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    Happy?

    My posts here are not about being happy. My posts are about what's going on.

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    Trump was a lifelong Democrat. But he ran for the Presidency as a Republican. And Stevens knows why:



    “It was all a lie”



    WEST ALLIS, WI - NOVEMBER 02: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (C) sits backstage with advisor Stuart Stevens (L) and personal aide Garrett Jackson (R) before a campaign rally at the Wisconsin Products Pavilion at State Fair Park on November 2, 2012 in West Allis, Wisconsin. With less than one week to go before election day, Mitt Romney is campaigning in Wisconsin and Ohio. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) GOP strategist Stuart Stevens (with Mitt Romney)

    This was a stunning indictment coming from a longtime political consultant who had toiled on five Republican presidential campaigns and numerous Senate and gubernatorial races. “The Republican Party has been a cartel,” Stevens said excitedly. “And no one asks a cartel, ‘What’s your ideological purpose?’ You don’t ask OPEC, ‘What’s your ideology?’ You don’t ask a drug gang, ‘What’s your program?’ The Republicans exist for the pursuit of power for no purpose.”

    He huffed that the Republican Party had not merely drifted away from its core positions, as sometimes occurs with political parties: “Fair trade, balanced budgets, character, family values, standing up to foreign adversaries like Russia—we’re all against that now. You have to ask, ‘Does someone abandon deeply held beliefs in three or four years?’ No. It means you didn’t ever hold them.” He added: “I feel like a guy who was working for Bernie Madoff.”

    Stevens, an erudite fellow who is also a novelist and a travel writer, has become an emblematic ex-Republican. He once believed in GOP ideals and ideas. Now he saw it all as a huge con. His new book is a confession and cri de coeur. The first line is blunt: “I have no one to blame but myself.” In these pages, Stevens self-flagellates, calling himself a “fool” for his decades of believing—and lying to himself—that the Republican Party was based on “a core set of values.” Acknowledging his role, Stevens writes, “So yes, blame me. Blame me when you look around and see a dysfunctional political system and a Republican Party that has gone insane.” The book offers one overarching prescription for the GOP: “Burn it to the ground and start over.”
    Stevens now argues that Trump’s rise was not a fluke that the party can sidestep or survive. “This is the complete moral collapse of a governing party of a major superpower,” he remarked. He wonders how he could have been blind to the GOP’s racism and turpitude for so long. “It is hard to see this when you’re in the middle of it,” he said. “The only analogy I can find is the collapse of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, when the difference between reality and what is believed became so disjointed. I should’ve seen this. I did see this, but I wanted to believe the crazies were a minority.”

    David Corn



    I can say that Nicole Wallace believed her party actually held its purported values. She says again and again, "What happened to my party?" She was a White House Press Secretary for Bush. Who gave us the Patriot Act. What was she thinking then, I wonder.

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    This is Stevens' book cover.


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    Here's the full interview if you can bear through it...
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    lol ... OMG!
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    Aianawa, not even Trump's family can tolerate him.
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    Bless you NAP, being as a child as you are at times is also my greatest wish.

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    You can't make this shit up, what a parodyland.


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    Go to school! Go to work! If you get sick and die there will be more workers to exploit. The kids will be vulnerable and then they can be exploited as well. I doubt Trump is against child labor. As long as the elites are safe. Like his son.

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    Trump is getting creative, he staged a false flag today ... he came back with a smile on his face declaring he was determined to finish his performance for the day... Incidentally, there were some fake injured, I believe. Which proves it was staged, else Trump would not have been all smiles when he returned. Right? Right?
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    It would have been more interesting if it was like these events, that was lame.

    You see how scared Trump got? So much for his fake macho bs, he's only a bully.


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6XAN_kzm4


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    lol ...
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    I don't like Kamala Harris but ok,
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