The GOP Is the Party of ‘Fuck You’

[ZiprHead]

The GOP Is the Party of ‘F**k You’

It was once a political party, now it’s a nihilistic, corrupt, fake populist scam.

www.thedailybeast.com

The Republican Party has become the party of “Fuck you.” “Fuck you” is the motivation of its alienated voters. It is its legislative strategy. It is its views toward the laws and Constitution of the United States. It is its reaction to morality and values. It is its foreign policy mantra with our allies. “Fuck you” is even its message to the historians of the future.


Sadly, we live in an age in which the political discourse of the United States results in every idea floated by Democrats, independents, and even the elusive “reasonable Republicans,” in which every constructive thought floated about the direction our country should take, or how we should behave, or why the law matters is met by a chorus of Republican leaders with their signature “Fuck you.”

We have seen multiple examples of the politics of “Fuck you” this week. We have seen Donald Trump, the leader of the party, the high priest of “Fuck you-ism,” the commander-in-chief of the “Fuck your feelings” army, in a video-taped deposition saying, essentially, “Fuck you” to E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer. We heard him say “Fuck you” to anyone who may have thought sexual abuse was wrong when he doubled down on his famous pussy-grabbing brag, arguing that “stars” like him have been “fortunate” to be able to grab pussies for the past “million years” or so.

Then, when an undoubtedly disgusted jury found Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation in record time, he immediately said “Fuck you” to the American system of justice and to his own hometown in a series of social media posts that soon may be fodder for the next set of defamation suits against him.

He followed that up with a televised Trump rally that was carried on CNN in which he repeated some of his greatest “Fuck yous” to America of the past seven years. He doubled down on the Big Lie. He called Vladimir Putin a smart guy. He refused to condemn Putin as a war criminal. He equated Russia and Ukraine’s role in the former’s invasion of the latter. He promised to pardon Jan. 6 insurrectionists. He said he had a right to the classified government documents he stole. He said the GOP was right to threaten debt default, which he said might have no effect at all. He gloated about his role in making the Dobbs decision happen. And he once again defamed E Jean Carroll. It was a tour de force of what might be called the art of “Fuck you,” complete with an audience of fawning MAGA zombies and a big old “Get fucked” to fact-checkers in the form of his usual tsunami of lies.

After Trump, the most senior member of the GOP, is of course, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He, too, has demonstrated where “Fuck your feelings, fuck your Constitution, fuck the world economy, fuck every American” gets you as a policy position by threatening to trigger a U.S. default on its debt for the first time in history.

He does this despite the GOP having held the view that paying the debt was sacrosanct under Trump (as it was for decades previous), and despite having voted for the big GOP measures that have contributed to America’s deficit. Oh, and the “plan” for cutting the deficit he proposes is not only completely unrealistic, it would be a big “Fuck you” to tens of thousands of Americans—like the 81,000 people at the Veterans Administration whose jobs he would put at risk or the hundreds of thousands of veterans they serve.

Much more in the article. And every word is gold, Jerry. Gold.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I don't really think the word "fuck" is correct here. "Rape" is more like it.

 

[laughing dog]

The GOP is pandering to a significant portion of the electorate who feels that “ the elite” has been and still is saying “fuck you” to them. And the GOP wii continue and be successful as long as that group feels that way.

 

[Elixir]

the GOP wii continue and be successful as long as that group feels that way.

That group will always feel that way. Hopefully the numbers of the extreme elements of that group will continue its decline and they’ll get thrashed in ‘24.
If not, things are not going to go well for most people.

 

[laughing dog]

the GOP wii continue and be successful as long as that group feels that way.

That group will always feel that way. Hopefully the numbers of the extreme elements of that group will continue its decline and they’ll get thrashed in ‘24.
If not, things are not going to go well for most people.

True for some in that group but not for all.

 

[Elixir]

the GOP wii continue and be successful as long as that group feels that way.

That group will always feel that way. Hopefully the numbers of the extreme elements of that group will continue its decline and they’ll get thrashed in ‘24.
If not, things are not going to go well for most people.

True for some in that group but not for all.

As long as that group is the loudest component of the GOP, they don’t need to be the largest. Witness how a gaggle of ten or so idiots now control the House - and all the money. It is imperative that they be … uh … relieved of duty.

 

[Shadowy Man]

If the GOP loses the core MAGA-type voters they won't have enough votes to ever win. Unless they can figure out how to appeal to enough independents and moderate Democrats to make up for the loss in numbers. They appear to be taking the route of pandering to their base rather than expanding their appeal.

 

[Playball40]

If the GOP loses the core MAGA-type voters they won't have enough votes to ever win. Unless they can figure out how to appeal to enough independents and moderate Democrats to make up for the loss in numbers. They appear to be taking the route of pandering to their base rather than expanding their appeal.

I don't understand how any reasonable republican would continue to vote for the MAGA type idiots. I truly don't. Do they all just lack a conscience?

 

[Patooka]

I don't understand how any reasonable republican would continue to vote for the MAGA type idiots.

Agreed. Play that out.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

I don't understand how any reasonable republican would continue to vote for the MAGA type idiots. I truly don't. Do they all just lack a conscience?

Because there are some, hell tens of millions of people who will vote R no matter what. The presumption that these people can be converted by presenting them with better ideas and real outcomes truly died sometime around 2003 when it was definitively found out that the invasion of Iraq was wholly based on false pretenses.

Remember the Swift Boat campaign? John Kerry was an awarded combat veteran who saved lives, killed enemy soldiers, and was wounded in action wasn't actually a war hero. He was a coward because... well, he just was. Dubbya was the real hero despite never going to war and being absent from his National Guard unit for a year.

It's only grown worse from there. But that national gaslighting with the swift boat bullshit was a super critical moment for the GOP. They were able to clearly discern that they could say anything and their voters would eat it up; and Fox News and Limbaugh were there to back it up all day every day.

Dubbya/Cheney being reelected was proof of the success of the gaslighting doctrine.

 

[Elixir]

If the GOP loses the core MAGA-type voters they won't have enough votes to ever win. Unless they can figure out how to appeal to enough independents and moderate Democrats to make up for the loss in numbers. They appear to be taking the route of pandering to their base rather than expanding their appeal.

I don't understand how any reasonable republican would continue to vote for the MAGA type idiots. I truly don't. Do they all just lack a conscience?

Remember: “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
Also, accept that “reasonable Republicans” has become an oxymoron. Republicans writ large have submitted to belief in Trumpist absurdities. The following atrocities don’t require any further explanation.

 

[laughing dog]

If the GOP loses the core MAGA-type voters they won't have enough votes to ever win. Unless they can figure out how to appeal to enough independents and moderate Democrats to make up for the loss in numbers. They appear to be taking the route of pandering to their base rather than expanding their appeal.

I don't understand how any reasonable republican would continue to vote for the MAGA type idiots. I truly don't. Do they all just lack a conscience?

Yes, there are MAGAbots who will always support this authoritarian jackasses. Yes there those who will always vote for a Republican. But there are also steady Republican voters who will not vote for a Democrat but who will refrain from voting for one of these pseudo (or actual) white christian nationalist thugs.

It is the last group of regular Republican voters I hope will cause the GOP to lose ground in some areas or to change their tactics. I know there are those who argue there are no more of those voters left (i.e. they would already have "left") but there is a continuum in any group.

 

[Shadowy Man]

If the GOP loses the core MAGA-type voters they won't have enough votes to ever win. Unless they can figure out how to appeal to enough independents and moderate Democrats to make up for the loss in numbers. They appear to be taking the route of pandering to their base rather than expanding their appeal.

I don't understand how any reasonable republican would continue to vote for the MAGA type idiots. I truly don't. Do they all just lack a conscience?

Yes, there are MAGAbots who will always support this authoritarian jackasses. Yes there those who will always vote for a Republican. But there are also steady Republican voters who will not vote for a Democrat but who will refrain from voting for one of these pseudo (or actual) white christian nationalist thugs.

It is the last group of regular Republican voters I hope will cause the GOP to lose ground in some areas or to change their tactics. I know there are those who argue there are no more of those voters left (i.e. they would already have "left") but there is a continuum in any group.

This is what happened to Trump in Georgia. He received thousands of fewer votes than other Republican candidates in the 2020 election.
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[Elixir]

I know there are those who argue there are no more of those voters left (i.e. they would already have "left") but there is a continuum in any group.

So the salient question becomes “how many of them are there, and what is their geographical distribution?”
I fear that most such ”Republicans” are in Dem controlled districts/States, and that there are too few of them in so-called swing States and districts to make a significant difference in the makeup of Congress or control of the Whitehouse.
As SM points out, it did happen in GA. Is that as far as it goes?