Dr. Strangelove

If their transgressions are as bad, then I hope they're voted out of office. The problem with Thomas's obvious corruption is that they're is no mechanism for voters to punish his behavior. He's untouchable and he knows it.

Is the National Review - a totally and completely unbiased "news" outlet - arguing that Thomas took these "gifts" and its okay because the ethics just tightened some of the rules? I mean, it's pretty unlikely that a friend is gifting the Thomas' hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts, trips, etc. every year without some sort of quid-pro-quo corruption going on. Does it just so happen that the other people on the vacations are other powerful Republicans and right wing insiders?

What? I don't get it.

Well documented ethics violations by Clarence Thomas is going to send shockwaves through the Federalist Society, as they march the judiciary ever further into the oblivion of right wing jurisprudence. Thomas will have to issue an extra, super duper strong statement that says "I don't know what you're talking about" or "I'll only give a detailed interview on a super Yacht, but my going price is pretty high". This, of course, is likely to happen shortly after SCOTUS issues a ruling granting white children an AR-15 at birth, citing totally legitimate "originalist" views of the Constitution.

If only it was an AR-15, that way you could defend this guy in a voting booth.

Certainly possible. Ultimately it's going to come down to economic conditions in about a year. It'll depend on job losses, the severity of any recession and what inflation numbers are like. That being said, Trump and Republican policies are extremely unpopular. It would probably take a modest recession for Trump to win. Although this is certainly within the realm of possibility.

Since Rs deeply care about Children and aren't accusing Democrats of being groomers in a stupid, misguided, and losing attempt at political theater, they should do the right thing and ban the Catholic Church.

It turns out that Republicans not having any policy and running on a platform of election denial and that schools are pits of CRT/Trans/Sexual Indoctrination centers is extremely unpopular. But they have to go with those positions because the actual policy they advocate for - tax cuts for the wealthy, dismantling the social safety net - is even MORE unpopular.

Donald Trump and his voting base are the gift that keeps on giving.

I completely agree. I do think Democrats have pushed for weird policies, like trans-women playing in Women's Sports. Athletics are separated by sex, not gender, so it's strange. However, Republicans seems to think pushing bans on drag shows - in clear violation of free speech and our constitution is the correct course of action, which is a far worse choice.

It turns out that running terrible candidates is a bad strategy. It's also difficult for Republicans to pivot away from losing policy positions when huge swaths of their voting base thinks election results are rigged. They think that running on a platform that Democrats are child groomers is actually winning, and a Republican that acknowledges election results as fair and valid is a RINO.

Fair, but Democrats are pushing policies that seemingly blur the boundary. Pushing to allow trans-women to play in women's sports is an example. While it's perfectly acceptable to understand that gender is merely social-construct, Democrats take a policy position that ignores the biological reality sex plays in Athletics. It's pretty stupid to say that gender is a social phenomenon while simultaneously pushing policies that seem to conflate gender and biological sex.

Really my comment is meant to caricature right wing voters. Socialism greatly benefits Red states. Yet their politicians and voting base hate it because they're brainwashed into thinking Ronald Reagan will smite them if they acknowledge as much. Thus, they vote in ways that harm their communities, decrease their life expectancy compared to Blue states, have lower GDPs per capita, the list goes on.

So is Governor Huckabee a socialist for requesting these services? Archy1221.... it's okay to admit that sometimes socializing certain services benefits everybody. Ronald Reagan won't roll over in his grave if you do, your Republican friends will never know you said it. You already realize that's the case, just say it out loud.

Of course! But that's socializing the costs of cleanup. The people of Arkansas are staunch anti-socialists. Is Socialism good sometimes and bad in others? The people of Arkansas can pick themselves up by the bootstraps and pay for the cleanup themselves. No Socialism needed.

I don't understand the problem. Let's end Socialism in her state. Arkansas will only receive in federal investment what it pays in taxes. Of course, we'll have to temporarily increase their taxes to pay off their large deficit - they haven't paid as much as they've received in decades. Once paid off, they are free. Any Red state is allowed to opt into the End Socialism Now pact. We can unshackle them forever.

He'd probably win the Presidency easily, considering the monumental institutional advantages the GOP has in our elections. Alas, GOP primary voters are a collective group that does not have a belief system based in reality. He's going to get support in the 3% range if he's lucky.

Republicans get the politicians they deserve.

Imagine voting for this and contuing to vote for this party.

Thanks Biden!

Ron DeSantis supporters - being in favor of law, order, and a strict adherence to Constitutional Order - will undoubtedly put partisan feelings aside and move onto a new candidate after DeSantis' obvious anti-constitutional commitment not to extradite Trump. These supporters aren't just partisans who will vote for a Republican no matter what, they are Patriotic Americans who love and care deeply about Democ- HAHAHA.

It's like they all just want to get a clip for Twitter or some campaign ad. Annoying.

I think you're both into something, you're both correct. The number of guns we have plays a role, but also the American attitude towards guns tends to be less about hunting and more about "protection". It's sort of an active attitude towards firearms: they are there to be used as a protective tool. What constitutes "protection" leads to very lose gun laws, allowing individuals purchasing guns when they should have no business doing so.

Wait until you find out which states those cities are in and whether or not state government - backed by an appointed judicial branch - controls gun legislation. (9 of the top 15 are in conservative states, and 16 of the top 25). But hey, if you want to play that game, 4 of the top 6 safest cities in the country are located in California (Irvine, Santa Clara and Chula Vista) and NYC is 6th. Here are some links to drag shows in each of them, maybe you can attend and find out a thing or two about what makes those cities so safe: Santa Clara Irvine NYC has countless numbers of drag shows, you can watch them until you drop dead of moral rot. And Chula Vista had a drag queen story time in 2019 and the city remains one of the safest in the country. Who knew?

Not to mention his argument that progressive filth leads to this moral decay and presumably our epidemic of violence, but he can't respond to why European hellholes have 600% less violent crime. Or heck, if you exclude liberal states and only compare puritan Conservative utopia's to Progressives European Children Indoctrination Machines, those violent crime statistics become even MORE disproportionate. In addition to this, his reasoning of the existence of the 2A, which in typical conservative fashion is completely undermined by a simple look at the Federalist Papers, which Conservative Patriotic Americans seem to never even know exists.