Donald Trump: Come Kiss the Ring

Christ. Can't this guy just go away now?

Donald Trump: 'I want surveillance of certain mosques' - CNNPolitics.com

 

I also agree there. And if you don't like gerrymandering, beat it through the process. We have a process for a reason. It's not a clever tactic when one side does it and an evil loophole when the other does.

 

Which is why I said, "in a few decades".

Remember too, the average GOP voter is older, and aging. 20, 30 years from now, they won't be around. And has today's GOP done anything that would make anyone younger than, say, 40, from wanting to vote for them in the next 20 years? What accomplishments for the average voter have they done in the last 20 years? Heck, what have they done in the last four years that they can point to and say is an accomplishment? 50 votes to repeal Obamacare? 8 Benghazi committees? That's going to convince voters past 2016?

 

https://xkcd.com/605/

If what you are envisioning comes to path, the GOP will simply move to the left until they've achieved parity again. That's what happens in a two-party system in this century.

 

It's so ... special ... when people talk about the Democratic and Republican parties like they're sports teams you're rooting for.

For fuck's sake, it's not about them. It's about having people who make the best decisions for the country. And still people can't look past their cliques.

 

It's human nature: The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight

Everybody does it. If that innate tendency didn't exist, we wouldn't have spectator sports or sports journalism.

 

Oh, I know, Rick. You're absolutely right. We need our groups so we have an "other side" we can thumb our noses at. And the funny thing is, the people who are most adamant about their groups don't have any realization of this dynamic.

Just doesn't seem like the optimum way to fix what's broken.

 

Besides, Republicans actually DID win 5 of the 6 general elections before that. Two of those were Tricky Dick, and another was the most thorough ass-whooping in modern electoral history.

 

And one of Tricky Dick's was almost as bad of an ass whooping as Reagan/Mondale.

 

In what should come as a surprise to absolutely nobody in the world, Trump storm troopers kick and beat a #Black Lives Matter protester as Der fuhrer bellows "get him the hell out of here."

Trump supporters, Black Lives Matter protester clash at rally

 

In case I haven't mentioned it lately, I'm pretty fucking ashamed of my city sometimes.

 

I don't think it has as much to do with the city as the crowd: Any time a black protester gets up and yells at any Dinald Trunp rally, he's going to get beat into the floorboards as the crowd roars.