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kpete

(72,014 posts)
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:12 AM Aug 2016

Oh horseshit. There is no conservative movement in America.

Trump is EXACTLY who they are, and that is why they deserve to lose.

There is no conservative movement in America. There hasn’t been one since Goldwater. You assholes hitched your wagon to the racist underbelly of America and it took you quite a ways towards your oligarchical goal. But the jig is up now. You’ve been teasing that beast with a taste here and there but it’s not going to take table scraps anymore. No, it want’s the meat and potatoes, it wants it now and it doesn’t care where it gets it from. If it can’t eat from the left side of the table, it will be just as happy to eat from the right side.

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/08/08/monday-morning-open-thread-repubs-are-changing-their-minds-about-trump/#comment-5950948

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Oh horseshit. There is no conservative movement in America. (Original Post) kpete Aug 2016 OP
There has been a conservative con job in America Chasstev365 Aug 2016 #1
Yep! Meanwhile, keep the eyes off the extreme minority (the wealthy) pulling those strings. n/t Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #5
they had to keep dog whistling to bring the dogs to the voting booth Skittles Aug 2016 #6
This. This grubbs Aug 2016 #2
"Conservative" word the Republicans use George Orwell-style, like "patriotism" RapSoDee Aug 2016 #3
They're extremists. Nothing conservative about them. Avalux Aug 2016 #4

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
1. There has been a conservative con job in America
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 09:15 AM
Aug 2016

Divide people with guns, gays, and God as you con them into voting for a transfer of wealth to the upper 1%. Sadly, it's been pretty effective.

Skittles

(153,193 posts)
6. they had to keep dog whistling to bring the dogs to the voting booth
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 11:07 PM
Aug 2016

but now the dogs are biting back

RapSoDee

(421 posts)
3. "Conservative" word the Republicans use George Orwell-style, like "patriotism"
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 10:19 AM
Aug 2016

It signals something that is the exact opposite of the way Republicans actually are, what they actually want, and what they actually do in their personal hypocritical lives.

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
4. They're extremists. Nothing conservative about them.
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 10:29 AM
Aug 2016

Trump has given voice from the most fringe of our society who believe others should be controlled and dominated like animals.

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