Republicans have been awful since time immemorial, but I agree with the argument that Palin was a Trump precursor, championing the "not only conservative, but also crazy and stupid" model as a national political candidate -- yeah, I remember Dan Quayle, but he was more simply dim-witted than full-on, freak flag lunatic.
Anyway, I take great satisfaction in seeing those Little Starbursts extinguished.
Begich and Palin combined beat Peltola's numbers big time. I mean, Alaska, come on.
There appears like there's going to be a shit ton of new voters motivated to register in opposition to Dobbs.
The art has moved, if I may wax poetic, since Flores' election in the areas of state abortion laws and related insanity and the possibility that the last Republican POTUS has been gifting and/or selling state secrets. (I of course hedge but if the issue was just getting records back for the National Archive, why is DOJ's head of counter-intelligence involved as much as Blatt is?)
Meanwhile, November's moved from expected Red wave to something interesting which, of course, is a little scary put like that. Of course, the red wave idea was based on the past while ignoring the present but a present based in part in the MSM-pushed shitty poll numbers for Biden and the Dems and little else other than that.
It's no more than a hunch and some hope, but it seems like Joe and Jane Sixpack are finding Republicans more and more repellant these days. Jane because the GOP has been screaming that she's not a citizen and may not actually be a human; Joe because he's just tired of the freakshow that the GOP has devolved into--especially the Party's new edict that you must buy into Trumpism and QAnon in its totality in order to be considered a "real American."
This is not the first time I've heard the child trafficking thing, it apparently is where you go when "They're taking your jobs we keep complaining no one wants" and "they're infected with that disease we convinced you wasn't real" stop working on even the most cursory thinkers. But I have this liberal need to figure out what weird seed got planted for *that* to turn up in the carrots, and do... do they not understand the difference between trafficking in general and child sex trafficking? Do they not know anything about it? Are they imagining every one of those is some little white girl stolen from a suburb and carried to, I assume, Mexico though from the state of the freakout you'd think we shared a border with the Vatican.
Most of the trafficking that goes on at our border, last I checked, is large scale trafficking of adult workers, and not just sex workers. And it's *into* our country. These are not the victims the republican base cares about.
I'll leave it to the Grouch to determine if "Hardcore adjacent" needs a hyphen...but the Really Important Point is this:
There's a whole comedic landscape to be sketched in regarding the (not quite throwaway line) "by sending her money". Sorta like the tag "between the sheets". This querida derecha deserves a long essay which every paragraph ends "by sending her money".
I haven't seen the "ending this campaign" emails you mention, but I am still getting the "Is there ANYTHING we could do to get you to donate?" emails and I know I should get my mind out of the sewer, but that one really creeps me out.
Third option for the GOP is to turn over policy to the street gangs. I think that's where they'll end up in mid-November.
First they need to discover that no one likes them, and then they'll need to rationalize that as election fraud, and then finally that frisson that all authoritarians get when someone tells them they need to bust heads and take charge.
Flores's campaign and political career do in fact prove only a halfwit judges by the group. If right-wing Cuban exiles weren't proof enough for decades, along with other notable "conservative" "grifters of a color," now we have a cottage industry across the spectrum. From "Blacks for Trump" to "Log Cabin" GOP, the big tent party of buy my shtick (and literally my stuff) wants you to give your money and your vote to the Cause. Which is? Well, what are you buying? A just cause or just because, uh, NANCY PELOSI OPEN BORDER BIDEN BIPPITY BOPPITY BOO HOO YOU!?
Flores's campaign and political career do in fact prove only a halfwit judges by the group. If right-wing Cuban exiles weren't proof enough for decades, along with other notable "conservative" "grifters of a color," now we have a cottage industry across the spectrum. From "Blacks for Trump" to "Log Cabin" GOP, the big tent party of buy my shtick (and literally my stuff) wants you to give your money and your vote to the Cause. Which is? Well, what are you buying? A just cause or just because, uh, NANCY PELOSI OPEN BORDER BIDEN BIPPITY BOPPITY BOO HOO YOU!?
BTW, Roy, where does that title come from? I can't decide whether it's Touch of Evil or Night of the Iguana or what. But I can hear the character chanting it.
Ever since they watched Nixon board Marine One and swore "never again", Republicans have bet the seed corn on doubling down and it has paid off handsomely. For every "I'm not a witch" and " macaca" a thousand crazy flowers have bloomed and won elections. Biting the bullet and getting behind TFG gave them the Supreme Court they've been planning for decades, and the payoff will be jackpots for decades to come, followed by blocking Democratic initiatives for decades after.
All to say it will take far, far more than a few crazy flowers getting washed away to get the Republican Party to back away from its current death march. The pure crazy that Mayra embodies has its limits, but as enabled by billionaires and apparatchiks like McConnell, its working well enough to keep the Republican Party a viable power center. Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but if the crazys don't break free of the apparatchiks and set the kitchen on fire, some combination of Black Tuesday, a virus less accommodating than Covid-19, a few Dust Bowl/Galveston Flood disasters, and Gaia-knows-what and the end the Second Gilded Age will make the first one look like a picnic, because the Republican Party still has no governing philosophy other than lower taxes, purge the rottenness from the system, and drill, baby, drill. And it ain't 1929 any more. It didn't work then, and Mother of Mary, its really not gonna work now. Buckle up, its going to be a bumpy ride. In fact, the crazies breaking free might be our Avengers: Endgame best option.
Here from the future to report that Ms. Flores lost her "re-election" and her 15 minutes of fame, as the vanguard of the Latino Red Wave, will be ending come January.
This article was really GOOD.
Republicans have been awful since time immemorial, but I agree with the argument that Palin was a Trump precursor, championing the "not only conservative, but also crazy and stupid" model as a national political candidate -- yeah, I remember Dan Quayle, but he was more simply dim-witted than full-on, freak flag lunatic.
Anyway, I take great satisfaction in seeing those Little Starbursts extinguished.
Two factoids:
Begich and Palin combined beat Peltola's numbers big time. I mean, Alaska, come on.
There appears like there's going to be a shit ton of new voters motivated to register in opposition to Dobbs.
The art has moved, if I may wax poetic, since Flores' election in the areas of state abortion laws and related insanity and the possibility that the last Republican POTUS has been gifting and/or selling state secrets. (I of course hedge but if the issue was just getting records back for the National Archive, why is DOJ's head of counter-intelligence involved as much as Blatt is?)
Meanwhile, November's moved from expected Red wave to something interesting which, of course, is a little scary put like that. Of course, the red wave idea was based on the past while ignoring the present but a present based in part in the MSM-pushed shitty poll numbers for Biden and the Dems and little else other than that.
It's no more than a hunch and some hope, but it seems like Joe and Jane Sixpack are finding Republicans more and more repellant these days. Jane because the GOP has been screaming that she's not a citizen and may not actually be a human; Joe because he's just tired of the freakshow that the GOP has devolved into--especially the Party's new edict that you must buy into Trumpism and QAnon in its totality in order to be considered a "real American."
This is not the first time I've heard the child trafficking thing, it apparently is where you go when "They're taking your jobs we keep complaining no one wants" and "they're infected with that disease we convinced you wasn't real" stop working on even the most cursory thinkers. But I have this liberal need to figure out what weird seed got planted for *that* to turn up in the carrots, and do... do they not understand the difference between trafficking in general and child sex trafficking? Do they not know anything about it? Are they imagining every one of those is some little white girl stolen from a suburb and carried to, I assume, Mexico though from the state of the freakout you'd think we shared a border with the Vatican.
Most of the trafficking that goes on at our border, last I checked, is large scale trafficking of adult workers, and not just sex workers. And it's *into* our country. These are not the victims the republican base cares about.
I'll leave it to the Grouch to determine if "Hardcore adjacent" needs a hyphen...but the Really Important Point is this:
There's a whole comedic landscape to be sketched in regarding the (not quite throwaway line) "by sending her money". Sorta like the tag "between the sheets". This querida derecha deserves a long essay which every paragraph ends "by sending her money".
I haven't seen the "ending this campaign" emails you mention, but I am still getting the "Is there ANYTHING we could do to get you to donate?" emails and I know I should get my mind out of the sewer, but that one really creeps me out.
These idiots wouldn't recognize a real pesrson from the "radical left" if they met Stalin.
Third option for the GOP is to turn over policy to the street gangs. I think that's where they'll end up in mid-November.
First they need to discover that no one likes them, and then they'll need to rationalize that as election fraud, and then finally that frisson that all authoritarians get when someone tells them they need to bust heads and take charge.
Flores's campaign and political career do in fact prove only a halfwit judges by the group. If right-wing Cuban exiles weren't proof enough for decades, along with other notable "conservative" "grifters of a color," now we have a cottage industry across the spectrum. From "Blacks for Trump" to "Log Cabin" GOP, the big tent party of buy my shtick (and literally my stuff) wants you to give your money and your vote to the Cause. Which is? Well, what are you buying? A just cause or just because, uh, NANCY PELOSI OPEN BORDER BIDEN BIPPITY BOPPITY BOO HOO YOU!?
Step right up!
Flores's campaign and political career do in fact prove only a halfwit judges by the group. If right-wing Cuban exiles weren't proof enough for decades, along with other notable "conservative" "grifters of a color," now we have a cottage industry across the spectrum. From "Blacks for Trump" to "Log Cabin" GOP, the big tent party of buy my shtick (and literally my stuff) wants you to give your money and your vote to the Cause. Which is? Well, what are you buying? A just cause or just because, uh, NANCY PELOSI OPEN BORDER BIDEN BIPPITY BOPPITY BOO HOO YOU!?
Step right up!
BTW, Roy, where does that title come from? I can't decide whether it's Touch of Evil or Night of the Iguana or what. But I can hear the character chanting it.
Ever since they watched Nixon board Marine One and swore "never again", Republicans have bet the seed corn on doubling down and it has paid off handsomely. For every "I'm not a witch" and " macaca" a thousand crazy flowers have bloomed and won elections. Biting the bullet and getting behind TFG gave them the Supreme Court they've been planning for decades, and the payoff will be jackpots for decades to come, followed by blocking Democratic initiatives for decades after.
All to say it will take far, far more than a few crazy flowers getting washed away to get the Republican Party to back away from its current death march. The pure crazy that Mayra embodies has its limits, but as enabled by billionaires and apparatchiks like McConnell, its working well enough to keep the Republican Party a viable power center. Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but if the crazys don't break free of the apparatchiks and set the kitchen on fire, some combination of Black Tuesday, a virus less accommodating than Covid-19, a few Dust Bowl/Galveston Flood disasters, and Gaia-knows-what and the end the Second Gilded Age will make the first one look like a picnic, because the Republican Party still has no governing philosophy other than lower taxes, purge the rottenness from the system, and drill, baby, drill. And it ain't 1929 any more. It didn't work then, and Mother of Mary, its really not gonna work now. Buckle up, its going to be a bumpy ride. In fact, the crazies breaking free might be our Avengers: Endgame best option.
Here from the future to report that Ms. Flores lost her "re-election" and her 15 minutes of fame, as the vanguard of the Latino Red Wave, will be ending come January.