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The GOP needs to be destroyed... (Original Post) MrScorpio Nov 2018 OP
I said this a LONG LONG time ago and took heat for it from all sides. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2018 #1
YOU were right bluestarone Nov 2018 #2
You should have reached out to them! ProudLib72 Nov 2018 #3
K&R Gothmog Nov 2018 #4
OMG! It's pinheads for Trump. Look at the (lack of) cranial capacity of the guy on the left. McCamy Taylor Nov 2018 #5
Too bad vlad can't come and get them not fooled Nov 2018 #18
Burn the GOP to the ground and salt the earth on which it stood. backscatter712 Nov 2018 #6
The way to destroy them is at the ballot box Cyrano Nov 2018 #7
Only if the Ballot Box has not been hacked! Tribalceltic Nov 2018 #16
Carthago delenda est. teamster633 Nov 2018 #8
Mures delenda est. Xipe Totec Nov 2018 #11
don't boo! vote! yuiyoshida Nov 2018 #9
Yes they do ellie Nov 2018 #10
Yes, mixmaster. zonkers Nov 2018 #12
K&R UTUSN Nov 2018 #13
The time will come when a Republican simply can't become POTUS, at which point... Garrett78 Nov 2018 #14
Why bother? They are doing such a great job of destroying themselves RainCaster Nov 2018 #15
No--that's too soft. Replace "needs" with "MUST." slumcamper Nov 2018 #17
I absolutely agree, which is why I wrote my book... RobertDevereaux Nov 2018 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author Access Geek Nov 2018 #23
Remember when RWNJs used to say, "You don't like 'Merica? Then move to Russia!" VOX Nov 2018 #20
Every single Rethug needs to be arrested... clementine613 Nov 2018 #21
Until it is banned.. Access Geek Nov 2018 #22

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. You should have reached out to them!
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 08:39 PM
Nov 2018

They were much nicer and more amenable to calmly discussing how bad the Rump was last year.

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
5. OMG! It's pinheads for Trump. Look at the (lack of) cranial capacity of the guy on the left.
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 08:59 PM
Nov 2018

The pinhead on the right is hiding his under a MAGA hat.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
18. Too bad vlad can't come and get them
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 11:12 PM
Nov 2018

or maybe they'll take themselves over to Rooshia now that Dems are gonna take control of the House.

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Cyrano

(15,031 posts)
7. The way to destroy them is at the ballot box
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 09:17 PM
Nov 2018

However, many people vote on their hatreds rather than their hopes and dreams. And in doing so, they bring down poverty and misery upon themselves. How much longer will it continue? It's been going on for more than 100 years. How much pain can the ignorant bear? Your guess is as good as mine.

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
14. The time will come when a Republican simply can't become POTUS, at which point...
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 10:47 PM
Nov 2018

...Republican powers that be will have to decide if they want to change or just be satisfied with Senate seats, House seats, governorships, state legislatures, etc.

If we can put a stop to gerrymandering and voter suppression, control of the US House will no longer be in play. They can keep control of the US Senate in play for a long time to come (there are a lot of states that will remain deep red). But once that's the only federal-level body they can possibly cling to (and even that will be a struggle), the Republican Party will change or be replaced.

slumcamper

(1,605 posts)
17. No--that's too soft. Replace "needs" with "MUST."
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 10:57 PM
Nov 2018

But agreed, in principle. Intriguing.

MUST be destroyed.

There is no alternative course.

Particularly notablre is that this program advocates destruction of the GOP as an organization. From a social systems perspective, success would necessarily include destruction of its subsystemic elements, e.g., NRA, Federalist Society, Americans for Prosperity, Liberty U., Family Leader, etc., for starters. A concerted effort to erode and destroy these corollary entities whose existence synergizes the GOP is fundamental. To borrow a phrase from their own Grover Norquist (where the fuck is he??), "STARVE THE BEAST."

Response to RobertDevereaux (Reply #19)

VOX

(22,976 posts)
20. Remember when RWNJs used to say, "You don't like 'Merica? Then move to Russia!"
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 11:22 PM
Nov 2018

Those were heady times.

clementine613

(561 posts)
21. Every single Rethug needs to be arrested...
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 11:31 PM
Nov 2018

for treason or conspiracy or anything else that will stick. Being a member of a treasonous, criminal gang is a crime, isn't it?

 

Access Geek

(19 posts)
22. Until it is banned..
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 11:45 PM
Nov 2018

Until it is banned, the Republican Party is America's Ultimate Hate Crime against Humanity! Ban them from restaurants, diss them at their jobs.

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