What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

[Ironbite4]

No I want her to do this. See how that works out for her.

Ironbite-corpos control both sides so they'd be ok with a few years of higher taxes on them if it means sending a message to these idiots.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

She's like what happens when they scrape up the bits that were even too stupid for Trump, stuff it in a wig, and let it learn to make noises with its face without learning what half of those noises actually mean.

 

[wonko the sane?]

And despite all of her and her noise... she'll be re-elected.

 

[NovaSaber]

Will she? Didn't she get barely over 50% of the vote when running unopposed?

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

I thought it was less?

 

[KidTDragon]

It was 74%. Still, it's telling when 25% of the voting population of Georgia would rather have the guy that dropped out two months earlier than this... thing.

 

[NovaSaber]

Mike Pence says Americans don't have a right to freedom from religion - Salon.com

"The radical left believes that the freedom of religion is the freedom from religion," says Pence

www.salon.com

 

[Rhinox]

That Mike Pence is a religious extremist is not news.
Honestly, why is anyone giving him the time of day? He's done. He will never hold any high public office again. The MAGAts hate him because he betrayed Cheeto Jesus and the left hates him because he's ******* terrible at every office he's held.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

The only quality Pence ever held over Trump was being quieter. And the cult already tried to lynch him once. Won't stop h from making a total ass of himself, of course.

 

[NovaSaber]

GOP candidate wants to ban books about divorce because they'll cause "unnecessary anxiety" for kids - LGBTQ Nation

Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon has made banning books a centerpiece of her campaign.

www.lgbtqnation.com

The types of books Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon wants to ban appear to keep expanding. In recently released audio, Dixon suggested that books about divorce shouldn’t be available to all students in public schools.

Dixon has made so-called “parental rights” in public school education a centerpiece of her campaign against incumbent Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), proposing her “Parents Right to Know Act,” which would ban discussion of “sex and gender theory” in grades K–3, similar to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. She has also called for banning transgender athletes from participating in school sports.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/27/politics/kfile-tudor-dixon-conspiracy-democrats-topple-america/index.html

The Republican gubernatorial nominee in Michigan invoked a conspiracy that the Covid-19 pandemic and protests in the summer of 2020 after the killing of George Floyd were part of a decades-long plan by the Democratic Party to “topple” the United States as retaliation for losing the US Civil War, adding that the party wanted to enslave people “again.”

This one really belongs in the conspiracy thread, if it came from anyone who wasn't running for office.

And the dumbest of all

Cat litter box myths are suddenly a culture war flashpoint. Here's how that happened.

At least 20 Republican politicians have claimed that schools are making accommodations for students who identify as cats. The school districts say these claims are untrue.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[KidTDragon]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1585734115323584513

Hillary was wrong when she called them "deplorables". They're far, far worse. Case in point:

https://www.cnn.com/cnn/politics/live-news/nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-attack/index.html

 

[Ungnome]

Really makes me fear for our Hispanic, Arab and South Asian immigrants.(or heck, even tourists from those regions) I'm sure they don't care about European immigrants being here.

 

[DefaultOption]

Hillary was wrong when she called them "deplorables". They're far, far worse.

She was also low on the percentage. It's a lot more than 50%.

 

[NovaSaber]

The religious right is now targeting sexless marriages as "selfishness." They want to ban those too - LGBTQ Nation

It's not just same-sex marriages Republicans want to ban. Now they don't like asexual marriages either.

www.lgbtqnation.com

In July, the Supreme Court of Sweden ruled in a landmark case that a relationship doesn’t have to involve sex to be considered significant. In a case involving an asexual couple in which one of the two parties is deceased, the court emphasized that a relationship should be characterized by a close community in personal terms that normally occurs between married people and that sex doesn’t have to be involved for that to happen. It was a significant win for asexual people in Sweden.

However, in America, a darker reality exists for asexuals even on this Ace Week, as religious nationalist groups are actively trying to block the Respect for Marriage Act from passing in the Senate. Not only is the religious right seeking to ban gay marriage once again, but they have also signaled a future attack against asexual marriages.

As obtained by Politico, some 83 Christian nationalist groups (led by the Alliance Defending Freedom) released a letter in July imploring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to block the Respect for Marriage Act, because marriage equality somehow opens the door to further immorality, like platonic marriages.

It’s impossible to ignore calling out the perfidious groomer libel conservatives keep trying that is recycled garbage from the 1970s. However, we cannot ignore the religious right calling for platonic (asexual) marriages to be banned also!

There is an abundance of evidence to show asexual marriages are under threat, also.

The Ace Couple, an asexual married couple who runs a podcast discussing topics related to asexuality, did a four-episode series on the 83 religious groups who signed onto the letter to McConnell asking to block the Respect for Marriage Act.

Each group essentially states in no uncertain terms that asexuality is unacceptable to their religion and should be banned from having equal marriage rights.

 

[Paladin]

End goal laid bare.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587147151301394433

 

[Patch]

Relevant:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587497357192601600

 

[KidTDragon]

Any Wisconsinite who doesn't vote D this year can't say they weren't warned when they don't get to vote at all next year.

 

[Ungnome]

They've gone from subtle hints at going authoritarian to something just below promising to go authoritarian..... VOTE people. (granted I think I'm preaching to the choir here, but still VOTE!!)

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

"Just below"? They're already outright promising it, they just haven't stated HOW they'll do it yet.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

One of the problems with politics today is that conservatives can whip themselves up into a righteous frenzy over something that they just made up, even if they KNOW they just made it up.

For example: man commits heinous crime. That part is real. But then conservatives immediately remark that because of our lax liberal justice system, the man will probably get off scot free on a technicality from a liberal judge. Other conservatives become angry about this and start ranting about how it means society is going to hell and liberals are to blame. All of them are completely aware that they just made up this scenario out of thin air, and yet all of them are feeling real anger about it.

This is a LOT of conservative online discourse. Again and again and again, they imagine things that will happen because of liberals, and then whip themselves into righteous anger over these things that they KNOW they just dreamed up out of thin air and which have not yet happened, and which may never happen. The same goes for "cancel culture". The number of people who have actually been "cancelled" and lost their livelihoods as a result is a tiny fraction of the number of people who TALK about getting cancelled even though it hasn't actually happened yet.

How can you tell every MAGA guy is a liar? Because none of them are ever the least bit ashamed when one of their "facts" is proven wrong, nor do they stop relying on the source that they got it from.

Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and believing that they are just naive fools who have been misled. They are actively participating in the lying, and yes, they KNOW they're lying.

Remember in 2016 when we warned that Trump's tactics were exactly like Hitler's tactics during his rise to power, and conservative Internet know-it-alls were hasty to point out that Hitler used violence and voter intimidation so it's not the same at all, and we're just crazy leftists for seeing any similarity?

It's funny how quiet those smart-aleck pricks have gotten about that talking point today.

Once more and for the record: the conservative movement is knowingly based on lies. Maybe this was not always so, but it is absolutely true today.

Arguing with Republicans about Jan 6 is like arguing with a bank robber after showing him the video of him robbing the bank. First he pretends the video is fake, then he pretends he didn't know bank robbery was illegal, and then he starts asking why you're going after him for bank robbery when Hunter Biden's laptop is still out there.