Politics The Elephant in the room...The GOP today

GOP has adopted full scale the televangelist method of enslaving it's audience with smoke and mirrors vaporware and milking their cash for nothing but personal gain and the power to continue this same game and goal.

This is an interesting review / analysis and seem to get closer to my questions than anything I've read so far.

"American Psychosis: Trumpism and the Nightmare of History" Los Angeles Review of Books

While googling around for this (not specifically but just trying to understand wtf is going on)
I also ran across Wich Hunt book about how (I think, but I haven't yet read) Trump investigation is some kind of false bullshit leftist delusion.

I'm also wondering why Don Lemon and CNN is taking advertising money from Billy Graham.

Why are people loosing grasp on reality and the reality that reality changes with new information ?
Like, why would you hold on to an idea that a person is dumb after you learn they needed glasses to see the blackboard or have dyslexia ?

Trying to keep up on news is incredibly depressing and detrimental to (at least my) mental health.

 

The GOP needs the discontented and the contrarians.

The discontented and the contrarians want Trump.

 

I'm a discontented contrarian and I sure as hell don't want them.

 

I'll buy the hammers !!
It would be better for them to guest star on the hydraulic press channel and use the noodle maker pusher.

 

I don't understand.

 

Rogue49 "they're going to crush themselves"

I'll buy the hammers....

Hydraulic press channel often smashes soft things with a pusher that has holes it so soft things squirt out the holes like noodles. I guess I thought everyone like to watch stuff smashed in a press.

 

And Liz Cheney is out.

This could turn into wild ride.

 

The GOP imploding is news.

I don't like Cheney's history as a right wing supporter, but I can live with her as a leader against the Kool aid drinking Trumpers.

The Stolen Election Bullshit, i.e. The Big Lie, needs to be acknowledged and put to rest by the GOP leadership. But instead they took a huge step backwards.

 

The legal challenges to the election were turned down, by many Republican judges and conservative courts, for lack of sufficient evidence. And since then no verifiable evidence has been presented to support The Big Lie.

^ What in the hell is wrong the GOP leadership?

I can not believe they actually believe The Big Lie.

What are they going to do when we get a situation, or situations, similar to 06 JAN 21? Trump is going to need something to "rally the troops" and simply criticizing the Biden administration won't be enough, esp if things go well for Biden. Trump has shown he's a loose cannon who plots independent of the GOP.

I suppose we could see (not actually see it in the transparency sense) a slow move away from The Big Lie. But that still leaves Trump refusing to accept the loss, or at least manipulating it.

 

The Republican Party is certainly no longer the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt or Eisenhower and Reagan.

It is now the party whose most visible and vocal members are conspiracy nuts, white supremacists, outright liars and self- declared "patriots" who pledge fealty to an authoritarian loser rather than uphold the rule of law, the basic principles of democracy or the Constitution.

 

If we had rank choice voting, then independent candidates could make sense. You still have a lot of "undeclared" voters who don't vote at all in the primary, and then you have the party loyalists who will always vote for the candidate that is endorsed by the local party.

This will be interesting to see if removing Trump from Twitter and bringing in competent politicians could make him into a legigitimate candidate once again. If he actually has a solid platform and goals, and people around him that want to do the work to achieve the hidden agenda without trying to piss off the Democrats as the first thing.

This could be the platform that was missing in the 2020 election for the GOP, and be the cause of the Democrats further downfall in the already difficult midterm elections. Mainly because the Democrats have had 20 years to create a "New Contract With America" and the conservatives are going to take that away from them once again. This will make the Democrats look like the party with no plan, with lots of in-fighting among it's different factions that don't work together on each others issues, and an elite bunch who don't know how the real world works.

Trump is starting to put together his own Contract with America. And he’s teaming up with Newt.

 

We voted in rank choice voting up here in Alaska.
The Democrats and Republicans are suing to stop it from happening.
They are freaking the fuck out.
Really tired of their bullshit.