Actually, I am.  And even I thought the Super fragile . . . was funny.  Stupid, racist and blindly partisan.  But funny.  It would have been even funnier if I hadn't heard it several times before.

When did you become a Progressive?

Well, ectually, the way it should work from a legal standpoint is an equivalent law repealing the previous laws on prohibition. To make a product 'legal' to sell which once was legal, through absence of legislation, and then made illegal is a mockery of republican form of govt, bordering on mob-rule(democracy).

The law in NV is as idiotic as all other pot laws. Legal here, not legal there, legal for this guy, but not that guy, casino no, liquor store yes(some). Jeezalou....

I do think more, and more people are realizing that CNN, the major networks, and most newspapers are just propaganda outlets for the Democrats who have really just become the Communist Party.

But there are still way too many people that believe all of it.  And the more they say it, the more they believe it.  And the more Trump tweets inane, irrelevant stuff, the more they want to believe it.

Don't get me wrong.  I love that he is able to reach out directly to the people, and I don't want him to stop.  But I do wish he would filter a few of his thoughts.  I really don't care if that bitch was bleeding from a face lift or not.  All the women I know hate him for saying that in public.  Even many conservative women.  And it DIDN'T HELP ANYTHING!

The mad brilliance of Trump's strategery with respect to the tweet's and such will only be realized by the Left sometime late in his 2nd term when they realize they could be looking at President Pence in 2024.

The real damage that is being done is to the assumed credibility of the opinion makers and story keepers in the radical alt-left-government-media complex - the masks are coming off every day and the depths to which they are (and have been) going is only now being truly unearthed.

Several really good pieces lately about this:

http://nypost.com/2017/07/01/why-the-media-has-broken-down-in-the-age-of-trump/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-reflections-on-the-presidents-tweet/article/2627664

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/03/donald-trump-winning-oval-office-twitter

I for one am loving it although I recognize the real danger that results from living in an alternate reality zone and then be faced with undeniable proof of the cognitive dissonance.

Saw this yesterday, shared by Milo (https://www.facebook.com/heyconservativepost/videos/vb.221573484697614/717016531819971/?type=2&theater), think this kid nails almost all of it.

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Plenty of Libertarians are open-border proponents.

Yes. First of all there are libertarians and then there are libertarians, almost opposing definitions of one another.

But I'll start with myself. I am more a libertarian than anything else. Being such, as a young idealist, I was always pro open trade.  It's best for the consumer to have the most choices, this leads to the natural settlement of prices on the intersection of the demand/supply curve to make everyone win-win.

It is also best to allow unfettered immigration. (Again, libertarian theory.) If you think of it like air filling a vacuum, when there is a market need for employees, or for more private enterprise because of a growing population and thriving economy, and there are places in the world where there is an overpopulation and no work opportunities, humans will migrate to the locations needing more humans. This eases the pressure on the sending side and it fills the needs on the receiving side. All well and good, right?  Pure libertarian philosophy, believing in minimal rule from above and maximum freedom of the individual, suggests no borders is the ideal condition that leads to maximum happiness for all.

Well like all purist ideas, this doesn't work so well in the real world.  Take trade with China for an example.  Because of completely different political, regulatory and monetary landscapes, instead of benefiting everyone, it has become a complete disaster for the U.S. and a pretty good thing for China, and a very unbalanced thing overall. The prices cannot settle on the demand/supply curve to make a win-win for all, because the curve is corrupted by these differences. There is not a level playing field, and this is the problem with ideals. (They often assume things not real.)

The same with immigration, it is a mix of good and bad, it is not, as a purist libertarian might argue, always a total good thing to allow individuals to move and live where ever they want. You can never have a utopia and that includes a libertarian utopia.  If you believe open borders leads to the best overall result, you must assume everyone else holds your ideal of libertarian freedom. But they don't. For example, if your open borders allows a lot of fundamentalist Muslims in, they'll eventually vote in Sharia law, and where are your libertarian liberties now?

Natural law trumps all, including libertarian, or any other, political philosophy.  And natural law leads humans to invade and destroy; cultural destruction by immigration counts as that.  So I have come to see that this given group of humans (the U.S.) must protect and defend itself from anything that will transform us away from whatever it is that makes us the most free and prosperous nation in the world.

This does not mean I am against immigration. It means I am against illegal, uncontrolled, excessive immigration from groups who will not assimilate and adapt the values that make us what we are.

Personally I'm more upset by his obsession with voter fraud and some of the other allegations of dubious veracity that he has made both before and since taking office. Sometimes our president seems to have only a tenuous grasp on reality, and that's a scary thought. But I agree with the OP that this latest tempest in a teapot is something of a national embarrassment. Seems several Republican senators agree that Trump needs to stay away from Twitter. He's not helping the country's image, nor his party, nor frankly himself.

We lived through 8 years of a national embarrassment called Barack Obama.  We watched him, a total amateur sit in the WH making law via executive action, ignoring laws and ramming the worse piece of legislation down our collective throats.  We watched him let Americans die for political expediency, drone attack other Americans who were due process of law under the constitution, run guns to Mexico in order to promote gun control here, cut back room deals with the Iranians, cut another deal that funneled money to Castro's military, etc, etc, etc. 

I'll take Trump over Obama every day of the week and twice on Sunday.  Let the bed wetting crybaby liberals keep crying over his tweets. 

Not true at all.  The problem is that the Right has little representation in government.  Establishment Republicans, which are the vast majority are NOT right.  They may say they are, but they are like Democrats that want the bigger government status quo. We have Trump at this point a few others.  Maybe Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and a few more.  That's it!

Most moderates usually have a willingness to compromise only to accommodate the left, and not really take a stand for what is the right thing to do.  Pretty looney if you ask me.

Agree but not sure Trump is actually "right".  He has flip flopped from Dem to Rep party and others, over the years, contributed to both sides, changed position on abortion, gun control, healthcare, etc.

Not that I have a problem with all of that. I've flipped myself, been a registered Democrat before, a registered Libertarian and a Republican all at various times.  I also don't really buy "if you flip flop you don't stay true to your values".  I believe you CAN be sincerely true to your values, but your values can change as you learn new information and/or circumstances change.  My stance on crime is a good example, I have always been very pro-tough on crime, pro lock 'em up.  But in recent years, with the vast increase in imprisonment of non-violent offenders due to the incredibly over-reaching "war on drugs" and the for-profit private prison system with too high a stake in mass incarceration (this is one of the FEW things I side with the ACLU on) I have reversed my position on imprisonment. (My position now is: Ideally almost no one should be imprisoned; violent offenders should receive justice at the end of their would-be victim's gun. Save the trouble of trial. But I digress.) The point is, I hardly have wishy washy values.  Actually, come to think of it, my core value has not changed at all.  I still believe violent offenders, and other TRUE criminals such as burglars, etc. should receive the harshest treatment, if not death at the hands of their victim at the point of the crime commission, or yes, reserve prison for them. But I never favored harsh punishment for victimless "crime".  It's just that on the whole I believed upholding a strong prison system was good for society, but where I have flipped is that now upholding a strong prison system is becoming a tool to incarcerate too many who do not belong there and a net detriment to society.

And likewise I give Trump the benefit of the doubt and hope he changes because of genuine reasons. (I also point out some of his "change" is made up media lies.) But I realize he probably changes for personal benefit, to grow his own wealth and power.  I have no problem with that either as long as his benefit aligns with mine and that of the rest of middle America, IE: if it led to him getting elected POTUS and he actually saves the economy for us all.

You are correct, right now Trump is functioning very much like the true right that we want. Attempting to drain the swamp, getting us out of Paris, etc. - wonderful, wonderful things. But I still reserve a bit of skepticism about him overall - still cautiously optimistic about him, but not blindly putting all my faith in him.  I'm sure you feel exactly the same way.

But your point about establishment Republicans not being the true right anymore is spot on. It's why I have left the Republican party again this year and probably will never return.  I think I'll just be "independent" now for the remainder of my days.