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Meanwhile, DSA is openly opposing Finland's and Sweden's NATO membership. Why can't they all just move to Moscow?
It was "Conservatives" that blocked the Equal Rights Amendment from being ratified. I think there were only 13 states left (?) to seal the deal, but now the time limit has expired and we'd have to start all over.
And when some "Conservative" states failed to pass "Personhood Amendments" (giving a zygote legal standing in order to criminalize abortion) they went to Plan B: make overturning Roe v Wade a litmus test for SC nominees, ask the Federalist Society for their list of candidates, and remind Republicans who want to keep their power (like McConnell) that their powerful donors write the agenda. [Spoiler Alert: they don't give a shit about equality or even the unborn, they just want power.]
Madison Cawthorn got primaried out. For those not following closely, you may be wondering what led to his loss to his own party. Was it his attempt to overthrow US democracy on Jan 6? Was it his unabashed admiration of Hitler? Was it his self-professed cognitive impairment? Was it that he sued the guy who saved his life? Was it literally over half of his college classmates accusing him of sexual assault? Was it his praise of Putin and support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Was it his advocating for a violent and bloody civil war? Was it his constant lies about his own past and just about everything else?
The answer to all those questions is no. Most of those things were known before the first time he was elected, and the modern GQP thought all of that was close enough to their views to warrant full support and elevation on the national stage.
What did him in was that he spoke in public about the Republican cocaine orgies. Snitches get stitches.
Pretty sure it was the video with his "friend." But yes, it was probably released because of the cocaine comment.
The one with him in the lingerie? I think the video of him humping his male cousin's mouth might have been more damaging, but that's probably the one you're referring to. But it was clear those things were released as retaliation for the coke orgies revelation.
I know that Cawthorn is a pathological liar, but I've decided to believe him on the cocaine orgies, mostly because the scale of the retaliation wasn't the sort that comes from baseless accusations, it was the sort that comes from people rallying to the defense of their cocaine fueled orgies.
I figured it was cause the guy he lost to just happened to come across as more in line with the expected GOP craziness. Qanon supporting, election denying, favors Trump's 1950s view of what America should be, etc.
Cawthorn did all of that too, and had Trump's endorsement. His opponent is a piece of shit too, don't get me wrong.
The cousin one. Not great for the family values crowd. He didn't even claim to repent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
If anything it showed just how much he values family :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Loki
If only he ran in West Virginia. :o
Absolutely fucking bonkers that so many of these crooks manage to stay in office:
https://twitter.com/jmontforttx/stat...97590865657857
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02...whistleblower/
It's like being a crook is advantageous
It's because it pisses off liberals. Which is the only thing the Lewks of the country care about.
He does good work for them. He's a great MAGA guy. So they'll ignore his crimes. Hey Lewk, don't you appreciate that your state has even more lax moral, ethical, and legal standards than Congress? They at least act disapproving of Santos.
I find myself unable to determine whether voters are more or less repugnant than the venal numpties they insist on electing as their representatives :downcast: absolute bottom-of-the-barrel ass political subculture
Oh, were you mainly talking about the voters and not their representatives? Repugnant is not the word I'd choose. Willfully blind and ignorant. You must have had a good healthy dose of psych as part of your MD. You know how the human mind "protects" itself at a subconscious level.
This is both disgusting and dangerous:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/u...r-carlson.html
And dumb ofc
Everyone knows that American tax money should only be used to bail out billionaires.
Our great hope Ron De Santis is rapidly showing signs of overreach and weirdness.
Welcome to 2015. It's been a hell of a ride watching you progress backwards over the decades, but pray tell, what singular action from that asshat brought you to this realization? Would love to have something to mark as a reference point for your next fit of faux outrage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
He might be a fascist, but he wasn't a fascist in issue X that Dread is really passionate about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
That in itself is such a sad statement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
He might be a vindictive, authoritarian, racist, anti-science war criminal, but at least he hates some of the same people as Dread!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2308057.html
Easy to forget that Republicans are not only dumb but also dirty
There's no way that would be constitutional. Not that these people either know or care.
I'm not entirely certain you're right about it not being constitutional, at least not with the current court. But I'm certain they know just how shaky the ground is. And I'm sure they care. But they also know that since the Senate remains in Democratic hands, they can posture endlessly without having the least bit of concern about anything passing. They can have their cake and eat it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
I don't see how even a Republican court can ignore centuries of jurisprudence on police powers and federalism. If, by some miracle, this is allowed to stand, nothing would prevent a Democratic federal government from banning state governments/courts from punishing abortion.Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
Their job is to pander to the Lewks and Dreads by going after non-existant social problems, not to do something as silly as trying to govern.
Can't believe they represent a constituency that's even dumber than they are
They created a monster and now they're too scared to confront it.
Dread's idol: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...rodes-00090959
Someday I'd love to find out what caused Dread to find himself on the side of the NatC's*.
*For foreign folk: it's the preferred short form of "Christian Nationalists".
Do I get banned for my guess?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
From being around too many rich folks who convinced themselves that slightly higher taxes are an existential threat to civilization while all the GOP Christian Nationalism is just for show. Kind of how certain people convinced themselves Hitler's anti-Semitism was really an act and that he was worth supporting for his pro-business positions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
Or maybe some Democrat called him something mean and that made him betray everything he stood for, like the North Carolina traitor.
This seems like a fun place for me to interject. The unchangeable tenets of National Socialism included some rather un-business propositions, such as, and I quote, "Abolition of unearned work, and breaking of debt (interest)-slavery" and "We demand nationalization of all businesses which have been up to the present formed into companies (trusts)".Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
It took a considerable amount of work by Göring and his business interest "friends" to talk the high German society on board with Adolf's broader electoral programmes. I refer you to Richard Evans's "The Third Reich in Power", which is a fun read.
But it is great seeing a Jew disclaim another as a Nazi.
His posts here suggest an important role for the latter—an annoyance-driven process of political acculturation, no doubt influenced by his social circles. That said, given his love of posing with guns, I reckon the seeds were already there :o but it could have gone another way. These days, it may well be a coping strategy :downcast:Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Sure, there was a transformation of National Socialism over time. But by the time the NSDAP was winning elections, it was with the active support of the business interests, and not just the ethnic German ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
See the whole ecosystem created by Thiel and the Koch brothers. They get the support of Christian Nationalists by being unapologetically racist, sexist, xenophobic, etc. all while getting the support of high society by pretending they don't mean most of the things they use to get the support of the base.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
I wonder which way you would want me to argue this. The NSDAP didn't actually win an election solidly enough to form a coalition, they needed assistance from others. And the Nazified Germany still very much had to work on their relations with business interests all the way up to the war. And while it seemed like National Socialism helped business, during the lead-up to the war, it was their single-mindedness in pursuing war that gave a few of the business magnates a change of heart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
The point is that fascists rarely enjoy sufficient popular support for their expressed ideas to take power, even through dubious means. Ultimately, they need the active or passive support of some of the very groups they rail against. And that means engaging in double-speak: saying different things to different audiences or saying things in a way that could be interpreted as extremist by the extremists while being sufficiently ambiguous to be dismissed as empty rhetoric by the "moderates."Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Which is to say that the political threat from fascists doesn't come from their violent base (which never approaches a majority) but from the Dreads who normalize their rhetoric and behavior in the hope of using the fascists for their own purposes. And just like German business found out, that rarely works out in the end.
Kind of how the Brexit people came to power if you really think about it. Same kind of coalitions. Same kind of double-speak. Same disastrous policies. Not that the people who got them into power feel any remorse for their role, even if they realize that the policy outcome wasn't what they wanted.