The Absurd GOP

[Nanny]

Didn't Republicans shoot themselves in the foot by taking down Roe v Wade and leaving it to the individual states to decide about abortion because now voting for Republicans means automatically voting against abortion care? It seems now that they can hardly win anywhere because most people don't want to lose abortion rights although they may agree with some of their other policies.

I hope that's true. Plenty of Republican voters, particularly women and mothers, who never thought Roe would be overturned may have qualms about the societal consequences of the decision.

FiveThirtyEight does meta analysis 

After what happened in 2016, anyone who would lend credence to 538's methods deserves ridicule.

you must have missed 2018, 2020, 2022 while you were smugging.

[Fireball]

Mike Johnson promotes a Christian app called “Covenant Eyes” which “scans your devices” and “sends a report” to someone if you view and have “sinful” material. The app says “defeat porn.”

Little Mickey is promoting the app that failed to stop Josh Duggar from looking at child porn.  His family put it on all his electronic devices when the peelers were beginning to get suspicious about him.

If he uses his own cell phone for state business (probably), at the very least operational security may be compromised. The guy's a fucking tool.

[Angrboda]

Lock him up!

[The Grand Nudger]

10 bucks says Ronna Romney calls florida flori-dur at the office - just like she did on the rnc stage tonight, in miami.

[The Grand Nudger]

Tim Scott says he's the president that will Make America Believe In God Again.

-and as soon as I thought that was the best. Nimrata declared her candidacy for the office of the president of Mortal Kombat.

[ShinyCrystals]

I watched the Republican Presidential Debate...

Thank goodness I still have intelligence.

[Fireball]

I watched the Republican Presidential Debate...

Thank goodness I still have intelligence.

I didn't watch any of it. My wife thinks that Christie is the least worst candidate. Of course, she also thinks a real jerk, and wouldn't vote for him, either.

[Fake Messiah]

I made a list of problems that the Republican Party needs urgently to resolve if they want to be taken seriously and regain their dignity.

They need to stop being against the press. Yes, Trump is well known for his Stalinist phrase "press is the enemy of the people" as he stands in front of a rally that feels more like a lynch mob than a political event. But today, Republican candidates and officeholders routinely block the media from their events, inviting only their handpicked and highly reliable propagandists to cover even the most routine functions. This complete breakdown of trust in the media allows them to live in an alternative reality, one of their own making.

They need to stop being against the abortion. Today there are no Republican governors who support abortion rights, and many are actively working to criminalize abortions in their states. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Republican governors who were pro-choice governed states with a larger collective population than the Republican anti-abortion governors. Bill Weld of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania’s Tom Ridge, Arnold Schwarzenegger in California, and New York’s George Pataki all were proudly pro-choice. In fact, in the 1990s and early 2000s, there were more Republican governors who were pro-choice than the Republican anti-abortion governors.

They need to stop being against democracy and voting. The Republican Party refuses to admit that America has a legally elected president. After the coup attempt of January 6, Republicans in 47 states introduced legislation to change voting laws to alter the legal framework of democracy. The Republican Party embraced the lie, promoted the lie, and continues to assert the lie as its official position. Had every Republican elected official who knew that Joe Biden won a decisive victory taken the simple step of congratulating the president-elect of their country, it would have instantly isolated Donald Trump and Fox News and others would have fallen in line. The insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol are now heroes and martyrs to a fierce network of men and women who believe they have a moral obligation to remove the elected president.

The Republican Party must abandon the strategy of calls for violence against those with whom they disagree. Violence has become an essential element of the Republican political narrative, signaling to the once fringe militia groups and their sympathizers that they have a place in the party. It is now a standard trope for a candidate to appear in a campaign ad firing a high-caliber weapon. Then you have direct calls for violence like when Ron DeSantis speaks of wanting to assault Dr. Anthony Fauci, the man President George W. Bush awarded the Medal of Freedom in 2008 for his work saving millions in the AIDS epidemic. Some of DeSantis' quotes include: "Someone needs to grab that little elf [Fauci] and chuck him across the Potomac." Or when DeSantis picked a fight with Disney when they refused to embrace DeSantis’s anti-gay legislation by threatening to build a state prison next to Disney World to prove who was really boss, the company canceled a billion-dollar expansion planned for Florida, which would have brought thousands of high-paying jobs to the state.
Other embracing of violence included when the Republican Party embraced Kyle Rittenhouse as a hero. Or when a couple who stood in their yard and waved guns at peaceful Black Lives Matter marchers were invited to speak to the 2016 Republican Convention, where, of course, they presented themselves as the true victims. Or when Tucker Carlson called the verdict against a white police officer who was convicted of murdering an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, by kneeling on his neck for nine and a half minutes "an attack on civilization."

They need to stop making untrue and ridiculous accusations against the Democrats Many Republicans have started to label Democrats as "pedophiles", "groomers", and that they kill babies after they are born using the fantasy term "post-abortion", and for the same as why the Russians call the Jewish president of Ukraine a "Nazi."

[Nanny]

I watched the Republican Presidential Debate...

Thank goodness I still have intelligence.

The absurdity of having a debate for second place does my head in.

[Fake Messiah]

Marjorie Taylor Greene is telling her GOP colleagues that Lauren Boebert is a “whore.”

One Republican lawmaker, who has heard Greene use that word multiple times to describe Boebert, told The Daily Beast that Greene has been at this campaign for some time.

“Calling her a whore, that’s not new,” this GOP lawmaker said. “She’s been doing that for a while.”

Another GOP lawmaker also witnessed Greene refer to Boebert as a “whore.”

This second lawmaker additionally claimed Greene had trashed Boebert in a conversation with Donald Trump, though this member had no knowledge of the specific language Greene used in that conversation—just that the two had discussed Boebert. Yet another GOP member who speaks to Trump told The Daily Beast that Greene had, in fact, made “disparaging” remarks about Boebert to the former president, though again, this person didn’t have specifics about what Greene had said to Trump.

When The Daily Beast asked Greene about these accusations this week, the Georgia Republican didn’t deny them. Instead, she went on a tirade against this reporter.

Their relationship became strained as Greene cozied up to Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). During the speakership battle in January, the two had a screaming match in a bathroom just off the House floor, as Greene criticized Boebert for not supporting McCarthy’s bid.

Then, in June, Greene called Boebert a “little bitch” on the House floor.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-t...colleagues