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]

Do they even realize how loony they sound?

 

[MT15]

We definitely need Chuck here.

 

[Optimus Prime]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden over unproven claims of financial misconduct, responding to enormous GOP pressure to demonstrate support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

In remarks Tuesday at the Capitol, McCarthy said the questions House Republicans are raising about the Biden family finances need to be investigated. So far, he acknowledged, the House’s probes have not proven any wrongdoing, but an impeachment inquiry “allows Congress to get the information to be able to know the truth.”

An impeachment inquiry by the House would be a first step toward bringing articles of impeachment. Such a probe could be as lengthy or swift as the House determines, potentially stretching into campaign season.

“We will follow this to the end,” he said, first floating the idea late Monday on Fox News.…..

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy floats an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republicans in Congress may launch an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden over unproven allegations of financial wrongdoing.

apnews.com

 

[MT15]

Proof? We don’t need no stinking proof!

Seriously, this is like a prosecutor going ahead and calling the grand jury and then trying to figure out if they have any evidence during the grand jury presentation. This will not go well for dear Kevin, lol.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Proof? We don’t need no stinking proof!

Seriously, this is like a prosecutor going ahead and calling the grand jury and then trying to figure out if they have any evidence during the grand jury presentation. This will not go well for dear Kevin, lol.

The more I think about it, this is just part 2 of the Republican's sad, empty, 5yr old Ukraine/Giuliani op. They'll talk about impeachment of Biden everyday, knowing that they got nothing, just to make headlines.

 

[Taurus]

The more I think about it, this is just part 2 of the Republican's sad, empty, 5yr old Ukraine/Giuliani op. They'll talk about impeachment of Biden everyday, knowing that they got nothing, just to make headlines.

It's just a matter of keeping the words "Biden impeachment" in the news.

 

[MT15]

From what I have read, this program is responsible for providing AIDS treatment to African countries, saving countless lives. The GOP is lost, the old party isn’t coming back, the new one doesn’t deserve the support of thoughtful decent people.

 

[MT15]

We don’t have a thread for suppression of women or misogyny. The GOP, a large portion of it, is awash in it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Earlier this year, I was introduced to a Republican at a small gathering. I asked him what he made of the new theory sweeping the right, which held that radical leftists had conducted a “long march through the institutions,” seizing control of American culture, education, and business, and thus forcing Republicans to use government to dislodge their power.

This theory has largely been associated with the new, Trumpier factions of the right that have risen up as alternatives to traditional conservatism. Since the man I met was exactly the sort of Republican the Trumpists are plotting to displace from power — (Jewish coastal elitist, donor, mortified by Donald Trump, vocally pro–gay marriage yet intrigued by Ron DeSantis, etc.) — I assumed he would express either ignorance of the long-march theory or else outright opposition.

Instead, to my surprise, the only portion of my account he questioned was the word “theory.” To his mind, the long march and its grim implications for the party’s strategy were simply an obvious truism. The idea has spread so rapidly through the conservative elite that, before it has even gotten a name, the segments of the party most predisposed against it have adopted it.

Ron DeSantis has placed this theory at the center of his governing vision (“elected officials who do nothing more than get out of the way are essentially greenlighting these institutions to continue their unimpeded march through society,” he writes in his campaign book.) Donald Trump is personally sub-ideological, but the intellectuals around him have embraced it too.

Two new books expound upon Longmarchism, as you might call it. America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, by Christopher Rufo, attempts a sweeping historical theory tracing the ascent of a brand of left-wing identity politics from the 1960s New Left to its present position (according to Rufo) of dominance of the commanding heights of American society.

Up From Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right After a Generation of Decay, a collection of essays edited by the Claremont Institute’s Arthur Milikh, uses the long march as its premise and proposes an array of retaliatory actions.

Rufo’s version, which is the most developed iteration of the theory, posits that the 1960’s far left hit a wall when the working class failed to support its revolutionary program, and instead decided to gain control of society from above by burrowing into its elite sectors. Rufo initially, erroneously, attributed this strategy to the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, before correctly crediting his disciple Rudi Dutschke, who proposed a “long march through the institutions.”.

The notion that ex-hippies have burrowed into the Establishment (especially universities) has been floating around the right for many years. But it was only at the tail end of the Trump administration that a more comprehensive version of the idea suddenly burst forth into the frontal cortex of the conservative mind. Longmarchism served as an all-purpose explanation of everything that angered the right during the Trump era: the belligerence of the news media, increasingly overt hostility from respectable Americans, and the final collapse into failure of the Trump administration. All these vexing developments could be explained by the single phenomenon of the left having successfully taken over America’s institutions.

And accepting this theory, in turn, implied a new focus for Republicans if and when they next gained control of government. The left’s long march had given it control of nongovernmental organs of power, from which position it had waged relentless guerrilla war that had rendered Trump impotent and finally defeated. The right’s new task was to use government power to strike back...............

MSN

 

[MT15]

Mitch McConnell just froze during his weekly press conference and was unable to resume talking. He was led away, only to come back later and say a few words. Seemed like a TIA, to my non-doctor eyes. Hope he goes to the hospital and gets checked out.

 

[MT15]

Also this:

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

crulity

Mitch McConnell just froze during his weekly press conference and was unable to resume talking. He was led away, only to come back later and say a few words. Seemed like a TIA, to my non-doctor eyes. Hope he goes to the hospital and gets checked out.

I, for one, was unaware of the term TIA.

A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a stroke that lasts only a few minutes. It occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is briefly interrupted. TIA symptoms, which usually occur suddenly, are similar to those of stroke but do not last as long.

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/transient-ischemic-attack-tia#:~:text=A transient ischemic attack (TIA,do not last as long.

 

[MT15]

It happened to my mom once. She spent the night in the hospital while they checked her out thoroughly. They can be a warning that a more permanent stroke is coming.

IMO, he should have immediately gone to the hospital rather than trying to come back to the podium. But hopefully he is at least getting checked out now.

 

[MT15]

Also, found the Republican with some integrity:

 

[MT15]

Do they even realize how loony they sound?

The above is as stupid a statement as I think I’ve ever seen

 

[DaveXA]

The above is as stupid a statement as I think I’ve ever seen

I think the home schoolers should stick to home schooling and leave the rest of us alone.

 

[MT15]

This seems relevant to today’s GOP:

 

[J-DONK]

Mitch McConnell just froze during his weekly press conference and was unable to resume talking. He was led away, only to come back later and say a few words. Seemed like a TIA, to my non-doctor eyes. Hope he goes to the hospital and gets checked out.

He also had the purple hand's a few years ago. The internet thought that was probably caused by blood thinners. My guess, he has a history of TIA.

Hopefully, it doesn't impact his quality of life.