• @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      Look, if punching any progress on its face, fixating on genitalia, pissing on your own constituents, punishing the disenfranchised for being disenfranchised, and alternately praising and then eating your collaborators doesn’t demonstrate ones ability to “govern,” then I don’t know what does. You talking to me that way sounds an awful lot like an insurrection.

    • gregorum
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      That was never their goal. Their only goal was to destroy democracy, and they’re doing a pretty good job of that.

      • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        People keep saying this, but after democracy is destroyed, you still have to govern the shitty theocracy you make. My point is, they won’t be able to govern that either.

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          people keep saying this, as if everyone inside any given democracy is and thinks and acts the same.

          tell me this: if you can predict the future, why aren’t you a lottery-winning billionaire?

    • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      Yeah, we’re totally aware.

      We just need to convince the 30% of American voters who have been hoodwinked by their highly effective media machine. That’s not been going well.

  • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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    Jake Sherman: “The House is essentially frozen again. The GOP leadership cannot bring up any bills that are not already noticed on the suspension calendar and conservatives just killed leadership’s ability to bring up any bills under a rule.“

    The Clownshow is back.

    • Step right up, step right up!

      You, lad, how’d you like to be speaker of the house? Or you young lady?

      Don’t be shy, step right up to the gavel! All you need to do is put on this speaker wig, with these oversized speaker shoes! And just this little red speaker nose! And of course make that face white!

      Who’s it gonna be, step right up!

  • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    Watching the party call MAGA Mike Johnson – the guy who they hand chose because he was as MAGA as they come – call him a RINO because he couldn’t unite their basket of rabid weasels is just

  • @mastefetri
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    They want a government shut down because they think it will damage Biden. They want chaos because it lets them spread conspiracies and lies. This guy doing the bare minimum to actually do his job is a betrayal to them.

  • @Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    The hydra feeds upon its many heads, hurting itself in the confusion but somehow does not die

    Can the Republicans just have their party schism already? The MAGA crowd took over the RNC leadership years ago, just admit it and make a new party - or better yet clean house and oust them from your ranks.

    • Ech
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      Because anyone thinking of leaving the RNC understands how the game is rigged for them and the DNC, and any new party has pretty much no chance. And they also know that if they kicked the crazies out (if they even could), the only thing left of the party would be a husk. The crazy base is their power source right now.

      • @Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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        Agreed that the entrenched duopoly is no accident, but we also don’t have a Federalist party anymore either. The popular support eroded beneath them due to poor policy choices/outcomes, and that faction was politically homeless for years, and decades before they formed a new and coherent party structure with longevity. Which itself was enabled by the patronage and spoils that soured voters on the Jeffersonian-Democrats.

        Adapt or die, it’s no different in biology or politics

        • Ech
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          To be clear, I’m not saying it can’t happen (and it seems like it will eventually), but nobody in either half is surviving that split, and they know it. They’re stuck with each other as they careen off this cliff.

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            I desperately want them to abruptly reach that cliff this november, but I’m far too nervous about this whole election to hope.

    • @stoly@lemmy.world
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      I suspect that this is still the future, but it’s hard to know when it will actually happen. They’ve gone extreme enough that a lot of people are looking for the next conservative party.

    • @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      The Libertarian Party has about 700,000 members and is on the ballot in all 50 states. I’ve been imagining a hostile takeover for some time.

  • @ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip
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    Man I hope they vacate him, too. Only need a few more Republican resignations and the Democrats can take over this year…

  • @tacomama@leminal.space
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    To me he always looks like one of those old, colorized photos, or maybe a ventriloquist dummy. Maybe it’s the rosy cheeks, I dunno.

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    The anonymous social media MAGA account @catturd2, which has more than 2 million followers, criticized funding for Ukraine included in the deal.

    “Blah Blah Blah Blah—you just gave 62 Billion to Ukraine. You don’t give AF about our border,” they wrote.

    These people are the most miserable excuses for humans imaginable. Seriously, why are they so batshit insane? Is it just right-wing media, or are we looking at some kind of nanoplastic syndrome that affects the red states disproportionately?

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      It’s specifically BECAUSE they are miserable but unwilling to look at themselves or their own lives. Rather, they project outward and search for the “real” cause of their problems, who they then hope to persecute.

      This is the same for all extreme groups: incels, sov cits, tankies, PETA, and, yes, GOP/Evangelical types.

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        no we gave them a shit ton of overvalued surplus used, old, military junk.

    • @nforminvasion@lemmy.world
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      We have very little idea how plastic is affecting the human body. But I wouldn’t be surprised if like lead or some brain tumors it increases aggression, causes anti social behavior, and falls into a paranoid fear spiral.

      But then again, gen z would be some of those most affected by it and we’re seeing a lot more progressive attitudes in gen Z and millenials than older generations.

    • Goku
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      I think it’s mental logic patterns that were shoved down their throats until that’s all they know how to think.

  • Machinist3359
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    Broken democratic mechanisms and a split conservative party? Surely this doesn’t proceed a fascist dictatorship…right?..RIGHT?!