Republicans: continued

[rainbow]

If you're a cuck, Biden.

If you're a farty twat, then you would vote for Trump.

[Joe]

The name sounds like what you get when you throw three economists in a blender, though Rothbard was a bit of a nutter.

[Tero]

It's of no interest to senator: these gothcha books do not really interest him very much. "This is different. He is recorded."
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John Kenney's 'aw shucks southerner' schtick will not work this time. He was so tied up in knots, had to visit chiropractor after interview.

[Tero]

[Tero]

We have the Moore documentary on Trump, but it's not nearly as effective as Fahrenheit 9/11 was on Bush




Obama, by the way, failed to give Flint water as well.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Prospective thread: 'Libertarians Say the Funniest Things'

@ScottAdamsSays feels personally abused by Trump bombing on the white supremacy question during the debate. Adams says Trump lost his vote.

[twitter video of Adams pontificating]

JD-800 · Oct 1, 2020

Later in the day ...

Today I learned that agreeing with Democrats and saying I won’t vote for Trump makes them hate me extra and threaten me. So I’ll be voting for Trump.

Scott Adams · Oct 1, 2020

[Sean Hayden]

[L'Emmerdeur]

The dastardly Red Menace has got the president of the US, according to the cretinous US senator Kelly Loeffler.

'This Republican senator is the early leader for worst take on Trump's coronavirus diagnosis'

Hours after President Donald Trump announced that he and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, had tested positive for Covid-19, Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler decided that the world needed to hear her take on the matter.

"Remember: China gave this virus to our President @realDonaldTrump and First Lady @FLOTUS," she tweeted just after 9 a.m. ET on Friday morning. "WE MUST HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE."

Which is, well, something.

A straight reading of Loeffler's tweet seems to suggest that she believes that China (or the Chinese government?) "gave this virus" to the President and first lady. Which, huge if true! The thing is, of course, that Loeffler knows it's not true.

It's not clear yet exactly how Trump was infected. We do know he was closely exposed to top aide Hope Hicks, who tested positive earlier on Thursday.

What Loeffler is trying to do here is pretty damn transparent. Echoing Trump himself in blaming China for not stopping the virus -- though it's clear the Chinese government's early response to the outbreak raises deeply troubling questions for the entire world in terms of transparency -- Loeffler is trying to turn the President's positive test into an issue by which she can demonstrate her tough stance on China to potential voters. And to float a conspiracy theory -- did China infect the President?!?!?! -- that she knows will find purchase with some chunk of the most pro-Trump voters. At the very least, it's a deliberate use of absurd hyperbole to make a point.

[Loeffler is facing a dicey election in November--needs to do well enough to make it into a run-off election.]

Loeffler's strategy to make the runoff has been to out-Trump Trump. She has openly feuded with members of the WNBA team she owns -- the Atlanta Dream -- over the Black Lives Matter movement. She has attacked the media at every turn for allegedly being out to get her. She is running ads in Georgia in which she claims to be "more conservative than Attila the Hun."

This tweet then is in keeping with that strategy. Why not suggest that China not only didn't do enough to limit the spread of the disease in the spring but also "gave this virus" to Trump? After all, if Trump's takeover and transformation of the Republican Party over the past five years has proven anything, it's that there is no "too far" when it comes to the President's most ardent backers. Nothing too outlandish, nothing too over-the-top. And as for facts? Well, those are for other people.

What Loeffler did with her Friday morning tweet is, of course, incredibly irresponsible. Hyperbolically floating the idea that China personally got Trump and the first lady sick with absolutely no proof isn't the sort of thing any of us should do -- much less a sitting United States senator.

But Loeffler did it anyway. Because she thinks it's good politics.

[L'Emmerdeur]

The competition is stiff. Professional shitbird and failed Republican candidate for US Congress:

Does anyone else find it odd that no prominent Democrats have had the virus but the list of Republicans goes on and on?

DeAnna Lorraine · Oct 2, 2020

[pErvinalia]

[JimC]

Karma is a bitch...

[L'Emmerdeur]

Florida Man Matt Gaetz opines that since the president caught the bug, lockdowns are ineffective so the country should carry on with reopening. Never mind that with the change in the seasons the infection rate is likely to rise.

Tucker Carlson thinks Florida Man makes a 'smart point.'

'Gaetz: Trump Getting Covid Shows "No Lockdown Can Be a Panacea to Save Everyone from Everything," Reopening Strategy Should Continue'

[Seabass]

[rainbow]

The latest theory is that the Covid is affecting only Republicans, and this is a Democrat plot to prevent Trump from packing the Supreme Court with some toady.

[Tero]

Death threats against the Squad allowed on Twitter. Against Trump, no death wishes.