What happens to the Republican Party now? (2 Viewers)

[MT15]

This election nonsense by Trump may end up splitting up the Republican Party. I just don’t see how the one third (?) who are principled conservatives can stay in the same party with Trump sycophants who are willing to sign onto the TX Supreme Court case.

We also saw the alt right types chanting “destroy the GOP” in Washington today because they didn’t keep Trump in power. I think the Q types will also hold the same ill will toward the traditional Republican Party. In fact its quite possible that all the voters who are really in a Trump personality cult will also blame the GOP for his loss. It’s only a matter of time IMO before Trump himself gets around to blaming the GOP.

There is some discussion of this on Twitter. What do you all think?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Reminds me of the accidental (but incredibly coincidental) CPAC stage

Awful lot of Freudian slips
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Republican group in Alabama is apologizing after accidentally using a picture of the GOP elephant that contained Ku Klux Klan imagery.

The Lawrence County Republican Party intended to post an image of the GOP elephant on its Facebook page, but ended up using one in which the white spaces between the animal's legs were drawn to resemble hooded Klansmen.

A party official said the image was taken from the results of a Google search and that the image was immediately replaced once the mistake was detected.

“I would like to offer a deep and sincere apology for a picture that temporarily appeared on this page last night. A google search picture of a GOP elephant was used and later found to have hidden images that do not represent the views or beliefs of the Lawrence County Republican Party," Shannon Terry wrote in a Facebook post apologizing for the use of the image..............

GOP group apologizes for mistakenly posting KKK image

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/01/cpac-stage-nazi-symbol-hyatt/

 

[MT15]

It could have been an honest mistake.

 

[Optimus Prime]

It could have been an honest mistake.

Possibly

But when people are comparing you to Nazis and calling you racist they're certainly odd honest mistakes to make

 

[superchuck500]

 

[superchuck500]

 

[bird]

Hmmmm. I look at DeathSantis and see idiocy.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Alex Jones wouldn't know sincerity if it sued him and won 49 million in damages.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

This is the Republican party:

Liz Cheney has released her concession call to Harriet Hageman, after the Trump-backed Republican who won the Wyoming US House primary on Tuesday told Fox News her rival had not made “any kind of concession or anything else”.

Republicans will just lie to their constituents about anything and their voters accept that with open arms.

Cheney gave a recording of the call to Politico. In it, she said: “Hi, Harriet, it is Liz Cheney calling. It is about 8.13 [pm] on Tuesday the 16th. I’m calling to concede the election and congratulate you on the win. Thanks.”

Liz Cheney releases call to Trump-backed opponent who said she didn’t concede

Cheney releases recording of her call to Harriet Hageman, conceding her loss in the Wyoming US House primary on Tuesday

www.theguardian.com

 

[Eeyore]

They got the Bible banned

Book Ban Backfire: Texas School District Forced to Pull the Bible

Pascal Deloche/Godong/Universal Images Group via GettyA Texas school district has pulled dozens of challenged books from its library shelves—including the Bible—just before the start of the academic year under a new policy introduced by conservative leaders.“Attached is a list of all books that...

www.yahoo.com

 

[superchuck500]

They got the Bible banned

Book Ban Backfire: Texas School District Forced to Pull the Bible

Pascal Deloche/Godong/Universal Images Group via GettyA Texas school district has pulled dozens of challenged books from its library shelves—including the Bible—just before the start of the academic year under a new policy introduced by conservative leaders.“Attached is a list of all books that...

www.yahoo.com

Does the fact that the book banning effort began with anti-sexuality, anti-CRT biggots stop the disingenuous outrage-porn right-wing media from trying to make this seem like "they" came and took the Bible out of schools?

Nope.

 

[MT15]

 

[Eeyore]

Of course he deleted it, but the comments remain.

 

[bird]

Of course he deleted it, but the comments remain.

If that is real lock his azz up right now.

 

[Sandman]

Of course he deleted it, but the comments remain.

I think Twitter shut his account down. I thought unread somewhere where he stood by his statement.

 

[Eeyore]

I think Twitter shut his account down. I thought unread somewhere where he stood by his statement.

Twitter ‘permanently suspends’ HD 20 candidate after he advocates shooting federal agents

HD 20s Luis Miguel is still on Instagram though.

floridapolitics.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

The picture that the top Republican painted was both vivid and terrifying. He warned that additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service would lead to armed auditors banging down front doors to squeeze hard-earned dollars from working Americans.

“Are they going to have a strike force that goes in with AK-15s already loaded, ready to shoot some small-business person in Iowa with these?” Senator Chuck Grassley said on Fox News last week.

The image conjured up by Grassley bears little resemblance to reality. Democrats have indeed directed nearly $80bn to the IRS over the next 10 years as part of their climate and healthcare spending package, the Inflation Reduction Act, which Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday.

But Republican lawmakers have spread hyperbolic and often false information about how those funds will be used, stoking outrage among their supporters and alarming experts who say the claims could increase the risk of political violence.

Grassley is far from alone in invoking the image of gun-toting auditors. Based on a job posting for the IRS’s criminal investigations unit, which makes up only a small fraction of the agency’s employee base, prominent Republicans and conservative media figures have falsely claimed that the Democrats’ bill will arm tens of thousands of new auditors.

The Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has warnedhis viewers that “Joe Biden’s new army” of armed IRS agents could “hunt down and kill middle-class taxpayers that don’t pay enough”, while the chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, has suggested Democrats may soon “send the IRS ‘SWAT team’ after your kids’ lemonade stand”…….

Armed ... auditors? The IRS becomes the latest target of GOP misinformation

Some Republicans have spread false information about how new funds will be used by IRS, stoking outrage and alarming experts

www.theguardian.com

 

[Eeyore]

The picture that the top Republican painted was both vivid and terrifying. He warned that additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service would lead to armed auditors banging down front doors to squeeze hard-earned dollars from working Americans.

“Are they going to have a strike force that goes in with AK-15s already loaded, ready to shoot some small-business person in Iowa with these?” Senator Chuck Grassley said on Fox News last week.

The image conjured up by Grassley bears little resemblance to reality. Democrats have indeed directed nearly $80bn to the IRS over the next 10 years as part of their climate and healthcare spending package, the Inflation Reduction Act, which Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday.

But Republican lawmakers have spread hyperbolic and often false information about how those funds will be used, stoking outrage among their supporters and alarming experts who say the claims could increase the risk of political violence.

Grassley is far from alone in invoking the image of gun-toting auditors. Based on a job posting for the IRS’s criminal investigations unit, which makes up only a small fraction of the agency’s employee base, prominent Republicans and conservative media figures have falsely claimed that the Democrats’ bill will arm tens of thousands of new auditors.

The Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has warnedhis viewers that “Joe Biden’s new army” of armed IRS agents could “hunt down and kill middle-class taxpayers that don’t pay enough”, while the chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, has suggested Democrats may soon “send the IRS ‘SWAT team’ after your kids’ lemonade stand”…….

Armed ... auditors? The IRS becomes the latest target of GOP misinformation

Some Republicans have spread false information about how new funds will be used by IRS, stoking outrage and alarming experts

www.theguardian.com

He assumes that everybody is cheating on their taxes?

 

[coldseat]

The picture that the top Republican painted was both vivid and terrifying. He warned that additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service would lead to armed auditors banging down front doors to squeeze hard-earned dollars from working Americans.

“Are they going to have a strike force that goes in with AK-15s already loaded, ready to shoot some small-business person in Iowa with these?” Senator Chuck Grassley said on Fox News last week.

The image conjured up by Grassley bears little resemblance to reality. Democrats have indeed directed nearly $80bn to the IRS over the next 10 years as part of their climate and healthcare spending package, the Inflation Reduction Act, which Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday.

But Republican lawmakers have spread hyperbolic and often false information about how those funds will be used, stoking outrage among their supporters and alarming experts who say the claims could increase the risk of political violence.

Grassley is far from alone in invoking the image of gun-toting auditors. Based on a job posting for the IRS’s criminal investigations unit, which makes up only a small fraction of the agency’s employee base, prominent Republicans and conservative media figures have falsely claimed that the Democrats’ bill will arm tens of thousands of new auditors.

The Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has warnedhis viewers that “Joe Biden’s new army” of armed IRS agents could “hunt down and kill middle-class taxpayers that don’t pay enough”, while the chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, has suggested Democrats may soon “send the IRS ‘SWAT team’ after your kids’ lemonade stand”…….

Armed ... auditors? The IRS becomes the latest target of GOP misinformation

Some Republicans have spread false information about how new funds will be used by IRS, stoking outrage and alarming experts

www.theguardian.com

All of that deranged hyperbole is going to get real people that work for the IRS murdered by right wingers. All of them will have blood on their hands.

Though I don't know how they'd tell the difference from all of the blood on their hands right now from the kids in Uvalde and all of the other mass shooting victims or the blood from the capitol police. You would think these people would have a modicum of humanity in them, but it's totally absent.