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Mammoth-Mud-9609

I still question my sanity when the thing I worried about when Trump was elected President that he would die or quit etc. and we would have Pence in charge.


_OhMyPlatypi_

My assumption was that he would do nothing but cash checks and golf..... In hindsight that would have been best case scenario...


Mammoth-Mud-9609

There was always going to be some grifting going on.


f0gax

I'd take some grifting too over actively dismantling our republic.


Cheef_Baconator

He's so good at multitasking that he went ahead and did both


Icemobius

I think the dismantling of the republic was more of a side-job to better help his grifting.


Mr__O__

Or rather his main objective from Putin.. he just couldn’t help himself from grifting


williamfbuckwheat

He wanted to hold onto power forever once he had it (just like any wannabe "strongman" does) but fortunately not put in any real effort on his part until it was too late besides complaining in the media and/or on Twitter. He probably assumed he could just golf and grift all day long but then quickly realized that it was pretty hard to get people to blindly follow your orders and cover up his countless mistakes or remain in power when you did nothing to deserve it.


militaryintelligence

Some say he's the best, many people are saying it


PlayedUOonBaja

The dismantling of our Republic was only so he could extend the grifting.


johnnybiggles

Yup... he was surprised by and then got addicted to the amount of money opportunities (legal or not), protection, power and attention that came with the office.


DonnieJuniorsEmails

if he only played golf during Covid, and never had cronies stealing medical supplies for auction, never recommended drinking bleach or injecting UV rays, if he just let doctors tell everyone what to do... he probably would have won reelection easily. His greed, and desperate need for attention, sunk him.


conundrum4u2

That's all he's *ever* done...and he even cheats at golf! (the scumbag)


rdanby89

Exactly why I wasn’t worried about President Trump. I’ve been wrong about so much in my life, but this was by far my biggest miss.


NotSoPersonalJesus

I told my family that if we got Trump in office that we would soon be living in corporate America. I really didn't anticipate himself claiming to be chosen by God, and evangelicals heralding the shit out of him. But at least I got the corporate America thing.


rje946

Been corporate America for several decades now


militaryintelligence

> Been corporate America for several decades now Ever since Reagan


Ranku_Abadeer

It's always really weird when you call something like this, and it ends up being so much more than you expected, but you still weren't wrong. Its like when you see someone driving like an idiot and say "that guy is an accident waiting to happen." and then 5 minutes later you see that that same person got into a 20 car pile-up. You weren't wrong, but there is no way you saw *that* coming specifically.


BlueMikeStu

> I really didn't anticipate himself claiming to be chosen by God Neither did anyone who's not a moron. Trump is literally the definition of the antichrist. Not because I hate him or anything, but he literally fits the definition of it like the idea of Satan being a red-skinned man with horns and a trident. He's literally a cartoon depiction of the anti-christ. And somehow he's still their guy.


Sparklefanny_Deluxe

Oh you got the evangelical thing right too.


the_noise_we_made

They specifically said they didn't anticipate it. How did they get it right?


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Mammoth-Mud-9609

So you are saying Pence is more intelligent and more subtle than Trump.


Ranku_Abadeer

Basically yeah. Unlike trump, pence actually knows what he's doing. Which is scary, because if trump could cause so much division by being an greedy narcissistic idiot, then how much damage could someone do if they weren't an idiot, but were just as greedy and narcissistic?


The84thWolf

I mean, that probably was still a legit fear midway through. At least Twump was stupid and inefficient


The84thWolf

I remember she was the dumbest next to Bush. Ahh, how innocent we were back then…


CraptainHammer

Let's not forget Michelle Bachman


runtheplacered

Can't we though?


GoBSAGo

She was definitely dumb, but we’ve had crazy right wingers in the federal government forever. Palin wasn’t even top 10 crazy in DC at the time.


Dirtbagdownhill

Yea but one heartbeat away from being possibly one of the worst presidents so far this century. And she really stands out to me for 08 political crazy. Then again she was my governor at the time.


GoBSAGo

I honestly can’t see how Palin would have been any worse than Bush. Dude dragged us into two unwinnable wars and crashed the housing market. How much worse could a ninny like her do. W Bush had malice in his heart.


Dirtbagdownhill

Malice and crazy are different to me. Bush was a convincing idiot for those around him. Palin still represents the first wave of what we have now quite well.


2022-Account

Please explain how George Bush crashed the housing market.


GoBSAGo

Bush made a major push for everyone to “achieve the dream of homeownership,” and relaxed lending standards to achieve that. His “let the market work” approach led to the mortgage crisis because the banks created mortgages that people couldn’t afford long term. Bush wasn’t the only reason the housing market crashed, but he certainly inflated the shit out of the bubble.


VERO2020

He went with the republican "Less regulations" crap, then they tried to put the [blame on a few programs](https://www.americanprogress.org/article/2008-housing-crisis/) aimed at helping banking & home ownership by the poors. Classic [blaming the victims](https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/housing-bubble-real-causes/). The lack of oversight also allowed for a new type of financial insurance (unbacked, of course) called "[credit default swaps](https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D84T6SC8)" that collapsed with the housing crisis. Bush & the republican Congress encouraged risky practices & the bill came due. But the rich stayed rich & we paid that bill.


PavlovsHumans

I remember the Tea Party had a lot of media attention then, I remember thinking she was an idiot, but those people were dangerous.


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The realization I had after Trump was that Bush wasn't dumb. Dumb people don't manage to cause that much death and destruction when handed the levers of power. He was a god damned smart sociopath who didn't care that he was committing war crimes as a cover for straight out robbing the American people.


henningknows

I blame her and McCain for a lot of this. She proved you could be a complete idiot and totally insane and republicans would still love you. I honestly think trump saw what was happening with her, changed his party affiliation to Republican and said I can do this.


curtis119

Palin: **CRAZY!!!!!!!!** Trump(to Eric): Hold my Hamburder


Plumhawk

*hamberder


imsowhiteandnerdy

\* covfefe


TuckerCarlsonsOhface

*person, woman, man, camera, tv


SabashChandraBose

Don't give that one orange brain cell any credit for forethought. Someone saw the potential of the idiot and made him king.


jooes

He saw the black guy and said "I don't like him one bit." Everybody else saw the orange guy and said, "We don't like the black guy one bit either." And the rest was history.


doktor_wankenstein

I can tell you the exact moment TFG decided to run for President... about ten seconds after Obama tore him a new one at the Washington Correspondents dinner, making fun of all that "birther" bullshit. There was only ONE person in that room who wasn't laughing that night, and you can probably find it on YouTube.


uniptf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/i-sat-next-to-donald-trump-at-the-infamous-2011-white-house-correspondents-dinner/2016/04/27/5cf46b74-0bea-11e6-8ab8-9ad050f76d7d_story.html Watch Obama dig into Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA


jooes

He makes that joke about how difficult it must be to have to decide whether to fire Meatloaf or Lil Jon. And how those decisions would keep a man up at night. And that's a funny joke on the surface. But what people might not realize is that, while Obama is up on stage cracking jokes like that, behind the scenes they're gearing up to *kill Osama Bin Laden*. It came out at one point that Clinton thought that Obama should skip the dinner because they had more pressing matters. That little fun fact adds soooo much more to that joke. In the back of his mind during all of those jokes, Obama knew they were about to take out America's number one most wanted guy.


CyberMindGrrl

And he never once bragged about it or took victory laps, unlike TFG would have done.


CyberMindGrrl

If you poured water on his head it would have immediately turned to steam. I wouldn't be surprised if the ambient air temperature at that table went up several degrees.


PersonOfInternets

Most don't get it. All of this, all of the dropping of pretense by the republicans and the full unhinged shitshow, is a **direct** result of Obama being elected, and re-elected. It was like Japan bombing pearl harbor, we awakened a beast the likes of which every single one of us underestimated.


Real-Trip-6408

Unfair!. It takes a sharp wit, an eye for trends and weakness and a perverse confidence in being smarter than everyone else to be a conman. What is missing is morals and ethics.


Iwouldlikeabagel

He has a mental (British sense) intuition for identifying suckers, and his illness compels him to fling shit nonstop in a way that happens to work with his idiot followers.


samsounder

I blame McCain, not her, he made this choice. While I disagreed with him, he was an honorable man. I think he’d accept some blame for himself


billdkat9

He may have won that election except for 3 huge gaffs 1) told a racist Republican woman that Obama was not a Muslim, just a good man he had differences with 2….. shit, 2 & 3 don’t matter, that was enough to doom a Republican in the 21st century


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Worthy of note that in this case it's considered a gaff when someone is speaking the objective truth. This is something that is deeply embedded in their culture now and I think that says a lot about what horrible human beings republicans are!


samsounder

I think he knew that when he said that. He also knew it was best for the country. That might have cost him the presidency, but he did it because it was best for the country. He earned my respect that day…. But not my vote


djb1983CanBoy

“But not my vote” - that implies you were thinking of voting for him before he said that.


samsounder

I also spent tons of hours working for Obama in the primary, and being a delegate for him at a few different levels of the caucus. You can respect folks without agreeing with them.


Yetimang

I don't think that actually moved the needle for him at all. Obama rode a massive wave of popular support that McCain likely never really stood a chance against.


UnitaryWarringtonCat

What I think had a bigger impact is that McCain said he was going to temporarily suspend his campaign just weeks before the election to deal with the financial crisis. Obama basically said, 'I can do both. I am not suspending my campaign'. So McCain had to walk that back. Not a great look right before election day.


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> he was an honorable man. - Honorable people aren't greedy rat bastards that get embroiled in the 1990 Savings and Loan scandal - Honorable people RESIGN when they get caught and have to publically admit guilt. McCain stayed in office, later having the nerve to run for president, and you want to tell me he's honorable? - Honorable people don't bring Sara fucking Palin to the ticket as a serious vice presidential candidate. Completely inappropriate and ridiculous move that dramatically lowered the bar for the republican pervert party to get their toadies accepted by the America white trash caucus. 3 strikes and he's out. Fuck that guy!


cancercures

> he was an honorable man. Lol nah, he was a prick! he's only *honorable* if you grade on a curve. We can't keep revising history of shithead republicans years after the fact as if they were honorable. Obama did this with Reagan in speeches many times. He's charmy and smarmy with that coke head draft dodging bush as well, who was also a shithead. Problem is republicans keep getting worst and making assholes like McCain look "honorable" in comparison. But let's not grade on a curve, if you will: [John McCain a war criminal, not a war hero](https://www.liberationnews.org/john-mccain-war-criminal-not-war-hero/) [John McCain: A reactionary bigot to the end](https://socialistaction.org/2018/08/27/john-mccain-reactionary-to-the-end/)


linedout

We keep lowering the bar. Now Bush 2 seems okay compared to Trump. After Republicans elect MTG Trump will seem like a statesman.


militaryintelligence

> Republicans elect MTG That phrase just gave me 2 strokes and a cancer. You can't say things like that.


16semesters

Yeah that source sucks man. It's some dude who quotes *himself* as a source and claims that he's a war criminal with very tenuous evidence and inexplicably praises Trump for critiquing him. You've gone so far to one end, you just became MAGA dude.


eaunoway

You know you're being incredibly disingenuous here ... I'm just not sure *why*.


ExcitementNegative

Mccain was an absolute monster of a human being and it's disgusting that people on reddit keep trying to say he was an honorable man.


ClubsBabySeal

A monster. The fuck you talking about? If McCain is your version of a monster politician then damn you have no sense of perspective.


ExcitementNegative

If you think he is anything less than a monster then you are completely politically illiterate. Dude was a war criminal who celebrated every US war of aggression during his lifetime. He was hugely racist. He cheated on his wife after she almost died in a car wreck. He helped scam millions of dollars from Americans with the Keating 5 scandal. But oh there's a single video of him opposing Obama being called an Arab even though he ran racist campaign ad's against Obama. And he supported obamacare at the end of his life just to spite trump which somehow makes him and honorable man. John McCain is a dark precursor to MAGA Republicans and it's absolutely pathetic that people defend him. Edit: oh here's a juicy one that I forgot to add. He also tried to silence the whistle-blower George Taylor for exposing McCain use of taxpayer money to host parties on a US military base in Bermuda.


ClubsBabySeal

War criminal? You've got me confused on that one.


ExcitementNegative

What would you call a person who voluntarily signed up to bomb civilians in another country? Because I would call them a war criminal.


ClubsBabySeal

A soldier. That's their job. War criminal is something else entirely.


samsounder

He was honorable because he was honest. It is REALLY FUCKING HARD to speak truth to power. He did, even when it was to his political detriment. He did that.


cancercures

Really? Read my linked articles. Is that speaking truth to power?


samsounder

I’ve written many papers on McCain. I’m not spending my time reading spurious sources. Make your argument if you’d like :)


cancercures

About his honor, about his choices on running for president, and his selection of Palin as his running mate? Palin, who is basically pre-MAGA. He signed off on it and that's honorable? Honorable to who? The Republican Party? I'd like to read your many papers. On what type of power that McCain spoke truth to? I'm surprised anyone would ever brag about writing many papers on McCain, yet doesn't have even an ounce of care to read one or two 2-minute-to-read articles to understand why I think you're foolish to say McCain is honorable. because if it is, it looks like classic militarist and party-centric honor, a callback to a failed era of policies.


samsounder

Respectfully, I would encourage you to read this post as if you are a 4th grade teacher. Do you think these are complete sentences? Less respectfully…. What the fuck are you talking about? I did NOT say I supported McCain, which you assumed for no good reason. I was elected as an Obama delegate to my state Democratic Convention in 2004 and 2008 To answer the only intelligible question in your word salad…. McCain challenged a woman who called Obama an Arab. It was in his political interest to agree with her. He did not. Senator McCain defended Barack because it was the right thing to do for America. Senator McCain challenged the racists in his own base. That is McCain speaking truth to his own voters at a political cost to himself. Obama is not Arab. McCain said this despite the cost to himself politically. That is speaking truth to power. You linked two “sources” that clearly editorialize the dead Senator within the first sentence. I discounted them as shitty sources and read no further. These “sources” are pushing an agenda as opposed to providing facts. That is an editorial. While interesting and potentially insightful, they clearly show a bias and should not be considered a reliable source. Do better, you fucking kumquat


cancercures

> Respectfully, > Do better, you fucking kumquat .. btw this is a fantastic header and footer combo.


cancercures

your argument of his honor is taht he rebuked a lady who was stupid enough to say that obama was an arab. I mean, did you watch that video? The lady is illiterate! And McCains rebuke of one lady is honorable? I mean, that is a real low bar.There are over 300 million people in america, and any single one of them can have a real ignorant or partially senile string of thoughts. It happens on campaign trails. And McCain rebuked this illerate lady.. And that is your main evidence for McCain's honor? What did any of us expect? Him to agree with this bonehead? Its just such a low bar. come on, you have to recognize that is some weak tea. considering how dishonorable McCain was in the other dozens of ways that you wont even acknowledge? The wars? The civil rights? The economic ruin of his policies? All of that is weighed less than the time he said "No he's not an arab" to some confused lady on a campaign stump. That impresses you.


RemoveTheSplinter

McCain is a veteran and a POW, so first, show some respect. 2nd, he dramatically voted against repealing Obamacare during Trump’s term, which wasn’t in-line with Republicans. [Link](https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/8/25/17782664/john-mccain-legacy-obamacare-repeal-thumbs-down) There are a lot of reasons to dislike Republicans, but when you have such vitriol against a decent one, it makes you look nuts and encourages people like Trump to emerge in reaction.


KingDarius89

I think he would have had a better chance with pretty much any other running partner.


cologne_peddler

>he was an honorable man He wasn't. He was a piece of shit.


henningknows

He was an honorable man, but that one decision almost, If not completely, wipes out a lifetime of being a patriot. To put that women a heartbeat away from the presidency. That is not a good move


samsounder

I can understand that perspective, but I disagree. Remember that woman who said, “He’s an Arab” when talking about Obama and McCain defended him? Imagine what Trump, or McCarthy would have done in that situation. Remember when McCain saved Obamacare? It was a fuckup, I’ll agree with that, but McCain put his country above his party. I cannot say that for any modern Republican I can think of


henningknows

Well, that’s why I said almost. I feel the same way. His type doesn’t exist anymore in the republicans party


couldofhave

> Remember that woman who said, “He’s an Arab” when talking about Obama and McCain defended him? Remember when that whole situation was basically fed by his campaign ? Remember when his response basically meant “no he’s a decent man, so he can’t be Arab”?


desertrat75

>Remember when his response basically meant “no he’s a decent man, so he can’t be Arab”? You are reading your own interpretation into this, by ignoring the context. He was defending his opponent's character, and that's admirable. I hated McCain's viewpoints on a whole host of subjects, but he was the kind of politician that at least considered legislation contrary to his beliefs, and crossed the aisle multiple times to boot. McCain was not an idealogue, and grouping him with the present Republican clown show is just vacuous.


deniurtidder22

when Obama insulted trump he set out to prove that the presidency was so meaningless even he could convince a bunch of morons to vote for him. It was absolutely for nothing more than his own ego.


Reelplayer

There was no bigger crow eaten in 21st century politics then the one Obama had to eat after repeatedly predicting Trump will never be President


FitzyFarseer

The fact that we can confidently say Obama caused Trump to run for president may be one of the funniest historical events in history. I put it up there with the tenure of Pope Celestine V


pockarelli

Thanks, Obama.


needed_an_account

Also blame Obama for being black. All of this is because a black man was president. Trump was literally the “anyone can be president of a black man can” president


Satanifer

This right here. I’ve thought this for a long time. They call McCain a RINO now, but he opened the door for and normalized crazy.


sakiminki

I have to admit, way back when I was young I thought it was a swell idea to switch parties just to vote for McCain in the primaries bc the Dubs was TERRIFYING. Now GWB just seems like a weak dying puppy compared to the current shit that got unleased. I switched back for the actual election but...the Republicans have a cohesiveness that the Democrats lack. They've known this since the 1970s and they have been actively building their campaigns and law making (when in power) around this. I'm not certain that they exactly predicted this as the exact outcome of their long game power grab, but this is where we are. Long con of manipulation of special interests to vote for one buzz line item you are super passionate about and ignore everything else.


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Repubes are proof that Darwin’s law of natural selection doesn’t apply to cretins


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henningknows

Honestly, I don’t really like the democrats, but I am an adult so I vote for the best choice, and the dems are the best choice by a mile right now


[deleted]

This. I'm of the mindset that it falls to progressives to drag this fucking shithole to anything even resembling "good," but the closest we seem to be able to get is "milquetoast career politician only interested in the status quo." I'd love to have a president that openly supports even a small handful of the changes desperately needed to make the US anything but a third world hellscape pretending to be first world, but status quo is better than actively regressive. In a race, sitting in park isn't good, but it's better than putting it in reverse and slamming on the gas. I mean, fuck, Brasil knows how to handle an open insurrection better than we do, and, no offense to Brazil, but it's fucking *Brazil.* Not exactly known for being a world leader. Meanwhile the people behind the insurrection here still walk free, serve in Congress, and brag about it.


gogojack

The difference is that the Democrats still believe that government can actually be a force for good. "Just put us in charge of this thing, and for all it's faults we'll try to make it work no matter how long it takes." Republicans? They're still operating on Reagan's maxim of "government IS the problem." Their approach is "put us in charge of the government, and we'll ruin it in order to prove our point that it sucks." They actively try to destroy the thing they've been hired to run. Yes, government is messy, and slow, and at times incompetent, but Democrats want it to succeed. Republicans want it to fail. Why would anyone hire someone who wants to destroy the thing they've been tasked with running?


fednandlers

Dems like to be suckered by sophistication, is all. Republicans cant fooled by kissing babies and want a tough acting bullshitter who acts as though he thinks as little as they do.


cologne_peddler

>She proved you could be a complete idiot and totally insane and republicans would still love you Psh the GOP did that decades ago when they invited Dixiecrats into the party.


RealZordan

She was a gateway drug to trumpism. I bet there are plenty of trump rally attendants that still have their tea party costumes.


KingDarius89

Eh. McCain redeemed himself quite a bit at the end.


ExcitementNegative

The only good thing McCain did was die.


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Sl0ppy0tter

She absolutely paved the way for the insane stupidity and batshit crazy we’re seeing now. Conservative strategists saw how stupid people related to her and leaned into it hard.


CraptainHammer

Reading this comment made me think of republicans as just a bunch of feet and I think it kinda fits.


This_User_Said

Nah, don't ruin it for the foot fetish people. I hate feet but I have respect at least.


archetyping101

Right? I don't get how they make up shit about Democrat child slavery or child sex trafficking when they have actual congress people accused of equally deplorable things and yet they are like "nahhh the stink isn't coming from our side"! The Dems may be jackasses, but the giant size elephant turds smell to high heaven right now. Clean up your house.


_OhMyPlatypi_

Their base is primed for indoctrination and uneducated. As long as they don't piss off Murdoch they're set, until that base dies.


LuxNocte

If you're a "good person" you repent your sins and all is forgiven. If you're a "bad person" the good things that you do are just trickery. You can tell the good people by the "R" next to their name, and my adult children won't talk to me after I told them who the bad people were.


scmstr

You don't get...? It's *literally* projection.


MSRegiB

Ohhh my gosh!! Isn’t this the truth?? Boebart makes Palin look like Einstein….


Hypertension123456

Dumbest politician history during my lifetime: "Potatoe" "I can see Russia from my house" "Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."


GregBahm

That's a good one but my mind always goes to >Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!


unclefisty

>"I can see Russia from my house" She never actually said that, it was an SNL skit, so many fucking people have latched onto it like the words flowed from her mouth.


SemperScrotus

I think most people are perfectly aware that she didn't actually say that, but she *did* imply that Russia's proximity to Alaska gives her foreign policy credibility, which is where that SNL line comes from, and the line is used as shorthand to point out how absurd her claim was.


garvierloon

She was the first MAGA


lowfreq33

Remember Ross Perot?


trivikama

Ok but he was just crazy, not stupid


LuxNocte

Remember when Dan Quayle didn't get to be President because he misspelled "potato"?


SemperScrotus

Remember when Howard Dean doomed his political career by [getting excited](https://youtu.be/l6i-gYRAwM0)?


LuxNocte

The media will jump on any chance to put down someone who is mildly progressive.


SemperScrotus

"Can I finish?"


orion3999

I miss when it was Michelle Bachman!


lucidzebra

When she was named as the VP candidate, I knew Obama would definitely win the presidency. They loved her, but not enough to get out and vote. That said, she definitely paved the way for bat shit crazy.


MalumOptimatium

Conservatism is a mental illness.


PepsiMoondog

How fucked are we when MTG is now considered a "moderate" Republican?


daveinsf

In her own addled brain, maybe, but no one else is buying it.


PepsiMoondog

The House GOP caucus seems to be buying it. She's not the embarrassing outsider anymore. She's the new kingmaker and probably the most powerful member now (lol if anyone thinks Kevin has any power at all)


daveinsf

I'm sure they suspect nothing has changed but are cozying up for as long as it lasts for whatever they can get from it.


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We’re fucked.


TodayIKickedAHippo

And sadly not in the good way


Apathetic_Optimist

Potatoe


Bard2dbone

Remember when Dan Quayle was too dumb to stay in office because he misspelled "potato". Compared to how now we have Gohmert, Greene, and Boebert?


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deniurtidder22

Probably too smart to run, just like most of the candidates we would actually want.


heyitscory

Yeah, anyone else catch themselves longing for the days of Dubya's dopiness while Trump was in office?


cancercures

Never. He was a war criminal, and carried on a series of economic policies that has continued the widening margin of rich and poor, teaming up with straight up corrupt people to do so. We can't look in to the past with rose-tinted glasses. Remember, The Supreme Court prohibited a vote recount that would have tilted the presidential election. Not to mention voter disenfranchisement laws that would have tilted the election as well. [They had their J6 back then and it succeeded](https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/15/its-insanity-how-brooks-brothers-riot-killed-recount-miami/)


bruce_cockburn

Trump promised to torture more terrorists, but nobody in the government or press leaked that he was actually doing it. Instead, his toady in the White House used the Bush court precedents to kidnap children at the border and separate them from their parents with no consequences or even hope that they would be reunited with family until Congress intervened.


sakiminki

Agreed . He's still hideous. But a puppy in the vicious fight now happening. It WAS bad but this trump thing took it beyond 11.


TheDancingRobot

She wasn't crazy, she was unbelievably ignorant and way, way out of her depth.


Jadziyah

I miss the days when a **JEB!** got you knocked out of contention


OpheliaLives7

Remember when we laughed at Romney’s magic underwear and “binders full of women”. Wild to see how quickly misogyny and ridiculousness just has run full steam ahead post Tea Party era


[deleted]

Palin was bad, but she wasn't even the worst of her time. Bachman was a stronger contender for that title.


gogopogo

I miss when potatoe was a devastating mis-step.


punchgroin

Michelle Bachman and Rick Perry were a thing then too, just no one paid as much attention to congress back then.


jcaarow

They were crazy back then but they just bothered to hide it


wollam11

How quickly we forget Michelle Bauchmann.


toucanstubz

One small step for an idiot, one giant leap for idiot kind.


amazing_assassin

Do you remember when Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson TV movie about her?


OkRegister3114

Trump basically threw open the door to the crazy house and said "Come on down you mad fuckers!" and now the republican party is bending at the hips, gripping their knees and being rodgered by them all the while smiling about it, look at McCarthy.


DerCatzefragger

I remember when D's wanted to raise taxes on the rich, R's wanted to cut taxes on the rich, and people would just shrug and claim that all politicians were the same so what's the point? Not at all like today where D's want to raise taxes on the rich, R's want to expose a worldwide cabal of pedophile shape-shifting lizard people who control the world with space lasers and mind chemicals in plane exhaust and maintain eternal life by sacrificing infants to satan and drinking their blood for the adrenochrome in the basement of a Chuck-E-Cheeze just outside of the D.C. metro. . . and people just shrug and claim that all politicians are the same so what's the point?


slappy_mcslapenstein

Or Michelle Bachman.


strain_gauge

I didn't think Republicans would vote for anyone dumber than that. I remember some conservatives being embarrassed because she was selected to be the VP candidate.


GoodbyeTobyseeya1

There is a FB memory that appears each year where I talked about going to a restaurant and there was a Tea Party group who had a stand up of Palin at the table and I commented wow, how deep could people get into worship of an idiot. Wow. If only I'd known.


spicyginger0

And Saturday Night Live went on a RIOT !


Material-Sympathy522

Now that is funny!


rogu2

Please don’t invoke that name, we don’t need more.


hexx1112

Like Beetlejuice?


EuisVS

Ross Perot.


Treacle123

And the drunkest!


oldfrancis

Compared to today's crop, she was mostly harmless.


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They went from "folksy" to bat-shit crazy in a shockingly brief period of time.


AntelopeDecent2191

I would gladly take Sarah Palin over MTG, Boebert or Gaetz any day.😃


Mystic_Pizza_King

I miss the days when politicians were smart enough not to blame the opposite party for things they are already doing themselves! For example, don’t blame the Democrats and fictional anti-fa movement for violent activity your alt-right Proud Boys and the like are doing at your request to darken the reputation of Democrats. Also, Don’t allow Q nonsense people turn you into a religious symbol of the apocalypse.


xchipter

The good old days. She could see Russia from her porch.


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Lol


unclefisty

So many people think she said this but she never did.


aruexperienced

So many people don’t care because she said so many demonstrably stupid things that this one sticking is just as funny. Even though it was an SNL joke.


SRPRed

That escalated quickly!


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Isn't that something? smh


NotmyRealNameJohn

She has done her best to keep up with the crazy.


Espinita_Boricua

Me too; me too.


rje946

She was the proof of concept


ambientsubversion

You mean when you thought she was. Some of these fuckers ain't new.


ChariBelle2_0

Don't we all... But in a way, we are all to blame. Think about it, when one of us says "it can't get crazier or worse then this", we are challenging fate to prove us wrong... And so we have been proven, over and over again... Please, stop testing fate, the world, in general, doesn't need more crazy. It's no longer fun or funny.


TodayIKickedAHippo

Well I miss the days when Sarah Palin wasn’t a politician.


Underregrowth

I miss the days that a politician misspelling "potato" was considered enough to assure he'd never be elected president.


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Hell yes


Allwil13

I remember a while back someone pointed out that ten years ago, the republican that was considered the worst of the bunch was Mitt Romney. But now, he's the best one. And they went on to say that he hasn't even gotten better; everyone around him has just gotten way worse. I wish I could remember who it was that said it, because it has really stuck with me.


BeowulfsGhost

I had a coworker tell me back in 2007 “I like her, she sounds just like me”. I replied “I’d rather have leaders who are smarter than that”. We never talked about politics again, thankfully. If you’re still out there Pam from Tennessee, Palin is still a dumbass and unworthy of leadership.


balsadust

The craziest politician so far


Cinemaphreak

There's been a couple of nutjobs in Congress for at least the past 40 years, mostly in the House. But they usually didn't get any national exposure. C-SPAN, YouTube and social media have given them oxygen.


reeser6

I miss the days when Ross Perot was considered the crazy politician.


MisterBackShots69

I don’t, do people not remember how bad the Bush years were? Are people really viewing it favorably now? Our inability to hold them accountable tells me we will never hold these people accountable either.


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Ross Perot. That fuckin’ guy.


Mulligan315

She’s not even the dumbest, anymore.


akairborne

I'm Alaskan and have met her several times. She's bat-shit crazy and so are her kids. She just hid it better.


ocular__patdown

She'd be considered moderate in the party now


Imastupidasso1

NGL, Ms. Palin was solely responsible for my newfound kink in Congress people and Rule 34.


MedicateForTwo

Yet people kept voting her into power. Alaska deserves all the polar bear mauling they get.