9 thoughts on “Bridget Phetasy”

  3. Perhaps if she had given it some thought instead of just believing stereotypes and wanting to one of the cool kids, she would have left them a long time ago. Democrats greatest strength is how they are able to sucker in the uninformed and the malinformed because they want to be cool.

    It is a lot like sports. Fans say “we” even though they have zero role. It gives them a sense of belonging but just like the fans aren’t part of the team, identifying as a Democrat because you want to be one of the cool kids, doesn’t actually get you into the cool kid’s group.

  4. I started to feel the same at the end of W’s Administration. 2006 simply wasn’t a surprise to me that the Democrats took over. I didn’t expect the Dems to be so bat shit crazy, but then the Republicans nominated McCain, and actively pushed to get rid of Hillary, who was a lousy candidate even back then. So we got Obama.

    For 8 years, it seemed that Republicans really weren’t interested in standing up to Obama. There were moments, but when it counted, many would jump sides to the Democrats and nothing was really done. There certainly wasn’t an unified message, other than stop Obamacare (which they would later not do when they had to full power to do it).

    Then we get to 2016. The expanded Republican primary field was a clear reflection of the division of the party. Sadly, none of the lifelong stalwarts of the party were even the least bit interesting to me. Kasich sucked. Jeb! was boring (low energy indeed). Rubio couldn’t be trusted. I liked Cruz, but he could never gain traction. The outsiders like Carson didn’t have the fight. I thought Trump would win early on, but I never thought he would be the conservative President I’d been missing most of my adult life. I was in school during the Reagan years.

    Still, Congressional Republicans sucked. The amazing thing is that I think the Democrats could take all of Congress; if they (to quote the lady) “Offer us a compelling vision of the future based on the strength of your ideas and policies.” Instead they offer a dystopia of a burned out and flooded country unless we ban all combustion and guns. I mean, listen to Greta, right? Nah, brah.

    And then the Kavanaugh hearings. Cocaine Mitch was already a thing, but they really pissed off Lindsey Graham. Finally, it looked like Republicans would fight back. Looked is the right tense. Because by now, every Republican should realize the Kavanaugh hearing was a microcosm of the Mueller Investigation. Yet nobody has yet to be held to account. And now we have this Ukraine nonsense.

    2020 will be interesting. I think Trump will win walking away. I just don’t know how the down ballots will look.

    1. If you can lynch an elected President then what stops the ruling party from impeaching sitting congress members until they have a veto-proof majority? The path from a democracy to an authoritarian state begins here.

      First the Purge! Then the Enabling Acts(1933) and then the Dictatorship.

        1. I wasn’t aware blocking civil servant access to calls between heads of state was an impeachable offense. Sure, impeachment is a purely political process, but I think magpie’s point is if they are this crazy; they really don’t care to operate within the law. After all, Hollywood even had a film to be released glamorizing the hunting of “right wingers”. And that’s after several other films glamorizing a “purge”. Of course, they’ve already shot at a group of Republican Congressmembers and attacked another in front his home putting him in the hospital.

  5. “And that’s after several other films glamorizing a “purge”. ”

    The last ‘Purge’ movie was about an ‘elite’ who get their kicks from torturing and murdering ordinary Americans and are trying to kill the populist Presidential candidate who wants to stop them. I was almost expecting Hillary Clinton to turn up in a cameo eating a Haitian baby.

    Maybe that’s not the message Hollywood was pushing, but it was the one I got from the movie.

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