Charlottesville Virginia

Trance on 17/8/2017 at 02:37

I'm sure your point makes sense in your head, but it kind of dissolves into aimless babble when it hits open atmosphere.

Goldmoon Dawn on 17/8/2017 at 02:45

Well, *if* you didnt know already, I am one of those folks who believe that the elites paid *all* the actors that day, and that the entire thing is yet another false flag attempt at our individual liberties and freedoms. Because, last time I checked, a HUGE portion of America *still* doesnt give two shits less about your stupid repub/demon BULLSHIT. America dont care! The hardworking Americans who keep you 1%ers afloat dont care!

Renzatic on 17/8/2017 at 02:51

Wellppppppppppppp...

montag on 17/8/2017 at 03:08

[QUOTE=The hardworking Americans who keep you 1%ers afloat dont care!

Renzatic, can I have a bit of that 1%er cash that you are clearly hogging? I need it to build a shield for myself from contrails.

montag on 17/8/2017 at 03:12

And that's why you don't post after having eating pickled herring.

Renzatic on 17/8/2017 at 03:47

Alright, people. Let's not pick on GMD TOO much.

He's far from being the only one who's gone outlandish over these last couple of years. I mean I'm currently arguing with someone on Facebook who thinks that George Soros hired the Nazis we're all now griping about. GMD actually makes that guy look sane by comparison.

Chade on 17/8/2017 at 03:55

Quote Posted by Goldmoon Dawn

I am one of those folks who believe that the elites paid *all* the actors that day

Quote Posted by Renzatic

I'm currently arguing with someone on Facebook who thinks that George Soros hired the Nazis we're all now griping about. GMD actually makes that guy look sane by comparison.

Yeah nice try Renz.

To be fair I see left-leaning news sites like Vox making a (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/14/16139440/trump-racism-plutocracy) similar claim in reverse: "Trumpism, in short, is fundamentally a hustle. It's essentially a bet that if you punch nonwhite America in the face, white America will be so busy gawking they won't notice their pockets are being picked." There's frightening amount of conspiracy theory floating around these days.

EDIT: Actually I get the impression that basic dynamic is at play here, in the sense that Republicans are pressured to ignore how they are getting screwed by the Republic party because they're all on the same side of the culture wars. I just don't think it's a deliberate conspiracy.

Renzatic on 17/8/2017 at 04:27

That'd be true if it weren't for the fact we're all paying as much attention to the Republicans as we are to Trump's latest antics.

We're not seeing any feints here. No distractions to keep us occupied while the Republicans ply their ideologies in secret. They've been suckered as much by Trump as the rest of us have, and now they're finding themselves in a situation where they can't even revoke the ACA while holding a majority in congress, despite promising to do so over the last 7 years, because they're in such a rush to look good in front of the American people, they keep stumbling over themselves. And the time they could be spending catching their breath while they try to get back up on their own two feet is absorbed doing endless amounts of damage control for Trump.

If Trumpism is a hustle, it's one that's fooled America in its entirety, Liberal, Conservative, Democrats, Republicans, and everything in between. Trump sold us all on a product that, thus far, hasn't worked nearly as well as advertised.

I mean damn. A Republican president, the party that primarily concerns themselves with business and commerce above all else, and he can't even manage to keep a bunch of goddamn CEOs from bailing on his advisory board.

Fafhrd on 17/8/2017 at 06:03

I don't think it's so much that Trumpism is a hustle (though it absolutely is, just not quite in the way that article says), it's that American Conservatism is a hustle, and has been for decades. Trump just laid how much of a hustle it was completely bare.