President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Here's my guess. Sometime in the medium future, like 25 years or so, there will be some epic showdown with China that shows once and for all that we are a second-tier power. The country limps along for awhile after that but eventually balkanizes. When the history is taught, the showdown with China will be considered the breaking point. But historians will point to Trump as a crucial point of no return on tearing down American domestic institutions and foreign influence.

 

Did Democrats Just Fall Into Roger Stone’s Trap?

 

We can only hope!

 

The only way to avoid it is to take polls of terrorists (you can tell it's them because they're brown and speak a foreign language) and do whatever it is that they *don't* want us to do. There can be no higher foreign policy consideration.

 

Is it possible that the accusations were at least partially coordinated? Sure.

Doesn't matter. He did it. There's video evidence he did it. We can do better.

 

I understand why the Dems wanted Franken out and at the moment it seems to give them the moral high ground but I think this will come back to haunt the party. What happens when a Dem from a state with a Republican governor is shown to be a cad? I also question whether the Republicans will follow suit to the same degree and even if they do the gerrymandered districts will play in their favor in The House. I honestly think that as we learn about more of these events Franken's indiscretions will seem like virtually nothing (and perhaps choreographed by Bannon/Stone branch of the right) and the Dems will have lost one of their best and brightest.

 

Franken is fungible. Long-term credibility is not.

 

You lose your best and brightest when you let abusive men drive women out of the field.

I love Franken but he can't be a U.S. Senate with that sort of behavior hanging around him. Weeding the garden when the other guy probably won't doesn't leave you behind. It puts you ahead in the long run.

 

Does this mean the iPhone XI will be less than $1,000?

Apple Could Get $47 Billion From This Tax Reform

 

They can add it to the $200 billion in cash they are letting sit in overseas accounts right now, doing nothing for the American economy.

 

I get that and actually agree. My concern is that I don't see the Republicans following the same path and while Dems will be able to hold their heads high, our country will elect more Trumpians and we will be screwed. I hope that I am totally wrong but it seems as if a state is about to deliver a fucking child molester to the Senate because he proudly proclaims "homos"
are bad and "Mooslims" are the devil. How are we better off with more of those in Washington?

 

Do you really think that the Republicans would have played the Al Franken situation any differently had it been their guy? I don't.