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Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by SnarkShark, Jan 22, 2016.

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  1. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Again, this primary season demonstrates that the people who consider themselves Republicans don't really give a crap about many of the things their party leaders have been trying to persuade them about. A perfect example was today's meeting in which Paul Ryan was begging him to buy into the concept of cutting social security and Medicare. The support for doing that is nearly non-existent.

    The Republicans are just a loose coalition of disparate angry factions.
     
  2. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Part of that is the potentially fatal decision by the party to embrace the so-called anti-intellectualism, "everyone who doesn't believe what you believe is a lying, manipulating, jerkyface liberal" movement, instead of doing what leaders do and having faith in their philosophy and convincing others of it through an increase in knowledge, awareness and participation.
     
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  3. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    A bit careless with the definite article there ...

    vide supra
     
  4. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    He also said President Obama should be killed.
    I know, he, like many other people who say this are just blowing off steam, which is why the Secret Service never does anything after they follow up on these things, but just once, can't they make an example of someone like this and put him in prison for 10-20 years?

    And why are so many people so fed up with this President?
     
  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    SP, you know the answer. It's a combo of Obama's skin tone, his furrin' sounding name, the D after it and how social media has allowed the village idiots and whack jobs to find each other and get emboldened.
     
  6. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Call me when someone makes a movie about his assassination during his term.
     
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  7. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    I find a moral defect in someone who deflects criticism by saying that someone else is doing the same thing. I don’t think an accused serial killer ought to point to other serial killers as an extenuating circumstance.
     
  8. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    It is worth remembering yet again that the majority of Republican Party voters who showed up in this primary voted against Trump
     
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  9. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    As usual, you make no sense.
     
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  10. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    They may not all have been voting against him, but they sure as hell weren't voting for him.
     
  11. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    So as long as the serial killer, who people watched butcher his victims in broad daylight, steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that he did it, it's OK?
    It's annoying that Democrats/Liberals used over the top rhetoric when Bush was in office, and now they want to pretend like ridiculous criticism of the office of the president and the other party mysteriously began in January 2009. They need to be reminded once in a while that this kind of thing is not mutually exclusive to one party or the other. Never has been and never will be.
     
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  12. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    And it's worth remembering yet again that he was engaged in a 17-way race at one point and until recently there were at least three people on the ballot. I'm not sure George Washington could get a majority of the vote against that many challengers.
     
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