She sure as hell knows how to put on a show. I also liked the sly subversiveness of “This Land Is Your Land.” Woody Guthrie was rather famously no fan of the Trumps.
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I can only imagine the confusion in the boardroom of Totino’s legal team. “Should we sue?” “Any publicity is good publicity!” “They DO seem to be saying the product is delicious...” “There’s something going over our heads here, isn’t there?”
Eight years is a long time. I went about ten. Your mileage may vary, my results may not be yours. I don’t know your circumstances, and don’t want to encourage you to stay in a bad place, if that’s what’s going on.
Whoops, didn’t realize this was on Deadspin. Never mind.
Best sketch I’ve seen on SNL since Tina Fey was doing Palin. Spot on, hilarious, cut them like a knife.
Tulsi Gabbard squandered a great chance. She was the It Girl for a good moment, the rising democratic star. If the rumblings from my Hawaiian relatives are at all representative, she’s not going to be sent back to the House. People are straight-out pissed off at her, think she’s a callow opportunist who turned her…
They know I used to be a Republican and are horrified. I told them there was a time when both sides could actually agree and had the best interest of the country in mind. They don’t believe me.
Asshole said this after the attacks of September 11th, 2001:
Yeah, very much like Ed Koch! People just liked him, even if they thought he was full of baloney at times. But it was amiable baloney, served with a wink and a smile, and with a bit of mustard it went down pretty well. :)
Yes. It was Reagan who sold the soul of the party to the bible-thumpers, even though he probably never cracked a bible three times in his lifetime. Pure cynical pragmatism, and its effects are still resonating. “Liberal republicans” used to be a thing that existed. In my lifetime. Not that long ago. Reasonable people…
Hahaha, “Best Party”! I had forgotten that too. How like Frank, always the cheerful huckster. Kind of Honolulu’s civic P.T. Barnum. I totally understand why he kept getting re-elected.
Sorry, sorry, I momentarily lost track of who I was replying to.
Yeah, I know there was a kind of whispering campaign about her. I don’t know how true it was and I find that kind of drab and sad.
I hear ya, but I’d have to add the caveat that “minority” has and had a little different connotation in Hawaii than it might elsewhere in the U.S. Growing up, my governor was George Ariyoshi. My senators were Dan Inouye and Spark Matsunaga. Japanese-Americans were well-ensconsed in the wheels of power in Honolulu.
It’s been done before, more than once. Not necessarily saying it was a plan all along, maybe more a reaction to the hardening of politics on the right:
Part of it could be simple pragmatism. It’s easy to rise fast in the ranks of Hawaii republicans, make a name for yourself, since it’s essentially a powerless minority, but the media still treats it as a two-party system. Then something like this happens, the true colors come out, and it’s time for a party switch.
I guess you’re not a fan of the “I can stay, and change it from within” strategy? :P
I think you ignore regional differences. Hawaii had a republican governor from 2002-2010 who was probably to the left of many mainland “blue dog” democrats. Pro-choice, socially fairly moderate; I was not a fan, and had I still lived there I would have voted against her, but she was not cut from the same cloth as…
“the face of Republicanism as it should be, but it won’t be any more.”