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LiberalLovinLug

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3. Yup, that is the sad reality
Tue May 23, 2017, 03:12 PM
May 2017

Especially if the Dems cannot win over the House in 2018 which would be difficult to say the least. The only difference between a Trump presidency and a Pence, or Ryan, or whatever GOP fool ends up in the WH, is we won't be subjected to daily disasters. They will instead quietly go on with their work of dissembling first Obama's accomplishments, and then instituting their own budgets which usually are only about taking from the treasury to give to themselves and their donors and friends, stealing from safety net funds and anything that makes life easier for people in the 99%, and bankrupting the country.

They know that once they've laid the country to waste, the Democrats might win but they will be stuck with cleaning up their mess again and thus won't be able to fund their own campaign promises to help the 99%. So then they will be lambasted for the terrible economy that Republicans fomented. Rinse and repeat.

But yeah, it sucks that they will be able to do basically whatever they want, Trump or no Trump, for 45 months. They allowed Trump to use whatever means he wanted to win, no matter how treasonous, so they could ride his coat tails. That is all they really wanted. Now they have the majority on the SCOTUS and Citizens United is here to stay. Russian oligarchs can secretly now fund someone else next time.

Political parties are like boats. dchill May 2017 #1
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Yup, that is the sad reality LiberalLovinLug May 2017 #3
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