Yeah, I mean, using "The Silent Majority" was a pretty clear sign that he was modeling Nixon.
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Yeah, there's also the part where undocumented aliens have a lower rate of crime than actual Americans, because of course they do, because if you're worried about being deported, you don't want to even get a traffic ticket. All of these lies are getting really fucking old.
"They go low, we go high." Yeah, that worked out well. As for "genocide," my father was suffering from terminal cancer for ten years and died this year, right after Trump got elected. He worked as an architect for his entire life, but the company he worked went bankrupt; so, no health care, no retirement fund, and…
It's been a really long time since Republicans had a good president, so they need to love him. Bush II left in disgrace, Bush I was a one-termer, Nixon; we know what happened there. Reagan accidentally presided over an economic boom, sort of like Clinton, so they'll take what they can get. I mean, who was the last…
I'm irrationally happy these days when people don't insult each other over politics, so, thanks! Reagan vs. Trump is like Pence or Paul Ryan vs. Trump. …We're so excited that Pence or Ryan can fucking make a grammatical sentence, that they seem way better in comparison, even though they have no actual policy…
…Made a secret deal to keep hostages in the Middle East so that Carter couldn't get credit for having them released, ignored the AIDS crisis because gays were gross or something, ignored warnings that our embassy would be attacked, created massive deficits by hugely increasing military budgets while trying to cut…
Kennedy's dad also bought him his Senate seat, so… yeah. Just because we like Democrats better doesn't mean they all get to power in awesome ways, plus, the Kennedys were pretty bad, with the maybe exception of Boddy.
Yeah; no. I've said this before, but I was living in Europe for the last couple of years. Health insurance cost $50 every six months, and worked just fine, thanks very much. Perhaps not coincidentally, everyone there also thought Americans were batshit insane on the healthcare issue.
Yeah, I was reading "Nixonland" this past week (and it's really well written), but it freaked me out and got me depressed and I had to stop. The parallels are just too disturbing. I was talking about Reagan above, and he's been enshrined as Captain Old McNice Guy, but he really invented the strategy of exploiting…
In the 1960s, Reagan took George Wallace's 'Southern Strategy' and made it more mainstream, thus bringing thinly-veiled racist politics to the forefront of the GOP, and setting the stage for Nixon's presidential win. Reagan became governor of California based on a politics of resentment: us vs. them; dirty hippies…
Yeah, proving libel in America is actually incredibly hard, and this does not seem to rise to that level. But, she does get attention out of it: sweet, sweet attention.
Oh, god. I haven't watched much "Mystery Science," but I tried to watch that one, and it was well-nigh unwatchable.
We require people to buy auto insurance no matter what. Try driving without it. You'll get arrested. Which of course brings down the rates for everyone, and keeps your life from being ruined if someone crashes into your car (because insurance will have to pay for damage/injuries). It's a universal system that…
Some fucking Senator was talking about how he hypothetically didn't mind helping sick people, but didn't want to reward people, who, in his words, "sat around, drank too much soda, and got diabetes." Ignoring the fact that diabetes can also be a hereditary disease that some people are born with. Like, for example,…
Yeah, Ron Paul was a racist douchenozzle. Remember when he was briefly the "young folks" favorite? That was fucking gross.
Oliver and Sam Bee do the most through job of covering politics, but they only seem to have five jokes that they just recycle over and over, so that sucks. Maher might cover a lot of political stuff, but I would never watch him, so fuck that.
…Don't mention the war.
Oh, look at Mr. Not-Getting-Things-Wrong-Guy… here.
Yeah, I get the 'access' part, but yeah, they're not getting it, so in conclusion, I have nothing to add here and totes agree. : )