What happens to the Republican Party now? (4 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?

 

[Eeyore]

Top seekret mishuns n stuff

Ohio GOP House candidate J.R. Majewski backtracks and claims his military records don't show any evidence of combat or Afghanistan service because they're 'classified'

Majewski borrowed a line out of Donald Trump's book, flippantly using the idea of classification as a veil of secrecy over Afghanistan combat records.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Bolo]

Did anyone else laugh at this idea of the Republicans commitment to America stuff? Lets be honest, if they do win back both halls of congress, they're gonna spend 8 months minimum investigating Fauci because he lives rent free in their heads. He more than likely suggested all kinda stuff that was unpopular to Trump back during the start of covid regarding long lockdowns but Trumps the one who pulled the trigger at the end of the day on "15 days to slow the spread."

I rather just have every agency involved just admit they had no idea what they were doing during that time, admit they weren't prepared and were winging it the best they could given what was happening. Having a robust CDC that is fast acting, equipped to the teeth and reforming the CDC, meaning heads roll, a complete cleansing to bring it up to a post covid standard.

But nope, we're going to get a bunch of triggered adults going after 1 guy because they didn't like his plans to a virus nobody has ever had to deal with. A virus that was spreading by people who may not even of known they were infected. I'm not saying Fauci doesn't deserve criticism but this is a bigger fish to fry moment here.

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

 

[Taurus]

Did anyone else laugh at this idea of the Republicans commitment to America stuff? Lets be honest, if they do win back both halls of congress, they're gonna spend 8 months minimum investigating Fauci because he lives rent free in their heads. He more than likely suggested all kinda stuff that was unpopular to Trump back during the start of covid regarding long lockdowns but Trumps the one who pulled the trigger at the end of the day on "15 days to slow the spread."

I rather just have every agency involved just admit they had no idea what they were doing during that time, admit they weren't prepared and were winging it the best they could given what was happening. Having a robust CDC that is fast acting, equipped to the teeth and reforming the CDC, meaning heads roll, a complete cleansing to bring it up to a post covid standard.

But nope, we're going to get a bunch of triggered adults going after 1 guy because they didn't like his plans to a virus nobody has ever had to deal with. A virus that was spreading by people who may not even of known they were infected. I'm not saying Fauci doesn't deserve criticism but this is a bigger fish to fry moment here.

They're going to impeach Biden every week. For reasons ranging from nonsensical to "because we can, choke on it snowflake."

 

[Optimus Prime]

They're going to impeach Biden every week. For reasons ranging from nonsensical to "because we can, choke on it snowflake."

They’ve admitted as much

 

[el caliente]

Welp, it appears according to WaPo that Matt Gaetz will not get charged.

Mike Judge is missing a golden opportunity if he doesn’t cast Gaetz to play Butthead.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Not GOP for Far Right Germany
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BERLIN (AP) — A far-right party in Germany is being mocked online for planning to offer voters soft candies that bear a striking resemblance to a dildo.

Alternative for Germany had ordered the red gummy sweets in the shape of its party logo — a swoosh-like arrow — to hand out during the election campaign in Lower Saxony state, where a regional election is set for Oct. 9.

A picture of the candies tweeted by a reporter for German weekly Der Spiegel drew tens of thousands of likes and numerous mirthful comments, many of them below the belt.

The party’s regional chairman, Frank Rinck, dismissed what he called the “media’s excitement” over the issue.

“Everybody sees what they want to see,” he told German news agency dpa Thursday. “We’re not taking any consequences.”………

Germans poke fun at far-right party's phallic candies

BERLIN (AP) — A far-right party in Germany is being mocked online for planning to offer voters soft candies that bear a striking resemblance to a dildo. Alternative for Germany had ordered the red gummy sweets in the shape of its party logo — a swoosh-like arrow — to hand out during the...

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Andy Campbell has produced a smart, well-written and brilliantly reported book about another loathsome progeny of the most dangerous union of our time, the horror couple responsible for so many of the burgeoning threats to American democracy: Donald Trump and the internet.

Its subject is the Proud Boys, racist, beer-addled and violence-addicted street fighters who have become best friends with many of Trump’s warmest supporters, from Ann Coulter to Roger Stone.

Coulter and Stone have both bragged about using these modern Brown Shirts as bodyguards. Stone even allowed himself to be filmed for a video in which he took the Proud Boys oath: “I’m a western chauvinist. I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”

Coulter credited the group with saving her life when “2,000 antifa”, leftwing protesters, tried to shut down a speech at UC Berkeley. If she hadn’t invited 20 Proud Boys, she said, she “might not have made it to the campus at all”.

The Proud Boys are “brawny, tattooed brutes”, Coulter cooed.

As Campbell puts it, the Proud Boys have “proven that you can make it as a fascist gang of hooligans in this country, as long as you make the right friends”.

The organization’s father is Gavin McInnes, 52, a child of Scots who moved to Canada. In Montreal in the early 1990s McInnes founded a magazine called Pervert, which in 1999 he and two others rebranded as Vice. He moved the magazine to New York a couple of years later, then left in 2008.

In spring 2016, on his own talkshow, he declared his main priority: “I want violence. I want punching in the face. I’m disappointed in Trump supporters for not punching enough.”

Not long after that, he “announced that he’d turned his audience into a gang”. He called them the Proud Boys.

McInnes’s alliance with the GOP warmed up after he was invited to speak at the headquarters of the New York state Republican party in October 2018.

Members were undaunted when their intended guest announced on Instagram that he planned to reenact an “inspiring moment … the political assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, the former leader of the Japan Socialist party, who was killed during a debate on live TV when a far-right ultranationalist rushed the stage and pushed a sword between his ribs”.

Then he photoshopped an image of himself “with the eyes and clothing of the Japanese assassin”.

Republicans loved it. On Facebook, they responded: “This Godfather of the Hipster Movement has taken on and exposed the Deep State Socialists and stood up for Western Values. Join us for an unforgettable evening with one of Liberty’s Loudest Voices.”…….

We Are Proud Boys review: chilling exposé illuminates Republicans’ fascist turn

Andy Campbell has delivered a smart, well-written and brilliantly reported book about the street gang allied to Donald Trump and the GOP he commands

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Good article

Wasn’t sure what thread to put it in
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Three days after the 2020 election, Kyle Becker, a former Fox News producer with a modest 15,000 Twitter followers, began tweeting feverishly about election fraud.

“BOMBSHELL,” he wrote on Nov. 6, sharing purported revelations that software glitches could have tipped millions of votes from President Donald Trump to challenger Joe Biden.

Becker’s tweetstorm quickly went viral, drawing more than 5,000 additional followers to his account in just four hours. By the time a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol two months later, Becker had vaulted into influencer territory, supercharging his Twitter audience to 177,000.

Since Becker, 46, left Fox in fall 2020, he has built his brand as a right-wing pundit. These days, he curates his own online news site; appears as a guest on conservative podcasts and TV shows; and writes a steady stream of viral, often misleading tweets on a range of topics including coronavirus vaccines, the war in Ukraine and the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

Becker is not alone. The 2020 election and its turbulent aftermath fueled a powerful generation of online influencers, a Washington Post data analysis has found, producing sky-high follower counts for an array of conservatives who echoed Trump’s false claims of election fraud, known as the “big lie.”

Some doubled or tripled their audiences on Twitter, while others saw even larger gains — catapulting, like Becker, from relative obscurity to online fame.


These accounts amassed followers despite vows by Big Tech companies to police election disinformation, The Post found.

And they have gone on to use their powerful megaphones to shape the national debate on other subjects, injecting fresh waves of distortion into such culture-war topics as transgender rights and critical race theory.

“Once they’ve gained a level of influence, they can continue to leverage that influence going forward,” said Kate Starbird, a leading expert on disinformation at the University of Washington. “Manipulation becomes embedded in the network.”

To conduct its analysis, The Post identified 77 of the biggest spreaders of disinformation about the 2020 election, tracked how they built large audiences online and then analyzed how they used their new power to fuel debate on other divisive topics.


The list of 77 was drawn from research by disinformation experts at Stanford, Harvard and Cornell universities, as well as the University of Washington.

While the details of their methodologies differed, the researchers all culled Twitter for posts that spread misperceptions about the election and then determined which accounts had racked up the most retweets, spreading the “big lie” most widely…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/20/social-media-influencers-election-fraud/

 

[superchuck500]

It would funny if this was the first time this was done by them, but it has been repeated by them multiple times over the years.

Which is also why it is no longer ironic.

 

[MT15]

 

[MT15]

Which is also why it is no longer ironic.

Some of us obviously feel irony for a longer time span than others.

 

[bird]

Hey Ben? Why not go join the Russian army and show how masculine you are?

 

[MT15]

This is a former R attorney who is a good follow on Twitter:

 

[MT15]

They are just saying it right out loud now (globalists is a code word for Jewish, been that for decades). And he’s talking about an openly fascist party in Italy, not a “conservative” party.

 

[MT15]

Also saw this exchange later in the same thread:



And this, lol:

 

[superchuck500]

 

[MT15]

Darn I missed it - it’s been deleted. What was it?