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July 8th, 2025 at 11:15:29 AM permalink
missedhervee
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Quote: Evenbob
Saw a veteran commentator who's been around politics for 45 years saying that Elon Musk doesn't have a chance with his new political party because he's doing it wrong. Musk has said that it's his goal for his new party to win three Senate seats, to unseat three Republicans or democrats next year in 2026. The commentator said this is ridiculous, getting someone new in the Senate is almost as hard as getting a new president elected. He said to have a chance for the new party you have to start at the local level, start getting congressman elected to the state house and Senators to the state senate. Then after a few elections start running your people for Congress in the house. Then you take one of those and try to get them into the Senate down the road. Starting a new party a year and a half before an election and expecting to elect senators is what a rank amateur would do. It's not going to work. Plus Elon Musk has no platform, everything he's posted about his new party is a carbon copy of the Republicans. Who wants to vote for a new party that's exactly like one that's already there.


You can throw that play book out with the constitution.

Trump formed what is essentially a "new" political party, MAGA, by co-opting the republicans and he did it without any prior political experience, no rising through the political ranks.

He epitomizes the "amateur" you refer to, and yet...here we are.
July 8th, 2025 at 12:00:31 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: missedhervee
You can throw that play book out with the constitution.

Trump formed what is essentially a "new" political party, MAGA, by co-opting the republicans and he did it without any prior political experience, no rising through the political ranks.

He epitomizes the "amateur" you refer to, and yet...here we are.


But he did it thru one of the established parties. That is where the difference is.
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July 8th, 2025 at 12:01:50 PM permalink
fleaswatter
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Mob swarms pool in upscale Chicago suburb, hurls fireworks and shoves female lifeguard in water

I but you can guess the mob without seeing any pictures.

No need to look, you already know. Yes, it’s them.
July 8th, 2025 at 3:21:56 PM permalink
missedhervee
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Quote: AZDuffman
But he did it thru one of the established parties. That is where the difference is.


Ah, therein lies the rub.

The party he joined is no longer the party of Ronald Reagan and Bush, it has veered widely from its former tenets.

As I stated he has co-opted the republican party: it's akin to a pimp wooing a church girl and via manipulation turning her into a whore.

The key take away from this mess is that it is all the work of a man without a history of running for office prior to seeking the presidency: sort of like Ike, but then Ike didn't dodge serving his country by phonying up a false claim of bone spurs.

You wanted him?

You got him.
July 8th, 2025 at 4:49:06 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: missedhervee
Ah, therein lies the rub.

The party he joined is no longer the party of Ronald Reagan and Bush, it has veered widely from its former tenets.

As I stated he has co-opted the republican party: it's akin to a pimp wooing a church girl and via manipulation turning her into a whore.

The key take away from this mess is that it is all the work of a man without a history of running for office prior to seeking the presidency: sort of like Ike, but then Ike didn't dodge serving his country by phonying up a false claim of bone spurs.

You wanted him?

You got him.


Sure did want him, we are lucky to have him. As to the GOP "veering" well lefties like yourself said the same when Reagan was in office. Here is the thing----we don't seek or care about your approval. The bigger party veer is the Democrat Party which was the party of JFK but is now just a group of left wing radicals.
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July 8th, 2025 at 5:01:04 PM permalink
missedhervee
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Quote: AZDuffman
well lefties like yourself


I'm neither progressive nor democrat, I merely believe Trump is morally, ethically and mentally unfit to represent me.

Yeah, I know..."talk to the hand." WGAS what I think?

I simply like to vent about the abject stupidity of American politics, no matter who is in office, they almost all suck.

But Trump...a convicted felon, serial cheater, draft dodger...a new low.
July 8th, 2025 at 5:06:45 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: missedhervee
I'm neither progressive nor democrat, I merely believe Trump is morally, ethically and mentally unfit to represent me.

Yeah, I know..."talk to the hand." WGAS what I think?

I simply like to vent about the abject stupidity of American politics, no matter who is in office, they almost all suck.

But Trump...a convicted felon, serial cheater, draft dodger...a new low.


Lawfare means nothing. Many people got deferments, bury the past. His personal life is his personal life, that standard was set with Clinton.
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July 8th, 2025 at 5:08:00 PM permalink
rxwine
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Man, she is sloshed.

DUI mugshot.. Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton.

"Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP.
July 8th, 2025 at 5:24:01 PM permalink
missedhervee
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Quote: AZDuffman
Lawfare means nothing.


That you seriously argue this point establishes your bias.

I despise Trump because of what he is, what he has done; you defend him for reasons unclear.
July 8th, 2025 at 5:49:41 PM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: missedhervee
That you seriously argue this point establishes your bias.

I despise Trump because of what he is, what he has done; you defend him for reasons unclear.


Because it is just lawfare. Made to take him down. I defend him because if they go after him what is to stop them from using lawfare against any of us?
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