If Trump got assassinated I would only really support Pence if he continued to be a hardliner on immigration.

Yeah

I for one would start lobbying for Donald J. Trump Jr. to be nominated VP ASAP.

my litmus test is:
a) No amnesty
b) No more foreign wars

Don Jr's busy with the company and being a madman on Twitter

the GOP can maintain this momentum by crafting a popular infrastructure bill

the thing is, infrastructure is a Democrat idea

How would the Democrats play into that

it'd help Trump, but Trump's not up for election

i'm not sure what a Republican infrastructure legislation would look like

idk, really it seems universal

more roads, fixed buildings, the nine yards

How do you think a rail line system in the US would work like they have in Europe or Japan?

You pay a ticket price, you go from city to city, high speed.

Infrastructure has always been a more Republican type of spending program.

in what sense

doesn't really seem too partisan to me imo

The WPA and crap did nothing but build statues of naked people and crap, and FDR basically did nothing but minimum wage and welfare crap otherwise.

Then Eisenhower came in and built the Interstate

Then LBJ came in and passed more gibsmedats for the black voters

you're missing the part when kennedy got his head plastered on his motorcade by LBJ et al

Kennedy didn't do anything except tax cuts and Apollo.

anyways, go on

The gap between Republicans and Democrats on space tends to be that Republicans want to actually do shit in space, and Democrats want to play space cadet.

right, we had SDI which was missile defense

The Democrats went to the Moon with Apollo, took 2 steps, and went "wtf my feet are bouncing"

And then went back home

Bush on the other hand proposed a full colonization program with Constellation.

wasn't that '69

anyways, I get what you mean

there's really two types of spending, productive spending and unproductive spending

Yeah, but it was from 1963 to 1969. Nixon cancelled it after 1972 because it wasn't really accomplishing much anymore.

Indeed.

I think in terms of social welfare programs you need a society of potential workers

for that you need more homogenity and the such

otherwise it devolves into degenerates waiting for their checks every months sitting on their asses like in our reality

Indeed.

I definitely think that if we are going to spend money, put it into stuff like research and infrastructure

if we do have welfare, put it into welfare for the Veterans

then it's a reward and not just some presents from uncle sam

Yep. Infrastructure is at least capable of helping the economy; research is also helpful but it's not as consistently helpful.