The Absurd GOP

[Fake Messiah]

Ted Cruz: Zelensky Faked Air Raid Sirens For Biden’s Visit

Texas Senator and part-time podcaster Ted Cruz blasted President Joe Biden for his trip to Kyiv, Ukraine to see President Volodymyr Zelensky amid the Russian invasion.

“The fact that neither Biden nor Zelensky flinch, look around, do anything when the air raid sirens go off, means both of them knew about it because there’s no chance you’re walking through and suddenly air raid sirens go off. You react and you react quickly,” Cruz said.

https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/ted-cr...-flinched/

[Mister Agenda]

For instance, in reacting quickly, you might flee to Mexico to escape inclement weather.

[Fake Messiah]

Christians could sue people who call them homophobic if this GOP bill passes

A Florida Republican introduced a bill that would make it easier for religious people to sue those who call them out as homophobic or transphobic, a bill built on a suggestion from Gov. Ron DeSantis ®.

State Rep. Alex Andrade ® filed H.B. 991 on Tuesday. The bill would make it easier to sue journalists, publications, or social media users for defamation if they accuse someone of racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia. The bill specifically says that publications can’t use truth as a defense when it comes to reporting on people’s anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments by citing the person’s “constitutionally protected religious expression or beliefs” or “a plaintiff’s scientific beliefs.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christ...r-AA17ReZa

[The Architect Of Fate]

Christians could sue people who call them homophobic if this GOP bill passes

A Florida Republican introduced a bill that would make it easier for religious people to sue those who call them out as homophobic or transphobic, a bill built on a suggestion from Gov. Ron DeSantis ®.

State Rep. Alex Andrade ® filed H.B. 991 on Tuesday. The bill would make it easier to sue journalists, publications, or social media users for defamation if they accuse someone of racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia. The bill specifically says that publications can’t use truth as a defense when it comes to reporting on people’s anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments by citing the person’s “constitutionally protected religious expression or beliefs” or “a plaintiff’s scientific beliefs.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christ...r-AA17ReZa

So much for freedom of speech.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Ted Cruz: Zelensky Faked Air Raid Sirens For Biden’s Visit

Texas Senator and part-time podcaster Ted Cruz blasted President Joe Biden for his trip to Kyiv, Ukraine to see President Volodymyr Zelensky amid the Russian invasion.

“The fact that neither Biden nor Zelensky flinch, look around, do anything when the air raid sirens go off, means both of them knew about it because there’s no chance you’re walking through and suddenly air raid sirens go off. You react and you react quickly,” Cruz said.

https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/ted-cr...-flinched/

You know Ted would be pissing himself if he heard an Air Raid Siren.

[Fake Messiah]

Which is your favorite?

[arewethereyet]

Which is your favorite?

I want them to all run and split the GOP into so many factions that it can't get anyone elected.

Watching them eat their own should be entertaining.

[Pat Mustard]

Can't.  They represent low taxable incomes but..also...a hell of alot of exploitable natural resources.  A cynical person might suggest that we've added the denizens of these areas as an exploitable natural resource.  That this is the kernel of truth in their epic fantasy of discontent.  I could've told you at any point in my life that these folks really do think the way Mad Marge is characterizing them.  Foolish me for thinking they'd revolt over some tangible benefit to themselves - rather than illusory culture war bullshit.  Happy with the wages..but you wanna get rid of the groomers?  

.....Dafuq?

That just makes the plan easier. Dutch disease is an awful economic drag.

[The Grand Nudger]

The difference here being that this is not an issue of discovering new natural resources, but ones already well developed and necessary..yes..even to blue states, actually, especially to blue states. Even back when appalachian coal, for example, was being discovered and first developed..it wasn't for the benefit of the people of appalachia, it was for the benefit of coal hungry coastal cities..where newspapers owned by coal barons and aligned with their interests created the stereotype of rural americans still widely employed today to drive a wedge between the two demos. Ultimately, the nuts talk about a national divorce because it gives them more leverage over -the blue states-. The red ones are already bagged up. You don't want to have to negotiate with yall qaeda to secure domestic resources (or human rights) over internal borders....and, fwiw, you probably don't want to be the person consigning all of the newly minted prisoners of their majesty to a fate you would not accept for yourself.

There are certainly troubling consequences for notions like self determination in deciding that the us either lives together or dies apart - but we already answered them with a civil war and we've done absolutely nothing since then to make any split more tenable today. We're all stuck on the boat with the lunatics, and if we're seriously considering sawing off a part of the boat to solve that problem, there's a simpler and at least equally unethical alternative. There are prison camps all over this country. We have a huge military. It's a funhouse mirror view of the world, I think, to imagine that giving people over to yall qaeda is somehow better than dealing with them like the terrorists they are.

[Fake Messiah]

Wouldn't you know it but more than half of the world's population crossed the southern border illegally in the last two years.