Charles Pierce: Tommy Tuberville and Other Republicans Aren't Bothering to Hide the Racism

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The Republican Party is bound and determined to have us ruled by people whom we would not otherwise wish to share a subway car.

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Tommy Tuberville and Other Republicans Aren't Bothering to Hide the Racism
Meanwhile the party leader wanders in a whole alternate dimension of half-truth, half-bowling alley.
9:35 AM · Oct 10, 2022

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41574834/tommy-tuberville-people-that-do-crime/

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In his Politics, written in 350 BCE, Aristotle blew the whistle on the 21st Century: History shows that almost all tyrants have been demagogues who gained the favor of the people by their accusation of the notables.

It has been quite a few days for that, truth be told. As we enter the homestretch of the midterm elections, the notables are being accused right and left by an incredible passel of lunatic officeholders and candidates who profess to want to be officeholders—as though wanting to be part of The Government they claim to despise may have broken their brains years ago. We don’t even have to mention Dr. Mehmet Oz’s (alleged) presiding over the murder of puppies and then following up that revelation with a photo op in front of one of Hitler’s cars. And we don’t even have to involve ourselves with the endless cascade of batshit white noise coming from the Herschel Walker campaign in Georgia. We can leave those two things aside and still conclude that the Republican Party is bound and determined to have us ruled by people whom we would not otherwise wish to share a subway car.

For example, the former president* is out there holding wankfests again, most recently in Arizona and Nevada. At those events, he concocted a very strange tale concerning, of all people, George H.W. Bush. From Business Insider:

Trump then falsely claimed that former President George H.W. Bush, "took millions and millions of documents to a former bowling alley pieced together with what was then an old and broken Chinese restaurant. They put them together. And it had a broken front door and broken windows. Other than that it was quite secure.” Trump also questioned why Bush, among other presidents, was not being prosecuted. The former President died in a Houston hospital from a blood infection in 2018 after his wife, Barbara, died months earlier. His Arizona speech was nearly identical to the one he gave in Nevada on Saturday campaigning for Republican candidates Joe Lombardo and Adam Laxalt.

This tale was so astonishing that, for the first time in many years, Jeb Bush did not sound as though he were making a hostage tape for the SLA.

The comment prompted a response on Twitter from Bush's son, Jeb Bush, who replied to a clip of Trump during Saturday's Nevada rally. "I am so confused," he tweeted. "My dad enjoyed a good Chinese meal and enjoyed the challenge of 7 10 split. What the heck is up with you?”

Apparently, into the former president*’s leaky brainpan has floated the factoid that, prior to the completion of the senior Bush's Presidential Library, some personal detritus was stored in an old bowling alley. From the Independent:

It was in an old bowling alley, that things from the former president’s life were gathered. In 1994, when the future museum and library were coming together, a news agency reported that stuff like “an old infielder’s mitt, the door of a Kuwaiti palace, even a huge likeness of Bush’s head from a Republican convention” were brought to the bowling alley.

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[rubbersole]

1. Charlie Pierce is hilarious and always spot on.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Republicans, Pootineers, Taliban, Islamic Republic of Iran, Nazis, NatCs, racists -- all same.

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