Judging Today's Republicans vs. those 10 Years Ago

[Billiejeens]

Sorry bummtap, but you are not a Republican so in no position to judge them, period.

There is the problem.

Democrats believe that Republicans should be Democrat-lite, or simply full-blown Democrats.

Sadly, too many have been.

They don't understand "opposing party".

 

[bigrebnc1775]

In post #18 of this thread you said the following;
QUOTE:
both sides have some of the worst politicians we have ever seen....
UNQUOTE
"have ever seen" would strongly suggest within the history of the USA and that barely goes back 250 years, +/- .
Either you are mis-stating;
ignorant of history;
OR
Being disingenuous.

Pick whatever excuse/CYA you want.*

*(OR: You don't know how to speak clearly and concisely.)

That he has ever seen

 

[toobfreak]

They don't understand "opposing party".

They had it once.

They didn't like it.

 

[odanny]

Sorry bummtap, but you are not a Republican so in no position to judge them, period.

You're not an American, so I'm in far better position than you are.

 

[toobfreak]

You're not an American

I wouldn't bet my life on that.

so I'm in far better position than you are.

If you are positioned right under Joe's toilet receptacle, then I'd say you are in your ideal position.

 

[Batcat]

10 years ago we had:

Michelle Bachman (batshit)
Sarah Palin (batshit)
Mitch McConnell (Evil incarnate)
John Boehner (garbage)
Paul Ryan (garbage)

Current Day we have:

Marjorie Taylor Green (bathshit)
Lauren Boebert (batshit)
Mitch McConnell (Evil incarnate)
Kevin McCarthy (garbage)
Ted Cruz (garbage)

Seems about even to me, honestly.

And the Democrats have …

Joe Biden (Lost in space)
Kamala Harris (Giggles at everything)
Hillary Clinton (Obsessed with becoming our first Female President)
Pete Buttigieg (Should go back on maternity leave)
Nancy Pelosi (Loves $12 dollar a pint ice cream and brags about her $20,000 Fridge-freezer)
Hunter Biden. (Bag man for the Biden crime family)
Stacy Abrams (Thinks she is Governor of Georgia and wrote soft core porn)

 

[MisterBeale]

Yea, remember what was considered nutty 10 years ago? Well, today's Republicans almost make those folks sound sane. Maher breaks it down for you:

Video makes some interesting points.

. . . . I suppose I could take it a little more seriously, if liberals, hadn't completely abandoned liberalism, for leftism.

I do believe, Maher has commented on that a few times as well. . . so the deterioration of the national political fabric? That is not all on the GOP.

If you study political science, you understand that reactionary politics, is, inevitably, a REACTION, to radical politics.

Radical politics - Wikipedia

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Reactionary - Wikipedia

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And as Maher himself has pointed out on more than one occasion, the DNC has become unhinged by wokism. SO? If the DNC did not want the GOP to become like this? They only really, have themselves to blame by encouraging radicalism for the sake of political power. By inviting leftism & radicalism in? To take over their party, it would, necessarily, invite reactionaries to seize much of the right.

. . . but, you really have to understand political science to get that.

 

[Harry Dresden]

In post #18 of this thread you said the following;
QUOTE:
both sides have some of the worst politicians we have ever seen....
UNQUOTE
"have ever seen" would strongly suggest within the history of the USA and that barely goes back 250 years, +/- .
Either you are mis-stating;
ignorant of history;
OR
Being disingenuous.

Pick whatever excuse/CYA you want.*

*(OR: You don't know how to speak clearly and concisely.)

you know what i was talking about .... good little lefties play this game.....are you one of them?......

 

[Failzero]

And the Democrats have …

Joe Biden (Lost in space)
Kamala Harris (Giggles at everything)
Hillary Clinton (Obsessed with becoming our first Female President)
Pete Buttigieg (Should go back on maternity leave)
Nancy Pelosi (Loves $12 dollar a pint ice cream and brags about her $20,000 Fridge-freezer)
Hunter Biden. (Bag man for the Biden crime family)
Stacy Abrams (Thinks she is Governor of Georgia and wrote soft core porn)

Failzero’s ears perk up, so she single ?

 

[odanny]

If you are positioned right under Joe's toilet receptacle, then I'd say you are in your ideal position.

If you've got Putin's nut sack on your chin, you are in your normal position.

 

[Augustine_]

Republicans will not be electing RINOs any time soon. Hence the name.
Elections are still about Rs vs Ds. You think indy voters will be voting for democrats any time soon? I don't.

I think this country is fucked. Haiti ranks better than us in income gap and wealth distribution among the population. Yet our pressing concerns are things like banning books like To Kill a Mockingbird from schools and whether women should be forced to give birth. I'm sure you'll be surprised to hear that our oligarchs have shuttered the idea of banning politicians from trading stocks. Remember that, brief, squandered moment of common sense?

 

[kyzr]

I think this country is fucked. Haiti ranks better than us in income gap and wealth distribution among the population. Yet our pressing concerns are things like banning books like To Kill a Mockingbird from schools and whether women should be forced to give birth. I'm sure you'll be surprised to hear that our oligarchs have shuttered the idea of banning politicians from trading stocks. Remember that, brief, squandered moment of common sense?

1. I'd rather live here than in Haiti.
2. I missed the book banning...so did google. Got a link?
3. I'm sure the baby enjoys life...
4. We need section-230 repealed so the courts can reign in the oligarchs
5. What brief squandered moment of common sense?? I haven't seen any of those since Trump.

 

[candycorn]

10 years ago we had:

Michelle Bachman (batshit)
Sarah Palin (batshit)
Mitch McConnell (Evil incarnate)
John Boehner (garbage)
Paul Ryan (garbage)

Current Day we have:

Marjorie Taylor Green (bathshit)
Lauren Boebert (batshit)
Mitch McConnell (Evil incarnate)
Kevin McCarthy (garbage)
Ted Cruz (garbage)

Seems about even to me, honestly.

You left out so many. Angle, the witch lady, Rick Perry

 

[Batcat]

Failzero’s ears perk up, so she single ?

Stacy Abrams?

Possibly single and a millionaire.

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[Augustine_]

1. I'd rather live here than in Haiti.
2. I missed the book banning...so did google. Got a link?
3. I'm sure the baby enjoys life...
4. We need section-230 repealed so the courts can reign in the oligarchs
5. What brief squandered moment of common sense?? I haven't seen any of those since Trump.

1. You and yours sure seem pretty fucking angry all the time for somebody who likes living here
2. ‘Unparalleled in intensity’ – 1,500 book bans in US school districts.
3. Once it's a baby you stop caring so your comment means nothing. A fetus doesn't enjoy anything.
4. All you're life you've voted to massively empower the oligarchy. The buck stopping with you demanding that the big fed gubmint regulate speech on the internet is hilarious to me.
5. If you think Trump had common sense, you probably think he didn't massively enrich the oligarchy, including the tech barons and corporation you seem to hate so badly.

 

[toobfreak]

If you've got Putin's nut sack on your chin, you are in your normal position.

If P then Q? Modus Tollens. I must not be in my normal position.

 

[Stryder50]

you know what i was talking about .... good little lefties play this game.....are you one of them?......

No I don't! I'm not a mind-reader/clairvoyant.
About thirty years of experience on message boards/forums has underscored the value of taking what is posted(said) literally and don't make assumptions.

"good little leftie" is how I would peg you since you are slithering around and engaging CYA and word mincing rather than being honest and forthright.
FWIW, I, and many others whom have dealt with me, would find I'm a "good little rightie".

 

[Failzero]

No I don't! I'm not a mind-reader/clairvoyant.
About thirty years of experience on message boards/forums has underscored the value of taking what is posted(said) literally and don't make assumptions.

"good little leftie" is how I would peg you since you are slithering around and engaging CYA and word mincing rather than being honest and forthright.
FWIW, I, and many others whom have dealt with me, would find I'm a "good little rightie".

I started catching on to the Far Left & Left's Mishigoss on teh interwebz in about 1995

 

[kyzr]

1. You and yours sure seem pretty fucking angry all the time for somebody who likes living here
2. ‘Unparalleled in intensity’ – 1,500 book bans in US school districts.
3. Once it's a baby you stop caring so your comment means nothing. A fetus doesn't enjoy anything.
4. All you're life you've voted to massively empower the oligarchy. The buck stopping with you demanding that the big fed gubmint regulate speech on the internet is hilarious to me.
5. If you think Trump had common sense, you probably think he didn't massively enrich the oligarchy, including the tech barons and corporation you seem to hate so badly.

1. We have our values and will protect them.
2. Schools should protect kids from bad books, like the 1619 Project, abd CRT. We're just starting to roll that crap back.
3. Don't get me started on which party does better parenting, with TWO parents.
4. I don't vote to empower the oligarchs, that is the democrats. DEMOCRATS regulate speech on the internet. Who are kicked off Twitter? Hint: Trump and conservatives.
5. Republicans are NOT the "oligarchy", democrats are: Zuckerberg, Bezos, Jack Dorsey, and the rest of the hitech oligarchs accountable to no one. We Repubs want to repeal Section-230, democrats don't.
6. We agree the tax cuts were a bad idea. Aside from those I liked Trump's many "accomplishments".
7. Here is a list of your parties' disasters and catastrophes:
Everything Xiden, aka “poopy pants” touches turns to shit
The Brits hold him in CONTEMPT for abandoning AFG
The French pulled their ambassador for abandoning AFG
He pissed off the Canadians by killing the KeystoneXL pipeline, that’s 500,000 bbls a day he killed.
Xiden sold us out by approving the Nord Stream 2 pipeline giving Putin cash to modernize his military and invade Ukraine, and his “war on energy” keeps fuel costs high. That's why Xiden is "Putin's Whore".
Hope he enjoys the $3,500,000 the Moscow Mayor's wife sent Hunter
Hope he enjoys the $1,500,000,000 that China gave Hunter to "invest"
Open borders is a catastrophe. Trump had it SOLVED. Now its infected migrants & fentanyl sent all over
Runaway inflation would get worse if the dems pass their "BBB" bill. That will be Solyndra on steroids, not to mention the $200,000,000 for Nancy’s park in San Francisco.
Xiden is ruining the US energy sector with his stupid EOs, he wants Russia to pump more oil?? WTF?
Xiden is so dumb he can't even do fake press conferences to answer "ice cream" questions.
Xiden is a gaffe machine, his brain is defective, and he has the nuclear football, WTF???
Xiden surrendered AFG leaving Americans, $billions of equipment, and interpreters to be slaughtered
Xiden’s DOJ sent the FBI after parents (aka domestic terrorists) who dare to ask questions at school board meetings.
China just passed the US out with their new hypersonic missile.
Stupid Joe wants to pay MIGRANTS $450,000 for breaking US immigration LAWS??????
After promising we would have more than enough Covid testing kits, Joe LIED and FAILED.
Xiden killed Israel’s EastMed gas pipeline to sell gas to the EU, Putin’s whore strikes again.
Xiden’s “war on energy” is pushing gas and diesel to unaffordable levels, causing “runaway inflation”.
Xiden is letting RUSSIA negotiate the new IRAN agreement???? WTF!!!!!!
I could go on and on, but you see Trump was at least 1,000,000x better as president than stupid Joe

 

[initforme]

I'm glad I don't agree with either party's ideals yet they MUST allow me to live here since I was born here.