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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

Sounds like a "Conservatism can only be failed" thriller.

I was hoping this was about the former ECU QB. I have his Bengals jersey somewhere.

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Should be in the shout out section.

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It sounds like the guy doesn't recognize the damage he himself has really done.

But is taking the traditional Paul family position of finger pointing like a government witness for profit and self aggrandizement

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Yeap, I have said it many times that today's Republicans are not Conservatives. They do not stand for fiscal balance, free trade, small government, etc. They hated Hillary enough to swallow their values and vote for Trump, but that was a deal with the devil.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

STEP 1: #notallmen
STEP 2: Keep destroying vast sections of the country and turning them into desolate wastelands of opioid/meth abuse
STEP 3: Let the Senate stall

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It wasn't just about republicans though.

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Pretty sure you are thinking about Akiki Smith.

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as bad as the left and right are, sometimes i think moderates (probably me) are even worse.

Why?

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weird take

This is what he's talking about.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-lawmaker ... itics.html

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I would probably kill for a moderate.

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too wishy washy. many moderates are easily swayed and will betray you at a moments notice. many moderates aren't moderate they are just apathetic. I'm not saying all moderates. I believe you can be moderate and principled and stick to those principals but i think the "moniker" has been taken over by easily swayed emotional beings who are more interested in "reaching out" to the other side than actually doing what they believe in. Its just too easy to be i don't like any party than to defend your beliefs that people run to the middle.

i didn't mean to make it an all encompassing broad generalization.

Yeah, anyone who says "both sides are bad, we should borrow the best parts from both!" has the intelligence of a golden retriever, which as far as animals go is, fittingly, moderate, but nothing I'd put any great deal of faith in.

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What's wrong with pragmatism? What world do we live where people believe that they should get 100% of what they want? Stomping your feet and demanding that you get your way isn't principled. It's just being a fucking brat. Making progress is what's important.

I blame idiot parents for making kids believe they should get whatever they want.

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Everyone on Earth claims to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative, and yet we have a bloated welfare state with out of control spending on all fronts and (some) archaic social policies.

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Quite frankly MANY (& I am excluding posters in this thread) took from the civil rights & abortion rights battles only that those were incremental little defeats that led them down a slippery slope down to a bigger L and have vowed to fight everything after that tooth and nail, no matter how hysterical it makes them appear.

Of course, the lesson learned also led to pushing conservatives into offices slowly and methodically at the grass roots levels, which has been an absolute success for the conservative movement.

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WYC? That was Trump's and Bernie's message in a nutshell and the vast majority believed it to be great for the country.

Couple that with the Independents and Libertarians and you will have one big smorgasbord of political idealism.

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Hmmm.

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Believing isn't receiving. Of course you should want the most you can get.

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That's not true. People aren't trying to get the best deal possible. I have no problem with that. Folks are saying no to 95% and claiming they're taking a principled stand. There is nothing principled about that.

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As compared to what, blindly following the Bernie Sanders agenda?

There is nothing wrong with thinking both sides have some solid points. I'll even admit that the Republicans in general have worse ideas mostly having to do with social issues that they still cling to for dumb but politically understandable reasons but I would NEVER want to live in a society where the ideas are all created by the liberal party.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Well, no, Republicans demanding everything and settling for nothing less is wrong. I take issue with how the Obama administration/congressional Dems negotiated against themselves, thinking it could be so pragmatic and reasonable on its own that Republicans would stand in awe of their pragmatism and compromise and agree to everything straight-up and not just, you know, call Obama the n-word and hide in a bunker.

I think Bernie had the right idea in asking for everything and taking what he could get.

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pragmatism to the extreme puts all solutions on equal footing. most extreme pragmatists i know have the attitude of "whatever works for you" but thats not always the best. science can't compete with extreme pragmatism.

Well yeah Obama negotiated like an idiot. I have no problem with him being willing to make a deal though.

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