Republicans Burn the Republican Party Down to the Ground

[Lazaran]

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Once again BoBo proves Kendi right.

BoBo redefines Democrats positions on immigration, then takes up all the bandwidth screaming about those invented positions and imaginary Democrats.

The Kendi hammer hit the BoBo nail on the head.

*nods*

 

[pecksniff]

None of which is the job of the government to correct.

Didn't we settle all this in the 1930s?

 

[CornusKousa]

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Once again BoBo proves Kendi right.

BoBo redefines Democrats positions on immigration, then takes up all the bandwidth screaming about those invented positions and imaginary Democrats.

The Kendi hammer hit the BoBo nail on the head.

*nods*

Being real about the Democrats positions isn't redefining them.

They actively subvert our immigration laws and call for the abolishment of the agency tasked with the enforcement of those laws and derides them as Nazis for enforcing our laws.

That makes their policy stance one of open borders.

It doesn't matter if they are honest enough to admit that openly or not.

 

[CornusKousa]

Didn't we settle all this in the 1930s?

No, that's why it's still an issue.

You guys keep trying to re-assign ever increasingly large numbers to the base value of labor (minimum wage) without realizing you're just inflating shit, the actual value of labor hasn't changed and that's why no matter what you set the "minimum wage" at the unskilled/low skill labor value will remain at the bottom.

15/hr won't leave them any better off than 4.50 or 7.25 did or 1,000/hr will after you guys print a few trillion more bucks.

 

[Specula]

The decision should have been easy: Do you want to stick by an overwhelmingly unpopular former president who potentially has both civil and criminal liabilities, or do you want a fresh start for a party in need of new ideas? Republicans, remarkably, chose the former.

Quinnipiac’s most recent poll highlights the Republicans’ dilemma. By a 75 percent to 21 percent margin, Republicans “would like to see [former president Donald Trump] play a prominent role in the Republican Party.” However, overall, “Americans say 60-34 percent that they do not want Trump to play a prominent role in the Republican Party.” Even worse: “A majority of Americans, 55-43 percent, say Trump should not be allowed to hold elected office in the future. Republicans say 87-11 percent that Trump should be allowed to hold elected office in the future.”

Further, a majority of Americans (54 percent) think Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6. An even higher percentage (55 percent) think the assault would not have happened without him. An astounding 68 percent think the former commander in chief did not do enough to stop the siege.

Republicans are bound to a figure who is toxic and utterly unacceptable to a significant majority of the country. Republicans in 2022 will be tied to him or will rush to embrace him, rendering candidates repugnant outside of deep-red areas. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) might like to distance himself from the disgraced former president, but after saving Trump from conviction, it will be difficult to disentangle the party from the man who instigated a violent coup, no matter what McConnell said on the Senate floor after voting to acquit him.

The groups that ran from the GOP in 2020 — women, young people, non-Whites and the college educated — are the same voters who are most adamant about getting Trump out of public life. Only 26 percent of women, 37 percent of young voters, 18 percent of college-educated Whites and 28 percent of non-Whites want him to be a major figure in the GOP.

The party’s leader is a red flag for these groups, which will be incentivized in 2022 to defeat his enablers. All those Republican House swing districts who ran to embrace the insurrectionist in chief will face the wrath of anti-Trump voters without him on the top of the ticket to drive turnout. Democrats chasing Senate seats in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and even Ohio will ask a simple question: Do you want someone who supported the instigator of a deadly insurrection, or someone who thought that such conduct should be punished?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/16/republicans-tied-themselves-an-anvil/

Yes!!! where are these half-wits coming from???

Dick

 

[allison22]

It wasn't all that long ago that Republicans boasted about being the party of ideas.

Now, they're the party of childish temper tantrums, straw man attacks, screaming, violence, domestic terrorism, and obstruction of justice.

 

[CornusKousa]

It wasn't all that long ago that Republicans boated about being the party of ideas.

Now, they're the party of childish temper tantrums, straw man attacks, screaming, violence, domestic terrorism, and obstruction of justice.

You get what you give....

 

[WillJ8787]

You get what you give....

Correct...the repubs took in trash and trash is what hey have now.

 

[Rightguide]

It wasn't all that long ago that Republicans boated about being the party of ideas.

Now, they're the party of childish temper tantrums, straw man attacks, screaming, violence, domestic terrorism, and obstruction of justice.

Total bullshit.

 

[allison22]

In the 1990's the Republicans welcomed the Tea Party into the Republican Party and they financed their candidates.

The Tea Partiers didn't believe in negotiation or compromise or coalition building. They seemed to think that loud temper tantrums, threats, inciting violence and name calling was all they needed to master to get legislation passed and make real change in government policy and legislation.

This led to certain Republican leaders publicly declaring that you don't have to obey Supreme Court rulings if those rulings conflict with your religious beliefs.

Then, we ended up with Mitch McConnell waging a war against the Constitution of the United States, obeying it only when it helped him with his political agenda.

THEN we ended up with Donald Trump in the White House. Trump thought that America should be run like a dictatorship and that the Constitution of the United States was a "very bad" thing as it made it very difficult for him to run this country like a dictator.

Over the past thirty years, through corruption, greed, incompetence, greed, cruelty and opposition to everything that made America great, the Republican Party has gone from a legitimate political party to an anti-American cult that plotted a violent overthrow of the U.S. government.

 

[butters]

far right tennessee state senator indicted for campaign finance violations

According to the reporters, "After The Tennessean's 2017 report, a watchdog group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice saying Kelsey and others may have been involved in illegal straw donations, inappropriate coordination and other possible wrongdoing. Kelsey, R-Germantown, and Smith are accused of secretly and illegally shuffling 'soft money' from Kelsey's Tennessee state Senate campaign committee to his authorized federal campaign committee."

https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/fa...ted-for-alleged-campaign-finance-violations/?

 

[CornusKousa]

Correct...the repubs took in trash and trash is what hey have now.

Just responding in kind to the Democrats.

 

[Rightguide]

In the 1990's the Republicans welcomed the Tea Party into the Republican Party and they financed their candidates.

The Tea Partiers didn't believe in negotiation or compromise or coalition building. They seemed to think that loud temper tantrums, threats, inciting violence and name calling was all they needed to master to get legislation passed and make real change in government policy and legislation.

This led to certain Republican leaders publicly declaring that you don't have to obey Supreme Court rulings if those rulings conflict with your religious beliefs.

Then, we ended up with Mitch McConnell waging a war against the Constitution of the United States, obeying it only when it helped him with his political agenda.

THEN we ended up with Donald Trump in the White House. Trump thought that America should be run like a dictatorship and that the Constitution of the United States was a "very bad" thing as it made it very difficult for him to run this country like a dictator.

Over the past thirty years, through corruption, greed, incompetence, greed, cruelty and opposition to everything that made America great, the Republican Party has gone from a legitimate political party to an anti-American cult that plotted a violent overthrow of the U.S. government.

More partisan bullshit.

 

[YDB95]

More partisan bullshit.

Exactly what did she get wrong? (I'll even say I spotted one mistake - let's see if you see it too, or if you're just reacting the way you always react to the truth about the Republicans.)