Not surprised on the Sanction thing.
but it tells me, that, there are between 11 and 20 gop senators not compromised
but it tells me, that, there are between 11 and 20 gop senators not compromised
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US PoliERA 2019 |OT1| You down wit' NDP? (Yeah you know me!) Who's down wit' AOC? (This whole party!)
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Being curious about who Laura Loomer is I found a quick primer youtube video on her, quite obnoxious that Loomer, but thankfully one of the suggested links afterwards was much better. A PBS video on space travel, awesome.
He could buy all the politicians a Happy Meal from McDonalds.
He could buy all the politicians a Happy Meal from McDonalds.
Republicans at the time didn't realize how much their party was taken over by Trump
Not only this, but the idea of him ever getting impeached is just a pipe dream.
the trumpier the party gets, the more they realize they really really relate to putin's vision for russia and think oligarchy sounds great.
Apparently the aluminum company owned by Oleg Deripaska is deeply tied into European supply chains. They've been lobbying Congress to ease sanctions.
There's more to this specific vote on sanctions then "THE ENTIRE GOP ARE RUSSIAN AGENTS." There are really valuable corporate interests involved they don't necessarily involve being treasonous.
Trump has basically two options here:
- keep the government shut down indefinitely, because there's no way Pelosi caves on the wall. This would derail the economy so badly his (and the party's) approval ratings would drop catastrophically. He enjoys a stable 40% or so from his "base" because many of them haven't suffered under his policies, you wreck their finances and that changes pretty damn fast.
- Cave like a bitch and ruin things for no reason. Still keeps that 40% but hardens everyone else against him.
Not shocking. Richard Florida, for example, has been talking about this for awhile now. I love using "Where the Brains Are" in class as a way to talk about economic and educational sorting, and these maps from 1970 and 2000 respectively that show the dispersal of college graduates are another great way to look at this topic:
1970
2000
That's a pretty famous article, so apologies because I know that many of you have read it before, but it's certainly a compact argument for how badly brain drain has impacted rural and small-town America.
At this point, if you have an "R" next to your name, you're untrustworthy at best.
They don't need a veto proof one. He would never veto it. Just needs enough to break his talking points of "Republicans are united" and show to the the average person that a strong bipartisan majority is for opening govt, and he's the obstacle. Same with McCoonel.
I agree, only I think it'll be back up sooner than that.
The economy is pretty much the only advantage Trump has going into 2020 along with his incumbency. If the shutdown goes on for much longer and the economy goes down the plughole it's going to severely damage that advantage. At some point or another Republicans are going to realize that and open it up again to save their own jobs.
If only the fact that congress is doing Putin favors got as much coverage as the stupid Burger King shit
I'm shook. IDK why I expected Republicans would not stoop this low, but here we are. I expect people to start leaking even more damaging Deripaska stuff in the next few days.
Their base won't punish them for it because they don't care about anything other than white supremacy and owning the libs
But what's the reasoning they can possibly give, in public, for doing this
They're either compromised themselves (see NRA), or they think risking civil war is worse than letting Russia fuck with our election (because even if they're not directly compromised, they benefit by being in the party putin supports)
Also "liberal" media doesn't care and is afraid of pushing the issue or calling a Spaid a spaid because they don't want to seem partisan or something
It's basically like "oh hmm, this is odd.. what do you think Rudy Giuliani?"
This article is a good starting point:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/world/europe/oleg-deripaska-russia-oligarch-sanctions.html
One time someone on Twitter lied and said that he live streamed a dental cleaning. That was kinda all it took.
Anyone against Trump has to suffer the next year of candidates announcing, not announcing, posturing, etc. It's going to suck.
Thank you, reading now
There really aren't that many scandals. It just seems like a whole bunch to someone who's constantly following the 24/7 cycle
It's time to recognize that it's not just Trump, a good 40% of our government at least is compromised.
I was just about to post this. It looks like he's asking Putin to join him in the coat room for a quickie.
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