Mid-air Collusion (Mueller Thread v. 19)

[ChainFlow]

Actually, only about 25% of the country identifies as Republican. About 30% of the population identifies as Democratic. About 45% identifies as independent. The numbers fluctuate from time-to-time, but they stay around that rate. So the Republicans actually have an inherent demographic disadvantage. However, they're able to overcome this by appealing to conservative/moderate Democrats and independents. And the increasing Democratic reliance on identity politics alienates more and more of these people. So that's why they're still able to win these days despite having only about a quarter of the population identifying with them.

Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

Republicans are able to compete despite the massive unpopularity of their positions thanks to two things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/17/upshot/pennsylvania-gerrymandering.html

If you look at the polling, no one likes the policies Republicans are pushing. Majorities across the board support Democrat positions. More people vote Democrat than Republican in most elections, even with the voter suppression Republicans have been pushing relentlessly (see the recent Georgia announcement that they were closing down 7 out of 9 polling locations in a 60% black district? One of hundreds or thousands of examples). Despite that, somehow Republicans end up with majorities in the House and state legislatures.

The Republican Party does not care what most people want. They are brazenly anti-democratic. The party exists to say whatever identity politics nonsense will rile up their Fox News-viewing, mouth-breathing base enough to go vote for people who want to cut their SNAP, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, highway infrastructure, bridge maintenance, ethics watchdogs, clean air and water oversight, corporate malfeasance investigations, consumer protection watchdogs, election integrity commissions, and investigators to determine whether the sitting President and/or his campaign arranged a quid pro quo with a hostile foreign power.

 

[bobgeese]

If you look at the polling, no one likes the policies Republicans are pushing.

That’s odd, could have sworn half the country was in favor of what republicans are doing...

 

[zebby23]

That’s odd, could have sworn half the country was in favor of what republicans are doing...

half of the country? Seriously? 43% of Americans approve of the job the Donald is doing. Also 59% of Americans feel the country is on the wrong track.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/politico-morning-consult-poll/

I know I know... Since these polls don't fit your narrative they are fake,

 

[44nutman]

The Truth isn’t the truth is obviously a truth trap.

 

[bobgeese]

half of the country? Seriously? 43% of Americans approve of the job the Donald is doing. Also 59% of Americans feel the country is on the wrong track.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/politico-morning-consult-poll/

I know I know... Since these polls don't fit your narrative they are fake,

^^^ believes polls in 2018.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Giuliani got caught talking too fast and made a poor comparison. There are two people who both claim to be telling the truth, when the two are mutually exclusive, one truth isn't truth.
This flub is great for headlines but it shouldn't be. This is just semantics.

While I can appreciate that POV, this is hardly the first time I've thought he was intentionally throwing confusion into the dialogue. It's not too much to ask for people associated with this unpresidential jackass to speak precisely and say what they mean, rather than say something and redefine it later to mean its opposite.

These clowns want to speak so imprecisely that they can say anything at all and claim they misspoke.

 

[zebby23]

^^^ believes polls in 2018.

I knew it... Doesn't suit your narrative so fake news. lol

I'm sure you believe only people on Sherdog disapprove of Trump.

 

[Hollywood Jack]

^^^ believes polls in 2018.

Predictable.

 

[zebby23]

Predictable.

Predictable and kinda pathetic

 

[44nutman]

^^^ believes polls in 2018.

^^^^
Believes meeting at Trump Tower was not a crime.

 

[zebby23]

^^^^
Believes meeting at Trump Tower was not a crime.

Was just about adoption... Such a nothing

 

[Strychnine]

John Dean has some sage advice for Trump administration staffers...

Spoiler

"So if things seem a tad Watergate-y to you these days, imagine how Dean feels. He’s seen this movie before. Hell, he’s helped make this movie before. And now he’s saying to White House staffers, “Whatever you do, don’t be me”:"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...White-House-staffers-Get-out?detail=emaildkre

 

[bobgeese]

^^^^
Believes meeting at Trump Tower was not a crime.

Meeting with a citizen of a country, not a person representing the government, to potentially get dirt on an opponent, is not at all a crime. It is opposition research.


You should probably watch less msnbc.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

^^^^
Believes meeting at Trump Tower was not a crime.

It may not have been. I've not heard anything definitive establishing that.

It certainly skirted the spirit of American patriotism if not the law.

 

[bobgeese]

I knew it... Doesn't suit your narrative so fake news. lol

I'm sure you believe only people on Sherdog disapprove of Trump.

Please find the last time I quoted, or even mentioned a poll.


Polls are wholly unreliable at a time where you may be physically assaulted for supporting Trump. Sorry you’re so gullible.

 

[bobgeese]

It certainly skirted the spirit of American patriotism if not the law.

So what do you call the actions of democrats?

Paying foreign agents to PAY RUSSIANS
Abuse of federal agencies
Literally spying on the trump campaign
Crying for two years and blaming, the alt right, Russians, white nationals, and everyone but yourself.




PS, you’re correct, it wasn’t a crime.

 

[zebby23]

Please find the last time I quoted, or even mentioned a poll.


Polls are wholly unreliable at a time where you may be physically assaulted for supporting Trump. Sorry you’re so gullible.

Don't care. Politico is one of the most unbiased publications out there. Trumpers should be verbally assaulted to the point they retreat to their safe spaces (which they often do) physical violence shouldn't be tolerated by anyone but I know you support violence against leftists because that's just who Trumpers are.

 

[zebby23]

So what do you call the actions of democrats?

Paying foreign agents to PAY RUSSIANS
Abuse of federal agencies
Literally spying on the trump campaign
Crying for two years and blaming, the alt right, Russians, white nationals, and everyone but yourself.




PS, you’re correct, it wasn’t a crime.

Wait, we have a republican president with a republican DOJ. A republican house and republican senate. Yet there are no investigations except the one with Trump and Russia.

Seems like the only people crying about Dems and Russia are Trump and his bots

 

[44nutman]

Meeting with a citizen of a country, not a person representing the government, to potentially get dirt on an opponent, is not at all a crime. It is opposition research.


You should probably watch less msnbc.

You are much like your hero Comrade Nunes.
You must protect Trump at all costs even if Trump is guilty. That type of thinking is counter productive to a democracy.

 

[Strychnine]

From the people that brought you fake news now comes truth isn't truth

"What is Truth?"
- Pontius Pilate to The Lord Jesus Christ
John 18:38