The Absurd GOP

[The Grand Nudger]

...and restaurants still can't find any waiters who want to work?

[Deesse23]

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.

You are so mean.
I like that. 

[The Architect Of Fate]

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

Yeah because Ukraines border  is actually being invaded by an actual army with guns and shit and good thing we saved that 22 billion on something actually meaningful and not just Trump's dumb vanity project.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-...-breached/

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Which is your favorite?

Eisenhower. Even dead, he’d make a better president than that rogues gallery.

Boru

[Silver]

DeSantis’s office says he will boycott NBC, MSNBC over Andrea Mitchell question on Black history

The Hill

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will boycott media appearances on NBC News and MSNBC shows, according to his press team, until one of the network’s star reporters apologizes for a question she posed about the governor’s education policies.

[Fireball]

DeSantis’s office says he will boycott NBC, MSNBC over Andrea Mitchell question on Black history

The Hill

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will boycott media appearances on NBC News and MSNBC shows, according to his press team, until one of the network’s star reporters apologizes for a question she posed about the governor’s education policies.

And who's the snowflake, now?   Someone questions him and he's going to boycott? He'd be a triple bastard to anyone whom he doesn't agree with if he's elected to president, just like the guy he has his nose up the ass of. Fuck him.

[Pat Mustard]

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.

As I said the whole resources situation makes it even easier. Who are the red states with all these resources going to sell to if not their neighbours, who probably would own the companies doing the extracting anyway.

[The Grand Nudger]

None of that will change. It will still be the case that resources from red areas end up in blue areas. The people doing the work will have fewer (if any) labor protections and the people consuming the resources will pay more for them. In all likelihood, the companies will be headquartered for tax purposes in the red areas..but the owners and shareholders will live in the blue areas along with their consumers.

It's more of the same that got us to this point...miners in redneckistan keeping the lights on for coastal suburbia. Just more expensive for you and more cruel for them. Honestly, the entire bit is ridiculous, right down to the belief that the relatively higher taxes in blue areas are a wholly domestic phenomena to blue areas. Sure, I suppose blue areas could look elsewhere. They could exploit more people in the third world or in their own inner cities...for example. Six of one, half a dozen of another. A national divorce is good for no one, and blue areas would be crushed by it just the same as red. The only real difference being that the blue areas have more to lose. The confederates lost. There's no consolation prize. No sawing off a chunk of the us and handing it to them because they're all up in their feels about it more than a century later. They can self deport, or go grab their guns again. The deep red town I live in will never not be the us of a, and I think it's ridiculous to negotiate it away from afar for fantasies of wealth or convenience.

[arewethereyet]

Makes me wonder if the author of this article just woke up from a coma or something.  She just proved she is crazy and stupid.  No, I believe that shipped sailed some time ago.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Proved She is Crazy and Stupid (msn.com)

Of course there's this newest little gem - 'Also this week, Greene was just one of two members of Congress who vthe loss of life in the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, while also condemning the Assad regime in Syria.'

[Silver]

Makes me wonder if the author of this article just woke up from a coma or something. She just proved she is crazy and stupid. No, I believe that shipped sailed some time ago.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Proved She is Crazy and Stupid (msn.com)

Of course there's this newest little gem - 'Also this week, Greene was just one of two members of Congress who vthe loss of life in the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, while also condemning the Assad regime in Syria.'

Well, I think there's this journalism rule where they're not allowed to refer to the subject as crazy since the journalist isn't a licensed professional. Also, a real licensed professional is going to be too chickenshit, without having proper sessions, I mean, to refer to the loon as is.