Quote: (11-07-2018 02:06 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:
Quote: (11-07-2018 01:36 AM)moneyshot Wrote:
So... the Muslim lady who won in Minnesota married her brother... and had 3 kids with him.
And there are """people""" who think Islam is a good thing.
The Democrats may have shot themselves in the foot.
They now have a Congress with the likes of this Iilan Omar, Crazy Cortez, Nancy Pelosi & all the other deranged nutters.
Herding that mob towards a singular vision or a singular path will be quite the task.
Don't count on it. The one thing the Left has, partly because it has double digit IQ followers, partly because it sells shit that nobody has to pay for, is that it has great party discipline. It still knows how to hold its nose and sort out its ideological differences in private, do its horse-trading in private. It still knows the best way to hide the far-left snake in the grass is to be the grass.
The right, by contrast, still has a Never-Trump contingent.
Seriously, think about that. Two fucking years after a victory against impossible odds and against one of the best-connected, most experienced political operators in America, and even after Trump started putting conservatives on the Supreme Court, there are still dickheads on the right who oppose the direction Trump is pushing the country. Lindsey Graham and co. only learned to shitlord when the Left started accosting them personally, and after they got Kavanaugh confirmed they went right back to sucking Soros cock.
Where were the Never-Clintons when Cigar Bill first got elected? Or relevantly, does anybody still believe the BernieBros are voting for Republicans in protest against Sanders being stabbed in the back?
As said, the Left claims it's about diversity and shit, but what it's really about is: only start the race war after we've crushed anyone to our right.
The right is still stupid enough to think it can rip at itself in public and give off the impression that it has a concrete vision or values to present to America. About the only vision it has is No Single Payer Health Insurance, A Big Army, and please-don't-add-any-more-ID-checks-for-automatic-weapons, yo. Seriously, the Left could try to legislate guns out of existence and it wouldn't make a dent in gun supply and production. There are too many caches already out there in Montana and points east, and when it gets down to it, too many corrupt US Army supply clerks for the weapon supply to the Rural Militias to ever be really stopped. Bigger gun controls will just make it more profitable for gunrunners and arms dealers, because the risk/reward ratio will be even higher, just as with the drug industry.
Trump is how you do a single vision. He didn't have to talk about the Constitution, he went on simple themes, stuff that people can immediately get and that people give a shit about in their souls: get American jobs back and build a fucking wall. He's succeeded on the first, and had he the right unified he'd get the second.
The Left has scored an own goal on this one, to be sure. No Senate means no impeachment, no matter how many investigations they run, and for every headline, every Russiagate they fan up, Trump's faster on the tweets and can still take control of media cycles with one suggestion that he imperil the 14th Amendment, and he now has a handy person to blame whenever they try and stymie what he does: the House. And if they try and block him too hard, it gives him an excuse to actually
use those executive powers he has, which are a lot more extensive than you might think. Ending foreign aid; pardons; executive orders; rescinding regulations; firing big tranches of Federal swamp dwellers. These are all things the House has zero power to affect, and if Kavanaugh votes conservatively, the Supreme Court won't stop him either. Any legislation the Democrats propose even with Never-Trump Quislings, he can kill and force Never-Trumpers right out in the open by forcing Congress to a 2/3 override of his veto.
But as said, it's still a weak right, because it still doesn't know how to fight its wars in the age of the tweet. (I might add that tweets are the primary reason Trump will never, ever act against Twitter. Why would you burn up one of the best communication channels he has to the plebs, the primary tool he has to force the news cycle to talk about him?) Trump will probably get re-elected, but if the Republicans don't wise up and start accepting that they are in a polarised political world and act accordingly, then as demonstrated by these midterms, Trump doing rally blitzes all over the country won't save them.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm