Trump's Appointments

[Elixir]

I keep wondering if they'll shut down the whole section at the Department of Commerce that put out all the economic data. Inflation, Unemployment, GDP, and a million other crucial metrics. If there is no data then they can claim everything is wonderful.

They’ve been doing that unabashedly even in the face of contradictory facts. They’ll keep doing it regardless of facts, and the MAGAt faithful will continue to take it all as gospel.

Of course it means the economy would be flying blind

So what? If the faithful feel any pain it’s Obama or Biden or Greta Thunberg’s fault. Everything is great.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Patooka]

RFK jnr is joining up with Scientology? Gotta be honest, that wasn't on my bingo sheet.

 

[ZiprHead]

RFK jnr is joining up with Scientology? Gotta be honest, that wasn't on my bingo sheet.

He's been there for a while.

 

[Patooka]

RFK jnr is joining up with Scientology? Gotta be honest, that wasn't on my bingo sheet.

He's been there for a while.

Wow. Thought he was old school Catholic.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Morons Are Governing America.

 

[barbos]

Morons Are Governing America.

Have been for a very long time.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Morons Are Governing America.

Have been for a very long time.

Wait a tick...you work for our government?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Morons Are Governing America.

Have been for a very long time.

Generally been on and off. Generally the dumbness is when the GOP is in charge. Like literally every time since 1981, except four years under HW Bush. Reagan, W, Trump.

Clinton and Obama were not idiots. But Clinton moved the party to the center and he signed off on the GOP originated Gramm deregulation of the derivatives market, which umm.... didn't end well. And now we have the Crypto shit which Trump has the power to possible fuck things up royally by having the Government invest in ridiculously volatile Bitcoin. But otherwise, Clinton and Obama were smart, their issues was an inability to working with a highly hostile GOP, which really got going under Gingrich.

 

[KCFlyer]

Clinton and Obama were smart, their issues was an inability to working with a highly hostile GOP, which really got going under Gingrich.

WHen the history of the fall of America is written..it will begin with Gingrich.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Clinton and Obama were smart, their issues was an inability to working with a highly hostile GOP, which really got going under Gingrich.

WHen the history of the fall of America is written..it will begin with Gingrich.

Not Ronald “the government is the problem” Reagan?

 

[KCFlyer]

Clinton and Obama were smart, their issues was an inability to working with a highly hostile GOP, which really got going under Gingrich.

WHen the history of the fall of America is written..it will begin with Gingrich.

Not Ronald “the government is the problem” Reagan?

Okay....I forgot Gorby's speech "Mr Reagan....tear down this country"

 

[Elixir]

Clinton and Obama were smart, their issues was an inability to working with a highly hostile GOP, which really got going under Gingrich.

WHen the history of the fall of America is written..it will begin with Gingrich.

Not Ronald “the government is the problem” Reagan?

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Citizens United. So he gets "the blame" in my book.
Repugs saw a black man in the oval office and concocted a scheme to make sure it would never happen again.
Since that day it has been oligarchs and rubles all the way down.

 

[barbos]

Clinton and Obama were not idiots.

Only two? the rest of the people were idiots?
I like Obama, but he had a lot of hope bu in the end he choose to kick the can.
And he did shitty and stupid things.

 

[TomC]

Clinton and Obama were smart, their issues was an inability to working with a highly hostile GOP, which really got going under Gingrich.

WHen the history of the fall of America is written..it will begin with Gingrich.

Not Ronald “the government is the problem” Reagan?

Correct.
Gingrich was the spear head on ending centrist Democratic government.
Took the GOP a few years to create such a disaster that Obama took office and the Teaparty obstructionists could take over the government.
But yeah, Gingrich launched the fascist takeover of the US.
Tom

 

[KCFlyer]

Gingrich launched the fascist takeover of the US

Didn't the term RINO start under Gingrich?

 

[crazyfingers]

Yup. The beginning of America's Fascist Era began with Gingrich.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Clinton and Obama were smart, their issues was an inability to working with a highly hostile GOP, which really got going under Gingrich.

WHen the history of the fall of America is written..it will begin with Gingrich.

Not Ronald “the government is the problem” Reagan?

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Citizens United. So he gets "the blame" in my book.
Repugs saw a black man in the oval office and concocted a scheme to make sure it would never happen again.
Since that day it has been oligarchs and rubles all the way down.

It goes back to Rehnquist and the GOP radicalizing the Supreme Court. Kennedy and O'Connor was stalwart conservatives, but had liberal vibes on rights. Now it is stalwart far right conservatives that really don't care about 21st Century Civil Rights.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Simply decree it a human failing, send them to a concentration camp to "learn" they "don't" need them. It will work fine because so what if the lazy starve? You just don't count them because they did it to themselves. They must have done it to themselves because there couldn't have been a real problem! (And, for the record: if I die of anything resembling anorexia nervosa it's not true.)

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Clinton and Obama were smart, their issues was an inability to working with a highly hostile GOP, which really got going under Gingrich.

WHen the history of the fall of America is written..it will begin with Gingrich.

Not Ronald “the government is the problem” Reagan?

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Citizens United. So he gets "the blame" in my book.
Repugs saw a black man in the oval office and concocted a scheme to make sure it would never happen again.
Since that day it has been oligarchs and rubles all the way down.

Disagree. Citizens United is simply a recognition of free speech. This is something that has to be addressed by a constitutional amendment, not a court ruling.