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

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Roll Call - Republican Matt Gaetz threatens [former Trump attorney Michael] Cohen over ‘girlfriends’ on eve of testimony

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Maine Beacon - LePage claims national popular vote bill will silence ‘white people’

Speaking to the hosts of the WVOM morning show this week, former Governor Paul LePage lambasted a bill being considered by Maine’s legislature to join with other states to essentially bypass the Electoral College and ensure that the President is elected by the national popular vote.

“Actually what would happen if they do what they say they’re gonna do is white people will not have anything to say. It’s only going to be the minorities that would elect. It would be California, Texas, Florida,” said LePage.

The former governor, calling into the show from his home in Florida, also labeled the proposal “an insane process” and warned that “we’re gonna be forgotten people.”

The proposal would actually, if adopted by a sufficient number of states, ensure that every voter, regardless of race, has the same say in electing the president.

LePage’s rhetoric continues a trend among Republicans of mainstreaming beliefs formerly relegated to the white supremacist fringe. In 2016, then-governor LePage held a press conference, ostensibly to apologize for leaving a vulgar and threatening voicemail, in which he announced that “the enemy right now” is “people of color or people of Hispanic origin.”

Since leaving office and leaving the state, LePage has continued to call in to conservative radio shows on a weekly basis. He has also repeatedly threatened to challenge Governor Janet Mills for re-election in 2022. Earlier this month, Maine Republican Party Chair Demi Kouzounas declared that LePage would soon move back to Maine and lead a political organization to “counteract the Maine People’s Alliance.”

Commenters on Twitter after LePage’s remarks were shared on Wednesday noted that while he’s wrong about the particulars, race is an instructive lens through which to view the current presidential electoral system. The power of white voters is significantly magnified by the Electoral College, which itself is a product of the nation’s history of slavery.

The national popular vote bill, sponsored by Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook), will have a public hearing this Friday before the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee.

Us Non-hispanic white folks are 61% of the all-ages total population and were 71% of the voters in 2016 and 72% in 2018.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Latina woman with big ideas makes for a new conservative bogeywoman

 

[Lighthouse]

Hillary's not getting the job done anymore. They need someone new to fuel their hate machine. AOC is it.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Media Matters: Cortez search results

 

[Sithborg]

What the holy hell?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I am a New Yorker and I can't say that I think she's really the future of the the Dem Party, or that she's all she's hyped up to be. Frankly... She got in by a fluke and I will not be surprised if she doesn't get re-elected.

That said... My Zod... The GOP REALLY needs help. And I'm sorry but... If she didn't have a Hispanic name their "fear" of her would probably drop by 50%.

 

[Teelie]

AOC ticks more boxes than Hilary did. She's hispanic so extra minority points, she's younger, she has "dangerous" ideas in being more progressive and trying to fix the problems in this country, even more fear points. Worst of all: she has a huge likability with Democrats.

 

[Schlosser85]

They’re so absurd.

 

[samsnee]

AOC ticks more boxes than Hilary did. She's hispanic so extra minority points, she's younger, she has "dangerous" ideas in being more progressive and trying to fix the problems in this country, even more fear points. Worst of all: she has a huge likability with Democrats.

AOC is a gift to Fox News. They now have someone new they can vilify for the next twenty years. They want to pigeonhole her now so that if and when she ever decides to run for higher office, people will already have opinions of her, regardless of her actual actions. It's a similar character assassination that they did to Hillary all these years.

 

[mclay18]

CPAC 2019: Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens Are the New King and Queen of GOP Ball

Jesus, the amount of Kool Aid the attendees were drinking at CPAC is astonishing. A bull ride with AOC's face on it with "pendeja" written on it, cocktails named "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and "Mexico will pay for it" and pro Trump memes on repeat on TV.

That's frightening.

 

[Sithborg]

4chan taking physical form.

We are beyond the apocalypse.

 

[Donner]

Anyone who supports the GOP has to take a step back and ask themselves if they really want to associate with a party like that.

This is beyond politics. It's worse than a Flat Earther convention.

 

[moviedoors]

A bull ride with AOC's face on it with "pendeja"

WTF!

 

[mclay18]

WTF!

Here's the full quote from the article: "The group’s evening bash featured a mechanical bull ride, a cardboard cut-out of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)—the conservative movement’s newest villain—with “pendeja,” Spanish for moron, scrawled on her face, and prominently placed TV screens featuring pro-Trump memes on loop."

You can't make this s**t up.

 

[Lighthouse]

Michelle Malkin is sentient garbage.

 

[Schlosser85]

Michelle Malkin is sentient garbage.

Using "sentient" pretty loosely there. She's also one of those "I'm a minority, I can't be racist no matter how many blatantly racist comments I make!" people.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Washington Post - GOP lawmakers wore pearls while gun violence victims testified. Activists were outraged.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Alabama's Roy Moore, undone by allegations, considers new Senate run | Reuters

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

This is ridiculous...Delay your retirement and draw from social security if you want maternity/paternity leave. Only in the minds of a Republican is this a suggestion.

Des Moines Register - Sen. Joni Ernst introduces plans for paid family leave through retirement deferral

 

[Marvolo]

America is still in the dark ages of employment.

This is also one more example of how little the GOP cares about babies and mothers and fathers. Paternity and maternity leave is necessary for both the health of the newborn and the mother and even the father. It's a joke and a disgrace that the richest country in the world doesnt guarantee paid maternity and paternity leave.

 

[Schlosser85]

America is still in the dark ages of employment.

This is also one more example of how little the GOP cares about babies and mothers and fathers. Paternity and maternity leave is necessary for both the health of the newborn and the mother and even the father. It's a joke and a disgrace that the richest country in the world doesnt guarantee paid maternity and paternity leave.

Hence why I don't take hardcore conservatives remotely seriously when they cry about how "Democrats want to kill babies!!!" and write it off as fake crocodile tears.

Cynical? Maybe. But certainly not without foundation.

 

[Sithborg]

Alabama's Roy Moore, undone by allegations, considers new Senate run | Reuters

Rumor has it that Sessions is going to go for his old seat. I will laugh and laugh if he loses to Roy Moore in the primary.

 

[Lighthouse]

Rumor has it that Sessions is going to go for his old seat. I will laugh and laugh if he loses to Roy Moore in the primary.

Sessions running would at the very least be interesting in how Trump would handle it.