Is Trump going to Prison?

[Pat Mustard]

https://thehill.com/homenews/4475076-gof...egal-fees/

That puts them about 0.04% of the way to their goal. SCORE!!!

Boru

If any of that money get's to T****y, I'd be fair shocked. She's an MLM grifter.

[Pat Mustard]

@TaraJo


This strategy isn’t what it once was. Voters today are less afraid of the socialism boogeyman than they once were. This is especially true among minorities and younger voters, two demographics that Trump desperately needs.

Boru

Very true.  There's a reason for it, though:  Republicans are pandering to baby boomers VERY HARD.

I'm Gen X and I'm one of the younger Gen Xers being born in 1978.  I was 11 when the Berlin Wall fell and the cold war basically ended.  I have some memories of the world during the cold war, back when "communist" was one of the worst insults there was and when we were constantly under threat of potential nuclear war.  But how much of that are you going to pick up on when it all happened before you were even 11 years old?  Think about people older, people who reached adulthood and fought wars in Korea or Vietnam, against communism.  Think about those people who had regular drills in school on how to react in case of nuclear war.  They were trained for a very long time to see communists as the enemy and that kind of training tapered off in the 90's when communism wasn't a big threat from the USSR.  

And the next generation?  They've seen more and more greed from completely unrestrained capitalism.  They're the generation that watched their income, their future, their education, their healthcare..... those things were all stolen or corrupted by corporate greed.  Maybe, if they had lived under the same kind of existential fear that boomers and gen x experienced in the cold war, millenials would be turning more conservative now, but it's not happening.

Doesn't help that a lot of the social changes the younger generation support are hated by republicans.  I mean, my kids didn't even bat an eye at the idea of me being trans, but 20 years ago, I wouldn't have known what to say if one of my parents had come out as trans.  LGBT rights are basically unquestioned.  Republicans overturned Roe v Wade and the kids don't like that.  And they really don't like the prospect of having to spend decades in debt to go to college.  They aren't learning to fear potential nuclear war, they're fearing routine school shootings.  Republicans, besides simping for corporate greed, are against so many of the social issues that younger people support.

So far, that's paid off for the GOP because younger people don't vote as much.  Statistically, that's how it goes: the younger you are, the less likely you are to vote.  And usually, as a generation gets older, they start getting more conservative.  Thing is, the Millenials should be getting more conservative now.... and they aren't.  That's what's going to hurt the GOP right there.

The difference between republicans of the 60's and 70's and the republitraitors today is that fifty years ago the party leadership were intelligent enough to know to not mess with the new deal economy which gave ordinarty white families a decent living and non-whites a good hope their children would get the same. That economy died so hard with Ray-Gun that not even the Dems are willing to bring it back.

It's no coincidence that the last generation to be majority republican is also the last generation where on average they could say they grew up to be richer than their parents.

[Nanny]

Still searching for the bottom, Trump compares his prosecutions to Alexei Navalny's death. What an awful whiny bitch.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Still searching for the bottom, Trump compares his prosecutions to Alexei Navalny's death. What an awful whiny bitch.

He also compares himself to Al Capone. That I get.

Boru

[Mister Agenda]

You know, come to think of it, I've never seen Thumps and Muster Agenda in the same room at the same time.

Dude is my brotha from anotha motha, serio. I agree with so much of what he writes, and he's much more polite about it, to boot. Deffo a favorite of mine here.

Awww! You too!

[arewethereyet]

I think Trump needs to wear a pair of those shiny gold shoes when he gets hauled off to prison...and I want to be there to watch and take pictures.

[ShinyCrystals]

@TaraJo


This strategy isn’t what it once was. Voters today are less afraid of the socialism boogeyman than they once were. This is especially true among minorities and younger voters, two demographics that Trump desperately needs.

Boru

Very true.  There's a reason for it, though:  Republicans are pandering to baby boomers VERY HARD.

I'm Gen X and I'm one of the younger Gen Xers being born in 1978.  I was 11 when the Berlin Wall fell and the cold war basically ended.  I have some memories of the world during the cold war, back when "communist" was one of the worst insults there was and when we were constantly under threat of potential nuclear war.  But how much of that are you going to pick up on when it all happened before you were even 11 years old?  Think about people older, people who reached adulthood and fought wars in Korea or Vietnam, against communism.  Think about those people who had regular drills in school on how to react in case of nuclear war.  They were trained for a very long time to see communists as the enemy and that kind of training tapered off in the 90's when communism wasn't a big threat from the USSR.  

And the next generation?  They've seen more and more greed from completely unrestrained capitalism.  They're the generation that watched their income, their future, their education, their healthcare..... those things were all stolen or corrupted by corporate greed.  Maybe, if they had lived under the same kind of existential fear that boomers and gen x experienced in the cold war, millenials would be turning more conservative now, but it's not happening.

Doesn't help that a lot of the social changes the younger generation support are hated by republicans.  I mean, my kids didn't even bat an eye at the idea of me being trans, but 20 years ago, I wouldn't have known what to say if one of my parents had come out as trans.  LGBT rights are basically unquestioned.  Republicans overturned Roe v Wade and the kids don't like that.  And they really don't like the prospect of having to spend decades in debt to go to college.  They aren't learning to fear potential nuclear war, they're fearing routine school shootings.  Republicans, besides simping for corporate greed, are against so many of the social issues that younger people support.

So far, that's paid off for the GOP because younger people don't vote as much.  Statistically, that's how it goes: the younger you are, the less likely you are to vote.  And usually, as a generation gets older, they start getting more conservative.  Thing is, the Millenials should be getting more conservative now.... and they aren't.  That's what's going to hurt the GOP right there.

One thing I would like to point out is that many, if not all boomers in the USA were against Russia back then, which was all part of the Soviet Union. Even though the Soviet Union fell apart, those like Putin would rather want to rebuild it than let the past go. Anyway, the government, republicans included, specifically, were against the Soviet Union too, and now those republicans, with some new ones maybe, are rather supporting Russia even with their totalitarian government the USA is not about and even after what they did with Ukraine.

All I am saying, or asking, is that it’s kinda ironic the republicans support Russia more even with what they’ve done and that the boomers the republicans support were rather against the Soviet Union that Russia was part of, don’t you all think?

[The Grand Nudger]

I think it was inevitable. Russias far right white supremacist movement has been the largest and most active for decades now - and the us reich wing is struggling to play catch-up.

[ShinyCrystals]

I think it was inevitable. Russias far right white supremacist movement has been the largest and most active for decades now - and the us reich wing is struggling to play catch-up.

Yeah, that makes sense. Though why would they want to catch up to that specifically, especially now when many were against Russia or the Soviet Union they were a part of during the Cold War?

Just because the Cold War ended does not mean those republicans can be friends with Russia now, especially after what the latter has done and with the white supremacy going on there. There is no good reason to “catch up” to something like that anyhow, so just…why?

[The Grand Nudger]

There are millions and millions of good reasons.