The "new" face of the Republican Party

[Elixir]

Re-branding themselves as the Rethuglican party, Montana voters endorse physical assault upon those who question Rethuglican supremacy.

"I made a mistake"

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Which mistake is he referring to:

1) Getting angry at what should be a routine question he should have answered a million times?
2) Physically assaulting a reporter?
3) Lying about it?

 

[whichphilosophy]

Re-branding themselves as the Rethuglican party, Montana voters endorse physical assault upon those who question Rethuglican supremacy.

"I made a mistake"

Does that mean they'll start ordering SS Uniforms after just one incident?

 

[dismal]

Re-branding themselves as the Rethuglican party, Montana voters endorse physical assault upon those who question Rethuglican supremacy.

"I made a mistake"

Does that mean they'll start ordering SS Uniforms after just one incident?

No, I'm sure this election will cause Democrats to look deep inside themselves and question why they are so disliked they lose elections to people who commit assault the day before the election and the likes of Trump.

Though of course this election loss was probably due to the Russians gerrymandering the electoral college's Koch brothers.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Re-branding themselves as the Rethuglican party, Montana voters endorse physical assault upon those who question Rethuglican supremacy.

"I made a mistake"

Does that mean they'll start ordering SS Uniforms after just one incident?

After just one incident?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Though of course this election loss was probably due to the Russians gerrymandering the electoral college's Koch brothers.

Which of course would be difficult considering it is an at-large seat.

Thanks for playing!

 

[Valjean]

Re-branding themselves as the Rethuglican party, Montana voters endorse physical assault upon those who question Rethuglican supremacy.

"I made a mistake"

Does that mean they'll start ordering SS Uniforms after just one incident?

No, you have to work your way up to the full regalia. You start out with a simple brown shirt...

 

[starwater]

Does that mean they'll start ordering SS Uniforms after just one incident?

No, you have to work your way up to the full regalia. You start out with a simple brown shirt...

And recruiting children.

 

[dismal]

Though of course this election loss was probably due to the Russians gerrymandering the electoral college's Koch brothers.

Which of course would be difficult considering it is an at-large seat.

Thanks for playing!

The Russians are crafty that way. They always gerrymander where you don't expect it.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Does that mean they'll start ordering SS Uniforms after just one incident?

No, I'm sure this election will cause Democrats to look deep inside themselves and question why they are so disliked they lose elections to people who commit assault the day before the election and the likes of Trump.

1) Most people had already voted

2) It's Montana.

 

[SimpleDon]

I am not sure that the Democrats have anything to offer beyond not being a Republican, if the campaign of Jon Ossoff in Tom Price's sixth district of Georgia is any indication.

He avoids even being identified as a Democrat and his only argument is that both parties in Washington wastes a lot of your money, just on different things. Of course, without any specifics.

Neither candidate mentions Trump. Karen Handel, the Republican, attacks Ossoff for having lived in Washington, not living in the district, he doesn't, he lives about two miles out of the district but was born in the district and grew up in it. Handel was born and raised in Washington and was in fact older than Ossoff is today when she first moved into the 6th district.

All of which doesn't matter in the least of course, but is what the ads pound on along with Handel calling Ossoff a liberal and complaining that the majority of the money supporting him comes from outside of Georgia. And of course, the majority of the money supporting her comes from outside of Georgia. The only positive that she claims is to have balanced the Fulton County budget, which every county chairman has done because it is required by law, and to have fought illegal voting as the Secretary of State, which to Republicans means making it hard for those people to vote.

Ossoff attacks Handel for trivialities like having flown in the state's private jet and to have recommended at one time that the Secretary of State should buy new chairs for the office. Hard hitting stuff that.

I don't think that the Democrats will make much headway against the Republicans unless they can cobble together some kind of message of what they support. I don't think that being the anti-Trump will do it, pretty soon everyone will be an anti-Trump.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I am not sure that the Democrats have anything to offer beyond not being a Republican, if the campaign of Jon Ossoff in Tom Price's sixth district of Georgia is any indication.

He avoids even being identified as a Democrat and his only argument is that both parties in Washington wastes a lot of your money, just on different things. Of course, without any specifics.

Neither candidate mentions Trump. Karen Handel, the Republican, attacks Ossoff for having lived in Washington, not living in the district, he doesn't, he lives about two miles out of the district but was born in the district and grew up in it. Handel was born and raised in Washington and was in fact older than Ossoff is today when she first moved into the 6th district.

All of which doesn't matter in the least of course, but is what the ads pound on along with Handel calling Ossoff a liberal and complaining that the majority of the money supporting him comes from outside of Georgia. And of course, the majority of the money supporting her comes from outside of Georgia. The only positive that she claims is to have balanced the Fulton County budget, which every county chairman has done because it is required by law, and to have fought illegal voting as the Secretary of State, which to Republicans means making it hard for those people to vote.

Ossoff attacks Handel for trivialities like having flown in the state's private jet and to have recommended at one time that the Secretary of State should buy new chairs for the office. Hard hitting stuff that.

I don't think that the Democrats will make much headway against the Republicans unless they can cobble together some kind of message of what they support. I don't think that being the anti-Trump will do it, pretty soon everyone will be an anti-Trump.

The Democrats did come up with a message. And the people want what the Democrats are pushing for. The problem is, the terms liberal and Democrats has been successfully turned into poison.

 

[prideandfall]

The problem is, the terms liberal and Democrats has been successfully turned into poison.

i don't want to completely derail this thread but this really stuck out to me because i guess this is just something that i'm too insulated in my world to understand.
... has it been? and if so, to WHOM and what difference does it make?

is the implication that people who are liberal democratic voters are abstaining from voting for democrats because they've been convinced democrats are evil? because that seems an utterly ridiculous premise to me, given that the only reasoning to revile democrats is from a position of being in opposition to liberalism in the first place.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The problem is, the terms liberal and Democrats has been successfully turned into poison.

i don't want to completely derail this thread but this really stuck out to me because i guess this is just something that i'm too insulated in my world to understand.
... has it been? and if so, to WHOM and what difference does it make?

To fence sitters and moderate conservatives that think the Teabaggers are nuts... but hey... at least they aren't Democrats because they want to kill us all.

 

[prideandfall]

i don't want to completely derail this thread but this really stuck out to me because i guess this is just something that i'm too insulated in my world to understand.
... has it been? and if so, to WHOM and what difference does it make?

To fence sitters and moderate conservatives that think the Teabaggers are nuts... but hey... at least they aren't Democrats because they want to kill us all.

well to the first i have to be honest i don't believe those exist.
nobody waffles between voting D or voting R and is just waiting to see how the debates shake out to decide which one to go for, that's a delusion that the media and the beltway insiders have concocted to convince themselves there's some kind of variable quality to the electorate.

as for moderate conservatives, in this day and age that just means a lunatic who isn't actively shitting themselves... i don't see them voting D ever either.

am i missing something here? because it seems like yeah democrats and liberalism are demonized by only by (and to) the people who are against the very ideals of liberalism in the first place who would never be participating in that side of the political process regardless of whether democrats are baby eating satanists or just a different approach to economic policy.

 

[blastula]

A month earlier, some foreshadowing,

Gianforte celebrates birthday with Hamilton’s Advancing Conservatism Society | State & Regional | missoulian.com

And, during questions at the end of his talk, Gianforte took one from a man who said: “Our biggest enemy is the news media. How can we rein in the news media?”

The man then looked at the Ravalli Republic reporter sitting next to him and raised his hands as if he would like to wring his neck.


Gianforte smiled and pointed at the reporter.



“We have someone right here,” the candidate said. “It seems like there is more of us than there is of him."

 

[blastula]

Does that mean they'll start ordering SS Uniforms after just one incident?

No, I'm sure this election will cause Democrats to look deep inside themselves and question why they are so disliked they lose elections to people who commit assault the day before the election and the likes of Trump.

Though of course this election loss was probably due to the Russians gerrymandering the electoral college's Koch brothers.

Or that it's a seat held by Republicans for 20 straight years.

 

[SimpleDon]

To fence sitters and moderate conservatives that think the Teabaggers are nuts... but hey... at least they aren't Democrats because they want to kill us all.

well to the first i have to be honest i don't believe those exist.
nobody waffles between voting D or voting R and is just waiting to see how the debates shake out to decide which one to go for, that's a delusion that the media and the beltway insiders have concocted to convince themselves there's some kind of variable quality to the electorate.

as for moderate conservatives, in this day and age that just means a lunatic who isn't actively shitting themselves... i don't see them voting D ever either.

am i missing something here? because it seems like yeah democrats and liberalism are demonized by only by (and to) the people who are against the very ideals of liberalism in the first place who would never be participating in that side of the political process regardless of whether democrats are baby eating satanists or just a different approach to economic policy.

Massive derail,

I see the following,

1. The country has become much more polarized to the point that it is almost impossible for one side to talk to the other.
2. The country has moved to the right, it is more conservative now.
3. The Democrats also moved to the right, the DLC, Clinton wing of the party.
4. This left the liberals far to the left of the country and of the Democratic party..
5. In essence the Democratic party agreed with the conservatives that liberals lacked any reasonable basis on which to lead.
6. The Republicans ripped away the white working class (the WWC from here on) from the Democratic party.
7. They did this by catering to what liberals to this day still misidentify as the WWC's racism.
8. The Republican establishment understands that 90% of decision making is emotional, not objective, it isn't the product of weighting the relative merit of two competing arguments or positions.
9. People whose brains have been injured to where they can't feel or express emotion are also incapable of making a decision.
10. What liberals believe is the racism of the WWC is and always has been the fear that people below them in social status will overtake them in the social order and in earning power.
11. The Republican establishment needed soldiers and votes to accomplish their long held goal of eliminating the progressive income tax, which over time, with success, turned into a general goal of pushing as much money to the already rich as possible.
12. Accomplished, ironically, largely by suppressing the wages of the WWC, which increased profits while increasing the wage and job insecurity of the WWC, reducing the WWC pressure to raise wages, compounding the effect.
13. The Republican establishment saw that in the socially conservative WWC they could gain the soldiers and the votes that they needed by providing the conservative WWC with what they needed, an explanation of why the WWC was being held down, it was because the liberals and the government are unfairly boosting the people below the WWC in social status to compete with the WWC.
14. This is why the WWC for the most part aren't racists in the sense that they hate blacks, but who do respond to the idea that the liberal government is responsible for their low wages and lack of success because the evil government is boosting blacks, women, gays, immigrants, etc. above the WWC.
15. And it is completely unfair.
16. The only hope that the WWC has is the Republican party, who opposes both liberals and an obtrusive government.
17. That liberals can't be trusted.
18. That government can't be trusted.

The Democrats will be unable to reclaim the WWC unless they can break this emotional bond between the Republican party and the WWC. The only way to do it would be to convince the WWC that the party was trying to boost the WWC, too. This means that instead of trying to eliminate the last vestiges of racism, the Democrats are going to have to talk about eliminating the blockages against the WWC, the largely imaginary ones like affirmative action. They are going to have to talk about raising wages and lowering profits. They are going to have to abandon being a mini-me-too Republican party and probably having to live without the Wall Street/Corporate campaign money.

 

[untermensche]

Does that mean they'll start ordering SS Uniforms after just one incident?

No, I'm sure this election will cause Democrats to look deep inside themselves and question why they are so disliked they lose elections to people who commit assault the day before the election and the likes of Trump.

Though of course this election loss was probably due to the Russians gerrymandering the electoral college's Koch brothers.

The entire country should be asking itself a lot of questions after electing the pretender and conman Trump and then this violent ignoramus.

Starting with: How did we sink this low?

 

[whichphilosophy]

Does that mean they'll start ordering SS Uniforms after just one incident?

After just one incident?

Maybe wait for a couple then.

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No, I'm sure this election will cause Democrats to look deep inside themselves and question why they are so disliked they lose elections to people who commit assault the day before the election and the likes of Trump.

Though of course this election loss was probably due to the Russians gerrymandering the electoral college's Koch brothers.

The entire country should be asking itself a lot of questions after electing the pretender and conman Trump and then this violent ignoramus.

Starting with: How did we sink this low?

Are you condemning Trump for acting like a politician?