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The state of the republican party

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by NewRoxFan, Feb 21, 2021.

  1. No Worries

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    Solomon Peña is hero to the SCWs. What is not to like about seeking a 2nd solution to your everyday problems?
     
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    If u can’t beat em, shoot em?

    That’s what we’re doing now?
     
  3. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    I never asked that, and having a heads up was a direct quote of another poster.
     
  4. Amiga

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    Trump did a horrible job setting up the exit from Afghanistan and Biden did as bad a job executing the last portion of it. Could have been done much more smoother and possibly (though unlikely) given the Afghan gov a slim chance of actually reaching a peace plan with the Taliban.

    The China tariffs are bad policy. It hurt Americans more than it hurt China. Lose-lose. Biden should have removed it to fight inflation. But China IS BAD politicization is too much to do the sensible thing. At least he's doing other things to be less dependent on China and other foreign powers. Should do more.

    The DEM base wants to cut to the military as a whole and shift that funding to domestic programs. That hasn't changed. Other than you, I don't know of anyone here saying they want SpaceX to fail.
     
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    Trump just expanded the tariffs from Obama and added some more.

    America has the best companies, who is too worried about politics and not enough about business? Elon Musk?
     
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    Did Russia invade a large European country from the 70s to 2010? No?

    Seems like in hindsight we should have been stronger against Putin….
     
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    The trump tariffs did not increase inflation and there's been non partisan studies that have studied this. The folks pushing for the reversal of tariffs were corporate neoliberals and neocons. NAFTA has ruined this country and trump was 100% to implement tariffs. His biggest mistake was he did not par the tariffs with domestic spending which biden has learned from. Biden has initiated the largest domestic industrial policy in decades. I don't think people have any idea the transformation that's happening in America in terms of green ev and chips onshoring.

    https://www.epi.org/blog/revoking-t...ly-chains-even-more-vulnerable-to-disruption/

    Also this bogus about Bagram airbase is a deep state talking point. Numerous officers have said that Bagram is a snipers valley heaven and they use to get shot at all the time. Here's a special forces commander who got shot ( https://apnews.com/article/e0fad54fa61080b9f24b81017114f5cc ). Baghram is 2 hours away and transporting people by helicopter was insane as ISIS had RPGs. The only way to do it was thru the airport.

    The pentagon and deepstate were pushing baghram so there could be a big disaster and then they would cancel the withdrawal and go back on the offense. What biden did to reject the entire deep state and pentagon is the greatest biden will ever do. The taliban have safe passage in Pakistan and they were never going be eliminated. Biden knew that and pulled the plug.

    The democratic base is not your hipster coffee moms or your white urban elites. This is what progressives don't understand. The base of the party are old African American voters who have saved democracy and helped democrats over and over. They are not for defunding the military. You're spewing bs
     
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    MTG who supported the undermining US elections is seated on the Homeland Security committee. She and Paul Gosar who also supported undermining US elections and tweeted violent threats against other members of Congress might be seated on the Oversight Committee. George Santos who's resume isn't fact based is seated on the Science committee.
     
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    At this point, the Republicans don't care about policy, they don't care about democracy, all they really care about is beating the Democrats.

    They use fear, bigotry, and a disdain of science and education to do that.

    It may not be every Republican, but it is those who hold power in the party, and the party hasn't done anything to change it.
     
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    Amiga 10 years ago...
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    This is what a corrupted Congress looks like.
     
  13. rocketsjudoka

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    We're seeing even here on Clutchfans why the Republican party has been taken over by extremists and grifters.
    As long as it's done in the name of fighting wokeness we don't care if that means political connections are being rewarded from state funds with no scrutiny. In the meantime you have others arguing that rather than have more financial transparency we shouldn't even be allowed to see the financial records of those running for high office.
     
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    Also the rampant racism and legalized segregation.
     
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    just another unhinged weirdo Republican

    spit probably flying in everybody’s food, and that breath probably smelled like 4 day old dog sh*t
     
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  19. VooDooPope

    VooDooPope Love > Hate
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    That dude needs to be on a watch list and that video "SHOULD" be enough to get any guns removed from his home.

    He sounds a good god loving father that would still love his son or daughter if they came out as gay or dated outside their own race.

    Someone needs to stop this guy before he hurts more than his vocal chords. What set him off the Mayo too spicy?
     
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    When asked what had got him so upset he said calmly, “ I left my guns at home”.
     

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