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The thread for stupidity from GQP politicians who don't have their own thread

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Aridas said:
I would dare to say that Democrats failing to actually stand up for real principles in the first place would have very likely hurt them more than standing up for real principles and being blocked by traitors to the country.
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This pretty much describes my opinion.
 
eerok said:
This pretty much describes my opinion.
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It's certainly a major factor. The GOP creates issues and makes their followers care while the Dems are so conflict adverse they're afraid to win too strongly on even popular issues for fear of backlash.

Just fight. The right will lie and hate you anyway and the 'enlighten centrists' just want no responsibility anyway.
 
Lindsay Graham's appeal rejected by the surpreme court. He will have to obey the supboema.
Open and shut case, really
 
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Aridas said:
Err... I'd call that a silver lining, at best. I'd grant political calculations as being part of the goal, but... "embarrass Donny" is not really part of that. Donny embarrassed himself constantly, after all. In both impeachment cases, embarrassing Donny honestly had little to do with anything, I think.
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gnome said:
I think what the impeachments did was make Mitch McConnell the president for a while. Certainly he could have asked President Trump for absolutely anything at that time and he'd be in no position to refuse.
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If McConnell really cared about the country over his own power as Senate Majority Leader, he would have told Trump to resign or he'd support his impeachment. Resign or by convicted and thrown out. Having Pence as POTUS would have resulted.
 
gnome said:
I think what the impeachments did was make Mitch McConnell the president for a while. Certainly he could have asked President Trump for absolutely anything at that time and he'd be in no position to refuse.
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He probably did. Mitch never misses an opportunity, public or private, to make personal benefit.
 
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The goal of impeachment was to publicly embarrass Donny. Conviction would have been a bonus.
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Err... I'd call that a silver lining, at best. I'd grant political calculations as being part of the goal, but... "embarrass Donny" is not really part of that. Donny embarrassed himself constantly, after all. In both impeachment cases, embarrassing Donny honestly had little to do with anything, I think.
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Well, I'm looking for a stronger word than "embarrass". Something that means "stink like a pile of last month's garbage left out in the summer sun, picked over by rats and infested with the latest communicable diseases, so bad that nobody wants to do anything but set it on fire just to be rid of it".
 
Not really a politician thing, directly, but...

Fox News: College Kids Who Find Comfort in Petting Cats Need a ‘Slap in the Face’

The people who said this need a slap in the face so very much more, really.

Either way, this looks like "education is for wusses" and the normalization of violence against the educated never ends well. Doesn't stop the fascists from going after them time and again, though. I sorta wonder how many Republican hopefuls will be echoing such. Sadly enough, for some of them, I think, repeating that would likely be a degrade from the gun-based threats.
 
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Norman Alexander said:
Well, I'm looking for a stronger word than "embarrass". Something that means "stink like a pile of last month's garbage left out in the summer sun, picked over by rats and infested with the latest communicable diseases, so bad that nobody wants to do anything but set it on fire just to be rid of it".
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I like your extended version of "make Trump even more toxic." He was already a toxic waste dump on fire before the first impeachment, though, and yet far too many were dancing in it's warmth and deadly smoke as if it were a narcotic.
 
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Aridas said:
Not really a politician thing, directly, but...

Fox News: College Kids Who Find Comfort in Petting Cats Need a ‘Slap in the Face’

The people who said this need a slap in the face so very much more, really.

Either way, this looks like "education is for wusses" and the normalization of violence against the educated never ends well. Doesn't stop the fascists from going after them time and again, though. I sorta wonder how many Republican hopefuls will be echoing such. Sadly enough, for some of them, I think, repeating that would likely be a degrade from the gun-based threats.
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Ah, yes...our "Compassionate Conservatives" on display yet again. What hateful people they are to get outraged over petting cats. I can just see them going apoplectic over someone feeding a starving stray. What bleeding heart liberals!
 
Aridas said:
Not really a politician thing, directly, but...

Fox News: College Kids Who Find Comfort in Petting Cats Need a ‘Slap in the Face’

The people who said this need a slap in the face so very much more, really.

Either way, this looks like "education is for wusses" and the normalization of violence against the educated never ends well. Doesn't stop the fascists from going after them time and again, though. I sorta wonder how many Republican hopefuls will be echoing such. Sadly enough, for some of them, I think, repeating that would likely be a degrade from the gun-based threats.
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Honestly, this just sits up on the tee and begs to be hit.

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Aridas said:
Either way, this looks like "education is for wusses" and the normalization of violence against the educated never ends well. Doesn't stop the fascists from going after them time and again, though.
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I remember reading that the Khmer Rouge would execute people who wore glasses because they felt that it was a good indicator that they were undesirable educated intellectuals.
 
Here is a fun one. A House candidate from Texas wrote a sequel to Anne Frank's diary where she discovers Jesus...

(JTA) — The Republican nominee for Congress in Texas’ 7th district is a self-proclaimed history buff, but his take on Anne Frank is not one that most historians would endorse.

Johnny Teague, an evangelical pastor and business owner who won the district’s primary in March, in 2020 published “The Lost Diary of Anne Frank,” a novel imagining the famous Jewish Holocaust victim’s final days in the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps as she might have written them in her diary.

The kicker: In Teague’s telling, Frank seems to embrace Christianity just before she is murdered by the Nazis.
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Armitage72 said:
I remember reading that the Khmer Rouge would execute people who wore glasses because they felt that it was a good indicator that they were undesirable educated intellectuals.
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That's kind of weird. Didn't Pol Pot learn about Communism studying in the west?
 
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