The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20918]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Folks, remember this the next time religious zealots lecture you on the sanctity of the First Amendment.  Remember that what they really mean is "First Amendment for me, not for thee."  They value none -- NONE of the values embedded in the Constitution.  They simply extract the First Amendment's protection of the free exercise of religion, extrapolate that to "because everything I want to do, I can justify on the basis of religion, I can do whatever I want to whoever I want," and wad the remainder of the Constitution up and toss it in the trash.

They are anti-Constitutionalists, using the Constitution as a weapon against we the people.  They are scum.  They are evil.

They need a good butthole scan!

[Brisketexan 106899]

3 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

They need a good butthole scan!

The more loudly "religious" they are, the more likely it is that they have REGULAR, intimate inspections of their buttholes.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

Doug Collins, Kelly Loeffler, Brian Kemp, where are you? Busy playing golf? Busy dumping stocks? Busy suppressing the vote? Do you see NO irony that the CDC is headquartered in your state and you are happy to supply Trump body bags?

412 deaths.

[Bama Chick 28596]

The hypocrisy is just breathtaking sometimes.

[Herpa Derpa 6343]

20 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

412 deaths

Sadly, you're just getting started. 

I truly hope that the weather does tamp down the virus, otherwise the states with Governors that refuse to shut down (or places like Kansas where they Darwin vote) will result in perpetual hot zones that require those with brains to stay isolated until a vaccination emerges.*  I live in North Jersey and have been isolated at home working remote for about a month now, with no apparent end in sight.  It got real old, real fast, and going stir crazy was not a distant possibility.  Thankfully, my natural misanthropic, isolationist tendencies that make the Surl so appealing also serve me well in these times.  But it's just now starting to hit on a national scale.  Can the collective herd maintain an adequate quarantine through the summer?    If lucky, your great-grandkids will tell stories about this year.  If not, somebody else's will.

 

 

*PIDOOMA as I have been unable to stay at a Holiday Inn Express for weeks.

[Jack Straw 2955]

5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

The hypocrisy is just breathtaking sometimes.
 

is it, really though, when it’s exactly what you expect, and exactly what you get, 100% of the time? 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20918]

Ken Paxton upset because Colorado won't let him go to his vacation home:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gunnison-county-texas-attorney-general_n_5e908f1bc5b6cac1e812b97e

[SaucyJack 3520]

On 4/8/2020 at 6:38 PM, Message Board User said:

 

Thank you Kelly for defending fiscal conservatism!  The irony of Republican Socialism, Brrrr-rr.

 

 

8 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Ken Paxton upset because Colorado won't let him go to his vacation home:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gunnison-county-texas-attorney-general_n_5e908f1bc5b6cac1e812b97e

--Texans for Lawsuit Reform

[gmr548 16701]

Ken Paxton upset because Colorado won't let him go to his vacation home:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gunnison-county-texas-attorney-general_n_5e908f1bc5b6cac1e812b97e

To be fair, I'm also upset Ken Paxton hasn't left the state.

[tchookem 3968]

Ken Paxton upset because Colorado won't let him go to his vacation home:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gunnison-county-texas-attorney-general_n_5e908f1bc5b6cac1e812b97e

Something, something, local control, something, something.

[Chad Fuck 18135]

Ken Paxton upset because Colorado won't let him go to his vacation home:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gunnison-county-texas-attorney-general_n_5e908f1bc5b6cac1e812b97e

I hope he goes. Do us Texans a favor and take your best shot in a Covid hotbed, Kenny. You stupid son of a bitch.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20918]

GOP pushes voting by mail as Trump attacks it as "corrupt."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/gop-pushes-voting-by-mail-—-with-restrictions-—-as-trump-attacks-it-as-corrupt/ar-BB12wGmy?ocid=spartandhp

[Brisketexan 106899]

57 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

GOP pushes voting by mail as Trump attacks it as "corrupt."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/gop-pushes-voting-by-mail-—-with-restrictions-—-as-trump-attacks-it-as-corrupt/ar-BB12wGmy?ocid=spartandhp

To be fair, Trump did it last election.  And with anything that Trump has done, you can't blame a rational person for thinking that action MUST be corrupt.  It's a puzzler.

[UpperWestside 6277]

35 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

To be fair, Trump did it last election.  And with anything that Trump has done, you can't blame a rational person for thinking that action MUST be corrupt.  It's a puzzler.

I honestly wonder what it will be that is finally the breaking point for this party and its continued existence. Stealing from their own constituents and doing it with a smile on their face hasn't done it. Racist and oppressive policies towards minorities have not done it. Voter oppression hasn't done it. Leaving migrant children to die at the border hasn't done it. The head moron of this cult letting tens of thousands more people die during a pandemic because he does not have the capability of empathy won't do it. 166 years, the last half-century especially, is enough.

[Dnaguy 12630]

Burr back in the news.

 

https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-richard-burr-sold-d-c-townhouse-to-donor-at-a-rich-price

 

This is a good way to get a little (10-30k) extra cash while getting the cover of real estate sales being difficult to assess. 

Dude would be in a lot less hot water if he handled his stocks like this. 

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

[Bama Chick 28596]

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[Hookah Horns 3089]

On 4/12/2020 at 7:32 PM, UpperWestside said:

I honestly wonder what it will be that is finally the breaking point for this party and its continued existence. Stealing from their own constituents and doing it with a smile on their face hasn't done it. Racist and oppressive policies towards minorities have not done it. Voter oppression hasn't done it. Leaving migrant children to die at the border hasn't done it. The head moron of this cult letting tens of thousands more people die during a pandemic because he does not have the capability of empathy won't do it. 166 years, the last half-century especially, is enough.

Modernized voting mechanisms. 

[Francisco 2.0 32592]

Good ole' Matt.  So outspoken to Bill Burr in recent weeks over his stock gambit.  Probably should have ensured his house was in order first:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/17/matt-gaetz-rents-office-space-with-taxpayer-funds-191378

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Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz has spent nearly $200,000 in taxpayer funds renting an office from a longtime friend, adviser, campaign donor and legal client.

Both men said in separate interviews Gaetz paid below market rent for the space — although Gaetz later shifted, saying the rent was “at or below market rate.” House rules explicitly state such arrangements are not allowed.

 

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The agreement between Gaetz and Collier Merrill, a Pensacola real estate developer and restaurateur, highlights how a decades-long relationship can become intertwined with a lawmaker’s congressional duties. On top of being Merrill’s tenant, Gaetz attended fundraisers at Merrill’s restaurants, sought his counsel on policy matters and tapped him as a validator for his work in Washington. 

Gaetz — who represents a conservative swath of the Florida Panhandle — has paid more than $184,000 to Merrill’s Empire Partners LLC to rent the entire sixth-floor in the Seville Tower, a historic building in downtown Pensacola, according to House disbursement records. Gaetz has rented from Merrill since he got to Congress in 2017.

 

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House rules state that all leases for district offices must be “at fair market value as the result of a bona fide, arms-length, marketplace transaction. The Lessor and Lessee certify that the parties are not relatives nor have had, or continue to have, a professional or legal relationship (except as a landlord and tenant).”

Merrill said in an interview that Gaetz approached him saying he wanted to rent space in his building. Merrill then dispatched his leasing director to give Gaetz’s staff a “range to see what they can get” and the private negotiation yielded a price in the middle.

 

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The rental agreement was approved by the House’s Administrative Counsel. Gaetz, through a spokesman, said that he did not feel he needed to disclose his long relationship with Merrill to the House.

A Gaetz aide said the office occupied by his predecessor, Jeff Miller, that he could have moved into did not have adequate security infrastructure. Gaetz’s office said he received death threats after voicing support for abolishing the EPA. His office also said Gaetz has returned more than a half-million dollars in his allotted expense money back to the Treasury.

Gaetz's office space in Merrill's building is more than 3,000 square feet.

“I love the idea of … having a state rep, having a congressman — we’re right across from the courthouse,” Merrill said.

Merrill, who has also advised Gaetz on policy issues, said: “I probably be damned if I do, damned if I didn't. If I [set the rent] too cheap, I'm probably doing him a favor, if I do it too expensive, he’s doing me a favor.”

Gaetz — a close ally of President Donald Trump — has been outspoken in recent weeks about ethics controversies involving Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.). He called Burr to resign after news reports revealed the North Carolina senator dumped a large chunk of a stock portfolio after a classified briefing on the coronavirus. Burr also sold his Washington home to a lobbyist at a price that some real estate consultants cited in the story characterized as above market price.

On Thursday, Gaetz’s office asked for more time to respond to the story because of a “call … with the White House.” Minutes later, Gaetz tweeted out his version of events.

Gaetz, in an interview Wednesday, first suggested POLITICO was “shilling for Burr.” The Florida Republican then defended his relationship with Merrill and denied he had done anything improper.

“Every member of Congress has relationships with their donors,” Gaetz said in the interview. “The question is whether or not those relationships are improper or illegal.”

Gaetz said “every layer” of his relationship with Merrill was appropriate.

The relationship between Gaetz and Merrill is much deeper than just renting an office. It stretches back decades, to 1994 when Gaetz was on the campaign trail following Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC host who was then running to represent the district in Congress. Merrill and Scarborough are close friends. Merrill even urged Gaetz’s father, Don Gaetz, to run the University of West Florida in Pensacola.

When Gaetz notched one of his chief legislative achievements — an amendment to a fishery legislation called the "Reef Assassination Act" — Merrill was included in Gaetz's press release praising the congressman. The legislation encouraged "the elimination of lionfish" from the waters off Pensacola, which have seen an explosion of the invasive fish.

“I am grateful to have someone in Washington willing to take on issues that affect us here locally. The lionfish is thriving — at the expense of our native fish and reefs. It is time for us to stop monitoring the situation, and start addressing it,” Merrill, who owns several restaurants, said of the proposal. Gaetz told POLITICO the legislation would’ve equally benefited every restaurant owner in his district.

Gaetz had also attended fundraisers at one of Merrill’s Florida restaurants. The school-age children who Gaetz selected as winners of a congressional art contest got gift certificates to the Fish House and at Gulfarium — Merrill owns both. Gaetz said Merrill offered the gift certificates when he heard of Gaetz’s work.

“It’s not difficult all for me to explain to you that I get rent at below market rate in an agreement approved by the House of Representatives, a friend of mine donates gift certificate to high-achieving students and I seek the counsel of a former Chamber of Commerce president on business issues and I happen to cite that person in a press release about legislation that would help all restaurants in my district equally,” Gaetz said, speaking of Merrill’s involvement in his official duties. “There is nothing difficult about any of that.”

Politics is Gaetz’s family business. His father Don was running for the Okaloosa County School Board in 1994 when the congressman first met Merrill. The elder Gaetz made his way to the Florida senate in Tallahassee in 2006. Later, he became the senate president.

In 2016, when Don Gaetz was on the brink of retirement from public office, Merrill had a job in mind: he suggested Matt Gaetz’s father throw his name in the mix to run the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Merrill — a member of the search committee — told POLITICO at the time that he was “crazy about Don Gaetz. ... I certainly hope Senator Gaetz does apply.” Gaetz didn’t get the job, after former Gov. Rick Scott intervened on behalf of his opponent.

In 2009, when Matt Gaetz was just two years out of law school and one year away from taking a seat in the statehouse in Tallahassee, he represented Merrill’s restaurant company in a lawsuit against a group of women who called themselves the “red fish chix.” The women bought a boat from Merrill in exchange for cash and a commitment to do promotional events. Merrill — through Gaetz — alleged the women did not pay for the boat, and sold it to a third party without his consent. Gaetz also said he represented Merrill personally in a noise complaint "nearly five years ago."

When Gaetz finally got to Congress, it was Merrill who was his biggest advocate.

“He goes up there and hits it right off the bat,” Merrill told a reporter writing a story for the Naples Daily News. “Matt’s not going to sit there and wait for the fight to come to him. If there’s a fight that needs fighting, he’s going after it.”

Merrill put it this way to the Washington Post, speaking of Gaetz and his father Don: "They are workers." Merrill observed that Gaetz — like his father — was "rising quickly in the ranks."

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

So I’m wondering how the whole anti socialist theme by Moscow Mitch and the republicans is gonna work in light of the trillions of dollars being spent on government bailouts of business. 

[WhatTheBuck 28930]

8 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

So I’m wondering how the whole anti socialist theme by Moscow Mitch and the republicans is gonna work in light of the trillions of dollars being spent on government bailouts of business. 

None of their followers know what socialism is so it'll still sell. 

[Gengs1 2583]

14 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

So I’m wondering how the whole anti socialist theme by Moscow Mitch and the republicans is gonna work in light of the trillions of dollars being spent on government bailouts of business. 

As long as it goes to ultra rich and corporations it’s all good.

helping the common folk is socialism, helping the rich is capitalism 

[Fudge Nuggets 19455]

9 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

None of their followers know what socialism is so it'll still sell. 

THis is the correct answer.  Another board I frequent full of Oil and Gas industry people is cheering on their free $1,200 and hoping dotard will agree to the idea of paying oil companies to keep their oil in the ground.

Bring up government assisted health care and you better watch the fuck out because FUCK YOU COMMIE.  We can't afford that shit, apparently.

[Biff Tannen 46166]

12 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

None of their followers know what socialism is so it'll still sell. 

Yep, it's this simple.  They don't know what it is and just know it's a bad word associated with "Dems".  That's as far as their brains go.

[FondrenRoad 4378]

On 4/12/2020 at 7:51 PM, Brisketexan said:

To be fair, Trump did it last election.  And with anything that Trump has done, you can't blame a rational person for thinking that action MUST be corrupt.  It's a puzzler.

Well, yeah. He is also a fake Florida resident. He is both cheating taxes and voting fraudulently. And, of course, shitting on the spirit of the rule that allows the President to bypass the residency requirements the rest of us Americans have to follow.  The triple dip of corruption. 

Surprised he didn't fake move to PA, WI, or MI instead though. He isn't ever paying income taxes anywhere anyway, and is still paying NY property tax.  

Edited April 18, 2020 by FondrenRoad

[Message Board User 12405]

 

[Biff Tannen 46166]

Wow. Just...wow. 

[Mdhorn 6166]

20 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Wow. Just...wow. 

Was a time when just one bad issue would doom your campaign for life. Now it only dooms Democrats.   Deans campaign bottomed out because of a gesture and scream. He never said anything wrong or did anything offensive or broke any laws or rules.  Democrats don't even grant themselves a fair trial--looking at Frankin.  I really think he should run again.  

[Message Board User 12405]

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

SIAP in another thread, but I haven't caught up after working this weekend. This is a really good read:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

Here he gives examples of the reinforcement:

 

 

 

[GopherRock 1773]

So what's the counter punch to this?

[Irwin F Fletcher 3555]

Just now, GopherRock said:

So what's the counter punch to this?

Set up a small venue and let them get nice and close and hold their rallies. Invite Trump, Pence, their local (R) Congressman and Senator to the rally. Let them blow off some steam. It will be cathartic for them in the moment and for us two weeks down the road.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

4 minutes ago, GopherRock said:

So what's the counter punch to this?

I wish I knew. I had to take some time off from the news cycle and also work. Some days are hard to take when you know there are six more months of this and it's going to get worse and worse. It is really depressing and frustrating.

[Dnaguy 12630]

5 minutes ago, GopherRock said:

So what's the counter punch to this?

There isn’t one.

The idocracy has grown too hardened and too large.

I hate to say it, but more people have to die and die in places that these people live. That is the only way this changes.

More people have to die.

[SubliminalHorn 7009]

2 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

There isn’t one.

The idocracy has grown too hardened and too large.

I hate to say it, but more people have to die and die in places that these people live. That is the only way this changes.

More people have to die.

I didn’t want to be macabre, so I didn’t respond with this. But this is the answer. The only counterpunch is that the protesters aka puppets either have to get really sick themselves or their family members dying. That’s it. This is a game to them until it’s their mom or dad lying prone hooked up to a ventilator. Sad that it has come to this, but we all know that even if trump is defeated, it’s going be real real ugly. 

[Biff Tannen 46166]

I was watching a show about southern food and culture last night and I think I blame corporations for the destruction of rural America, which ultimately has led us to where we are now.  Walmart, corporate agriculture, and the like came in and drove the local businesses and farms into the ground.  Then the young people saw their options for staying diminishing and the ones who were able went to college and never came back.

Now there is an extreme propaganda movement aimed at these people whose communities are nothing like they were 40-50 years ago.  Blame someone else, pay no attention to the corporations behind the curtain.

[4th&Five 42005]

 

[Mdhorn 6166]

2 hours ago, GopherRock said:

So what's the counter punch to this?

Continuously showing them block hospitals for the sick and elderly while calling them Republican death panels that don't care about the wellbeing of their constituents.  

[Gil Bang 26240]

 

[Gil Bang 26240]

On 4/15/2020 at 3:02 AM, Dnaguy said:

Burr back in the news.

 

https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-richard-burr-sold-d-c-townhouse-to-donor-at-a-rich-price

 

This is a good way to get a little (10-30k) extra cash while getting the cover of real estate sales being difficult to assess. 

Dude would be in a lot less hot water if he handled his stocks like this. 

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

Duke Cunningham went down for selling his house to a defense contractor at an inflated price (among other things)

[Biff Tannen 46166]

6 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

 

I refuse to believe that one.  Come on.

[JimmyJames 12271]

The trump rally protests are small, are stupid, are opposed by the vast majority of Americans, and are as a result worthless and inconsequential.

But the media has to sell conflict, so we get to hear about Alex Jones type protest crap.

 

[Gengs1 2583]

8 hours ago, GopherRock said:

So what's the counter punch to this?

Encourage them to not use face masks and hold hand holding prayers or circle prayers, this will assist in Darwinism   

[Brisketexan 106899]

1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

 

I mean, I'm an open-minded guy and all....but I'm gonna go with "Libety," if I gotta pick one.

[Gengs1 2583]

8 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I was watching a show about southern food and culture last night and I think I blame corporations for the destruction of rural America, which ultimately has led us to where we are now.  Walmart, corporate agriculture, and the like came in and drove the local businesses and farms into the ground.  Then the young people saw their options for staying diminishing and the ones who were able went to college and never came back.

Now there is an extreme propaganda movement aimed at these people whose communities are nothing like they were 40-50 years ago.  Blame someone else, pay no attention to the corporations behind the curtain.

If you clearly showed them how the Corp are fucking them over they won’t believe you. They will blame the crop but vote for Rs and they will preach small business while doing everything against those areas

[Pescado_Rojo 19587]

2 hours ago, Gengs1 said:

Encourage them to not use face masks and hold hand holding prayers or circle prayers, this will assist in Darwinism   

Darwinism is dead. A victim of modern medicine. 100 years ago most of these idiots would have died off long ago, but thanks to things like antibiotics, trauma care, EMS, etc...they survive and breed. We've done this to ourselves.  

[Gap03 3386]

54 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Darwinism is dead. A victim of modern medicine. 100 years ago most of these idiots would have died off long ago, but thanks to things like antibiotics, trauma care, EMS, etc...they survive and breed. We've done this to ourselves.  

The intro to Idiocracy is so spot on in this regard.  

 

[Biff Tannen 46166]

1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Darwinism is dead. A victim of modern medicine. 100 years ago most of these idiots would have died off long ago, but thanks to things like antibiotics, trauma care, EMS, etc...they survive and breed. We've done this to ourselves.  

I found a brisket sock. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34106]

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

Not sure where to put this, as it features Biden, but it is Matt Gaetz being his usual misogynistic clueless self. Thinks he is so hip with the slang. Yeah, no Matt, it looks about as good as when TexAgs finally figured out what "Karen"  meant and started using it over the last two weeks.