US Politics Thread

[domalino]

 

[Bigga]

Hey everyone,

Remember when Bernie Sanders campaigned on a Muslim ban? That was fun.

Remember how the crowds at Sanders rallies used to chant about locking up Hillary Clinton and building a border wall.

Remember when Sanders campaigned on forcibly removing all illegal immigrants in the country?

You live in a fucking fantasy.

Trump campaigned on repealing Obamacare and going back to pre-2012. Sanders campaigned on Nationalised Healthcare for everyone. They are literally the polar opposite policies.

Sanders didn't campaign on jobs going overseas because he's not a fucking moron and knew the number of jobs in the USA had grown every single year under Obama.

Trumps 2017 tax bill cut corporation tax from 35 to 21%. Literally the opposite of what Sanders wanted. He dropped the top tax rate from 40% to 37% when Sanders wanted it to be 52%.

In fact Sanders hated Trumps tax bill so much he keeps introducing legislature to reverse it!

Bernie Sanders unveils plan to raise corporate tax rate to 35% and ban stock buybacks

Sanders, who is recovering from a heart attack, reveals the new tax plan a day before the third Democratic debate.

www.cnbc.com

No one, and I mean this, no one is dumber than the fucking morons who voted for Trump because Sanders lost the Democratic primary.

You're a dummy.

I didn't say Sanders campaigned on the Muslim bans and whatever. He campaigned on healthcare, jobs going overseas, wages and homes. Trump also campaigned using this strategy as well as the other things you've mentioned.

Voters 'crossed the aisle' because Trump WAS NOT A POLITICIAN that they grew to distrust from the years of evidence beforehand.

There weren't MORE GOP voters coming out to vote. The swing was in the disenfranchised poor and independants giving him a chance.

I can't understand why you don't see why Trump got in.

You are drowning in the Kool Aid.

 

[Bigga]

Did he have any intention of actually doing anything he promised... I mean besides building a wall and Muslim bans?

Oh he didn't, so it is pointless comparing an independent political activist with a drug-addicted illiterate man-child.

You miss the point.

A con man makes his sales through hope. Trump offered hope that he understood the disenfranchised voter, not the truth.

 

[Bigga]

No, but this is really important. THEY NEVER SHARED ANY POLICIES.

Bernie Sanders fucking despises Trump and damn near all of his policy pledges, kept or unkept.

If Trump campaigned on similar policies to Sanders and broke his word, you could forgive people who thought they were closer to each other than the mainstream democrats. The truth, however, is they never shared any similarities and people who jumped from Sanders to Trump did it out of childish spite because their guy lost, and in doing so they made their own lives and so many others much worse.

Because they are idiots.

You're missing the point, but luckily I've already explained it.

The similarities were in the voter seeking hope. You dismiss that out of hand because you 'know better'. It had nothing to do similar policies and everything to do with the hopeful representative 'getting it'.

It's always why the Dems campaigned against Sanders as he would have taken them down a road they didn't want to go.

That should be pretty evident, right now!!

 

[domalino]

I'm probably going to make a fool of.myself by saying this, but i truly believe America is headed for civil war within the next 2/3 years.

They were on the brink in January. Got to rely on the cooler heads that prevail in that place and that is the coasts where people with sense go after jobs and make a life. The middle and south bits would have a civil war tomorrow and they can say what they like, this is the reaction to having had a black president

 

[Vic]

None of these people had their homes raided.

Mark Meadows, GW Bush, Condoleeza Rica, Colin Powell, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Jeb Bush, WIS governor Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal.

So yeah, there's your consistency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/21/their-emails-seven-members-trumps-team-have-used-unofficial-communications-tools/

But Their Emails: Republicans React to Their Own Email Scandal

Now that fellow Republicans – and not Hillary Clinton – are in the hot seat, many in the GOP are whistling a different tune.

www.rollingstone.com

Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has seized on findings that Rice and Powell were sent sensitive national security information to nongovernment email addresses

www.theguardian.com

The Republicans who did 'exactly what Hillary did'

Hypocrisy matters.

www.msnbc.com

Why do you always have to act the clown?

He's got a reputation to keep up.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Liars gotta lie, cheaters gotta cheat, grifters gotta grift.

It’s all he knows, and his father taught it to him. His father was a known racist slum lord in NYC, and the turd didn’t fall far from the arse!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

You miss the point.

A con man makes his sales through hope. Trump offered hope that he understood the disenfranchised voter, not the truth.

I thought he was selling hate not hope.

If I chuck down a rope will you pass up the shovel?

 

[Bigga]

I thought he was selling hate not hope.

If I chuck down a rope will you pass up the shovel?

Do you believe just selling hate got him into the white house?

Serious question.

Remember, you would have to factor in all the poor that voted, the Black and Latino voter, women and the poorly educated.

 

[55yr old teenager]

It's this sort of rhetoric that is dangerous. The GOP should condem it but they won't because they don't want to loose their base. This short term thinking is also dangerous. Nobody seems to be thinking about the damage all this rhetoric can do in the long term until its too late. I hope I am wrong because the consequences don't bear thinking about, not just for America.