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?

 

[DaveXA]

Thank God then.

 

[efil4]

Why is he having a discussion with a banana?

Good lord- did NO ONE have the guts to tell her that her YELLOW dress AND stockings were a bit much?

 

[bird]

Why is he having a discussion with a banana?

Good lord- did NO ONE have the guts to tell her that her YELLOW dress AND stockings were a bit much?

I would not be surprised if he talks to kiwis, watermelons, pineapples and other inanimate fruits and vegetables. His elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top.

 

[Optimus Prime]

By now, it’s obvious that the reactionary culture warriors who want to reshape American education are inspiring a serious liberal counter-mobilization in response. Remarkably, this backlash to the backlash is gaining momentum in some of the reddest parts of the country.

A raucous school board meeting in Hernando County, Fla., on Tuesday night captured what’s striking about this new phenomenon. The scene featured teachers pointedly declaring that right-wing attacks are driving them to quit, even as parents and students forcefully stood up on their behalf, demanding a halt to the hysteria.

“I have never seen such fear from my colleagues as I have seen in the last two months,” social studies teacher Victoria Hunt told the board.

The whole affair really put the culture-war-mongers to shame. Not that they’ll see it that way; as the meeting also showed, scenes like this — with maximum rage, fear, tension and suspicion surging between parents and educators — are precisely the outcome they want.

This county, north of Tampa, voted for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022 by a 41-point margin. It’s where fifth-grade teacher Jenna Barbee recently enraged local enforcers of right-wing orthodoxy by showing her class “Strange World,” a Disney movie with an openly gay character. The Florida Department of Education is investigating whether she violated DeSantis’s “don’t say gay” law restricting classroom discussion of sex and gender.

Barbee is resigning, but she’s hardly the only one. At Tuesday’s meeting, local teacher Daniel Scott gave a moving speech, declaring that the climate of rage is driving him out of the profession.

“I don’t feel that I can adequately provide a safe environment for my students anymore,” Scott said, denouncing the “draconian working conditions that are causing many such as myself to abandon this honored career.”

Meanwhile, Alyssa Marano, a math teacher who has resigned, rejected the oft-heard charge of LGBTQ indoctrination of students. “No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” she told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”

Nearly 50 teachers are reportedly planning to resign in this school district. Lisa Masserio, president of the teachers union in Hernando County, says state laws and directives restricting educators are a key reason. She told us: “There is increased pressure and scrutiny on an already difficult job.”

At the meeting, right-wing parents and a minority of the school board amplified the usual attacks: Pornography in classrooms, indoctrination, wokeness. Watching them, it was impossible to avoid the sense that they were relishing every second of the tumult they’ve unleashed...............

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/01/hernando-county-ron-desantis-book-bans-democratic-governors/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3a2cc45%2F6478c2ae49fef7411d00143d%2F59813061ae7e8a6816fb1940%2F17%2F70%2F6478c2ae49fef7411d00143d

 

[Optimus Prime]

Questioning a witness about childcare and the teaching of race, the Oklahoma Republican senator Markwayne Mullin said: “I don’t want reality.”

The remark prompted laughter in the hearing room.

Mullin said he “misspoke” and returned to hectoring his witness about whether a book meant to teach children about racism was appropriate for early learning classes.

Mullin is an election denier, former cage fighter and plumbing company owner who sat in the US House before being elected to the Senate last year.

His confrontational style has caused comment before. In March, for example, he told a Teamsters leader to “shut your mouth” during a fiery exchange.

Mullin’s remark about reality and its uses came on Wednesday in a hearing held by the Senate health, education, labour and pensions committee............

Republican senator says ‘I don’t want reality’ in hearing on race and eduction

 

[Optimus Prime]

from robert reich
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Republican leaders have mastered the art of manufacturing crises to divert the public’s attention from the real crisis of our era – the siphoning of income, wealth and power from most Americans by a small group at the top.

Consider the fake fears they’ve been whipping up:

1. Wokeness

Florida’s governor (and now Republican presidential candidate) Ron DeSantis has declared a “war on woke”.

Immediately after the mangled launch of his presidential campaign, DeSantis claimed on Fox News that “the woke mind virus is basically a form of cultural Marxism”.

What?

What exactly is “woke”? The term gained popularity at the start of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, when many Americans – including white Americans who were seeing the extent of the problem for the first time – awoke to the reality of police brutality against the Black community.

DeSantis’s own general counsel has defined “woke” as “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them”.

He’s right. We all need to be woke.

2. Trans people

Former president Donald Trump says that one of his top priorities if he’s re-elected in 2024 will be a “sweeping federal rollback of transgender rights”.

DeSantis and other Republican governors have signed a stream of laws in recent months aimed at transgender rights.

At least 10 states have banned gender-affirming care for minors and another 21 have introduced bills to do so, even as multiple studies have found access to gender-affirming care reduces the risk of depression and suicide for trans children.

Other bills target gender-affirming care for adults. Some ban drag shows.


Why have Republican lawmakers targeted transgender people as dangers to the public? There’s not a shred of evidence that trans people are threats to anyone.

But targeting trans people is a way to court evangelicals. It’s also a way to stir up the base against people who are different, making trans people the sort of scapegoats that historically have fueled fascist movements..............

Republicans love to make up fake crises. Here are five of the biggest | Robert Reich

The goal is to deflect and distract – to use scapegoating, racism and outright lies to disguise what’s really going on

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

This guy says what I have been feeling for a while. This anti-woke movement is just history repeating itself:

 

[MT15]

Oh my, every time I see Guilfoyle she looks worse and worse:

 

[MT15]

We don’t really have a thread for this, but I think it can go here because the people bemoaning the plight of men are almost exclusively Republican:

 

[MT15]

They heckled Biden during the SOTU because he said they want to cut SS and Medicare. I remember Rs going on TV and calling Biden a liar.

 

[DaveXA]

Oh my, every time I see Guilfoyle she looks worse and worse:

Wow, I didn't even recognize her. She looks terrible. She was gorgeous not too long ago.

 

[MT15]

Wow, I didn't even recognize her. She looks terrible. She was gorgeous not too long ago.

Rumor is that she has picked up Jr’s drug habits. That and some ill-advised Botox maybe?

 

[efil4]

Oh my, every time I see Guilfoyle she looks worse and worse:

She has the mouth of a hard head catfish.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Yes but that’s 40 billion dollars rich people and corporations get to keep in their bank accounts and not fund something woke so what’s the problem?

 

[MT15]

All because their Mango Mussolini is a huge tax cheat and wants the IRS defunded.

 

[SamAndreas]

1.4 billion was actually cut. An additional 20 billion was diverted to other spending Democrats like.

The original 80 billion was padded for something like this happening, so I doubt that Sheldon Whitehouse's complaint is real.

The CBO estimate I saw said that only 900 million less will be collected, and will increase the deficit by that amount as a result of this cut.

 

[MT15]

The gaslighting that the FBI is “woke” and targeting conservatives is particularly ridiculous.