Remember when Republicans were crowing about American Energy Independence?

Look what Trump has done.

"Look how they massacred my boy."

To any Republicans reading this, which is none of them, because they're all chickenshit: You deserve to freeze to death.

Does anyone care to address the core problem and how it gets fixed? A failure to educate our children in civics.
#47 | Posted by BellRinger

You, personally, oppose teaching any American history that might lead kids to think America did something bad, in case that makes them feel bad about America.

You've undergone a complete moral collapse since around the time you believe the frat guy. The one who said the Dixie flag on his wall stands for something other than racism. You failed civics at that moment in your life, and you've never recovered.

Get people like you out of the business of education. Get people like you from children's minds, and things will get better.

If they implement policies that are more about social justice than economical impact and every day people don't see a change in their budget, then we be right back to swinging the pendulum back.
#31 | Posted by kwrx25

I couldn't agree more and this is a big part of why so many Democrats including myself want Schumer (AIPAC, Wall Street) and Jeffries (AIPAC, Wall Street) removed from leadership roles.

Though it's true that returning to an America under Biden would be a huge improvement for just about everyone, people are not looking to go "back" to the way things used to be. Because that wasn't so great for most Americans.

The problems that have been brewing since Reagan are still brewing, just not as fast when Democrats are in charge. Republicans won't raise wages, Democrats won't raise wages either, thinking it's sufficient if they throw a pizza party for the downtrodden workers. Like this is a morale problem, and not a structural economic problem that's been eroding the middle class for longer than any of us have been on the Internet (rip Zatoichi). Democrats will have to do better than that if they expect to win in 2028. Personally I don't think they will have much luck.

Schumer did do a pretty good job throwing money at races in the midterms. His AIPAC ass even backed the Michigan Muslim to the tune of $20M after the preferred AIPAC flunky lost the primary. Is that a relevant skillset for Senate Leader with a hostile President? I'm not convinced, but at least it does show some loyalty and pragmatism.

AIPAC funds a majority of both parties of Congress, so I'm thinking Schumer's calculus is there's nothing AES or AOC can really do about AIPAC's influence. But I think AIPAC's influence is an excellent Poster Child for what Democrat voters (and plenty of Republicans too) think is the problem with American politics.

"If it was really genocide they would have destroyed the whole hospital at once."
Signed,
Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and the Republican Party

The Party that's made it harder for Americans to exercise their Civic Right of Voting throughout my life -- wants to lecture us on Civics.

"JeffJ Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda!"
--Sir Mixalot, probably

The Party that says Americans have no Civic Duty -- except maybe to show up if they get drafted -- wants to lecture us on Civics.

I mean, I guess you could say Putin "fumbled" the invasion of Ukraine but it seems like weak tea.
The invasion of Ukraine revealed systemic structural problems in Russia's military capabilities that are much bigger than one fumble.
It's a relatively minor point so I should probably do another seventeen posts about it.

Spies don't get executed any more, they get traded.

Julius and Ethel were civilians, that's why they got send to Old Sparky.

"I'm talking about the opportunity, not the scale of the error"

And surely you can see ignoring the severity, scope, deliberateness, and duration of the error;
Instead labeling it like a transitory momentary accident that everyone occasionally makes,
That's the "excuse making."

"Fumble" - you
"close to an extinction-level event" -- Ron DeSantis.

Nobody would think you're describing the same thing.

I mean, what's it say about you that mega-fuckface DeSantis is calling it something worse than you're willing call it?

The "how" isn't nearly as mysterious as the why.
#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Your boy Trump is trying to build a giant useless Arch.

You're a fucking retard if you find that mysterious as to the "why."

Fuck how stupid you are.

"BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD A MANDATE"

A two year long (minimum) error in judgment is not simply a fumble. It's more like enough losing seasons that the fans are demanding the owner sells the team. Which the fans demanded last Tuesday.

We probably mostly agree here, you're just not seeing the same scale of the failure that I see. Ron DeSantis says it was much bigger than a fumble, for example.

And it's "excuse making" because even the best running backs will fumble once in a while. It's part of the game.

Compare that to lockstep support for fascism, which has been the Republican game plan as long as I've been alive.

That's no fumble. That's a conscious, deliberate, screw America choice.

"What they had was an opportunity and they FUMBLED it."

The point I'm making:
A fumble doesn't last for two years.

Republicans thought they were going to spike the ball in the end zone last Tuesday.

And they did. Just in the wrong end zone.

"Does anyone care to address the core problem and how it gets fixed?"

That was addressed broadly last Tuesday. Republicans are the problem, according to voters.

Starting with Low IQ Voters who don't even know how public schools are funded.

A fumble is when a player drops the ball and ruins an otherwise good play.

But Project 2025, if executed more effectively, would make America even worse than it already has.

That's why it's not a fumble.

It's not a fumble that virtually every elected Republican fell in line behind Trump's agenda.

It's terrible judgment to the point of malfeasance that virtually every elected Republican fell in line behind Trump's agenda.

Stop making excuses for these shitstains.

Eberly tapped out "SSI" in Morse Code at the end of his comment.

Must be a reference to the few remaining Greatest Generation (another pandering construct) who are still alive and collecting Social Security.

Let me try that again: Republican leadership under Trump 2.0 has been implementing Project 2025.

That's not a "fumble."

That's a reflection that Project 2025 is a terrible plan for the average American.

The RNC fumbled by thinking they had a mandate
#14 | POSTED BY KWRX25

They did have a mandate.
They didn't fumble.

The problem is people don't actually like what Project 2025 delivers:
Inflation up. Gas prices up. War with Iran. Mass roundups and sending people to camps. Mobilizing troops in American cities.

These are all part of Project 2025.

Republicans don't know that because Republicans don't read.