The President has no shame, the Republican Party has no spine, and Fox News has no integrity.
- Thomas Friedman
I couldn't have said it better myself. This combination is a true threat to our democracy.
Fox news has no shame. But regarding the Republican party? They have spine, they just don't have any integrity. They support a man who has no morals, no professionalism, he attacks anyone and everybody, is in collusion with a Russian dictator, has endorsed an accused sex offender, has absolutely ZERO respect for women, and gives racism a voice...….. (I could go on) Had he been a democrat, the republicans would denounce him for everything I mentioned, plus more. Your party is more important to you than morals.
He's an embarrassment to this great and diverse country we live in.
I beg to differ. The Republicans in power have shown little to no spine. Look how Ryan and Rubio and Cruz talked about Trump before he was nominated. Hell, two of the three were running AGAINST him bitterly. After he got nominated? There's FOOTAGE of them now stumping for Trump telling voters how GREAT he is (despite all the things they said about him days before). His acting Chief of Staff is on record saying horrible (yet accurate) things about Trump but now....not so much.
shareWell in that regard, you're correct.
shareDoes the whining from the libcucks ever stop?
shareYep. Friedman also said:
https://www.postbulletin.com/opinion/thomas-friedman-dump-the-gop-for-a-grand-new-party/article_cc972bd3-9c73-53ca-b3a8-decd9f2d470b.html
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America needs a healthy two-party system. America needs a healthy center-right party to ensure that the Democrats remain a healthy center-left party. America needs a center-right party ready to offer market-based solutions to issues like climate change. America needs a center-right party that will support common-sense gun laws. America needs a center-right party that will support common-sense fiscal policy. America needs a center-right party to support both free trade and aid to workers impacted by it. America needs a center-right party that appreciates how much more complicated foreign policy is today, when you have to manage weak and collapsing nations, not just muscle strong ones.
But this Republican Party is none of those things. Today's Republican Party is to governing what Trump University is to education — an ethically challenged enterprise that enriches and perpetuates itself by shedding all pretense of standing for real principles, or a truly relevant value proposition, and instead plays on the ignorance and fears of the public.
It is just an empty shell, selling pieces of itself to the highest bidders — policy by policy — a little to the Tea Party over here, a little to Big Oil over there, a little to the gun lobby, to anti-tax zealots, to climate-change deniers. And before you know it, the party stands for an incoherent mess of ideas unrelated to any theory of where the world is going or how America actually becomes great again in the 21st century.
It becomes instead a coalition of men and women who sell pieces of their brand to whoever can most energize their base in order for them to get re-elected in order for them to sell more pieces of their brand in order to get re-elected.
And we know just how little they are attached to any principles, because today's Republican Party's elders have told us so by (with a few notable exceptions) being so willing to throw their support behind a presidential candidate whom they know is utterly ignorant of policy, has done no homework, has engaged in racist attacks on a sitting judge, has mocked a disabled reporter, has impugned an entire religious community, and has tossed off ignorant proposals for walls, for letting allies go it alone and go nuclear and for overturning trade treaties, rules of war and nuclear agreements in ways that would be wildly destabilizing if he took office.
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