There is A SILVER LINING.... Trump has screwed Republicans

[yuiyoshida]

from public office for maybe the next 10 or 12 maybe 20 years... because the PEOPLE of this NATION will NOT FORGET how fucked up its been since He was elected... and THEY damn sure will not vote for Republicans for a long damn time.

That REPUBLICAN FOX NEWS gravy TRAIN will soon come to halt, and even in the Red States, we may see more become blue.. Even stupid people learn a major lesson when bopped over the head with how bad their politicians are..

A fine Example will be Scott Pruitt... the prime example of Corruption.

[elleng]

1. If ONLY!

I wish I were as optimistic as you.

[babylonsister]

6. I'm not optimistic at all.

He could shoot someone on 5th Avenue blah blah blah, still holds true sadly.

[elleng]

14. right

[manor321]

2. Doesn't work that way

In November, the old white racists show up and actually fucking vote. Our side? Not so much.

[DownriverDem]

37. Increased Dem Voters

There is hope since Democratic voters have increased for the special elections and primaries. I don't have the numbers, but the Dems have won a lot of elections since trump got elected. State legislatures have more Dems now. A lot of young folks have registered to vote. I don't see the Dems' voters going down in November.

[Generic Brad]

38. Our people show up

But when they arrive to vote they learn they have been purged from the voter rolls or the voting machines at their polling site is not working.

[drray23]

3. Yui, I really want to believe you.

But on the other hand, I am amazed every day at how many citizens are uninformed , don't read news or care or are just plain dumb, brainwashed or otherwise deplorable.

I am glad that my daughter who is about to give birth is living in california in San Francisco. At least she and my grandkid will be in a sane place when all hell break lose. This motherfucker is not going down without a fight.

[LuvLoogie]

4. Stupid people don't vote.

The GOP has been this bad for decades. All trump did was blow their cover.

But I hear ya. I'm doubtful, however. I see very little regret, if any, from those I know who voted for him.

[Stuart G]

5. Trump's stupidity and insensitivity are unequaled..

Taking kids from parents....is unheard of in the U.S.A. putting them in ....jail like conditions??

Most parents are horrified..yuiyoshida is correct.. I think in this next election, this will be a major issue. Republicans will have to defend Trump's actions.., and defending these actions will not be easy...

[a kennedy]

9. AND HE'S BLAMING THE DEMOCRATS

[yuiyoshida]

13. I am surprised he hasn't said he has

Personally seen Barrack and Hillary throwing brown babies in cages to feed to the wolves. You remember how he SAW Muslims celebrating after 911...? That was a whopper too.

[a kennedy]

7. IT DOESN'T MATTER, LIKE HE SAID HE COULD SHOOT SOMEONE ON 5th AVE

AND THEY’LL STILL VOTE FOR HIM. IT’S INSANE WHERE THIS COUNTRY IS AT THIS POINT IN TIME. and sorry for yelling.

[Codeine]

10. It sucks that you're so right. nt

[tazkcmo]

28. The yelling is warranted.

Plus, you spelled everything correctly.

[Codeine]

8. I disagree.

People like this shit. The right people are being humiliated. The right people are targeted, insulted, demoralized.

As long as the hated groups are the ones being shit on the deplorables are happy to breath the fumes and track the filth across the rug.

[yuiyoshida]

15. I put this squarely on the shoulders of Fox News....

They have brainwashed people into believing the Nazi's were the good guys during WWII!

[OliverQ]

11. People said the same thing after Bush.

Republican voters will continue to vote for Republicans and keep them in power.

[yuiyoshida]

18. Its been a gradual slide down hill since Reagan

and I had thought George W. Bush was bad, but he is NOT the monster to Democracy that Trump will and still can be.

[jayschool2013]

43. Trump is a mob boss and a monster

Bush was a war criminal responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands.

[hibbing]

40. My first thought too

All the talk was about the end of the Republican party. Of course now you have a few people from that party saying this is not the Republican party. Sorry, but it is. I wish I was more optimistic, but I'm not.

Peace

[jberryhill]

12. Yeah, like Nixon did

And America went right back to Ronald “I don’t recall” Reagan.

[NewJeffCT]

34. Yes

Republicans barely lost the 1976 election versus Carter as well.

[AlexSFCA]

16. yea right, just like they never forgot Bush's great recession...

[msongs]

17. more likely repubs will still support trump even when they are dragged screaming and

kicking into the camps

[sarcasmo]

19. Screwed for years.

[BluesRunTheGame]

20. Fox News and Authoritarian Religion.

Until we make a dent in one or the other the madness will continue.

[Different Drummer]

53. Hopefully both, but I'm not going to hold my breath. n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

21. That's an optimistic tone

does it apply in an Age where truth is denounced as #FakeNews and lies are used to slander the truth?

[yuiyoshida]

22. Considering most AMERICANS voted for Hillary

I sincerely hope so..I maybe naive, but the Russians did hack our election to give Trump the win, and the timing of the FBI directors announcement certainly didn't help Hillary...that must mean there are more Americans who didn't vote for Trump.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. We must avoid being caste as objects of hatred

as Trump is doing today blaming 'a law' that 'Democrats' wrote for child kidnapping. Trumpers believe this stuff and it makes a great whisper campaign.

We must fight further election hacking, voter disenfranchisement, Fox News. I hope I am wrong but I am not even certain elections will be held this year. Trump can cook up anything.

And we need Mueller to strike like a bolt of lightning! There's lots more we don't know, but I keep wondering - how IS this thing going to flip those bastards from office? And when will Hannity be in the docks?

[Ferrets are Cool]

23. I like you Yui

You are one of those "glass half full" people.
I am not one of those people.
I hope you are correct.
I will have to see it to believe it.

[tazkcmo]

30. I second that. n/t

[yuiyoshida]

49. The thing I worry about is that the Republicans

May allow the Russians to effect the elections again, why not, its too their advantage...fuckers

btw, like your manga character, who is it?

[pangaia]

59. republicans will HELP russians affect the election-- if there even IS an election...

It is already happening. russian propaganda and cyber moves have never stopped.

[Ferrets are Cool]

64. She is Kanna Kamui, one of the main characters in

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid...one of the very best anime's from last year. A must watch.

not really a spoiler but Kanna is a dragon.

[yuiyoshida]

65. thanks

I have not watched anime in years, but it sounds great..maybe there is something on Youtube.

[helpisontheway]

25. I don't think it matters....many have tuned out of politics ...

I was at the beauty shop on Tuesday. Room full and I was the only one that voted. Some said it did not matter because the candidate for Congress does not matter because they can’t do anything about Trump. Then a few others said they did not care who was in office as long as they got their paycheck. 😩 So I’m not confident at all that we will gain control of Congress. Also, I’m not sure if we can get Trump out in 2020. Might have a better shot in 2020 because more people vote for president. Still not a slam dunk though.

[yuiyoshida]

50. Yesterday Morning Joe asked the question

If TRUMP refused to step down, who HAS the authority to make him step down... or what if he used emergency powers to shut down the election permanently?

The Constitution must list some where how to handle a would be dictator. Maybe the DOJ is the one who can legally move in and remove Trump from office? Or perhaps a supreme court order given to the FBI?

dOES ANYONE KNOW??

[muntrv]

26. Only if our base turns out more than his base.

[pangaia]

29. Yui, I hope you are right, but I think you are overly optimistic.

Hope you are well.

🎍

[yuiyoshida]

51. My bad cold is nearly gone

it was really bad, but I am getting better..Hoping to smoke a little Cannabis later.

[pangaia]

60. Glad you are better. Toke on.

[yuiyoshida]

61. I have a choice between a

Pipe or my vape...with the vape you can actually taste the flavor of Cannabis and different strains have different flavors...I been using tincture under my tongue with my cold, but really it doesn't get me high.. probably has far more CBCs than THC.. which is also good for my system the way it is.

[pangaia]

62. Yui --LOLOLOL

Choices, choices....
Lucky girl..

You're so much more knowledgeable than I am....

I haven't done any dope in decades... it was back when it was simply roll your own... and cookies...
Last time was sitting on the edge of the Grand Canyon on a summer long motorcycle trip.... !!!
Lucky I didn't jump....

[yuiyoshida]

63. Not long ago I had run out of weed and this

friend of mine, told me her client had died, and he had a bag of weed, and though i might like it.Well I was surprised when it got it, the baggie contained mostly leaves and twigs...I guess he didn't know the reason why we call it BUD is because you have to smoke the flowers.. that's where all the good stuff is!

The Leafs and Twigs were useless to me, but I was surprised there was no seeds, because those could have been used, to grow my own weed.

[Garrett78]

31. Trump may or may not be the culmination.

Even if he is, and there's a return to some semblance of sanity, immense damage has been done over the last 50 years (since implementation of The Southern Strategy/dog whistling/white backlash to Civil Rights era, The Powell Memo, Moral Majority, etc.).

There's also the possibility that an even worse person/administration will rise to power.

Regardless, the Trump cult will outlive Trump.

[KansasKali]

32. Are you sure?

Did the people remember how much Reagan and W messed up the country? If they had would be have Trump now?

[Cha]

33. I wish! It should be that way but with the russians

mucking about in out elections and the gop cheating and suppressing votes..

I still have HOPE, though!

[Freethinker65]

35. Trump got 28% of Americans to hate Canada over night.

And most of them will vote against any and all Democrats.

[lagomorph777]

39. Kidnapping babies and throwing them in concentration camps might cause RePutin brand damage too.

Thanks for the positive note.

[Kablooie]

41. You are being reasonable. Unfortunately a large portion of the US is not.

I fear that many people across the US believe and follow this monster.
Trump has created his own national cult following.
Many conservatives have been ripe for this for years due to Fox News and AM Radio softening them up.

I'm not saying they will prevail, I hope, and believe they won't this time.
America surely has a stronger sense of identity than to have it blown away so easily by this buffoon con man
But I don't think it will be easy.

Also Trump supporters, whether they have Trump as their leader or not, are not going away.
They will be here year after year and if Trump falls they will try to install a new dictator/con-man because their fondest dream is to be ruled with an iron fist that screams "Christianity" with every strike as it drives the country down into the earth.

[Ahpook]

42. Who would have thought

I never thought this country could get crazier than Shrub and Cheney, but here we are.

Palin gets within a hair of being Vice?

Let's get real and get active?

[dubyadiprecession]

44. The American public has an incredibly short attention span.

Nixon only cost republican's the white house for one term.

I just hope that we get off this "See-Saw cycle" of gaining and then losing control of the congress every two to four years.

[CanonRay]

45. I thought that after Nixon

[Awsi Dooger]

46. More extreme right wing nutcases will run and win thanks to Trump

Like the brothel guy. They wouldn't have considered it previously but now sense it is their calling. Nobody is too far right or bigoted for the Republican primary voters. Yes, some will lose the general election but given the sheer numbers and friendly districts a big chunk of them will prevail.

The trend will continue beyond Trump, just like right wingers like Gingrich didn't become prominent until many years post-Reagan.

2016 had devastating tentacles

[pangaia]

58. I hate to have to agree with you.

But I do.


I do what I can-- write letters, phone calls, emails, small contributions.. but......

WHERE are ALL our "LEADERS?"
Or even just people with visibility and the where-with-all to organize and lead?

A few are standing up and shouting and taking responsibility... but....so few....

[jmowreader]

47. Yui! Welcome back! I missed you!

Unfortunately, Trump still has a group of supporters who will stand behind him no matter what he does.

[bucolic_frolic]

48. Frankly all this could have been avoided if we had a real functioning FCC

After the OJ Chase networks figured out that hype could apply to news and there was money to be made. Industries were growing and supporting news advertising, think NFL and Detroit automakers and their new SUV's! Politics wasn't far behind. I know, I know, Citizens United. CU was merely the icing after the oven. That cake was baked decades before it was done.

FCC Licenses should be renewable - frequently - with performance standards for the public service portion of their operations. FCC Licenses should be pulled - fined - for non-performance. Fining because a tit or an F word has been heard when families are not asleep is not regulation. It's not even punitive. It's a band-aid to show the public how much government cares. Not very much at all.

I know, I know. Free Speech. We can't prevent lies. Without them, how would advertisers sell products, companies make profits, Wall Street stay afloat, politicians have a horse race? But we can still punish organized lies and distortion. Stay home. Cancel cable, boycott, buy competitors products. We can help choose sanity in the media.

[CrispyQ]

52. I wish you were right, but they said that about W, too.

If they found worse than W, they will find worse than the Con.

[Still In Wisconsin]

54. You're wrong. His poll numbers have been steadily CLIMBING since

he started this shit. Apparently Americans are A-OK with government sanctioned child abuse.

[tblue37]

55. I doubt it. We thought the Iraq War would do it, but nope. Then we thought the 2008

economic meltdown would do it, but nope.

Don't underestimate either the perfidy of the GOP and their enablers or the sheer idiocy of people who keep voting for them.

[wonkwest]

56. We said that about W. Bush

And yet, here we are.

The country is partisan. Everything said against Trump is a Deep State Plot determined to undo an election.

I wish your OP were true, but I stopped clapping harder long ago. There is no Tinkerbell, and there is no end to any political party in this country in the foreseeable future.

[vi5]

57. Yeah.....no....sorry.....

I've been on here long enough to have been hearing some variation on this since the Supremes installed Bush 2 in 2000, on through the Iraq war, the market crash, after Obama's landslide in 2008, after the ACA passed, after every single scandal for every single Republican.

The bigger problem is not that people on here believe this, it's that I feel like too many Democrats in actual leadership positions and positions of power who should know better actually believe this and are banking way too much on this idea as electoral strategy.

See also: "The emerging Democratic Majority idea"