knapplc Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 Why do all roads lead to Russia? 1 Link to comment
teachercd Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 That should end well for them....no one loves the Nazis more than the Russians. Link to comment
commando Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 1 minute ago, teachercd said: That should end well for them....no one loves the Nazis more than the Russians. thing is...they are not nazis yet...they are american nazi wannabes that the kremlin is using for their own purposes. 2 Link to comment
teachercd Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 38 minutes ago, commando said: thing is...they are not nazis yet...they are american nazi wannabes that the kremlin is using for their own purposes. I am one of those guys that sort thinks a Nazi is a Nazi. Ha Link to comment
commando Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Just now, teachercd said: I am one of those guys that sort thinks a Nazi is a Nazi. Ha they are...but they're more like thuggish buffoons than the nazis they aspire to be. maybe if they get better organized their dreams will come true...but for now i view them more like street gangs rather than a nazi nation to be dealt with. 1 Link to comment
teachercd Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, commando said: they are...but they're more like thuggish buffoons than the nazis they aspire to be. maybe if they get better organized their dreams will come true...but for now i view them more like street gangs rather than a nazi nation to be dealt with. I would assume that has to be correct because that s#!t doesn't fly all that well in Russia. Link to comment
commando Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Just now, teachercd said: I would assume that has to be correct because that s#!t doesn't fly all that well in Russia. and yet...this nazi guy is leading his nazi group from russia. either they are being used for russian purposes or the russians have decided they now like nazis. i would bet that they don't like nazis...so that leaves us with the nazi group being used as a russian asset 1 Link to comment
teachercd Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 1 minute ago, commando said: and yet...this nazi guy is leading his nazi group from russia. either they are being used for russian purposes or the russians have decided they now like nazis. i would bet that they don't like nazis...so that leaves us with the nazi group being used as a russian asset Ahhhh and he married a Russian...interesting. Well, hopefully he shoots and kills himself while he is "training" Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 I keep thinking I’m going to wake up and this is a joke. 1 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 They're not wrong. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 28, 2020 Author Share Posted January 28, 2020 To go along with @Danny Bateman 's post above, trump is exactly what Republicans want. You do you, GOPers. Link to comment
TGHusker Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 On 1/26/2020 at 9:26 AM, Danny Bateman said: They're not wrong. To Bill Kristol's question - the answer is YES. We've come a long way from gentlemanly William Frank Buckley Jr. Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 This is a pretty decent run-down of what the Republican party has chosen to become. No longer the Party of Reagan, and for DAMNED sure not the Party of Lincoln. Quote So last night I was on @allinwithchris and I realized I don't know how to communicate how constitutionally dangerous the Senate situation is right now. We're not arguing over what Trump did. We're arguing over whether Republicans *want to know* what Trump did. Sometimes this whole saga feels like a thought experiment where we keep layering on more and more extreme conditions to see how broken the Republican Party really is. Okay, but what if Trump releases a call record in which he says Biden's name repeatedly? Okay, but what if we also have him tell Ukraine and China to investigate Biden on TV? Okay, but what if we have Republican appointees testify that he did it to the House? Still nothing? Wild. Okay, how about this: We get John Bolton, hero of the America right, scourge of liberals, to say that he will testify, under oath, that he personally heard Trump say the aid was contingent on Ukraine going after the Bidens. John Bolton. I mean, surely? And the GOP's answer is...they don't want to hear it? That these are unsourced allegations, and their official position is they refuse to hear from the source directly? Even when that source is John $*%&#@# Bolton? The guy they've been to the ramparts to defend? How can you look at this and say the Republican Party isn't breaking our constitutional design and creating a massive zone of presidential corruption? It's not that they've gotten all the evidence and they just truly believe Trump didn't do it. It's that they don't want to know, because the more they know, the more undeniable it is that Trump did it. McConnell's move in all this has been to create such certainty around acquittal that it's tiring for people to pay attention because it's so clear how the story ends. But the story here isn't just impeachment. It's about what Republicans are doing to the political system. And to be very clear, yes, I have written a book about polarization, and yes, stating the reality of American politics clearly is polarizing. This is the point of the book: party polarization, at this pitch and intensity, will break American politics. amazon.com/Why-Were-Polar… If Republicans in Congress can't act like members of Congress first and Republicans second then the system's fundamental design stops working. We built a system around the competing incentives of branches, not the competing incentives of parties. 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 6 minutes ago, knapplc said: It's not that they've gotten all the evidence and they just truly believe Trump didn't do it. It's that they don't want to know, because the more they know, the more undeniable it is that Trump did it. This sums it all up. Link to comment
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