Nice job dems wrote:
Hey libs, Illinois is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Interesting, the Governor of Illinois is a REPUBLICAN.
They haven't passed a budget in three years because he continually threatens to veto it. Dems don't have a veto-proof majority.
Nice job dems wrote:
Hey libs, Illinois is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Libs?
Did you see the first line about them having a Republican governor?
And I'm not sure what that has to do with Trump, the subject of the thread.
Seems to be a lot of deflecting here.
Remember how important it was to have the senate healthcare vote before the fourth of July recess?
It's July 5th.
Remember in January they talked about repeal now and replace later but Trump said it all had to be done at once.
And now Trump is tweeting that they should do what he said not to do before.
Count Chocula wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:It's fair to say that the more racist you are, the more likely it is that you voted for Trump. Economics really didn't matter.
Well, economics didn't matter if you're a racist. Economics may have mattered for the other part of the population.
For certain individuals, maybe. But as the article points out, racism is not a binary thing. It's not that you are either a racist or you are not. Rather, it's a spectrum.
This study measured the level of racial animosity and resentment for each respondent. What they found was that the more racist you are the more likely you were to vote for trump.
Economic anxiety was not correlated in the same way. Level of economic anxiety was not a predictor of how you voted. Level of racism was.
I was reflecting on a strange problem the Republicans have.
Always, they elect presidents who are incapable of engaging with the job. Lacking the brains and willpower to do the work.
Reagan was so disengaged and ignorant that his staff would start the Marine One engines to drown him out so he wouldn't say wrong things to the press. They forced him to read scripts to avoid his dreaded ad libs. They made little movies about issues because he refused to read briefs.
Bush 2 was also ignorant and not real interested in digging into the details.
Now Trump, who golfs a quarter of the time, knows virtually nothing about the world, and listens to his family more than experts.
Bush 1 was solid, but that was 29 years ago. And he was a rare one term president - the repubs didn't like him.
And compare that to brainy hard working Clinton and brainy hard working Obama. And brainy and hardworking HRC and Gore, if you want two Dems who lost.
Come one GOPers...can you stop with this? Brains and work matter.
eric a blair wrote:
I was reflecting on a strange problem the Republicans have.
Always, they elect presidents who are incapable of engaging with the job. Lacking the brains and willpower to do the work.
Reagan was so disengaged and ignorant that his staff would start the Marine One engines to drown him out so he wouldn't say wrong things to the press. They forced him to read scripts to avoid his dreaded ad libs. They made little movies about issues because he refused to read briefs.
Bush 2 was also ignorant and not real interested in digging into the details.
Now Trump, who golfs a quarter of the time, knows virtually nothing about the world, and listens to his family more than experts.
Bush 1 was solid, but that was 29 years ago. And he was a rare one term president - the repubs didn't like him.
And compare that to brainy hard working Clinton and brainy hard working Obama. And brainy and hardworking HRC and Gore, if you want two Dems who lost.
Come one GOPers...can you stop with this? Brains and work matter.
I'll bet you still don't know why Trump won.
The last three elected Republican presidents who showed capacity for and willingness to think:
(1) Eisenhower (he ended up not being popular because he was thinking)
(2) Nixon (he had other issues, but he did think)
(3) George Sr. (he ended up not popular with the base because of thinking)
DiscoGary wrote:
eric a blair wrote:I was reflecting on a strange problem the Republicans have.
Always, they elect presidents who are incapable of engaging with the job. Lacking the brains and willpower to do the work.
Reagan was so disengaged and ignorant that his staff would start the Marine One engines to drown him out so he wouldn't say wrong things to the press. They forced him to read scripts to avoid his dreaded ad libs. They made little movies about issues because he refused to read briefs.
Bush 2 was also ignorant and not real interested in digging into the details.
Now Trump, who golfs a quarter of the time, knows virtually nothing about the world, and listens to his family more than experts.
Bush 1 was solid, but that was 29 years ago. And he was a rare one term president - the repubs didn't like him.
And compare that to brainy hard working Clinton and brainy hard working Obama. And brainy and hardworking HRC and Gore, if you want two Dems who lost.
Come one GOPers...can you stop with this? Brains and work matter.
I'll bet you still don't know why Trump won.
pithy.
But yes I do know why trump won. He got 100,000 more white people to vote their skin color rather than their brains.
Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
This is the results of years of GOP de-funding education. How embarrassing to not understand your own Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July, no less. Sad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/npr-declaration-of-independence_us_595c6525e4b0da2c7325bd50
GOP wack job wrote:
This is the results of years of GOP de-funding education. How embarrassing to not understand your own Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July, no less. Sad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/npr-declaration-of-independence_us_595c6525e4b0da2c7325bd50
Saying this as someone who despises Trump . . . but that strikes me as "fake news".
So, NPR Tweets out Declaration of Independence. Many people react. Some of them react as complete ignoramuses. The ignoramus reactions get publicized.
Sorry, but I don't see any newsiness therein. It strikes me as intellectually equivalent to folks posting videos of rioters and then claiming that this represents liberals or blacks or . . .
These conversations are going out of control.
We all know very smart, well informed people who vote Republican and a lot of low information Republican voters.
The same can be said for those voting for Democrats.
In my opinion, the smart Republican voters will vote in their self interest to maybe get a tax break or not be hassled by rules.
The less informed Republican voters will vote more on a visceral and emotional level. They don't like change and think things keep getting worse (Make America Great Again). They often vote against their self interest as they receive government benefits that their leaders want to take away.
The smart Democrat voters are philanthropic and see that helping everyone will also help them (a rising tide lifts all boats).
The less informed Democrat voters also go by more emotion and may rely on services that Republicans threaten to take away.
That's the voters.
The difference in Republican and Democrat politicians is different.
They will stand on their convictions and differing ideologies and maybe vote legislation that way.
But they both campaign to get the most votes in their particular situation and anything goes there.
Trump is not a Republican or a Democrat by nature. He's a silver spoon businessman.
He chose the Republican route because his in your face emotional style of talking is more appealing to mass Republican voters than Democrat voters.
He cares nothing about the ideology of the Republican party.
L L wrote:
These conversations are going out of control.
We all know very smart, well informed people who vote Republican and a lot of low information Republican voters.
The same can be said for those voting for Democrats.
In my opinion, the smart Republican voters will vote in their self interest to maybe get a tax break or not be hassled by rules.
The less informed Republican voters will vote more on a visceral and emotional level. They don't like change and think things keep getting worse (Make America Great Again). They often vote against their self interest as they receive government benefits that their leaders want to take away.
The smart Democrat voters are philanthropic and see that helping everyone will also help them (a rising tide lifts all boats).
The less informed Democrat voters also go by more emotion and may rely on services that Republicans threaten to take away.
That's the voters.
The difference in Republican and Democrat politicians is different.
They will stand on their convictions and differing ideologies and maybe vote legislation that way.
But they both campaign to get the most votes in their particular situation and anything goes there.
Trump is not a Republican or a Democrat by nature. He's a silver spoon businessman.
He chose the Republican route because his in your face emotional style of talking is more appealing to mass Republican voters than Democrat voters.
He cares nothing about the ideology of the Republican party.
well fair enough, but it's the republicans who elect the ignorant and the anti-science and the people who want to meld church and state.
Sure the Dems have some low info voters. But their candidates rarely win elections. A few, sure.
In short, your 'all sides are guilty of this' argument is true, but that's like saying Australia and Germany were equally responsible for 20c bloodbaths because both nations gave guns and uniforms to their men.
DiscoGary wrote:
eric a blair wrote:I was reflecting on a strange problem the Republicans have.
Always, they elect presidents who are incapable of engaging with the job. Lacking the brains and willpower to do the work.
Reagan was so disengaged and ignorant that his staff would start the Marine One engines to drown him out so he wouldn't say wrong things to the press. They forced him to read scripts to avoid his dreaded ad libs. They made little movies about issues because he refused to read briefs.
Bush 2 was also ignorant and not real interested in digging into the details.
Now Trump, who golfs a quarter of the time, knows virtually nothing about the world, and listens to his family more than experts.
Bush 1 was solid, but that was 29 years ago. And he was a rare one term president - the repubs didn't like him.
And compare that to brainy hard working Clinton and brainy hard working Obama. And brainy and hardworking HRC and Gore, if you want two Dems who lost.
Come one GOPers...can you stop with this? Brains and work matter.
I'll bet you still don't know why Trump won.
You have already clearly expressed your opinion on this matter. According to the great DiscoGary, Trump won because lots of people wanted to say "Fuck you" to "the elites".
Thanks for your brilliant analysis.
Also, Yay!
I think Mitt Romney was the best Republican presidential candidate I've seen.
A bit tough to go after incumbent Obama during a steady recovery.
They didn't want him running in 2016. He should be president right now if we had to have a Republican.
1101 wrote:
Clintonettes are sore losers and as UN-American as it gets. Poor babies lost and need there pacifier.
I believe you mean "that there pacifier".
DiscoGary wrote:
eric a blair wrote:I was reflecting on a strange problem the Republicans have.
Always, they elect presidents who are incapable of engaging with the job. Lacking the brains and willpower to do the work.
Reagan was so disengaged and ignorant that his staff would start the Marine One engines to drown him out so he wouldn't say wrong things to the press. They forced him to read scripts to avoid his dreaded ad libs. They made little movies about issues because he refused to read briefs.
Bush 2 was also ignorant and not real interested in digging into the details.
Now Trump, who golfs a quarter of the time, knows virtually nothing about the world, and listens to his family more than experts.
Bush 1 was solid, but that was 29 years ago. And he was a rare one term president - the repubs didn't like him.
And compare that to brainy hard working Clinton and brainy hard working Obama. And brainy and hardworking HRC and Gore, if you want two Dems who lost.
Come one GOPers...can you stop with this? Brains and work matter.
I'll bet you still don't know why Trump won.
Yes we do. We've just been discussing it. Trump won because he appealed to people with a high level of racial animosity and resentment. That was the key.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economic-anxiety-didnt-make-people-vote-trump-racism-did/L L wrote:
I think Mitt Romney was the best Republican presidential candidate I've seen.
A bit tough to go after incumbent Obama during a steady recovery.
They didn't want him running in 2016. He should be president right now if we had to have a Republican.
Yea, Obama wasn't going to lose re-election.
But I'd take McCain over Romney.
McCain made two terrible mistakes that cost him the election. The first, of course, was Sarah Palin. The second was to try and pull out of the debate to run back to Washington and pretend he was fixing the financial crisis. These two bad moves made Obama look the one who was ready for prime time, when really, McCain should have won on that point.
"The troll is the present face of conservatism. Short on ideas of any kind and long on petty, malicious antagonism. These people don’t want anything done. They feel like losers and the thought that anyone else is winning drives them insane. They want to piss in the punch bowl and ruin the party so everyone else goes home as miserable as them. That is what we are dealing with."
-Roquentin
McCain should have been the presidential nominee in 2000 over Bush.
GOP wack job wrote:
"The troll is the present face of conservatism. Short on ideas of any kind and long on petty, malicious antagonism. These people don’t want anything done. They feel like losers and the thought that anyone else is winning drives them insane. They want to piss in the punch bowl and ruin the party so everyone else goes home as miserable as them. That is what we are dealing with."
-Roquentin
Roquentin is very well spoken. Do you know who this guy is? (I don't mean Sartre's Roquentin, I mean the guy who actually wrote the words above.)
NPR tweets (publishes) the Declaration of Independence every year.on July 4th Numerous Trump voters went ape shit on Twitter this year, ergo they are a special breed of stupid. My point stands.
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