Posted on 02/14/2024 4:29:46 AM PST by MountainWalker
Democrats never stop subverting their enemies, ever. They successfully flipped a seat from a swing district because they conned enough fools in the loser party to vote to expel George Santos. Meanwhile, Cori Bush is under DOJ investigation for embezzling campaign funds. Is there any talk of her expulsion? LOL. She's not even in a seat that they could possibly lose. They basically ended any Biden impeachment last night. Mayorkas could no longer be impeached if the vote were held today.
Johnson has been functionally the same as McCarthy, but since Gaetz wanted to humiliate McCarthy for not scuttling an ethics investigation into him, he led the charge to toss him out. It's no surprise he resigned his seat too. Democrats would never have done this, ever, and certainly weren't going to bail out McCarthy.
Democrats are like incarcerated convicts constantly looking for any weaknesses in their adversaries defenses to exploit in order to break out or at least make life a living hell for them. Their scheming doesn't end on election day. It's constant. And just because they lose an election doesn't mean they pack it in for 2 years. "Trump wins the election? Let's call him a Russian asset and tie him up with impeachment investigations. Our voters don't turn out? Then let's make it election month." They never quit thinking of creative ideas to maximize their advantage.
Republicans, meanwhile, approach politics with all the seriousness of 5th grade schoolgirls - petty squabbles, going rogue on votes for notoriety in conservative media or even left-wing media like Ken Buck.
November will be an interesting test of Democrats machinery. If Trump has only a small advantage over a corrupt invalid who can no longer draw a clock or speak in complete sentences, he's going to lose. They can close manageable gaps with their ballot operations.
It doesn’t matter at this point. With all the thousands of foreign sleeper cells in the USA, they are just waiting for the signal to turn Washington DC into a giant waste land.
It isn’t Global Warming that will destroy the world by 2030.
The American empire is going to collapse before then. It is going to be a chaotic freefall, anarchy, pestilence and death in EVERY state. Stay away from the urban centers. The cities will be ground zero for the zombie apocalypse.
We lost perhaps when the Neo-cons took over during the Bush family era. Republicans became fixated on the bottom line and wars.
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Yes! You can trace the decline of the Republican Party to becoming the unrestrained cheerleaders of imperialism and soulless corporatism. With George Bush jr. those two features of “Republicanism” were on steroids. That’s why I’m so nasty towards the Neo-Cons on this board (and well anywhere really). We need to drive those elements out of our party and into the arms of the Dems...even if we lose elections in the short-term. Let the Political Left be the owners endless wars and Chamber of Commerce greed.
I know. Too many people around here get caught up in debating who’s the more conservative politician. Does it matter anymore in today’s GOP? They’ve all let us down. Labels mean nothing anymore. Donald Trump is not getting the majority of our votes because he’s the most conservative politician. Most Republicans are voting for him because he’s not compromised as everyone else is in DC, and he’s really the only Republican nationally who’s taking the fight full bore into the Democrats as well as to the RINOs in the GOP!
At this point, Trump is nothing more than a protest vote.
Exactly.
I can't remember who said it, but it checks out as much as it can without getting into Gaetz's head. Either he spent all of his political capital on the first ouster or it was a personal grudge because there's been no material difference in leadership direction since Johnson took over and Gaetz has been pretty quiet.
I read a piece once with an interesting history of neo-cons. It said neo-cons started as a group split from the Democratic Party during the Cold War and joined the Republicans party.
They were unhappy with the weak military stance pushed by the hippies etc. otherwise they were 100% democrats.
You see that today with people like Romney or even better Todd Young who vote with Dems on things like immigration, gay marriage acts etc but want more military involvement.
RINOs.
They were called “Scoop Jackson Democrats”.
The Republican Party is stupid on steroids.
So my memory wasn’t faulty.
“No wonder people aren’t motivated to vote for Repukes. What’s the point?”
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Why vote for a party that doesn’t stand for anything? Republicans only survive because they are the lesser of two evils.
We need a real party that fights for us.
McCarthy was just another Democrat.
Neocons actually first came to power under Reagan. And neither side has cared about fiscal responsibility in decades, with the exception of (gasp) Clinton who at least tried to balance the budget.
Johnson has an extremely slim majority to b work with. Given what happened in Lawnguyland last nite, it’s not getting any better.
But they got to massage their egos a day tell themselves how morally superior they are to everyone else. That’s more important then the country.
Blame democrats or the voters the democrats know how use the simple and weak minded most voters are lemmings have no idea what people did they vote for.
From mayors on up the chart stays the same.
Your post was fine until you went on your Gaetz diatribe. It’s getting old.
“Our reps talk like atilla the hun before the election and turn into Jonah Goldberg after the election.”
You get it.....so many still do not. I voted for Mitch McConnell when I lived in KY years ago, helped hand out literature for Romney when he was running for Pres, voted for Todd Young when I lived in Indiana.....and there are more.... like Portman in Ohio. They all used the right talking points to get the jobs, fooling me.
I read the youth turned out for last nights New York election. Doesn’t bode well for November.
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