GHung wrote:Cog will be crying like a baby in a couple of years when he sees what a Trump dictatorship has done to his so-called civil liberties. Bush started DHS, ICE, etc., Obama institutionalised those things, and Trump will take it all to the Bank of Surveillance and Oppression. So much for your freedoms, dumbass.
GHung wrote:Gosh, Cog, do you really think your penis extensions will save you?
Republicans control
– Senate
– House
– Maj. of Governors
– Supreme Court pick
– Presidency
This hasn't happened since 1928
Pops wrote:This isn't strictly economic I only decided to put it here on the last lineRepublicans control
– Senate
– House
– Maj. of Governors
– Supreme Court pick
– Presidency
This hasn't happened since 1928
http://people.com/politics/trump-gop-su ... eme-court/
But the 1928 comparison is instructive. It’s the last time a Republican president enjoyed anything like the majority Trump will have, particularly in the House.
And how did that work out for them?
Hoover took over in a time of general prosperity but stagnant wages and vast income inequality. Populists in Congress proposed dramatic increases in tariffs to help the struggling agricultural sector, the equivalent of today’s beleaguered blue-collar workers.
The proposal divided Republicans in Congress and Hoover before they produced the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, setting off retaliation, freezing international trade, contributing to the Great Depression and accelerating a ruinous cycle of nationalism around the world.
Hoover’s ghost should haunt the GOP right now. A populist, protectionist president has come to power at a time of long-depressed wages and vast inequality. He threatens to implement a 45 percent tariff against China and 35 percent against Mexico, and he’s about to collide with free-traders and pro-business interests in his own party.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Pops wrote:false equivalency is sorta the story of 2016 isn't it?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
pstarr wrote: so what is the plan cog? What do you see as the solution to the 2nd amendment crisis? M60 open carry? Mandatory carry in schools?What? What 2nd Amendment right has Obama and the Hateful Left stolen from you? 30-bullet mags? Oh the horror
Tanada wrote:Funny, when the Democrats had both houses AND the Presidency in 2009-2010 I did not hear any talk by Democrats about how checks and balances had all gone out the window and the end of the world was nigh?
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