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NanceGreggs's JournalNot for nuthin', but ...
... I believe America deserves a stronger leader than a man who lives in mortal fear of well-aimed fruit.
Just out of curiosity ...
If Democrats started acting like the Republicans we see on a daily basis now - e.g. promoting ridiculous conspiracy theories, claiming that dead people are still alive, insisting that vaccinations contain tracking devices, etc. - would you leave the party, maybe register as Independent?
Or would you stay a Democrat in hopes that the out-there members will eventually STFU and come back to reality?
Honestly, I think I would leave rather than be associated with the whack-jobs I'm seeing on the GOP side these days. Putting aside the obvious (racism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc.), the stupidity alone would drive me away.
Due to how vocal the RWNJs are, I now associate being a Republican with being a low-IQ idiot who swallows the most insane CTs, and cannot distinguish between lunacy and the real world.
It also makes me wonder why reality-based Republicans (and I suspect there are still some out there) continue to support a party that has so completely given itself over to nonsense-spouting nut-jobs.
YMMV, but if MY party was being represented on a daily basis by horse-dewormer-ingesting, fact-denying, JFK Jr. is alive and will be Trump's running mate in 2024 lunatics, I would leave that party in a heartbeat.
Your thoughts?
Just Stop!
Like everyone else, I have a LOT of complaints these days. A LOT of things are pissing me off - but one in particular is putting me over the edge.
I am sick to death of pundits, political analysts, MSM personalities, journalists, and other assorted and sundry spokes-mouths repeating the idea that the Democrats will lose the House and/or the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections.
"It's a given," they say, "because that's the way it's always been. The party that holds the WH always suffers losses in the midterms" - a declaration that invariably follows a litany of statements about how we are living in unprecedented times, where political business-as-usual is no longer "usual".
We have a former "pResident" under investigation for crimes against the US, lawmakers under investigation for trying to overthrow our government, people at the highest levels of the previous administration pleading the 5th - all unprecedented - and yet we are being encouraged to believe that the precedent of Democrats suffering massive losses in November is an inevitability we have to brace ourselves for, because history shows yadda, yadda, yadda.
It amazes me that anyone would cling to the notions of the past as being somehow applicable to today's political climate. The very idea that the old norms still prevail in the face of "the new norms" we are currently facing is as preposterous as saying that we, as voters, can change everything - except the inevitable.
In today's political climate, believing that anything is inevitable is to believe that votes don't count, because "inevitability" is stronger than the voice of the People.
I, for one, say FUCK THAT NOISE. Stop promoting the idea that all is already lost before the first midterm ballot is cast. STOP telling me that my voice will not be heard before I have a chance to raise it.
And STOP telling me that in the upside-down world of up-means-down politics, historical "precedents" still have meaning.
If you're promoting the idea that Democratic midterm losses are to be expected, you are also promoting the idea that they are inevitable. So stop pretending you aren't taking a side - when you obviously already have.
I once had a discussion ...
... with a sitting POTUS - but I can't remember what we talked about.
I'm sure it happens all the time - it's just not widely reported.
Exhibit A in the Trump-humpers will believe anything cache of evidence.
Sleepless in DC
We all know that there is infighting within the GOP over a myriad of things. But now there's something new thrown into the mix that is undoubtedly causing increased tension between warring factions.
You can't help but wonder how much distrust now exists between Republicans as to who among them not only recorded phone conversations, but leaked the audiotapes.
How many GOPers are now eyeing each other as potential traitors to their colleagues, or their party as a whole?
How many Republicans are in a sweat wondering who they can trust within their own ranks, and who might be willing to throw them under the bus in order to save their own asses, or in pursuit of their own political advantage?
What happens when even members of the we've got each other's backs coalitions start disintegrating because someone in their inner circle has obviously gone rogue?
The first rule of the GOP Fight Club has been broken - because members of that club are not only talking about it, they're providing indisputable evidence of its existence.
Is there a Republican left who still trusts any other Republican? It's doubtful.
No one knows who voluntarily came forward to testify before the January 6th committee. No one knows what they said.
And no one knows who handed over those audiotapes - the ones we've already heard, and the ones yet to be revealed.
How 'bout this?
How about we put MTG in prison as a convicted traitor - and when she complains that she didn't have a trial, we explain that there was one - but given her faulty memory, she simply doesn't recall that it happened.
Most frenzied activity in DC right now?
That would be Republicans trying to remember the content of every phone call they participated in, whether they publicly denied saying what they said, and wondering if there are tapes of those conversations that will surface proving them to be liars - or worse.
There's no shortage of flop-sweat in GOP circles right now - and I am delightedly savouring that thought.
A Few Good Men
The GOP now finds itself in the unenviable position of having to continue to defend the indefensible - Donald J. Trump - a lying, self-serving, power-abusing madman whose corruption is being revealed on a daily basis, and whose crimes against the nation are about to be fully exposed via the January 6th Committee's public hearings.
The sudden cooperation with that Committee by Trump's inner circle does not represent a newly-discovered sense of patriotism - it is instead demonstrative of rats deserting a sinking ship.
The irony - and there has been no lack of irony when it comes to the actions of Republican powers-that-be during Trump's tenure in office and beyond - is that Trump's "base" of GOP voters has proven itself to be the most easily-led, the most easily-manipulated block of voters the nation has ever known.
Had a few good Republican men had the spine to say "enough is enough" during Trump's first impeachment, they would have been free of The Orange Anus - and could have framed their arguments in a way that persuaded the oh-so-easily-persuadable that extorting a vulnerable nation like Ukraine was NOT what the GOP was all about.
Had a few good Republican men had the spine to say "enough is enough" during Trump's second impeachment, they would have been seen as true patriots who put country above party.
But they didn't. They instead chose to again defend the indefensible, whine about a "stolen election" they have no evidence of, and cling to the notion that the easily-misled were incapable of being just as easily led to democratic ideas and ideals.
The shit is about to hit the fan - and the only reason GOPers have decided to cooperate with the January 6th investigative committee is a last-ditch effort to save their own political asses.
There is NO defense against fomenting an insurrection against the US government - and the Republicans who supported that insurrection are about to find out why.
On the off chance ...
... that there are still some elected Republicans out there who were NOT involved in participating in Trump's attempt to overthrow the US government, nor aiding and abetting said attempt by propagating the Big Lie, now is the time to either come clean or lawyer-up.
In case you missed it, the January 6th committee is compiling evidence on a daily basis. Texts are being unearthed, emails are being scrutinized, witnesses to discussions and events are spilling all they know.
Even Ivanka, Jared, and Guilfoyle have spent hours with the Committee - and if you think any of them have somehow outsmarted their interlocutors by not revealing damning information, you're as dumb as they are - and that's pretty fuckin' dumb.
You can rail against the Committee all you want - call it a witch-hunt, label it as a political stunt, dismiss it as a baseless attempt to smear a former "pResident" who remains blameless - despite all evidence to the contrary.
The fact remains that the facts are being uncovered, and they are incontrovertible.
"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party." And the only aid Republicans can now render to their ailing party is to admit to their crimes, denounce their loyalty to the self-serving Orange Idiot, and pray that they survive the political tsunami that is about to be unleashed.
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