tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4142830888336656518..comments2024-03-28T19:41:59.726-05:00Comments on driftglass: The GOP's New Parachute Pantsdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-79715763340998744342017-02-17T01:34:17.668-06:002017-02-17T01:34:17.668-06:00You mean Oligarchy?
There is no end to the GOP. ...You mean Oligarchy?<br /><br /><br />There is no end to the GOP. They rebrand and market. They hold some big enough donors to keep their AM propaganda ging 24/7. <br />The likes of hew hewitt and Sykes on the MSNBC. I already know what they are going to ignore and excuse for party. Like I need them there live to tell me.<br /><br />What next, Alex Jones on the Pro Left Podcasts to add balance?Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72822620187159132752017-02-16T21:30:25.490-06:002017-02-16T21:30:25.490-06:00The optimist in me (and from my work internationa...The optimist in me (and from my work internationally) says that the utterly chaotic, cacophonous and destructive GOP worldview that has dominated US politics for the last 20 years (notwithstanding the Clinton and Obama administrations) is finally reaching its denouement with this orange monster and the GOP Congress cynics. Trump may, in fact, be the Big Disrupter that so changes things that it overcomes the voter suppression, gerrymandering and fake GOP news. Probably not. <br /><br />But sustained progressive change can only happen through base mobilization and sustained Democratic engagement, especially in the purple and red states and even in most blue states that don't come out for mid-terms. That requires a really aggressive DNC and local credible candidates. The Democratic Congressional leadership is tired and lacking credible dynamism (even more so the GOP but they're in power). So bottomline, the people have to continue to protest and make it clear that Trump and the GOP Congress are dedicated to systematically destroying the federal government. And that's a huge loss for all but the 0.01%.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-19204458219602900592017-02-16T19:02:51.404-06:002017-02-16T19:02:51.404-06:00Your confession of delving into the evils of predi...Your confession of delving into the evils of predicting and fortune telling. Doing it poorly as an intern could.<br />Your confession is heard and accepted.<br /><br />Now go forth and make no poor predictions (or sin) no more.<br /><br />But do not be so hard on yourself for unclear future predicting. Even well connected professionals like Nostradamus, found himself with incomprehensive glimpses of conservative outcomes that not only unable to put into words.<br /><br />Ot has it own funded force that greedily has to gorge itself on the blood of others. It is the self flogging cannibal with an eternal insatiable appetite.<br /><br /> Or Better put by an old Hollywood elite implanted in his art for all time put it.<br />"Henry Drummond: Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other."<br /><br />( the icing on the cake with)<br />"Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. "Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-16330799843906334612017-02-16T16:48:05.204-06:002017-02-16T16:48:05.204-06:00It is already getting very tough for those "e...It is already getting very tough for those "economically anxious working class" voters to look non-fellow tribe members like me in the eye after just 26 days ago, when they swore by their hearts of hearts, that Hillary lied too much; was too close to Wall Street; and a security risk with our foreign enemies. <br /><br />The best part is, as a whole, Trump and Republicans at the Federal level haven't even legislative done jack shit yet. I think every day the entire conservative movement in this country clutches their hands a little harder; shuts they eye a little tighter; and prays a little louder for Trump's Infrastructure Bill to save them. <br />trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21824220311246019032017-02-16T14:55:00.498-06:002017-02-16T14:55:00.498-06:00"...as often in our culture, it is far, far b..."...as often in our culture, it is far, far better to be wrong in a respectable way than to be right for the wrong reasons."<br /><br />John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Great Crash," 1954Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.com