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Mr. Scorpio

Mr. Scorpio's Journal
Mr. Scorpio's Journal
July 21, 2024

All the Democratic Party big wigs have until EOD to endorse VP Harris

We’re all paying attention.

July 21, 2024

I can say a lot of things, but I won't....

All I will say is just look around and see who are the people who are happy and also those who aren’t, and THAT should tell you everything you need to know.

July 20, 2024

I am seriously mourning the demise of the modern Republican Party, now America needs a political enema...

My first awareness on American politics started fifty years ago, as a spectator of the Watergate Hearings and Nixon's White House, up to his resignation on the 9th of August, 1974.

Despite the crisis, the state of our politics was relatively healthy... Nixon's fall was due, much in part, because BOTH parties and our political institutions generally adhered to the law. Toxic partisanship, comparatively was not something that the parties tolerated. It was a time when liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats had legitimate positions in their own parties. A time when both the center-right and center-left parties could meet in the middle for the good of the nation.

Love Democrats as I do, the last thing that I would ever want of the Democratic Party is that it would be the ONLY political organization running the country. We need SANE Republicans to work with SANE Democrats to GOVERN from the center. We can't have a party that's supposed to be all things for all people, because such a thing would be extremely destructive for basic democracy.

Unfortunately, the aftermath of Nixon's fall started the Republican Party on a destructive path towards making itself into a party of one party rule. Starting ever slightly with the Powell Doctrine and Reagan's attempted coup against Gerald Ford, to the Reagan's "revolution" in 1980, to his exit and the first rise of the Bush's, to the Gingrich's Contract On America and to the second rise of the Bush's, the party's shift to extreme partisanship weakened Republican resolve to put country over party.

Blame money in politics, the rise of christofascism, the complete abandonment of the press to any adherence to ethics, there's so many factors to consider, there's only one thing to point out and that is the fact that our politics is broken, today we're saddled with one party that's doing it's best to stick to the rules and another that's devolved into a white grievance apocalyptic death cult with messianic tendencies. The momentum is against the country as a whole, because Trump's cult is hellbent on burning America to the ground, just so Trump can reign over the ashes.

Roughly, a mind-bogfully SIXTY percent of white voters in this county are supporting this horrific collapse of the body politic. They can be beat, of course, as we've beat them before. It's not going to be easy, considering all of the cheating by MAGAts and the interference of the MAGAT controlled Supreme Court. As a matter of fact, the best thing that we can do FOR Republicans is beating the bloody shit out of the MAGAts holding their party hostage. We need to defeat Trump, we need to beat his sycophants in Congress, we need to purge them from the judiciary.

And we do this, on our side, by ending all of our in-fighting to support Joe Biden unconditionally. They stakes are too high to do otherwise, considering what we're up against. The Rank and File voters have spoken: Joe's the one. Joe has spoken: He's not going anywhere. Black Democratic voters have spoken: We're sticking with Joe. Hispanic Democrats have spoken: They're with Joe. Now it time for everyone else in the Democratic camp to stick with Joe as well.

My biggest problem with the naysayers comes in three parts: They're all too enthusiastic to dump the ONLY team, in Joe and Kamala, to beat Trump. They can't give us any concrete assurances that Joe can't beat Trump again. And most of all, they can't come to a consensus on what a replacement team would consist of, to beat Trump in Joe's stead. This is complete bullshit. We've got Republicans depending on us, we've got America depending on us and this is the best we can do? Given our inability to unify behind the man who has earned the right to be our nominee, we're demonstrating that we're not fit to govern as the only legitimate political party in this country, We're the best center-left party there is, but we would fail without a legitimate center-right party.

We've got one job... Beat Trump and MAGAts. We need to save the real Republican Party, we need to save America. We need to stop Project 2025.









July 19, 2024

I wonder if Dave Bautista and John Cena would be interested in speaking at the DNC

I think that the political arena could benefit from listening to a couple of SANE professional wrestlers for a change.

July 19, 2024

Trump is clearly not a leader...

He’s a con man, a facilitator, a front man and a petty tyrant. He’s has abundantly more the qualities of a pimp than he has of a president.

He doesn’t have his own policies, he has bad ideas that he’s plagiarized from other people. People that he can only relate with transactionally. He’s the prototype of a useful idiot. A tool made flesh in human form.

Since his positions are so amorphous, it allows his white grievance apocalyptic death cult to imprint their own biases and delusions on to him. He doesn’t really care, either way, and his fans are all completely oblivious to his lack of concern for them.

He’s a political black hole of anger, stupidity and narcissism and the Republican Party has been destroyed because of him.

July 19, 2024

I ain't watching his fucking speech...

I just ate something.

July 19, 2024

Trump's a fucking idiot...

I have no idea why we’re getting threatened with this bullshit again.

July 18, 2024

Joe's the nominee...

This hand wringing is ridiculous.

July 16, 2024

The "Republican Party" needs to rebrand

That political party is dead and gone.

It should be renamed he "Make America Greedy Again Party" or "Trumpy's Goonies" or something.

It's really disheartening that the very last "Republican" president was Shrubya.

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