The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult

[Chad Fuck 17,566]

58 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

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.

 

Trump TV.  Where we've been heading all along.  Where he wanted to be three years ago.

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,049]

Jim Jordan, member of the House Freedom Caucus, during a Rules Committee meeting on COVID-19. Free from the tyranny of sport coats and masks, he parades his freedom before his constituents in Ohio minus the 610 souls who have perished and the many hospitalized, too ill to watch.

 

 

[CooterBrown 17,913]

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.

Back in the late 80s/early 90s there was a news show story about Walmart decimating local businesses when they moved to town. They showed a city council meeting where they were debating approving Walmart’s development plan. Old after old got up talk about how they wanted Walmart and fuck local businesses. I remember one old lady said she needed a place to buy batteries. The local hardware guy stood and said just pick up the phone and they would deliver them to your door like they’d done for 30 years. She’d have none of it. The olds have always fucking sucked.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

On 4/20/2020 at 7:51 PM, 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 was recently reading about the ongoing yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans during the 19th century and the virus created sort of a social class system between people who were acclimated to the virus and those that weren’t.

New comers to New Orleans looking to make it big would try to get sick so they could make the claim they were acclimated to yellow fever.  It didn’t matter that the survival rate from yellow fever was around 50% at the time.  Point is, we’ve always been remarkably stupid and nature finds a way. 

[JimmyJames 12,271]

1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

Back in the late 80s/early 90s there was a news show story about Walmart decimating local businesses when they moved to town. They showed a city council meeting where they were debating approving Walmart’s development plan. Old after old got up talk about how they wanted Walmart and fuck local businesses. I remember one old lady said she needed a place to buy batteries. The local hardware guy stood and said just pick up the phone and they would deliver them to your door like they’d done for 30 years. She’d have none of it. The olds have always fucking sucked.

Baby boomers have always sucked. A big part of the reason we’re in this mess. 

[tx 3 putt 76,400]

1 minute ago, JimmyJames said:

Baby boomers have always sucked. A big part of the reason we’re in this mess. 

the worst 

[JimmyJames 12,271]

The baby boomer voting block became ascendant in 1980 with Reagan and continued on until trumps election in 2016. They are finally dying off now but they have no doubt ruined what was once the greatest country in history. Trump is their legacy. Quite the legacy. 

[tx 3 putt 76,400]

 

Florida the villages, ground zero for boomer trumpers. 

very very early on during the corona outbreak, FL gov and the federal govt saw fit that the villages get a huge influx of test kits 

Edited April 23, 2020 by tx 3 putt

[CooterBrown 17,913]

9 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

Baby boomers have always sucked. A big part of the reason we’re in this mess. 

Actually, the old people in this were already in their late 60s-70s in the late 80s. They were the "greatest generation".  Old people suck. It's just boomers currently.

Edited April 23, 2020 by CooterBrown

[pyrohornIII 4,809]

Convenience and cost savings began to make a difference in the 70s.  That's when you started seeing more moms enter the workplace.  Some of that was due to the beginning of the plateauing of wages for the working class.  As the power of the paycheck went down, they wanted/needed more ways to reduce expenses to maintain standard of living.  We are still plateaued, and still trying to cut costs while trying to keep up with this huge push to be hyper consumers.  

It was like a slow leak.  The good years of America being a major producer/exporter got us to expecting a certain level of lifestyle.  Then when the other countries started catching up, particularly the Japanese, then all the sudden we had competition.  That competition cut the power of our dollar, but then we used that weakened dollar to buy from the very competition that weakened it, to make our dollar stretch further.  

There is certainly more to the decline like civil rights, ERA, and Viet Nam.   But overall we came out of a very prosperous era, and did slow incremental compromising to be where we are.    That lady who wanted the batteries from Walmart wanted them because she just knew they'd be a lot cheaper than buying them from old man Sloan's store.  

It's been a progression, wherein most parents want to provide a better future and life for their children than they had.  Unfortunately somewhere along the line the "better future" definition got hijacked by greedy fucks. 

 

[SameSame 1,692]

This perfectly sums up the current Republican party

 

 

[Red Five 40,665]

Imagine trusting Donald Trump. With anything. 

[DigDug 1,649]

3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Imagine trusting Donald Trump. With anything. 

Screw all that science and knowledge, let's trust the guy who is literally incapable of telling the truth.

[Biff Tannen 45,499]

27 minutes ago, SameSame said:

This perfectly sums up the current Republican party

 

 

We really do need to just round up all these people and send them to Kansas.

[gmr548 16,517]

Imagine trusting Donald Trump. With anything. 

I trust him to lie. If he says something, I immediately assume the claim is false. Works out pretty well.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20,344]

21 minutes ago, DigDug said:

Screw all that science and knowledge, let's trust the guy who is literally incapable of telling the truth.

 

Screw all that science and knowledge, I trust the guy who looks directly at a solar eclipse and who thinks that windmills cause cancer.

[bolverk 29,402]

43 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

I trust him to lie. If he says something, I immediately assume the claim is false. Works out pretty well.

Pretty much. And I think this is way lenient on not capturing whatever the WaPo count of lies is today. They may have just given up.

True: 4%

Mostly True: 10%

Half True: 14%

Mostly False: 21%

False: 34%

Pants of Fire: 14%

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

[Red Five 40,665]

Lulz @ 4%. Seems high. 

[Francisco 2.0 32,342]

2 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

Screw all that science and knowledge, I trust the guy who looks directly at a solar eclipse and who thinks that windmills cause cancer.

Nuke hurricanes.

Redraw Weather Service path projections.

Recommends medicinal cures.

Stealth aircraft are invisible.

LED lightbulbs cause cancer

Asbestos would have prevented the World Trade Center from burning 

Raking forest floors prevents forest fires.

Taking coal out of the ground and cleaning it.

 

 

[hayden_horn 11,360]

27 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Nuke hurricanes.

Redraw Weather Service path projections.

Recommends medicinal cures.

Stealth aircraft are invisible.

LED lightbulbs cause cancer

Asbestos would have prevented the World Trade Center from burning 

Raking forest floors prevents forest fires.

Taking coal out of the ground and cleaning it.

 

 

my god, when you catalog it like that, it's breathtaking, the ignorance.

[Kyrie Eleison 9,312]

47 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Nuke hurricanes.

Redraw Weather Service path projections.

Recommends medicinal cures.

Stealth aircraft are invisible.

LED lightbulbs cause cancer

Asbestos would have prevented the World Trade Center from burning 

Raking forest floors prevents forest fires.

Taking coal out of the ground and cleaning it.

 

 

don't forget...windmills cause cancer

[Red Five 40,665]

Over on the old site, there were a bunch of posters who got many, many months of belly laughs out of a candidate getting tongue tied and saying 57 instead of 47. Do you think they think that list is as funny?

[WhatTheBuck 28,713]

9 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Over on the old site, there were a bunch of posters who got many, many months of belly laughs out of a candidate getting tongue tied and saying 57 instead of 47. Do you think they think that list is as funny?

They're too busy flushing their toilets over and over and over and over and over and over again.

[HenryJames 65,890]

 

[F250 28,691]

15 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

The baby boomer voting block became ascendant in 1980 with Reagan and continued on until trumps election in 2016. They are finally dying off now but they have no doubt ruined what was once the greatest country in history. Trump is their legacy. Quite the legacy. 

The Boomers unleashing both hippies and yuppies on the world says a lot about that generation.

[F250 28,691]

2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Nuke hurricanes.

Redraw Weather Service path projections.

Recommends medicinal cures.

Stealth aircraft are invisible.

LED lightbulbs cause cancer

Asbestos would have prevented the World Trade Center from burning 

Raking forest floors prevents forest fires.

Taking coal out of the ground and cleaning it.

 

 

Don't forget the U.S. Navy should go back to using steam.

[pyrohornIII 4,809]

 

[WhatTheBuck 28,713]

Trump also claimed he invented the phrase "prime the pump."

[4th&Five 41,461]

[Francisco 2.0 32,342]

6 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Inject/drink disinfectants

Shine UV light inside bodies

Nuke hurricanes.

Redraw Weather Service path projections.

Recommends medicinal cures.

Stealth aircraft are invisible.

LED lightbulbs cause cancer

Asbestos would have prevented the World Trade Center from burning 

Raking forest floors prevents forest fires.

Taking coal out of the ground and cleaning it.

 

 

Had to update my list.

[cactusflinthead 27,594]

 

[Brisketexan 104,628]

9 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

Stupidity?  Check.

Ignorance of history?  Check.

Disingenuous defense of modern symbols of white supremacy?  Check.

That's just the GOP doing some solid defense of their brand.

[4th&Five 41,461]

 

[StassneyHorn 6,540]

I anxiously wait for the day all the people who claim to be sons of the Confederacy find out there forefathers never actually fought. It won’t matter to them, but to me it will.

[WhatTheBuck 28,713]

7 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

I anxiously wait for the day all the people who claim to be sons of the Confederacy find out there forefathers never actually fought. It won’t matter to them, but to me it will.

The problem is that these days there are a lot of them whose forefathers fought for the Union. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,049]

At the Wisconsin protest this week:

 

Wisconsin has a beautiful state Capitol building; IIRC it is the third built on the site and sits atop a rise at the opposite of UW down the expanse of the wonderful and eclectic State street. In the spring the tulips bloom on the grounds surrounding the building and there is (or at least there was when we live there) a Farmer's Market every weekend.

They have eyes but they cannot see.

Do they even know who built that beautiful building of stone? Immigrants. Italian immigrants specifically. Wonderful stonecutters and laborers who came to America and settled in the nearby marshy area around the lakes. The Greenbush area was bulldozed for urban redevelopment in the 1960's and vibrant connected neighborhoods were lost. Our old landlord there (now deceased) grew up in the 'Bush and he had a lot of stories.

[Bozo_Casanova 26,284]

19 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

I anxiously wait for the day all the people who claim to be sons of the Confederacy find out there forefathers never actually fought. It won’t matter to them, but to me it will.

My great-great grandfather was a famous confederate calvary officer from Missouri. I’m glad his side lost and they never should have restored that traitor’s voting rights.

[Gatorubet 30,115]

20 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

 

I like that when the virus breaches the semi-useless cloth mask, it will find a comorbidity fest.

[hobbes2702 12,846]

21 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

 

A senator waving the confederate flag should be charged with treason.

 

58 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

My great-great grandfather was a famous confederate calvary officer from Missouri. I’m glad his side lost and they never should have restored that traitor’s voting rights.

Yup. Hope none of my ancestors fought for the confederates but if they did, fuck em. Traitors.

[Gil Bang 25,898]

13 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

The problem is that these days there are a lot of them whose forefathers fought for the Union. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,049]

When a D.O. who is also a conspiracy theory activist and chair of the Arizona GOP talks about a "message," it really makes you think because that is a foreign action to Doctor Ward.

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,049]

 

[WhatTheBuck 28,713]

5 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

A senator waving the confederate flag should be charged with treason.

Representatives too. 

[F250 28,691]

The irony of Confederate flag wavers is that many are die-hard "Team America" members.

[gmr548 16,517]

Representatives too. 

Weird, I didn't know the confederacy was part of Iowa's heritage.

[WhatTheBuck 28,713]

29 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

12 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Representatives too. 

Weird, I didn't know the confederacy was part of Iowa's heritage.

It's fucking crazy. And they'll still stand at a podium and claim they're the party of Lincoln. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,049]

This James G Barr, from Mountain Home Arkansas, has in his Twitter header: Encouraging the worthy life. Asking questions. Seeking simplicity without simplifiction (Not sure if the 'simplifiction,' is intentional cause Arkansas). He asked a question after Mikey Kay criticized Tom Cotton's China take but the answer took the wind out of his sails....

 

 

 

[gmr548 16,517]

This James G Barr, from Mountain Home Arkansas, has in his Twitter header: Encouraging the worthy life. Asking questions. Seeking simplicity without simplifiction (Not sure if the 'simplifiction,' is intentional cause Arkansas). He asked a question after Mikey Kay criticized Tom Cotton's China take but the answer took the wind out of his sails....

 

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Already deleted the tweet lol. Imagine getting dunked on that hard.

 

[Pescado_Rojo 19,331]

20 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

 

Already deleted the tweet lol. Imagine getting dunked on that hard.

 

[crash_davis 23,084]