What happens to the Republican Party now? (6 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?

 

[efil4]

In Indiana they just changed payday loan rates to up to $5,000 at 149% interest.

Party of the working person.

having just had to handle this for a relative, that 149% is a ruse. Its commonly more like 200-600% - i have never seen anything quite like it.

And where did they get the idea? Saw a commercial on Fox News, downloaded an app, applied for it and borrowed $800. The repayment plan? $129 every 2 weeks for 22 installments. Thats right, to borrow $800, it was going to cost them $2038 in interest. The interest is calculated bi-monthly- so that 129 payment, only $19-21 goes toward principle. They had made 7 payments and still owed $700~ on the principle.

Oh and the only way you get the $$ is direct deposit. Thats to make sure they get your routing/acct number because the ONLY WAY TO REPAY is ACH. And if you have an NSF, their NSF fee is $35 ( not counting your bank NSF fee charge )

if there is a word better than "predatory", that is what these loans are.

Target audience clearly identified.

 

[Bayouboy]

You would think that this is exactly what Mitch McConnell wanted. McConnell, the 83-year-old Kentucky senator – who announced last week that he will retire in 2026 and not seek an eighth term – is one of the most influential Republicans in the history of the party.

But he has in recent weeks expressed dissent and discontent with the direction of the Republican party. He voted against some of Donald Trump’s cabinet appointees, refusing, for example, to cast a vote for the confirmation of the anti-diversity campaigner and alleged rapist and drunk Pete Hegseth.

He has also voiced some tepid and belated opposition to Republicans’ extremist agenda, citing his own experience as a survivor of childhood polio as a reason for his opposition to Republican attacks on vaccines.

But the Republican party that McConnell is now shaking his head at is the one that he created. He has no one but himself to blame.

Over his 40 years in the US Senate, with almost two decades as the Republican leader in the chamber, McConnell has become one of the most influential senators in the nation’s history, radically reshaping Congress, and his party, in the process.

Few have done more to erode the conditions of representative democracy in America, and few have done more to enable the rise of oligarchy, autocracy and reactionary, minoritarian governance that is insulated from electoral check. McConnell remade America in his own image. It’s an ugly sight.

In the end, McConnell will be remembered for one thing only: his enabling of Trump. In 2021, after Trump refused to respect the results of the 2020 election and sent a violent mob of his supporters to the Capitol to stop the certification of the election results by violent force, McConnell had an opportunity to put a stop to Trump’s authoritarian attacks on the constitutional order.

McConnell never liked Trump, and by that point, he didn’t even need him: he had already won what would be his last term. He could have voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment; if he had, it’s likely that other Republican senators would have been willing to do so, too, and that Trump could have been convicted and prevented from returning to power.

He didn’t. McConnell voted to acquit, and to allow Trump to rise again. If the next four years of Trump’s restoration are anything like the first 30 days have been, then that will turn out to have been the singularly significant decision of McConnell’s career……….

Mitch McConnell is retiring from US politics. Good riddance | Moira Donegan

Whenever you see a horror of anti-democratic rule, remember Mitch McConnell. You have him to thank

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Mitch McConnell may have caused more damage to America than any other person to walk the earth. We will find out in the next four years.