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  • Re: Campaign 2016 Part XI: the Two Party Problem

    Jeff Daniels parodying his Will McAvoy rant that opened The Newsroom, this time on Trump being good for Hillary.

    It almost feels like it's a Feel the Bern stance he's taking at times, but due to it being done for Bloomberg, it gives me pause on that thought.
    "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

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      So he's got that going for him. Which is nice.
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        What exactly is supposed to come of this Trump-Ryan meeting anyway? Are they going to slather each other in oil and start wrestling? Go to one of Trump's bankrupt casinos? Compare wives?
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        • Re: Campaign 2016 Part XI: the Two Party Problem

          Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
          heck, kep has visible whip marks
          Who says those are from Rover?

          Don't you judge me.
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            Originally posted by Rover View Post
            Compare wives?
            Daughter's kinda cute.

            Why do all GOP wives have that horrible strained rictus of a smile? Is is symptomatic of the stress of being a beard for a closeted gay man?
            Last edited by Kepler; 05-12-2016, 09:41 AM.
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              This piece makes me feel better and I hope Democrats promptly ignore it.
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              • Re: Campaign 2016 Part XI: the Two Party Problem

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                Daughter's kinda cute.

                Why do all GOP wives have that horrible strained rictus of a smile? Is is symptomatic of the stress of being a beard for a closeted gay man?
                Possibly. I think more likely it's just the strained, phony smile of a career politician's wife having to associate with the plebes.
                What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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                  Originally posted by rufus View Post
                  Possibly. I think more likely it's just the strained, phony smile of a career politician's wife having to associate with the plebes.
                  Hard not to sympathize.
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                  • Re: Campaign 2016 Part XI: the Two Party Problem

                    A two hour meeting??? This is the first time I've almost felt sorry for Paul Ryan:

                    http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...n-signal-unity

                    From my sources:

                    TRUMP (for first 1 hour and 59 minutes): I'M THE AWESOMEST PARTY NOMINEE WHO EVER AWESOMED. WORSHIP ME YOU LITTLE BAHSTID. WORSHIP MEEEEE!!!!

                    RYAN (in last minute): So, we're okay with the racism, torture, and mass deportations, but my people need your assurance that massive tax cuts for our billionaire campaign contributors as well as raising defense spending through the roof is a go.

                    TRUMP: Hey, I'm a billionaire! Are you doing all of this just for me?

                    RYAN: Ummm.....YES! That's the ticket. This tax cut is all for you, because you're uhh...Awesome, and there will be a few of our friends who are kinda awesome, just not as much as you, who will get some tax cuts too. Oh, and we'll throw in a free aircraft carrier with your name on it with the increased defense budget.

                    TRUMP: WE'RE GONNA MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN BABY! SEE HOW AWESOME I AM?
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                      Has The Mule arrived?
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                        Originally posted by joecct View Post
                        Has The Mule arrived?
                        ....the hockey player, the mutant, or the drug cargo?
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                        • Re: Campaign 2016 Part XI: the Two Party Problem

                          Originally posted by bronconick View Post
                          ....the hockey player, the mutant, or the drug cargo?
                          Or the kicker. How soon they forget.

                          10 points for the Foundation reference, though.
                          Last edited by Kepler; 05-12-2016, 11:53 AM.
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                            These apologia columns are usually self-important navel-gazing, and this one is no exception, but Ross does pull one beautifully salient line:

                            For those of us who have long been frustrated precisely by the smallness of those differences, the narrowness of the G.O.P. policy debate, it’s a particularly staggering result: A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely to a candidate who regards much of the conservative vision with indifference bordering on contempt.
                            Yes. Yes, indeed.
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                            • Re: Campaign 2016 Part XI: the Two Party Problem

                              Originally posted by Rover View Post
                              A two hour meeting??? This is the first time I've almost felt sorry for Paul Ryan:

                              http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...n-signal-unity

                              From my sources:

                              TRUMP (for first 1 hour and 59 minutes): I'M THE AWESOMEST PARTY NOMINEE WHO EVER AWESOMED. WORSHIP ME YOU LITTLE BAHSTID. WORSHIP MEEEEE!!!!

                              RYAN (in last minute): So, we're okay with the racism, torture, and mass deportations, but my people need your assurance that massive tax cuts for our billionaire campaign contributors as well as raising defense spending through the roof is a go.

                              TRUMP: Hey, I'm a billionaire! Are you doing all of this just for me?

                              RYAN: Ummm.....YES! That's the ticket. This tax cut is all for you, because you're uhh...Awesome, and there will be a few of our friends who are kinda awesome, just not as much as you, who will get some tax cuts too. Oh, and we'll throw in a free aircraft carrier with your name on it with the increased defense budget.

                              TRUMP: WE'RE GONNA MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN BABY! SEE HOW AWESOME I AM?
                              This is where you're wrong. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Once Trump has the nomination, he isn't going to run on "conservative" issues. He's going to run to the left of Clinton. We'll be hearing about taxing the rich, higher minimum wages, blah, blah, blah.

                              And that will be entertaining. Dealing with a candidate who will say anything, and with a general public that doesn't care, is extremely difficult for politicians who play by the old rules.

                              But it also creates a problem for the "establishment" Republicans. It's one thing to back a blowhard that everyone else in your party is backing. It's another to back him and then have him come out he next day and tell everyone that under a Trump presidency the minimum wage will be $20/hr.
                              That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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                              • Re: Campaign 2016 Part XI: the Two Party Problem

                                If handled right, this could be the start of something good.

                                Operating under the assumption that Sanders will win the California primary but still fall far short of amassing enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination, the document calls for the Vermont senator to exit the race and launch an independent political group far larger than any other recent post-campaign political operations, such as those started by Howard Dean or Barack Obama.
                                The idea would be to let progressives launch a concerted populist attack on Drumpf, unattached to Hillary's need/want to be associated with centrist, corporate-friendly interests.

                                I like the idea of opening up on Drumpf from another front.
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