Well, it's a slam dunk. Because former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will plead guilty, Donald Trump will now be impeached, removed from office, indicted on criminal conspiracy charges, convicted, and imprisoned. Mike Pence will serve out a rump term and be defeated by a Democrat in 2020. Only white supremacists support Donald Trump, and they will be sad. Everyone else will be happy because Donald Trump is a bad person. America will be free again - free to do all the great things that happened before Donald Trump crashed the party.
In even shorter order - by 2018 probably, Republicans will probably lose the House and the Senate, too, in a Watergate-style running of the table, by righteous, victorious Democrats. The tax cuts, if they pass, will be repealed, and the Affordable Care Act will be enshrined forever - probably as a Constitutional amendment.
There's no way the media is blowing the Michael Flynn plea out of proportion - no way that anything is being misinterpreted. People in the media never jump to conclusions, and only level-headed, common-sense analysis is being applied by people with deep, structural knowledge of the situation and its context.
It's a great day!
There's no way that
anything in this hyperlink contradicts my totally serious and straightforward blog post!
What the Micheal Flynn plea does mean is that perhaps there is something to this Russia/Trump thing. Despite assurances and 'moving the goal post' defense. There is something rotten in Denmark.
ReplyDeleteWhat this tax bill and probable passage does mean is that adding to the deficit is less important than tax reductions for wealthy people.
What the historic lows of a president and congress mean is that perhaps the Republican brand isn't what people want. People see the actions and not the words of elected officials and they reject them.
What the Moore ratings mean in Alabama is that the ends that justify the means include creepy 30 year olds preying on teenagers are okay for an important government position as he hates abortion.
If I was an 'R' what all of this would mean to me is that perhaps my ideas of a small-government faith-based values and a fair bit of nationalism thrown in there is that my leaders are failing me and despite an op-ed National review column is that perhaps, just maybe I should be upset too. I should be agreeing with people that Donald Trump is a liar and that pedophiles shouldn't be in the senate.
To switch just a little bit, the liburl Ds are really mad this time, like out for blood mad. We see the low bar that Trump has to somehow at least not trip over it and we're getting to the point that dialog isn't even possible. We want to roll our eyes and dismiss you into a pile of senile white anger watching your Fox news and babbling about nonsense. Don't let us do this! Prove to me at least that health insurance is better than tax cuts for wealthy Republican donors. Prove to me that you can get your information from a source that maybe disagrees with you and actually engages you on finding the truth. Let's debate the idea, not blast who said it. Do as I say not as I do is a terrible role model and that's not just Rs that's Ds and that's the way it should be with you too.
Now.......honestly....truly....if we put the bios of Trump and Obama without their name and political affiliation on them. Which one would you want your kid to be? Seriously
Anyway that's it! I'll get my snark from Colbert he's a lot funnier than the National Review haha!
Let's keep up the political dialog. That's how I understand your side.
Cameron thanks for responding. I know this took a long time for me to comment on your comment.
ReplyDeleteI think the one thing I can really address cogently is your "who would you want your kids to be" question. I think it's a great question and of course, I would want my kids to be more like Obama, although I don't think his character is all *that* sterling, he certainly comports himself better as a human being than Trump does.
But I also think your question misses the point. I'm not picking my kids here. I'm making a ruthless, small 'r' republican decision in a winner-take-all electoral system where the policy outcomes are vast and take decades to fully reverse. (Obama-era legislation continues to take full effect even after more than a year of Trump, and much of it may never be fully repealed. Obama-appointed judges and Justices will sit for decades - etc.) Trump, for all his failings, is a big defender of the free enterprise system and Obama was not. Trump is a big exponent of ending illegal immigration and Obama was not. Trump has appointed a stewardship-model EPA director in contrast to the "you didn't build that" mentality. Etc.
Again, again, again, again...... I don't know how often I will have to say this. I didn't like the choice the system forced me into making. I don't know how to effectively impart that. Maybe I'm ineffective, and Trump will unleash racist goons who will murder my children... sometimes I fear that. I know black people do.
National Review isn't meant as snark it is meant as a serious policy discussion. Check it out!