Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Totally worth destroying the country over.

 

I'm always stunned when folks think America isn't strong enough to overcome a Trump presidency.

How little faith do you have in American and our constitution?

MLB survived 16 years of Bud Selig as commissioner. America will survive Trump. Could even thrive.

 

Dammit! If you don't start getting this right more often I'm going to donate to Herself on your behalf!

 

I'm never going to learn that.

I'm 47-years-old. I don't think I've ever written "affect".

I guess it's back to using "impact" as a verb for me.

 

Are you trying to leverage some synergy here?

 

Not that much faith, honestly.

America is almost 250 years old. 175 of that was spent geographically isolated and 75 as a superpower.

In terms of our lifetimes, that makes it look like an unassailable institution of status quo. In historical terms, that is a blip.

I see a lot of parallels between the USA and the fall of the Roman Republic. A superpower struggling to govern itself under a set of rules designed to handle a much smaller body. A constant war between liberals and conservatives that sees the written and unwritten rules undermined in exchange for temporary victories.

Trump isn't going to bring down the country tomorrow, but he might make the difference between our becoming a footnote in China's rise to hegemony coming in 75 years instead of 150. And his existence as a candidate and the willingness to legitimize him is a really bad sign.

 

He's trying to immanentize the eschaton ...

 

R.A.V.E.N.
Remember, affect verb, effect, noun.

Not perfect, there are exceptions, but one could argue those exceptions are stupid usages anyway So just use RAVEN and don't sweat the rest.

 

Liberals clutching their pearls over Trump is silly.

We elected a community organizer, with five minutes' experience in the Senate as our president, and if anyone on the right were so silly as to say that he would ruin our country, he would rightly be mocked by the left.

And, Obama surely promised more change than Trump proposed.

If Trump is elected, and fails, his presidency will be four year pause in the evolution of our country.

 

Your willingness to help is mere affect, employed in an effort to effect the perception of erudition.