Whiney Whine

[jp1]

Here you go. Until the republican party fully denounces the big lie and admits that they just can't win elections since they have ZERO actual platform at this point I will continue to point out what shitty unamerican people they are.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/01/o...committee.html

It is regular citizens who threaten election officials and other public servants, who ask, “When can we use the guns?” and who vow to murder politicians who dare to vote their conscience. It is Republican lawmakers scrambling to make it harder for people to vote and easier to subvert their will if they do. It is Donald Trump who continues to stoke the flames of conflict with his rampant lies and limitless resentments and whose twisted version of reality still dominates one of the nation’s two major political parties.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/u...-rhetoric.html

In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends.

At a conservative rally in western Idaho last month, a young man stepped up to a microphone to ask when he could start killing Democrats.

“When do we get to use the guns?” he said as the audience applauded. “How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?” The local state representative, a Republican, later called it a “fair” question.

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In Ohio, the leading candidate in the Republican primary for Senate blasted out a video urging Republicans to resist the “tyranny” of a federal government that pushed them to wear masks and take F.D.A.-authorized vaccines.

“When the Gestapo show up at your front door,” the candidate, Josh Mandel, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, said in the video in September, “you know what to do.”

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Representative Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, this week tweeted an anime video altered to show him killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and swinging two swords at Mr. Biden.

But none of this is particularly surprising when that a violent thug heads the party.

He (trump) encouraged attendees at his rallies to “knock the hell” out of protesters, praised a lawmaker who body-slammed a reporter, and in a recent interview defended rioters who clamored to “hang Mike Pence.”

[bae]

Prior to covid vulnerable people sometimes wore masks. People in healthcare sometimes did, such as when caring for Ebola patients. There was not a government mandate.

In order to work, for the past 10 years I have had to follow government (federal, state, local, union) mandates for masks and vaccinations. Otherwise I would be discharged, or redeployed to a different role..

And let me tell you, we wear quite a bit more than masks when caring for Ebola patients... As required by...mandate.

[LDAHL]

Well, everyone has their own choice of villains to make. I like what Jonah Goldberg said about voter fraud, voter suppression and lesbian vampires all being equally effective in their impact on the 2020 election.

Trump’s childish refusal to accept defeat cost the GOP a couple of Senate seats and a lot of credibility. The Democrats then convinced themselves that gave them a mandate to “transform” our society and economy. Both sides will pay a price for their idiocy.

I also believe that refusing to wear a mask is one of the dumber ways to strike a blow for liberty; although there is an element of medicalized authoritarianism as well.

[jp1]

And the Republican party’s childish refusal to tell the truth, that that orange ****tard lost fair and square, is shameful. Liz Cheney is about the only respectable Republican politician alive today.

[LDAHL]

I think the size of the defeat the Democrats will suffer in 2022 will depend on how closely they cling to their Trump fixation and social justice radicalism at the expense of issues like crime and inflation that the mass of voters actually care about.

[JaneV2.0]

Yeah--social justice is just sooo radical.

[catherine]

Yeah--social justice is just sooo radical.

exactly. God forbid social justice triumphs over the GDP.

[jp1]

I think the size of the defeat the Democrats will suffer in 2022 will depend on how closely they cling to their Trump fixation and social justice radicalism at the expense of issues like crime and inflation that the mass of voters actually care about.

Hope fully we will have accomplished the voting rights act before the election and can then focus on an actual platform of what we want to do if elected. While the republicans focus on shutting down education about racism and well, that currently seems to be their only policy platform besides bleating about the stupid ****ing big lie. I suppose you could include the anti-science aspect of being anti mask anti vax and pro covid since they are now encouraging people to not get vaxxed by giving unemployment benefits to anti Vaxxers that lose their jobs in five states.

[LDAHL]

Hope fully we will have accomplished the voting rights act before the election and can then focus on an actual platform of what we want to do if elected. While the republicans focus on shutting down education about racism and well, that currently seems to be their only policy platform besides bleating about the stupid ****ing big lie. I suppose you could include the anti-science aspect of being anti mask anti vax and pro covid since they are now encouraging people to not get vaxxed by giving unemployment benefits to anti Vaxxers that lose their jobs in five states.

Candidates who talk like that: Terry Macauliffe, for instance, will possibly do more to further the Republican cause than the Republicans themselves. Grabbing power from the states to regulate elections won’t save them if the majority of voters associate the Democrats with rising crime and economic problems.

[ApatheticNoMore]

So the fed will probably raise interest rates, the economy will enter a recession, and those who think these are bad economic times (what are they 20 something, they've never lived through a real recession, certainly not 2008 and it's 5 year aftermath) will know what a bad economy actually is. Yes any economy can be bad for any individual or profession, but there is such a thing as actual recessions, and the bad is widespread.