The Death of the Grand Old Party

[Innula Zenovka]

GOP Guv: We Shouldn’t Punish Marjorie Taylor Greene for Thinking a ‘Little Bit Different’

“I’m not going to answer that question as to whether she’s fit to serve because she believes in something that everybody else does not accept,” Asa Hutchinson said on Sunday.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Jolene Benoir]

GOP Guv: We Shouldn’t Punish Marjorie Taylor Greene for Thinking a ‘Little Bit Different’

“I’m not going to answer that question as to whether she’s fit to serve because she believes in something that everybody else does not accept,” Asa Hutchinson said on Sunday.

www.thedailybeast.com

Sure, because believing that some of your fellow congress members should be murdered is just "thinking a little differently."

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Sure, because believing that some of your fellow congress members should be murdered is just "thinking a little differently."

dIvErSiTy

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

The rest of the industrialized world upon learning what's considered a liberal in the USA

Oh, Liberal means Conservative in Australia.

 

[Sid]

The biggest party in NL are the liberals.
NL considers them central right, not as conservative as the British Tories though.
In the USA our liberals would be filed under commies I guess. Our left parties would be of the chart.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Noodles]

dIvErSiTy

Liberals will scream about wanting representation of minorities from the LGBT Community or non Christian religeons or women, but where is the demmand for representation from Murderers????

We are a diverse nation, doesn't everyone get a voice?????

 

[Free]

The old guard is starting to exit the building.

Dozens Bush Admin Officials Say They're Ditching GOP Over Party's Loyalty To Trump

Dozens of officials from ex-President George W. Bush’s administration say that the GOP’s fealty to former President Donald Trump, even after...

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Dozens of officials from ex-President George W. Bush’s administration say that the GOP’s fealty to former President Donald Trump, even after he incited the deadly Capitol siege, is driving them away from the party, according to Reuters.

Jimmy Gurulé, who served as the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, told Reuters that “[t] Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists.”

“I’d call it the cult of Trump,” he said.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

dIvErSiTy

It's actually kind of amazing how many bigots think the "tolerant left" are hypocrites for not tolerating them. Throwing kidnappers in prison must sound hypocritical to these people.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

The Whigs were basically the "I hate Andrew Jackson" party, and were surprisingly effective given they survived his death by ten years and change.

Most importantly, they were weak on slavery. That spelled their doom more than any other stand before the Civil War.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Or understand international politics [I more mean my spouse, but I do understand that the so-called radical left is really somewhere center, or even sometimes right of center, anymore.

I only hear "radical left" from those I consider "radical right". For myself and most of my RL friends, "liberal" just means we believe that the government should protect and enable the "little guys" - eg, most of the population to the exclusion of the wealthy. That includes a national health insurance, income equality, generous pandemic relief, etc, over Defense.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

The Whigs imploded over slavery but reorganized in the North into the Free Soil Party and then the Republican Party.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I only hear "radical left" from those I consider "radical right". For myself and most of my RL friends, "liberal" just means we believe that the government should protect and enable the "little guys" - eg, most of the population to the exclusion of the wealthy. That includes a national health insurance, income equality, generous pandemic relief, etc, over Defense.

"Radical left" in US political terms is "mainstream centre-right" in most industrialised countries.

Back when I was a student in the 1970s, I had a white South African friend there who had been active in Helen Suzman's Progressive Party, and was an equally active member of our university Conservative Association when I knew him.

I well remember him explaining to me that "If you want to know how fucked up my country's politics are, remember that someone like me, to the right of Margaret Thatcher [she had just been elected as party leader for the first time], has to call himself a 'progressive' and BOSS think I'm a dangerous communist. If they think I'm progressive, imagine what our conservatives are like!"

Over the last few years in particular, the US has sometimes reminded me of that conversation a lot.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

Cancer can kill ya.

McConnell Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘Cancer’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) embrace of “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party," The Hill reports.Said McConnell: "Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) embrace of “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party,” The Hill reports.

Said McConnell: “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality.”

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

There's only room for one cancer in the republican party!!!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Cancer can kill ya.

McConnell Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘Cancer’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) embrace of “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party," The Hill reports.Said McConnell: "Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on

politicalwire.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]