The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult

[Homercles 10205]

Reminder this is from 2012

 

[Ben Tobin 374]

4 hours ago, mchookem said:

i mean Johnny Sack really, really hates 'liberals'. like, he might be the most aggressive, borderline hostile poster towards anything left of Romney on this site. kinda scary 😳 lol

Hates their guts and livers

[Brisketexan 105105]

If Hillary Fucking Clinton had won in 2016, it would have made Mitch and Co. think that the GOP can't win with the crazy.
Instead, Trump won, and Mitch and Co. saw that crazy gets out and votes, and so now they've got a tiger by the tale, and they are only now realizing that the tiger is going to work hard on eating their fellow Republicans in the primaries next year.
Trump is not sending cease-and-desist letters to the RNC and various other Republican organizations to stop using his likeness, as well as publicly announcing which Republicans he's going to primary, for shits and giggles.  He's doing it because he's building a political money-making machine that aims to subsume the fundraising apparatus of the GOP at the local, state, and national level.  He aims to replace the GOP fully.

Bingo. The replacement - a complete, 100% replacement - is almost complete.

[WhatTheBuck 28777]

1 hour ago, Homercles said:

Reminder this is from 2012

 

This was from 2017:

[Js1 85316]

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

The GQP is bitching about people “canceling” them because normal people are rightly calling them out on their insane bullshit.

So yes snowflakes, we will continue to “cancel” your sorry asses including but not limited to throwing your stupid sorry asses in jail. Or did you forget who is in charge of the executive branch already? 

[JimmyJames 12271]

We have at least 2 years to pass laws preventing the treason caucus from its goal of destroying democracy and at least 4 years to throw the treason caucus in prison where they belong. I suggest we use it. 

[JimmyJames 12271]

The GQP has made clear its goal. It has no platform. It has no beliefs. It’s only goal is power and it will destroy American democracy to accomplish that goal.

These people have no beliefs. They are nihilists. And I’m sorry Donny, but we do have something to fear from them, because all they want is money and they will destroy democracy to get it. 

[Born to Run 6569]

Hillary Clinton winning in 2016 would’ve been the best thing that could’ve happened in order to fix the GOP. 

Fix?

Pretty linear trajectory over the last 40 years.
Maybe you meant "kicked the can down the road"?

"Fixed? Haha fixed, we got em working in shifts. Fixed! " Smh

[washparkhorn 9939]

2 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

It is, of course, ridiculous.  But after a while the GOP elites aren’t going to be able to keep their voters at bay.  Trump was already an example of that.   They’re reaching a critical mass of poor and uneducated voters to where it will become difficult to continue to be the party of tax cuts and protecting the rich.   Their voters are already to the point where they just pay lip service to hating socialism but then most of them support every single economic policy the party line says they theoretically should oppose.    Because their actual voters are not who they were when Nixon and Reagan or even W were Presidents, and the current voting base is completely mismatched with Gilded Age laissez faire economics.  

Amen.

[tx 3 putt 76927]

2 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

It is, of course, ridiculous.  But after a while the GOP elites aren’t going to be able to keep their voters at bay.  Trump was already an example of that.   They’re reaching a critical mass of poor and uneducated voters to where it will become difficult to continue to be the party of tax cuts and protecting the rich.   Their voters are already to the point where they just pay lip service to hating socialism but then most of them support every single economic policy the party line says they theoretically should oppose.    Because their actual voters are not who they were when Nixon and Reagan or even W were Presidents, and the current voting base is completely mismatched with Gilded Age laissez faire economics.  

 

have you heard about hillary's emails ?

[WhatTheBuck 28777]

8 hours ago, Born to Run said:

Fix?
Pretty linear trajectory over the last 40 years.
Maybe you meant "kicked the can down the road"?

"Fixed? Haha fixed, we got em working in shifts. Fixed! " Smh

Repair? Improve? Help them to evolve in a positive direction?

Semantics.

After Obama won re-election in 2012, Bobby Jindal (of all people) called the GOP “The Party of Stupid,” a term I’d never heard before. Did he coin the phrase? I don’t know. But he warned that they needed to reconsider their ideology to appeal to a more diverse electorate if they were going to survive. Instead they won the Presidency in 2016 with Trump going full racist and that warning was laid to rest. If Hillary had won then I think that warning would’ve been heard and positive changes would’ve been made in GOP ideology.

Also, tens of thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. Maybe hundreds of thousands. 

[Born to Run 6569]

Repair? Improve? Help them to evolve in a positive direction?
Semantics.
After Obama won re-election in 2012, Bobby Jindal (of all people) called the GOP “The Party of Stupid,” a term I’d never heard before. Did he coin the phrase? I don’t know. But he warned that they needed to reconsider their ideology to appeal to a more diverse electorate if they were going to survive. Instead they won the Presidency in 2016 with Trump going full racist and that warning was laid to rest. If Hillary had won then I think that warning would’ve been heard and positive changes would’ve been made in GOP ideology.
Also, tens of thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. Maybe hundreds of thousands. 

After 3 years of Hillary in office do you think the 45% pro Trump portion of the country would follow her derectives and wear masks and social distance with the grievance hate machine going 24/7?
Or would they host infection freedom parties and burn mask and lynch Hillary manequins?

[WhatTheBuck 28777]

12 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

After 3 years of Hillary in office do you think the 45% pro Trump portion of the country would follow her derectives and wear masks and social distance with the grievance hate machine going 24/7?
Or would they host infection freedom parties and burn mask and lynch Hillary manequins?

*directives

I’m certain it couldn’t have been worse than it was under Trump’s denialism, mixed messaging, and outright lies. There’s not a goddamned chance in hell that an administration that followed the science and advocated a consistent message wouldn’t have had better results in human costs, not to mention economic and other costs, take your pick. Tens of thousands of lives would’ve been saved, maybe hundreds of thousands, but it wouldn’t have been just exactly perfect. Mistakes would’ve been made as always happens in every human endeavor, and Fox News would’ve railed non-stop on every one of them. Better that than defending abject incompetence and needless loss of human life 

[Bullneck 19084]

12 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

It is, of course, ridiculous.  But after a while the GOP elites aren’t going to be able to keep their voters at bay.  Trump was already an example of that.   They’re reaching a critical mass of poor and uneducated voters to where it will become difficult to continue to be the party of tax cuts and protecting the rich.   Their voters are already to the point where they just pay lip service to hating socialism but then most of them support every single economic policy the party line says they theoretically should oppose.    Because their actual voters are not who they were when Nixon and Reagan or even W were Presidents, and the current voting base is completely mismatched with Gilded Age laissez faire economics.  

Listening to MSNBC on the drive home lately, they emphasize the gulf between state (well, maybe not Texas) and local acceptance/approval of Biden's policies and rejection at the national level (50 people trying to hang onto their gravy train). 

[elfenix 34236]

23 hours ago, Js1 said:

Uh the party who unanimously voted against a $15 min wage and follows around a “billionaire” real estate developer with golden toilets, wants to overturn the ACA and passed tax cuts for the 1% still wants to claim they are becoming “the working man” party? 

if there's one thing republicans and conservatives are good at in general, it's lying to each other about what they are. 

[Nivek 16923]

After 3 years of Hillary in office do you think the 45% pro Trump portion of the country would follow her derectives and wear masks and social distance with the grievance hate machine going 24/7?
Or would they host infection freedom parties and burn mask and lynch Hillary manequins?

Yes, because they were emboldened in their stupidity and had the crazy legitimized by the GQP. The overt racism increased as did the cruelty to children, just because the dirt they were born over was different.

This would not have happened under Romney or McCain.

[Brisketexan 105105]

8 minutes ago, Nivek said:

Yes, because they were emboldened in their stupidity and had the crazy legitimized by the GQP. The overt racism increased as did the cruelty to children, just because the dirt they were born over was different.

This would not have happened under Romney or McCain.

What you need to realize is something that I realized, but didn't want to.....yes it would have.  It might have moved more slowly, but this is where the GQP has been heading for a LONG time.  Trump only hastened the inevitable.

[mdmost 43001]

McCain brought the crazy to the party with Palin. After she was elevated by the right, the horse was out of the barn. She started to represent the uglier side of the GOP base. Trump fed off that. 

[Francisco 2.0 32389]

 

 

[Pods 7552]

7 minutes ago, Nivek said:

Yes, because they were emboldened in their stupidity and had the crazy legitimized by the GQP. The overt racism increased as did the cruelty to children, just because the dirt they were born over was different.

This would not have happened under Romney or McCain.

Unfortunately, that part of the GOP is a living fossil. Romney survived the extinction event that got the rest of his kind, but he'll live out the rest of his days in exile. 

[Francisco 2.0 32389]

 

 

Shot:

 

 

Chaser:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-rnc-mar-a-lago/2021/03/08/0b693fce-8051-11eb-bb5a-ad9a91faa4ef_story.html

 

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The Republican National Committee is moving part of its spring donor retreat next month to Mar-a-Lago from a nearby hotel for a dinner speech that will be headlined by former president Donald Trump, according to Republicans involved in the planning of the event.

The move, which highlights the former president's continued grip over the GOP, comes amid a spat over the use by RNC and other Republican organizations of Trump’s likeness and image in fundraising, as well as anxiety about how Trump plans to use his influence in the 2022 midterms.

 

Edited March 8, 2021 by Francisco 2.0

[StassneyHorn 6575]

2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

That could leave a mark

[Biff Tannen 45678]

8 minutes ago, Pods said:

Unfortunately, that part of the GOP is a living fossil. Romney survived the extinction event that got the rest of his kind, but he'll live out the rest of his days in exile. 

Username checks out.

[Biff Tannen 45678]

5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

That's...interesting.

[WhatTheBuck 28777]

18 minutes ago, mdmost said:

McCain brought the crazy to the party with Palin. After she was elevated by the right, the horse was out of the barn. She started to represent the uglier side of the GOP base. Trump fed off that. 

Before Sarah Palin there was Dan Quayle and George W. Bush. Quayle, Dubya, Palin, Pence...birds of a feather.

[Guest Lobo]

Quayle may have been a bit slow and was certainly in the caveman era when it came to social issues, but he was a standup guy and loved his country (though, maybe not everyone in it).  He is wildly different than Palin, and certainly from Trump.  Even Palin at least pretended to love America.  Trump wouldn't let any of his base voters wash the windows of one of his properties.  

Also, csbalert/ Dan Quayle bought me Shake Shack in Orlando my freshman year of college.  

Edited March 8, 2021 by Lobo

[WhatTheBuck 28777]

Quayle couldn’t spell potato.

[Guest Lobo]

Yes, I know.  And I didn't vote for him.  I'm merely pointing out he wasn't the anti-American glop of evil shit that was Trump.  And unlike Palin, he at least knew the hemisphere in which we find ourselves.  

[Sawbonz 27548]

 

[WhatTheBuck 28777]

49 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Yes, I know.  And I didn't vote for him.  I'm merely pointing out he wasn't the anti-American glop of evil shit that was Trump.  And unlike Palin, he at least knew the hemisphere in which we find ourselves.  

Dan Quayle blamed the L.A. riots on Murphy Brown, a fictional tv character who bore a child out of wedlock. (Imagine his outrage if that fictional character had opted to terminate her fictional pregnancy.) He’s a fucking moron just like Dubya, Palin, and Pence. The word hemisphere would’ve left him stumped. 

[Ghost of LL 15531]

2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Shot:

 

 

Chaser:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-rnc-mar-a-lago/2021/03/08/0b693fce-8051-11eb-bb5a-ad9a91faa4ef_story.html

 

 

Trump is going to bankrupt the RNC.  He's taking away all of its donors and forcing it to spend all of its money at his properties.

Forgive me for a momentary giggle.

[Biff Tannen 45678]

51 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

 

What does this mean?

[Post Oak 20211]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

What does this mean?

#TheRightCantMeme

[mdmost 43001]

Is the prostitute supposed to be Fox News or OANN?

[Guest Lobo]

The bucket on her head represents how blind we are to her tyranny.  

[Gatorubet 30228]

It is, of course, ridiculous.  But after Because their actual voters are not who they were when Nixon and Reagan or even W were Presidents, and the current voting base is completely mismatched with Gilded Age laissez faire economics.  

You use big words and sound like a fag. MAGA!

[Brisketexan 105105]

Trump is going to bankrupt the RNC.  He's taking away all of its donors and forcing it to spend all of its money at his properties.
Forgive me for a momentary giggle.

You don’t see what it really is. He isn’t bankrupting the RNC. He’s completing a hostile takeover. There aren’t many steps left.

[Biff Tannen 45678]

4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You don’t see what it really is. He isn’t bankrupting the RNC. He’s completing a hostile takeover. There aren’t many steps left.

This.  His goal is to bring them to heel.

[Nivek 16923]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

What you need to realize is something that I realized, but didn't want to.....yes it would have.  It might have moved more slowly, but this is where the GQP has been heading for a LONG time.  Trump only hastened the inevitable.

I think we see it differently.  I see the republicans as a party of the <1%.  That's it.  They will do, say, and join anybody that allows them to serve the <1%.  Everything else doesn't matter.   They don't give a shit about abortion.  It is only a tool to get them votes.   Putting racists in charge was never about joining their ideology, and always about getting votes to move as much money to the top as possible.   This GQP phase will pass, and they will rebrand themselves as the defenders of the innocent, etc.  

[Sawbonz 27548]

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

What does this mean?

Who knows? Arizona is not sending us their best and brightest 

Edited March 9, 2021 by Sawbonz

[TwiceHorn 31456]

8 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I think we see it differently.  I see the republicans as a party of the <1%.  That's it.  They will do, say, and join anybody that allows them to serve the <1%.  Everything else doesn't matter.   They don't give a shit about abortion.  It is only a tool to get them votes.   Putting racists in charge was never about joining their ideology, and always about getting votes to move as much money to the top as possible.   This GQP phase will pass, and they will rebrand themselves as the defenders of the innocent, etc.  

Well, first they will get themselves elected, by any means necessary.  Then they might serve the 1%.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

What does this mean?

It's the America First white nationalists crowing that they are coming for 2022/2024. It's beyond dog whistling and now openly fronting for them. I don't want to get told off again for doom and gloom.

 

[Francisco 2.0 32389]

Meanwhile, in that noted controversial election state of Iowa:

 

 

[Brisketexan 105105]

It's the America First white nationalists crowing that they are coming for 2022/2024. It's beyond dog whistling and now openly fronting for them. I don't want to get told off again for doom and gloom.
 

Who cares if we get told off? Nobody who can do anything about it is listening. They think like all the other heads-in-the-sand: “it can’t happen here!”....as it all happens here, right in front of them.

The ladder of free elections is being pulled up, because the only remaining obstacle to absolute GQP power is voters....so voters must be eliminated.

[Sawbonz 27548]

I ask again who is president right now?

[washparkhorn 9939]

3 hours ago, Lobo said:

Also, csbalert/ Dan Quayle bought me Shake Shack in Orlando my freshman year of college.  

potatoe kid - is that you?

 

[staboner 4969]

20 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

I ask again who is president right now?

if a fascist yells while in formation does anyone actually hear it?

lets see how page 200 goes

actually, sorry, i'd rather be home with the wife and kids

[Francisco 2.0 32389]

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[WhatTheBuck 28777]

Fuck you, pay me?