Defining the 21st Century Republican Party?

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:48 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 6:30 pm
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 11:57 am Have we ruled out that Oz is really a Fetterman plant? It's like he's working overtime to get him elected.
I replied to that post by texting "Oz is campaigning for Fetterman now??"

I've got 1,000 likes. That's never happened to me before.

I'm one of them!

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:57 pm

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:48 pm
Holman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 6:30 pm
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 11:57 am Have we ruled out that Oz is really a Fetterman plant? It's like he's working overtime to get him elected.
I replied to that post by texting "Oz is campaigning for Fetterman now??"

I've got 1,000 likes. That's never happened to me before.
I'm one of them!

Victoria Raverna · Post by **Victoria Raverna** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:45 am

Kurth · Post by **Kurth** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 10:49 am

Genius.

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:57 pm

I have to wonder - does Flynn believe this stuff or is he just performing for the money?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:05 pm

I also can't decide if he's mentally unstable or just an opportunist trying to make money off unwitting dupes who pay to listen to him tell it's okay to hate.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:06 pm

Incoming soon if the GOP gains control in 2022 - more blackmail shenanigans:

GOP leaders, congressional aides and business groups are preparing for a potential "nightmare scenario" next year if House Republicans take back the majority: a debt limit showdown reminiscent of the near-crisis in 2011.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:23 pm

Grifman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:57 pm I have to wonder - does Flynn believe this stuff or is he just performing for the money?

Forget the money, he was willing to go to jail and was pardoned along with Stone and Manafort by a sus executive office. Does he believe it or is he performing for an overlord? It's all conspiracy until you see how much he's worked "with" foreign interests openly hostile to domestic interests. I honestly have no idea which it is. There are a lot believers and a lot believers doing stupid nonsenscial things.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:42 pm

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:06 pm Incoming soon if the GOP gains control in 2022 - more blackmail shenanigans:

GOP leaders, congressional aides and business groups are preparing for a potential "nightmare scenario" next year if House Republicans take back the majority: a debt limit showdown reminiscent of the near-crisis in 2011.

The logical thing to do would be to just pass a bill in the lame duck session that eliminates / neuters the debt ceiling. I have a feeling that the Democrats will instead just walk into catastrophe, though.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:44 pm

Grifman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:57 pm I have to wonder - does Flynn believe this stuff or is he just performing for the money?

I'm not sure there has to be a clear line.

People can convince themselves of many things. He might believe, say, half of what he says while understanding the "crazier half" as just rhetorical exaggeration that is valuable for getting the core message across. As time goes on, and the crazier stuff resonates with more and more people in an adulatory bubble of fame, he might come to believe more of it too. And so the crazy gets crazier.

And of course the money lubricates this process.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:44 pm

All the political stunts and rhetoric are harmless, right?

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/ ... 476270.php

The warden of a West Texas federal jail for immigrants has been fired after he and a brother allegedly shot at migrants walking along a roadside in Hudspeth County on Sept. 27, killing one and wounding another.

Mike Thomas Sheppard, who until this week was warden of the privately run West Texas Detention Center in Sierra Blanca, and his brother, Mark, were arrested Thursday by Texas Rangers on manslaughter charges.

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 5:33 pm

El Guapo wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:42 pm
Pyperkub wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:06 pm Incoming soon if the GOP gains control in 2022 - more blackmail shenanigans:

GOP leaders, congressional aides and business groups are preparing for a potential "nightmare scenario" next year if House Republicans take back the majority: a debt limit showdown reminiscent of the near-crisis in 2011.

The logical thing to do would be to just pass a bill in the lame duck session that eliminates / neuters the debt ceiling. I have a feeling that the Democrats will instead just walk into catastrophe, though.

Sure, simple until the Republicans on the Senate filibuster it.

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:17 pm

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:18 pm

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:20 pm

I mean, should we?

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:23 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:20 pm I mean, should we?

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:35 pm

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:44 pm

Grifman wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:17 pm

I swear to Pancake, they believed that God punishes with these statements.

I also wonder if DeSantis and Geatz and Rick Scott think the Fed is overstepping its authority by using federal tax dollars to provide relief?

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 1:02 pm

I mentioned it in spoiler tags in the hurricane thread, but I do wonder what the sales graph from the DeSantis web store looks like for these items recently. Would absolutely NOT be surprised if there was nary a blip. Just like not even an involuntary eye twitch from DeSantis as he signed the request for FEMA (assuming he had to somehow request it).

or better still, this:

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:48 pm

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:59 pm

So unsurprising (yet still so rage-inducing). Absolutely ZERO accountability - to the press, to consituents...not even lip service. Just "No. Fuckyoufordaringtoask"

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:19 pm

Well that's something. Implicit call for violence. A dash of blatant racism. Awesome stuff.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:51 pm

*advice*

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 10:19 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:51 pm*advice*

That's how You know that He really Wrote it Himself.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 11:31 pm

malchior wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:19 pm Well that's something. Implicit call for violence. A dash of blatant racism. Awesome stuff.

Well, it's good to see the rats turning on each other. Fuck all of them; McConnell, Trump, and Chao.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:42 am

Does he mean Trump appointed Secretary of Transportation Chao? I wonder what Trump knows that President Trump didn't know.

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:01 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 11:31 pm
malchior wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:19 pm Well that's something. Implicit call for violence. A dash of blatant racism. Awesome stuff.

Well, it's good to see the rats turning on each other. Fuck all of them; McConnell, Trump, and Chao.

And yet McConnell will support him if he is the nominee. The entire Republican Party is just a bunch of neutered eunuchs. No one has any balls.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:34 am

This is the amazing thing. Trump will eventually turn on everyone. It's his nature. He's the fat ass scorpion riding on the back of the frog that is all other humanity. But a large number of those frogs will look back, see that they've been stung, then give him 20 bucks for doing so. Just astounding.

Kurth · Post by **Kurth** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 11:50 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:34 am This is the amazing thing. Trump will eventually turn on everyone. It's his nature. He's the fat ass scorpion riding on the back of the frog that is all other humanity. But a large number of those frogs will look back, see that they've been stung, then give him 20 bucks for doing so. Just astounding.

These things are all true.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:36 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:34 am This is the amazing thing. Trump will eventually turn on everyone. It's his nature. He's the fat ass scorpion riding on the back of the frog that is all other humanity. But a large number of those frogs will look back, see that they've been stung, then give him 20 bucks for doing so. Just astounding.

It's true. Perfect analogy. I'll only say that I picture it more like he stings some frog, and there just always seems to be another frog right there in the river ready to help the scorpion as the previous frog begins to drown.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:17 pm

The scorpion won't sting my face.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:59 pm

....just out of curiosity, are you under the impression frogs backstroke everywhere?

Spoiler:

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:22 pm

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:25 pm

To be fair, they all voted in favor of more paper towels.

gbasden · Post by **gbasden** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 8:31 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:59 pm ....just out of curiosity, are you under the impression frogs backstroke everywhere?

Spoiler:

The mouth has to be pointed upwards at all times in case there is an ass that must be kissed.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 8:48 pm

Don't overlook the low cunning that Trump brings to this shit.

His saying McConnell has a "DEATH WISH" can easily be defended as just politics. Saying a politician has a death wish can be defended as meaning they're setting up for electoral failure.

But, yeah. The emphasis and tone. The rage. The racism and implication of treason. It's casual stochastic terrorism, the point of which is to evade responsibility.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 1:45 am

Holman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 8:48 pm Saying a politician has a death wish can be defended as meaning they're setting up for electoral failure.

Defended? Why? What is this, 2012 or something?!

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:06 am

malchior wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:22 pm

Because they’re rugged individualists who don’t need no help from the evil gubmint? Or because they personally didn’t need any relief therefore no one does? Or because they figure it’ll pass anyways so this will give them some anti-government cred with the MAGA mouthbreathers?

I’m honestly baffled by that.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:20 am

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:06 am they figure it’ll pass anyways so this will give them some anti-government cred with the MAGA mouthbreathers?

This

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:36 am

All three of those options sound extremely likely. I vote ‘mix of all three’.