post-2022 - deplorables in disarray thread

GOP "logic":

1. adopt an extreme position on abortion
2. hold that position for years despite it representing fewer and fewer voters. do not care that only a minority still want it, because gawdammit they're not flip-floppers
3. pack the SCOTUS through any means necessary, damn the ethics
4. get SCOTUS to overturn Roe, despite point #2
5. be amazed when the 2022 "red wave" election fails to materialize, and watch the opposition prez do better in the midterms than any other in 60 years?  more?
5. the kicker: with their new razor-thin majority, ensure that one of the first bills past is a ‘born alive’ abortion bill (that is unnecessary since it's already illegal to not save a baby born alive following an abortion)

RECAP: GOP was punished for a thing, so at the first opportunity they loudly signal their support for that thing.  got it.

6. It dies in the senate, and we forget they even put it to a vote

will it just be more of this
The House has voted 54 times in four years on Obamacare.
but 2 years and it's mostly hunter



note from that link
Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican who has been a vocal critic of her party’s abortion messaging,
not sure what it is about Ms Mace, but she keeps getting my attention for her policy (and not her good looks)

jesus, she loves animals too!
not only puppies, but horses and sharks! 

SideShowMob wrote:
6. It dies in the senate, and we forget they even put it to a vote

right, which in my mind confirms my point: they knew it would go nowhere, so the only point of that bill was messaging… and that message was: they haven't learned a thing. strategery!

you'd think they'd want to move on from abortion, instead of beating a long-dead horse.

SideShowMob wrote:
will it just be more of this
The House has voted 54 times in four years on Obamacare.
but 2 years and it's mostly hunter

i'd have to go back and check the polling, but i seem to remember a majority of right-leaning voters being opposed to obamacare, at least initially - so politically it made sense to bang that drum.  eventually the GOP had to admit that obamacare was in fact popular, so they dropped it and moved on to the next thing, AKA the thing they really should do with abortion.

More progress!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-11/a-blast-from-the-past-tobacco-smoke-again-wafts-through-capitol?leadSource=uverify%20wall

really focusing on the important shit, the credo of the new GOP

I'm sure open use of cocaine can't be far behind.

Incredible. ^^^

soooooo… who's going to break it to the anti-woke horde that DSotM has always had a rainbow on it… NOT IT.

Since when has either facts or logic worked before

Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie


The evolution of the Republican Party:

Ronald Reagan: I’ll only help the super-rich.

George W. Bush: I'll start wars to help them more.

Donald Trump: Thanks! Hold my beer!

Brett Kavanaugh: *sobs loudly* I love beer!

George Santos: I invented beer.

That’s just plain stupid

Starsky wrote:
That’s just plain stupid

agreed.  in fact, the evolution of the Republican Party is downright moronic.

Starsky wrote:
I read she may run for Senate to replace Feinstein.

I would prefer Schiff.

you've got your wish

Adam Schiff, a Trump Impeachment Manager, Runs for Senate in California https://nyti.ms/3Dhlyld

sweetcell wrote:

Starsky wrote:
I read she may run for Senate to replace Feinstein.

I would prefer Schiff.

you've got your wish

Adam Schiff, a Trump Impeachment Manager, Runs for Senate in California https://nyti.ms/3Dhlyld

I would prefer porter, but Schiff comes in a strong second

You can’t even begin to compare their track record and experience. They are not in the same league.

I get it though…liberals love her. She has funny pictures and memes.

Who cares though? It’s California. We don’t live there so we can’t vote and a liberal will be selected. By the way has Diane announced she is not running? Guess I missed the announcement.

Looking forward to to the hundred million dollars they will waste on the primary.

I doubt Schiff will win because being a white man these days is tantamount to being an evil person.

Boy I really packed a lot of negativity in that post. A+

Anyone catch the current Faux News, etc outrage over the PS5 having a power saver mode?  Apparently, (check notes) it's because Sony is going woke because of climate change.

an actual exchange on Faux news


Earhardt: "Xbox has also announced that they're going woke because of climate change"

Failla: "They're trying to recruit your kids into climate politics at an earlier age"

E: "They're going after the kids"

wait until the MAGA crowd get a load of Energy Star and really hope that some PS5s get smashed by these numbskulls..

"we want you to spend more on electricity, because MAGA!!!111"

Reading the Porter v Schiff responses on Twitter reminds me of one of the weirdest phenomenons around politics – that no one seems able to process or acknowledge that their viewpoint (while possibly correct) may not be the majority viewpoint.

Someone who likes Japanese Pro Wrestling gets that its a niche thing. They understand it is not as popular in this country as the NFL and they readily admit and it doesn't decrease their enjoyment of it.

This doesn't happen in politics. Bernie Bros and Trump Stans literally cannot come up with a way their candidate lost an election outside of nefarious cheating. And you see the exact same thing here. The # of very online progressive people who legitimately think Porter will get 80+% of the vote over Schiff are legion. Its not that they think Porter should win; they live in such a bubble that they legitimately do not experience people who might like an actual politician with a history of measured successes (they call this "center-right liberalism") over a meme machine.