At what point in Donald Trump's inaugural address do you figure the GOP establishment will finally will grasp what's been happening?
The establishment -- not "elites," because they're mostly bland functionaries who went to third-rate schools -- have thrown absolutely everything they have at Trump. I've never seen so many Republicans featured on MSNBC.
At least no one will be able to say the Republican National Committee didn't give it the old college try (and, again, that would be third-rate colleges).
Trump is a runaway hit with Americans for the simple reason that he's the only candidate saying anything Americans care about.
After the San Bernardino terrorist attack, committed by Muslim immigrants -- which followed the 1993 World Trade Center terrorist attack committed by Muslim immigrants; the 9/11 terrorist attacks committed by Muslim immigrants; the Fort Hood terrorist attack committed by a Muslim immigrant; the Boston Marathon terrorist attack committed by Muslim immigrants, and on and on -- Trump suggested a temporary pause on Muslim immigration.
The other candidates responded by attacking him viciously. Now, the eunuchs are duking it out over who has the most aggressive approach to ... fighting ISIS!
Asked why he called Trump's proposal "unhinged," Jeb! explained: "Well, first of all, we need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate."
Marco Rubio said: "The problem is we had an attack in San Bernardino," adding that "what's important to do is we must deal frontally with this threat of radical Islamists, especially from ISIS."
Ted Cruz said: "We need a president who understands the first obligation of the commander in chief is to keep America safe. If I am elected president ... we will utterly destroy ISIS."
Why are Republicans talking about starting a war in Syria to stop Muslim immigrants from killing Americans in America? Is it our job to straighten out Syria? Can't our government just stop bringing the terrorists here? If Rubio thinks he knows how to govern Syria, he's free to run for president there. (Except he'd have to stop talking about his dad the bartender because Muslims don't drink.)
Republicans love pointing out that all the gun restrictions proposed by Democrats after every mass shooting would have done absolutely nothing to stop that particular mass shooting.
But the GOP's demand that we take out ISIS would also have done nothing to prevent the San Bernardino attack. As we know from Jim Comey, the director of the FBI: Syed Farouk and Tashfeen Malik were planning a terrorist attack against Americans before ISIS existed.
It's as if there's a law of toughness conservation: The weaker a candidate is on protecting our borders, the more aggressively he talks about bombing foreign countries, a move known as "the Lindsey Graham."
The GOP's conservation of toughness has led them to such virile positions on Syria that even our feckless commander in chief is able to checkmate them.
Obama has said: "Let's assume that we were to send 50,000 troops into Syria. What happens when there's a terrorist attack generated from Yemen? Do we then send more troops into there? Or Libya perhaps? Or if there's a terrorist network that's operating anywhere else in North Africa or in Southeast Asia?"
Good grief! This GOP machismo on ISIS has resulted in Obama actually making sense.
Here's an idea: We let backward, poverty-stricken, misogynistic, clitorectomy-performing Third Worlders scratch out a living in their medieval hellholes, and just keep them out of our country. Also known as: the Trump Plan.
Except the fun parts when Trump was speaking, the candidates talked about almost nothing else at the debate but carpet-bombing the Middle East, taking out this leader or that group, sending American forces to train Sunni Arabs, touting the Kurds, announcing their specific strategies for defeating ISIS, giving perfect little answers about our nuclear throw-weights and the "nuclear triad" and correctly identifying the "good guys" and "bad guys" -- all of whom live 7,000 miles away from us.
When do we get to talk about Americans?
Only Trump seems to care. Asked about dictators running the Middle East, Trump said:
"In my opinion, we've spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people that frankly, if they were there and if we could've spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of the other problems; our airports and all of the other problems we've had, we would've been a lot better off. I can tell you that right now ..."
The nice thing about having your own helicopter is you can see the terrain below. The rest of them keep bumping into one another, as if they're 9-year-olds trying to out-precocious one another on knowing unimportant military terminology and the pronunciation of foreign names.
As we learned from Spelling Bee champ Rubio, the "nuclear triad" refers to the fact that we have nukes on (1) the ground, (2) airplanes and (3) submarines.
Wow, isn't that fascinating? Having learned it, I now have to excise it from my brain, as Sherlock Holmes would, as useless knowledge.
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These debates have turned Republicans into self-parodies of wonkery over common sense. Without Trump in the debate, the entire audience would have been asleep in 30 minutes.
Rubio lectures Americans that "we need to understand who ISIS is." Rubio needs to understand what a border is.
At this point, the most important question facing the Republican Party is: When Trump's the only one with the poll numbers to make the main stage at the next debate, what should he do? Card tricks? Juggle? Sing "Danny Boy"?
This is not the first time Coulter voiced her support for female disenfranchisement. In 2007, Coulter said that “If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat [sic] president.” Coulter described this as a “pipe dream” and a “personal fantasy” of hers that women, especially the single women who “are voting so stupidly,” will finally be silenced.
- See more at: www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ann-coulter-women-should-not-have-right-vote-they-can-still-write-books
She was on a local radio show last night talking about her being in the audience during the debate. She was hysterical.
I know right! Love to see her make liberals squirm and spit nails!
Anyone who uses logic and speaks truth makes liberals squirm and spit nails.
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have always liked coulter--she's articulate with a rapier wit--her humor borders on the acidic--self-deprecating and sarcastic she truly reminds me more of a brit or aussie than an american--much like my lady
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I don't get how women could be so happy that there is a woman out there that seriously wishes women didn't have the right to vote. And she didn't say it as a joke. She truly means that we need to go backward to a time when women had no say.
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
There are a lot of people who shouldn't have the right to vote.
I think it should be required to pass a test on how the government works before being able to vote.
That and actually owning property.
And you should have to provide proof of ID before entering the voting facility.
Just to name a few things.
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I don't get how women could be so happy that there is a woman out there that seriously wishes women didn't have the right to vote. And she didn't say it as a joke. She truly means that we need to go backward to a time when women had no say.
No she doesnt. Shes talking about stupid women...and there are a lot. This particular discussion was about women. Shes said the same about anyone else thats stupid...
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There are a lot of people who shouldn't have the right to vote.
I think it should be required to pass a test on how the government works before being able to vote.
That and actually owning property.
And you should have to provide proof of ID before entering the voting facility.
Just to name a few things.
You do know that was specifically NOT made a requirement to vote in this country, right?
Really? Owning property makes you smarter and better than someone else how?
And no, she was saying ALL women shouldn't vote. She even said she shouldn't vote.
I cannot believe the ignorance...
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
There are a lot of people who shouldn't have the right to vote.
I think it should be required to pass a test on how the government works before being able to vote.
That and actually owning property.
And you should have to provide proof of ID before entering the voting facility.
Just to name a few things.
You do know that was specifically NOT made a requirement to vote in this country, right?
Yes, let's go back to 1700 when non land owners were not allowed to vote. Also, if we're following those rules women were still considered property that could be bought and sold at the time. Gee, I know someone who bitches, gripes, and moans about this all the time.
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
I dont think you should be able to vote if you are on certain government programs either.
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I dont think you should be able to vote if you are on certain government programs either.
Well then. I guess you'd lose YOUR vote.
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
Welfare. Food stamps, medicaid, housing = no vote.
But unemployment, Social Security and disability = vote.
I think there is a difference in those.
These are just personal opinions.
But love the snarky swipes.
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I put disability in the same exact category as welfare. So I say no vote to that too. And I'm not being snarky. You're the one making up rules about who you think is "good enough" to vote and who isn't. I can do the same.
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
There are a lot of people who shouldn't have the right to vote.
I think it should be required to pass a test on how the government works before being able to vote.
That and actually owning property.
And you should have to provide proof of ID before entering the voting facility.
Just to name a few things.
Wow! Just ...wow!
So, it seems you're OK with only MEN, WEALTHY enough to own property, being allowed to vote.
Unbelievable. Full steam ahead into the 18th century!
Nicely done!
Just so we can go all the way back let's make that rich white men!
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
Does anyone have some scissors? We could just cut up our Constitution now.
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
There are a lot of people who shouldn't have the right to vote.
I think it should be required to pass a test on how the government works before being able to vote.
That and actually owning property.
And you should have to provide proof of ID before entering the voting facility.
Just to name a few things.
- lilyofcourse
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I agree with that list except the "own property" one. What about people that rent? As long as they pay their rent by going to work and being responsible people, why shouldn't their vote count?
I would say instead of "own property", have the requirement be "not be on any form of government assistance". Make welfare an instant disqualifier.
I put disability in the same exact category as welfare. So I say no vote to that too. And I'm not being snarky. You're the one making up rules about who you think is "good enough" to vote and who isn't. I can do the same.
I would, too.
A democracy will end when people discover that they can just vote themselves money. That's pretty much where we are at.
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I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.
Well, I could agree with you--but then we'd both be wrong.
Well, if we are cutting out people who shouldn't vote. How about anyone that hasn't graduated high school. Hell, gotten a college degree. And they had to do it with honors. Oh, and they have to have at least a cousin, let's say to the third degree, that is a direct descendant of a founding father.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
I also think anyone who has gotten in trouble with the law. Even if you weren't convicted. It shows how irresponsible you are.
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
Well, if we are cutting out people who shouldn't vote. How about anyone that hasn't graduated high school. Hell, gotten a college degree. And they had to do it with honors. Oh, and they have to have at least a cousin, let's say to the third degree, that is a direct descendant of a founding father.
Add in those that don't pay taxes. I don't think they deserve a vote. They vote stupid.
Not just any college degree, though. Some of those are given out like candy.
That's true. We need to narrow down that field.
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou