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Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 14
So here we sit on the couch, back home.
I’m reading my kindle and she’s scrolling through the news.
Suddenly, she says in a soft voice:
“The irony of this current situation…… is that the Republicans who are so afraid of being primaried by Trump that they refuse to stand up to him…… deserve to be primaried.”
No. of Recommendations: 1
Thankfully, 8 Democrats in the Senate finally stood up to King Schumer and ended the Schumer shutdown.
No. of Recommendations: 1
The irony of this current situation…… is that the Republicans who are so afraid of being primaried by Trump that they refuse to stand up to him…… deserve to be primaried.”
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Fair point.
However, as one who wonders if those opposing Trump *actually* want to defeat him ...I wonder if they will ever think out of the box --- change their tune a bit ---and then go on offense.
Meaning, stop the Pronoun Bully stuff. Openly say - our border wall will be taller. WIN elections. ADD SCOTUS seats. And do a mini moonshot and right the ship -- with some bipartisan consensus versus a 50.1% win.
Furthermore when REpublicans do stand up to Trump - give them aid and comfort. Meaning Rand Paul. MTG --- fund their campaigns. Don't run a Dem against them. Show other Republicans that it's time to abandon the lame duck---and be on the right side.
Yes, this requires swallowing *but* if one really, truly, was WANTING to 'save democracy' and not just post about it - surely, these are tiny tiny prices to pay.
OR - well - we can do it this way.
How great is this way.
Better yet - Dems win the 50.1% win - and the next Manchin can be President from a low GDP state again.
Sound familiar?
Anyone want to break that cycle?
I'm not sure ---if anyone does.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Democrats are performative and weak, and have no real leadership.
Their core constituency is highly delusional; instead of trying to lead their constituency out of delusion, they pander to the delusions.
A perfect example of their performative delusion-pandering is that silly, purely performative video in which a bunch of feckless, unethical Democrat politicians tried to hypocritically imply, without actually saying it, that their military and intelligence community leaders (under Trump naturally) was giving them illegal orders and that they should defy those illegal orders.
Because that message was not intended for the military or intelligence communities at all. It was solely to pander to their delusional core voter base, make false insinuations against Trump, encourage insubordination in the military, but with absolutely nothing behind it. Now they can show little clips of themselves being self righteous and performative for the next campaign(s). There was no other purpose. They gave themselves plausible deniability by being able to claim tautologically that they never actually accused Trump of giving any illegal orders to anyone about anything. That's because they are weak, insipid, hypocritical panderers.
Military personnel (and intelligence community members) already know that they can and should refuse to carry out illegal orders. They receiving training in the UCMJ and they know who is in their chain of command. Random democrat politicians are not in their chain of command. The question is what actually constitutes an illegal order and in what context is that situation going to arise. Do these Democrats actually believe--no wait for it--they believe that their core constituencies believe that military personnel from 4 stars down to E-1 are ALL idiots and would automatically follow illegal orders? Yeah because they deem military, as well as non-college educated, blue collar workers as deplorable idiots.
But since these pols were appealing to a delusional base who thinks anyone in the military is an idiot, and doesn't understand how the military works, the people this video was actually intended for can delusionaly believe the video actually has some purpose other than feeding into their own delusions and pandering to them.
These Dems who made this video are actually so cowardly or so hypocritical that they never even gave one single example of any illegal order given by Trump. Given that Trump has the military blowing up Venezuelan "fishing boats" and there have been many people saying that's a violation of the law, that would have been the obvious example to use in their pointless video--but only if they themselves truly believed that blowing up those boats is actually illegal.
They don't.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Meaning, stop the Pronoun Bully stuff. Openly say - our border wall will be taller. WIN elections. ADD SCOTUS seats. And do a mini moonshot and right the ship -- with some bipartisan consensus versus a 50.1% win.
It was MAGA that brought out the pronoun stuff, that was more of an Academic exercise, just propaganda. You fell for it. Our border won't be taller, but we'll stop bothering farmers, construction workers, long termers, look more for criminal types, and keep the right way, wrong way. Not looking for numbers, and more on the humane side. We just won. This may be the way the shift away from Trump looks like in the beginning.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Democrats are performative and weak, and have no real leadership.
Their core constituency is highly delusional; instead of trying to lead their constituency out of delusion, they pander to the delusions.
A perfect example of their performative delusion-pandering is that silly, purely performative video in which a bunch of feckless, unethical Democrat politicians tried to hypocritically imply, without actually saying it, that their military and intelligence community leaders (under Trump naturally) was giving them illegal orders and that they should defy those illegal orders.
Because that message was not intended for the military or intelligence communities at all. It was solely to pander to their delusional core voter base, make false insinuations against Trump, encourage insubordination in the military, but with absolutely nothing behind it. Now they can show little clips of themselves being self righteous and performative for the next campaign(s). There was no other purpose. They gave themselves plausible deniability by being able to claim tautologically that they never actually accused Trump of giving any illegal orders to anyone about anything. That's because they are weak, insipid, hypocritical panderers.
Military personnel (and intelligence community members) already know that they can and should refuse to carry out illegal orders. They receiving training in the UCMJ and they know who is in their chain of command. Random democrat politicians are not in their chain of command. The question is what actually constitutes an illegal order and in what context is that situation going to arise. Do these Democrats actually believe--no wait for it--they believe that their core constituencies believe that military personnel from 4 stars down to E-1 are ALL idiots and would automatically follow illegal orders? Yeah because they deem military, as well as non-college educated, blue collar workers as deplorable idiots.
But since these pols were appealing to a delusional base who thinks anyone in the military is an idiot, and doesn't understand how the military works, the people this video was actually intended for can delusionaly believe the video actually has some purpose other than feeding into their own delusions and pandering to them.
These Dems who made this video are actually so cowardly or so hypocritical that they never even gave one single example of any illegal order given by Trump. Given that Trump has the military blowing up Venezuelan "fishing boats" and there have been many people saying that's a violation of the law, that would have been the obvious example to use in their pointless video--but only if they themselves truly believed that blowing up those boats is actually illegal.
They don't.
I enjoy watching you spend hours defending the indefensible.
It keeps you busy.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Laproscopy,
This is precisely my point in a recent prior post.
ProGlibs/Dems respond to any criticism with gaslighting. You don't address the criticism. When Echota said make the wall taller, add Supreme Court justices, etc. all you said was:
"Democrat policy is just a troll, AND YOU FELL FOR IT."
No. of Recommendations: 2
Wbaloney,
You falsely stated that I "defended the indefensible" by critizing the dum dum democrats and their puerile video.
Who did I "defend"?
What did I "defend"?
Nothing.
I merely pointed out that at no point in the dum dum video did any of the Demo-USAs indicate a single "order" deriving from Trump directly or indirectly, that was illegal.
I also pointed out that they COULD have, but did not, assert that the policy of attacking Venezuelan fishing boats was illegal, and orders to that effect should be refused as illegal.
I didn't "defend" the policy. THEY did.
No. of Recommendations: 0
It was MAGA that brought out the pronoun stuff, that was more of an Academic exercise, just propaganda. You fell for it. Our border won't be taller, but we'll stop bothering farmers, construction workers, long termers, look more for criminal types, and keep the right way, wrong way. Not looking for numbers, and more on the humane side. We just won. This may be the way the shift away from Trump looks like in the beginning.
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I'm just saying - if wanting to beat Trump isn't pretend -- and it's real - Pronouns and Illegals is the road.
Dems are already gonna win.
And You Online people will be happy.
But the Real People - who WANT to actually fo something and repair the damage want a bigger win.
Pronouns and Illegals is what Dems gave to Trump.
If you dont want to accept that fine - you already helped MAGA twice. Happy?
