The other part of Maher's show from Friday night. Kasich opens a bit shaky by trying to split hairs on recreational vs. medicinal marijuana, which Maher rightly calls out, but from that point on it is a splendid interview revealing the "reformation" of the Republican party that was genuinely needed, not this "anti-establishment" mongoloid who currently inhabits the office; that Kasich was ever perceived as the "establishment" just reveals how ignorant the Trumpets are.
Trump was supposed to be the guy who radically redefined the Republican party. What a spectacular lie. What a cheap con. From killing internet privacy/neutrality to proposing a one-page tax plan that kills taxes for the
1% to his health care plan that seems determined to kill everybody but Warren Buffett...the man has proven to be nothing but a lie.
He was supposed to be the outsider who would rein in Wall Street, but instead Goldman Sachs alumni and other billionaires hold more positions in his cabinet than in any administration in history. His son-in-law (who is a lifelong Democrat) recently was revealed to secretly hold partnerships with Goldman Sachs and George Soros.
He is rolling back Frank-Dodd which was the backbone of some of the only protections against central banking malfeasance that led to the Great Recession. There's no talk about restoring previous protections or measures like Glass-Steagall, either, or creating new but spiritually similar legislation. There's no talk of restrictions or reform of any kind for the central banks & the largest hedge fund managers that doesn't involve the word "deregulation". This is probably the only real estate in the country where nearly every American agrees that regulations are a
good and necessary thing with more needed.
Each new day brings a troubling new headline about Trump businesses abusing the separation of vested financial family interest. Just this week they used an official state department's twitter to pimp Ivanka's book, and pushed reporters out of a room where many of Kushner's business associates were speaking with Chinese elites.
He was going to be the President who stopped ruling by executive decree, and yet he's issued more executive orders in his first 100 days than any other President except for FDR (who was socializing everything to fight off the Great Depression).
They're not even well-written, btw, because the man can barely read, and struggles comprehending even the simplest metaphors like George W. Bush's famous remark that there are "no corners in the Oval Office".
He relentlessly harangued Obama for taking too many vacations and wasting taxpayer money, and yet he spent nearly as much of our money carting state retinues to Mar-A-Lago in his first month (heavily padding his own pocket) than Obama spent on travel and vacations in his first year.
He was going to be the President who understood job creation, but he's creating jobs at a slower rate than Obama did last year, and the majority of pay improvement is going to supervisors/management.
He was supposed to be the candidate who would end the globalist cabal by restoring relations with Putin and other governments focused on actually exterminating radical Islam, while simultaneously pulling us out of the quagmire of war that serves only the military industrial complex, and yet a few months later he hammers Assad with 59 Tomahawks while playing cold war games of hysterical escalation with North Korea. No permission asked. We're still installed in the Middle East. He appears determined not only to spend more than ever on the military, but also to be at least equally interventionist as the most neoconservative past administrations, and to be more unilateral as an executive than ever before.
Many classic conservatives supported Trump because of the Supreme Court seat due to their commanding desire to finally do something about abortion. To many conservatives, abortion is the #1 evil in government public policy. Well, he just fully funded Planned Parenthood again. So much for that.
Any hope he was going to get the Republicans off the railroad tracks terminating off the side of a cliff with the marijuana issue? Nope, nope, nope. We have an AG who analogizes marijuana to heroin, and is promising to use federal drug laws to bully state, county, and municipal districts that defy him (and like any good lawman, he has openly flirted with implementing this strategy to harass politically antagonistic districts for entirely unrelated matters, such as sanctuary cities). Expecting an end to big government Republicanism and a return to classic libertarian philosophy? Not here! Not a chance!
He's a populist, alright: a Goldman Sachs populist. Face it, Trumpets: you got conned.
Now go and listen to Kasich speak. This is the tone needed for the future of the Republican party. This is a man who could push policy that has a chance for long-term health in terms of making inroads into minorities, women, and the less affluent. This is the reform the Republican party needs. Fiscal responsibility doesn't entail draconian callousness, and it absolutely shouldn't be married to gross ignorance like climate change denialism or anti-vaccine rhetoric.
Trump is just cocking 2043's hammer. ICE isn't changing the evolution of the country's demographic make-up. A toll will be paid. I'm white, so I would prefer it not be paid in blood.
