What happens to the Republican Party now? (1 Viewer)

[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?

 

[MT15]

This is the supposed head of the R party. Of course he didn’t complain at all when Comey broke all kinds of protocol to speak about Clinton right before Election Day and he doesn’t mention that the DOJ is still investigating Hunter Biden. Or the fact that there doesn’t appear to be much “there” there.

 

[MT15]

 

[bird]

MSN

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Please save us from mediocre white men like Blake Masters. Written as a mediocre white man.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

This is the supposed head of the R party. Of course he didn’t complain at all when Comey broke all kinds of protocol to speak about Clinton right before Election Day and he doesn’t mention that the DOJ is still investigating Hunter Biden. Or the fact that there doesn’t appear to be much “there” there.

All I got from that is trump has no clue about what has made this country a beacon for struggling democracies to strive for! He'd rather continue to wipe his arse with our Constitution than live and govern by its laws!

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

This is the supposed head of the R party. Of course he didn’t complain at all when Comey broke all kinds of protocol to speak about Clinton right before Election Day and he doesn’t mention that the DOJ is still investigating Hunter Biden. Or the fact that there doesn’t appear to be much “there” there.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guess this can go here
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It turns out that some far-right Christians aren’t just opposed to transgender girls playing on sports teams, they’re opposed to any girls playing sports at all… and that opposition may have landed one Christian school in legal trouble.

While it might seem strange that females should be allowed to play on sports teams that are predominantly male, it’s actually required under Title IX, the 1972 federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in sports within any schools that receive federal government funding. Title IX states that, in sports where a girls’ team is not available, girls must be allowed to try out for the boys’ team and participate on the same basis as boys..........

Unsurprisingly, VCA isn’t the only group of Christians who are against girls playing sports, whether or not it’s with other boys.

Tanner Furrh of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas — a man who has said that lesbians deserve violent deaths — recently said that he is against girls playing any organized sports because sports cause girls to be “more masculine.”

“Are they out there wearing dresses and skirts while they’re playing sports? Are they learning to be a feminine woman?” Furrh asked in a recent sermon. “No, that’s not what sports do for women…. . My daughters are not going to be in any organized sports team.”

For the record, female field hockey players do actually wear skirts, but that doesn’t matter because — as with Christian misogyny in general — fundamentalist opposition to female athletes isn’t really about preserving “femininity.” It’s about controlling girls’ bodies, freedoms, and life choices.............

Now rightwing Christians don't want girls to play sports at all

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guess this can go here
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HAMBURG — “It’s frightening, what’s happened to you,” a Bavarian civil society organizer shared with me over a stein of German pils. “America has become smaller.”


The theme of this year’s Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance, a Hamburg-based international conference consisting of dozens of young leaders from around the world, was “Facing New Realities: Global Governance Under Strain.”

The reality this American observer had to face? That in the eyes of much of the world, the United States’ light has dimmed.


We are still watched intently and remain a major power. But it was clear that to many of the conference’s attendees — hailing from Germany to Mongolia, Ghana to Ukraine — the United States has become shorthand for democratic decline and disinformation, home to citizens who react to dissatisfaction by rejecting reality, and to institutions that are increasingly hollowed out.

“We don’t want the people who lose jobs during the climate transformation to end up as Trump voters or the equivalent,” a European foreign minister said during a discussion of economic retooling amid climate change. My fellow conference-goers looked my way apologetically, pity on their faces.


“I thought about settling in the U.S.,” one attendee, an Ivy League- and Oxbridge-educated internationalist now working for the United Nations, told me. “But I couldn’t imagine living in a place where my children would have to practice” — here, she made mocking quotation marks with her fingers — “active shooter drills.”……..

Yet, the past six years have seen an unprecedented acceleration. Our geopolitical rivals have always had ammunition, but the old embarrassments pale in comparison to the new.

The idea that credence is still given to arguments about whether the 2020 election was “stolen” — the settled view of the rest of the world is that this is obvious nonsense — is a source of alarm.


After the 2016 election, European leaders warned that the United States could no longer be relied on as a partner in defense and security.

More recently, statements such as those from Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance — “I got to be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other” — have made their way around the world, reconfirming the United States’ continued unseriousness and withdrawal from international engagement and moral leadership…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/29/bucerius-global-leadership-america-democratic-decline/

 

[MT15]

I guess the lying about their radical positions doesn’t only consist of abortion views:

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

I guess the lying about their radical positions doesn’t only consist of abortion views:

"Post-primary, Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters deletes from his website the false claim that Trump would've won a fair election, replaces it with a vague statement about "election integrity."

Interesting. I wonder why he thinks the "Trump really won" nonsense was good for the primary but not good now?


P.S. I see he also dropped his extreme anti-abortion view, as you point to. Should be a good sign for us Democrats.

Trump-backed Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters scrubs website of extreme anti-abortion stance as GOP frets over impact of Roe reversal on the midterms

Blakes Masters' website called for a "federal personhood law" but that stance was removed after he won the Republican primary in Arizona.

www.businessinsider.com

Excuse me if this has all been pointed out. I've been busy and haven't read the forum very thoroughly for a few days.

 

[MT15]

This is amusingly accurate:

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

I remember the Republicans saying if Hillary Clinton lost, the Democrats would riot.. it didn't happen. then when Trump lost the next election, the Republicans DID riot... And now the are threating the citizenty with violence..

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Optimus Prime]

This forking guy

Not exactly humbly learning his lesson is he?
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Far-right Infowars host Alex Jones predicted that the left will stage "mass shootings, bombings, poisonings" ahead of the midterm elections, which he says they will blame on the GOP to bring about a "full dictatorship" in America.........

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[zztop]

This could go in a few places

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/24/michigan-library-defunded-gender-queer/

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

This forking guy

Not exactly humbly learning his lesson is he?
======================

Far-right Infowars host Alex Jones predicted that the left will stage "mass shootings, bombings, poisonings" ahead of the midterm elections, which he says they will blame on the GOP to bring about a "full dictatorship" in America.........

MSN

MSN

What he's really selling?
Retail $149.95
Now $74.97

 

[Optimus Prime]

As Donald Trump’s legal travails deepen, a strange split-screen effect has taken hold throughout the GOP. On one screen, Republicans are increasingly anxious about revelations involving Trump, while concocting ever more inventive ways to achieve distance from them.


On the other, GOP candidates in crucial midterm contests are, if anything, getting more Trumpy.

They’re not just aggressively defending Trump; they’re also enthusiastically embracing the many pathologies he brought to our politics, and even imitating his mannerisms.


This captures an essential tension about this moment. Many Republicans apparently remain deeply convinced that Trump and his preoccupations are an indispensable source of political energy for their 2022 campaigns.

Yet coming revelations about Trump might keep rendering that energy more toxic in swing states and districts……

Some Republicans are blaming the media for hyping the revelations, per Politico. Others insist there’s something vaguely amiss about the timing of the search. Still others say the documents aren’t harboring serious secrets, which is contradicted by already-known facts.


But the responses mostly have a halfhearted quality. Among those Republicans, at least, gone is the full-throated rage that initially treated Trump as uniformly a victim and the search as wholly illegitimate.


Why? Well, as the Times piece documents, Trump is again a big story on terms unfavorable to Republicans.

The political dynamic has shifted amid numerous factors: Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices overturning Roe v. Wade, revelations about Trump’s effort to destroy our democracy and, now, the drumbeat of devastating facts about his harboring of state secrets.


While holding the House will still be tough for Democrats, it’s now in play, and keeping the Senate is very plausible. As Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg tells the Times, the combination of Republicans initially running “toward MAGA” and Trump’s reemergence with a vengeance have given Democrats “more ammunition to label their candidates as extreme.”


Many of the aforementioned “frustrated” Republicans appear to agree. But here’s the rub: Some GOP candidates have a different theory of the case. They genuinely appear to see Trump and Trumpism as key sources of political energy and inspiration…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/30/trump-mar-a-lago-republicans-anxious-midterm-elections/

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

This forking guy

Not exactly humbly learning his lesson is he?
======================

Far-right Infowars host Alex Jones predicted that the left will stage "mass shootings, bombings, poisonings" ahead of the midterm elections, which he says they will blame on the GOP to bring about a "full dictatorship" in America.........

MSN

MSN

It worked well for them with the rigged election cries.

But its like he just doesn't get it. How much are the lies about Sandy Hook costing him? but yet he just keeps on with the blatant lies.

 

[UriUT]

Fresh Air for Aug. 9, 2022: The Republican party's 'Crack-up'

Hear the Fresh Air program for August 9, 2022

www.npr.org

This is worth a listen that aired a week ago. There is usually a transcript but unfortunately this one doesn't. It chronicles the transformation of this Republican party to what it is today. There were even hints of this grievance politics dated back to Reagan while he was gov of California.