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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

I don't think that many of them are.
 
This could go under the vaccines thread but I"ll post it here.


[h=1]Death of Hillsborough GOP member from COVID-19 causes financial problems for party[/h]The local Republican Party told federal election regulators it can no longer access its campaign finance software


https://www.tampabay.com/news/flori...covid-19-causes-financial-problems-for-party/

The Hillsborough County Republican Party alerted federal election regulators Tuesday that it may file its monthly campaign finance reports late because a key member of the organization died Saturday from COVID-19.
Prior to his death, Gregg Prentice developed and maintained software that electronically tracked donations to the Hillsborough County GOP and supplied data for the organization’s monthly finance reports. None of the other officers knew how to operate Prentice’s software, the party told the the Federal Elections Commission.
“We will be struggling to get all of this entered in the proper format by our deadline on September20, but we will try to do so with our best effort,” the party wrote.
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Prentice was a software developer, according to his LinkedIn page, and had been active with the local party for many years.
Former party chairman Art Wood described Prentice as a “bulldog.”

“He’s just the kind of guy you want on your team for any kind of cause,” Wood told the Tampa Bay Times on Wednesday. “You couldn’t make him back down. If he believed in something, he’d get in your face.”
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Probably wasn't wearing a mask either.

In November, Prentice and Waurishuk appeared on a podcast during which the host referred to the country’s public health crisis as the “plandemic,” a term made famous by a conspiratorial, debunked film about the origins of the novel coronaivrus. The host said the virus was designed to “crush small businesses and consolidate power in the multinational corporations.”
Prentice’s death has touched off a fervor on Facebook among friends who responded by sharing fast-spreading conspiracies about the record pace of coronavirus deaths in Florida.
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Kimball went on to suggest that Tampa General was “not a safe place to go,” repeating a pervasive myth that the life-saving treatment at hospitals was the cause of many recent coronavirus deaths. Two days after Prentice’s death, Kimball called for an investigation into Tampa General during the public comment period of the Tampa City Council meeting and accused the hospital of “intubating people illegally.”
The remarks from Kimball earned a strong rebuke from members of the Tampa City Council who swiftly defended the hospital as a world-class medical institution. John Dingfelder called Kimball’s comments “very dangerous.” Charlie Miranda and Orlando Gudes both said they received outstanding treatment at Tampa General Hospital when they contracted the virus.
“I can tell you those folks over there, they work hard,” Gudes said. “When you have to go to the hospital with COVID, you’re pretty sick.”
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The GOP is busy right now gerrymandering across the country. Love this GOP reasoning from the OH state legislature gerrymandering effort - even though they've only won an average of 54% of the vote, they're "entitled" to as much as 81% of the seats in the OH state legislature based on their winning 13 of 16 statewide elections in the past few years. If all of this goes through in GOP-controlled states across the country the Democrats are looking at some grim times in Congress and state legislatures (and ultimately judicial positions) for the rest of the decade.

 
Highland Deac said:
The GOP is busy right now gerrymandering across the country. Love this GOP reasoning from the OH state legislature gerrymandering effort - even though they've only won an average of 54% of the vote, they're "entitled" to as much as 81% of the seats in the OH state legislature based on their winning 13 of 16 statewide elections in the past few years. If all of this goes through in GOP-controlled states across the country the Democrats are looking at some grim times in Congress and state legislatures (and ultimately judicial positions) for the rest of the decade.

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This was a pretty amazing move by Republicans. Their official statement actually said that "Ohioans prefer Republicans" as a basis for further gerrymandering the districts. They're just living in a suburban dreamland divorced from reality.
 
MichDeac25 said:
This was a pretty amazing move by Republicans. Their official statement actually said that "Ohioans prefer Republicans" as a basis for further gerrymandering the districts. They're just living in a suburban dreamland divorced from reality.
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They're also winning. The old adages of cheaters never win, and do unto others, etc. have flown out the window with the Republican party, along with their souls.
 
Another blow for the “Trumpism is NOT the future of the party crowd”

Gonzalez exit demoralizes GOP moderates

The Ohio Republican’s departure was, of course, a victory for Trump, and the first victim in his post-election crusade against the 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach him.

Shannon Burns, the president of Ohio’s Strongsville GOP, said Gonzalez “was an up-and-coming star, who made, I think, a terrible political calculation, and paid a price for it.” In a district where Trump beat Joe Biden by more than 14 percentage points, Darrell Scott, an Ohio pastor and Trump adviser, said Gonzalez “got out to avoid an embarrassing or humiliating defeat.” And on Capitol Hill, even Trump’s critics could see that Gonzalez’s departure was a sign of Trump’s enduring grip on the party.

“Anthony Gonzalez is one of … the most honorable public servants that I've ever known. And the idea that the Republican Party is going to drive people like him out tells you that the party is at a moment that is very perilous for us,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in an interview, adding “that's not a party that can lead into the future.”

Yet in forgoing a bruising primary against a Trump-endorsed candidate, Gonzalez also deprived Trump — and the Republican Party at large — of what would have been one of the best test cases in the country of the full extent of the former president’s dominion over the post-Trump GOP.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/17/gonzalez-trump-effect-512653
 
Shooshmoo said:
They're also winning. The old adages of cheaters never win, and do unto others, etc. have flown out the window with the Republican party, along with their souls.
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They made the bargain long ago to trade honesty (more generally, decency) for power. And for no good purpose. Nowadays it’s not even a question. Of course, that’s what made Trump’s takeover possible.
 
BarcaDeac said:
Another blow for the “Trumpism is NOT the future of the party crowd”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/17/gonzalez-trump-effect-512653
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Shannon Burns, the president of Ohio’s Strongsville GOP, said Gonzalez “was an up-and-coming star, who made, I think, a terrible political calculation, and paid a price for it.” In a district where Trump beat Joe Biden by more than 14 percentage points, Darrell Scott, an Ohio pastor and Trump adviser, said Gonzalez “got out to avoid an embarrassing or humiliating defeat.” And on Capitol Hill, even Trump’s critics could see that Gonzalez’s departure was a sign of Trump’s enduring grip on the party.
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IT SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN A POLITICAL POINT.

The President of the United States fomented an insurrection against another branch of government.
 
I wonder how much longer it will be before Greene is doing ads where she is shooting at mannequins made up to resemble Pelosi, AOC, Omar, etc. "If you send me back to Washington I'll personally blow that socialist AOC's brains out!"

 
So they rigged what looks like a Prius with explosives and she hit it on one shot and got a clean explosion?
 
PhDeac said:
So they rigged what looks like a Prius with explosives and she hit it on one shot and got a clean explosion?
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This probably goes without saying, but neither a hybrid nor a gasoline car will explode if hit with a bullet.
 
Like I said, they presumably rigged it with explosives.
 
lol at whoever wins her .50 cal sniper rifle

like what do you even do with that
 
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