Raygun was criminal who misread Andropov and nearly got us into a nuclear war. A majority in the US were suckered into voting for a TV star in the 80's and this century only shows how stupid a lot of the population is.
When does your lot recognize the correlation between religious paternalistic irrationality and your choices for strongman authoritarians?
You might not know her, but she is part of the coffee bible klatch that is of course right-wing. If anyone needs an example of the trump cult, she is typical. And yes, I look down upon cults and the members, especially when they run when challenged."your lot"?
Jesus. Let's just generalize to the max here!
"your lot" are the most arrogant, judgemental people on earth and you don't even speak the language properly.
"Lot" Have you EVER looked up the definition?
Your "lot"......!
Wow! What a load of bull!
any time you feel like you can debate substantial subjects, like the parallel between religious belief and picking strongman authoritarians, let me know.
You don't even know who Andropov was. You don't even recognize Newt as a father figure for MAGA.Wow! What a load of bull!
Gingrich was another RINO in the Lindsey Graham mold. He went whichever way the political winds blew. He was instrumental in the republicans gaining control of the House of Reps; however he was then ultimately responsible for the GOP losing the majority.
Ofcourse I knew who the bastard was.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
This is so incredibly ignorant! The GOP was a staid boring bunch of white guys that had the occasional bunch of right-wing extremists make noise (think Birchers) but Newt was the guy that made right-wing extremisms an art form in the House, he coalesced it into a platform to undermine the New Deal with the "Contract".
Absolutely meaningless blurts, he ushered in the age of MAGA, a populist anti-democracy movement bent on destroying fundamental federal social programs, his contract was to break the social contract in the US. We are seeing the fruit of those labors now, and yet MAGA doesn't even know who he was or what he did.
Stupid, ignorant responses.
The libruls real problem is that they lack the ability to look inward when they lose elections. That was true during the Reagan era and it's true during the Trump era. They are not for instance trying to work out why they lost working class Americans and bled minorities in the 2024 election. They ended up getting a large boot up their ass on the southern border issue, yet they are declaring war on ICE deportations.
They were both really bad tv actors who only gained famed for their use of media and both ended up making US debt much worse, to say nothing of how they reversed all sorts social progress. They are/were racist authoritarians who relied upon image and their support of the religious right. They are both cult leaders.
May have something to do with your political naivety.
You argue this in light of or ignorance of Rayguns amnesty. If you think turning ICE et al into a federal secret police is going to cause widespread popularity, maybe you ought to take a look at the No Kings protests a little closer. You just keep ignoring how radical your lot has become, but thats often the case with cults.
Your one line responses are not debate. You are ignorant about what Newt created, you have no idea how he was not a tree swaying in the breeze, to even describe him that way is so absurd. Whenever it gets to brass tacks, you get it so wrong and follow it up with your childish pointless posts.May have something to do with your political naivety.
I say a lot of the Trump criticism comes from the political era we’re now living in, that of polarization, the great divide, the super, mega, ultra-high partisanship. The love/hate of Trump is a byproduct of this era. Although Trump brings a lot of this on himself, mainly his obnoxious, uncouth, rude persona, he comes across as an egotist and at times having the mentality of a 4 year old spoiled brat with his name calling, throwing of temper tantrums along with his 3rd grade schoolyard bullying tactics.
Oh, cultish loyalty, the absurdity. TACO is not new, it is who he is.
We have been declaring law on the deportations, the police state tactics are an assault on the Constitution. The admin is using the same tactics used against universities, go for an example with brute force. The actions by the admin were a provocation to create the use of federal troops on a civilian population. LA was picked for its visibility and it being a long held up enemy of the rightwing, this is pure weaponization of govt agencies in the most extreme form without cause but with intent to cause harm.