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applegrove

(118,654 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 06:08 PM May 2017

Why does the GOP remain silent on Trump? I speculate it is because they want

to put many policies into place that will turn out not to be popular, like the AHCA, tax reform, etc. and if after the fact they can say it was populist Trump, not the GOP, that is responsible that will help them in future elections. He is like an escape hatch for blame on policies that are wholly unfair and cruel.

Maybe too they want to so debase the Presidency that they will never have to face a bully pulpit democratic President again. After all rich white men to have to live under Presidents who are not GOP dyslexic puppets when Democrats are in power.

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. But they can do it with Pence as well. Make no mistake, when they are done
Tue May 16, 2017, 06:11 PM
May 2017

the middle class will be all but gone, only white males will have rights, etc.

Voting will be something white property owners do for the most part.

On election day in November when on the ground Russian agents hacked into voting machines and flipped votes, they changed American history forever and so much that we wont recognize anything very soon.

Wont have a lot of time to try and recognize things, though, if you are lucky you will be working a 14 hour day at $2 an hour.

applegrove

(118,654 posts)
5. I don't agree the russians flipped votes on the ground. I think they did it using the internet
Tue May 16, 2017, 06:17 PM
May 2017

and that is even more troubling.

applegrove

(118,654 posts)
6. Oh they will do stuff with Pence too, but then they as the GOP completely own it. Whatever horrid
Tue May 16, 2017, 06:18 PM
May 2017

policy. Or repeal of programs. Much better to have it done under Trump.

awesomerwb

(139 posts)
7. Because a lot of dems are still
Tue May 16, 2017, 06:21 PM
May 2017

of the belief that bringing a knife to a gun fight is the way to go.

When they go low....blah blah blah

DK504

(3,847 posts)
3. I don't think they truly believe
Tue May 16, 2017, 06:16 PM
May 2017

they will be voted out of office if they keep their collusion with a traitor. These guys actually think they will be given a seat at the table when the corporations take over. These idiots will be cast to the side once we lose our democracy, Wall St. won't need them any more.
Yet, they still move on with plans to drag us off the cliff.

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