What happens to the Republican Party now? (3 Viewers)

SteveSBrickNJ said:

In the realistic world, last January my prediction did not seem(to me) to be so incredible.
Yet this thread has many liberals who do not live in the realistic world.
Last January they failed to agree with my common sense prediction.
I told them I'd not forget....I'd appear on this thread and have a smile as I remind them that I was correct.
Did that...done!

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Yes….because what is passing for conservative these days is all so realistic….you deserve 2 cookies for that one!!!!!! And while your prediction may come true it hasn’t just yet…..

SFIDC3 said:

Yes….because what is passing for conservative these days is all so realistic….you deserve 2 cookies for that one!!!!!! And while your prediction may come true it hasn’t just yet…..

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BTW....My favorite cookie is oatmeal raisin .
I will not be posting anymore. I have to drive from Brick NJ to Virginia tonight.
My wife and I will be spending the weekend with our daughter at her college.

SteveSBrickNJ said:

BTW....My favorite cookie is oatmeal raisin .
I will not be posting anymore. I have to drive from Brick NJ to Virginia tonight.
My wife and I will be spending the weekend with our daughter at her college.

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And here I thought you and I would never agree on anything.

SteveSBrickNJ said:

BTW....My favorite cookie is oatmeal raisin .

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cuddlemonkey said:

And here I thought you and I would never agree on anything.

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You two have issues. Chocolate Chip, ride or die.

coldseat said:

You two have issues. Chocolate Chip, ride or die.

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I'll meet you in the middle with peanut butter.

SteveSBrickNJ said:

In the realistic world, last January my prediction did not seem(to me) to be so incredible.
Yet this thread has many liberals who do not live in the realistic world.
Last January they failed to agree with my common sense prediction.
I told them I'd not forget....I'd appear on this thread and have a smile as I remind them that I was correct.
Did that...done!

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This sure seems a lot like spiking the ball on the 5 yard line to me.

Chuck Grassley needs to retire.

MT15 said:

This sure seems a lot like spiking the ball on the 5 yard line to me.

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To be fair, Kamara did that last week and it was awesome.

MT15 said:

This sure seems a lot like spiking the ball on the 5 yard line to me.

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Well then I will come back on Wednesday and spike it in the end zone. I am in a hotel in Harrisonburg VA. Soon my wife will be ready and we will continue on to Lynchburg VA. Lunch with our daughter and then the three of us will go hiking. Have a great weekend everyone.

When you do come back (oh-have a great weekend) tell us what exactly do you think the Rs will do with their power (assuming they gain control). What will they accomplish that will help us overcome inflation and solve our problems?

At a campaign rally in Pittsburgh on Wednesday night, Doug Mastriano — Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate — said that on Day 1 of a Mastriano administration, he would “order all of the schools to post their curriculum online for full transparency,” promising there would be “no more graphic porn in elementary school libraries” if he were elected governor.


At a speech in Onalaska, Wis., Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) lamented that the nation’s “education system, unfortunately, is teaching our children not to like this country,” and declared, “This has to end.”


And at a stop in Grand Rapids, Mich., last Saturday evening, Matthew DePerno — the state’s Republican candidate for attorney general — warned the school system wants to “indoctrinate” the state’s children, teaching them “to hate God, hate their country and hate their parents.”

“They want to divide your family — they want to teach your children that they can no longer trust you,” DePerno continued. “And they want your children to then go to counselors and schools and teachers in schools and talk to them about pronouns, puberty blockers and those types of things.

And then they walk them down to Planned Parenthood without the parents’ knowledge or consent.”


In the final days of the campaign, Republicans across the country are sharpening a message focused on what they dub “parental rights,” portraying Democrats as out of touch with what’s happening in the nation’s schools and warning of a dystopian future — pornographic books in school libraries, liberal brainwashing in classrooms and scant parental involvement — should Democrats win Tuesday’s midterm elections…….

This article is yet another example of the media reporting on R talking points without pointing out they are largely made up. It’s so damaging.

I think there is a whole lot of truth to this:

When I read stuff like this, it makes my head and heart hurt.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Lance Wallnau used to be a corporate marketer who privately believed that power lay in prophetic revelation.

Then came 2015, and he began sharing a word from God: Donald Trump was “anointed.”


Seven years later, prophecy is booming.

And for Wallnau, it’s been a busy run-up to the midterm.


In July, Wallnau prayed over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) before a cheering Atlanta arena audience. By early September, he was at a conference outside Colorado Springs with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

And, a few days after that, here he was in the suburbs of Harrisburg, Pa., for GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, whom he compared with George Washington at Valley Forge.


“Now there’s another Christian colonel who is in charge,” Wallnau told the crowd of hundreds standing in a suburban restaurant parking lot.

“They may out-gather, they may outmaneuver, and in my opinion they may know how to out-cheat. But they cannot outflank us if we move as one. … The whole country will be affected by what happens in Pennsylvania.”

All over the country this year, figures like Wallnau, hailing from the right wing of prophetic and charismatic Christianity, have been appearing with candidates as part of a growing U.S. religious phenomenon that emphasizes faith healing, the idea that divine signs and wonders are everywhere, and spiritual warfare.


Longtime watchers of religion in the United States say this rise of prophetic figures is the result of multiple forces.

Among them are a collapse of trust in institutional sources of information, the growth of charismatic Christianity and its accompanying media ecosystems, and a Trump presidency that brought in from the fringe spiritual figures long rejected by the political and evangelical establishments…….

Re: last two posts. More proof America is on its way out.

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“There is a man by the name of Donald,” the voice on the recording says. “God said, ‘You have been determined through your prayers to influence this nation … I will open that door that you prayed about, and when it comes time for the election you will be elected.”

Three thousand people are packed into an overflowing auditorium, many with arms raised and eyes closed in prayer. The recording to which they are listening is from April 2013 and of Kim Clement, a late South African preacher, as he prophesies the first coming of Donald Trump.

In a clip from the following year, Clement again purports to channel the word of God: “Hear me, for I have found a man after my own heart and he is among you. He is one of the brothers, but singled out for presidency of the United States of America.”

There is excitement in the theater, with talk of a “red wave” at Tuesday’s midterm elections that will set America back on a righteous path after two years in the progressive wilderness. There is also palpable expectation that victory next week will be followed soon after by Trump’s second coming.

The audience erupts in a mighty cheer as Clement’s speaking as God is beamed down to them from large flat screens while he says: “Hear me today. I have the whole thing planned out. I have looked for a man who would restore the fortunes of Zion.”

So begins the ReAwaken America tour, a Trump-adoring, rightwing road show that has come for its 17th and last pre-election stop to Branson, a deeply Christian, deeply conservative town in Missouri.

Over the next two days the crowd, swathed in Stars and Stripes T-shirts and Make America Great Again (Maga) hats and paying up to $500 for a “VIP” ticket, will be treated to speeches from the far-right stormtroopers of the Trump revolution……..

We really ought to have a "What happens to the Democratic party now" thread. They've been forking this up since 2010.