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Group of Republicans Threatens to Start Third Party
May 11, 2021 at 8:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2021/05/11/group-of-republicans-threatens-to-start-third-party/
"SNIP.....
More than 100 Republicans, including some former elected officials, are preparing to release a letter this week threatening to form a third party if the Republican Party does not make certain changes, the New York Times reports.
The statement is expected to take aim at Donald J. Trumps stranglehold on Republicans, which signatories to the document have deemed unconscionable.
......SNIP"
sheshe2
(83,770 posts)Lovie777
(12,265 posts)Heard on I believe MSNBC that Michael Steel and others were planning something.
nocoincidences
(2,218 posts)Now, right now.
Then, somebody in NY needs to indict and convict his ass.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Shermann
(7,413 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)aggiesal
(8,914 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,226 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Diamond_Dog
(31,999 posts)Do it!
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)Disgruntled voters from Trump, but I wont vote for them. I see myself as a Democrat.
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)Disgruntled voters from Trump, but I wont vote for them. I see myself as a Democrat.
EarlG
(21,948 posts)or does anyone else have the feeling that Kevin McCarthy is on the verge of making a huge and historic tactical error?
cilla4progress
(24,733 posts)the way you think!
localroger
(3,626 posts)EarlG
(21,948 posts)Then, he's on the verge of finding out just how much damage the error is going to do
EYESORE 9001
(25,939 posts)that he has made a very unwise deal with the devil, who packs his balls around in a small leather bag.
go over that cliff. splat.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)elleng
(130,908 posts)Border Arrests at Highest In Two Decades
May 11, 2021 at 8:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
https://politicalwire.com/2021/05/11/border-arrests-highest-in-two-decades/
"SNIP.....
Immigration arrests and detentions along the Mexico border rose slightly in April to 178,622, the highest one-month total in two decades, but a decline in the number of teens and children arriving without parents eased pressure on the Biden administration, the Washington Post reports.
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)localroger
(3,626 posts)The people who used to actually run the party have been holding back and hoping the trump thing would just be a fever that would pass, but as it becomes clear they will never regain control of "their" party they will move to destroy it rather than see it fall out of their control, even if that leaves them out of power for a generation. They have given the interlopers every chance but I think the Liz witchhunt will be the final straw. This is the thing that will finally split them, because you don't fuck with the Cheneys.
taxi
(1,896 posts)shook their fists and yelled.
Nobody listened.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)taxi
(1,896 posts)Liken it to the early days of the internet when people thought it was a nice concept and felt it was too bad no one could figure out a way to make money from it. Undoubtedly there are members of the Republican of the opinion that it is nice to get a check from the government for the office they hold, but it's even nicer to rake in the loot from the new and improved divisions, theater, merchandise, lobbyists, road shows, etc.
JHB
(37,160 posts)All of those former officials spent their careers during a time when "ignore the uproar and brazen it out" was standard Republican practice.
If you people don't take real action, that's what they'll do to you. Ignore you. And make you pay, where they can.
Shit or get off the pot. Actually do something.
You'll be the first Republicans in 50 years to do something positive.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)All this talk is
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)JHB
(37,160 posts)Telling Nixon he was leaving the White House. Left it up to him whether he left through the door or out the window, but he was going.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)Lincoln Project can help with marketing and strategy. Be happy to help save Democracy by killing the current Trumpian Republican Party.
GoodRaisin
(8,923 posts)Let the Trumpers take a new name. Call it The Party of Trump. (I'm sure he'd like that anyway).
FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)brewens
(13,588 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)brewens
(13,588 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)Imallin4Joe
(758 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)They already have the libertarians (a joke of a party).
LudwigPastorius
(9,145 posts)this country, or just because they're pissed off that they lost their party?
Also, if this list includes Reagan/Bush(I&II) era Republicans, is there really that much of a difference between Crypto-Fascists and actual Fascists?
AllyCat
(16,187 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)panfluteman
(2,065 posts)Because America needs true, sincere dialogue on the issues confronting our nation from both liberals / progressives as well as conservatives. The focus should be on the issues, and the competing visions of what is best for our nation, and not a mere personality cult of one individual.
Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)Trickle down economics, environmental deregulation, and militarism have never been sensible in terms of sustaining our republic and the planet which sustains life itself.
Only in comparison to the current cult of Trump does the former Republican Party seem sensible.
joetheman
(1,450 posts)PortTack
(32,767 posts)Other than the cult and the deposed idiot king
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Didn't see a thing about sitting members of anything at all, be it school boards of the US House.
BFD.
gab13by13
(21,342 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)Hekate
(90,690 posts)Woot!
speaknow
(321 posts)give that SOB power because they the Pukes have
nothing to offer the public. The pukes are nothing but
an empty vessel all of them. Look how they can fill
up the news with the Cheney BS. This Country has
more important matters than the life of Liz.
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)3 Conservatives
3 Liberals
3 Trump dumb $h1ts
roamer65
(36,745 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)*PLEASE*
LudwigPastorius
(9,145 posts)Fuck these guys. Seriously, fuck 'em.
Children in cages, "fine people on both sides", 400,000 dead Americans on his watch, 22,000+ verified lies, 2 impeachments, encouraging a violent coup attempt....
The fact that these motherfuckers haven't left the party that propped Trump up ALREADY indicates just how morally bankrupt they are.
I'll say it again, Fuck Them.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)All the words in the world mean nothing, actions matter. Especially now. Show me who and what you are. If they're all inept blather, as I expect, just be quiet. I'm bored with their postering. It's long past time for action on their part.
marie999
(3,334 posts)It will depend on how many Republicans and independents will vote for the new party. If they can win enough states to keep anyone from getting 270 electoral votes it will depend on which party controls the House and Senate. They will pick the president and vice-president from any of the three top parties.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)was a time when one could work with the GOP, way back, but those days are long gone.