12-12-2018, 11:11 PM
(12-12-2018, 06:47 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-12-2018, 02:32 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Stephen Colbert outdid himself about how Trump outdid himself with his over-the-top tantrums. Colbert speaks truth to power, and reminds us just how ridiculous he is. We need to be reminded of this every day! And Stephen has been blest with the material he has been given. All he has to do is recount what Trump does and add fun and brilliant connections to it.
Heads up! Oh Trumpie, he has erectile dysfunction now!
Quote:(language unsuited for a family audience redacted) Yeah, you kind of got to laugh at these serious issues that blue comedians fail to view as serious issue or aren't able to look at seriously or are to busy entertaining to actually pay attention to what was going on, what was being said and what all was being communicated (the body language and the points being expressed and so forth) during the exchanges. He was telling them that he was politically immune to the negative impacts associated with a government shutdown and he's right. We don't care if the government shuts down and a bunch of blue voters (public sector employees go without paychecks for a few weeks/several weeks) are financially forced to sacrifice for a bunch of people who don't matter as much as the people their government wages and federal revenues are being used to support. I think it would be a great way to test how strong blue values actually are in this country and within the Democratic party.
Trump tries to do Machiavellian politics to the extent possible in America (reward allies, but punish the rest), but he just does not do it well. He may also be going too far in accordance with the checks and balances.
Remember: the House controls the budget, and on that Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump will be equals on January 3. Democrats have priorities other than an environmentally-blighting, budget-busting wall on the border. He can get a smarter border, one with better electronic detection, the sort that can detect a jackrabbit making an illegal crossing of the border and can give the Border Patrol more lead time on catching a border-crosser. But that is as far as things can reasonably go.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.