The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult

[elfenix 34332]

 

[Guest Lobo]

good lord, we are living among the stupidest fucking people.  I enjoy the amenities and conveniences of modern society, but part of me wishes it was the stone age and people like this would have been taken out behind the ridge and bludgeoned to death for being a threat to the tribe.  

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

Kind of strange that a butterfly sanctuary would be targeted by people who want to overthrow democracy in favor of a monarchy. Maybe they’re all high on milk weed. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33899]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

good lord, we are living among the stupidest fucking people.  I enjoy the amenities and conveniences of modern society, but part of me wishes it was the stone age and people like this would have been taken out behind the ridge and bludgeoned to death for being a threat to the tribe.  

pretty sure we have the modern equivalent but with guns

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20490]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

good lord, we are living among the stupidest fucking people.  I enjoy the amenities and conveniences of modern society, but part of me wishes it was the stone age and people like this would have been taken out behind the ridge and bludgeoned to death for being a threat to the tribe.  

Yep. This was posted by a Facebook friend who lives in Texas. Most of the responses are from her Texas friends and neighbors and are along the lines of "Exactly!"  and "Why Libs can't understand this is beyond me."


 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

18 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Yep. This was posted by a Facebook friend who lives in Texas. Most of the responses are from her Texas friends and neighbors and are along the lines of "Exactly!"  and "Why Libs can't understand this is beyond me."


 

We are dealing with retards, man.  Complete retards.   Don't even come at me with that "don't use that term".  There is a term, and it describes people like this completely. 

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

24 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Yep. This was posted by a Facebook friend who lives in Texas. Most of the responses are from her Texas friends and neighbors and are along the lines of "Exactly!"  and "Why Libs can't understand this is beyond me."


 

Okay, now we have something to work with. You gave me an itemized list. Let’s take them one at a time. We’ll start with “freedom” and “socialism” and come to an agreement on what each of those terms mean and whether it’s an either/or proposition, and to what extent either is an actual choice we’re facing. Here are some ground rules:

You start. Define “socialism.”

[GopherRock 1768]

49 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Yep. This was posted by a Facebook friend who lives in Texas. Most of the responses are from her Texas friends and neighbors and are along the lines of "Exactly!"  and "Why Libs can't understand this is beyond me."


 

Acquaintances in MN who are Republicans have regularly shared the same meme. I don't even know where to start with this steaming pile of shit.

[Goofyboy 3296]

Acquaintances in MN who are Republicans have regularly shared the same meme. I don't even know where to start with this steaming pile of shit.

If its in Texas, I usually ask where I can buy booze on Sunday, weed any day and where the easiest and closest abortion clinic is located… then I ask about item number one again.

[Bama Chick 28596]

[tx 3 putt 77421]

7 hours ago, Lobo said:

good lord, we are living among the stupidest fucking people.  I enjoy the amenities and conveniences of modern society, but part of me wishes it was the stone age and people like this would have been taken out behind the ridge and bludgeoned to death for being a threat to the tribe.  

They post here and believe this made up shit 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19142]

Which of our Surly GQP adherents' wife is this?

https://www.insider.com/document-texas-parent-removal-michelle-obama-biography-leftist-indoctrination-2022-2

 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19142]

Welp, the GQP has said what all of us have known for ages.  They are the party of Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/us/politics/republicans-jan-6-cheney-censure.html

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WASHINGTON — The Republican Party on Friday officially declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and events that led to it “legitimate political discourse,” formally rebuking two lawmakers in the party who have been most outspoken in condemning the deadly riot and the role of Donald J. Trump in spreading the election lies that fueled it.

The Republican National Committee’s overwhelming voice vote to censure Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois at its winter meeting in Salt Lake City culminated more than a year of vacillation, which started with party leaders condemning the Capitol attack and Mr. Trump’s conduct, then shifted to downplaying and denying it.

On Friday, the party went further in a resolution slamming Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kinzinger for taking part in the House investigation of the assault, saying they were participating in “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”

It was an extraordinary statement about the deadliest attack on the Capitol in 200 years, in which a mob of Mr. Trump’s supporters stormed the complex, brutalizing police officers and sending lawmakers into hiding. Nine people died in connection with the attack and more than 150 officers were injured. The party passed the resolution without discussion and almost without dissent.

The censure is the latest and most forceful effort by the Republican Party to minimize what happened and the broader attempt by Mr. Trump and his allies to invalidate the results of the 2020 election. In approving it and opting to punish two of its own, Republicans seemed to embrace a position that many of them have only hinted at: that the assault and the actions that preceded it were acceptable.

It came days after Mr. Trump suggested that, if re-elected in 2024, he would consider pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6 attack and for the first time described his goal as aiming to “overturn” the election results.

 

READ THE RESOLUTION

The Republican National Committee’s resolution censures Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.

For Republicans in Washington, the party’s actions threatened new division as their leaders try to focus attention on what they call the failings of the Biden administration.

Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, wrote on Twitter, “Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost.” He did not mention that the party chairwoman who presided over the meeting and orchestrated the censure resolution, Ronna McDaniel, is his niece.

The party’s far-right flank has been agitating to boot Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kinzinger out of the House Republican Conference for months, a push that Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader, has tried to brush aside. And their formal censure is sure to stir up those efforts again.

 

 

 

 

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The Republican Party declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and events that led to it as “legitimate political discourse.”Credit...Jason Andrew for The New York Times

“We need to move on from that whole discussion and, frankly, move forward and get the House back in 2022,” said Representative Mike Garcia, a California Republican facing a difficult re-election campaign in a newly configured district.

Most House Republicans tried to ignore the actions of the party on Friday, refusing to answer questions or saying they had not read the censure resolution. Representative Dan Crenshaw, Republican of Texas, called it “dumb stuff,” while Representative Mark Green, Republican of Tennessee, lamented the distraction from “this abysmal administration’s record.”

Democrats, however, were incensed, especially at the censure resolution’s description of the Capitol attack as “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” and the ongoing legal investigations of Mr. Trump in New York and Georgia “Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power.”

“The Republican Party is so off the deep end now that they are describing an attempted coup and a deadly insurrection as political expression,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland and a member of the special House committee investigating the Capitol attack. “It is a scandal that historians will be aghast at, to think that a major political party would be denouncing Liz Cheney for standing up for the Constitution and not saying anything about Donald Trump’s involvement in the insurrection.”

Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat of California and who is also on the committee, said, “their party has degenerated into a cult to the former president, unwilling to acknowledge the truth, and I think they condemn themselves with their resolution.”

In his own defense, Mr. Kinzinger said, “I have no regrets about my decision to uphold my oath of office and defend the Constitution. I will continue to focus my efforts on standing for truth and working to fight the political matrix that’s led us to where we find ourselves today.”

The resolution speaks repeatedly of party unity as the goal of censuring the lawmakers. saying the party’s ability to focus on the Biden administration was being “sabotaged” by the “actions and words” of Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kinzinger which indicate “they support Democrat efforts to destroy President Trump more than they support winning back a Republican majority in 2022.”

More practically, the moves of the party in Salt Lake City will make it easier for the Republican apparatus to abandon Ms. Cheney and throw its weight and money behind her main primary challenger, Harriet Hageman.

The censure resolution declares that the party “shall immediately cease any and all support of” both lawmakers “as members of the Republican Party for their behavior which has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican Party and our republic, and is inconsistent with the position of the Conference.”

Mr. Kinzinger has already announced he won’t seek re-election, as have several other House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol. Ms. Cheney, however, has vowed to stand for re-election.

 

 

 

 

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Representative Adam Kinzinger has already announced he won’t seek re-election, as have several other House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump.Credit...Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times

Earlier this week, the Wyoming delegation to the Republican National Committee submitted a so-called “Rule 11” letter, formalizing party support for Ms. Hageman. The existence of the letter was reported by The Washington Post.

The letter allows the Republican National Committee to send resources to the Wyoming branch of the party to spend on Ms. Hageman’s behalf — essentially designating her as the party’s presumptive nominee. The designations are common in Republican politics, but typically are used to support incumbents who may be facing token primary challengers. Florida’s delegation, for instance, filed a similar letter months ago that allowed the national committee to funnel resources to support the re-election campaigns for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Senator Marco Rubio.

Ms. Cheney, who faces an uphill battle in her re-election bid against a Republican Party aligned with Mr. Trump, said party leaders “have made themselves willing hostages” to Mr. Trump.

“I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump,” she said. “History will be their judge. I will never stop fighting for our constitutional republic. No matter what.”

Ms. Cheney’s spokesman, Jeremy Adler, condemned the Wyoming G.O.P. leadership and its chairman, Frank Eathorne, for directing resources to Ms. Hageman. Mr. Eathorne did not respond to messages Friday; other members of the Wyoming delegation declined to comment.

“Frank Eathorne and the Republican National Committee are trying to assert their will and take away the voice of the people of Wyoming before a single vote has even been cast,” Mr. Adler said.

Ms. Cheney has a commanding financial advantage over Ms. Hageman, according to federal campaign finance reports released earlier this week. Ms. Cheney entered 2022 with nearly $5 million in campaign cash, while Ms. Hageman reported just $380,000.

The censure resolution was watered down from an initial version that called directly for the House Republican Conference to “expel” Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kinzinger “without delay.” That demand was dropped. However, the language condemning the attack on “legitimate political discourse” was then added.

William J. Palatucci, a Republican National Committee member from New Jersey, said those changes were made “behind closed doors.” The final language was officially circulated to committee members early Friday morning. He called it “cancel culture at its worst.”

“The national committee attacking Liz Cheney is distracting and counterproductive,” he said. “We should be spending our time shooting at Democrats, not Republicans.”

They are not even trying to be a political party.  We now have one political party (The Democratic Party) and what can be considered, at best, a criminal organization and at worst a terrorist organization run under the rule of one man and his family.  It is disgusting.

[DDD Dad 14351]

12 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Welp, the GQP has said what all of us have known for ages.  They are the party of Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/us/politics/republicans-jan-6-cheney-censure.html

They are not even trying to be a political party.  We now have one political party (The Democratic Party) and what can be considered, at best, a criminal organization and at worst a terrorist organization run under the rule of one man and his family.  It is disgusting.

Came here to post the same. 

 

 

Edited February 4, 2022 by DDD Dad

[NameAlreadyInUse 5123]

If that is legitimate political discourse sanctioned by the Republican party, they can never get upset about a convenience store or a Target getting looted during a protest again.  If the US Capitol building being ransacked and looted is legitimate political discourse, then there is nothing at all that is safe from the eyes of the mob, and that's ok as long as the mob is making a political statement.  

Fucking disgraceful.

[gmr548 16615]

There is no bottom.

[bolverk 29717]

QAnon Pastor Holds Book Burning at His Church

Locke, a pro-Trump pastor, praised the Proud Boys during a rally in Washington on Jan. 5th, 2021. He is a member of the Christian nationalist Black Robe Regiment, a group of pastors who are ready to go to war to put Christianity back at the heart of American life.  He has espoused QAnon-linked conspiracy theories about child sex trafficking tunnels under the White House from his pulpit. 

He’s also an anti-vaxxer and COVID denier: Locke has defied lockdown restrictions, dismissed COVID-19 as a “fake pandemic”, urged his congregation not to get vaccinated, and called Tennessee Governor Bill Lee a “coward” for allowing the National Guard to assist hospitals struggling to cope during the height of the pandemic.

 

[TheStoicPaisano 9939]

Even the face turn is a snooze fest.

 

[Chad Fuck 17775]

48 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Even the face turn is a snooze fest.

 

Only a year and a month late.  Way to be brave Mike.  You worm.

[Guest Lobo]

You gotta give him credit for not speaking out more often, more loudly.  They did try to kill him last time he spoke up.  I mean, that he has badass secret service detail and is still that scared to speak up more often should tell you something about how deep this thing goes.  

One of his former Chiefs of Staff is coming to Austin to speak on Monday night.  I am wildly curious what he has to say about Pence.  And yes, there will be booze.  

[Sbbruin 21887]

1 hour ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Even the face turn is a snooze fest.

 

Dotard right now

 

[bluto 4942]

He’s totally gonna call him a pussy outright. 

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

26 minutes ago, bluto said:

He’s totally gonna call him a pussy outright. 

Again?

[NameAlreadyInUse 5123]

2 hours ago, bolverk said:

QAnon Pastor Holds Book Burning at His Church

Locke, a pro-Trump pastor, praised the Proud Boys during a rally in Washington on Jan. 5th, 2021. He is a member of the Christian nationalist Black Robe Regiment, a group of pastors who are ready to go to war to put Christianity back at the heart of American life.  He has espoused QAnon-linked conspiracy theories about child sex trafficking tunnels under the White House from his pulpit. 

He’s also an anti-vaxxer and COVID denier: Locke has defied lockdown restrictions, dismissed COVID-19 as a “fake pandemic”, urged his congregation not to get vaccinated, and called Tennessee Governor Bill Lee a “coward” for allowing the National Guard to assist hospitals struggling to cope during the height of the pandemic.

 

I could see there was fire, and I was reading along hoping to see a self immolation video.  Ah well, nevertheless.

[TexasEd 8077]

Are they burning books because they can't read?

Too bad they made this place so small.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20490]

467,000 jobs created in January and not one for Scott Baio, James Woods or Kirstie Alley. 

No wonder they are upset.

[Underdog 28773]

Should be tweeted to their twitter accounts, perhaps add Mr Voight also. 

[Brisketexan 105335]

There is no bottom.

As always. And they prove it every day.

Imagine supporting that “party.”

[tx 3 putt 77421]

On 2/5/2022 at 11:29 AM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Kirstie Alley. 

 

has she lost lbs ?

[956 Worldwide 34770]

A 17 year old high school student tweeted something (maybe not completely accurate) about the GOP Virginia Governor and the Governor's campaign account responded completely normally-- by tweeting a photo of the kid with former Governor Ralph Northam and saying "here's Ethan in a photo with a man who once posed as KKK/Blackface."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/06/youngkin-twitter-feud-teenager-00006104

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/17-old-responds-disgusting-disturbing-170757893.html

 

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

Shouldn’t that be considered a violation of his ban on CRT?

[TheStoicPaisano 9939]

Something something shut up and dribble.

 

[Biff Tannen 45737]

There was a restaurant/bar owner in Bastrop on the local news this morning talking about how he doesn't enforce mask rules.  He said it was "because of freedom.  Freedom, freedom, freedom."  

These people don't understand anything.

[Guest Lobo]

Wow, they got the backup center for the 9th place Boston Celtics?  Between him and Scott Baio, that hotel lobby is gonna be filled with hot trim looking to get famous.

Also, Enes Freedom?  Really?  Was Anus Liberty booked at another conference?  

[Captainant 27767]

17 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Wow, they got the backup center for the 9th place Boston Celtics?  Between him and Scott Baio, that hotel lobby is gonna be filled with hot trim looking to get famous.

Also, Enes Freedom?  Really?  Was Anus Liberty booked at another conference?  

Enes Kanter (Freedom) does actually face some genuine peril from Turkey and recently naturalized and changed his name to Freedom. It's a shame he's going the CPAC route, because he has a genuine "America saved me from being a political prisoner" story.

[Guest Lobo]

not judging him or his story. I see between Switzerland's adoption of him and his nice NBA salary, I'm happy his life has turned around and he's in a position of influence.  I just laugh at CPAC in general.  And his c'mon...let's be middle schoolers for a minute..."Enes" sounds like "Anus."  I'm 45 and surrounded most days by educated conservatives and they still make jokes about my name.  

[formermav43 4606]

8 minutes ago, Lobo said:

not judging him or his story. I see between Switzerland's adoption of him and his nice NBA salary, I'm happy his life has turned around and he's in a position of influence.  I just laugh at CPAC in general.  And his c'mon...let's be middle schoolers for a minute..."Enes" sounds like "Anus."  I'm 45 and surrounded most days by educated conservatives and they still make jokes about my name.  

[Longhorn_Fan68 33899]

58 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Something something shut up and dribble.

 

had to look up who that is:
from wikipedia
"About: Enes Kanter Freedom is a Swiss-born American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He was selected as the third overall pick of the 2011 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz. A center, Kanter has played for five NBA teams since entering the league in 2011."

[Bama Chick 28596]

These fuckstacks get SO fucking close to getting it.

But then their white male fragility kicks in and they get scared by a hypothetical queer brown person and piss their panties.

[Guest Lobo]

Yeah...two years in and they still think diabetes and cancer are contagious.  It's amazing we don't let such sharply analytic minds run public health strategies.  

I wish those things were free in my country but there wasn't a compressed timeframe in which those illnesses were blazing out of control in contagion fashion.  

Cancer and obesity and heart disease suck and are huge drains on our healthcare system, but at least those diseases have the decency to spread themselves out over the course of a year, a decade, a generation, a century.  Covid-19, in all its uppity bullshit, had to come crashing down on us all at once and push our healthcare system to the brink and then well past it.  That's all this was about...allowing the healthcare system to allocate resources and treat people who needed treating.  Masks, vaccines, social distancing, quarantines, etc.  It was all just to buy us time to get our shit together.  This was just a logistics play and 35% of America just couldn't be fucking bothered to help out for a few minutes.   

[Pato del Muerto 52598]

Sounds like he’s lobbying for universal healthcare with cheap/free prescription drugs. Let’s do it. 

[Hagbard Celine 10923]

https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https%3A//www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-hospital-staff-shortages-60-minutes-2022-02-06/

[High Plains Drifter 11052]

 

Enes Kanter is Muslim. He is a follower of exiled Turkish cleric Gulan (sp?). So he is persona non-grata in Turkey. As a Muslim, he is also very very anti-Chyna due to China's human rights violations against the Uyghers, who are also Muslim and have Turkish roots.  He's been a pain in the ass to the NBA due to the NBA's sucking up to China. He has called out Lebron for his business dealings in China. Kanter is also very rah rah pro-America, because his cleric Gulan was given asylum in Indiana or someplace.

 

I assume he's speaking at CPAC about China's persecution of the Uyghers. He's not a fan of Biden because he thinks Biden in too soft on China. The trumptards will eat that shit up. He's also appeared on Tucker Carlson, talking about China.

 

He will play the role of the token immigrant that Rs can point to and say "see we don't hate immigrants". He will play that role in exchange for a soap box about China.

 

I just hope he brings his prayer rug and bows to mecca during the afternoon prayer in front of Tucker, et al.

 

 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

3 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Kanter is also very rah rah pro-America, because his cleric Gulan was given asylum in Indiana or someplace.

I think it’s Pennsylvania. Erdogan likes to blame all his troubles on him and wants him extradited. I think it was Michael Flynn who proposed the idea of kidnapping him and sending him back to Turkey.

[Pancho 44995]

Christ 

 

[NameAlreadyInUse 5123]

36 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Christ 

 

This is the hairdresser, right?  I know who I trust to lead me in front of my government is a person who knows how to use a pair of scissors.  

[staboner 4987]

19 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

These fuckstacks get SO fucking close to getting it.

But then their white male fragility kicks in and they get scared by a hypothetical queer brown person and piss their panties.
 

this fucking tweet is the best fucking thing i have read in some time. 

[Brisketexan 105335]

 
Enes Kanter is Muslim. He is a follower of exiled Turkish cleric Gulan (sp?). So he is persona non-grata in Turkey. As a Muslim, he is also very very anti-Chyna due to China's human rights violations against the Uyghers, who are also Muslim and have Turkish roots.  He's been a pain in the ass to the NBA due to the NBA's sucking up to China. He has called out Lebron for his business dealings in China. Kanter is also very rah rah pro-America, because his cleric Gulan was given asylum in Indiana or someplace.
 
I assume he's speaking at CPAC about China's persecution of the Uyghers. He's not a fan of Biden because he thinks Biden in too soft on China. The trumptards will eat that shit up. He's also appeared on Tucker Carlson, talking about China.
 
He will play the role of the token immigrant that Rs can point to and say "see we don't hate immigrants". He will play that role in exchange for a soap box about China.
 
I just hope he brings his prayer rug and bows to mecca during the afternoon prayer in front of Tucker, et al.
 
 
 

I mean….if he’s going to CPAC to suck Trumpsit dick, he MIGHT wanna look into…..this:

I think it’s Pennsylvania. Erdogan likes to blame all his troubles on him and wants him extradited. I think it was Michael Flynn who proposed the idea of kidnapping him and sending him back to Turkey.

Christ 
 

The cruelty is the point? It’s more than that. The cruelty is their PLATFORM. This is what they are, and what they want. Shit, kudos to Luther for saying it out loud - her candor is refreshing.

[atomheartbevo 89792]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Christ 

is not in Shelley Luther's life.

[Pancho 44995]