The GOP is A HOAX

[TeamProg]

Their:

Leadership - does not exist

Family values - does not exist

Morality - does not exist

Law & order - does not exist

Science awareness - does not exist

Historical knowledge - does not exist

Honor - does not exist

Liberty - does not exist

Accountability - does not exist

Trustworthiness - does not exist

Kindness - does not exist

Civil - does not exist

Loyalty to the U.S. Constitution - does not exist

Sound economics - does not exist

Courage - does not exist

[Diamond_Dog]

1. All excellent points

May I add “pro life belief” does not exist?

[Skittles]

2. their pro-life stance

doing all they can to enable the pandemic

[TeamProg]

5. An obvious one I missed.. I'm sure there are others, too..

Can you tell that I resorted somewhat to my memory of the Scout's Honor??

Yep, but I only made it to Tenderfoot before I recognized that it was 'military lite'.

Oh yeah and "reverent"!

[Probatim]

23. Pro-war, Pro-death penalty, Pro-life - one of these things is not like the other...

[Skittles]

24. pro-guns in the hands of ANYONE

fucking HYPOCRITES

[certainot]

26. that's it. dan bongino, who now seems to regret inheriting 300 limbaugh stations is

threatening to quit cumulus radio while strongly selling bodily sovereinty against vaccinations but then gets money selling 'pro life' anti choice ads.....

maybe thats the only kind of ad he can do now

[peppertree]

3. Absolutely. It's become little more than a fascist vehicle, parading as a party..

Indeed - it's the only major party in the entire developed world (and much of the developing) to meet all 14 criteria for fascism.

[certainot]

28. authoritarianism is a heritable mostly 'old world' susceptibility to sex on the wrong brain

which is caused by wrong handed masturbation

for millions of years it provided a survival benefit in times of conflict and scarcity and that's why we're 90% right handed but the last few thousand years it got really bad

trumpers, proud boys, nazis, taliban, and extremists all over the world are basically masturbation cults - it's the sex on the wrong brain

[peppertree]

32. That might explain it

[XacerbatedDem]

34. LMAO!!!!!

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. They are an organized crime party.

They need the keys of power to keep themselves apart from the justice they deserve.

[OMGWTF]

16. Truer words were never typed.

[OAITW r.2.0]

19. Been saying it since 2002.

Search "Old and In the Way" and "organized crime party". They've just gotten more brazen.

[peppertree]

25. Hear, hear. A party in the image of Joe McCarthy, Newt Gingrich - and Cheeto

In other words, psychopaths.

Which, unfortunately, have always been appealing to many among us.

[Dirty Socialist]

6. Leadership obviously exists

“Heil Trump!”
And that’s part of the problem

[Carlitos Brigante]

7. Someone needs to take that 'G' back. There's nothing "grand" about these

assholes (unless we're talking 'wizards'). Unfortunately, their supporters all seem to be infected with the Morona virus.

[TeamProg]

8. I thought it was for "Grifting Our Public" ?? no?

[OMGWTF]

17. Greedy Oily Perverts

[calimary]

27. Grab Our Paychecks

[crud]

9. The definition of Facism

The have no ideology. Their goal is to achieve political power and maintain control by what ever means necessary. Hatred, fear, lies, propaganda, threats etc.

[Wounded Bear]

10. And, of course, the grand OLD party is actually younger than the Democratic Party...

The Dem party dates to about 1828. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)

The repub party dates to 1854. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)

[erronis]

36. But the slimy critters decided to infiltrate the Democrats of the south and take it over.

The Republicans at the time of Lincoln were pretty respectable from my perspective. The Republicons switched platforms when they saw an ability to actually get southern votes. Then the play for the southern card between the parties. It makes the head spin. Heather Cox Richardson is the clear voice on how this has and is playing out: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

[Kablooie]

11. But their worship and faith in a single con-artist is unwavering.

That exists and may overwhelm all the other aspects and the US government itself because of two Democratic senators.

[imanamerican63]

12. Sounds a lot like Trumpism!

[TeamProg]

14. Trumpism to me means selling fear, hate, while gaslighting, to get what you want..

My list isn't that.

[Lunabell]

13. Please add: no real religious feedom.

Their only religious freedom is for evangelical christians or right wing roman catholics.

[Joinfortmill]

15. 👍

[czarjak]

18. Who knew?

[dlk]

20. The GOP has devolved into a RICO

They are a wholly criminal enterprise destroying our democracy day by day.

[BigmanPigman]

21. I KNOW but...

why would any person choose to be like this? Who in the Hell would want to be evil? Who in the Hell would support political cretins? I just don't understand why someone wants to be a terrible, horrible, rotten asshole? Why??? How do they get this way? Is it a genteic defect? Is it socioeconomic, or is it plain old sociopathic behavior? If you had a choice between Good and Evil, who would choose Evil and why? I just don't get it.

This is one of the main reasons I chose to not ever have children while still in my teens. My gut knew it would be unfair to any future kid to grow up in the greedy, hypocritical USA/GQP environment.

[LymphocyteLover]

29. it's hard for any decent person to relate to but all I can figure is it comes from years

of rightwing propaganda where they have an endless list of grievances that they blame on liberals. They live on planet B, in another reality, and we're the bad guys.

[BigmanPigman]

30. And they raise their kids with the same BS propaganda

so it goes from one generation to the next? How do we break this cycle of misinformation when there is Fux Noise and all the other BS on social media. It seems like it is an uphill battle that continues to grow steeper every year. It is so disheartening.

[LymphocyteLover]

33. It is disheartening. Rightwing media is such a huge scourge on this country and have truly ruined a

generation of people.

Signs of hope that young people are extremely liberal/progressive and we really need to keep them politically engaged so they don't tune out.

[maddiemom]

46. Many of them view their kids' learning Critical Thinking as a threat to their beliefs.

[BigmanPigman]

48. What are educators supposed to do

when their job is to teach subjects, not religion? More teachers will be leaving the field due to their hands being tied than those who left due to Covid.

[Tommymac]

39. 2 Words: Rush Limbaugh (and Hate Radio.)

We all rail against Fox Entertainment, but RW Hate radio has it's roots in the crazy evangelical radio stations that sprang up everywhere in the 20th Century.

In turn Hate Radio was used by racist Movement Conservatives, Koch & Bush Family Money, a subverted NRA to raise money and supply weapons, and shared the willingness (ignorance is NOT a defence) of evangelical sects and ministries such as the Billy Graham Crusade in the early 1960's to prostrate themselves before the alter of greed and enable the use of abortion and birth control controversies as wedge issues.

Not to mention that early RW and 'christian' radio jocks mobilized hatred using the right of black people to sit where they choose on a bus or at a lunch counter to revitalize ole Jim Crow.

[BigmanPigman]

47. That makes perfect sense.

It's so terribly depressing for me.

[CanonRay]

22. It exists to grift

[AlexSFCA]

31. + concern for national debt does not exist

[hwmnbn]

35. That's just for starters...

They have so many twisted ideas, I can't keep up!

[malaise]

37. Great post

Rec

[malaise]

38. Great post

Rec

[BlueIdaho]

40. The GOP no longer believes in Democracy.

They find that blind obedience to a strong man Führer and ignoring the constitution and settled law is a far more expedient way to get what they want - a ChristoFascist oligarchy where the rich are rewarded and the poor are persecuted.

[lpbk2713]

41. They like to wave the flag and talk about being patriots.

The Framers would be disgusted.

[DFW]

42. The biggest scam of all is that their patriotism doesn't exist

They claim to love an America that never existed and never will.

They want Americans of European descent to rule the world and be both feared and loved for it, where the rest of the world will never love us if we force them to fear us.

That is not patriotism, it is an inferiority complex that is self-inflicted. Get comfortable in your skin (they never will), and you have made the first step toward gaining the respect you so covet. They are terrified (with good reason) that their god, whom they trot out as their justification for all evil deeds, if real at all, might not really approve of what they are doing.

[Javaman]

43. oh all those things exist for the repukes...

all those can be answered with one word: money.

[LaMouffette]

44. Excellent post! Here's one more for the list: Their Platform - does not exist

[DownriverDem]

45. Maybe so, but

it doesn't matter as long as they have voters who just don't want others to get the help they need. Of course we are talking about the racist ignorant non-rich trumper repub voters.