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malaise

(269,200 posts)
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:32 AM Dec 2020

Why do you think so many ReTHUGs have not condemned the attempted coup

or acknowledged Biden's massive win? Why are they not outraged about the approaching 300,000 dead and i15,000,000 infected from Covid 19?

I think they all know that Killa Con has every skeleton in their closet on file. I also think that matters more than the base.

Adding Spanone's thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214664029#post3

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Why do you think so many ReTHUGs have not condemned the attempted coup (Original Post) malaise Dec 2020 OP
K&R, he knows the skeletons & this is the reason Red Don is going to stay in control of the kGOP uponit7771 Dec 2020 #1
Tonight will be literally his last shitshow malaise Dec 2020 #2
+ a brazillion! nt tblue37 Dec 2020 #3
fear trumps wrath from his 70+ million supporters beachbumbob Dec 2020 #4
Several reasons The Genealogist Dec 2020 #5
Profound malaise Dec 2020 #8
They are masters at the old "nudge nudge wink wink" The Genealogist Dec 2020 #12
They literally fear the monster they have created. Zoonart Dec 2020 #6
They were in a Catch-22 kentuck Dec 2020 #7
The Republicans apparently feel that they benefit Chainfire Dec 2020 #9
Thanks for this malaise Dec 2020 #23
It is insane. Chainfire Dec 2020 #27
THIS ... is it IMO. KPN Dec 2020 #26
Not really Chainfire Dec 2020 #28
Well of course I agree with your take on the poster. I was simply referring to KPN Dec 2020 #29
Yup. So much wrong in that post it's crazy. LA certified on 11/10 for #Traitor Arazi Dec 2020 #31
And they wont accept it on Jan. 20, at noon, when Biden is sworn in. Chainfire Dec 2020 #32
Where are you reading these RW posts if you don't mind sharing? Arazi Dec 2020 #35
It is a gun forum. You could take your pick, there are plenty of them to pick from Chainfire Dec 2020 #38
They're not former/retired GOP BadgerKid Dec 2020 #10
In general, impeached traitor has supporters Marthe48 Dec 2020 #11
My opinion Livluvgrow Dec 2020 #13
Yes, hoping we don't try a Missouri compromise this time Ponietz Dec 2020 #15
Once Chump is truly GONE, this will all change FakeNoose Dec 2020 #14
I am grateful for the Republican officials that stood firm... Under The Radar Dec 2020 #16
This is a very important post malaise Dec 2020 #21
money worshippers, racists, and fools. nt BootinUp Dec 2020 #17
Simple answer to the OP's first question: NCDem47 Dec 2020 #18
they are weak cowards and are afraid cojoel Dec 2020 #19
They have their eye on the upcoming midterms already Blaukraut Dec 2020 #20
Here's what I don't get - how come they accept the down ticket votes on malaise Dec 2020 #22
For the same reason that they don't challenge the fairness of the Florida election. Chainfire Dec 2020 #34
True malaise Dec 2020 #36
WE have to realize these rethugs came within one inch of succeeding this year! (my opinion) bluestarone Dec 2020 #24
Very important point malaise Dec 2020 #37
they all read from the same script... stillcool Dec 2020 #25
It is because they have more excuses than Carter's has tiny liver pills..... Chainfire Dec 2020 #30
They are waiting to see how the Georgia senate runoff elections go. KansasKali Dec 2020 #33
Another reason not yet mentioned in this thread Leith Dec 2020 #39

uponit7771

(90,367 posts)
1. K&R, he knows the skeletons & this is the reason Red Don is going to stay in control of the kGOP
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:36 AM
Dec 2020

... until he's dead or in jail or exiled.

There's no getting around it, tonight will be a tell tale.

Trump is pulling the chain on his kGOP dog, we'll see tonight if he's pulled it hard enough

malaise

(269,200 posts)
2. Tonight will be literally his last shitshow
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:38 AM
Dec 2020

and his last chance to promote his failed coup. It will be a fucking disaster - the worst reality TV on steroids

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
4. fear trumps wrath from his 70+ million supporters
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:44 AM
Dec 2020

an entire political party held hostage, Too fucking bad

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
5. Several reasons
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:44 AM
Dec 2020

* He knows where the bodies are buried.

* He embodies to a tee the disgusting philosophy they've been pushing for decades.

* They need to keep his deplorable legions in their camp to stay relevant.

* They are just exactly like him, except he messages with a bullhorn instead of their dog whistles.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
12. They are masters at the old "nudge nudge wink wink"
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 11:01 AM
Dec 2020

Loose cannon Trump has to gall them terribly. They've carefully nurtured a message in which their racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, theocratic aims and desire are hidden beneath the thinnest possible patina of respectability. Trump's turned the firehose on that patina and washed it all off. My hope is that the right in this country splits irreparably. One faction of just garden variety asshole rightwingers and a Trumpist faction. Let them split the RW votes, and get good Democrats elected by all the sane people.

Zoonart

(11,881 posts)
6. They literally fear the monster they have created.
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:45 AM
Dec 2020

If they are not supporting "Dear Leader" they are receiving death threats and are being threatened with primaries.
The Rethugs currently in power are holding on to their place at the trough by a thread as the MAGATS and Q'idiots breath down their necks and sharpen their knives.


kentuck

(111,110 posts)
7. They were in a Catch-22
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:47 AM
Dec 2020

If they spoke out against Trump, they would lose their base. Especially if Trump tweeted unfavorably toward them.

If they said nothing, and acted like Good Germans, then they could cling to the coattails of the mad autocrat and continue to stay in power.

So they chose to say nothing and to do nothing.

Chainfire

(17,656 posts)
9. The Republicans apparently feel that they benefit
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:50 AM
Dec 2020

By keeping their voters fired up. I will give you an example of the craziness. Warning: This is the kind or Right Wing crap that is not appreciated on this forum. This is a post from early this morning, it is about how Trump will be able to remain President after Jan. 20. Some of his memes and links were edited out in the cut and paste:

In case you haven't noticed, I have completely TUNED OUT from the lying MSM and lying leftist publications. If it comes from the left it is a lie. I even had my cable taken out 5 years ago, tired of the likes of Chris Mathews and Rachel Maddow insulting my intelligence and getting my blood pressure up. Your problem is that is ALL you will read, watch or even acknowledge. Restrictedrepublic does not spin and it does not lie. You most likely never even watched the video and are just as ignorant as you were before I posted it.

Trump's team only has way under 10 lawsuits in total. You can't even separate Trump's legal challenges from those of others, lumping them all together just like the lying MSM. And NONE of Trump's can be considered losses because NONE of them have even been heard by the SCOTUS yet. What some ignorant leftist lower court hack judge does is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT, all some lower court leftist hack judge accomplishes by ruling against is pushing the case one step closer to the SCOTUS and the case is NOT LOST. Only the ignorant, those who believe the spin from the lying MSM think they are lost.

You are right that the Electoral College meets in 10 days. What you are apparently too ignorant to understand is that for them to vote and choose a President, ALL states must have certified their vote counts! If only ONE state refuses to certify, the Electoral College is done, over, cannot choose a President, is null and void. In that case the decision falls to the House. And the Electoral College must vote state by state in alphabetical order. The fist state they encounter which has refused to certify their vote counts and they are done, finished, null and void. LA has already refused to certify. AZ is currently clawing back its certification. If AZ gets is certification nullified, the EC is done before it even gets started. It is a certainty that LA is as far as it will ever get. SO THE DECISION WILL FALL TO THE HOUSE.

And despite what wretched witch Pelosi spews, she has NO CONTROL WHATSOEVER in how they vote. For this particular decision, EACH STATE GETS ONE VOTE. It does not matter how many blue reps there are vs. red reps. And there are more red states in the house than blue SO TRUMP WILL WIN and Pelosi can shove her head up her @ss.

Crow has a bitter taste. Better go looking for a scrawny one right now, and go shopping for a great orange sauce. You will probably be puking all over yourself for weeks and months after Jan 20. Leftists cannot accept defeat. They still haven't accepted that they lost in 2016. Four years of whining and crying, bogus Russia Collusion, a bogus impeachment attempt, and now outright rampant election fraud. And when the election fraud fails, they will instigate rampant violence. Just like a bunch of infantile snot-nosed little kids throwing a temper tantrum. And that, sir, is when we patriots will have our field day serving up justice and giving those snot-nosed infantile ones an adult spanking that many of them probably won't survive.

Here is another video you probably won't watch out of fear it might dent your stubborn fixated liberal view.


You denigrate Sidney Powell, one of the greatest attorneys who have ever lived. Unlike Giuliani's suits which are strictly about the actual election and irregularities, her cases are all about Dominion and Smartmatic, and every issue in them has criminal implications. If Trump wins, her cases will continue on unabated until Dominion is outlawed, Federal laws will be put in place to regulate such machines and their software in the future, and those responsible for the fraud in this election by use / manipulation of those machines and software are prosecuted and sent to prison. It is time to clean up this abortion and Sidney Powell is just the one to get it done. The Democratic party will be lucky to survive after she is done. Conspiracy to defraud America took place, reaching to the highest levels in the Democrat camp. National security transgressions took place with data being sent to other countries, some of which will surely amount to treason, and any such will fall under military jurisdiction and be tried in military tribunals out of the reach of leftist civilian judges. The howls and screams from crying whining Democrats are going to go on unabated for four more years.

A term chainfire comes from black powder revolvers where the shooter failed to seal the chambers with grease over the ball to prevent sympathetic ignition of multiple chambers from the flash of the primary chamber. In your case I think your name is appropriate and your little gun is fixing to explode. I hope you don't use it to bag that crow you're going to eat.
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Chainfire

(17,656 posts)
27. It is insane.
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:39 PM
Dec 2020

What is amazing is that a significant proportion of our population will go all-in on such nutty theories. I just wonder has the country always been this crazy or I am just finding out in my old age?

Chainfire

(17,656 posts)
28. Not really
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:43 PM
Dec 2020

The poster believes that what he posted were iron-clad facts, based in Constitutional law, and that the only people who don't believe it are fools. That is where we are with maybe 40% of the population. Of course, I have never had a conversation with a hard core right wingnut that wasn't a "Constitutional Scholar. "

KPN

(15,662 posts)
29. Well of course I agree with your take on the poster. I was simply referring to
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:51 PM
Dec 2020

your title line and the phrase that followed it. They believe keeping their minions whipped up will only benefit them in the end. They can proceed to obstruct and openly plot government’s failure under a Democratic administration if it’s all about “saving our country, saving the Constitution” from the liberals planned destruction.

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
31. Yup. So much wrong in that post it's crazy. LA certified on 11/10 for #Traitor
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:57 PM
Dec 2020

Biden has already got 306 electoral votes so he's already over 270 even if no other states certify (and we're only waiting on three more states iirc - NJ, MO, and Hawaii).

If a state doesn't certify, that doesn't shut down the EC anyway. As long as a candidate gets 270, they've won.

Don't get me started on the rest - Sidney Powell, the threats of violence etc etc.

Crazy all over BUT what's really difficult is these folks really really believe these are the facts.

It's an alternate reality. An entirely different realm. And THAT'S a huge problem

Chainfire

(17,656 posts)
32. And they wont accept it on Jan. 20, at noon, when Biden is sworn in.
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 01:12 PM
Dec 2020

Republicans are all responsible for fanning the flames of lies, mistrust and hate, through agreement with the craziness or through their cowardly path of remaining silent. They are liable to fan the flames to the point that right-wing violence become inevitable. We may have a rough Winter and Spring brought to us live and in living color, by the Republican Party.

The very best possible outcome will be that the only thing we have to do is listen to the unending whine about the "stolen election" for four years. It will become the new "birth certificate."

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
35. Where are you reading these RW posts if you don't mind sharing?
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 01:24 PM
Dec 2020

And I 100% agree this is a dangerous and foolish game that Republicans are playing. Seditious even.

Chainfire

(17,656 posts)
38. It is a gun forum. You could take your pick, there are plenty of them to pick from
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 04:13 PM
Dec 2020

They all regurgitate the "news" from all kinds of subterranean Fascist sites.

Marthe48

(17,042 posts)
11. In general, impeached traitor has supporters
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:59 AM
Dec 2020

who are used to getting their own way, and using whatever means is at hand to get their own way. But they can't kick or punch or shoot this one. They can scream about the election, but since it is an intangible entity, they can't punch it or kick it or shoot it. None of their usual tactics work and since they aren't used to losing, they are losing it. They want to take their marbles and go home.

I just saw a headline that only 25 r's in Congress acknowledge Pres. Biden. Then get out of Congress. You represent the whole United States and you swore on a Bible you'd uphold and protect the Constitution of the U.S. It is absolutely ridiculous that these so called leaders are acting like poor sports who lost a game because their star player had no talent.

Livluvgrow

(377 posts)
13. My opinion
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 11:04 AM
Dec 2020

They truly are anti-American assholes who truly believe that he can pull off a coup. I feel like we are living through the 1850s all over again. Only, Georgia is the new Kansas. In their next pitiful act will they take their ball and leave the court when Lincoln I mean Biden is inaugurated.

Ponietz

(3,030 posts)
15. Yes, hoping we don't try a Missouri compromise this time
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 11:21 AM
Dec 2020

I’ve been waiting for the redux of Preston Brooks beating Charles Sumner with a cane on the Senate floor.

FakeNoose

(32,791 posts)
14. Once Chump is truly GONE, this will all change
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 11:16 AM
Dec 2020

For now they are cowards and snowflakes, because nobody has the balls to stand up to this bully and his screaming hordes.

He will be gone (hopefully soon) and we'll start hearing about how these Repuke leaders secretly hated him all along. They only agreed with him when they absolutely had no choice. They tried to fight him whenever they could, they were really disgusted, etc. etc.

Personally I'm hoping this is the end of the Repuke Party, because it doesn't deserve to continue after Chump.


Under The Radar

(3,404 posts)
16. I am grateful for the Republican officials that stood firm...
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 11:50 AM
Dec 2020

...with the law and against Trump and the pressure of his cult. Without them I do believe that Trump could possibly have gotten public opinion on his side, a more credible legal team who could have gathered or fabricated “credible” evidence and a real shot in having votes thrown out for even something as small as a hispanic ballot counter who had a Biden bumper sticker on her car.
I also believe that somewhere a Republican operative is taking notes of the mistakes made this time, and this will be tried again with much better execution in a not too distant election to come.

malaise

(269,200 posts)
21. This is a very important post
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:09 PM
Dec 2020

Some folks do believe in democracy and will not have their elections tarnished

Blaukraut

(5,695 posts)
20. They have their eye on the upcoming midterms already
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:02 PM
Dec 2020

If they keep the base fired up, they have a pretty good chance of taking back the House and keeping the Senate.

malaise

(269,200 posts)
22. Here's what I don't get - how come they accept the down ticket votes on
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:13 PM
Dec 2020

the same ballots - the same ones that gave many of them victory.
None of this makes any fucking sense.

Chainfire

(17,656 posts)
34. For the same reason that they don't challenge the fairness of the Florida election.
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 01:14 PM
Dec 2020

Logic and reason do not enter into the calculation.

bluestarone

(17,062 posts)
24. WE have to realize these rethugs came within one inch of succeeding this year! (my opinion)
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:19 PM
Dec 2020

Actually happy, and surprised The state rethuglicons didn't listen to RUMP and stop the counts! THIS could have been really bad. Be ready for the next time. We have four years to STOP this WHOLE family! I think THIS is the most important thing Joe's AG has to do!!!

malaise

(269,200 posts)
37. Very important point
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 01:54 PM
Dec 2020

but the institutions held this time along with a few ReTHUGs who refused to defer to Killa Con

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
25. they all read from the same script...
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:19 PM
Dec 2020

truly is amazing watching the same words come out of so many mouths. Sometimes with an attempt at an inflection to make it more palatable, but more often robotic.

Chainfire

(17,656 posts)
30. It is because they have more excuses than Carter's has tiny liver pills.....
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:56 PM
Dec 2020

To many of them, Trump has won, and will resume his duties after Jan. 20, and only idiots don't know that.

The line is that the Covid deaths are all false information, that the numbers are faked, and the people who are dying are dying from other causes. They will not even consider that the scope of such a massive conspiracy would be impossible to keep hidden. In fact, since their news sources tell them all about it, it is plain for everyone to see......It is just us crazy liberal sheeple that believe that Covid is real. No amount of evidence phases them, at all.....The evidence is just a confirmation of the cover-up. The level of mass insanity in the country today is just beyond incredible.

As far as skeletons in Trump's closet, and similar issues, the standard reply, is "Well, what about Hillary."

Leith

(7,813 posts)
39. Another reason not yet mentioned in this thread
Sat Dec 5, 2020, 05:00 PM
Dec 2020
They believe their own lies.

It used to be that they would giggle over the shit that limpbutt and clones spew out over the airwaves while they carried on their lives and duties like adults.

Along came Gingrich and fox propaganda channel. They were forced to parrot what the speaker and the tv were saying. They parroted the lies so often and so long that (warning: Star Trek reference ahead) they hear the call of Landru and have started Festival.

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