Also, Mike Huckabee is attempting to spin the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, which restricts government conduct in criminal cases, as an anti-abortion argument. WAT?!
Well you see fetuses are all just entitled freeloader criminals, and abortion is their punishment but because of due process they have to actually be born so they can stand for trial. Pleading the fifth is really their only option because they can't actually talk, and their were witnesses to everything they did so it rarely works. Since you can't abort a baby that's been born, they're sent to gay baby jail which was created by the Republicans in 1987. Its part of the birth-to-prison pipeline, which in this case is a literally pipeline consisting of a modified vacuum mailing tube with a crib at the end.
Are Fox News and Co. hyping up Carly Fiorina so she will be an attractive candidate for vice presidency or some other cabinet position, or for some other reason? She is still far out as an actual candidate but she seems to get a lot of love from outlets.
"We're not sexist! One of the viable candidates for the Republican nomination is a woman!"
Its part of the birth-to-prison pipeline, which in this case is a literally pipeline consisting of a modified vacuum mailing tube with a crib at the end.
I literally could post everything Trump, Carson, Fiorina, or anyone else in the clown car has said at this point. The fact checking groups are working overtime to keep up with all the nonsense.
This is the new nationalism, and it's incredibly stupid. The Nazis were vile, disgusting people but at least they had half a brain. The GOP and their base are just crazed idiots. All of them. Underinformed, undereducated, mentally ill, and so on. Not a rational one in the bunch. Decades of unchecked propaganda and media consolidation can make an absurd mess out of a megaculture, as it turns out.
I don't think Trump is actually converting anyone to his hatred. I think he is giving a loud public voice to hatred that has been in American culture for decades. He's only got the support of six or seven percent of the overall electorate. %90 of people think he's off the rails. By making himself as prominent as he is, he is exposing a community of hatred and bringing it to the attention of the comparatively moderate masses who will condemn the bile for what it is. These masses will become more adamantly anti-hate as they are forced to confront that which is present in such abundance by Trump supporters. In a weird way, Trump could be doing a great service to Muslim America by summoning these masses to protect them from him.
EDIT: And because I'm Greg, I'm just going to point out that this happened once before, under Jackson. Whigs united to protect Cherokees, Chictows, Seminoles, etc. because Jackson wanted it done. Even open white supremacists like Henry Clay voted in opposition of the Indian Removal Act to stop Jackson from gaining any ground.
Can Herman Cain run again? He was nuts, but he was at least jolly and silly. Didn't seem to take himself too seriously. I would enjoy a candidate like that to make up for the sea of hatred that is the current political landscape.
I wonder if after THIS election the Republican party will finally either split apart or do some serious "looking in the mirror." They supposedly did that after 2012 with the whole "autopsy" thing, but we all know how that turned out.
The problem for the GOP is that they are a nonviable party if the coalition breaks. They have:
1. Poor and middle class whites who are at least moderately racist/xenophobic 2. Evangelicals 3. The very wealthy
Neither #2 or #3 is viable on its own: they don't have the numbers. #3 could possibly be courted by the Democrats with populist socialism if they could overcome the racism.
The core of the party is #2 and #3. If the party went more moderate on social issues, they'd lose #2. If they went more moderate on economic issues, they'd lose #3.
The problem for the GOP is that they are a nonviable party if the coalition breaks. They have:
1. Poor and middle class whites who are at least moderately racist/xenophobic 2. Evangelicals 3. The very wealthy
Neither #2 or #3 is viable on its own: they don't have the numbers. #3 could possibly be courted by the Democrats with populist socialism if they could overcome the racism.
The core of the party is #2 and #3. If the party went more moderate on social issues, they'd lose #2. If they went more moderate on economic issues, they'd lose #3.
I agree, I just don't think that the Republican party as it stands now is sustainable or capable of winning a presidential election.
Edited to add that as dysfunctional and as crazy as the Republican Party is, it's very depressing that in most state and local governments, it's still kicking the Democratic Party's ass.
Rural people tend to vote really conservatively on most issues, and tend to skew GOP regardless of much of their personal politics. They're also disproportionately represented in the Senate, and to a degree the house, nevermind every local district.
"I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed," -- Marco Rubio, 2015
"The change in public opinion and feeling in relation to the African race which has taken place since the adoption of the Constitution cannot change its construction and meaning, and it must be construed and administered now according to its true meaning and intention when it was formed and adopted." – Dred Scott Syllabus, 1857
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http://www.salon.com/2015/11/27/the_republican_party_is_now_americas_largest_hate_group/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
EDIT: And because I'm Greg, I'm just going to point out that this happened once before, under Jackson. Whigs united to protect Cherokees, Chictows, Seminoles, etc. because Jackson wanted it done. Even open white supremacists like Henry Clay voted in opposition of the Indian Removal Act to stop Jackson from gaining any ground.
Can Herman Cain run again? He was nuts, but he was at least jolly and silly. Didn't seem to take himself too seriously. I would enjoy a candidate like that to make up for the sea of hatred that is the current political landscape.
1. Poor and middle class whites who are at least moderately racist/xenophobic
2. Evangelicals
3. The very wealthy
Neither #2 or #3 is viable on its own: they don't have the numbers. #3 could possibly be courted by the Democrats with populist socialism if they could overcome the racism.
The core of the party is #2 and #3. If the party went more moderate on social issues, they'd lose #2. If they went more moderate on economic issues, they'd lose #3.
Edited to add that as dysfunctional and as crazy as the Republican Party is, it's very depressing that in most state and local governments, it's still kicking the Democratic Party's ass.
"I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed," -- Marco Rubio, 2015
"The change in public opinion and feeling in relation to the African race which has taken place since the adoption of the Constitution cannot change its construction and meaning, and it must be construed and administered now according to its true meaning and intention when it was formed and adopted." – Dred Scott Syllabus, 1857
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/us/outraged-by-kansas-justices-rulings-gop-seeks-to-reshape-court.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Fucking everything.
The United States is slowly but surely morphing into a third world country with nukes. It's turning into North Korea.