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C Moon

(12,213 posts)
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 01:01 AM Aug 2022

What is the gop thinking?

They seem to burying themselves in the face of the upcoming mid-terms.
Maybe they have a plan to protest all the results?
Or a plan to suppress voters by having people threaten voters?
Or that jackass is still heading the post office, maybe he'll screw with the mail in ballots again.

There must be something going on in those "think tanks," because it's not looking real positive for the gop.

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What is the gop thinking? (Original Post) C Moon Aug 2022 OP
Thinking? OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2022 #1
;-) elleng Aug 2022 #5
Hard for Mitch to keep the train on the tracks... Cracklin Charlie Aug 2022 #2
Part of me is wondering... AZSkiffyGeek Aug 2022 #3
Their plan is the same gerrymandering Tree Lady Aug 2022 #4
They're laughing. "All this crap and we're still 75-80% likely to win the house" unblock Aug 2022 #6
They have a new law going up to the Supremes soon Kablooie Aug 2022 #7
independent state legislature theory? rampartc Aug 2022 #8
They are going to get control of the election systems. Irish_Dem Aug 2022 #9
"Do we even deserve to be a Party anymore?" kentuck Aug 2022 #10
They don't think. They follow and they react and they mostly plan for personal profits Bucky Aug 2022 #11

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
2. Hard for Mitch to keep the train on the tracks...
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 01:04 AM
Aug 2022

When a bunch of his crew have gone off the rails.

Train wreck, dead ahead!

AZSkiffyGeek

(11,010 posts)
3. Part of me is wondering...
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 01:09 AM
Aug 2022

Are the “sane” ones letting the qrazy ones lose as an extreme measure to cut the cancer out.
Nah, probably not…

Tree Lady

(11,457 posts)
4. Their plan is the same gerrymandering
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 01:15 AM
Aug 2022

Take over local elections, cheat, lie, and use the fact they have more states with less people in them to keep most of the senate. Oh and use corporations to pay big money to people in congress to vote how they want.

unblock

(52,208 posts)
6. They're laughing. "All this crap and we're still 75-80% likely to win the house"
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 01:23 AM
Aug 2022

These scumbags are already plotting investigations into made-up scandals, and they will block all constructive legislation.

Kablooie

(18,632 posts)
7. They have a new law going up to the Supremes soon
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 03:26 AM
Aug 2022

It will allow state legislatures to decide who wins their state if they don’t like the person the voters chose.

rampartc

(5,407 posts)
8. independent state legislature theory?
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 05:52 AM
Aug 2022

will this crazy "literalist" interpretations of the constitution allow the state legislatures to over ride the voters and rule, independent of checks or balances, the results of elections?

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/independent-state-legislature-theory-explained

Irish_Dem

(47,026 posts)
9. They are going to get control of the election systems.
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 07:45 AM
Aug 2022

They have always cheated to win, but it is going to a whole new phase.

kentuck

(111,089 posts)
10. "Do we even deserve to be a Party anymore?"
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 07:47 AM
Aug 2022

After screwing over the American people the way we have?

Bucky

(54,003 posts)
11. They don't think. They follow and they react and they mostly plan for personal profits
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 08:48 AM
Aug 2022

This is the GOP's version of America. When a lynch mob gets going, they run along the sides and try to make a little scratch selling lemonade to the marchers on their way back home after the excitement is over.

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