Discussion: The REPUBLICAN Party - - - - - Part 20

[InCali]

The gay is contagious. America's white republican youth are particularly susceptible.

Let’s build a wall. A really high frog proof one.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Marvolo]

We can report him:

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Hey that's the Paul's investment... the anti-mask, not pro-vaccine Rand Paul who says don't listen to the experts on COVID19.

 

[Marvolo]

Hey that's the Paul's investment... the anti-mask, not pro-vaccine Rand Paul who says don't listen to the experts on COVID19.

Why isn't the federal government and federal employees overseeing this? We need centralized federal action and management. Not a million school districts and 50 state governments doing whatever they damn well please.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Unfortunately that's the way it works, the feds redistribute the money to the states to either manage competently, incompetently, or maliciously (sit on it on purpose like with the eviction relief money). HUD and the federal Education department isn't set up to do this. So if you live in a state run by a monster like Abbott and DeSantis and too many others this is what happens.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Newsweek - College GOP Group Denounced for Calling Veterans 'Glorified DMV Employees', Mocking PTSD

The Tampa Bay Times - Inside Fox News, DeSantis is ‘the future of the party.’ And he’s taking advantage.

Daily Kos - Everything 'conservative' is shrinking as the movement's slow death continues unabated (op-ed)

RURAL REGIONS ARE IN DECLINE

GUN OWNERSHIP IS IN DECLINE

CHURCH ATTENDANCE IS IN DECLINE

OLDER AMERICANS ARE IN DECLINE

Both demographically, and culturally, conservatism is in decline. And those trends—driven in large part by seismic demographic change—aren’t abating anytime soon. That’s why Republicans aren’t bothering trying to win over Black, Brown, women, or young voters. Theirs is a culture under deep assault, withering away like one of those Depression-era Dust Bowl photos. Rural towns are hollowing out, their youth departed to more exciting and fruitful locales while the old-timers pass on to the great beyond. So those still hanging around double down on what’s left: their guns, their Bibles, their hatred of the people driving those changes. And in the halls of power, they try to codify their power by shredding the very democratic ideals embodied in those American flags they so hypocritically fly.

But it’s all a delaying action. Whites are no longer a majority of Georgia’s population. Arizona is going to be increasingly harder for Republicans to contest. It should look like Virginia in a decade. Texas is on its way. South Carolina and Mississippi are further back but on the right track. America is changing, and we’re going to see in greater detail exactly how in the coming weeks as smart people pore over the fresh new Census numbers. But we can already see that the long-term trends are in our favor, and as a result, we must brace for increasingly desperate attacks on our democracy from a white-dominant party that refuses to surrender control.

Analysis: How the 2020 census explains Donald Trump - CNNPolitics

 

[Silvermoon]

[stares off into space...]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Poll: Ron DeSantis approval rating sags as COVID-19 rages (August 4, 2021)
DeSantis is now underwater with 49% of voters; only 44% approve of his job performance.

The St. Pete Polls survey also gives President Joe Biden a slight positive nod, with Florida voters favoring him at 49%, as 46% gave the President poor marks.

Conditions on the ground have not gotten better since.

The pandemic resurgence is driving down the approvals of incumbents. To get their numbers up the cases have to come down and stay down

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California GOP Recall Candidate Once Called Trump Sexual Assault Allegations 'Child's Play' | HuffPost

The Independent - Ted Cruz under fire for calling arrests of Capitol rioters ‘persecution’



NBC News - North Texas runs out of pediatric ICU beds amid Covid surge

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South Carolina county GOP censures Sen. Lindsey Graham after he voted for $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Vice - The Far Right Is Celebrating the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan

Republicans develop sudden case of amnesia over Trump's 'historic' peace deal with the Taliban

 

[Teelie]

How the hell is DeSantis still anywhere above zero let alone nearly 50%?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Ted fled Texas like an Afghan government official.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Text messages show Matt Gaetz’s ‘wingman’ arranging meetings involving the congressman, women and drugs

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[Sithborg]

Boy, what a shock.

 

[Marvolo]

Texas school district makes masks part of dress code to get around Gov. Abbott's order

 

[InCali]

Isn't the lieutenant governor even crazier than Abbott?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

[Ohio Senate candidate] Josh Mandel Falsely Claims US Postal Service Is Unconstitutional, Vows to Eliminate It | Right Wing Watch

 

[InCali]

[Ohio Senate candidate] Josh Mandel Falsely Claims US Postal Service Is Unconstitutional, Vows to Eliminate It | Right Wing Watch

Maybe this guy will get the repub nomination. Seems like a good person to run against (presumably) Ryan.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Ted Cruz's campaign purchased $153,000 in books from an online bookseller in the 2 months after his latest book came out

DeSantis promotes Covid drug that top donor invests in

 

[Marvolo]

De Pere senator, critic of mandates, has COVID-19

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Former Huntington Beach Mayor Pro Tem Tito Ortiz Likens Mask Mandates to the Holocaust | Right Wing Watch

The Daily Beast - MAGA Congressman on Wannabe Capitol Bomber: ‘I Understand’ Anger Over ‘Socialism’

Business Insider - Ted Cruz has been doling out jobs — and taxpayer cash — to his cousins

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Marvolo]

He said while reaping numerous benefits of socialism that are denied to his constituents. I want every republican to forfeit their healthcare and all their tax funded government benefits or shut the hell up whining about socialism.