There were certainly shorter-term consequences, which showed in elections. As for long-term consequences, I obviously can’t speak for everyone, but at least for me personally it solidified my opposition to the Republican Party.

That’s largely why I think they should call his bluff again. Either he’ll walk away again, or he’ll accept and Democrats get lots of real stuff while Republicans have to actually start planning to build the stupid thing. 

More than likely, just as he did last time. But that’s where the Democrats could repeat, over and over, that Trump could have built his big, beautiful wall, but he again chose to walk away and betray his supporters. (I’m stlll disappointed they haven’t banged that drum harder after he pulled this stunt last year.)

I don’t disagree with you. I simply think on this particular symbol, which is very dumb and very large and very, very expensive and even if it’s built won’t actually do what the fascists think it will do, it could definitely be a big political winner for non-fascists.

I don’t see “Build your idiotic boondoggle that won’t do anything in exchange for actual policies that help the people you’re trying to hurt” as playing nice.

No it wouldn’t, particularly if the wall were engraved with “Republicans Built This” along its entire length.

I hope everybody caught this fascist moron trying to flip the script and claim that it’s actually Democrats that want to keep brown people out, because he comprehends text and logic about as well as our president.

This seems like an argument for why Democrats should make a deal, and it’s one I agree with. Republicans don’t actually want to build the stupid wall, because even most of them know it’s stupid and just a symbol of how they don’t like brown people.

Infecting our nations’s judiciary with Republican judges is a step toward fascism. Watering down democracy so that the opposition can’t get elected is a step toward fascism. Warping our tax code so that allies of the ruling party get richer at the expense of their perceived enemies and the middle class and poor is a…

Yes, it’s a big, dumb, wasteful and ineffective symbol of fascism that would stand as a lesson to future generations about how big, dumb, wasteful and ineffective this generation’s fascists were.

This is why I want Democrats to call their bluff and give them their funding (in return for DACA protections and other concessions, of course). Force the Republicans to memorialize their contributions to American governance and society through a multibillion-dollar thousand-mile boondoggle that doesn’t solve any…

Strong evidence that fascists aren’t the best and brightest.

Building the wall isn’t fascism. It’s just stupid and nonsensical and probably won’t even get built even if it gets funded. They don’t really want the wall, because most of them know it’s stupid too and won’t actually do anything to improve our nation’s immigration problems. Democrats need to call their bluff — with…

Nothing makes me feel more like an old than YouTube personalities and Twitch in particular. It fascinates me to no end that people will sit and watch a stranger play video games for hours. To each their own.

Lifetime appointments in general are garbage. Our Supreme court would function much better if justices were limited to 10, 15 or 20-year terms, staggered to expire to ensure that every presidential term gets to choose at least one or two justices.

I mean, this presupposed that Ernest Cline was writing a serious novel about a serious topic, and not summer fluff nostalgia porn.

There’s a reason that most of the corporate world has mandatory retirement ages for executives.

But it’s that very assumption of good faith by well-moneyed and powerful media gatekeepers that should absolutely know better that enables the bad-faith scam artists to continue running their scams. It’s not like in 2010 there was a circumstance where pushing supply-side BS was not an obvious scam. 

It’s legitimately strange how professional adults working in real journalism seem to increasingly resort to using childish terms like “bottomless Pinocchio” instead of just saying that a politician that repeats a lie over and over is a shameless liar.

Gillenbrand’s tweet is terrible. Even as fairly obvious bait for the insecure misogynist shitheads of Twitter to show us how much more terrible they are, her tweet is dumb, trite and looks like extremely superficial pandering at best.