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23. We Democrats keep acting as if we expect decent behavior from the repugnant goons-we should not
Sat Oct 6, 2018, 05:09 PM
Oct 2018

The repugnant goon part has adopted a scorched earth policy dating back for decades.

It is import to remember Trump isn't some aberration of republican philosophy, he is just the next logical step in dishonest, scorched earth politics. Fox Noise and hate radio paved the way for Trump to spread conspiracy theories. Don the Con just took the lying to another level.

Expecting today's repug party to act in good faith is a mistake. Nothing matters to them except winning.

Susan Collins will of course have different standards of behavior for Democrats and repugnant goon politicians - and judges.

Mitch Mcturtle will of course consider delaying Obama's SCOTUS pick for a year nothing and scream bloody murder at the idea of slowing down the nomination of Sir BoofsALot.

In retrospect, expecting anything other than a whitewash regarding the supplemental investigation of barfing Brett was really naive. They weren't going to follow up on the allegations of Debra Ramirez because the allegations were true and the goons didn't want any information to derail the confirmation, so they made sure that the FBI didn't ask for corroboration.

Sexual assault allegations are also no big deal to repugnant politicians and to their base if you have an R by your name.

Perjury, smurgery, so what? It's okay for Kav to lie about his drinking under oath, but it was an impeachable offense for Bill Clinton to lie about a consensual affair.

Bottom line is that we should expect that they are going to behave like this. We should quit letting any expectations of decency from these thugs cause us disappointment or cause us to drop our guard. They are lying, opportunistic thugs and that is going to be their MO at every turn.

We should attack the lies and corruption every day without repeating the right wing talking points.

Some democratic politician should get in front of a camera every morning and give the daily Trump lie briefing for the prior day, saying something like "Trump lied 6 times yesterday, twice about immigration, three times about the economy and once about the Mueller investigation." These statements should be matter of fact in tone, maybe prefaced with a statement that Trump has told X number of verifiable lies so far in his presidency, making it clear that Trump lying 6 times is a day is nothing unusual. It is not acceptable behavior, but at this point it is expected, because Trump is a serial liar.

Further explanation would be fact checks avoiding the RW rhetoric, something like, the Trump described a group of non-white immigrants as criminals, when historically, these people commit fewer crimes than citizens born in the USA. He claimed that immigrants that were seeking asylum had entered the country illegally, when they had not.


As did some Democrats, as well. MineralMan Oct 2018 #1
Hear, hear! SkipG Oct 2018 #12
Yep. A lot of Democrats. I have the list saved somewhere. Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #34
And Al asked for a hearing only Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #2
True. They didn't even CALL anyone about it or ask for affidavits. Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #35
Collins is toast. roamer65 Oct 2018 #3
For the sake of the nation, I hope that the Republican Party is toast. It should be destroyed. olegramps Oct 2018 #7
olegramps marieo1 Oct 2018 #9
I hear ya. Grokenstein Oct 2018 #16
We are at WAR. Liberalagogo Oct 2018 #18
Yes YessirAtsaFact Oct 2018 #24
We also need to stop being purists Liberalagogo Oct 2018 #27
I love the way you think FakeNoose Oct 2018 #28
The Republican party has already been destroyed. SergeStorms Oct 2018 #30
+1 MarvinGardens Oct 2018 #33
They deserve the fate as Hitler and Mussolini before the destroy the nation. olegramps Oct 2018 #42
She will before long announce she is not running for re-election. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2018 #20
Nah, she's not zentrum Oct 2018 #22
Never forget dalton99a Oct 2018 #4
K & R SunSeeker Oct 2018 #5
k&r Demovictory9 Oct 2018 #6
K&R, damn it. Paladin Oct 2018 #8
K & R Julian Englis Oct 2018 #10
Typical hypocrite Pepsidog Oct 2018 #11
Al was Great Voices Of Reason Oct 2018 #13
If by "treated unfairly" you mean "swiftboated"... dchill Oct 2018 #14
It was a great loss. hostalover Oct 2018 #25
welcome to DU bdamomma Oct 2018 #36
Yes she did benld74 Oct 2018 #15
And I got alerted on here Liberalagogo Oct 2018 #17
when kavanough got credibly accused of much worse AlexSFCA Oct 2018 #19
She is only doing what good fascists are expected to do. She says screw justice this is war. olegramps Oct 2018 #43
K&R UTUSN Oct 2018 #21
We Democrats keep acting as if we expect decent behavior from the repugnant goons-we should not YessirAtsaFact Oct 2018 #23
So did Gillibrand and others... For nothing. IluvPitties Oct 2018 #26
That was different. JohnnyRingo Oct 2018 #29
I want Al Franken back! Nitram Oct 2018 #31
+1 stopwastingmymoney Oct 2018 #32
IMO, what did it for Franken was the photos garybeck Oct 2018 #37
I don't think so notinkansas Oct 2018 #38
And that's how dictatorship takes over a country. C Moon Oct 2018 #39
Collins is just another Russian Repug Rapists supporter. lark Oct 2018 #40
Al Franken seems to be so well liked here on DU thinkingagain Oct 2018 #41
That's because she is a good little Republican tool. McCamy Taylor Oct 2018 #44
Two things... SpankMe Oct 2018 #45
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