Republicans: continued

[Scot Dutchy]

2 paper bags. One for her, and one for you just in case hers comes off...

[Hermit]

A sitting US congressman:

Munstrous

[pErvinalia]

[Svartalf]

Wow, just wow, I'd never have expected the likeness to be real.

[Tero]

This is the shit we have to debate every year. Trump tweeted plenty of these. Republicans are the ones that do not do anything, other than cut taxes and cut benefits.

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[Tero]

Bill Maher
@billmaher

QAnon is now so mainstream that 71 Republicans running for office this year have espoused #QAnon beliefs. That's more Republicans than believe in evolution or vegetables.

[Tero]

Charlie warned us! Years ago!



Question: What is the most dangerous aspect of Idiot America?
Charles P. Pierce: The most dangerous aspect of Idiot America is that it encourages us to abandon our birthright to be informed citizens of a self-governing republic. America cannot function on automatic pilot, and, too often, we don't notice that it has been until the damage has already been done.

Question: Is there a voice or leader of Idiot America?
Charles P. Pierce: The leaders of Idiot America are those people who abandoned their obligations to the above. There are lots of people making an awful lot of money selling their ideas and their wares to Idiot America. Idiot America is an act of collective will, a product of lassitude and sloth.

Question: What is the difference between stupidity and glorifying ignorance?
Charles P. Pierce: Stupidity is as stupidity does, to quote a uniquely stupid movie. It has been with us always and always will be. But we moved into an era in which stupidity was celebrated if it managed to sell itself well, if it succeeded, if it made people money. That is “glorifying ignorance.” We moved into an era in which the reflexive instincts of the Gut were celebrated at the expense of reasoned, informed opinion. To this day, we have a political party—the Republicans—who, because it embraced a “movement of Conservatism” that celebrated anti-intellectualism is now incapable of conducting itself in any other way. That has profound political and cultural consequences, and the truly foul part about it was that so many people engaged in it knowing full well they were peddling poison.

Question: While writing Idiot America, what story or incident made you the most incensed?
Charles P. Pierce: Without question, it was talking to the people at Woodside Hospice, who shared with me what it was like to be inside the whirlwind stirred up by people who used the prolonged death of Terri Schiavo as a political and social volleyball to advance their own unpopular and reckless agenda. There are people—Sean Hannity comes to mind—who, if there is a just god in heaven, should be locked in a room for 20 minutes with Annie Santa Maria, the indomitable woman who works with the patients at the hospice. Only one of them would come out, and it wouldn't be him.

Question: With the election of President Obama, is Idiot America coming to an end? Or, will there always be a place for idiocy in America?
Charles P. Pierce: Look at the political opposition to President Obama. “Socialist!” “Fascist!” “Coming to get your guns.” Hysteria from the hucksters of Idiot America is still at high-tide. People are killing other people and specifically attributing their action to imaginary oppression stoked by radio talk-show stars and television pundits. That Glenn Beck has achieved the prominence he has makes me wonder if there is a just god in heaven.

Question: Are there any positive signs that we are moving away from Idiot America? If you could create a twelve step program to America back on track, what would be your first suggestion?
Charles P. Pierce: Remember that perception is not reality, that opinion, no matter how widely held, is not fact. An old and wise friend of mine said that the only question that any American citizen is required to answer is “Do you govern or are you governed?” It has to be answered in the former, and that answer has to be continuous. We have to get back to that.

[Joe]

Speaking of idiots.

[Sean Hayden]

That's pretty bad, but I've got better.

An acquaintance bought a gas mask to protect herself from chemtrails. If they ever get bad enough, she's ready.

So, are you wearing a mask now to slow the spread of covid?

--no...

[Sean Hayden]

Have we tried to see if these people may have a parasite, or have been infected with a virus that has hijacked their minds? Screw the psych surveys, let's dive into medical history, blood work, brain scans etc...

[Seabass]

https://digbysblog.net/2020/08/they-seem-nice-3/

[Tero]

Old timers in Florida not really wortied about virus
https://www.kios.org/post/older-white-v ... ay-be-play
and are voting for Trump cause of gays and abortion.

[JimC]

They want gay babies to be aborted?

[Tero]

That would be best, then they don't need to gaymarry. Leave a few lesbians. We always need lesbians.

[JimC]

Sure, or else the isle of Lesbos would be uninhabited...