The Republican Utopia

[BigRedBuster]

 

His legacy. 

[knapplc]

 

[Archy1221]

No idea their reasoning behind voting no, but for that tweeter to make it a race thingy shows how stupid people are about the subject and actually hurts the cause when racist things happen for real. 

[knapplc]

Just now, Archy1221 said:

No idea their reasoning behind voting no, but for that tweeter to make it a race thingy shows how stupid people are about the subject and actually hurts the cause when racist things happen for real. 

 

White supremacists were involved in the attack, and these Republicans voted against a simple gesture awarding those officers a medal for their heroism. Racism is definitely a factor here, all part of the Republican culture war.

[funhusker]

I saw a report that the no vote was because the bill used the word “insurrection”.

 

The attack on the capital had no chance of destroying the USA.  It was a bunch of traitorous douche canoes that thought they were far more powerful than they actually were.  It was a pathetic display.

 

But to say these peckerwoods weren’t part of an insurrection is, by definition, false.

 

f#&% these 12 “reps”...

 

 

[TGHusker]

On 3/16/2021 at 4:40 PM, BigRedBuster said:

 

His legacy. 

This is what happens when you believe a con man.  He takes the govt money, gives it to his friends as govt contracts, they do a shoddy job but come away with money in their pockets and probably back into Trump's pockets as well.   What is the rational in building a fence in that area? - maybe it is easier to build there vs in populated areas.  Easier to collect the money and to show 'progress' even if the progress wasn't in an area that needed it.

[Archy1221]

26 minutes ago, knapplc said:

Racism is definitely a factor here, all part of the Republican culture war.

No

[Ulty]

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

No idea their reasoning behind voting no, but for that tweeter to make it a race thingy shows how stupid people are about the subject and actually hurts the cause when racist things happen for real. 

Can you give an example of when "racist things happen for real?"

 

You have been presented with examples of racism (specifically Trump) on this board several times and simply deny them. It seems in your world racist things never happen for real.

[RedDenver]

 

[Danny Bateman]

This nicely dovetails off the Tucker post above.

 

Holding the position "less or stricter immigration is better" is a fine, legitimate position to hold. The GOP, who used to be the pro-business party who valued cheap labor and thus supported immigration, now largely holds that position.

 

The problem, at least as it occurs to me, is that they've ceased to be a party of positions or ideas. The point isn't a battle of ideas. Not all that long ago, they devolved into the party of the spectacle - of outrage merchants, of histrionics, of lib triggering. In short, they've become the party of who can be the biggest a$$h@!e. If you can't generate attention, you can't float to the upper crusts of the party. And controversial a$$h@!es is what they want right now.

 

The next U.S. senator from Ohio is likely to be either this guy or a recently Trumpified J.D. Vance. I'm sure GOP voters and Ohioans will be happy, but it's a net loss for the country as a whole to elevate people like this.

 

 

[Scarlet]

30 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said:

This nicely dovetails off the Tucker post above.

 

Holding the position "less or stricter immigration is better" is a fine, legitimate position to hold. The GOP, who used to be the pro-business party who valued cheap labor and thus supported immigration, now largely holds that position.

 

The problem, at least as it occurs to me, is that they've ceased to be a party of positions or ideas. The point isn't a battle of ideas. Not all that long ago, they devolved into the party of the spectacle - of outrage merchants, of histrionics, of lib triggering. In short, they've become the party of who can be the biggest a$$h@!e. If you can't generate attention, you can't float to the upper crusts of the party. And controversial a$$h@!es is what they want right now.

 

The next U.S. senator from Ohio is likely to be either this guy or a recently Trumpified J.D. Vance. I'm sure GOP voters and Ohioans will be happy, but it's a net loss for the country as a whole to elevate people like this.

 

 

JFC.  This from a guy who's ilk stormed the Capitol of the United States and committed how many crimes in the process?  Amazing how smug these white sociopaths can be about their perceived superiority over people of other races.  And yet, they're the problem...

[TGHusker]

3 hours ago, RedDenver said:

 

 

Tucker doing the old GOP scare and blame tactics.   We are not becoming a crowded country. Yes, certain cities have always been crowded. 

Compare us to the rest of the world.  While we have a lot of open farm/ranch land and rugged mountain and dessert areas, we still have a lot

of room relative to the rest of the world.

 

 

Population density of the USA by county

 

Of Central America from which most immigrants are coming

Of Europe

 

Of Mexico

 

 

China

 

India

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

1 hour ago, Danny Bateman said:

This nicely dovetails off the Tucker post above.

 

Holding the position "less or stricter immigration is better" is a fine, legitimate position to hold. The GOP, who used to be the pro-business party who valued cheap labor and thus supported immigration, now largely holds that position.

 

The problem, at least as it occurs to me, is that they've ceased to be a party of positions or ideas. The point isn't a battle of ideas. Not all that long ago, they devolved into the party of the spectacle - of outrage merchants, of histrionics, of lib triggering. In short, they've become the party of who can be the biggest a$$h@!e. If you can't generate attention, you can't float to the upper crusts of the party. And controversial a$$h@!es is what they want right now.

 

The next U.S. senator from Ohio is likely to be either this guy or a recently Trumpified J.D. Vance. I'm sure GOP voters and Ohioans will be happy, but it's a net loss for the country as a whole to elevate people like this.

 

 

 

 

Here's the thing with this.  Obviously there's a lot of idiot Republicans that voted Greene in to congress because they think she's like Trump and just bold and "tells it like it is".

 

BUT....what these brainiacs don't understand is that someone in congress has to work with other people to get something done.  Right now, I bet the people in congress that want to work with Greene are extremely small.  

 

So.....her constituents really don't have good representation because nobody is going to want to work with her on anything.

[RedDenver]

 

[Scarlet]

Can anyone explain why you wouldn't condemn a coup and subsequent military crackdown on protesters against that coup, which has resulted in the murder of hundreds if not thousands of citizens supporting the duly elected government?  Unless of course you identify with that kind of action.