Politics Thread

**Muskie in dayton** · 01-18-2025, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by paulxu

I don't hate any of them; but I feel sorry for a lot of them.

As to the inauguration location, I guess Dems are just tougher and can handle a little cold, so their supporters get something besides a "commemorative ticket."

The sun rising and Paul parroting another left wing media talking point.

If JFK were alive today, he’d be a Trump supporter.

**paulxu** · 01-18-2025, 10:44 AM

Reagan's inauguration had a 7 degree weather, with minus 24 wind chill. (Safety factor for attendees.)
This guy's would be the same as Kennedy's...22-24 degrees.
Maybe he's worried about messing up his hair.

But, if by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal."

JFK

I'm pretty certain he wouldn't be a Trump supporter.

**Strange Brew** · 01-18-2025, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by paulxu

Reagan's inauguration had a 7 degree weather, with minus 24 wind chill. (Safety factor for attendees.)
This guy's would be the same as Kennedy's...22-24 degrees.
Maybe he's worried about messing up his hair.

JFK

I'm pretty certain he wouldn't be a Trump supporter.

Don’t know on JFK and I’m growing concerned about the threat from your White National Socialism.

Smails · 01-18-2025, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by paulxu

Reagan's inauguration had a 7 degree weather, with minus 24 wind chill. (Safety factor for attendees.)
This guy's would be the same as Kennedy's...22-24 degrees.
Maybe he's worried about messing up his hair.

JFK

I'm pretty certain he wouldn't be a Trump supporter.

He broke you...I'm sure this is tough for you. Hang in there

**bobbiemcgee** · 01-18-2025, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

If not, I’d love to see him run in CO. Unless CO has become a lost cause like CA.

What are your thoughts on Biden attempting to revive a 28th Amendment? 53 years after it cleared Congress and over 40 years after the timese limit expired?

As a Gen Xer, I’m understanding why the Millenials don’t like you. That said. I still don’t care. :)

As usual, you make no sense.

**GoMuskies** · Today, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by GoMuskies

That's 100% correct, but this time does feel a little different. Trump is way more prepared now (for better or for worse depending on what you think he's going to do with that preparation), and the public temperature seems to be WAY lower this time around. I think the inevitable protests will be pretty muted next week (particularly compared to last time). Trump has way more institutional support than he did last time (or at least people willing to work with him this time).

I don't think any Trump presidency is ever going to be "normal", but it seems to me that there's a far higher chance of relative success/normalcy than there was in 2017.

This snippet from a WSJ article today is the kind of thing I was talking about with this time around being more "normal" with Trump:

A day earlier, Michelle Garthe, 61, a retired schoolteacher, was also overcome by emotion. Garthe and her husband, Kevin, 62, had taken a train from Carbondale, Ill., to join the People’s March, a progressive protest against Trump.

It turned out to be a pale and rainy version of the original Women’s March that confronted Trump after his first victory in 2016. While that garnered an estimated million attendees around the world—including Garthe—this one was estimated to have fewer than 30,000. Many were seasoned activists—for the Palestinian cause, trans rights, climate justice, women’s rights, Congo, Sudan, and the Communist Party—as if the mainstream Democratic stock had boiled for too long and been reduced to the bones.