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Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
26. Seems like gerrymandering has helped them but hurt them
Sun Jul 30, 2017, 09:39 PM
Jul 2017

Helped them win lots of elections and hold a lot of seats in Congress but they don't represent the vast majority of the country and their policies don't command much public support either.

Well then, if they do they'll be just a bunch of impotent old blowhards with no influence at all catbyte Jul 2017 #1
They thought Hitler could be controlled as well... VMA131Marine Jul 2017 #2
How true TEB Jul 2017 #6
I don't think they would be in his cabinet if they didn't want to work with trump . Maybe they lunasun Jul 2017 #11
I am hoping that they are patriots dhol82 Jul 2017 #22
LOL. pangaia Jul 2017 #42
Yeah. Sigh. dhol82 Jul 2017 #43
Hope is like prayer. It only helps when it works....or something like that. pangaia Jul 2017 #44
Hope you are not counting on Kelly lunasun Jul 2017 #45
Fuck. dhol82 Jul 2017 #52
I'm not trying to bring you down but these people want to work with trump and his agenda lunasun Jul 2017 #55
Wishing, again. demosincebirth Jul 2017 #64
Hitler was in his mid-forties when he came to power... maddiemom Jul 2017 #48
Hitler winetourdriver01 Jul 2017 #56
Fascists are subversive Cary Jul 2017 #3
It doesn't matter if they hack the elections mucifer Jul 2017 #4
The fact that they couldn't see this coming SHRED Jul 2017 #5
They've been "governing"? Could've fooled me. BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #10
LOL SHRED Jul 2017 #16
they call it governing DBoon Jul 2017 #31
MAGA. MORONS ARE GOVERNING AMERICA SammyWinstonJack Jul 2017 #51
What could they have done? That's the nature of a primary. EllieBC Jul 2017 #59
I thought that this had already happened. CentralMass Jul 2017 #7
They already have. SamKnause Jul 2017 #8
True, but the Republicans have imagined... regnaD kciN Jul 2017 #63
Yeah, whatever KentuckyWoman Jul 2017 #9
They wanted him, he was different! imanamerican63 Jul 2017 #12
So I guess we got what they deserve. defacto7 Jul 2017 #28
Perfectly stated. n/t moonscape Jul 2017 #50
Souless bastards are gonna find out that randr Jul 2017 #13
Perhaps the owner of the rent a mob is not President Trump GeoWilliam750 Jul 2017 #14
It doesn't matter... lib-ruhl Jul 2017 #15
Read this yesterday, can't remember where... Iggo Jul 2017 #46
They could end this now SHRED Jul 2017 #17
As they should be Egnever Jul 2017 #18
If You Lie Down With Dogs, You Will Wake Up With Fleas. Little Star Jul 2017 #19
NOW they're terrified? benld74 Jul 2017 #20
No kidding gratuitous Jul 2017 #37
"For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." njhoneybadger Jul 2017 #21
They're more like a bunch of sows breaking wind. nt Xipe Totec Jul 2017 #35
Oh the irony.... Xolodno Jul 2017 #23
Seems like gerrymandering has helped them but hurt them Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2017 #26
That is so true. applegrove Jul 2017 #29
Thats part of the problem. Xolodno Jul 2017 #32
Good let them be scared TEB Jul 2017 #24
The bill is coming due Best_man23 Jul 2017 #25
Throw in Sessions and you have a trifecta. jaysunb Jul 2017 #27
This is the Frankenstein's monster that they have created. RDANGELO Jul 2017 #30
Yep kerry-is-my-prez Jul 2017 #58
it's dumb for the left to keep ignoring the fact that trump is being enabled certainot Jul 2017 #62
Here we go again, Night of the Long Knives, Part II no_hypocrisy Jul 2017 #33
As I've said all along, "You own him now, motherfuckers." Still In Wisconsin Jul 2017 #34
They'll start to spin it that he's really a Democrat. JDC Jul 2017 #36
Someone just told me that exact thing today Phoenix61 Jul 2017 #47
Someone said that to me yesterday too! progressoid Jul 2017 #61
I think I would say preposterous. JDC Jul 2017 #68
Dumpists are like a virus. roamer65 Jul 2017 #38
What do they mean, "will" -- it's already happening obamanut2012 Jul 2017 #39
"I am hereby establishing the Freedom Party." sandensea Jul 2017 #40
PLEASE PROCEED Skittles Jul 2017 #41
His rabid base of bot accounts? Yeah why not? Initech Jul 2017 #49
sorry GOP Takket Jul 2017 #53
Nitwit counter Nitwit? czarjak Jul 2017 #54
Wouldn't THAT be a glorious thing to behold? n/t Binkie The Clown Jul 2017 #57
Ah the zealous puritans JNelson6563 Jul 2017 #60
Its already happening workinclasszero Jul 2017 #65
Why....That would be AWFUL! Warren DeMontague Jul 2017 #66
its karma, you create the batshit crazies and you will end up failing because of them beachbum bob Jul 2017 #67
He is their humonculus (n/t) FreepFryer Jul 2017 #69
A rabid base of Russian Hackers too? ThoughtCriminal Jul 2017 #70
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