What happened to the GOP?

Oh you are assuming that’s why Republicans want her gone, it’s one of the reasons I guess, most Republican supporters hated her for a long time.

As for doing her job, Republican supporters are mostly of the mind the election was rigged, with the help of Republicans. The mood seems to be more along the lines of clean them all out from the bottom to the top.

Propaganda is a hell of a drug

Purging the disloyal from the ranks. Gangsta Old Party huh? Whatever keeps them arguing with each other is fine with me I suppose. Not a good look.

Hopefully they’ll come back to reality soon.

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Yeah, took about 3 years for people to wake up to the fact nobody on Trumps team colluded with the Russian Government to steal the 2016 election and they all knew it years ahead of that.

Got to be in control of just about all the MSM to pull off a propaganda exercise of that size and I agree it’s a hell of a drug.

Just a couple of months into Bidens Presidency. Let’s see how things shape up.

J.B. bringing some life to the Party

By 2011, the right-wing propaganda nuts had managed to turn Obama into a toxic brand for conservatives. When I was first elected to Congress, we didn’t have any propaganda organization for conservatives, except maybe a magazine or two like National Review. The only people who used the internet were some geeks in Palo Alto. There was no Drudge Report. No Breitbart. No kooks on YouTube spreading dangerous nonsense like they did every day about Obama.

“He’s a secret Muslim!”

“He hates America!”

“He’s a communist!”

And of course the truly nutty business about his birth certificate. People really had been brainwashed into believing Barack Obama was some Manchurian candidate planning to betray America.

And it was clear that he believed all of this crazy stuff. I walked out of that meeting in a daze. I just didn’t believe the entire federal government was so terrified of Roger Ailes that they’d break about a dozen laws to bring him down. I thought I could get him to control the crazies, and instead I found myself talking to the president of the club. One of us was crazy. Maybe it was me.

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I wouldn’t bank on it. I’m back in the U.S. temporarily and some of the off the record conversations I’ve had with friends I grew up with here in rural Oregon have been mind boggling.

“You know they stoled the election, right?”

“Well, maybe, but I haven’t seen any evidence of it.”

“What do you mean! It’s obvious. Look at Dominion. Look at all the states that went big for Trump that supposedly went big for Biden.”

“That’s not evidence. That’s hand waving.”

“Who needs evidence when the truth is obvious?”

“Well I guess you’ll just have to shoot me then (grinning).”

“We may have to. When the shooting starts you’re either with us or you’re against us.”

“(Stops grinning)”

Well, the same people that don’t acknowledge Russian collusion was real also:

Denied covid is real for months while it was spreading, leading to mass death and illness
Believe George Floyd died of fetanyl
Think the election was rigged
Deny institutional racism exists
Thought Obama was Kenyan and doubted his US citizenship
Don’t believe the Capitol riots were instigated by Trump
Think an obscure academic branch is taking over US colleges in a commie plot
Dont accept Trump is a felon
Believe there’s a media conspiracy out to get Trump
Fear transgender restrooms are leading to social collapse
Started Q Anon, an organization based on a widespread belief Trump the superhero was needed to bust up a ring of Hollywood pedophiles
Are close buddies with Epstien, speaking of which
Lead voter suppression efforts
Embezzled US funds in the form of fake charter schools to the tune of billions
Want to make it illegal to hand water to people waiting to vote
Flee their country and abandon their people when their state freezes

And as @QuaSaShao points out, these people will shoot guns before recognizing the Truth.

Let’s keep this list handy the next time someone wants to make the ol’ both sidesy are the samesy argument.

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Oh no, they were just peachy. Kind of the problem with those in the MSM bubble is they lack self awareness. About this time into Trump’s presidency he was saying “Obama spied on me” which they responded with “OMG haahaha what a loon, Trump is spouting conspiracy theories”.

They knew, MSM knew, they were counting on their audiences ignorance, which for the most part they got.

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Ppfffftttttt. The citizens united supporting guy with the $500M super pac?! Ha!

Mitch believes corporations donating millions to politicians to pass tax cuts, oppose employees rights, and despoil the environment is free speech. Corporations freely speaking out is not free speech.

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While serving in the Florida Legislature, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz opposed a bill meant to stop people from sharing sexually explicit images of their ex-lovers because Gaetz believed that recipients of those images had a right to share them, according to the sponsor of the legislation.

Former state Rep. Tom Goodson, a Republican from Brevard County, spent three years sponsoring legislation to outlaw nonconsensual pornography — sometimes called “revenge porn.”

And Goodson said Monday that Gaetz was the chief opponent to that legislation. Goodson said he remembered a meeting in which Gaetz said that if someone sends an intimate image to their romantic partner, then that image becomes the partner’s property to use however they want.“Matt was absolutely against it. He thought the picture was his to do with what he wanted,” Goodson said. “He thought that any picture was his to use as he wanted to, as an expression of his rights.”

In 2014, for instance, a bill cleared two Senate committees and the full Senate by unanimous votes. But the House version of the legislation, which attracted 17 co-sponsors, was never given a hearing in the first committee it was assigned to — a committee that was chaired by Gaetz.

And this

And it seems relevant in light of how Gaetz was literally the only vote in 2017 against a sex trafficking bill in the US House.

But I’m sure it’s all about his opposition to big government interfering in someone’s, ah, personal business.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/546834-gaetz-sought-blanket-pardon-from-trump-white-house-report

I’m just as sure that has nothing to do with the investigation started under that noted anti-Trumpist Bill Barr.

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Matt Gaetz: Invites a Holocaust denier to the SOTU
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Jewish space lasers starting forest fires, Jews are bringing in non-white people into Europe.
Lisa Miller: “Hitler was right” on raising children.

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https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1379593125644152836

Republicans know, I think they are going to be doing some house cleaning.

McConnell was just reelected this year, so he’s not going anywhere, unless he wants to, for 6 years - he won the Republican primary with 83% of the vote, and the general election against a democratic Naval Academy female fighter pilot, with an impressive fund raising machine, by 20%.

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So Pizza Gaetz apparently asked the Trump admin for a preemptive pardon before Trump left office. :sweat_smile:

Now Trump is saying Gaetz never asked him for a pardon.

Which is a lot of stupid to unpack. First, Gaetz did not ask Trump directly, it’s reported he asked admin members, and Trump was aware.

So here we have Trump seemingly reacting to something he doesn’t even need to react to, I assume because he saw the stuff about Gaetz asking and thought it implicated him somehow?

As a result, Trump now seems to be defending Gaetz :sweat_smile:, and it’s going to come out anyway that Trump knew about the request. So he’s going to come off as a liar too, just because of his sense of need to react to something he doesn’t need to. Because Gaetz was denied a blanket pardon, and Trump and his admin didn’t even know the reason he was asking for one.

My god, what a maroon.

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I know it is difficult to believe a Bugs Bunny cartoon could be racist [sarcasm], but that is a word you should probably stop using. I’m not saying that you are a racist for using it, but someone might…
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In your recollection, when is the last time the GOP sponsored a bill that did anything to help American people at all? What was their last actual accomplishment that didn’t involve “owning the libs” online?

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What an apricot.

Well aside from tax cuts for the rich Americans they helped, I can’t think of anything.

“Fund my legal battle” seems to be the GOP’s new slogan. That and “corporations are a leftist mob”. :rofl:

That’s a real quote from Moscow Mitch btw.

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I’m going back to the EPA, under Nixon. It was 1970 I think.

Seriously, that’s today’s challenge: Can anyone here think of anything since 1970 Republicans have added to the US that made the place better in some way?

Well, going back, they at least had cover of claiming to be for such and such. Claiming to be pro-capitalist, pro-democracy etc, for example.

The Trump years have proven it’s a farce, they’re socialist and anti-democratic when it suits them. These are just two examples of their hypocrisy, which I’m sure we could make a really long list for if we desired.

They have bad ideas mostly, and aren’t bright. So all that’s left is to demonize the ideas of their opponents, blame them for everything that goes wrong, and take credit for all that’s right.

For example, many of them commending the relief bill they voted against. :brain:

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