Defining the 21st Century Republican Party?

noxiousdog · Post by **noxiousdog** » Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:59 pm

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:43 pm The GOP as a cultural minority may have oversized political influence because of an unrepresentative senate, but I think corporations are showing they are realizing where the true majority is.

They've also done enough business with autocratic governments to know that's not a great way to protect capital.

noxiousdog · Post by **noxiousdog** » Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:00 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:50 pm Democrats need to pound out the message that voter suppression is bad for business (unlikely but possible). They have a unique opportunity to form a coalition of centrists, liberals, minorities and corporations. Hope they don't blow it.

It's more likely than you think. There's a reason why diversity and inclusion programs are so prevalent. In addition, while folks like doing business in Russia and China, they are well aware of the government risk involved. They don't want that to happen here.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:04 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:50 pm They have a unique opportunity to form a coalition of centrists, liberals, minorities and corporations.

I'm not sure liberals (at least, the more left-wing ones) will appreciate being in the same coalition as corporations.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:30 pm

It. Is. A. Cult.

UPDATE: The @NRCC has an even worse alternate prechecked recurring donation box that says they will "tell Trump you are a DEFECTOR" if unchecked.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:52 pm

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:31 pm

Can you imagine some imbecile handing Florida Man a daily list of DEFECTORS.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:09 pm

When Satire is the only true way to describe the GOP...

McConnell:

There are many ways people and corporations choose to express themselves and their views. However, only one of those ways is allowed. The only acceptable form of free speech is giving me money.

You might ask, “But isn’t free speech about speech? Isn’t that in the name?” And I’ll respond, “Stop talking to me. You’re only allowed to give me money. If you’re not giving me money, leave me alone and make more soda.”

And you might say, “I’m not Coca-Cola, I’m a person.” And I’ll respond, “If you’re not a corporation, then you’re not a person.”

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:40 pm

NV GOP Censure and disassociate NV secretary of state for certifying election.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Tue Apr 13, 2021 10:09 am

A sampling of the insanity on the right. This mind poison is streaming into homes every day.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:40 pm

It was one thing to see a hate-addled blowhard like Donald Trump amplify these positions. When he sabotaged the Republic, at least he had the excuse of narcissistic detachment from reality.

Somehow it's even more infuriating to see it coming from intelligent people who should know better. They're dancing on a line between cynicism and treason.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:03 pm

Unfortunately Trump demonstrated that what used to be said only behind closed doors won't hurt them politically if they just say it out in the open. In fact, it only boosts turnout and loyalty.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:32 am

Top Republicans Work To Rebrand GOP As Party Of Working Class

Since 2010, the most significant growth in the Republican coalition has been white voters without a college degree — an imperfect but widely used metric to quantify the working-class voting bloc — along with some marginal growth among similarly educated Black and Hispanic voters. Banks believes the only winning path forward for the GOP is to reimagine itself permanently as the party of working-class America.

Banks is the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a conservative faction in the House long rooted in small government, low taxes and social conservatism, and he recently sent a six-page memo to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., making his case. For Banks, it means tougher immigration laws and cracking down on China, Big Tech and, perhaps most provocatively for the GOP, corporate America.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:26 pm

RE-brand? Haven't they always tried to paint themselves as the working class party, evidence to the contrary notwithstanding?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:33 pm

Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:26 pm RE-brand? Haven't they always tried to paint themselves as the working class party, evidence to the contrary notwithstanding?

Not really. They've been the party of the corporation and claimed the democrats were using the working class for class warfare against the job creators at least since Reaganomics. "Right to work", etc...

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:38 pm

My initial thought was "if they're the new working class party, then who are they painting the Democrats as?" Then I realized of course. The party of browns and queers.

I can only hope that two years of Dem rule (4 if we're lucky) demonstrates which party actually has their best interests in mind.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:40 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:38 pm My initial thought was "if they're the new working class party, then who are they painting the Democrats as?" Then I realized of course. The party of browns and queers.

The Socialist Party

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:44 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:40 pm The Socialist Party

Ding, New Green Deal Socialists who want to take away everything the working man works for and give it to someone else.

YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:38 pm I can only hope that two years of Dem rule (4 if we're lucky) demonstrates which party actually has their best interests in mind.

That demonstration has been on going. I can only hope it's understood and accepted. We'll see.

Little Raven · Post by **Little Raven** » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:46 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:38 pmMy initial thought was "if they're the new working class party, then who are they painting the Democrats as?" Then I realized of course. The party of browns and queers.

Maybe a little, but that won't be their primary mode of attack.

They will paint the Democrats as being elitist ivory-tower intellectuals, so brainwashed by spending 7 years in college learning about underwater basketweaving that they have lost all understanding of how "the real world" works, and are only capable of rage-tweeting about how their student loans should be forgiven and the border should be open and everything will be free for everyone once we get rid of all the cops.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:48 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:44 pm
coopasonic wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:40 pm The Socialist Party
Ding, New Green Deal Socialists who want to take away everything the working man works for and give it to someone else.

This isn't new. They've been selling the idea of the working man paying for freebies for others for ages, which is why I said they've painted themselves as the party of the working man for a while.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:59 pm

Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:48 pm This isn't new. They've been selling the idea of the working man paying for freebies for others for ages, which is why I said they've painted themselves as the party of the working man for a while.

I definitely give you that but they had been selling that concurrent with a stronger pitch of corporations are people and the working man is the working man because of job creators who need fiscal relief to create jobs.

Little Raven wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:46 pm They will paint the Democrats as being elitist ivory-tower intellectuals, so brainwashed by spending 7 years in college learning about underwater basketweaving that they have lost all understanding of how "the real world" works, and are only capable of rage-tweeting about how their student loans should be forgiven and the border should be open and everything will be free for everyone once we get rid of all the cops.

Where's that SNL Star Trek post millennial parody?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:43 am

The future of the party, right here

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were the lone two members to vote against a bill that would reauthorize the National Marrow Donor Program, which matches bone marrow donors and cord blood units with patients who have leukemia and other diseases

The bill passed 415-2

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:41 am

I'm sure that they have a very logical and sensible reason for their votes.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:01 am

Did they even say why they don't support it?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:09 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:01 am Did they even say why they don't support it?

I haven't seen specifics yet - I'm hoping it comes out today. The guesses I've seen tossed around are related to some type of QAnon theory (bone marrow matching is a database to steal your information) or that bone marrow donations are somehow tied to infant stem cells, therefore abortion.

Either way, I need to know. Hopefully via a video interview.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:21 am

On a lighter note, this guy wins the internet for the day

A protester featured Wednesday on CNN mocked the words of Donald Trump by referencing an infamous 2020 quote from the former president condemning demonstrators who were supposedly throwing soup at the police.

The protester in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, who identified himself as “Tiger,” told CNN’s Sara Sidner that he had been participating in the protests over the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright for the last four nights.

“I’ve been here all four nights, and I’m just standing here today with soup for my family and we’re just watching all this unfold,” the protester said, holding up a can of soup and winking at the camera. “It’s very unfortunate.”

Asked if he would throw the soup can at the police, the protester replied, “Like I said, it’s for my family.”

The protester was referencing a Trump speech from July 2020 that sparked a multitude of memes. At the time, Trump had met with leaders from the National Association of Police Organizations and lambasted “anarchists” who had weaponized soup against police officers.

“And they throw the cans of soup,” Trump said. “That’s better than a brick because you can’t throw a brick; it’s too heavy. But a can of soup, you can really put some power into that, right? And then when they get caught, they say, ‘No, this is soup for my family.’ And you have people coming over with bags of soup — big bags of soup. And they lay it on the ground, and the anarchists take it and they start throwing it at our cops, at our police.”

Trump added to this soup rhetoric in September by arguing that protesters in Democrat-run cities would throw tuna fish — specifically “Bumble Bee brand tuna” — at law enforcement.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 2:54 pm

Love it. Too bad most people won’t get it.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 3:33 pm

Can't figure out if the oddly specific "Bumble Bee tuna" was a slam or a promo by Florida Man.

Freyland · Post by **Freyland** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:03 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 3:33 pm Can't figure out if the oddly specific "Bumble Bee tuna" was a slam or a promo by Florida Man.

Neither, it just stings more when it hits.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:18 pm

Freyland wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:03 pm
Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 3:33 pm Can't figure out if the oddly specific "Bumble Bee tuna" was a slam or a promo by Florida Man.
Neither, it just stings more when it hits.

Not sure if I should

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hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 5:01 pm

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 5:50 pm

(you're welcome for the earworm)

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:45 pm

Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar have established an "America First Caucus," the tenets of which are Bullhorn rather than Dogwhistle. All the racists are signing up.

As many have pointed out today, "Anglo-Saxon architecture" literally stops at thatch-roofed huts.

The platform itself is pure white supremacy, of course.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:56 pm

Holy crap. I guess if anyone wanted to know where this was all headed, here you go.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:56 pm

These folks look pretty Anglo...

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 8:48 pm

This may blow up in their faces. Rep. Moore is already backing away from it after initially being reported as a member in waiting.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:39 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:45 pm As many have pointed out today, "Anglo-Saxon architecture" literally stops at thatch-roofed huts.

That's where my surname comes from. They're talking about me!!!!! My heritage!!!!

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:07 pm

“Look everyone, when we say ‘anglo-saxon’, we totally don’t mean ‘white’. That’s fake news because...um...er...LOOK, A COMMUNIST!” ::smokebomb::

Did you miss me this week Fake @JakeSherman?

Taking #AngloSaxon out of context to mean racist is the same as the idiots that lied about me and #JewishSpaceLasers.

Jake, how about you tell your favorite communist
@AOC to debate me and I’ll teach her about #AmericaFirst.

K?

Side note: I’d pay good money to hear this blithering idiot try and explain what they actually mean.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:30 pm

The choice catch phrase used to be to say they were saving 'Western Civilization' but that wasn't white enough.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:27 pm

Finally! Took them long enough to ball up about what they really want/represent. Now the rest of us can ID (and mock/throw rotten fruit at) them more easily.

This is just formalizing what we already knew about a lot of these a-holes. What will be interesting will be to see who in the GOP pushes back. Probably the same old cast of characters that still (foolishly) think the old GOP is salvageable. Romney, et al.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:29 am

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:45 pm Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar have established an "America First Caucus," the tenets of which are Bullhorn rather than Dogwhistle. All the racists are signing up.

As many have pointed out today, "Anglo-Saxon architecture" literally stops at thatch-roofed huts.

The platform itself is pure white supremacy, of course.

Deutschland über alles Is a catchy tune. I wonder if they sing it at all their basement meetings?