Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[Oerets]

Ike my attempt at sarcasm.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Ike my attempt at sarcasm.

Sorry if it sounded like a contradiction. I meant it as an expansion, focusing on my specific annoyance related to the mob, often referred to as the greatest country on earth.

[Oerets]

No offense taken of inferred.

I believe there is a significant segment of our country who enjoy sticking it to the "other side". Not realizing we are all in this together as a nation. Take sick enjoyment out of upsetting those they blame for setbacks of theirs.
Healthcare as an example, all prepared to crash the system without any answers to a solution. Other then slogans without substance, like ..... free markets across state lines no socialized medicine choose your own doctors.
Willing is so seems to give up a democracy freely as long as it is their guys running things. Showing deep down never to have believed in a one person one vote election. Knowing if this were to happen they would be out of power and can not accept this.

[Chicks]

The Constitution says it’s okay to shoot so************************ts, a GOP state legislator contends

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...***********ts/

Yes, they really are this stupid. Dangerously stupid. No doubt Fucker Carlson and his idiot viewers love this clown.

[donquixote99]

Constitutions are over-rated, and this a-hole shows why. No matter how beautiful and wise the text of a constitution actually is, guys like this will just say it means whatever harmful BS they want.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Constitutions are over-rated, and this a-hole shows why. No matter how beautiful and wise the text of a constitution actually is, guys like this will just say it means whatever harmful BS they want.

The demands for a Constitutional reformation of sorts come from a number of different ideologies. Liberal, conservative, libertarian, and others. These groups have widely different problems with the Constitution, but all are pretty much in favor a new Constitutional convention. I think the environment and fractured nature of the country mostly since Vietnam make any sort of agreed upon Constitutional update impossible. So that's gonna be that.

But this fucked up impeachment process certainly confirms that any attempt any revision would be a monumental waste of time.

My specific problem with the Constitution is this "intent of the founders" bullshit. Yeh...sure, the intent of the slave owning founders who decided that it was fine for the republic to be established with slavery in place.

If the Declaration of Independence had an basis in fact and honesty it would have said..."All white males of property are created equal."

[Chicks]

Discovered recently that DEI Holdings is the umbrella company for a lot of audio brands, none of which I'll be buying, ever. DEI is Darrell Edward Issa, former GOP Rep from San Diego. One of the very worst kind of scumbag Repubes in existence.

Brands I'll avoid like the plague (though not their pre-DEI vintage stuff):

Marantz
Definitive Technology
Polk
Denon
HEOS
Classe
Boston Acoustics

Sad, because Marantz, Denon, BA and Polk have such great history.

[donquixote99]

Issa makes them icky, all right. Appreciate the heads up.

[Ike Bana]

Not nearly the only shady history with this shitsack...but a taste of how he developed his quarter of a billion dollar net worth. From Wikipedia

Quantum/Steal Stopper

After leaving the military, Issa and his second wife, Kathy Stanton, moved back to the Cleveland area. According to Issa, he and his wife pooled their savings, sold their cars (a 1976 Mercedes and a 1967 VW Beetle) as well as a BMW motorcycle, and borrowed $50,000 from family members to invest in Quantum Enterprises, an electronics manufacturer run by a friend from Cleveland Heights that assembled bug zappers, CB radio parts, and other consumer products for other companies. One of those clients, car alarm manufacturer Steal Stopper, would become the path to Issa's fortune. It was struggling badly, and he took control of it by foreclosing a $60,000 loan he had made to it when its founder, Joey Adkins, missed a payment. Adkins remained as an employee.

Issa soon turned Steal Stopper around, to the point that it was supplying Ford with thousands of car alarms and negotiating a similar deal with Toyota. But early in the morning of September 7, 1982, the offices and factory of Quantum and Steal Stopper in the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights caught fire. The fire took three hours to put out. The buildings and almost all the inventory within were destroyed. An investigation of the cause of the fire noted "suspicious burn patterns" with fires starting in two places aided by an accelerant such as gasoline.

Adkins said Issa appeared to prepare for a fire by increasing the fire insurance policy by 462% three weeks previously, and by removing computer equipment holding accounting and customer information. St. Paul Insurance, suspicious of arson and insurance fraud, initially paid only $25,000, according to Issa.

Insurance fraud. Well done.

This is a 2011 review of a New Yorker article on Issa. Lots of water under the bridge since then, but it's still an interesting read.

"Everyone Has A Past"

And the 2011 New Yorker article...

The New Yorker, Darrel Issa, "Don't Look Back", by Ryan Lizza

[Chicks]

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/o...peachment.html

Worthless cowards, knowing full well they're shirking their duty to the republic, but too freaking scared of a tweetstorm. Miserable bastards.