No, people will join because all those promised jobs will never materialize.
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Isn’t worth it.
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He’s on the shortlist.…
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Are we really going to be relying on Rand Paul to be the voice of sanity?
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Do we have to listen to any of these assholes?
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Everyone - write and call your Dem Senators and Dem congressman and Chuck Schumer and tell them no cooperation with the Trump Admin. Filibuster anything the Republicans attempt in Congress.
Hold hearings into Trump University and Trump’s fraudulent tax exemptions.
Please spread the word.
I need all the silver linings I can get right now.
Like how Trump is gunna kill the TPP!
…too bad he’ll probably replace it with something worse.
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Eh, Weigel is more just a twerp than an asshole.
Oh, you mean Rand Paul.
I’ve always been uncomfortable with the glee around here when republicans were imploding. I never understood that instead of trying to encourage the better Republican candidates on which there are at least a few areas of agreement instead it was all fuck those crazies. If people who care about civil liberties and are anti-forever-war are going to survive the next 4 years, we need to band together. I’ve always been baffled at the distaste for issue based coalitions, but I guess I chalk it up to our seeming natural preference for tribalism.
So go ahead and call Rand Paul an asshole, but I’m not sure that’s constructive when he’s the one you’re going to want to work with on the other side…
[quote]We don’t know yet whether the worst names being floated for a Trump cabinet will actually land there, but even if we’re spared the horrors of David Clarke at Homeland Security or John Bolton at State, it’s clear that Trump’s presidency will be terrible on a host of issues, particularly where police powers are concerned. And since the number of Americans who are consistent defenders of civil liberties is pretty small, obstructing or rolling back bad policies will require coalitions.
Some of this month’s born-again dissidents will learn their lesson and be more skeptical of the state even after Trump makes his exit; some will be back to cheerleading executive authority as soon as President Michael Bloomberg wants the right to call in drone strikes against black-market Big Gulp dealers. But as long as any of them are willing to stand against Trump when he tries to take new powers—or to abuse the powers his predecessors bequeathed him—I say welcome to the fight.
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I’m afraid I don’t know much about Weigel… But Rand is a grade A, mansplainin’, thinks “economic” freedom is more important than civil rights violations, dick. Just because he’s anti-war and anti-surveillance doesn’t me he’s on my side of things. He only cares about unchecked powers against white men, not the rest of us.
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Sounds like sound legal reasoning…
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No, fuck that. Tell them to oppose, without compromise, all the bullshit and hate Trumps administration tries but cooperate when one of the few nuggets of corn in the steaming turd of their policies turns up.
If they churn out something that will genuinely help people, or is fundamentally identical to something Democrats have put on the table already, don’t kill it because of who proposed it. That’s what they’ve been doing for the last 8 years, and we justifiably held them in contempt as screaming children.
Minimise all the harm that’s coming down the track, but never forget there has to be an adult in the room and grinding government to a halt will only makes things worse.
The only things that can’t be taken are our morals and ideals. Don’t fling them away in anger or disgust.
Show the fuckers what the loyal opposition should look like.
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No, but you are arrogantly dismissive when those who actually know attempt to update your inaccuracies.
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Such was not my intent. If it read that way then I communicated poorly. Mea culpa
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Is this the answer to that “might have been Russia, might have been some 400-pound guy on a mattress” mystery?
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I don’t know where else to post this:
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Springtime for Hitler is a surprisingly versatile song.
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