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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

I mean, "true conservatism" was always a way to advance a white nationalist agenda to help promote the interests of the wealthy anyway. Even good Republicans like Jack Kemp who earnestly wanted to build a GOP with cross-racial appeal was a pioneer of opportunity zones which just pass taxpayer money on to the wealthy under the guise of helping poor neighborhoods.
 
 
texasdeac said:
They might as well just make it a crime to vote democrat and stop beating around the bush.
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In fairness, there are valid arguments for not making judges an elected position, as their rulings tend to change in election years. Texas'motivation is still clearly questionable here-what is the logic behind the 500K stipulation?
 
Why was an anti-abortion Missouri bureaucrat tracking my patients’ periods?

This misuse of patient data shows how far politicians will go to cut off access to healthcare


Late last month, the fight for abortion access in Missouri took a disturbing turn when the state health department made a shocking admission. During sworn testimony, the agency’s director, Randall Williams, admitted that the government had kept a spreadsheet of our patients’ menstrual cycles.
The public learned about this dystopian practice during a licensing hearing for Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis location, the culmination of an increasingly hostile fight with politicians intent on shutting down the state’s last abortion clinic. It’s true that, legally, state health inspectors have access to medical records and that, shockingly, they’re not bound by federal privacy laws, such as HIPAA. But what they did with that power was inappropriate and creepy. Officials combed through the data of thousands of patients, compiling a spreadsheet that listed medical ID numbers, the gestational age of the pregnancy and when procedures took place. The last column calculated the date of nearly 70 patients’ last normal period.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...30e4aa-017d-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html
 
PhDeac said:
When have Republicans not failed? That's their whole purpose. Destroy government. Blame Democrats for wanting government to work. Get elected and keep government from working.
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Party of Lincoln.
 
BiffTannen said:
Party of Lincoln.
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Looks to me like the Republican Party has had two good ideas, ending slavery and protecting public lands and natural resources. Both of those ideas were extremely progressive at the time and both are over 110 years old.
 
That's why expanding the Court is necessary with a Dem Senate and WH.
 
WakeForestRanger said:
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Oh fuck you Nikki Haley.

She just made the two arguments that really chap my ass. 1.) Let the people decide through the election and 2.) you can’t impeach trump because he didn’t get the “favor” and the money was released.

1. The fucking people of the United States can’t decide because Biden is now tainted by a 6-month controversy. His poll numbers have dropped significantly since this bullshit started (yes I know other variables could be causing his numbers to drop but anyone who doesn’t think this has had an impact is naive).

2. Just because you tried to commit a crime or another impeachable act and failed does not mean you just walk away and forget about everything.

Fucking fuck...the GOP has zero fucking principles. Zero.
 
Rand Paul said on Meet the Press this morning that the impeachment hearings are terribly unfair because the Bidens did the exact same thing as Trump, but they're not being investigated by Congress like poor Mr. Trump. When Chuck Todd asked Rand if he were trying to say that it was OK for the POTUS to do what he did because the Bidens did something similar, he said "of course not, but I'm just concerned about the fairness of it." He basically dismissed the entire thing as a Democratic partisan witch hunt, and brought Hillary in for good measure, saying that she had once hired a spy for opposition research. The roundtable basically agreed that the Democrats are screwed because the American people just don't understand what quid pro quo means, and the Democrats pointing out that it was "extortion" (which it certainly was) probably wouldn't work either, because it's all just too complicated for average Americans to understand.

Hugh Hewitt said he didn't even see anything criminal, much less impeachable, that this was first purely partisan impeachment hearing since 1868, and that if it reaches the Senate they should just dismiss it without even a trial, because it "would set a terrible precedent." So in just a few weeks we've gone from Trump is innocent and there was no quid pro quo, to maybe there was but there's nothing directly tying Trump to it, to Trump did participate but it's not a big deal because everybody does it, even the Bidens, and how dare the Democrats try to impeach the POTUS for doing something that everybody else does anyway! What a time to be alive.
 
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