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?

 

[coldseat]

I’m not in construction work, but are people not allowed to get a drink when they are thirsty? Is this in an effort to prevent what the public usually sees (as they are stuck in construction traffic) 1 guy working while 12 others are watching the 1 guy work?

It's a problem here in Texas. If you're working outside in construction in the 100+ deg heat we have right now, you definitely need at least a 10 min break per hour to get some water and get out of the direct heat. shirt, I do a construction site visit for 40 minutes and need to stop at the Valero to get a gallon of water afterwards. It's no joke. Luckily, most of my work is inside with A/C.

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Texas is the state where the most workers die from high temperatures, government data shows. At least 42 workers died in Texas between 2011 and 2021 from environmental heat exposure, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Workers’ unions claim this data doesn’t fully reflect the magnitude of the problem because heat-related deaths are often recorded under a different primary cause of injury.


This problem particularly affects Latinos because they represent six out of every 10 construction workers, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
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[cuddlemonkey]

FWIW, here is a good thread from Michael Harriot on the topic of Nikki Haley where he addresses her first name at the end, but it encompasses so much more.

 

[el caliente]

I didn’t realize that Nikki’s Haley had changed her name, so I will keep calling her Nikki. Kind of like if someone who is transitioning doesn’t want to be called by their “dead name”, I won’t call them by their “dead name”. Simple enough:

 

[el caliente]

It's a problem here in Texas. If you're working outside in construction in the 100+ deg heat we have right now, you definitely need at least a 10 min break per hour to get some water and get out of the direct heat. shirt, I do a construction site visit for 40 minutes and need to stop at the Valero to get a gallon of water afterwards. It's no joke. Luckily, most of my work is inside with A/C.

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Texas is the state where the most workers die from high temperatures, government data shows. At least 42 workers died in Texas between 2011 and 2021 from environmental heat exposure, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Workers’ unions claim this data doesn’t fully reflect the magnitude of the problem because heat-related deaths are often recorded under a different primary cause of injury.


This problem particularly affects Latinos because they represent six out of every 10 construction workers, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
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I read the article, and I’m still not sure why employers wouldn’t give employees time to get water. I understand we are experiencing tremendous growth here in Texas, but it giving employees time to grab a drink is wild.

 

[DaveXA]

I read the article, and I’m still not sure why employers wouldn’t give employees time to get water. I understand we are experiencing tremendous growth here in Texas, but it giving employees time to grab a drink is wild.

Yeah, there shouldn't even be a question. If anything, employers should be making sure water is readily available for everyone on the construction site.

 

[MT15]

I didn’t realize that Nikki’s Haley had changed her name, so I will keep calling her Nikki. Kind of like if someone who is transitioning doesn’t want to be called by their “dead name”, I won’t call them by their “dead name”. Simple enough:

She didn’t change her name, she just chooses to go by her middle name.

 

[el caliente]

She didn’t change her name, she just chooses to go by her middle name.

If she prefers to go by her middle name, then call her by her middle name, unless you want to be a rebel rouser.

 

[MT15]

If she prefers to go by her middle name, then call her by her middle name, unless you want to be a rabble rouser.

I think that’s what I said. . I don’t think anybody here is saying anything different.

 

[MT15]

These guys are just the worst people, lol. Cheap so-and-so….

 

[DaveXA]

These guys are just the worst people, lol. Cheap so-and-so….

Omg, does he even hear himself? Good grief.

 

[el caliente]

These guys are just the worst people, lol. Cheap so-and-so….

Far be it from me to defend a politician (they can rot for all I care), but listen to the video again. He says that because of inflation, the cost has gone up at his favorite restaurant, and he is frequenting it (the restaurant) less (costing the staff at that restaurant the tips that he would normally be giving them).

Tl;dr: restaurants raised their prices, he is not going out to eat as much now, the wait staff are missing out of his $.50 cents off Shake and Bake coupons that he leaves for tip.

The person that tweeted this cherry picked some lines, and put the other lines up their nose.

 

[MT15]

Far be it from me to defend a politician (they can rot for all I care), but listen to the video again. He says that because of inflation, the cost has gone up at his favorite restaurant, and he is frequenting it (the restaurant) less (costing the staff at that restaurant the tips that he would normally be giving them).

The person that tweeted this cherry picked some lines, and put the other lines up their nose.

Good point. But he loses a whole bunch of credibility for blaming the inflation on Biden, when it’s caused mostly by the pandemic, is world wide, and the US is recovering much faster than Europe. But, yeah, I will block that source, thanks!

 

[MT15]

This double standard from Rs is incredibly damaging to this country. I’m glad they had to hear it. They know it, they just are completely desensitized to lying for political gain from 7-8 years of Trump.

 

[zztop]

this could probably go in half a dozen other topics

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

this could probably go in half a dozen other topics

Duh.

Was there any doubt? It has been the Republican goal since '65 when the VRA was signed.

 

[DaveXA]

this could probably go in half a dozen other topics

We gotta go back to the way things were. So...we can just go though the whole civil rights movement all over again? Lol.

Good lord some people are dumb.

 

[zztop]

Duh.

Was there any doubt? It has been the Republican goal since '65 when the VRA was signed.

We gotta go back to the way things were. So...we can just go though the whole civil rights movement all over again? Lol.

Good lord some people are dumb.

haha despite seeing/reading many similar dumb comments over the years, I am still astounded by their way of thinking. I don't know why.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Interesting read

I’ve certainly seen ‘Fork Trump’ bumper stickers, hats etc. but it always seemed to me that the anti Biden, anti- Hillary, anti- Obama, anti-liberal merchandise outnumbered the opposite 10 to 1 (at least)

Curious why that is
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The dad in the Buck Fiden cap in the waiting area between two Delta gates seemed like a genuinely fun guy. He wore gleaming white sneakers, name-brand athleisurewear and a tight silver hoop around each earlobe. He animated every word he spoke with his hands. His teenage son and daughter sat, eye-rolling.


I hope, I thought as I watched him, that when my 4-year-old is too teenage and cool for me, I’ll be as funny and easy with my kid as that dad across the aisle is with his.

Then there was that hat. Maybe you’ve seen one — or worn one. It mimics President Biden’s official campaign gear and is surely meant to amuse the like-minded while rankling the president’s supporters.

As someone who voted for Biden, I can’t say I felt especially offended by it, and yet, its message seemed, to me, oddly aggressive in the middle of the sun-lush terminal.


Most all my baseball caps feature Chicago Cubs logos or those of the various universities where I’ve studied or taught. They all say I’m loyal, Midwestern and unthreatening — even if you’re a Cardinals fan.

And maybe this is why we choose to wear what we wear — for the web of memory and identity a hat or a jacket or a pair of shoes makes. Or maybe there’s some vestigial instinct in displaying our loyalties like billboards across our foreheads, as though announcing ourselves in this way might assure us safety in the wild.

Because I’m brown-skinned and a Biden voter, perhaps I could read the Buck Fiden hat as threatening. But maybe it’s how the other dad finds his comfort — forms his own protective bubble, expresses his good humor and cheer…….

Some might saythat you can’t judge a person by their clothes, that our wardrobe choices are decided entirely by objective and incidental things such as income, occupation and fashion trends.

But if we believe that such trends are neutral and inclusive, that things like gender, race, sexuality and political ideology aren’t evident in our outerwear, keep in mind that I never did say whether the other dad in the airport was White, whether he was accompanied by his wife or by his husband. Somehow, you just know.

The Buck Fiden hat didn’t require any additional inference, but the sweats and sneakers and silver hoop earrings offered something more subtle.

Our mainstream once associated sweatpants worn in public with slovenliness, men wearing earrings with queer sexuality and counterculture. Now, the dad in the airport stood as proof that our conventions are more liberal than they once were, that even conservatism has moved on from the suits and ties of Dick Nixon’s or Bill Buckley’s or Dick Cheney’s Republican Party.


The dad’s outfit projected a new brand of conservatism, a transgressive conservatism, a flamboyant conservatism that declared: Don’t buck with me.


But that flamboyance also put the man’s interiority on display, his hat outing a part of his identity that he, in wearing it, chose to express. In this, the hat seemed a kind of political drag, an unapologetically public confession of his politics and, by extension, his private thoughts……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/14/biden-hat-politics-fashion-polarization-fatherhood/