poster's view, a Karma Houdini regarding the 2016 election.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
x3 That is huge if it's true; it would mean that the Republican Party is going to lose one of it's biggest supporters, the Evangelicals (most of whom are Baptists in the USA). It would also mean that the Southern Baptists could change from a Reactionary-Conservative Religious organization into a more Liberal or Moderate one.
That would be a Cue the Flying Pigs moment.
That.
edited 16th Jun '18 11:57:05 AM by TroperOnAStickV2
Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.The change has been happening in a lot of areas, including Kentucky as I mentioned. Mitch Mc Connel and his group have made it clear they don't want to do anything about the hunger crisis in Kentucky or the Opiod epidemic—deliberately blocking legislation. This had an effect with the smaller churches because they have been picking up the slack and their attempts to get help from the government have been blocked repeatedly.
Similar crises and health care issues have been leading to groundswell changes in many churches. It's why we have the churches homeless ones now admitting gay teens that right ones tried to shut down.
There's also the depressing fact many of the most conservative leaders have just died out and younger leaders (40s) just don't have the same level of hate to minorities, women, or other sexual preferences.
The Alt Right is an anti-religious organization after all.
edited 16th Jun '18 12:01:09 PM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I think the more likely scenario is that the convention will just split, with most of the congregations going with the reactionary convention and pastors.
A lot of the alt-right’s spokespeople arose from the new atheist movement, though I don’t know if that’s enough to call the whole movement atheistic. Especially not with the embrace of Christianity on a cultural level at least.
edited 16th Jun '18 12:05:11 PM by Mio
Part of it has to do with the fact the churches are staying in place versus moving leftword (but are softening on women and gay people). The Right of 2018 is not the Right of 20 or even 40 years ago even if it's only, "We used to try to hide being evil."
The Republican Party Left Me saw.
Three things boiled down to it really are hitting the fan:
- Gay people aren't the boogeyman anymore.
- Republicans keep trying to remove money for health care, publicly and when people need it
- Trump's separating of children thing really is getting more attention than the media really seems to realize and disgusting at least part of his base.
Evangelical women and minorities are also a much much bigger number than they used to be (or at least in terms of position).
I too predict splitting but I think people seem to miss, again, the leadership changed because of pressure from below to the top. Not top to the below.
edited 16th Jun '18 12:03:36 PM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.admittedly, there's a line which pisses me off in the article.
You know what would have been a good time to have this thought? LAST NOVEMBER.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.

So what are the chances we could get Republican Senators to flip and impeach Trump not due to criminal actions, but for completely sapping the US' long-term soft power?
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"