A Letter to Graves
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Republican In Name Only.
As usual, Phibes doesn't really know what he's talking about.
RINO's are squishy on principle, often wanting to be liked by moderates to the detriment of conservatives. They want to be liked by Demonrats, even though the Rats wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire .
When I think of a RINO, Pierre Delecto comes to mind...
@Jolly said in A Letter to Graves:
RINO's are squishy on principle
Unlike all the other politicians, then.
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Republican In Name Only.
As usual, Phibes doesn't really know what he's talking about.
RINO's are squishy on principle, often wanting to be liked by moderates to the detriment of conservatives. They want to be liked by Demonrats, even though the Rats wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire .
When I think of a RINO, Pierre Delecto comes to mind...
@Jolly said in A Letter to Graves:
As usual, Phibes doesn't really know what he's talking about.
The term RINO has repeatedly been used by Trump to describe many Republicans who dare to question his credentials, honesty, honour and skin tone. As we all know, he's a big fan of these rather childish epithets to describe people who are not actively engaged in sycophancy.
Your increasing use of the term is quite predictable.
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If you've been around Republicans, which i know are scarce where you've been living in the past, the term predates Trump. Goes back as far as the Neocon movement. Trump may use it, and sometimes he paints too broad a brush, but at least he has a glimmer of what the fuck he's talking about.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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The good news is I’m quite sure Horace is better at his day job than he is at playing amateur psychologist.
@Jon said in A Letter to Graves:
The good news is I’m quite sure Horace is better at his day job than he is at playing amateur psychologist.
What I've described is an archetype which you happen to conform to. It's less psychology, and more cultural anthropology. You make your own attempts at this sort of thing as well.
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If you've been around Republicans, which i know are scarce where you've been living in the past, the term predates Trump. Goes back as far as the Neocon movement. Trump may use it, and sometimes he paints too broad a brush, but at least he has a glimmer of what the fuck he's talking about.
@Jolly said in A Letter to Graves:
If you've been around Republicans, which i know are scarce where you've been living in the past, the term predates Trump. Goes back as far as the Neocon movement. Trump may use it, and sometimes he paints too broad a brush, but at least he has a glimmer of what the fuck he's talking about.
Yeah, the term's been around for a while, but the reason it gets used has changed.
And to be honest, Trump's conservative credentials aren't exactly glowing. Being an Olympic level gobshite doesn't make one a conservative.
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@Jolly said in A Letter to Graves:
If you've been around Republicans, which i know are scarce where you've been living in the past, the term predates Trump. Goes back as far as the Neocon movement. Trump may use it, and sometimes he paints too broad a brush, but at least he has a glimmer of what the fuck he's talking about.
Yeah, the term's been around for a while, but the reason it gets used has changed.
And to be honest, Trump's conservative credentials aren't exactly glowing. Being an Olympic level gobshite doesn't make one a conservative.
@Doctor-Phibes said in A Letter to Graves:
@Jolly said in A Letter to Graves:
If you've been around Republicans, which i know are scarce where you've been living in the past, the term predates Trump. Goes back as far as the Neocon movement. Trump may use it, and sometimes he paints too broad a brush, but at least he has a glimmer of what the fuck he's talking about.
Yeah, the term's been around for a while, but the reason it gets used has changed.
And to be honest, Trump's conservative credentials aren't exactly glowing. Being an Olympic level gobshite doesn't make one a conservative.
Trump's a pragmatist and a deal maker more than a committed conservative. But...He's done some conservative things that supposedly bedrock conservatives have only paid lip service to, like an emphasis on border security. And I think his SCOTUS appointments were quite good.
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It’s easy, TG.
RINO used to mean insuffiently conservative now it means insufficiently loyal to Trump.
@Jon said in A Letter to Graves:
It’s easy, TG.
RINO used to mean insuffiently conservative now it means insufficiently loyal to Trump.
DeSantis agrees.
“We have a strain in our party that views supporting Trump as whether you are a RINO or not. And so you could be the most conservative person since sliced bread [and] unless you’re kissing his rear end, they will somehow call you a RINO,” DeSantis said.
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He's probably been reading the George W Bush guide to making memorable aphorisms
