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]

JUNEAU - Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman sparked outrage online after asking whether there could be economic benefits from the death of abused children.

Eastman asked a series of questions during a Monday House Judiciary Committee hearing on adverse childhood experiences — such as physical and sexual abuse on children or growing up in a household marred by domestic violence — and how they can negatively affect a person throughout their lives.

As part of the presentation, documents given to legislators estimated that when child abuse is fatal, it could cost the family and broader society $1.5 million in terms of trauma and what the child could potentially have earned over their lifetime.

Eastman said that he had heard an argument, on occasion, that when child abuse is fatal, it could economically benefit a society.

“It can be argued, periodically, that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment,” he said.

“Can you say that again? Did you say, ‘a benefit for society?’” asked Trevor Storrs, president and CEO of the Alaska Children’s Trust, in response. He said the loss of a child is “unmeasurable” to a family...............

Rep. Eastman sparks outrage after asking about the potential economic benefits of the deaths of abused Alaska children

The Republican-led House majority has no plans yet to punish Eastman or remove him from the House Judiciary Committee. Republicans have long been wary of publicly criticizing him.

www.adn.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[superchuck500]

Sure, let’s celebrate the weapon of choice for mass murder in America. It’s a death cult.

 

[MT15]

Sure, let’s celebrate the weapon of choice for mass murder in America. It’s a death cult.

I think anyone proposing or supporting this bill should have to review the crime scene photos from Uvalde or Sandy Hook. Every day until they come to their senses.

 

[MT15]

They just aren’t normal. This isn’t normal. She holds a local political office in CT.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Sure, let’s celebrate the weapon of choice for mass murder in America. It’s a death cult.

What a forking buffoon, but it's par for the course these days.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

Musk will probaly reinstate her soon..

 

[superchuck500]

 

[MT15]

Okay, um, he asked the FOREST SERVICE?

 

[CoolBrees]

What the fork?

How would changing the moon’s orbit help?

To even think about knocking something that big out if it’s orbit; and what move it closer? How do you stop it?

Oh now it makes sense!

He wants to stop climate change by slamming the moon into the earth.

He’s right. That would stop climate change concerns.

 

[CoolBrees]

It finally dawned on me what possibly could have actually meant.

He is thinking maybe if we moved the moon further away it would lower the tides?

So when the ice caps melt, they won’t flood cities?

I hope it was the slamming the moon into the earth idea he is thinking of. It isn’t nearly as dumb an idea as that.

 

[Optimus Prime]

A vast majority of extremism-linked mass murders in 2022 were committed by white supremacists, according to a report published by the Anti-Defamation League.

The advocacy group’s Center on Extremism characterised 25 “extremism-related” murders last year, with 18 of those killings “committed in whole or part for ideological motives,” according to the report.

Two massacres – the murders of 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a mass shooting inside a LGBT+ nightclubin Colorado Springs, Colorado – accounted for most of the extremism-related murders last year, the report found.


Payton Gendron, an admitted white supremacist who espoused the so-called Great Replacement theory, pleaded guilty last year to hate-motivated domestic terrorism and 10 counts of first-degree murder, among other charges, after the Buffalo attack.

Anderson Lee Aldrich, who is accused of running a neo-Nazi website and using racist and anti-gay slurs, will face a jury trial on more than 300 charges in connection with the attack at Club Q in Colorado. The suspect has pleaded not guilty.

White supremacists are behind the highest number of extremism-related murders in most years; last year, 21 of the 25 murders were linked to white supremacists. But “all the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds,” the report found.

The number of mass killings linked to extremism in the US within the past decade was at least three times higher than the totals from any other 10-year period since the 1970s, according to the report.

The report notes that there were fewer extremist-related murders overall in 2022, continuing a downward trend of extremist-related killings after a five-year span of 47-78 extremist-related murders per year between 2015-2019.

Last year’s total would have been much lower if not for the two high-profile massacres in New York and Colorado…….

White supremacists behind vast majority of 2022’s extremism-related murders: report

21 of 25 killings were linked to white supremacists, but all extremism-linked killings were committed by right-wing extremists, according to findings from the Anti-Defamation League

www.independent.co.uk

 

[GrandAdmiral]

This level of extremism will never win the White House for the Republicans. They have to know this right? This is trump 2.0 and Florida... is forking Florida. I've been boycotting it myself and won't spend a dime there unless I'm sent there for work. fork them (have you moved yet, Ward).

Florida bill would give DeSantis more power over state universities and ban gender studies | CNN Politics

A new bill overhauling Florida universities to match Gov. Ron DeSantis’ vision for higher education would shift power at state schools into the hands of the Republican leader’s political appointees and ban gender studies as a field of study.

www.cnn.com

 

[MT15]

This is exactly how mainstream republicans are aiding and abetting the radicals. This is a signal to them that “we are on your side”. To neo-Nazis, racists and anti-semites. Republicans are the party of hate now. They just are. Nobody in the party ever condemns an R who does this. And what you are silent about is what you permit and promote.

 

[MT15]

Also, this is a good point:

 

[MT15]

Also, this man seems delusional, but in a more normal way, at least, lol

 

[MT15]

This would seem to fit under the umbrella of unintended consequences for Rs:

 

[Optimus Prime]

Until 2 February it was business as usual in the small rural community of East Palestine, Ohio. The local paper carried obituaries and sporting results, interspersed with stories of a homecoming queen, an abusive puppy mill and the driver in the Toughest Monster Truck Tour who was arrested for human trafficking.

The next day it all went up in flames.

“Train derailment sparks massive fire, prompts evacuations.” “Videos show major fire raging after tanker train derails.”

The derailment of a 50-car freight train carrying toxic materials on 3 February shattered daily life in East Palestine and sent a pall of black smoke over the region. Potentially lethal chemicals spewed into the air, ground and water.

Three weeks into the disaster, a new set of headlines has started to billow up from right-wing outlets and commentators. Now the tragedy of East Palestine has morphed into a racialized lament for the “forgotten” people abandoned by the uncaring “woke” Biden administration.

For “forgotten”, read white.

Leading the charge, as is so often the case with such white-America nativist fearmongering, is the Fox News star Tucker Carlson. “East Palestine is overwhelmingly white, and it’s politically conservative,” he said recently. “That shouldn’t be relevant, but it very much is.”

Carlson went on to describe East Palestine as a “poor benighted town whose people are forgotten, and in the view of the people who lead this country, forgettable”.

He highlighted the indisputable suffering of local residents who were forced to evacuatea two-mile area and since they have returned home remain fearful about the quality of the air and water.

Then Carlson contrasted such hardship with what he called the “favoured poor” who live in “favoured cities” such as Detroit and Philadelphia – a clear euphemism for urban centers, often led by Democratic mayors, with large Black populations.

In these “favoured” places, he said, “everyone feels for them and everyone wants them to be safe”.

The idea that the rail disaster should be viewed through a racial lens has spread like a toxin from Fox News, through right-wing news sites and social media, into the political realm.

JD Vance, the first-term Republican US senator from Ohio, picked up the clarion call of the “forgotten” Americans, calling the residents of East Palestine, pointedly, “our voters”.

Charlie Kirk, a rising star within the Make America Great Again (Maga) universe, was more direct. He lashed out on his show at Biden’s “crusade on white people” and claimed that America’s Democratic leaders “hate working-class whites”…….

‘You’re not forgotten‘: how the right racialized the Ohio train disaster

Fox News, Trump and JD Vance claim Biden overlooked East Palestine’s plight, citing residents’ whiteness as the reason

www.theguardian.com