Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[Chicks]

Rep. Ted Yoho removed from board of Christian charity over his comments about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...3a0_story.html

Karma, asshole!

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Rep. Ted Yoho removed from board of Christian charity over his comments about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...3a0_story.html

Karma, asshole!

Why must these Repubs speak about others "not them" with such poison? At least in this case karma slapped him upside the head for it.

[donquixote99]

Copied from Facebook, posted July 7 but I just happened to see it.

A very powerful short essay, on why the current Republican racism should not just be shrugged off. Written by a Republican, thus I'm posting it in this topic. It proves that some decent ones are still alive, just purged from any sort of political position....

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President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, has a message for people who are excusing President Trump's racism:

"I had fully intended to ignore President Trump’s latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it. I had every intention of walking past Trump’s latest outrages and writing about the self-destructive squabbling of the Democratic presidential field, which has chosen to shame former vice president Joe Biden for the sin of being an electable, moderate liberal.

But I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency. Cone recounts the case of a white mob in Valdosta, Ga., in 1918 that lynched an innocent man named Haynes Turner. Turner’s enraged wife, Mary, promised justice for the killers. The sheriff responded by arresting her and then turning her over to the mob, which included women and children. According to one source, Mary was 'stripped, hung upside down by the ankles, soaked with gasoline, and roasted to death. In the midst of this torment, a white man opened her swollen belly with a hunting knife and her infant fell to the ground and was stomped to death.'

God help us. It is hard to write the words. This evil — the evil of white supremacy, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved generations of Christians to be vicious hypocrites. It is the thing that turned normal people into moral monsters, capable of burning a grieving widow to death and killing her child.

When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame. It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial. It is, in the eyes of history, the betrayal — the re-betrayal — of Haynes and Mary Turner and their child. And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving racist tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.

Like, I suspect, many others, I am finding it hard to look at resurgent racism as just one in a series of presidential offenses or another in a series of Republican errors. Racism is not just another wrong. The Antietam battlefield is not just another plot of ground. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is not just another bridge. The balcony outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is not just another balcony. As U.S. history hallows some causes, it magnifies some crimes.

What does all this mean politically? It means that Trump’s divisiveness is getting worse, not better. He makes racist comments, appeals to racist sentiments and inflames racist passions. The rationalization that he is not, deep down in his heart, really a racist is meaningless. Trump’s continued offenses mean that a large portion of his political base is energized by racist tropes and the language of white grievance. And it means — whatever their intent — that those who play down, or excuse, or try to walk past these offenses are enablers.

Some political choices are not just stupid or crude. They represent the return of our country’s cruelest, most dangerous passion. Such racism indicts Trump. Treating racism as a typical or minor matter indicts us."
— Michael Gerson

[RickeyM]

Ahem, wow

[Chicks]

Tom Cotton Cries ‘Fake News’ When ‘Faux & Fiends’ Directly Quotes Him on Slavery
‘SOME SAY THAT WAS INSENSITIVE’
“Well, that is fake news, Brian, that is not what I said,” the GOP senator replied after Kilmeade directly quoted him referring to slavery as a “necessary evil.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tom-co...him-on-slavery

...because he's such a clown...

[donquixote99]

He didn't say 'evil?'

[Chicks]

Rise and fall of a mini-Trump: With Florida a global epicenter, Ron DeSantis can shut up now
Florida elected a loyal Trump acolyte, and his handling of the pandemic couldn't possibly have been worse

https://www.salon.com/2020/07/27/ris...n-shut-up-now/

[Chicks]

Are you a conservative? It’s a trick question.
By Jennifer Rubin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-conservative/

Under Trump, the term “conservative” has become almost meaningless, in large part because the party that identifies with conservatism has become a cult of personality extolling whatever position Trump latches upon, no matter how incoherent or repulsive. Good “conservatives” are supposed to believe that family separation is an acceptable border policy, that the Justice Department should serve the president’s political interests and that developing a nationwide testing and tracing program is the responsibility of states, not the federal government (although the feds’ exercise of the police power is necessary).

“Conservatism” now is a chaotic blend of right-wing nationalism, conspiracy theories, plutocratic economics, cronyism, protectionism, realpolitik foreign policy and repudiation of objective reality. When Trump departs, it is far from clear whether it will remain so, revert to pure anti-government libertarianism (which has a small constituency aside from donors and hard-line activists) or morph into something else entirely.

Trump apologists like to accuse Never Trumpers of no longer being conservatives. The best answer is: “If Trumpism is conservatism, I’m not conservative — and good riddance. Now define conservatism."

[Chicks]

Most swing-state voters support extending $600 weekly unemployment benefit, CNBC/Change Research poll finds

Most voters in six key 2020 election states support an extension of the $600 per week unemployment benefit, along with another direct payment and state and local government relief, according to a new CNBC/Change Research poll.

A majority of respondents also opposes shielding corporations from coronavirus-related lawsuits, the survey found.

Those issues will be among the most contentious as Republicans and Democrats try to strike an agreement on a pandemic relief bill.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/29/coro...oll-finds.html

IOW, most voters think the Repube package is bullshit.

[Chicks]

Lindsey Graham campaign ad features image of opponent with digitally altered darker skin tone

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/polit...-ad/index.html

Sigh