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  1. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    Look, I get fucking tired of being called a 'leftist', a 'socialist', or a told I am still a Dem/should still be a Dem in other scenarios, simply because I am not a tradcon/establishment GOP-type or some fringe Libertarian type. I am very much tired of the way people make a lot of assumptions...
  2. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    And you'd be wrong. Because I hate illegal immigration, hate the wokening of academia and society as a whole, hate the 'you cannot misgender that person or you are going to jail' type attitude of parts of the Dems, the ignoring the jihadi's in their midst (Talib and Omar), the fucking stuff...
  3. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    McConnell is stepping down in November.
  4. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    It seems more like he didn't reported it to the IRS, so they got miffed, and this came out as part of the probe around Hunter Biden.
  5. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    Taking bribes from Egypt in the form of gold bullion sewn into sport and suit jackets. Supposedly also kinda connected to the Hunter Biden probe, due to the Senator doing some things with Hunter over the years. Edit:
  6. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    It's the truth, even if it's not the sort of thing parts of the old GOP would like to hear. I know bringing on outside perceptions of the GOP and it's internal PR/propaganda is often upsetting to those who are deep into it. However the fact is at best fusionism has been invisible and out the...
  7. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    No, I am saying that whatever 'fusionists' think of themselves, outside their choir/echochambers, most of the public has ziltch idea the term even exists. To most people, the whole 'fusionist' shit just sounds like either corpo or Evangelical GOP 'rebranding. I've never heard the term...
  8. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    I do research shit that matters to me; what 'basic bitch conservatives' call themselves and what their internal propaganda says was not high on my list of concerns regarding politics.
  9. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    Yes, amazingly when I started supporting the populist Right that is/was MAGA and Trump I didn't much care for 'basic bitch conservatism' or what it's adherents believed it is responsible for. It wasn't 'basic bitch conservatism' that brought people to Trump, MAGA, or the current GOP, so why...
  10. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    ...see, exactly what I said, you claim fusionism is the base of modern conservatism and everything else is a change from it. Which just doesn't track outside GOP internal propaganda. You say that fusionism's political invisibility is a mark of it's success. I'd argue that the fact I never...
  11. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    Except the very first time I'd heard of fusionism was S'task lecturing me about 'how I don't know the GOP internal history' a while back. I mean it when I say I had not heard of fusionism before that point, nor does it seem to show up in any mainstream political debates or rhetoric. The...
  12. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    I'm not seeing anything mentioning a comparison to Fusionism in that article or the links in it. The only difference I can see between fusionism and 'Compassionate Conservatism' is that the latter wants/expects charity/social safety nets to be the realm of private charities and churches...
  13. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    That just sounds like fusionism trying to claim credit for everything about the modern GOP, except MAGA not being willing to worship 'the free market' and put corpo desires above the average US worker. Which is why I call it 'establishment/corpo conservatism', because the corporations who...
  14. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    I'd only heard of it because of @S'task went after me at one point for not knowing what it was, yet daring to have an option on the GOP. I guess 'fusionism' is code for 'post-Reagan establishment/corpo GOP ideology' in most ways, and yeah, it failed at it's goals rather badly compared to...
  15. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    Romney is not running for re-election because his brand/the GOP old brand of 'fusionism' has been shown to be a dead end compared to MAGA and the New Right, and he knows he doesn't fit the new GOP base/brand anymore. Fusionism of the old GOP is done, and the fossils who tried to keep it alive...
  16. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/13/politics/mitt-romney-not-running-reelection/index.html Well, Mitten's has decided not to seek re-election.
  17. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    'Ramsay Hunt syndrome and encephalitis'...she should be in a hospice, not used as a figurehead for her staff.
  18. Bacle

    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    Well, McConnell is headed for retirement, due to a major fall and concussion in March; being 81, this is likely to require serious and extensive rehab, so Senate duties are kinda out of the picture now.
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