Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:I wouldn't want to be the next president. We're way overdue for a recession, and probably a bad one.

the Fed agrees

durdencommatyler wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I wouldn't want to be the next president. We're way overdue for a recession, and probably a bad one.

the Fed agrees

Yup. The economy is Trumps only safety net. He wins again, we slip into recession (better than 50/50), the red team is done forever.

As much as I would love for that to be true, it's not. The GOP trashed the economy under Bush with just as reprehensible social politics, and Trump won less than a decade later.

Mickey wrote:As much as I would love for that to be true, it's not. The GOP trashed the economy under Bush with just as reprehensible social politics, and Trump won less than a decade later.

yup

If 2016 taught us anything it's that the idea of projecting (especially in absolutes) is stupid.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Mickey wrote:As much as I would love for that to be true, it's not. The GOP trashed the economy under Bush with just as reprehensible social politics, and Trump won less than a decade later.

yup

The difference is demographics

Are you planning on murdering a lot of old white people sometime soon?

Bi_3 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Mickey wrote:As much as I would love for that to be true, it's not. The GOP trashed the economy under Bush with just as reprehensible social politics, and Trump won less than a decade later.

yup

The difference is demographics

Again, I think this is wishful thinking at best and delusional at worst. The primary identity categories of the right (whiteness and nationality) are incredibly flexible; the standard for whiteness has been altered before so as to maintain white hegemony. It is not particularly difficult to imagine lighter-skinned Hispanics and East Asians being absorbed just as the Italian and Irish once were. The idea that demographics will eliminate a certain kind of conservativism dates back to at least the early 20th century, and we're familiar with the end result of that pipedream.

As painful as last night's debate was, this one is going to be so, so much worse.

I just wish one of these motherfuckers would go off script. Stop playing by the rules you were given. Frankly, like trump did.

Apparently it takes a malignant narcissist to do that, and that's depressing. What do these losers in the single digits have to be afraid of? They're already dead. Say what we're all thinking (hopefully): this is all a sham.

Tulsi is bae

verb_to_trust wrote:Tulsi is bae

Lmao of course you think that

Harris is too emotional

tree_ wrote:Harris is too emotional

Why does she get time on every question, even when it's not directed at her?

So is Gillibrand.. and she blinks too much

Biden ain't it. I'm not convinced he doesn't have early onset dementia.

Biden strikes me as incompetent and phony .. and in it for wrong reasons

I like Castro and Booker but Yang most

Everyone on stage tonight should be deported but Harris and Biden look especially bad. Stark difference between Sanders and Warren last night, who were both on their game. H and B look rattled and incoherent.

Mickey's right