Up from 518 presidential votes in 2012, the party against all things bad received 5,617 votes in 2016. For unknown reasons they are expecting 25,000+ in 2020.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
Up from 518 presidential votes in 2012, the party against all things bad received 5,617 votes in 2016. For unknown reasons they are expecting 25,000+ in 2020.
In March 2011, Brown came under scrutiny for a Senate floor speech in which he cited the names of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin while he criticized Republican efforts in Ohio and Wisconsin to mitigate the power of public employee unions to negotiate with taxpayers. In his speech he said "some of the worst governments that we've ever had, do you know one of the first things they did? They went after unions. Hitler didn't want unions, Stalin didn't want unions, Mubarak didn't want independent unions". In his speech, Brown said "I'm not comparing what's happened to the workers in Madison or in Columbus to Hitler and Stalin." He later apologized for his speech.
People keep wanting to believe that because someone is an American, then they must by definition be less evil than a Stalin or Hitler. They aren't. It is true that American politicians don't (as far as we know) have people killed en masse, but that's more to the credit of the system than to the individual.
I think I remember rstrong saying in 2014 or 15 that Hillary was a fake candidate meant to draw heat from the other Dems. Is that what's going on this time? I hope she isn't really thinking of running, even for her own sake.
I think I remember rstrong saying in 2014 or 15 that Hillary was a fake candidate meant to draw heat from the other Dems. Is that what's going on this time? I hope she isn't really thinking of running, even for her own sake.
Aintgonnahappen.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
A smart rich person with no political experience could do a good job if s/he really did surround him/herself with top advisors, appointed cabinet heads who actually knew something about what they're responsible for, and focused on being the "decider" and building coalitions in Congress. But it's not going to really happen because most of those guys have too much personal ego for that and - like Trump but probably not as bad - want to run everything themselves. Getting things done in politics is way different from getting things done in a corporation but it's a trainable skill. The guy who sees himself as "self-made" or "runs his own show" or whatever isn't usually trainable.
Unfortunately, Trump has set the bar so low there that anybody without more than two convictions for molestation will look good. Well, OK, maybe only one child rape conviction could get you tossed. But I think the lines on corruption have been blurred significantly and will take a long time - if ever - to return to what we might consider an acceptable standard. They're making a film about Gary Hart - brought down by a "scandal" that today probably wouldn't even cost him more than a few thousand votes, and that was likely a set-up. We've got members of Congress under indictment still winning. We've got the Roy Moores staying in the race and almost winning. We've got acknowledged and concerted efforts to suppress voting. People keep comparing Trump's shenanigans to Watergate. As if. Nixon's dirty tricksters couldn't even get a job with Trump, and current standards aren't going to go away quickly.
Agreed, as I've said often. But of course surviving politics in qualifying positions doesn't always turn out so well, either if the guy's a crook.
Agreed, the skills you listed are necessary, but not sufficient, and ethical behavior is a red line for me.
Well, if ethical behavior is a red line for you, that must mean that unethical behavior is what you're more comfortable with. I myself happened to stumble across a significant pile of "dark money" recently but the goddamn stuff was so dark you couldn't even read the denominations so I just left it there.
"Yes, if we don't get what we want one way or the other, whether through you, the military, through anything you want to call it, I'll shut down the government, I am proud, I am proud to shut down the government"
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”