re: Admit it, this administration is a total shitshow

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with a whole heaping of brand damage for good measure.


Only 2 years after W left office with a 27% approval rating (lowest in history), the republicans gained the most seats in a midterm election since the 1930s.

There is no evidence that "brand" damage" exists in American politics. Voter are fickle and have short memories.

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This is a good bit different, and the R's got that advantage back as much because of Obama as they did anything they actually did.

Brand damage does exist in American politics. Look at the R's post-1929. They paid for that for a damn generation, at the least.

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Look at the R's post-1929. They paid for that for a damn generation, at the least.

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Yea, but the great depression is a historical novelty and FDR was a political miracle. Also....WW2

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This is the second post of yours I've seen in ten minutes where you can't write a complete sentence.

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Says the guy who can't properly punctuate an appositional phrase, and doesn't know the proper usage of "where"....

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with someone like George W at the helm.

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Just hold on, Trumps moving that way..

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except for two brief periods with slim majorities, the R's didn't get the House back with any permanency until the damn 1990's

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Yet from 1930s to 1990s, there were plenty of periods where conservative policy was being passed by congress. 1980s and 1990s econ policy, for example.

Many of those dems were blue dog or conservatives from the south who kept on getting reelected due to incumbency.,

On the presidential level, republicans were back in power in the 50s.


Look at another example: watergate. republicans were winning in landslides only 4 years after nixon resigne.d

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I disagree. Congress has just as much power as the POTUS and both parties hate this President. I think it’s different than the Obama years because Obama was an ideologue who wanted nothing to do with an opposition Congress. Trump has actually offered some pragmatic solutions but it hasn’t worked out. I do agree with you that Trump has been a failure in negotiating with them and a very bad leader overall.

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I mean, I have to see what some of these pragmatic solutions are, because everything I've seen has been anything but pragmatic or has been half-baked.

There is just no competency. With some exceptions (Mattis, McMaster - gone, Cohn - gone, Icahn - gone, maybe Tillerson - gone), he's hired a terribly incompetent staff, and he has his damn daughter and son-in-law as prominent faces of the administration. If that were a Democrat, every single person on this board would be, rightfully, screaming until Kingdom come about how incompetent and borderline illegal and nepotistic that shite is.

I've never voted for a Democrat in a federal race in my life and probably won't be any time soon, but I didn't vote for Trump and sure as shite won't be going forward. The party is a long, long way from where it was when Jack Kemp Republicans could proudly pull the lever.

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Look at the R's post-1929. They paid for that for a damn generation, at the least.
Yea, but the great depression is a historical novelty and FDR was a political miracle. Also....WW2

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Do either of you think that a large bloc of voters vote on that info today?

FFS we are looking at limiting social media. FB and Twitter consume 75%+ of the retarded masses.

Most aren't voting on things that matter. They just want to walk into traffic while looking at their phone and sue the person that hit their dumb arse.

I am a Trump supporter from the beginning but this is the result of running and winning without a support system and advisors in place. It’s going to be chaotic because there is no experience or exposure to dealing with or having connections to the people who run in those circles.

So you get Trump trying to mash things and people together, without compromising his message. It’s tough when there isn’t a pool of people to pull from with like minded ideas, specifically when many of those ideas are not thoroughly defined.

What broken campaign promises?