| ▲ | ryanar 4 hours ago |
| its all trump, he is a megalomaniac, not affiliated with any party but his own |
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| ▲ | afavour 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| They have affiliated themselves to him. Watch, within a month of Democrats being back in power they’ll be harping small government, denigrating the national debt they ballooned themselves. There’s no reason to help them attempt to disavow it. |
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| ▲ | Klathmon 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| But it's not just him, it's the entire party aggressively supporting him and everything he does. |
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| ▲ | andsoitis 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > the entire party aggressively supporting him and everything he does. That's untrue. If you do some homework you will see Republican politicians and the Supreme Court disagreeing on a number of issues. Amongst Republican voters, his approval rating has been sliding and is now below 80% in most polls. | | |
| ▲ | VK-pro 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Wow a whole 20% of dissent. Impressive. | | |
| ▲ | andsoitis an hour ago | parent [-] | | You have to remember that very very few voters agree/support everything their party does. If that wasn't the case, then not a single American voter is morally pure. |
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| ▲ | atlgator 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They passed one major piece of legislation since he took office and it was loaded with pork to get everyone onboard. I wouldn't call that aggressive. The Right is very fractured right now. | | |
| ▲ | wk_end 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | At least in part that's because they've stopped legislating. The executive now basically just does whatever it wants. | |
| ▲ | jLaForest 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The right is fractured is several ways but there is one unifying value: unquestioning support for Trump | | |
| ▲ | atlgator 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I can't tell if you're disingenuous or just ignorant. The Trump admin has been completely coopted by the pro-Israel lobby and Big Tech. He betrayed his entire base. He's ruling by executive fiat (EOs). Anyone that speaks out publicly for the original platform gets a primary challenger funded by Miriam Adelson or threats. See Thomas Massie, MTG, Lauren Boebert, etc. Are you paying attention at all? The Boomers watching Fox News propaganda in their nursing homes all day are not a reflection of party unity. | | |
| ▲ | preg_match 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The Fox News boomers were pawns, but everyone knew that. Trump is a “money talks” kind of guy, that’s why people voted for him. Yes that was shortsighted but it’s worked out well for trump. He can basically just… do whatever. Nobody needs to legislate, he’s essentially congress at this point. |
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| ▲ | jknoepfler 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's fractured as a consequence of its own actions, which all of its constituent members bear direct responsibility for. Epstein cover up? Iran? COVID denialism? Complete disregard for rule of law? Accepting massive, direct bribes? Trying to control broadcast media? That's all on the Republican party as a collective, who did absolutely nothing to resist it and everything to put him in power TWICE. TWICE. |
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| ▲ | ryanmcbride 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| it's actually the entire party that's propping him up. If it was just trump he would be living on the street. |
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| ▲ | gkoberger 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Trump has an 87% approval rating amongst Republicans as of the last poll I can find. While Trump is a megalomanic and does whatever he wants, he has the mandate of the Republican party, whose elected officials could choose at any moment to end this by withdrawing support. Don't let them off the hook. |
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| ▲ | andsoitis 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Trump has an 87% approval rating amongst Republicans as of the last poll I can find. It's lower than that. Most polls show below 80%. > Don't let them off the hook. That's not the way. |
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| ▲ | keyle 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It seems people can flip that coin whenever it suits them. |
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| ▲ | servercobra 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And yet the rest of the party falls in behind him. |
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| ▲ | malcolmgreaves 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The entire Republican party in all branches of government is supporting Trump. His politics and the Republican party politics are one and the same. The last election the party did not have a platform because, quite literally, they said that whatever Trump says _is_ their platform. |
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| ▲ | jknoepfler 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| He's a Republican backed by the Republican establishment funded by Republican donors and massively influential in Republican primaries. Republicans voted him into power twice. Republicans pushed his voter fraud narrative. Republicans embraced his vaccine skepticism and killed countless Americans. Republicans voted for his ICE policies that murdered two citizens of my home state. Republicans caused this disaster and are all, each and every, individually morally responsible for putting Trump in power. Republican voters, Republican politicians, Republican donors and the Republican political machine. They picked the losing side of history and they can sink with it. |
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| ▲ | trimethylpurine 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | defrost 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > a much greater injury and death rate attributable to vaccines than COVID. Explain Australia then, specifically the absence of nation wide injury and death following the short period in which 98% of a population ~ 24 million or so, got two to three rounds of vaccines with a new definition. Fantastic case study for such widespread ill effects to clearly and unambiguously show up - the country is isolated and has had world class epidemiology researchers plugged into integrated national health records for 50+ years. | | |
| ▲ | trimethylpurine 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | defrost 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Data first. What was that injury rate in Australia, how many of the > 20 million vaccine recipients died or were injured by vaccines. Where are these deaths and injuries greater in magnitude than COVID deaths and injuries? I cannot answer for you or your governments odd notions. Feel free to concentrate on actually making and landing a solid point with peer commenter azan. |
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| ▲ | preg_match 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Right but at the end of the day how many people died from the Covid vaccine? We all need a healthy dose of reality. Yes the vaccine rollout was not perfect. But 1 million Americans died from Covid. And that’s that, if we can’t even agree on reality then there’s no point in arguing. | |
| ▲ | richbell 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What I'm reading is that you agree Trump represents the republican party. Great, the gp's comment has been settled. | | |
| ▲ | trimethylpurine 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Okay. I can't say I care much who he represents. I'm more concerned with the fact that half the country is okay with pardoning a war criminal who committed a biological weapons attack on literally every country in the world, including the US. If I have to pick between a murderer and literally killing everyone on earth I'll pick the murderer because I'm not a psychopath. Can you blame me? |
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| ▲ | azan_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Covid vaccines are very safe and saved lots of lives. That’s what actual research shows, not your delusions. I’m biochemistry phd so yeah, step up. | | |
| ▲ | trimethylpurine 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Math please? Specifically citing the research that the FDA cited from the NEJoM. Please include the published injury rate, and the published efficacy. If you can't make a point with the math, then don't bother replying. My invitation is to discuss with scientists, to be clear. CNN is not qualified as a scientific body, despite claiming to be. I'm aware that most of the US believes that CNN is the arbiter of science. I'm referring specifically to a scientific paper published by the manufacturer of the drug you are pedaling. And that's my point. You can't. You're consuming media and calling it science. You're lying to yourself. Please prove me wrong. Look at the injury rate in the NEJoM study submitted by Pfizer, and look at the rate of disease symptoms (later decreased but we'll ignore that for the sake of driving my point home), and tell me what the rest of us scientists missed. Or at least admit that you didn't really notice that it killed and injured more people in Pfizer's own study than you had realized (for the sake of honest scientists if you care to call yourself one). I'll even overlook the fact that all the "peer reviewers" were Pfizer employees who couldn't bring themselves to the level of shame so as to falsify the results. Instead they themselves published blatantly that the drug is more destructive than the disease it purports to treat. Thankfully we have some moral fiber in the field. | | |
| ▲ | azan_ 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | But you did not make any point, you keep using buzzword without referencing any data. You did not even link exact study you are talking about (there are lots of nejm covid studies…). You did not reference a single number. So please, if you want math actually make your point without bullshit about me consuming media etc. | | |
| ▲ | trimethylpurine 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Seriously? There is only one study that the FDA cited to claim that it was safe and effective submitted by Pfizer. But let me help then. Let's ignore the fact that the head of the FDA was fired and replaced because he refused to say so. Let's just look at the research directly. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577 Love to hear your input here. Check the math carefully. > "Covid vaccines are very safe and saved lots of lives." I'm convinced you didn't get this idea from honestly reading research. | | |
| ▲ | azan_ 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, that study shows safety of the vaccine, so what’s your point? Could you actually just say what’s your point? I can’t tell you why you are wrong if you don’t tell me what’s your problem. |
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| ▲ | MaxHoppersGhost 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | preg_match 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Some things are just true. Rape bad, murder bad, war bad. I have never understood this reasoning. If things are bad are we just supposed to… pretend… they’re not? And that… would help things? Like how? What’s even the mechanism for that? |
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