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  1. Maybe I don't watch the news stations enough (only when im traveling) but I never got the vibe he was dumb. He's very opinionated and speaks dramatically about his opinions (e.g. Kevin Hart controversy), but he seemed smart to me. To be fair, I'm dumb tho.


    Last sentence is true.
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  2. So basically the Surly cloak room?


    Both takes imply that Fox News has a higher intelligence level than it really does.

    Leftist Fox News would be dull, unfunny takes on the normal Trump gaffes that get memed and clog twitter. And distractions. And yelling. And singular random events used to push broader dumb messages.

    “Trump typed cofveve; is he fit for office???”
    “Trump mishandling umbrella is a signal to white power movement”
    “White Republican Male accused of rape; time to ban all white males?
    “Meth crisis spreading to cities”



    I would enjoy a network that ran a delayed fact check any time he speaks with a lie/ falsehood ticker that dinged and updated as he spoke.
    “The Democrats could open government at any time” /DING!!!!/
    “I never said Mexico would pay for wall. /DING!!!/
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  3. Not sure why you feel the need bash me, it was just an opinion.  
    After 30 years of deciding between two presidential candidates that had more ideological overlap than differences, the common folk Republicans were excited to see something new and different.  Trump resonated that way. 
    Bush
    Bush
    Dole
    Bush
    Bush
    McCain
    Romney 
    These have been the presidential choices for Republicans over the past 30 years.  They fucking suck.  I live in Republican Trump country and Trump’s racism and ideology had nothing to do with why they supported him.  
    One guy told me if Trump didn’t win, he would leave the Republican Party.
    They felt like they had no control over their own political destiny with the establishment Republicans and they just watched the democrats have their own “revolutionary” candidate in Obama.  They wanted some of that, something different and disruptive. 
    Not fucking Jeb Bush.
     


    Lot of truth here.
    Plus “he’s a business man”
    “Give an outsider a shot”
    Plus two families shouldn’t own the executive for the better part of 3 decades.

    (That’s not to say trump was a viable answer,)
  4. SEC!SEC!SEC! (the Deep South) is ground zero for our national ills. Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and parts of the Midwest are on the current borderlands but still infected by the poison. Virginia, thanks to geography, has now fallen into a different sphere entirely.


    About 40% of the country live separate lives, consume different media media, and live separate truths. Big chunks of my family included. They aren’t coming back. They shouldn’t vote (willful ignorance) but will. My kid will see pictures of his Uncle in Maga gear 20 years from now and think “wtf?” Yet My brother will keep fucking that chicken until he’s dead though. He will twist inward into a worse version of himself and lol at the libs all the way to the grave. He’s become a dumb troll already.

    It sucks. Because when we slide over the side of my boat, and start a long wade on a shoreline together, I forget his stupidities regarding politics, and we just exist. It’s familiar and nice. And maybe I let him catch one extra red to boost his ego for a brief moment before his white privilege sets like the sun.
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  5. They'll still blame Democrats. "If they had just listened to Donald..." Besides, Hillary would have just taken it from them anyway.


    Yep. You have decades of ceaseless fear mongering about immigrants, Washington corruption, and ineffective govt. 40% are never changing their mind. Most of the country is grossly uninformed and always will be.
  6. So steel slats full of concrete with 6” spacing between. Cut steel on one slat out with cordless sawzall in about a minute and the concrete breaks easily and your average ms 13 thug can easily squeeze through. Probably 30 min with a hacksaw blade. After hundreds of miles to get to a remote section of wall, that should be sufficient deterrent! “Oh chit pinche Trump! We have to cut a steel slat; vamanos por la casa guey!”

     

     

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  7. he's toast in 2020. i'm starting to think that cornyn is vulnerable as well, given the way he's chosen to stand by trump in this "government shutdown for the wall on the texas border" thing.
    most texans don't want a wall, especially those on the fucking border upon which it will be built.


    How many ranchers will be impacted? A few thousand?

    He can afford to lose those votes, but he cannot afford to lose the Magats and racists in small towns throughout the state. Lyin Ted proved the formula is simple- stupid, but simple.
  8. This.
    I really don't understand what it will take for folks to understand that we're dealing with a cult.  Members of a cult don't respond to logic and facts.  They don't "ultimately act in their self interest."  They do shit like this:
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    Waiting on Trumpkins to begin acting in their rational self interest is a fool's errand.  They're going to guzzle the kool-aid, and they're going to do their damnedest to make everyone else drink up with them.



    And they will cut in line to drink it.


    I suppose we’ve always had a large population of uniformed idiots. I’m just not sure how they completely hijacked the entire country.

    And the media is infuriating. Listening to the BBC try and parse reason from Trumps insanity is the worst. “What do you think Trump means by “Dumb Dems bad” or “does he mean a literal wall or is it just security measures”.
    They keep legitimizing him. Go after his bullshit. For fuck sakes the shutdown happened before the Democrats took the house. Your average Joe needs help understanding that.

    Trumps tactics work because they are so simple and stupid people need simple.
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  9. How will things shake down after the report is complete? Serious question. Present to AG then it’s stuck in a endless quagmire of legal wrangling? House subpoenas,denied then on to Scotus?
    I think Trump is eventually fucked. But it’s a long ways out.

  10. This fucking sucks and shows just how strong the cult of the R is.  Even the ones who know the dotard is a shit show will never admit that he was completely and totally propped up by the Rs looking the other way the entire time.  After he is gone I'm betting 90% of them go straight back to the party and will come up with some nonsense in their brains about how it was just a mistake and they'll do better next time.  And this stupid country will continue to be stupid and maybe we'll all die because of it someday soon.

    That is our concern dude.
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  11. Late edit.
     
    Forgot to point out during the phone call, wife kept hearing her dad in the background ranting something about those "fucking socialists are coming to take his millions" and he was sick of that shit.
    Ladies and gentlemen, your #MAGA supporters.


    My mom is even worse. Rails about entitlements, Obamacare, socialism for years. Talk radio ate her brain.
    Got fired a few years back and had to retire and apply for ACA. Now she’s bitching about Medicare, decreasing SS payouts, health care lack of coverage, preexisting conditions.

    Voted for Cruz, trump etc.

    On our Christmas visit the only political topics she could dredge up were butHillary and some bizarre story about how the media picks on Melania.

    Fuck the propagandist.
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