The decline of the GOP

[selmaborntidefan]

Surprise, surprise! Republicans care about deficits again!

When a Republican is president, deficits don’t matter.

www.chron.com

Well, I care about deficits and always have, but it's also indisputable that all of a sudden the GOP adopts this entire "children and grandchildren paying the debt back" position. One of these days, what Tidewater posted about two weeks ago WILL happen. I would not want to be the political party running things when it happens, which is how the Democrats spent most of 7 decades in the wilderness after the Civil War and the GOP did for about 6 decades after the market crash of 1929.

But yeah, at this point, I can't exactly get behind a "well, we can't afford that." I mean, I recall my ex-FIL bringing up cost when Bush wanted us to go into Iraq in the first place (in 2003). Somewhere in life, he went full Trumper, still don't know what happened there.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Well, I care about deficits and always have, but it's also indisputable that all of a sudden the GOP adopts this entire "children and grandchildren paying the debt back" position. One of these days, what Tidewater posted about two weeks ago WILL happen. I would not want to be the political party running things when it happens, which is how the Democrats spent most of 7 decades in the wilderness after the Civil War and the GOP did for about 6 decades after the market crash of 1929.

But yeah, at this point, I can't exactly get behind a "well, we can't afford that." I mean, I recall my ex-FIL bringing up cost when Bush wanted us to go into Iraq in the first place (in 2003). Somewhere in life, he went full Trumper, still don't know what happened there.

The man offered a cartoon of hairy-chested masculinity for inadequate men to groove on. They identify with him, right down to the genital-grabbing. A lot of them were Wallace supporters. A lot more of the younger would have been...

 

[TexasBama]

The man offered a cartoon of hairy-chested masculinity for inadequate men to groove on. They identify with him, right down to the genital-grabbing. A lot of them were Wallace supporters. A lot more of the younger would have been...

I saw an article yesterday discussing the trend towards electric vehicles, and it was posited that one of the resistors is that oil/gasoline is more "masculine".

 

[selmaborntidefan]

The man offered a cartoon of hairy-chested masculinity for inadequate men to groove on. They identify with him, right down to the genital-grabbing. A lot of them were Wallace supporters. A lot more of the younger would have been...

In my Dad's case, he was always a conservative but one with a brain (pre-strokes). Indeed, I watched his views evolve through the years as he learned more about more things, and it was usually quite interesting right up until Trump.

In my ex-FIL's case, he's a full-blooded Cajun from south Lou-zana, raised hardcore Catholic, which he rejected when he got older (but kept the guilt and the baggage), and a hardcore labor union blue collar Democrat, who occasionally voted for some Republican candidates, all of whom he hated.

Until Trump. Then he suddenly became the most hardcore Trumper you ever saw. With him in 2016, it started with a kind of reluctant "he's not Hillary" and evolved to Trump being "the only one telling the truth," which was shocking given I've known the guy 31 years.


Short post - I'd like to argue with your point, but I really can't.

 

[92tide]

The man offered a cartoon of hairy-chested masculinity for inadequate men to groove on. They identify with him, right down to the genital-grabbing. A lot of them were Wallace supporters. A lot more of the younger would have been...

they have been working for a while perfecting that model. they just added some additional jack ass with trump

 

[Bamaro]

Surprise, surprise! Republicans care about deficits again!

When a Republican is president, deficits don’t matter.

www.chron.com

I wish both parties cared and would continue to care regardless of who was in the whitehouse or who controlled congress.

 

[TexasBama]

they have been working for a while perfecting that model. they just added some additional jack ass with trump

They like wrestling, too, which is basically two men hugging on the floor

 

[Crimson1967]

Trump has probably cleared brush as often as I have worn an Auburn hat.

 

[TexasBama]

Trump has probably cleared brush as often as I have worn a Notre Dame hat.

Just in case you were drunk at a party

 

[MattinBama]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1357693605884878848

 

[92tide]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1357693605884878848

i still want to find out how boof kavanaugh paid off that $240k or so credit card debt spot quickly

 

[TexasBama]

i still want to find out how boof kavanaugh paid off that $240k or so credit card debt spot quickly

Probably from redeeming the deposits on empty beer kegs

 

[TexasBama]

Analysis: A race war evident long before the Capitol siege

A war rages on in America, and it didn’t begin with Donald Trump or the assault on the Capitol. It started with slavery and never ended, through lynchings and voter suppression, the snarling attack dogs of Bull Connor and the insidious accounting of redlining. People like the murderer who...

www.yahoo.com

 

[92tide]

Analysis: A race war evident long before the Capitol siege

A war rages on in America, and it didn’t begin with Donald Trump or the assault on the Capitol. It started with slavery and never ended, through lynchings and voter suppression, the snarling attack dogs of Bull Connor and the insidious accounting of redlining. People like the murderer who...

www.yahoo.com

it continues apace with the georgia gop's latest voter suppression efforts. it's all they know how to do

 

[B1GTide]

Analysis: A race war evident long before the Capitol siege

A war rages on in America, and it didn’t begin with Donald Trump or the assault on the Capitol. It started with slavery and never ended, through lynchings and voter suppression, the snarling attack dogs of Bull Connor and the insidious accounting of redlining. People like the murderer who...

www.yahoo.com

America needs to treat this problem as seriously as Germany did after WWII. It is the greatest threat to our nation's future since the Civil War.

Change laws to make it impossible to gain employment in government jobs, or for companies which accept government funding, if the person participates in this type of activity. Extend that so they are also not eligible for government assistance of any kind. Make a racist post on Twitter - out of work and out of luck. Join a racist group - out of work and out of luck.

 

[92tide]

America needs to treat this problem as seriously as Germany did after WWII. It is the greatest threat to our nation's future since the Civil War.

Change laws to make it impossible to gain employment in government jobs, or for companies which accept government funding, if the person participates in this type of activity. Extend that so they are also not eligible for government assistance of any kind. Make a racist post on Twitter - out of work and out of luck. Join a racist group - out of work and out of luck.

the lost causers are still fighting the civil war

 

[TexasBama]

'Its Own Private Army': How the GOP Allied Itself With Militias

LANSING, Mich. — Dozens of heavily armed militiamen crowded into the Michigan Statehouse last April to protest a stay-at-home order by the Democratic governor to slow the pandemic. Chanting and stomping their feet, they halted legislative business, tried to force their way onto the floor and...

www.yahoo.com

 

[TexasBama]

Good christians doing his will

Texas pastors under fire for referring to Kamala Harris as racist trope

‘What if something happens to [Biden], and Jezebel has to take over?’ wondered one from the pulpit. ‘Jezebel Harris? Two white pastors in Texas are under fire for reportedly calling Vice President Kamala Harris a “jezebel” from their pulpits.

www.yahoo.com

 

[92tide]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359278008025174018

 

[TexasBama]

Opinion | Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo: How to Turn Your Red State Blue (Published 2021)

It may take 10 years. Do it anyway.

www.nytimes.com