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

[MagnarTheGreat]

RawStory - Ron DeSantis busted for bogus claim that Florida is 'leading the way' on pandemic recovery

 

[samsnee]

Honestly can believe DeSantis will be a Republican Presidential candidate at some point. Truth means nothing. The fact he never fully locked down or did a mask mandate actually makes him popular in Florida.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy apparently pays $1,500 to live in a 12-bedroom, 16-bath penthouse

 

[InCali]

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy apparently pays $1,500 to live in a 12-bedroom, 16-bath penthouse

Sounds like my crib, but I only pay one bone per bedroom.

 

[terry78]

That is what tv tropes calls Friends Rent Control

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NY Magazine - When Trump’s Next Coup Happens, the Republican Party Will Fully Support It

 

[Babillygunn]

That's what scary. Any time they lose now, they will just say they were cheated with no evidence whatsoever. That's how democracy dies.

 

[mclay18]

DeSantis before bragged how secure Florida’s election was.

He's a dumber, more vindictive version of Pat McCrory.

I really, really hope this blows up in the GOP's face next year.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Texas Republican Slams GOP For Hating 'A Good Hunk Of America' | HuffPost

“I think that we are just a party of grievance right now,” Wood said. “I don’t know what we stand for. We stand for owning the libs. We don’t like baseball. We don’t like Coke. We don’t like NASCAR. We don’t like Hollywood. We don’t like academia. We don’t like anything. We’re just a grievance party that hates a good hunk of America and then we call ourselves patriots, and this is just a dead end.”

Although some Republicans might find “lib owning” to be a bizarre form of self-care, Wood warned that’s not a longterm political philosophy.

“We’re not going to win elections that way, and we’re not going to sort of put into place the sort of conservative reforms we want that way, and then at the fringes there’s a real risk of political violence, which keeps me up at night,” he said. “We saw that on Jan. 6, and I hate to say it, but it can get worse than that. And we have a lot of work ahead of us.”

Wood isn’t sure how the party can come back from its current state.

Michael Wood ran in Texas’s 6th Congressional District for the seat previously occupied by Republican Rep. Ron Wright with a campaign critical of Donald Trump, even though he voted for the now former president.

You're part of the problem too!

R politicians spend more time talking about what they hate rather than what they like, perhaps knowing saying out lout what they like (like Trump does) gets them into trouble.

 

[Lily Adler]

Texas Republican Slams GOP For Hating 'A Good Hunk Of America' | HuffPost




You're part of the problem too!

R politicians spend more time talking about what they hate rather than what they like, perhaps knowing saying out lout what they like (like Trump does) gets them into trouble.

So calling black people thugs and looters, Mexicans illegals and rapists, or trans people not real men or women is a bad.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Axios - The evidence is piling up: Trump's iron grip over the GOP has been institutionalized

Daily Kos - Republicans are objectively unhappy that fewer people are dying of COVID (Civiqs Poll)

 

[Sithborg]

Wyoming stands up for coal with threat to sue states that refuse to buy it

The GOP is quickly abandoning the idea of a free market.

Daily Kos - Republicans are objectively unhappy that fewer people are dying of COVID (Civiqs Poll)

I mean, you can quite literally trace the moment when the GOP started to not worry about deaths once the data of who was dying started to come out.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Some of these people are nuts:

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Associated Press - Republicans promote pandemic relief they voted against

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Of course they want the credit.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

American Independent - Elise Stefanik insists Trump is 'the president' in bid to snag GOP leadership spot

 

[InCali]

American Independent - Elise Stefanik insists Trump is 'the president' in bid to snag GOP leadership spot

Weird. It’s hard to believe that someone with no integrity or decency whatsoever is running for a leadership post in Congress. How did that happen?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

So basically the same stuff he was doing as president, just without live tweeting it.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Lindsey Graham: GOP can't grow without Trump - CNN Video

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

The GOP can't grow without the guy that lost them the presidency, senate and house? Lindsey was right; they deserve to get destroyed for nominating him.

 

[mclay18]

Lindsey Graham: GOP can't grow without Trump - CNN Video

Lady G is compromised by Trump, bigly.

 

[Teelie]

That is the complete and total opposite of what the GOP needs to happen. The further they lean into him the more they are going to lose. So let them keep leaning into a loser.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

It's people like Baker and Hogan that win in otherwise Democratic dominated states that can grow their party. Not Trump and Trumpism. They're at this time too stupid to realize it. Which may make it easier for Democrats to win by forcing people to pick a side against Trumpism but also obviously bad.

Massachusetts (2018)
Baker (R) 67%
Gonzalez (D) 33%
(Democrats overwhelming won the House vote at the same time that year.)

Massachusetts (2020)
Trump (R) 32%
Biden (D) 66%