Republicans: continued

[Cunt]

Nice truck, but I was envisioning something less well cared for, and more douchey.

Is that his truck? Yours? Or just a random pretty?



When I searched 'trans am douchey' it brought back some perplexingly inappropriate images, but this is roughly what I pictured him parking (well into his 20's) at a high-school.

[Tero]

Matt is too young to try mullets. But here you go:

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[Tero]

Fox News' Kennedy is mad that they're playing a Bruce Springsteen song as they come back from break.

"I think he's a commie ... he turned into a massive pinko!"
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[Svartalf]

No doubt he's just checking he's supported his thesis and collated his sources before writing it up.

I'm considering suspending you until your commie-fist icon changes colour again.

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I take it you don't support the Ukraine people's right to self determination?

Actually, I recognize the fact that the Duchy of Moscow having been founded by Kievan Rus, it is Russia that should be ruled from Kiev, not Ukraine from Moscow.

[Brian Peacock]

Tell that to the Latvian Princes.

[Tero]

Let's go back to the khans. The Mongols set it up and Russian princes were mere tax collectors.

[Joe]

I've never voted for my Congressman, but if it's him or this goober I will.

Colorado Congressional candidate sues to put 'Let's Go Brandon' in his name on ballot

DENVER — A Republican state lawmaker running for Congress in El Paso County wants his name on the June 28 primary ballot to include "Let's Go Brandon."

State Rep. Dave Williams (R-Colorado Springs) qualified for the primary ballot at the Congressional District 5 (CD5) assembly in Colorado Springs, earning him the top name on the ballot for CD5.
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Williams filed a lawsuit on Monday to force Democratic Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to list his name on the ballot as "Dave 'Let's Go Brandon' Williams."

"Let's Go Brandon" is code for "F--- Joe Biden." It started at an Oct. 2 NASCAR race where the winning driver, Brandon Brown, was being interviewed after the race. The crowd began chanting "F--- Joe Biden," but the reporter said to him that they were chanting "Let's Go Brandon."

The lawsuit states that Williams uses the phrase as a nickname.

[Joe]

Didn't everybody already know this?

‘I’ve Had It With This Guy’: G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6

In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics.

Mr. McCarthy went so far as to say he would push Mr. Trump to resign immediately: “I’ve had it with this guy,” he told a group of Republican leaders.

But within weeks both men backed off an all-out fight with Mr. Trump because they feared retribution from him and his political movement. Their drive to act faded fast as it became clear it would mean difficult votes that would put them at odds with most of their colleagues.

“I didn’t get to be leader by voting with five people in the conference,” Mr. McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, told a friend.

The confidential expressions of outrage from Mr. McCarthy and Mr. McConnell, which have not been previously reported, illustrate the immense gulf between what Republican leaders say privately about Mr. Trump and their public deference to a man whose hold on the party has gone virtually unchallenged for half a decade.

The leaders’ swift retreat in January 2021 represented a capitulation at a moment of extraordinary political weakness for Mr. Trump — perhaps the last and best chance for mainstream Republicans to reclaim control of their party from a leader who had stoked an insurrection against American democracy itself.

This account of the private discussions among Republican leaders in the days after the Jan. 6 attack is adapted from a new book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future,” which draws on hundreds of interviews with lawmakers and officials, and contemporaneous records of pivotal moments in the 2020 presidential campaign.

Mr. McConnell’s office declined to comment. Mark Bednar, a spokesman for Mr. McCarthy, denied that the Republican leader told colleagues he would push Mr. Trump to leave office. “McCarthy never said he’d call Trump to say he should resign,” Mr. Bednar said.

Quite the profiles in courage.

[Cunt]

I think it's very courageous how most social media platforms remove Trump's voice.

They are bravely protecting their subjects from hearing his comments about the safest election ever, and boldly protecting the most popular president in US history.

They are obviously MUCH more courageous than McConnell. Man looks like a turtle trying to have a shit, but not quite making it happen.

[Tero]

Bullshit. They are protecting their advertising income. Trumpsters can go elsewhere. A wealthy middle class is not interested in Trump anymore, including Republicans. The working poor trumpsters don't spend as much as us liberals. We might even buy a Tesla!

[Cunt]

Bullshit. They are protecting their advertising income. Trumpsters can go elsewhere. A wealthy middle class is not interested in Trump anymore, including Republicans. The working poor trumpsters don't spend as much as us liberals. We might even buy a Tesla!

lol

Yeah, the dems always were the party of the city urban liberal types.

[Joe]

Besides, Truth Social is there for them.

[Cunt]

Yes, the City Urban Liberal Types probably prefer the soothing moderation of the twitter-verse. Saudi-style free speech

Truth Social is an interesting animal. Confirms my earlier position on Q, though I don't imagine anyone would take note of that. Much easier to pretend I was wrong all the time, instead of seeing how right I was.

[Joe]

I think it's very courageous how most social media platforms remove Trump's voice.

They are bravely protecting their subjects from hearing his comments about the safest election ever, and boldly protecting the most popular president in US history.

They are obviously MUCH more courageous than McConnell. Man looks like a turtle trying to have a shit, but not quite making it happen.

You've said before, but the topic here is the so-called leadership of the Republican Party and how events are demonstrating Trump's continuing grip on the GOP. While I may joke about profiles in courage, the operative factor in most US politicians is the calculus, and if you read the full NYT article you'd see that neither McCarthy nor McConnell could get the votes from their own caucus. I guess they lacked the courage to go against their base.

Speaking of profiles in courage, it was no surprise to see Ukrainian President Zelensky get one of this year's JFK Profile in Courage Awards, but I'm sure you're pleased to see Liz Cheney on the list as well, since political courage is so important to you.

[pErvinalia]

They are bravely protecting their subjects from hearing his comments about the safest election ever, and boldly protecting the most popular president in US history.

How do you judge that? Didn't both Hillary and Biden get more votes than him?