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The odds are that Trump will campaign for reelection in key Midwestern swing states by waging a campaign based exclusively on racial fearmongering and culture war noise.
Making a bipartisan infrastructure bill the signature legislative achievement of the 116th Congress would be a big help in that strategy. Congressional Democrats could, in theory, vote for a big grab bag of random projects that lets each of them deliver some picayune benefit to their local constituents while allowing Trump to spend the next two years on an endless national tour of ribbon-cutting ceremonies. At each stop, Trump would lie relentlessly about the merits of the project, lie relentlessly about the degree of personal credit he deserves for it, slander his political enemies, stoke the fires of racial resentment, and obtain large amounts of largely uncritical local media coverage. For example:
After Trump signed a bipartisan opioid bill in October, he spent the final weeks of the fall campaign touring red states to lie and say that Democrats opposed the bill.
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/oct/24/donald-trump/d
onald-trump-wrong-opioid-bill-didnt-get-much-demo/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Don't ever comment again, 1kiki, if you cannot remember Obama and his EPA setting rules on CO2. Don't comment again, 1kiki, if you cannot remember what the GOP did next or you cannot remember Trump pulling the USA out of all agreements to reduce CO2.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
Originally posted by second:
half of Republicans deny that global warming is even taking place, and of the rest, almost half reject any human responsibility. Words fail.
Kick her ass SECOND. You can't find bigger hypocrites that kiki jack jsf and sig. Nicely done...
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Quote:You know what those CO2 'rules' are, SECOND? You know what those 'agreements' are, SECOND? Toilet paper. But less useful. Cosmetic words meant to cover over inaction.
Originally posted by SECOND:
Don't ever comment again, 1kiki, if you cannot remember Obama and his EPA setting rules on CO2. Don't comment again, 1kiki, if you cannot remember what the GOP did next or you cannot remember Trump pulling the USA out of all agreements to reduce CO2.
When OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS had control of the White House and Congress, and they could pass LAWS that came with the power of enforcement, what did they do about global warming?
Tell me, SECOND. What did they do?
And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
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Quote:1kiki, you've got a deliberately primitive idea about how the Federal government works. America needs a Carbon Tax but the tax can't be switched on and off depending on whether a D or an R is in the White House. All the Republicans that have been in Congress or the White House deny that there is climate change. Even all the Republicans that ran in primaries deny climate change. None of the Democrats do. But the Democrats can't change Republicans minds. The best America can hope for is that Democrats get a super majority of 2/3rds or more and permanently keep Republicans out of power. The chance of that happening? Zero.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:You know what those CO2 'rules' are, SECOND? You know what those 'agreements' are, SECOND? Toilet paper. But less useful. Cosmetic words meant to cover over inaction.
Originally posted by SECOND:
Don't ever comment again, 1kiki, if you cannot remember Obama and his EPA setting rules on CO2. Don't comment again, 1kiki, if you cannot remember what the GOP did next or you cannot remember Trump pulling the USA out of all agreements to reduce CO2.
When OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS had control of the White House and Congress, and they could pass LAWS that came with the power of enforcement, what did they do about global warming?
Tell me, SECOND. What did they do?
And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
The only reason we still have Medicare and Social Security, despite all Republican politicians wanting to shut it down and no Democratic politicians wanting that, is because Republican voters (not Republican politicians) want Medicare and Social Security to continue. Carbon Taxes do not have a built-in voter constituency, unlike Medicare and Social Security. Republican voters will protect Medicare and Social Security from Republican politicians cancelling it, but Republican voters will never protect Carbon Taxes from their politicians.
The only solution to the Carbon Tax problem is to get a permanent majority of Republican voters to support it the way they support Social Security and Medicare. Otherwise, the Republican politicians will repeal Carbon Taxes at their first opportunity. And those opportunities come every two years at every election.
The Democratic politicians believed they had something that would get wide spread support, Obamacare, just like Medicare does. They were wrong. The Republican politicians almost killed it. A Carbon Tax would have even less support than Obamacare because it is tax with no obvious benefit to most voters. Until most Republican voters stop being climate change deniers, a Carbon Tax would certainly die with the shift in power back to Republican politicians. And power always shifts back to them. Democrats can't stop that from happening.
www.carbontax.org/where-carbon-is-taxed/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Don't ever comment again, 1kiki, if you cannot remember Obama and his EPA setting rules on CO2. Don't comment again, 1kiki, if you cannot remember what the GOP did next or you cannot remember Trump pulling the USA out of all agreements to reduce CO2.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
Originally posted by second:
half of Republicans deny that global warming is even taking place, and of the rest, almost half reject any human responsibility. Words fail.
Kick her ass SECOND. You can't find bigger hypocrites that kiki jack jsf and sig. Nicely done...
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I want you to back up this statement.
You can start by quoting one single instance where I've said or done anything that was hypocritical.
ONE.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Like all Republicans I know, you are hypersensitive about your honor. That's why you got all puffed up, then responded with your "ONE" when you got called a "hypocrite". You've said you were an independent. You're not. You are exactly like every Republican I know. They claim they are Independent, making up their own mind, because they have some little quibbles with certain minor details of the Republican Party platform or some detail of Trump's tweets. Details that even the GOP and Trump aren't really going to make reality, details they talk about, but are not sincere about. It's all empty talk. Nothing solid that you can depend upon. It's as if you so-called Independents are human-shaped gas bags that Trump inflates with his hot-air rhetoric. As soon as he stops blowing hard, you collapse back into a sad empty sack of air. You've got no backbone, no skeleton, no guts, no higher goals. Please get some, for your own good, and stop being an "Independent". Pick a side, act like it means something. To quote Book's dying words to Mal: "I don't care what you believe! Just... believe it. Whatever you have to..." Do you remember what happened for the rest of the movie? Mal finally stopped being blown around like a sailboat without a rudder.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I want you to back up this statement.
You can start by quoting one single instance where I've said or done anything that was hypocritical.
ONE.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Like all Republicans I know, you are hypersensitive about your honor. That's why you got all puffed up, then responded with your "ONE" when you got called a "hypocrite". You've said you were an independent. You're not. You are exactly like every Republican I know. They claim they are Independent, making up their own mind, because they have some little quibbles with certain minor details of the Republican Party platform or some detail of Trump's tweets. Details that even the GOP and Trump aren't really going to make reality, details they talk about, but are not sincere about. It's all empty talk. Nothing solid that you can depend upon. It's as if you so-called Independents are human-shaped gas bags that Trump inflates with his hot-air rhetoric. As soon as he stops blowing hard, you collapse back into a sad empty sack of air. You've got no backbone, no skeleton, no guts, no higher goals. Please get some, for your own good, and stop being an "Independent". Pick a side, act like it means something. To quote Book's dying words to Mal: "I don't care what you believe! Just... believe it. Whatever you have to..." Do you remember what happened for the rest of the movie? Mal finally stopped being blown around like a sailboat without a rudder.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I want you to back up this statement.
You can start by quoting one single instance where I've said or done anything that was hypocritical.
ONE.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Tear em up SECOND. Nicely done...
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Like all Republicans I know, you are hypersensitive about your honor. That's why you got all puffed up, then responded with your "ONE" when you got called a "hypocrite". You've said you were an independent. You're not. You are exactly like every Republican I know. They claim they are Independent, making up their own mind, because they have some little quibbles with certain minor details of the Republican Party platform or some detail of Trump's tweets. Details that even the GOP and Trump aren't really going to make reality, details they talk about, but are not sincere about. It's all empty talk. Nothing solid that you can depend upon. It's as if you so-called Independents are human-shaped gas bags that Trump inflates with his hot-air rhetoric. As soon as he stops blowing hard, you collapse back into a sad empty sack of air. You've got no backbone, no skeleton, no guts, no higher goals. Please get some, for your own good, and stop being an "Independent". Pick a side, act like it means something. To quote Book's dying words to Mal: "I don't care what you believe! Just... believe it. Whatever you have to..." Do you remember what happened for the rest of the movie? Mal finally stopped being blown around like a sailboat without a rudder.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I want you to back up this statement.
You can start by quoting one single instance where I've said or done anything that was hypocritical.
ONE.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Why should I pick a side? I'm certainly not going to pick the Democrats. They actively stand against my ideals at almost every turn... at least the ones leading that shit-show of a party right now.
I've had a lot of negative things to say about Trump over the last few years. My gripes with him are legitimate and backed up by data.
You and your goons are chasing phantoms of Russia.
I have no horse in this race. I have almost everything I want in life, and I'm working to get the rest of it now. Trump hasn't done anything to make that easier, and Hillary certainly wouldn't have either.
You're a static piece of shit. Posts you make today are no different than they were years ago. You're the only one here with the money and the power to make any changes, but you LOVE rubbing in the fact that you're making out like a bandit with Trump in office. Yet, not one single time have you talked about any good you've done for anybody but yourself with that extra cash.
Fuck you, Second.
And BTW... you haven't said anything that shows any hypocrisy on my part.
I'm waiting.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Look, genius 6ixStringJack, there are only two sides. There are no third parties to come to the rescue because the way the Constitution was written has made it inevitable that there will only be two major parties. Pick a side or be as irrelevant as a child who can't vote or an adult who votes for the Green Party.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Why should I pick a side? I'm certainly not going to pick the Democrats. They actively stand against my ideals at almost every turn... at least the ones leading that shit-show of a party right now.
Fuck you, Second.
Why Only Two Political Parties?
www.factcheck.org/2008/01/why-only-two-political-parties/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Look, genius 6ixStringJack, there are only two sides. There are no third parties to come to the rescue because the way the Constitution was written has made it inevitable that there will only be two major parties. Pick a side or be as irrelevant as a child who can't vote or an adult who votes for the Green Party.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Why should I pick a side? I'm certainly not going to pick the Democrats. They actively stand against my ideals at almost every turn... at least the ones leading that shit-show of a party right now.
Fuck you, Second.
Freedom... I Won't.
Your side sucks. The other side sucks slightly less.
10 years ago, it was the other way around.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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