The GOP: Not What It Used to Be

[GreyhoundFan]

The fawning is disgusting:

[WiseGirl]

And yet they keep voting for this party.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

The stupidity ...

[Cartmann99]

 

[fraurosena]

How childish can you get?

 

[NotQuiteMotY]

1 minute ago, fraurosena said:

How childish can you get?

 

Not just childish, but under a rock. Most of them have been and said so.

[Alisamer]

2 hours ago, NotQuiteMotY said:

Not just childish, but under a rock. Most of them have been and said so.

According to Huffpost, both house and senate democrats had a 100% vaccination rate back in MAY. They're not being asked, because they have already said months ago that yes, they are vaccinated.

It really does seem like the Republicans are actively trying to fight for the title of "stupidest person in the world". It's disheartening to see people, some of whom used to seem to have a functioning brain, descend into madness. 

[Cartmann99]

Oklahoma GOP Ties Vaccine Mandates to the Holocaust by Posting Star of David Meme on Facebook

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The Republican Party of Oklahoma is under fire for posting a meme on its Facebook page that likens Covid-19 vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.

In the post, the state’s GOP urged followers of the page to contact Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell and, “Politely request he call for a special legislative session to address private employer VACCINE mandates, or their employees face risk of termination.”

Pinnell is currently acting governor while Gov. Kevin Stitt is out of the country.

The meme accompanying the post features a yellow badge reminiscent of the Star of David patches the Nazis made Jews to wear. It reads, “Unvaccinated” and features a microchip, as well as a faux identification number that includes the number “666,” in what is a clear reference to the “number of the beast” described in the Book of Revelation.

An update:

Spoiler

 

 

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Truly amazing.

[Xan]

I see that Trump is displeased with the possible bipartisan deal on the infrastructure package.  Now he's threatening to not endorse anyone who votes for the bill.  (And why are they still letting him get onto Twitter through those other accounts?  Isn't that against their rules?)

I don't like Mitch McConnell but I would at least respect him if he'd come out and tell Trump to shut up.  He could just say, "You lost.  You lost substantially.  You're no longer president.  We are doing this without your input and we don't care who you endorse."  It's past time to call his bluff.

[GreyhoundFan]

She is just like her boss:

[Howl]

Lawzamercy, Rick Wilson is on a twitter tear this morning and Rick Wilson on a NOTEWORTHY tear is something!  To start you off: 

 

This is his next tweet: "2/ Yesterday, one member of the US Senate said it was just fine for a President of the United States to plot an overthrow of the election with his claque of skells, mooks, jabrones, degenerate fops, soulless harpies, wannabe Leninists, and natpop snake-human hybrids."

Here's an unroll of the whole thing, featuring phrases such as Trump's "blubbery lie hole" and calling out Ted Cruz as the "perfect slurry of oleaginous, delusional, and cynical." 

All of it is unrolled here, if and when you're ready: Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.

I really didn't think a post-Trump era could be worse than Trump himself. I now think I'm wrong.

Rand "Porn Hair" Paul was encouraging everyone to defy any COVID-related CDC recommendations. 

Also, f**k Mnuchin. 

My metroplex of 2.4 million people has fewer than a dozen ICU beds available. We have multiple big hospital systems, a teaching hospital, a medical school, a pediatric hospital, and so on. Everybody is full. 

A hospital in Houston put up a large inflatable structure (basically a field hospital tent) to handle COVID over flow. 

On a more upbeat note, Marjorie Failure Greene is suspended from Twitter for a week.

According to CNN, Greene tweeted on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration “should not approve the covid vaccines.” She also claimed the vaccines were “failing” and that they were ineffective at reducing the virus’s spread.

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by Howl

[47of74]

The GQP sure attracts the finest people

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The attorney for a trio of hardline House conservatives who are suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had his own run-in with the law.

Chris Wiest, the lawyer for Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) in their suit against Pelosi over the House’s mask mandate, was previously suspended by the Ohio and Kentucky bar associations over insider trading, according to court and Securities and Exchange Commission documents.

Wiest was also court-martialed in 1999 by the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he was a cadet at the time, according to military records. He was punished with a dismissal and forfeiture of all pay and allowances after he accessed "a protected computer, without authorization, and recklessly" caused damage by seeking to access Internet chat rooms using Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

A good recap of the insanity:

 

[Ozlsn]

Murdoch is American. He naturalized in 1985, when neither Australia nor the USA recognised dual citizenship. Unfortunately he wasn't forced to divest his Australian media holdings, or we'd be in a much better state, newswise.

[GreyhoundFan]

Typical GQP crap:

[GreyhoundFan]

Another in the great series of videos. This one is heavy on the MeinPillow guy:

 

[hoipolloi]

Who could have predicted that OnlyFans and the GOP might, uh, intersect?

Just a reminder that Rep Wagner understands conservative Christian family values.

Will be watching this one! 

[GreyhoundFan]

The GQPers are disgusting: "A Maine Republican compared the governor to Nazi Josef Mengele over vaccine requirement for health-care workers"

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At a sunny anti-vaccine protest in front of the State House in Augusta, Maine, a Republican lawmaker compared the Democratic governor’s new immunization requirement for health-care workers to the medical experiments performed by Nazis during World War II.

“Do I need to remind you of the late 1930s and into the ’40s in Germany and the experiments with Josef Mengele?” state Rep. Heidi Sampson said on Tuesday, referring to a Nazi figure who became known as the “Angel of Death” for the often fatal medical experiments he forced on people imprisoned at the Auschwitz death camp.

In her speech, Sampson suggested the mandate for health-care workers was a gambit to test an “experimental” vaccine, despite the existing scientific studies that show the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and ongoing oversight by the Food and Drug Administration. The state lawmaker claimed that Gov. Janet Mills’s vaccine mandate amounted to a violation of the Nuremberg Code. She also compared vaccine mandates to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study that subjected Black men to medical research under false pretenses. Sampson also falsely said that those implementing vaccine mandates could be executed.

“Informed consent is at the top [of the code] and violating that is punishable by death,” Sampson said, echoing a debunked claim that has circulated among anti-vaccine activists on social media.

Sampson’s speech, along with the comments of several other Republicans who attended the rally, were swiftly condemned.

Democratic state Rep. Sam Zager told the Maine Beacon that he “fundamentally rejected” Sampson’s claims.

“Vaccination is not an affront to individual liberty,” Zager, a family physician, told the newspaper. “Recognizing people’s inherent right to liberty does not invalidate other people’s right to their wellness and physical security.”

Many other vaccine skeptics have tried to falsely claim that pandemic policies are as restrictive and damaging as the German Nazi regime.

Two weeks ago, the chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party doubled down after saying that private employers requiring vaccines for workers returning to the office were just as bad as Nazis who labeled Jewish people with the Star of David during the Holocaust.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) made a similar claim in May, then apologized after a massive backlash. More recently, she changed tack and compared vaccine mandates to Jim Crow-era segregation.

In June, Washington state Rep. Jim Walsh wore a yellow Star of David, which Jewish people were forced to wear in Germany during Nazi rule, while railing against covid restrictions and declaring that, “In the current context, we’re all Jews.” Fox News commentator Tomi Lahren in July said flight attendants who enforced a federal mask mandate were “becoming almost Nazis of the air.”

The Tuesday rally was not Sampson’s first controversial political event.

In July, the Republican attended an event in Belfast, Maine, organized by a man that other politicians labeled “a known anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist,” WABI-TV reported.

After that event, more than 50 of her colleagues in the state legislature penned a letter condemning Sampson for attending the rally and decrying a recent uptick in anti-Semitic attacks in Maine.

“Our state has a long history of extremist activity, including hosting the first Ku Klux Klan event in New England,” the legislators wrote. “However, what sets recent events apart is the involvement of elected officials and their de facto sanctioning of extremist groups that pose a fundamental threat to our democracy.”

 

[WiseGirl]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Insert massive eyeroll:

 

[WiseGirl]

Unsure where to put this so I pick here. 

 

[GreyhoundFan]