The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult

[Player 4575]

i bet matt mackowiak was homeroom hall monitor last year in junior high

[Horn Dog 9672]

2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

the water is right there in the fucking picture. 

what a fucking moron.

In Matt’s defense he probably thought that was Fauci’s invisible penis, and matt is very accustomed to invisible penises.

[Post Oak 20184]

You guys have learned nothing. It's not about being right with these guys.  It never was and they've cultivated an audience that doesn't trust their own eyes

[HenryJames 65890]

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13412]

12 hours ago, Post Oak said:

You guys have learned nothing. It's not about being right with these guys.  It never was and they've cultivated an audience that doesn't trust their own eyes

Exactly. Some people want to believe Fauci doesn’t wear a mask when the camera isn’t on. For those that believe that and see this tweet, perhaps 3% of them will realize the tweet is wrong and go on with their day. The other 97% will feel justified and many will retweet.  This Travis county gop guy has gop upper mgmt written all over him.

[Guest Lobo]

Matt,

Fauci is doing his finger exercises in preparation to two-hand the water bottle like your President.  

[Guest Lobo]

We regret taking you to that Nationals game in 2018, Matt.  

[RomaVicta 29784]

20 hours ago, horn4life said:

Not that it's new, but it's it funny how the GOP will move heaven and earth to get quick relief for the billionaires and millionaire, and simply show little to no concern for the little guy (despite the endless lying and lip service to the contrary).

So the Dems got to work and passed a bill on MAY FUCKING 15th, to address the next round of relief.  What does the GOP do?  Nothing, zero, zilch, nada... they just sat at piddled and twiddled their thumbs. Now millions of Americans are about to begin being evicted,   and their $600 a week unemployment benefit subsidy is disappearing. Yet in the 70 days since the Dems in the House passed an actual relief bill....the GOP is ALMOST ready to stop negotiating with itself.  The complete lack of empathy and concern for the working men and women of this country is quite frankly mind boggling to me. 

OF course the bill the GOP is going to present has had no debate, no amendments, and right now resembles the sort of a business plan two drunk college sophomores sketch out on a bar napkin.  How the fuck can the GOP not take this whole thing more seriously????

And not a word about undoing Trump's/GOP's tax break for the rich to help pay the bill. Oh, wait, these same tax beneficiaries are also landlords! Evict the deadbeats and find renters who can pay! Let the evicted die and decrease the surplus population. Or send them to one of the prisons owned by the tax beneficiaries/landlords/majority stock holders who will charge the government for the service.

 

Better dead than red! Right, boys?

[JimmyJames 12271]

19 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

In Matt’s defense he probably thought that was Fauci’s invisible penis, and matt is very accustomed to invisible penises.

I bet that dudes wife is really fat. If not she’s a dominatrix. 

[F250 28682]

21 hours ago, Post Oak said:

You guys have learned nothing. It's not about being right with these guys.  It never was and they've cultivated an audience that doesn't trust their own eyes

This is correct.

[Mole 4320]

On 7/23/2020 at 3:29 PM, 4th&Five said:

 

I support telling kids across the country that this curriculum is banned and they absolutely should not read it. Seriously, don’t read it. It’s banned, offensive, and you shouldn’t look at it. Also, you can easily access it via your phone.

[Guest Lobo]

would it help to remind Sen. Cotton that Fahrenheit 451 is a cautionary tale, and not the name of Trump's self-bronzer?  

[F250 28682]

1 hour ago, Mole said:

I support telling kids across the country that this curriculum is banned and they absolutely should not read it. Seriously, don’t read it. It’s banned, offensive, and you shouldn’t look at it. Also, you can easily access it via your phone.

[Mole 4320]

Salman Rushdie is one of my favorite authors. I might not have started reading him had Iran not announced that The Satanic Verses was so good that they wanted to kill him. So I guess I can thank Khomeini for being a wonder advocate for the arts. Likewise, I would have likely never checked out the 1619 essay without all of this. So thank you modern GOP for advocating for scholarship like Khomeini.

[Bozo_Casanova 26279]

9 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

I bet that dudes wife is really fat. If not she’s a dominatrix. 

She is said to be a very worthy person 

[JimmyJames 12271]

Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

She is said to be a very worthy person 

All right then I take it back. I guess it’s not her fault Matt says what he says. 

[Brisketexan 104610]

She is said to be a very worthy person 

She is. Leave her out of it.

[Guest Lobo]

Not cool folks.  Take down all the shit about his wife.  

[JimmyJames 12271]

3 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Not cool folks.  Take down all the shit about his wife.  

Yeah I agree. Mods?

[safe sex 11678]

The whole "rules..." thing is fucking gross and I would love to see it be done away with, while we've got some allies speaking up (and it is appreciated). Probably too much of an ask, because this is Surly or whatever.

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

Looks like she has friends on here. 

Y'all should intervene on her. 

Edited July 26, 2020 by MaybeACoordinator

[Nice Guy Eddie 13412]

Quiet infighting within the GOP.

Trump and the RNC were selling a coin (trump and Reagan on the sides) as part of a donation campaign. The Reagan group that controls his foundation and library told the RNC to stop using Reagan’s likeness. GOP agreed.

could be an interesting opportunity for Biden. He could use this that Reagan’s group dislikes trump. But it opens that the group could publicly change their mind, or trump could drag out some old Reagan team member that would state Ronnie would love trump and that some liberals have taken over Reagan’s legacy. 

 

[tx 3 putt 76372]

11 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

 

And yeah I guess see her torturing Pigboy for sport and him liking it. 

About what I imagined 

[pyrohornIII 4809]

There was a bit of discussion on Newt Gingrich on one of the threads the other day.   This article reinforces the views of some of us who consider him to be a compleat ass.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/newt-gingrich

Excerpt: Burning Down The House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall Of A Speaker, And The Rise Of A New Republican Party

 

Julian Zelizer

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Even before Donald Trump became president, thoughtful Americans wondered how our politics had grown so partisan, irrational, and vengeful -- exemplified by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's 2009 declaration that his principle objective would be to prevent the re-election of Barack Obama. With the advent of Trump and his hostile takeover of the Republican Party, those questions seem all the more urgent. Today, we excerpt the introduction to Burning Down The House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of a New Republican Party -- a new book by the perceptive Princeton historian and CNN analyst Julian Zelizer that looks deep into the roots of our present predicament.

 

 

On the evening of July 13, 2016, the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich marched through the hallways of an Indianapolis television studio as he prepared to appear live on Fox News.

The past 24 hours had been a whirlwind. The Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, was seriously considering naming Gingrich his vice presidential running mate. Gingrich loved being back in the spotlight; to him, the thrill of politics was like a narcotic.

Suddenly Gingrich had a chance to return to the heights of power he had missed since his Republican colleagues had pressured him to step down as Speaker of the House, one of the most influential positions in Washington, back in November 1998. His downfall had been sudden, amid the climactic days of President Bill Clinton's impeachment, only four years after Gingrich had led the Republicans to take control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1954. Following his dramatic departure from Congress, Gingrich experienced many professional ups and downs. The best of times came when he offered commentary on Fox News or filled the role of resident policy wonk at the conservative Heritage Foundation. He also enjoyed earning money as a consultant. But his disappointment was palpable when his 2012 bid for the Republican presidential nomination fell flat, bested by the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the smooth patrician to Gingrich's feisty populist.

But now Donald Trump might be offering Gingrich, who turned 73 that June, one last chance to step back into the center of power. Many experts argued that Gingrich had a pretty good shot at winning the vice presidential sweepstakes. His sexual past paled in comparison to the exploits of "The Donald" during his adventurous years in New York City. Gingrich was also one of the few senior figures in the Republican Party whom Trump had not knocked to his knees. The former Speaker exuded the kind of gravitas that the reality TV star lacked, displaying an easy fluency in public policy and foreign affairs. He also had an instinct for partisan warfare unequaled by almost any Republican besides Trump.

Moreover, Gingrich's competitors were flawed. The New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, had been damaged by a scandal about a manufactured traffic jam back in the Garden State. The Alabama senator Jeff Sessions seemed so much like a hard-line southern reactionary that he would instantly kill any hope that Trump could win over northern and midwestern independents. And the Indiana governor, Mike Pence, with his choirboy demeanor, felt much too boring a pick for the former star of The Apprentice, with his appetite for sensation and sizzle.

Gingrich was to be interviewed that night by Sean Hannity, the pugnacious Fox host whose tough-guy persona attracted a passionate right- wing audience. The day of the Fox interview, Trump had met with Gingrich in a 2000 square-foot penthouse suite at the Conrad hotel, a posh five-star high-rise in downtown Indianapolis. Trump had intended to fly back to New York the previous evening after attending a rally with Governor Pence, but a flat tire on the airplane had grounded him overnight. Hannity, a close friend and ally of both Trump and Gingrich, had secretly allowed the former Speaker to fly on his private jet to Indianapolis to make sure that their scheduled meeting took place.

For about two and a half hours, Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and children Eric, Donald Jr., and Ivanka sat in as the presumptive Republican nominee and the former Speaker held a free-flowing conversation about the role of the vice president, relations with Capitol Hill, and the many issues facing America after Barack Obama's presidency. Gingrich found Trump exhilarating, a fresh voice who would not be muted by the ostensible experts. The last great Republican firebrand saw the new one as a kindred spirit, one who shared Gingrich's ruthless and defiant attitude toward political convention and his mastery of the media.

That night Gingrich strode through the usually sleepy local studio; all the campaign activity had amped up the station's energy level, but having Gingrich on-site created a pronounced buzz. He was one of the rare former members of Congress who was recognized on the streets. Walking through the studios, Gingrich looked to some on the newsroom staff more like the overweight college professor he had been in his early years, lost in his own thoughts, than someone who might soon be next in line for the presidency. Although he was wearing the classic outfit of the Washington male politician—a dark suit with a royal blue shirt and a red power tie—Gingrich didn't have the normal polish. His suit was a little too boxy; its occupant was slightly rumpled.

Gingrich didn't care: this was the look that he had nurtured since entering politics 37 years earlier as a young congressman from Georgia. He liked that his colleagues thought of him as the man with the big ideas, the intellectual turned politician. He had used that image to intimidate his opponents into submission, whatever the issue being debated. It was rare that Gingrich, with his trademark smirk, didn't seem to think that he was 100 percent correct about the topic being discussed. While he looked as if he might fit naturally in a seminar room, deep down Gingrich had the take-no-prisoners mentality of the toughest partisan figures who had ever served on Capitol Hill. He had practically written the handbook on cutthroat congressional tactics and spinning the media for partisan advantage; indeed, during his speakership, conservatives had literally circulated a memo on how to "speak like Newt."

As the makeup artist finished powdering his face and the production crew attached a small microphone to his lapel, Gingrich had good reason to feel that Trump would never have become the nominee without him. It wasn't just that Gingrich had been a loyal supporter throughout the primaries but also that the unlikely, unorthodox, nativist populist campaign Trump had mounted, which aimed to tear down the political leaders of both parties and to destabilize the entire U.S. political system, was Gingrich's creation. Trump's media-centered strategy and his determination to capitalize on public distrust of Washington were the same weapons that Gingrich had deployed upon his arrival on Capitol Hill, when he went after the Democratic majority in the 1980s.

Like Trump, Gingrich believed that anything was possible in politics. He hated it when colleagues told him that things were always going to be the way they were—especially when they said that Republicans would always be the country's minority party. When Ronald Reagan was president from 1981 to 1989, Gingrich had worked diligently as a backbencher to remake the Republican Party's then-staid, country-club, business-oriented brand into something far more hard hitting and confrontational. He committed himself to being a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. His goal: shove the national policy agenda to the right and wrest power away from the Democrats who had controlled the House for three decades. To almost everyone, it was a pipe dream.

But Gingrich came to the House in 1979 from a Georgia district that had been reliably Democratic for generations. He had won, and so could others in his party if they played by new rules, which he himself would invent. Gingrich promoted a style of smashmouth combat aimed at delegitimizing his opponents by whatever means possible. Politics, as he saw it, was like warfare. The only way to win a battle, he decided, was to unleash the full fury of one's firepower on the foe. Now Trump was using the same approach on his way to the presidency.

The camera light flashed on in the Indianapolis newsroom, and the interview began. Listening to Hannity's voice through his earpiece, Gingrich jumped into the discussion with verve. As the Fox anchor offered the Georgian friendly questions about his meeting with Trump and his vice presidential prospects, Gingrich turned up the wattage. Speaking in his familiar professorial style, Gingrich launched a fusillade of persuasion, listing the obvious similarities between himself and Trump that would make them ideal partners: "I'm an outsider, I'm oriented toward moving the great base of the party, communicating big ideas, being on television." Gingrich paused to mutter that he probably shouldn't say what he was thinking aloud, then connected the dots between his own congressional career and Trump's presidential campaign: "Look, in many ways, Donald Trump is like a pirate. He's outside the normal system, he gets things done, he's bold, he's actually like a figure out of a movie. In a lot of ways, my entire career has been a little bit like a pirate. I've taken on the establishment of both parties, [I'm] very prepared to fight in the media."

Then Gingrich took the conversation with Hannity in an unexpected direction. As much as he wanted the job, Gingrich said, he could not resist pointing out why he might not be the best selection. Displaying his trademark audacity, on the eve of this historic decision, he pointed Trump toward Gingrich's second choice: Mike Pence. Trump would have to decide whether he wanted a "two-pirate ticket," Gingrich said. If Trump didn't want to run with such a like-minded person, Pence might be better as a stabilizing force. This admission appeared to take Hannity by surprise, but it was classic Gingrich: He had always tended to say exactly what was on his mind, for better or worse.

After the interview ended and the crew removed his mic, Gingrich walked out of the studio. Whatever the next few days brought, he could feel as though he had won. Trump was thriving in the political world that Gingrich had created. Gingrich would always be Michelangelo to Trump's David.

In Gingrich's world, Republicans practiced a ruthless style of partisanship that ignored the conventional norms of Washington and continually tested how far politicians could go in bending government institutions to suit their partisan purposes. Republicans went for the head wound, as Trump's adviser Steve Bannon said, when Democrats were having pillow fights. The new GOP goal was not to negotiate or legislate but to do everything necessary to maintain partisan power. If it was politically useful to engage in behavior that could destroy the possibility of governance, which rendered bipartisanship impossible and would unfairly decimate their opponents' reputations, then so be it. Gingrich-era Republicans were willing to enter into alliances of convenience with extremists who trafficked in reactionary populism, nativism, and racial backlash. The party kept counting on Gingrich's media-centered strategy, tailoring its actions and statements to push the national conversation in its favor, even if that depended on mixing fact and fiction and practicing a new, brass-knuckles politics of smear.

The style of partisanship that Gingrich popularized supplanted the bipartisan norms of the committee era of Congress (1930s–1960s) as well as the responsible partisanship that had been promoted as an alternative by Watergate-era reformers (1970s), when leaders and the rank and file were loyal to their party agenda while still adhering to formal and informal rules of governance. Gingrich's approach to partisanship was an entirely different beast. Nothing and nobody was sacrosanct.

To be sure, this was not the first time in American history that conditions on Capitol Hill bottomed out. Congress had been through numerous periods of vicious partisanship, such as the decades leading up to the Civil War, when relations disintegrated so badly that bloody altercations on the floors of the House and the Senate were regular occurrences until the government broke down into total dysfunction. While Gingrich's era of partisanship did not witness outright physical violence between members, what did take root was the normalization of a no-holds-barred style of partisan warfare where the career of every politician was seen as expendable and where it was fair game to shatter routine legislative processes in pursuit of power, even when there was not an issue as monumental as slavery on the table. In Gingrich's era, a crippling form of partisanship came to permanently define how elected officials dealt with almost every issue, ranging from who should lead the parties to mundane budgeting matters to decisions over war and peace.

From the book BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE by Julian Zelizer, by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2020 by Julian Zelizer.

Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a CNN Political Analyst. His most recent books are Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (co-authored with Kevin Kruse) and The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, the winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize for Best Book on Congress. Zelizer has been awarded fellowships from the New York Historical Society, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and New America.

 

Edited July 26, 2020 by pyrohornIII

[pyrohornIII 4809]

We knew the day was coming where they would start defecting because of Trump.  It's fun to watch the meltdown.  And it's happening on both the state and federal levels.

Just this past week articles on:

1) Kushner refusing to send GOP $$ to representatives races, figuring they weren't going to win back House.  

2) Liz Cheney turning and all the wolves attacking her.

3) Rafael and Cotton fighting it out.

4) The failure to pass the next economic passage.  "The Senate Republican lunch descended into chaos, several GOP lawmakers said, revealing that the White House and Republican senators remain far apart on key priorities in the next economic package," reported Alayna Treene. "The White House officials did little talking, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told reporters. Instead, senators used the time to air their disagreements. 'There's a robust difference of opinion,' Hawley said."

5) DeSantis being made to look the fool by Trump and his convention scam.

6) The RPT being exposed as idiots over the Texas convention going from in person to online.  Plus other parts of the apparatus are malfunctioning.  

I'm sure there were many I didn't list.  

[Nivek 16859]

On 7/24/2020 at 3:09 PM, hayden_horn said:

the water is right there in the fucking picture. 

what a fucking moron.

you need to look at his picture and ask yourself does this look like a man that drinks water?  

[horn4life 3755]

The craziest thing I think the GOP is currently doing is trying to look back and prosecute the Obama administration.  This is not the norm, and making it the norm makes it a lot easier to look at the wrongdoings of the Trump administration.  Of which the wrongdoings and corruptions will be so pervasive and widespread it will be easy peasy to find.

Can you imagine what a public and truthful investigation into President Trump and his cabinet members might turn up?  Why the GOP wants to set this as the way the Dems should go forward in the future is beyond me.  Searching for specs of sand when boulders will be so easy to spot when the TRUTH is actually the focus of investigations.

[JimmyJames 12271]

Newt definitely is one of the worst. He’s definitely on my grave pissing tour along with trump and Moscow Mitch. I hope they all rot in the opposite of peace. 

[WhatTheBuck 28711]

1 hour ago, pyrohornIII said:

The new GOP goal was not to negotiate or legislate but to do everything necessary to maintain partisan power. If it was politically useful to engage in behavior that could destroy the possibility of governance, which rendered bipartisanship impossible and would unfairly decimate their opponents' reputations, then so be it.

Power for the sake of power. No morals or standards, just Party over country. For forty fucking years. 

[JimmyJames 12271]

1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Power for the sake of power. No morals or standards, just Party over country. For forty fucking years. 

It actually started in SoCal with Nixon and the nihilists in the50s and 60s that eventually took over the Republican Party. They gained power in the 80s under Reagan and were eventually coopted by the Dallas fundamentalists to form what the Republican Party is today.

The party that believes in nothing. Trump fits right on in there. Like its his time and place. 

Edited July 26, 2020 by JimmyJames

[JimmyJames 12271]

Every single thing the Republican Party says they believe in is simply a lie designed to fool the American people and increase their power.

We oppose abortion. Yet the most obvious Republican sycophant Kennedy votes to uphold it.

We oppose the deficit. Yet every single time they gain power the deficit explodes.

We support states rights. Trump invades Portland.

We oppose Supreme Court nominations in election years. If Ginsburg croaks hell yeah we will get some right wing asshole confirmed.

We support health care. And just as soon as the election is over we will let you know our plan.

Its all a fucking lie after obvious lie.

Edited July 26, 2020 by JimmyJames

[TwiceHorn 31274]

On 7/25/2020 at 5:26 PM, Mole said:

I support telling kids across the country that this curriculum is banned and they absolutely should not read it. Seriously, don’t read it. It’s banned, offensive, and you shouldn’t look at it. Also, you can easily access it via your phone.

Probably need to throw in some tits to make that strategery fully effective.

[HornOnTheBayou 8881]

And here we have Tom Cotton claiming that slavery was a "necessary evil".

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We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can’t understand our country. As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction,

I believe that claim was undermined by the argument of the great historian, Mr. Will:

 

[F250 28682]

6 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

We knew the day was coming where they would start defecting because of Trump.  It's fun to watch the meltdown.  And it's happening on both the state and federal levels.

Just this past week articles on:

1) Kushner refusing to send GOP $$ to representatives races, figuring they weren't going to win back House.  

2) Liz Cheney turning and all the wolves attacking her.

3) Rafael and Cotton fighting it out.

4) The failure to pass the next economic passage.  "The Senate Republican lunch descended into chaos, several GOP lawmakers said, revealing that the White House and Republican senators remain far apart on key priorities in the next economic package," reported Alayna Treene. "The White House officials did little talking, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told reporters. Instead, senators used the time to air their disagreements. 'There's a robust difference of opinion,' Hawley said."

5) DeSantis being made to look the fool by Trump and his convention scam.

6) The RPT being exposed as idiots over the Texas convention going from in person to online.  Plus other parts of the apparatus are malfunctioning.  

I'm sure there were many I didn't list.  

Trumpism is an abomination and no politician that supported it should be allowed to surrender. They were all saying how it would sink the party before fully embracing it. They knew what they were agreeing to.

They all need to go down with the ship.

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

The United States is currently a failed society because of one thing and one thing only, the Republican Party and the people who support it.

Without the Republican Party this country would currently be the greatest in history. Instead it’s the richest country in history yet still managed to create a failed society.

Nixon to Reagan to Newt to Moscow Mitch to Trump. Its been a slow burn, but we’ve reached peak hell thanks to the republicans and their nihilistic vision.

Welcome to the republican vision of the world. How ya liking it?

[Francisco 2.0 32334]

The United States Senate Majority Leader.

Take it away, Mitch:

 

 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28711]

2 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

The United States is currently a failed society because of one thing and one thing only, the Republican Party and the people who support it.

Without the Republican Party this country would currently be the greatest in history. Instead it’s the richest country in history yet still managed to create a failed society.

Nixon to Reagan to Newt to Moscow Mitch to Trump. Its been a slow burn, but we’ve reached peak hell thanks to the republicans and their nihilistic vision.

Welcome to the republican vision of the world. How ya liking it?

You're right but don't ever leave George W. Dumbfuck Bush off that list. 

[bolverk 29399]

Georgia Senator Is Criticized for Ad Enlarging Jewish Opponent’s Nose
Senator David Perdue, a Republican, drew a quick rebuke from his Democratic opponent, Jon Ossoff, who said the Facebook ad employed the “least original anti-Semitic trope in history.”

ATLANTA — Senator David Perdue of Georgia’s re-election campaign was assailed on Monday for a Facebook advertisement that enlarged the nose of his Democratic opponent, Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, in a portrayal that critics immediately denounced as anti-Semitic.

The Republican senator’s fund-raising ad, which surfaced after The Forward published an article about it on Monday, included grainy photographs of Mr. Ossoff and the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, who is also Jewish. “Democrats are trying to buy Georgia!” the ad said, adding that Mr. Schumer had poured millions of dollars into the race.

Mr. Perdue’s campaign said on Monday that the ad had been taken down and that the alteration had been an outside vendor’s error.

But critics said that it reflected something more insidious, arguing that the campaign had employed imagery long used to malign Jews at a time when a rising tide of anti-Semitism in the country has seeped into politics. In a post on Twitter, the political advocacy arm of Bend the Arc, a progressive Jewish organization, called it blatant: “It’s not an accident.”

Mr. Ossoff urged Mr. Perdue to apologize to the Jewish community.

“This is the oldest, most obvious, least original anti-Semitic trope in history,” Mr. Ossoff said in a statement on Monday night. “Senator, literally no one believes your excuses.”

In response, Mr. Perdue’s campaign contended that the senator had a demonstrated legislative history of opposing religious and racial discrimination. “Obviously, this was accidental,” the campaign said in a statement, describing it as an “unintentional error” caused by resizing and filtering the original image, a 2017 photograph from Reuters.

“Anybody who implies that this was anything other than an inadvertent error,” the campaign said, “is intentionally misrepresenting Senator Perdue’s strong and consistent record of standing firmly against anti-Semitism and all forms of hate.

The Forward, in its article, cited graphic design experts who found that the size of Mr. Ossoff’s nose was exaggerated in comparison with the original image. The experts found that his nose appeared wider and longer, while no other facial features had been noticeably altered.

The ad was posted on July 22, according to data maintained by Facebook. It registered at least 3,000 impressions, which refers to the number of times that it appeared on users’ screens.

For centuries, depictions of Jews that embellish their noses as large and hooked have been used as a form of anti-Semitic caricature. The ad in Georgia also came as researchers have found that anti-Semitism has surged across the country in recent years, manifesting itself through violence and vandalism as well as in more subtle ways.

The Anti-Defamation League released an annual audit in May showing that anti-Semitic incidents had climbed to record levels, with more recorded in 2019 than in any year during the four decades the organization has been tracking them.

Mr. Perdue, a longtime business executive who has been Georgia’s senior senator since 2015, has found himself in an increasingly competitive re-election fight against Mr. Ossoff, with some polls showing the race as a tossup.

Mr. Perdue has sought to highlight his ties to the Trump administration and his efforts to bolster the business climate in Georgia.

Mr. Ossoff vaulted to political prominence in 2017 after a vigorous but unsuccessful run for a House seat in the Atlanta suburbs. The campaign, running in a special election, tapped into hostility toward President Trump, particularly among educated suburban women, and shattered fund-raising records as it drew support from beyond Georgia.

Mr. Ossoff has relied on those same themes to gain traction in his Senate bid. He also received an endorsement heading into the primaries from Representative John Lewis, the Georgia congressman and civil rights leader, who died on July 17.

[Guest Lobo]

Reinventing yourself as an Anti-Semite, White Supremacist at age 70 to whip up your base out of desperation, eh Senator?  

It's a bold strategy, Cotton.  

Edited July 28, 2020 by Lobo

[Dnaguy 11775]

34 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Georgia Senator Is Criticized for Ad Enlarging Jewish Opponent’s Nose

Did not know Pinocchio was Jewish.

Probably changed his name to from Pinocchiowitz when he and Geppetto came through Ellis Island.

  

 

Even their racism is half-assed and dumb.

 

Edited July 28, 2020 by Dnaguy

[GopherRock 1765]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Wabasha County Republican Party!

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/mngop-says-concentration-camp-image-from-wabasha-co-republicans-facebook-page-was-a-hack/89-edcf41eb-ae5a-4a04-8d33-c1422a1d8e60

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A screenshot from what appears to be the Republican Party of Wabasha County MN Facebook page shows an image of a Nazi officer telling a prisoner to wear a star that was worn in concentration camps. It seems to be a response to the COVID-19 mask mandate in the state of Minnesota.

 

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33843]

fucking wow. Wonka said it best:
"It's all there! Black and white, clear as crystal!"

They're really making no attempt at hiding who they are. Fucking disgusting.

[Bozo_Casanova 26279]

The "Chief Economist" of the most influential conservative policy shop in Texas, folks. This person, Vance Ginn, is who your statewides get their advice from:

Pointing out that it's just elderly and hispanics who die from Covid is his idea of a mic drop moment.
This is a TTU PhD. Thanks a lot, @slorch

Edited July 28, 2020 by Bozo_Casanova

[DDD Dad 14251]

2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

The "Chief Economist" of the most influential conservative policy shop in Texas, folks. This person, Vance Ginn, is who your statewides get their advice from:

Don't worry, it's just elderly and hispanics. 

Vance Ginn definitely posts in DT.

[Red Five 40661]

Vance Ginn should most definitely not have a name like Vance Ginn. 

[bolverk 29399]

51 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

The "Chief Economist" of the most influential conservative policy shop in Texas, folks. This person, Vance Ginn, is who your statewides get their advice from:

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Pointing out that it's just elderly and hispanics who die from Covid is his idea of a mic drop moment.
This is a TTU PhD. Thanks a lot, @slorch

As someone with a BA that included a couple of Econ classes from Texas Tceh, I can confirm that we did not send our best.

Here's that piece-of-shit's sorry not sorry:

ETA the last sentence of his bio:

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He resides with his wife and two young boys in Round Rock, Texas, and is a drummer who played for a top rock band in Houston.

https://www.texaspolicy.com/about/staff/vance-ginn-ph-d/

 

Edited July 28, 2020 by bolverk

[Brisketexan 104610]

1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

The "Chief Economist" of the most influential conservative policy shop in Texas, folks. This person, Vance Ginn, is who your statewides get their advice from:

Pointing out that it's just elderly and hispanics who die from Covid is his idea of a mic drop moment.
This is a TTU PhD. Thanks a lot, @slorch

To say the TPPF is trash....is one of the great understatements of the century.  I have additional reasons that I won't share here.  But suffice it to say, your local used car dealer/snake oil emporium is more honest and honorable.

Also, he most certainly said the quiet part out loud -- Texas is "us," and "us" does NOT include hispanics.  Even though we're nearly 40% of the state population.....we just don't count.  I mean, it's JUST hispanics and old people dying.....

The GOP is a death cult.  Being a racist death cult is just a chef's kiss of perfection. 

Edited July 28, 2020 by Brisketexan

[Bevo14 8274]

26 minutes ago, bolverk said:

As someone with a BA that included a couple of Econ classes from Texas Tceh, I can confirm that we did not send our best.

Here's that piece-of-shit's sorry not sorry:

ETA the last sentence of his bio:

https://www.texaspolicy.com/about/staff/vance-ginn-ph-d/

 

Didn't know Mark Zuckerberg and Lincoln Riley had a baby.

[StassneyHorn 6538]

Don’t worry guys, it’s just old people (our biggest constituency) and Hispanics (who we need or else we can’t survive the next decade as a viable party) who are dying.
 

TPPF has managed to escape the hatefest that Empower Texans got last month but they’re working on correcting that.

Love Scott Braddock. he captures the Txlege attention more than most. Used to always trigger Jonathan Strickland and Jeff Leach the most

 

Edited July 28, 2020 by StassneyHorn

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The "Chief Economist" of the most influential conservative policy shop in Texas, folks. This person, Vance Ginn, is who your statewides get their advice from:
Pointing out that it's just elderly and hispanics who die from Covid is his idea of a mic drop moment.
This is a TTU PhD. Thanks a lot, [mention=354]slorch[/mention]

I thought you were being figurative but he actually used a gif of a mic drop. Smh.

Though I'm mildly surprised am old GOPer figured out how to tweet a gif. ThE rIgHt Is GeTtInG bEtTeR aT hUmOr!1!1!1