Just simply declare Mars to be a strategic military objective of the newly created "Space Marines" armed service. Poof! Space exploration and military intergalactic security goals are now one and the same!
Of course maybe if he'd given his $15 billion military budget increase to NASA instead it would actually happen...
You have to have an actual plan and actual proposals and actual funding and actual equipment developed. The equipment development is taking place at a fair pace, but the others await.
I thought the same thing. All of the stuff NASA has been testing out and all of the concept work has been just that. Hopeful preparation. Even the SLS is a tool that might be used for trips to Mars. Or for when the Falcon Heavy doesn't have enough Shit 'n Git to put something big and heavy into orbit.
So even though any of us can check out anyone else's pages on say, Facebook a business cannot?
Europe, you so damn restrictive and weird about it too! Do y'all have a playbook for all these laws? Regardless, it seems a little strange that people would be posting shit on their facebook or twitter accounts that they don't want the world to see. Becuz da world is seeing it.
I propose the next law is making simple disagreement a hate crime.
As long as lax security doesn't have a significant negative financial impact on companies like Verizon nothing will happen.
If the past is any indication in matters of computer seurity in this world, almost everyone will be punished, and praise and promotions doled out for those responsible.
Levi the janitor will be fired, and they'll call it a job well done.
The logic is, if it can be tied to AGW, it is and is "Climate Change". If it doesn't fit AGW, it is "weather".
Well, yeah. Not certain the point that you are trying to make. These scientists you hate have said they can't tie this to global warming.
And if it is something we humans haven't seen before in recorded history, it is AGW, but only if it fits the narrative.
As noted before, the narrative here is a strawman made up in your head, so that you can slay it with your alternate facts.
Here is what a team member spokesman had to say
“Although this is a natural event, and we’re not aware of any link to human-induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position. This is the furthest back that the ice front has been in recorded history. We’re going to be watching very carefully for signs that the rest of the shelf is becoming unstable.”
And that is the narrative directly from the horses mouth. No awareness of any link.
Which in no way shape or form fits with your strawman narrative.
Record Snow falls, never before seen before... not so much. And Recorded history being... about 200 years or so.
Snowfalls can be indicative of warming. There is an area in the US known as the "Snow Belt" It egts a lot of snow every year. And it is further south than where I live. Snow requires moisture and freezing temperatures, but not too cold. In the Antarctic there really isn't that much snowfall. Too cold. What falls doesn't melt much, os it seems like a lot. But warm moist air from the gulf heading north and hitting cold air form the arctic can make for some yuge snowstorms. And the Snow Belt has crept northward. Philadelphis and Washington have been hammered in recent years. The idea that many science deniers have that GW is going to be tropical teas everywhere with no snow is simply wrong. Seasons still happen, and most places that got cold and snnow before still will. Thewarmer areas will just move north some - or south some depending on which side of the equator they are on.
Moving on - So you believe that we can only make climate and temperature data for about 200 years or so?
This is another illustration of exactly why science deniers are not getting the picture, it is possible you are ignorant of all of the dating methods that allow us to develop climate data.
Ice cores, land features, geological records - chemistry comes into play here as well, certain minerals form only under certain conditions. These are correlated with other measurements.
Think of it this way. If you do not believe in the data that shows what climate was like before 200 years ago, you cannot believe in global cooling or warming ever happened either. Many of the situations that determined the climate of ages past is linked to atmospheric composition, solar activity, and mineral composition It is not possible to believe that any ice ages or warm ages ever occurred because you reject the data that also shows that warming happened. You don't get to pick and choose.
Back to the iceberg. Icebergs calve all the time. Any one is only linked to itself. It is a function of ice and gravity as snow accumulates and compacts itself into ice, it will move if it can. Downhill, just like an extremely slow motion avalanche. Eventually it will break off after enough of it extends out into the ocean. Trying to tie that to AGW is very difficult.
But that being true, it does not negate the so called energy retention effects of the greenhouse gases, or the energy rejection effects of the anti-greenhouse gases. 800 some Terawatts of energy retention via radiative forcing.
Wow... First post is a global warming, the world is going to die, the sky if falling, Trump is killing us, "WOLF!" post...
Mr. Little, is that you? Chicken?
No, it isn't Mister Whoosh. Nothing more amusing than making your science denying, Trump loving FoxNews points on someone who is being sarcastic and agrees with your worldview. But thanks for playing, tovarish.
As this shows, plants to not want to be eaten. This makes it immoral for you to choose to eat them in the same way it is immoral for you to eat an animal.
Actually, it fits in with my philosophy that all life is precious, and deciding that one form of life is acceptable to eat and one form is not acceptable is making a moral choice that is bigoted.
We're here, we're omnivorous, and unless we are on a starvation fast, we need to eat.
I can hardly wait until my next encounter with a vegan that wants to do omnivore shaming.
It's kind of funny to have an American being critical of Australian power transmission even on a bad day. Maybe you should complain about things closer to home that are in a far worse state?
You are correct. Somewhere in there I read brownout instead of blackout.
What's a little odd is that I'm presumably criticizing Australian power techniques. In fact I applaud the forward thinking involved here with battery emplacement(s).
Meanwhile back here where I'm at, we're installing a lot of wind power, and I'm expecting battery driven leveling soon.
> The problem at it's undeniable base is that Today's crypto-conservatism has no actual ideas, other than tax cuts.
Here's an idea: leave people the fuck alone to let them make their way in this world. Stop throwing bread and circuses at people until they become blobs lacking any ambition and expecting magical fixes from the mother-state.
Ah, it's nice to hear from teh anarchists. Brcause as we all know, everyone behaves perfenctly until teh evil guvment come in and screws everything up.
Leaving "People the fuck aloone is a great way to become a slave or be killed by someone who tinks that bothering them is not leaving them alone to make their way.
I like how you have no debate for what I said other than to name call and claim you are talking from some moral superior high ground..
I have no debate for people who use deflection tactics. Your Hillary deflection would be as much a point as me pointiong out the Iran Contra affair. History, and not germain to the topic at hand.
Today's crypto-conservatism has no actual ideas, other than tax cuts.
If only. Today's crypto-conservatism has plenty of ideas. But they're all about how to sell tax cuts as something they're not.
That's still the concept that the answer to every problem is a tax cut. Different problems same solution. And works so well in the states where they implement it. Only not.
How to flatter people that they don't need to think too deeply about issues, that simplistic answers are fine - and then convince them of the specific simplistic answer that government is always the problem.
And have managed to get people who are living off the government dole to vote for people who will kick them off their lifeline. A work of genius, if only temporary.
As for government always being the problem, isn't it amazing that there are so many people running for positions that they claim to hate? This would be like me decideing that I want to be a technologist so that I can eliminate technology.
Yet people buy it. People seem to think that this person that claims to hate government is going to make it smaller if only he and all of his hombres are elected. Very few people try to get a job that they hope to lose. A political non-sequitur.
How to get the government to pay for things they want (and want to sell) while depleting it of resources to regulate the way businesses operate and treat their customers.
We are sadly in the Pecuniary extraction phase of a successful country, where the money is extracted into the hands of a few people. This has some important side effects. We're already ceding leadership positions in order to make a few folks wealthier. Science is next. A communist country is building the next Superconducting supercollider while we are all arguing about Caitlin/Bruce Jenner's proper room to defecate in, whether or not people have to make wedding cakes for gay people, and closing off science advisory. A country that discards science for political ideology is in trouble, and we are become the 21st centurey Lysenkoists.
I don't know if there is a fix for any of that, but just wait until the Yuan becomes the de-facto currency of the world, replacing the dollar. That's when we will know that we masturbated ourselves out of leadership. And the same people who put us there will demand answers and blame.
And to add to the Tax Cut cure all. This solution has been proven not to work.
Kansas GOP Congress just over ruled the Governor because Kansas was broke. The GOP voted to raise taxes just so the state would not go into bankruptcy.
Notice that the GOP of Kansas actually were the ones that said this idea of cutting taxes will we make more revenue is not working.
I liken it to the rudder on a boat. When the boat is going fast, the rudder has a marked effect. The rudder is tax cuts. Taxes can reach a point where they are onerous. So you cut back on taxes some, and it can have an effect. The boat might go a little slower.
But when the boat is going very slowly or stopped, the rudder can flail back and forth with little effect.
So tax cuts have their very own limitations. Hopefully supply-side Jesus won't strike me with lightning.
And yes Kansas and Oklahoma are reaping the rewards of crypto-conservative tax cuts. At some point the concept that the 1 percenters will create jobs for the 99 percenters if only they get more money has to answer just how much money they need to start creating jobs.
Is that like the liberal left and their only idea of throw money at it till it goes away?
You have none. Congratulations.
And do you really think that all the republicans are in a drum circle singing songs about how well they get along? McCain's and Graham's faction would LOVE Trump out of office because they could return to the war machine of selling weapons, something that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were all in on unless you missed the FACT that under President Obama they sold the most weapons to foreign nations of any president since WWII.
Perhaps I am arguing with a bag of weasels. Your unintelligent deflection argument ranks a zero on the scale. This is because people who make stupid deflection attempts are simply proving that they have absolutely nothing to ad to te conversation.
Obama and Clinton and selling weapons to foreign nations have absolutely nothing to do with this discussions. We are talking about you and yours having no ideas, and if you for a second think that that comment about people not even related to the subject at hand, that somehow arms sales by a couple Democrats trumps "The Republican Party has no ideas" - well you just proved my point. Problems wil go on, and you'll just blame blame blame.
Funny how people believe all the bullshit fed to them on the nightly news that this 2 parties are "ALWAYS" at odd with each other. If they are both cashing in on some underhanded deal you'd be amazed how well they can work together.
Funny how your attempt at defelection number two is just as successful at showing your utter mental bankruptcy as the first. It also brings up an interesting point. You anr yours are criminally weak. Can't fix problems, only whine and cry about how it's always the evil liberals, the Liberals who are so powerful that you can't defeat them even when they are in a significant minority. Sad.
This isn't about the previous occupant, or the person who didn't get elected to the POTUS. This isn't about CNN or MSNBC or FOX News.
It's about a political party that doesn't have a clue about how to govern, when having a clear majority, cannot put together a way to govern the country. Your defelction attempts are just showing that in a group of people who would try to equate a former president and a failed presidential candidate as somehow equivalent to the two failed attempts at passing a healthcare replacement bill, is clear proof that you have no ideas, only castigation. and therefore are pretty much a failure af governance.
Unfortunately it's mutated past that. I think this is part of what made Trump so popular in the GOP. He was actually coming up with ideas. They were terribly stupid ideas, but in the vacuum of the GOP, they sounded great (to the GOP voters).
Yes - I think you are correct. And to many crypto-conservatives, eventually there needs to be something else besides the Tax cut cure- all. When the party you vote for wants to take away your free health care - and make no mistake, the bedrock of crypto-conservatism has a lot of people who are on food stamps, medicaid, and other assistance - and replace what they are taking away from you with a...... you guessed it - a tax cut - they are starved for ideas.
Look at how much excitement "build a wall" got. Christ on a cracker, the "conservative" party went nuts over it even though the price tag would make the most tax-friendly liberal blush. To say nothing of the fact that 90% of undocumented workers from mexico come in by plane, or the wall would be 30 feet and easily climbable with a ladder.
I did some back of the envelope calculations, and their wall would be the biggest make work project in history, and would cause a shortage of both cement and iron used in the rebar, leading to increases in price leading to a bit of a positive feedback loop leading to an impossibility of making any sort of cogent idea on the cost, only reasonable answer is "really damn expensive".
All to build a dam wall, the symbol that the USA is adopting the Berlin wall concept as a core value.
If we could go back to the right wing merely saying "no" to everything, we'd be in a better place, but I fear we're in a new era with the right wing, one where the leaders spew out ideas that don't adhere to any political ideology of "we hate any one besides ourselves."
The concept of saying NO! to any and all ideas only works when you aren't in control, and have enough people to have a chance of enforcing the NO! . Someone elses always has to come up with the idea. But when you are the majority party, yet your only real idea is NO! , you are at a huge disadvantage. Because the crypto-conservatives were so busy saying NO! , it was masking the fact that they have no actual ideas.
This is why in addition to really stupid and cruel replacements for Romneycare that are thought up with no input from their enemy, the party of NO! is now saying it to themselves.
tl;dr version, when your only tool is NO! , every issue looks like something that you say NO! to. That's called eating their young.
Democrats aren't in control of any of the three branches of government. A core of republican voters simply want the GOP to shoot down anything the center and left wants to do.
The problem at it's undeniable base is that Today's crypto-conservatism has no actual ideas, other than tax cuts.
When you are in command of the House, the Senate, the presidency, and have a majority of governors in the states, and still can't come up with anything, have had two different stabs at healthcare reform while excluding the enemy from the entire discussion, you have to face it, you are not competent. You cannot govern.
When you are in control of all those things, yet allow the longest crypto-war in US history to drain and weaken the country, while being able to whip yourself into a frenzy about which restroom that stupid-ass Caitlyn/Bruce Jenner takes a shit in, you cannot govern.
It isn't surprising that we have conservative versus liberal clashes. It's a great way to make a governance work. People oon the progressive side of the spectrum tend to have a lot of ideas they want to enact. Some are really stupid and/or impossible. Conservatives by nature tend to have less ideas, but in a healthy governance, oppose the stupid ideas, and let the smart ones go through.
And that's how we got to this point. Someone managed to get the conservatives to declare any but their own as the enemy. The managed to get elected by fanning the flames of trumped-up issues.
And now in power, are tripping over their tongues, not fit to govern even when they have a sizeable majority. But that is what happens when the fix for the nation's healthcare system is their only tool - a tax cut.
Your sarcasm marks you as a probable Miscreant-o-soft paid shill, and as such you should consider jamming the nearest sharp object into your left eye socket all the way up to the hilt and killing yourself.
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Just simply declare Mars to be a strategic military objective of the newly created "Space Marines" armed service. Poof! Space exploration and military intergalactic security goals are now one and the same!
I heard that Mars has yuge coal reserves.
What am I missing. Who thought we already had funding in place to go to Mars?
Trump supporters.
Of course maybe if he'd given his $15 billion military budget increase to NASA instead it would actually happen...
You have to have an actual plan and actual proposals and actual funding and actual equipment developed. The equipment development is taking place at a fair pace, but the others await.
I thought the same thing. All of the stuff NASA has been testing out and all of the concept work has been just that. Hopeful preparation. Even the SLS is a tool that might be used for trips to Mars. Or for when the Falcon Heavy doesn't have enough Shit 'n Git to put something big and heavy into orbit.
And we'll have the best space program in the world.
Everything we have is the best. We have teh best people, the smartet people, and we're winning, goddammit!
Europe, you so damn restrictive and weird about it too! Do y'all have a playbook for all these laws? Regardless, it seems a little strange that people would be posting shit on their facebook or twitter accounts that they don't want the world to see. Becuz da world is seeing it.
I propose the next law is making simple disagreement a hate crime.
Damn right, back when I went to school our PE teacher showed us how to masturbate, and we could even try it on him to see if we do it right.
What? Why is everyone looking at me funny now?
Ah, I see you kids studied under Jerry Sandusky.
Lobbying/bribing is a poor investment in a competitive environment.
Lobbying and associated bribes is how the American political system is built. Baksheesh FTW!
Sad that it is called hacking though. This is basic physics coupled with a radio spectrum license violation. There is no hack whatsoever.
Yeah, most of the things called hacking today have no relation to the original meaning.
Yeah, the concept of the wanker song distressing mum and daddy is funny. Think of the Children!!!
I'm just wondering how many text filters are generating alerts on "mum, daddy, wanker and children" in the same sentence.
Hilarious! This is the story that keeps on giving.
As long as lax security doesn't have a significant negative financial impact on companies like Verizon nothing will happen.
If the past is any indication in matters of computer seurity in this world, almost everyone will be punished, and praise and promotions doled out for those responsible.
Levi the janitor will be fired, and they'll call it a job well done.
"calls from distressed listeners complaining that their kids started humming the song" -- that's hilarious
Yeah, the concept of the wanker song distressing mum and daddy is funny. Think of the Children!!!
I for one, welcome our new wanking overlords and their jam.
The logic is, if it can be tied to AGW, it is and is "Climate Change". If it doesn't fit AGW, it is "weather".
Well, yeah. Not certain the point that you are trying to make. These scientists you hate have said they can't tie this to global warming.
And if it is something we humans haven't seen before in recorded history, it is AGW, but only if it fits the narrative.
As noted before, the narrative here is a strawman made up in your head, so that you can slay it with your alternate facts.
Here is what a team member spokesman had to say
“Although this is a natural event, and we’re not aware of any link to human-induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position. This is the furthest back that the ice front has been in recorded history. We’re going to be watching very carefully for signs that the rest of the shelf is becoming unstable.”
And that is the narrative directly from the horses mouth. No awareness of any link.
Which in no way shape or form fits with your strawman narrative.
Record Snow falls, never before seen before ... not so much. And Recorded history being ... about 200 years or so.
Snowfalls can be indicative of warming. There is an area in the US known as the "Snow Belt" It egts a lot of snow every year. And it is further south than where I live. Snow requires moisture and freezing temperatures, but not too cold. In the Antarctic there really isn't that much snowfall. Too cold. What falls doesn't melt much, os it seems like a lot. But warm moist air from the gulf heading north and hitting cold air form the arctic can make for some yuge snowstorms. And the Snow Belt has crept northward. Philadelphis and Washington have been hammered in recent years. The idea that many science deniers have that GW is going to be tropical teas everywhere with no snow is simply wrong. Seasons still happen, and most places that got cold and snnow before still will. Thewarmer areas will just move north some - or south some depending on which side of the equator they are on. Moving on - So you believe that we can only make climate and temperature data for about 200 years or so? This is another illustration of exactly why science deniers are not getting the picture, it is possible you are ignorant of all of the dating methods that allow us to develop climate data.
Ice cores, land features, geological records - chemistry comes into play here as well, certain minerals form only under certain conditions. These are correlated with other measurements.
Think of it this way. If you do not believe in the data that shows what climate was like before 200 years ago, you cannot believe in global cooling or warming ever happened either. Many of the situations that determined the climate of ages past is linked to atmospheric composition, solar activity, and mineral composition It is not possible to believe that any ice ages or warm ages ever occurred because you reject the data that also shows that warming happened. You don't get to pick and choose. Back to the iceberg. Icebergs calve all the time. Any one is only linked to itself. It is a function of ice and gravity as snow accumulates and compacts itself into ice, it will move if it can. Downhill, just like an extremely slow motion avalanche. Eventually it will break off after enough of it extends out into the ocean. Trying to tie that to AGW is very difficult.
But that being true, it does not negate the so called energy retention effects of the greenhouse gases, or the energy rejection effects of the anti-greenhouse gases. 800 some Terawatts of energy retention via radiative forcing.
Wow... First post is a global warming, the world is going to die, the sky if falling, Trump is killing us, "WOLF!" post...
Mr. Little, is that you? Chicken?
No, it isn't Mister Whoosh. Nothing more amusing than making your science denying, Trump loving FoxNews points on someone who is being sarcastic and agrees with your worldview. But thanks for playing, tovarish.
As this shows, plants to not want to be eaten. This makes it immoral for you to choose to eat them in the same way it is immoral for you to eat an animal.
Actually, it fits in with my philosophy that all life is precious, and deciding that one form of life is acceptable to eat and one form is not acceptable is making a moral choice that is bigoted.
We're here, we're omnivorous, and unless we are on a starvation fast, we need to eat.
I can hardly wait until my next encounter with a vegan that wants to do omnivore shaming.
It's kind of funny to have an American being critical of Australian power transmission even on a bad day. Maybe you should complain about things closer to home that are in a far worse state?
You are correct. Somewhere in there I read brownout instead of blackout.
What's a little odd is that I'm presumably criticizing Australian power techniques. In fact I applaud the forward thinking involved here with battery emplacement(s). Meanwhile back here where I'm at, we're installing a lot of wind power, and I'm expecting battery driven leveling soon.
> The problem at it's undeniable base is that Today's crypto-conservatism has no actual ideas, other than tax cuts.
Here's an idea: leave people the fuck alone to let them make their way in this world. Stop throwing bread and circuses at people until they become blobs lacking any ambition and expecting magical fixes from the mother-state.
Ah, it's nice to hear from teh anarchists. Brcause as we all know, everyone behaves perfenctly until teh evil guvment come in and screws everything up.
Leaving "People the fuck aloone is a great way to become a slave or be killed by someone who tinks that bothering them is not leaving them alone to make their way.
I like how you have no debate for what I said other than to name call and claim you are talking from some moral superior high ground. .
I have no debate for people who use deflection tactics. Your Hillary deflection would be as much a point as me pointiong out the Iran Contra affair. History, and not germain to the topic at hand.
Today's crypto-conservatism has no actual ideas, other than tax cuts.
If only. Today's crypto-conservatism has plenty of ideas. But they're all about how to sell tax cuts as something they're not.
That's still the concept that the answer to every problem is a tax cut. Different problems same solution. And works so well in the states where they implement it. Only not.
How to flatter people that they don't need to think too deeply about issues, that simplistic answers are fine - and then convince them of the specific simplistic answer that government is always the problem.
And have managed to get people who are living off the government dole to vote for people who will kick them off their lifeline. A work of genius, if only temporary.
As for government always being the problem, isn't it amazing that there are so many people running for positions that they claim to hate? This would be like me decideing that I want to be a technologist so that I can eliminate technology.
Yet people buy it. People seem to think that this person that claims to hate government is going to make it smaller if only he and all of his hombres are elected. Very few people try to get a job that they hope to lose. A political non-sequitur.
How to get the government to pay for things they want (and want to sell) while depleting it of resources to regulate the way businesses operate and treat their customers.
We are sadly in the Pecuniary extraction phase of a successful country, where the money is extracted into the hands of a few people. This has some important side effects. We're already ceding leadership positions in order to make a few folks wealthier. Science is next. A communist country is building the next Superconducting supercollider while we are all arguing about Caitlin/Bruce Jenner's proper room to defecate in, whether or not people have to make wedding cakes for gay people, and closing off science advisory. A country that discards science for political ideology is in trouble, and we are become the 21st centurey Lysenkoists.
I don't know if there is a fix for any of that, but just wait until the Yuan becomes the de-facto currency of the world, replacing the dollar. That's when we will know that we masturbated ourselves out of leadership. And the same people who put us there will demand answers and blame.
I suspect their cure will be:
A tax cut.
And to add to the Tax Cut cure all. This solution has been proven not to work. Kansas GOP Congress just over ruled the Governor because Kansas was broke. The GOP voted to raise taxes just so the state would not go into bankruptcy.
Notice that the GOP of Kansas actually were the ones that said this idea of cutting taxes will we make more revenue is not working.
I liken it to the rudder on a boat. When the boat is going fast, the rudder has a marked effect. The rudder is tax cuts. Taxes can reach a point where they are onerous. So you cut back on taxes some, and it can have an effect. The boat might go a little slower.
But when the boat is going very slowly or stopped, the rudder can flail back and forth with little effect.
So tax cuts have their very own limitations. Hopefully supply-side Jesus won't strike me with lightning.
And yes Kansas and Oklahoma are reaping the rewards of crypto-conservative tax cuts. At some point the concept that the 1 percenters will create jobs for the 99 percenters if only they get more money has to answer just how much money they need to start creating jobs.
Is that like the liberal left and their only idea of throw money at it till it goes away?
You have none. Congratulations.
And do you really think that all the republicans are in a drum circle singing songs about how well they get along? McCain's and Graham's faction would LOVE Trump out of office because they could return to the war machine of selling weapons, something that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were all in on unless you missed the FACT that under President Obama they sold the most weapons to foreign nations of any president since WWII.
Perhaps I am arguing with a bag of weasels. Your unintelligent deflection argument ranks a zero on the scale. This is because people who make stupid deflection attempts are simply proving that they have absolutely nothing to ad to te conversation.
Obama and Clinton and selling weapons to foreign nations have absolutely nothing to do with this discussions. We are talking about you and yours having no ideas, and if you for a second think that that comment about people not even related to the subject at hand, that somehow arms sales by a couple Democrats trumps "The Republican Party has no ideas" - well you just proved my point. Problems wil go on, and you'll just blame blame blame.
Funny how people believe all the bullshit fed to them on the nightly news that this 2 parties are "ALWAYS" at odd with each other. If they are both cashing in on some underhanded deal you'd be amazed how well they can work together.
Funny how your attempt at defelection number two is just as successful at showing your utter mental bankruptcy as the first. It also brings up an interesting point. You anr yours are criminally weak. Can't fix problems, only whine and cry about how it's always the evil liberals, the Liberals who are so powerful that you can't defeat them even when they are in a significant minority. Sad.
This isn't about the previous occupant, or the person who didn't get elected to the POTUS. This isn't about CNN or MSNBC or FOX News.
It's about a political party that doesn't have a clue about how to govern, when having a clear majority, cannot put together a way to govern the country. Your defelction attempts are just showing that in a group of people who would try to equate a former president and a failed presidential candidate as somehow equivalent to the two failed attempts at passing a healthcare replacement bill, is clear proof that you have no ideas, only castigation. and therefore are pretty much a failure af governance.
Unfortunately it's mutated past that. I think this is part of what made Trump so popular in the GOP. He was actually coming up with ideas. They were terribly stupid ideas, but in the vacuum of the GOP, they sounded great (to the GOP voters).
Yes - I think you are correct. And to many crypto-conservatives, eventually there needs to be something else besides the Tax cut cure- all. When the party you vote for wants to take away your free health care - and make no mistake, the bedrock of crypto-conservatism has a lot of people who are on food stamps, medicaid, and other assistance - and replace what they are taking away from you with a...... you guessed it - a tax cut - they are starved for ideas.
Look at how much excitement "build a wall" got. Christ on a cracker, the "conservative" party went nuts over it even though the price tag would make the most tax-friendly liberal blush. To say nothing of the fact that 90% of undocumented workers from mexico come in by plane, or the wall would be 30 feet and easily climbable with a ladder.
I did some back of the envelope calculations, and their wall would be the biggest make work project in history, and would cause a shortage of both cement and iron used in the rebar, leading to increases in price leading to a bit of a positive feedback loop leading to an impossibility of making any sort of cogent idea on the cost, only reasonable answer is "really damn expensive".
All to build a dam wall, the symbol that the USA is adopting the Berlin wall concept as a core value.
If we could go back to the right wing merely saying "no" to everything, we'd be in a better place, but I fear we're in a new era with the right wing, one where the leaders spew out ideas that don't adhere to any political ideology of "we hate any one besides ourselves."
The concept of saying NO! to any and all ideas only works when you aren't in control, and have enough people to have a chance of enforcing the NO! . Someone elses always has to come up with the idea. But when you are the majority party, yet your only real idea is NO! , you are at a huge disadvantage. Because the crypto-conservatives were so busy saying NO! , it was masking the fact that they have no actual ideas.
This is why in addition to really stupid and cruel replacements for Romneycare that are thought up with no input from their enemy, the party of NO! is now saying it to themselves.
tl;dr version, when your only tool is NO! , every issue looks like something that you say NO! to. That's called eating their young.
Democrats aren't in control of any of the three branches of government. A core of republican voters simply want the GOP to shoot down anything the center and left wants to do.
The problem at it's undeniable base is that Today's crypto-conservatism has no actual ideas, other than tax cuts.
When you are in command of the House, the Senate, the presidency, and have a majority of governors in the states, and still can't come up with anything, have had two different stabs at healthcare reform while excluding the enemy from the entire discussion, you have to face it, you are not competent. You cannot govern.
When you are in control of all those things, yet allow the longest crypto-war in US history to drain and weaken the country, while being able to whip yourself into a frenzy about which restroom that stupid-ass Caitlyn/Bruce Jenner takes a shit in, you cannot govern.
It isn't surprising that we have conservative versus liberal clashes. It's a great way to make a governance work. People oon the progressive side of the spectrum tend to have a lot of ideas they want to enact. Some are really stupid and/or impossible. Conservatives by nature tend to have less ideas, but in a healthy governance, oppose the stupid ideas, and let the smart ones go through.
And that's how we got to this point. Someone managed to get the conservatives to declare any but their own as the enemy. The managed to get elected by fanning the flames of trumped-up issues.
And now in power, are tripping over their tongues, not fit to govern even when they have a sizeable majority. But that is what happens when the fix for the nation's healthcare system is their only tool - a tax cut.
Even if they're stupid, at least he's coming up with some ideas ...
Now that's putting a positive spin on things.
We have the best stupid people, who put out the best stupid ideas. Awesome!
Well, we have to legalize jamming first. Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it.
Your sarcasm marks you as a probable Miscreant-o-soft paid shill, and as such you should consider jamming the nearest sharp object into your left eye socket all the way up to the hilt and killing yourself.
Hi Rick.