What happens to the Republican Party now? (3 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]

I’ve never heard these before, comments in article I recently read
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Vote like you drive - go with D to go forward and R to go backward.

I’m “seeing Red” and Voting Blue

 

[Taurus]

Either that or his suit is 2 sizes too small.

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

 

[MT15]

Russian state propaganda and Republican talking points are eerily aligned.

 

[MT15]

This cannot be real, can it?

 

[Optimus Prime]

This cannot be real, can it?

Sounds like Scientology, you can buy your way to a higher better title

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

 

[MT15]

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

I'm putting this here because the people of Oklahoma voted for this and it's a red state.

Oklahoma executes James Coddington for 1997 murder, the first of 25 executions planned over the next two years | CNN

Oklahoma has executed 50-year-old James Coddington, the first of 25 death row inmates the state intends to put to death through 2024, the state’s corrections director confirmed Thursday morning.

www.cnn.com

I just can't for the life of me understand what possible good the death penalty does. On the other hand, killing people who kill people sets up an atmosphere of violence as a solution to a problem which is obviously not a good thing for society.

 

[coldseat]

Sounds like Scientology, you can buy your way to a higher better title

Sounds more to me like the new KKK. With its own hierarchy. Racism with the added benefit of grifting.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Came across this, don’t know how accurate it is

Criminal indictments per administration:

Donald J. Trump - 215 and increasing (excluding the J6 insurrectionists)
Richard M. Nixon - 76
Ronald Reagan - 26
George W. Bush- 26
Bill Clinton - 2
George H. W. Bush - 1
Gerrold Ford - 1
Jimmy Carter - 1
Barack Obama - 1
Joe Biden - 0

By political party:

Republican Party - 345 and increasing
Democratic Party - 4

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

Came across this, don’t know how accurate it is

Criminal indictments per administration:

Donald J. Trump - 215 and increasing (excluding the J6 insurrectionists)
Richard M. Nixon - 76
Ronald Reagan - 26
George W. Bush- 26
Bill Clinton - 2
George H. W. Bush - 1
Gerrold Ford - 1
Jimmy Carter - 1
Barack Obama - 1
Joe Biden - 0

By political party:

Republican Party - 345 and increasing
Democratic Party - 4

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...ore-criminal-indictments-under-trump-reagan-/

 

[Optimus Prime]

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...ore-criminal-indictments-under-trump-reagan-/

Thanks

Why exaggerate the real numbers?

142 to 2 is just as eye popping and damning

 

[Optimus Prime]

For what it’s worth
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Colorado’s secretary of state, Jena Griswold, is warning anyone who will listen that the fate of free and fair elections in the United States hangs in the balance in this November’s midterm contests.

In many of the most competitive races for offices with authority over US elections, Republicans nominated candidates who have embraced or echoed Donald Trump’s myth of a stolen election in 2020.

Griswold, who chairs the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State (Dass) and is running for re-election, is urging Americans to pay attention to the once-sleepy down-ballot contests for secretary of state – lest they lose their democracy.

“What we can expect from the extreme Republicans running across this country is to undermine free and fair elections for the American people, strip Americans of the right to vote, refuse to address security breaches and, unfortunately, be more beholden to Mar-a-Lago than the American people,” Griswold, 37, said in an interview with the Guardian.

She added: “For us, we are trying to save democracy.”

It’s a daunting task, especially in a political environment that has historically favored the party out of power in Washington. But the primary results so far have laid bare the stakes, she said: “The country could lose the right to vote in less than three months.”

Having failed to overturn the 2020 vote, Trump and his loyalists are now strategically targeting positions that will play a critical role in supervising the next presidential election, turning many of the 27 secretary of state contests this year into expensive, partisan showdowns.

If elected, Griswold fears that these Trump-backed candidates would weaponize their posts, either by sowing doubts about the results of an election their party loses – or by trying to subvert it outright……

‘The US could lose the right to vote within months’: Top official warns on threat to democracy

Jena Griswold urges Americans to pay attention to crucial but often overlooked races for secretary of state

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

 

[Optimus Prime]

The conservative campaign against education is many things. As a political matter, it’s about intensifying the culture war so moral panic drives Republican votes. As a policy matter, its long-term goals include dismantling public education.

As a personal matter, it’s often motivated by fear that the American system of education is a threat to people’s children — that the wrong ideas, even ideas themselves, are impossibly dangerous.


On that last point, conservatives are absolutely right: Education is indeed a threat to many things they believe.


Consider some recent news from the front. In a Texas school district, police officers showed up to a high school library to “investigate” a graphic novel about a bullied gay teen.

In Oklahoma, a teacher was investigated for responding to a draconian school censorship law by covering up her classroom library with a sign saying, “Books the state doesn’t want you to read”; she then resigned.

In another Texas district, a middle school deemed portions of a book by the man for whom the school was named — a grandson of former slaves who learned to read at age 98 — to be “inappropriate.” The reasons are unclear; perhaps his tribute to the importance of reading was too inflammatory.


It’s not just teachers. Librarians have come under attack, too. In a Michigan town, librarians were targeted with a torrent of abuse after residents learned that the library contained books on LGBTQ themes; the town then decided to defund its only library. Problem solved!

Meanwhile, Fox News has been on a tear, vilifying school teachers as lazy, stupid, anti-White Marxists trying to “groom” children for sexual abuse.


In some red states, teenagers have taken it upon themselves to organize sex-education classes. Conservatives who dominate in those places are terrified that if the teens learn how their bodies work and what sex is, they might develop ideas that undermine the “traditional” view of sex.


And once again, the conservatives are right. If you teach a girl that she has the right to make her own choices about sex, that having sex doesn’t turn her into chewed-up gum no one would want to touch, or that she ought to question why society labels men who have sex “players” but women who have sex “sluts,” she might begin to free herself from the shame and fear that perpetuates certain hierarchies of power.

Who knows where that might take her?…..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/conservatives-education-college-threat-real/

 

[Optimus Prime]

Just reading about this. Wow.

How much of where we are now is due to the Citizens United decision?
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One man has donated $1.6 billion to a nonprofit group controlled by a conservative activist who has crusaded, with startling success, to transform the country’s politics. The only reason the public knows about it? An insider tip-off to the New York Times.


The Times reported this week that electronics mogul Barre Seid last year gave 100 percent of the shares of surge protector and data-center equipment manufacturer Tripp Lite to a group called Marble Freedom Trust.

The group is led by Leonard Leo — who has helped bankroll right-wing advocacy on abortion rights, voting and climate change, among other things.

His chief focus for a time was reshaping the judiciary as executive vice president of the Federalist Society, including by advising Republican presidents on Supreme Court nominees.

The tale of how his group got such a lavish gift underscores the sad state of this country’s campaign finance system.


The Marble Freedom Trust donation, possibly the largest ever to such an advocacy group in U.S. history, manages to encapsulate in a single case the problems with the status quo.

The issue isn’t merely the distortion of democracy enabled by 2010′s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. That decision allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations and outside groups — to which, in turn, the ultra-wealthy can funnel unlimited funds of their own.

The issue is also that the distortion remains, in most cases, invisible. Nonprofits groups registered as 501(c)(4)s, such as Marble Freedom Trust, don’t have to disclose their donors…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/28/leonard-leo-donation-campaign-finance/

 

[Optimus Prime]

MSN

www.msn.com