We need to start calling them White “Christians”- they’re not Christians. They are the reason I don’t identify as Christian.
They’d be the sorts who would follow the Antichrist happily and justify it.
They’re the Pharisees that Jesus cast out of the temple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woes_of_the_Pharisees#The_eight_woes
Jesus is describing the GOP.
Here’s a nice metric of just how incompetent the Trump Administration is, six months in.
This is one area where I think Trump’s Razor may not apply, and there’s some intentionality at play here. The Grande Republican Plan, aside from “murder the poor and the minorities and also the women” is “strangle government to death except the parts of it that let us do part 1.”
What’s the Obama stats for comparison though?
Nesrie
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Yeah fucking over the planet is about as Christian as owning slaves was. Christian is a broad stroke when applied in the academic sense and as mentioned above, there are Christians who spend a fair amount of energy trying to say the other Christians are not Christians.
Where’s that like button!
I do wonder if he just doesn’t intend to fill a ton of these posts.
Well, his chief advisor advocates the ‘deconstruction of the administrative state,’ so…
But this isn’t strangling government. Strangling government would mean appointing strong department heads with plans and the smarts to dismantle their own departments and then make sure they couldn’t be revived.
What this is doing is leaving hundreds of career bureaucrats in place (including a bunch of Obama hires) where they can subvert the Trump Administration from within. See yesterday’s story about how career State Department people got wind of Trump’s plan to lift Russia sanctions; they then used their DC experience to get Congress to stop it.
Even most of the few Trump appointments who have actually been hired can’t strangle government. A De Vos or a Perry is simply too stupid,. They can do a lot of damage, but they’re not going to actually dismantle their departments, because they don’t have the faintest clue of how to get started. It’s like thinking you’re going to tear down an entire office building with one sledgehammer and one stick of dynamite.
(A Sessions could do it, but of course he doesn’t want to tear down his own department. Gotta make sure those private prisons stay full!)
From the outside looking in it’s not that hard to realize why Trump has trouble filling those positions, at least IMO.
It’s because he’s poison. People know there’s no way to work in his administration and come out looking good. It’s why he’s left with the Bannon’s of this world, it’s the only people who would work with him, people the regular Republicans wouldn’t want to associate with.
From what I’ve read it’s been that way from the start of his campaign, no serious person would work with him, why should it be any different now? Why kill your career working for someone you don’t respect?
This how Trump fills positions.
And this is why.
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“The talent pool is shrinking, because who wants to sign up for crazy?” said Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC).
“Nobody wants to step into a situation where you’re flying by the seat of your pants and don’t know whether what you just said will hold up from one news cycle to the next,” he added. “Nobody is going to be lining up for positions with that much uncertainty.”[/quote]
And that’s from the former head of the RNC, so not some “SJW Libtard Snowflake.”
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Just by watching the news, it doesn’t seem to me like Republicans are really pulling their support for Trump, yet, sadly. To me it seems that every week on MSNBC people are like, “Look at this! This will be it! This is the thing that will bring Trump down!” But it never ends up being the case. At least not in terms of the “Big I”. Is there real progress in this area? Is there really a ball rolling?
I guess if he keeps losing staff eventually he could become too useless for Rep’s to want to keep him around. But I’m still not convinced (yet).
This is very true. Trump does not have a President For All strategy. He rode to power on a strong energized minority, and the rest of the nation’s opinion literally does not matter. Congress hides in his shadow, so they are supported as long as they don’t make a scene, and they have hope he will sign all their bills. His supporters really do not believe any of the smoke matters at all, (it’s Fake, Ignore it) and it energizes them to reject liberal stories and the RWM gives them rationalizations to do that.
The justice checks operate slowly, maybe years. The R congress is in his same bubble too. Until the failures are big enough, RWM starts calling out failures, or somehow his support drops into the twenties with his core groups, the alt-reality bubble completely protects him.
I think Drumpf’s support is way stronger than anything the Dems can field, and I think Dems need to reconcile themselves with the fact that White Nationalism is here to stay.
At least until 2020, when everyone else is so sick of it they wipe out his minority.
The Dems can field a smajority- if they get everyone together on pure hatred of white nationalists.
Canuck
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I’m all for the frogs in the pot of boiling water scenario. I want them all to go down with Trump. That’s not going to happen if they jump out now. I’d be perfectly happy if things keep simmering with nothing getting done (how could it with all the scandal distraction?) until 2018 or even 2020, whichever time is more likely to create a Democratic super majority.
The GOP isn’t rebelling in public - yet. But they are getting nervous, and that has effects. For example, just today Kellyanne’s hubby withdrew his name to head the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, presumably because Republicans are nervous about how they’ll look in a confirmation hearing for a guy married to a woman who threw out the ethics book to do a promo for Ivanka’s product line.
rowe33
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I can’t imagine anything the Republicans do is because they’re nervous about how it looks. The shit they’ve already pulled this year is proof enough of that!
