The group attending CPAC has to have essentially reached herd immunity at this point.
Can you get herd immunity for idiocy?
Other than from this board?
The group attending CPAC has to have essentially reached herd immunity at this point.
Definitely just a coincidence:
Angus? Where's the outrage?
...Republicans have long thought — sometimes quietly, occasionally out loud — that large turnouts, particularly in urban areas, favor Democrats, and that Republicans benefit when fewer people vote. But politicians and scholars alike say that this moment feels like a dangerous plunge into uncharted waters.
The avalanche of legislation also raises fundamental questions about the ability of a minority of voters to exert majority control in American politics, with Republicans winning the popular vote in just one of the last eight presidential elections but filling six of the nine seats on the Supreme Court.
The party’s battle in the past decade to raise barriers to voting, principally among minorities, young people and other Democrat-leaning groups, has been waged under the banner of stopping voter fraud that multiple studies have shown barely exists.
“The typical response by a losing party in a functioning democracy is that they alter their platform to make it more appealing,” Kenneth Mayer, an expert on voting and elections at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said. “Here the response is to try to keep people from voting. It’s dangerously antidemocratic.”...
Love that last quote. Yes, if we had a functional democracy the GOP would reexamine itself and its policies. But as we have a hopelessly dysfunctional government and political system right now the GOP's response is to basically say "You think we're crazy and off the beam and a cult of personality in thrall to a lunatic? We'll just fix it so that you can't vote, or make it so hard to vote that we'll win elections anyway. Take that, libs!" And the excuse that they're doing all this to try to prove to their base that our elections aren't rigged, when there wasn't a shred of evidence of any widespread vote fraud in any state that would have come anywhere close to changing the election results last year, is pathetic BS at its finest. They're trying to fix a problem that literally doesn't exist.
... Last week, two Democratic lawmakers — Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerny — sent letters to a dozen cable, satellite and video streaming companies, including Amazon and Hulu, urging them to drop right-leaning news networks they claim pushed misinformation in the 2020 election.
They accuse Fox News, One America News Network and Newsmax of serving as “misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm.” They claim these companies played “a major role in the spread of dangerous misinformation that enabled the insurrection of January 6th and hinders our public health response to the current pandemic.”
We don’t agree with the representatives’ tactic, but we understand their concern. Something has to be done to stop what is essentially a misinformation epidemic that threatens the very foundation of our nation.
There’s no easy answer, though certainly education must play a role. Our schools should be teaching media literacy and critical thinking skills. Community leaders — ministers, legislators, media figures — must do their part to call out the lies.
For all the cries of “liberal bias” in “mainstream media,” conservative entertainers, social media rumors and anonymous Facebook memes are not credible alternatives — nor is any right-wing medium that pushes lies and conspiracies.
This isn’t a Democrat vs. Republican issue. It’s a reality vs. fantasy issue. Reality must win.
As we often say, you can't make the best shit up.
The golden Trump statue was made in Mexico.
And it's gold paint over fiberglass.