nortex97 said:
LOYAL AG said:
Biden spent a career in DC and he nor anyone is his family has ever done anything meaningful in the private sector, ever. Yet somehow they made tens of millions of dollars. How does that happen if not for corruption?
Sir, Hunter Biden was the smartest guy Peepaw knew and was a fantastically successful international oil and gas consultant, as well as an artist who produced several masterpieces for the world to enjoy.
Back to the topic at hand, it's time the GOP played the Dems game. Stolen from Matt Forney on x:
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f true, it's smart politics, the kind that the Democrats have been doing to Republicans for ages.
Following the 2000 election, the Senate was split 50-50, with Dick Cheney casting the tiebreaking vote. A few months into 2001, Vermont Republican Jim Jeffords suddenly left the party, became an independent, and signed a sweetheart deal with Democrats to give them control in exchange for getting to keep his committee seats. Republicans didn't win back control until the 2002 midterms.
In 2009, Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter abruptly switched to the Democrats, giving them a veto-proof majority and enabling the passage of Obamacare. Specter didn't even hide his self-serving reasons for crossing the aisle; he straight-up said he did it because he believed he would lose the next GOP primary. Joke ended up being on him because Pennsylvania Democrats thought he was too right-wing and turfed him out in THEIR primary in 2010, with the seat returning to Republican control in that year's midterms. In both cases, Democrats overrode the will of the voters to get majorities they could not win at the ballot box.
John Fetterman has been a loyal Democratic soldier on most votes, but he's found himself isolated within the party regardless. He's too much of a chud. He's pro-Israel. He wants to crack down on crime and he's fine with border enforcement. He's almost certainly going to lose renomination in 2028 because the Mamdani wing of the party hates him now.
Realistically, Fetterman would be the most left-wing Senate Republican if he takes the deal. But MAGA is a broad-based majority coalition now. It's the New Deal Coalition of the 21st century, with its own progressive (Tulsi Gabbard, RFK) and conservative (JD Vance, Marco Rubio) wings. Fetterman should take the deal because he has no future as a Democrat.
Good points, imho.
I think that's a great assessment. Here's the truth conservatives haven't figured out yet, including those on F16. The Republican Party isn't conservative and hasn't been for 20+ years. They've been "less liberal" at best. I think most know that but what they don't know is it doesn't matter. You can count me among them, by the way.
Right now the battle is between a broad coalition of old school Democrats and moderate Republicans vs an increasingly radical left that's hell bent on the federal government becoming an all powerful communist entity immune to the outcome of votes. That's just a simple fact. Look where the youth of each party is right now and tell me where both parties are going to be in a decade. There is nothing moderate about the young democrats currently in office which is why the party moderates are leaving.
This is just where we are right now. Doesn't matter even a little that we don't like where the Republicans are, it's far better than the Democrats. I'm very libertarian, I hate government beyond the core functions of roads, public safety and defense. I used to say things like, "The Democrats are right 30% of the time and the Republicans are right 30% of the time which means both are wrong more than either is right." Now I've had to change to, "The Republicans are right 40% of the time and the Democrats are always wrong which is why we've become such a soup sandwich."
At some point you'd think even the most TDS infected moderates would ask themselves how many moderates have to leave the before they realize this isn't what they signed up for either. That remains to be seen.
