Wealthy business leaders are turning on US President Donald Trump over his plan to impose a colossal set of tariffs on America’s trading partners, as losses mount on stock markets around the world.
Yeah, because of course they are. I mean, it’s not like they could have POSSIBLY known how bad the shitgibbon would shit the bed, right? RIGHT?!
Maybe the next Republican will be more sensible.
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Being more competent than Trump is hardly remarkable.
I believe you are being unfair to republicans. I understand the desire to caricature the other side, but this is unbecoming of Boddhisatva.
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Why would they not support him? A sizeable portion of their base love the guy. He has a lot of power.
And why would the situation not change if a more sensible person assumed leadership of the party? Things can change rather quickly, and if his term goes badly I doubt the conservative establishment will appreciate another idiot nominee with a god complex.
The democrats nominated a barely functioning senile man that can’t string a sentence together for president twice. That does not mean that every single nominee that comes after is going to have dementia, does it?
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Maybe you are right, but I would not underestimate how quickly things can change. The did change quickly with Trump, did they not?
I realized around 2012 to 2014 that republican voters were not being led astray by extremist politicians. The politicians were more reasonable than the average voter. The party leadership like John Boehner were holding the base in check.
That is less true now. John McCain has passed away. Mitt Romney is in the wilderness. The lunatics are running the asylum.
Now we are in the find out phase for the average voter.
I would say people with principled political views are in the minority, whether they are on the left or on the right. Most people just parrot what everyone else and the politicians say. People don’t like to think about these matters too deeply and vague emotions can be used(by politicians) in many ways.
In any case, which extreme positions are you referring to specifically? Or rather, which positions are extreme and integral to their programme?
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Maye the next Republican will be a competent Fascist and we won’t get another do-over.
Would you rather not have a competent government? You are dramatising a bit I believe.
Yeah, nah, fuck right off with that bullshit. Fascism bad. End of line.
I assumed you meant the competent republican will be so successful, the party will win the next election and the dems will not be able to compete. So you would rather they fail and let you win.
But now I realise that you actually implied they will rig the elections, which makes me think you are dramatising even more, since I doubt that will happen.
Yeah, fuck off with your ‘it can’t happen here’ bullshit.
I’ll take a clown fascist over a competent fascist any day.
Using sensible and Republican in the same sentence is an oxymoron.