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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

No wonder the last season of GoT was poor. I didn't realize it was a documentary. It all makes sense now.
 
No wonder the last season of GoT was poor. I didn't realize it was a documentary. It all makes sense now.

He said it was a documentary about "fictitious medieval England." So would that actually make it a mockumentary?
 
Nice to know that we've reached this point in American history, but the NBC News article below describes the concerns of some Democratic members of Congress that some of their Republican colleagues "may be endangering their lives. Not in a rhetorical sense, but in a direct and immediate way." The article notes that 3 new GOP House members have become a particular source of concern: Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.

I'm sure this concern will be dismissed by some as just LibDem hyperbole and exaggeration, but after the past couple of weeks (and really the past four years) is it really that implausible to assume that some of your QAnon-believing, violent-rhetoric supporting, refuse-to-wear-a-mask for covid, want-to-bring-guns into the Capitol colleagues might be happy with your demise? What a time to be alive.

Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/some-democrats-congress-are-worried-their-colleagues-might-kill-them-n1254319
 
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White supremacy. That’s the answer to the question.
 
On Meet the Press this morning Chuck Todd discussed the results of an NBC News poll in which they asked Republicans and Democrats for their responses to the question "Where is America Headed?"

The top/most popular Republican responses? "Wrong Direction", "Concerns About Personal Freedoms", "Headed Towards Socialism and Communism", and "Liberal Bankruptcy." LOL.

The top Democratic responses, btw, were: "Hopeful", "Exhilarated", "Repairing the Massive Damage", "Downhill", "Frightened", and "Headed for the Toilet." Probably the first two are a response to getting rid of Trump, and the rest are a response to what he's done for the past four years.
 
You could break a weathervane trying to keep up with Lindsey's shifting "principles".

 
You could break a weathervane trying to keep up with Lindsey's shifting "principles".


There are almost too many shitty Republican pols in office to count (and yes, some Democrats as well), but Lindsey is surely one of the very shittiest. In 2016 he offered some pertinent and sharp criticisms of Trump, then abruptly did a 180 after the 2016 election and spent four years kissing Trump's ass and doing his bidding, then after the Capitol attack said he'd "had enough" and voted to confirm the election, then just a few days later apparently met with Trump on Air Force One and is once again kissing his ass and opposing impeachment and playing up bullshit issues like this "caravan." What a profile in courage he is.
 
A member of the Charleston County (SC) Republican Party gave remarks condemning the violence of Jan 6.

https://www.postandcourier.com/news...cle_13f8f088-56aa-11eb-b10f-7ba03d637a84.html

So, I ask any member of the floor or the executive committee to make two separate motions tonight.
The first: That the Charleston County Republican Party post condolences on its official page as follows:
“The Charleston County Republican Party expresses condolences to the family of officer Brian Sicknick who died January 6th in defense of the democratic institutions of this nation.”
We do not debase this motion by glorifying by inclusion the deaths of any insurrectionists. Their actions were illegal, his were not.
The second motion is to clarify for all potential voters in Charleston County whether Donald Trump Jr.’s proclamation that “This isn’t the Republican Party anymore, this is the party of Donald J Trump” actually speaks for us.
So I ask motions be made that the Charleston County Republican Party post on its official page the following:
“The Charleston County Republican Party states, without qualification, that it is not a political party of any individual; but a political party solely faithful to its Creed and party platform, as approved by its members.”
Our party is at a time of reckoning and approval of these motions will allow open discussion as we chart our path forward. We owe immediate clarity to the voters of Charleston County as to exactly who we are.

It did not go well.

https://www.postandcourier.com/colu...cle_443adea0-56a5-11eb-b8c1-e36a74a2be48.html

As Caitlin Byrd reported in Columbia’s State newspaper, it got ugly.

Some people in the room claimed the election had been “stolen” and a person who was actually in D.C. that day claimed the far-left-leaning group antifa was behind the violence, and there was nothing to it other than a few “allegedly” broken windows.

“We don’t owe an apology, because we didn’t do it.”

All FBI reports, eyewitness accounts and photographic evidence to the contrary.

Another person, watching the meeting via Zoom, had a novel (if recycled) idea for Savage: “Lock him up.”
Folks, this ain’t normal. Savage didn’t ask for anything radical, he just wanted some reassurance his party was the same one he’d joined years ago.
And it disturbed him that local Republicans hadn’t issued a statement to ease the tension.
“The silence is deafening and shocking to the voters of this county who we will need in the next election,” Savage told the group. “So I am here tonight asking that we get our own house in order, to take the splinter out of our own eye, look in the mirror and decide who we really are as Republicans.”
Basically, are Republicans united by ideas and beliefs or, as Savage asked, “have we in fact devolved into a cult of personality?”
Spoiler alert: He didn’t like the answer.
 
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