Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

I'm going through cycles of grief. I wasn't going to vote, but I still wanted to pay attention and help others. After the taco salad Tweet, I jumped aboard the Trump train. Now I'm thinking about not even paying attention any more. Just walking away. I don't have the energy for six months of ugliness and Bill Clinton's dick.

 

When you get to the bargaining stage, you can get back on Der Trumpenfuhrer's bandwagon ... I hear tell he's yuuuuuugely good at that.

 

Sure, to degrees, but there had always been an understanding -- and the electorate expected -- that areas of agreement would be sought in the interest of moving the country forward. I think it's fair to Mitch McConnell has been the majority leader least inclined to bipartisanship in the history of American politics. I think this is a big part of reason for the historically high disapproval numbers for Congress that we've seen since Obama took office.

Congress and the Public

 

My dissent: good

Your dissent: bad

 

Christ, SP, it's like your posts on the conspiracy wingnut threads all over again. Not sure why you have so much trouble grasping the concept of "we don't imprison people over mere words in this country." Those First Amendment lectures in school seemed to have sailed right over your head.

 

Whenever the right breaks a norm in American politics, first they say "they did it first." When this is proven false, they say "you'd do the same thing if you were in our shoes." It is an historical fact that McConnell committed himself to a strategy of total opposition before Obama was even inaugurated. That had never happened before.
But I digress. The point I wished to make here is that it has become clear that Republican voters, if not party leaders, have accepted and endorsed Trump as the nominee. Should this hold (things can change in six months), then the parameters of the election are either a relatively narrow Clinton win, say by as much as Obama beat Romney, meaning a continuation of the deadlocked status quo, or an even narrower Trump win, meaning the Republicans would have unified control of government. As we saw in 2010, and 2006 for that matter, this leads to almost instant repudiation of the party in power by the electorate. In short, I wonder if the GOP should really want to catch that White House car with Trump. They're better off losing.

 

Oh for heaven's sake. You're acting like all these different eras are so readily comparable ... They're not. Politically it's a more polarized time, but that's because the stuff in dispute is far more ideologically charged (and, I would argue, less consequential than, say, a paranoid adversary pointing nuclear weapons at us).

 

You don't think there is anything else about the current president that ramped up the vitriol? Anything different about him at all?

 

I don't believe that the vitriol was, as you put it, "ramped up." You think if Bernie got elected all of a sudden the GOP would be more willing to work with the opposition?

 

The Obama administration has sent schools guidelines for accommodating transgender students in restrooms and locker rooms.

Donald.Trump has already said that transgender people in restrooms is a not an issue.

But, if there is a shit storm among his evangelical and plastic-bull-testicles-under-the-pickup-bumper (usually two different groups) supporters, I could see him deciding that it is an issue, after all, mainly to have something more to hammer Hillary Clinton with.

 

Donald Trump masqueraded as a spokesman to brag about himself