The Republican Reckoning: A Post-Trump Civil War Looms if He Loses

[HappyExpat57]

The Republican party needs to be burned to the ground. They have lost all sense of patriotism and implement party over policy.

[Chomper Higgot]

20 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

The Republican party needs to be burned to the ground. They have lost all sense of patriotism and implement party over policy.

It’s a familiar pattern on the politic right.

[Stargeezr]

Maybe the Republican dinosaur could retire like Biden did, that would be a better

solution to the American problem. No more dinosaurs allowed to be president.

  Too bad there was not a 34d choice in political parties in the USA. Too complicated perhaps.

[thaibeachlovers]

23 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Women make up the majority of the electorate, and both Trump and Vance are pushing them away. They are hurtling towards a historic loss. And the world will celebrate that. 

Perhaps, and perhaps not. If she wins and the world finds out what she really is, I suspect there will be a lot of buyer remorse.

 

IMO she will do maximum damage for women's chances of high office in the future.

When casting votes in elections to come, everyone will remember her for her disastrous time as POTUS.

[thaibeachlovers]

20 hours ago, JCauto said:

 

Do you have a source that shows there were "worse bits" that were edited out? I didn't think so.

 

It's perfectly fine that you live in an alternative reality and I encourage you to continue to think that Kamala is a barely functioning human and DJT is going to bluster his way to victory somehow despite alienating pretty much anyone whose votes he requires. He's just grifting the GOP anyway and will bring the House and Senate down with him. This could queer Republican politics for a generation; I may well have to alter my opinion of the man if he accomplishes the destruction of the Right.

I'm puzzled by that. We know what Trump did the last time he was actually POTUS, and he had no indication that he was anything like you imagine.

Unlike Harris that no one knows really. All we have is her time as VP when she achieved zero, that's right, she achieved nothing, IMO. The invisible VP.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

Maybe the Republican dinosaur could retire like Biden did, that would be a better

solution to the American problem. No more dinosaurs allowed to be president.

  Too bad there was not a 34d choice in political parties in the USA. Too complicated perhaps.

Oh, you'd love that, wouldn't you. Plain sailing for your heroine thereafter, given there is no prepped GOP alternative.

IMO the only reason she is getting the positive response is because she is neither Trump nor Biden. She has no history to suggest she will be a good POTUS.

[mfd101]

6 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO the only reason she is getting the positive response is because she is neither Trump nor Biden

That may well be the case. Do you have a sensible/rational alternative?

[thaibeachlovers]

2 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

That may well be the case. Do you have a sensible/rational alternative?

As in.......................?

 

If you mean as in an alternative candidate, I doubt such exists in US politics at federal level. JFK was pretty close and they assassinated him.

All that there is now, IMO, are people you would not want to be friends with.

 

I'm not alone in thinking US politics is broken, and like Humpty it isn't going to be put back together again.

 

How did Biden do at uniting the US, hahahaha.

[metisdead]

An off topic post trolling about another member has been removed.

[herfiehandbag]

21 hours ago, mdr224 said:

Articles posted here about American politics shouldnt be from UK media. Its a joke

Perhaps, but there again they are usually punctuated, and know about apostrophes!

[Chomper Higgot]

59 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Perhaps, and perhaps not. If she wins and the world finds out what she really is, I suspect there will be a lot of buyer remorse.

 

IMO she will do maximum damage for women's chances of high office in the future.

When casting votes in elections to come, everyone will remember her for her disastrous time as POTUS.

This being the disastrous time as POTUS you imagine in order to prop up your circular logic. 

[300sd]

19 hours ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Except illegals are ineligible for benefits, just like they are ineligible to vote. The biggest consumers of public benefits are still poor white southerners. 

Yes you're right about that. Apparently there is some funding for illegal women and children including some emergency health care. The problem I see is: how do these mainly male illegals, who have been streaming into the US over the last 4 yrs survive without any funding or legal work etc.? What happens to them after the election? Law and order could become a problem if it isn't already.

[Tug]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I'm puzzled by that. We know what Trump did the last time he was actually POTUS, and he had no indication that he was anything like you imagine.

Unlike Harris that no one knows really. All we have is her time as VP when she achieved zero, that's right, she achieved nothing, IMO. The invisible VP.

I don’t know were you were when trump was POTUS I certainly remember each and every long day scandal after scandal the incompetence (that cost thousands of lives during Covid.the shameless groveling to putin the N Korea comedy/ horror show the largest drop in the stockmarket in history the jobs lost the markets ruined by his ill advised policies the grift and corruption yup I remember.as for Harris she came from a single parent household rode the buss to school flipped burgers to get through school rose to the top of her profession…..senator……VP…….now the dem nominee for president…..then there’s trump the trust fund baby ………

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, 300sd said:

Yes you're right about that. Apparently there is some funding for illegal women and children including some emergency health care. The problem I see is: how do these mainly male illegals, who have been streaming into the US over the last 4 yrs survive without any funding or legal work etc.? What happens to them after the election? Law and order could become a problem if it isn't already.

They survive by doing other folks yard work, working in agriculture, food processing, the hard dirty low paid jobs that Americans don’t want to do and that provide cheap foods, goods and services to Americans.

 

Get up early if a morning and look around any town in America, you’ll see them on their way to work or waiting to be picked up for day labor jobs.

 

 

 

 

[maesariang]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

As in.......................?

 

If you mean as in an alternative candidate, I doubt such exists in US politics at federal level. JFK was pretty close and they assassinated him.

All that there is now, IMO, are people you would not want to be friends with.

 

I'm not alone in thinking US politics is broken, and like Humpty it isn't going to be put back together again.

 

How did Biden do at uniting the US, hahahaha.

Harris looks so unsure of herself. She got into position by default.

[cjinchiangrai]

1 hour ago, 300sd said:

Yes you're right about that. Apparently there is some funding for illegal women and children including some emergency health care. The problem I see is: how do these mainly male illegals, who have been streaming into the US over the last 4 yrs survive without any funding or legal work etc.? What happens to them after the election? Law and order could become a problem if it isn't already.

Most are working illegally in agriculture and meat processing. The owners never seem to be charged though.

[JCauto]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I'm puzzled by that. We know what Trump did the last time he was actually POTUS, and he had no indication that he was anything like you imagine.

Unlike Harris that no one knows really. All we have is her time as VP when she achieved zero, that's right, she achieved nothing, IMO. The invisible VP.

 

Yes, we know what he was like - incompetent, mercurial, bombastic. He made bad policy and caused the deaths of over 500,000 Americans through his COVID-19 misinformation and helter-skelter mismanagement. He likely compromised the entire US intelligence network with his carelessness with classified information. 

 

I think you're aware that the work of the Vice-President is to be behind the scenes and "in waiting" in the case of something happening to the President. Although one can never be too sure with you. Can you name any of Mike Pence's accomplishments during his time as VP other than not caving into the pressure to not certify the election results? 

[cjinchiangrai]

8 hours ago, Stargeezr said:

Maybe the Republican dinosaur could retire like Biden did, that would be a better

solution to the American problem. No more dinosaurs allowed to be president.

  Too bad there was not a 34d choice in political parties in the USA. Too complicated perhaps.

And run Vance as a solo? Works for me.

[Trippy]

Whatever happens, I'm glad I'll be 8800 miles away and watching it on tv.

[JCauto]

31 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

And run Vance as a solo? Works for me.

 

Ooh! Me too! I've seldom seen a less likable politician. He'd lose in the largest landslide in electoral history.

[maesariang]

7 minutes ago, JCauto said:

 

Ooh! Me too! I've seldom seen a less likable politician. He'd lose in the largest landslide in electoral history.

You like Walz? A total coward and liar. 

[Digitalbanana]

On 8/31/2024 at 9:10 AM, JonnyF said:

Desperate stuff from the left. 

 

Talking about threats to democracy while pushing a nominee that avoided the democratic process to become the nominee.

 

This seems more desperate clutching at straws from you. As you clearly know political parties in the United States are not required to select their nominees through a democratic process.  While it's true that Kamala Harris did not become the Democratic nominee through a traditional democratic process, she was appointed by Biden as VP and was selected at the DNC as Presidential candidate when Biden pulled out, that fact alone is not a valid reason to dismiss her as a candidate or avoid supporting her. In fact, many would argue that the process by which Harris became the Democratic nominee is not particularly relevant to her qualifications or fitness for office. What matters most is her policy positions, experience, and ability to lead the country effectively. Ultimately, voters should make their decisions based on the candidates' platforms, values, and character, rather than the process by which they were nominated.

[gamb00ler]

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

How did Biden do at uniting the US, hahahaha.

There seems to be close to ½ the US voters that have been insisting on zero compromise for decades.  Nasty Newt started that trend.

 

[JCauto]

28 minutes ago, maesariang said:

You like Walz? A total coward and liar. 

 

Absolutely! He's personable and very Midwestern, you know, like the average American voter. 

 

And a coward? Tell us about your service to your country. And I'm pretty sure you'd be lying if you did, because among actual military people there's a code about attacking other fellow soldiers. He served in the National Guard for 24 years. That's why he doesn't disparage JD Vance even though he was writing press releases in a Quonset hut rather than on the front lines. 

 

As to the actual presidential candidate you favor, perhaps this passage from the classic Hemingway novel  "The Old Man and the Sea" would inspire some reflection:

"But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel."

 

 

[maesariang]

1 minute ago, JCauto said:

 

Absolutely! He's personable and very Midwestern, you know, like the average American voter. 

 

And a coward? Tell us about your service to your country. And I'm pretty sure you'd be lying if you did, because among actual military people there's a code about attacking other fellow soldiers. He served in the National Guard for 24 years. That's why he doesn't disparage JD Vance even though he was writing press releases in a Quonset hut rather than on the front lines. 

 

As to the actual presidential candidate you favor, perhaps this passage from the classic Hemingway novel  "The Old Man and the Sea" would inspire some reflection:

"But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel."

 

 

He's a weak man. Let a city burn for 3 days. 

[cjinchiangrai]

1 hour ago, maesariang said:

You like Walz? A total coward and liar. 

You like Putin? A murder and despot.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, JCauto said:

 

Yes, we know what he was like - incompetent, mercurial, bombastic. He made bad policy and caused the deaths of over 500,000 Americans through his COVID-19 misinformation and helter-skelter mismanagement. He likely compromised the entire US intelligence network with his carelessness with classified information. 

 

I think you're aware that the work of the Vice-President is to be behind the scenes and "in waiting" in the case of something happening to the President. Although one can never be too sure with you. Can you name any of Mike Pence's accomplishments during his time as VP other than not caving into the pressure to not certify the election results? 

Far as I know Pence was never asked to sort the illegal immigration, or anything else, so he has an excuse. Harris was asked to do something and failed at it.

 

Next.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, JCauto said:

Tell us about your service to your country. And I'm pretty sure you'd be lying if you did, because among actual military people there's a code about attacking other fellow soldiers. He served in the National Guard for 24 years.

Seems he and I served for about the same length of time. I was in regulars for over 10 years and the rest in Territorials ( equivalent to National Guard ). So I have nothing to be ashamed of. Like him I never served on active service, but that was because the war stopped before I got there, not because I resigned before I could get sent.

 

Do tell about this "code"? You make it sound like a secret brotherhood or something, LOL. Can't say I ever noticed anything like that. But then no one ever came up to me in the street to thank me for my service either. Perhaps it's different in the States.

I met many US navy personnel in Antarctica, and most were stand up guys. I liked them a lot. They certainly knew how to party.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, JCauto said:

As to the actual presidential candidate you favor, perhaps this passage from the classic Hemingway novel  "The Old Man and the Sea" would inspire some reflection:

"But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel."

LOL. You attack Trump for opting out like thousands of fellow Americans did, but make no mention of Biden that also opted out of an unpopular war being run by a man that IMO should not have been running a stray dog shelter.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

On 8/31/2024 at 7:15 AM, thesetat2013 said:

This article reeks of biased opinions without anything factual to support it. 

 

That might be what you get, sometimes, when the article in question is an OPINION article!