The Politics Thread

[GMac]

 

I am honestly disgusted.  And heartbroken.

 

[Juliajms]

Calling that number connected me to his voicemail. I left a message.

[dragonflies]

I pressed 2 then 1 and then left a voicemail. Felt good to do it

[YRBB]

[ReddFoxx]

The tramp was probably underneath the desk in that picture. How dare she even suggest that Trump is a man of God.

[Vee]

Edited January 30, 2017 by Vee

[Khan]

 

IKR?  If he shows up at the podium one day with a manila envelope, look out.

Edited January 30, 2017 by Khan

[Vee]

Flynn and Trump have reportedly been increasingly at odds in recent days. Now this:

 

 

[JaneAusten]

Waiting for another Midnight Massacre ala Richard Nixon now.

[Vee]

It's going to be nothing but those with Trump. It always was going to go like this, just like the campaign.

 

WaPo picks up the LGBT order.

Edited January 31, 2017 by Vee

[MissLlanviewPA]

 

Weirdly enough, the 30th anniversary of his suicide was on January 22nd of this year. If any of you haven't seen the documentary on his life, Honest Man, you should. Heartbreaking and sad, but worth checking out, IMO.

 

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Edited January 31, 2017 by MissLlanviewPA

[Vee]

[DRW50]

 

Sadly I think many will turn a blind eye to something like this (and I imagine there will be a lot of things we won't hear about at first, like DADT being reinstated), because it doesn't affect them personally. The same reason they didn't care about the abortion orders. It also won't have the visceral images of the airport seizures, although I wonder how many beyond those who were already alert and active cared about those either. 

 

When it does happen, we'll see if we get the puff pieces from the press that we got with W about how he doesn't actually hate gay people, it's just the name of the game, and his hand was pushed. Given that he hasn't exactly been courting the media this last week, maybe not.

[Vee]

People are going to march and protest just like they marched for women and protested for immigrants. That's going to continue and it's going to continue to be big. And almost no one is running puff pieces about Trump right now.

[DRW50]

 

I don't mean the people who care (and a lot of people do, to their credit). I mean people that people these nuts are more cowtowed by. Those people will watch the world burn and unless any of them have any issues, nothing will change. Much of Congress is run by bigots or appeasers, so they won't flinch at some of the pushback like they have a bit with the airport stuff. Of course flinching is all they've done here, even as they have essentially allowed unstable countries like Iraq to renew their hatred and anger toward us. Something like this they will likely actively support. 

 

At least we can again see those "libertarian" and "moderate" Republicans again sitting on their hands because if they go along to get along, it will all be worth it in the end. Someday the party will be more tolerant and everyone will be happy...even though they insisted Trump would be the one to do that...but it won't be his fault. It will be trans people, who didn't know their place. Or radical queer people at marches. Or someone who cut Kellyanne Conway off at a stop sign. Take your pick. 

 

Putin regularly peddles anti-gay propaganda to manipulate and distract the populace. America isn't Russia (although I'm sure many in Russia would say they're very glad of that), but I do wonder if it will start here.