Many may have learned who Alaska state Rep. David Eastman (R) was for the first time this week, when he made national headlines over his befuddling remarks about the economic benefits of dead abused children.
The point is that these people are degenerate fascist monsters.
And that Kevin McCarthy is a coward.
There is no try, there is do or don’t do. This is on you, you let this happen. You own it. Sucks to be you.
"…but from the fact that every child is made in the image of God.”
First, keep your government hands off my religion.
“how they would respond to the opposite argument, that society is somehow economically better off without unwanted children”
What kind of society would argue that? One built on war, domination, greed, like a conservative society? Maybe a conservative society that insists on purity?
But this is Alaska - the State that gave us one of the worst and earliest delusional minds of the GQP.
Should we be surprised? Was Sarah an exception, or is she, and those like her, now the rule for the State?
I’m not trying to be sarcastic or facetious. Isn’t Alaska a seriously red State?
“In the literature they passed out to us during the meeting, they also went so far as to assign a dollar value of $1.5M to the life of a child who is even less than a day old, in terms of economic benefit to society. I find assigning a dollar value to a child highly problematic,” Eastman said. “Children are priceless. While it was good to hear ACT advocating against child abuse, a child’s value comes not from future economic productivity, but from the fact that every child is made in the image of God.”
Mein Gott, the man is a Republican and doesn’t understand economics? On a more serious note it seems that the Alaskan Rep likes to be a public asshole, while on the job and getting paid by the people’s taxes.
Many Alaskans already decided that that wreck of a woman didn’t speak for them. Maybe they’ll decide that about Eastman, too.
Funny what you can learn if you pay attention. It’s not so funny or okay.
The Court’s logic is flawed* but props to Kowalke for bringing the lawsuit: until the citizens of Alaska comes to their senses we need more like him. None-the-less our host is clearly correct when he writes that we are on our own and the courts ultimately are no substitute for citizens who understand the issues and vote.
“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi Party, not because they hated Jews, but out of hope for restored patriotism. or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike for their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That Word is Nazi! — nobody cares about their motives anymore.” – A.R. Moxon (Julius Goat)
I have mixed feelings about this guy. He initially voted for the crazy; it’s only when the crazy got too public that he wnt the other way.
These quotes from Eastman were the ones I was going to note, too. If he really believes that children are priceless, for whatever reason, the idea of asking the question he did would not even have occurred to him.
Can’t remember now if it was on TPM or someplace else, but a few years back I read an article on the alt-right’s rhetorical strategy of saying something outrageous and then claiming it was a joke or, in the case of the “OK” hand gesture, making it a sign of white power and then laughing at anyone else who made that precise claim. It appears that Eastman has learned well, based on what’s reported here.
The Peter Thiel branch of the GOP are just incels in front of microphones who are never sure how far they should go on sharing their self-serving sexism and Libertarianism. They’re all Paul Gosar underneath, some just hide it better for a while.
The week-long trial over the lawsuit was a spectacle. Eastman proudly admitted he is in fact an Oath Keeper. He also brought in a slew of far-right characters to testify on his behalf: Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers who was just convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in Jan. 6, John Eastman, the Trump attorney who was involved in the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and an ex-FBI employee who has claimed that Mitch McConnell and Beto O’Rourke are agents of the Chinese Communist Party.
Have we determined yet if those two are related?
The operational assumption for many of these nobs is that they won their election based on their core beliefs, when, in fact, many of them only won because of the R after their name on the ballot.
Reflexive voting by the willfully ignorant is not the same thing as consensus (though in 2-year intervals it might as well be).
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I wonder if the Nazi has any questions about the cost of caring for disabled children?
Would he say he is just playing the devil’s advocate? Or just the devil?
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Uh oh…
Get yer vaccine for measles if you are in Kentucky or surrounding states…
Or anywhere else since these people travelled from all over. And with the wonders of modern flight can be spreading it around the world.
Of course some will say that God will see them through…
For others, God will see them soon.
It’s clearly time for the national Democratic Party to add Mr Eastman to the list of “Official GOP Spokespersons”, along with Sen. Rick Scott. These are both men who clearly enunciate the unspoken, but dog-whistled platform of Today’s Republican Party.
True, they’re dumb as dirt for so doing. But that’s what the Party and its base (in so many ways!) voters have become. And, for the benefit of the “undecided” and news-ignorant voters, somebody needs to say it. Over and over and over again. It’s hard to make headway against the Mighty Wurlitzer of the GQP, but it must be done.
Sorry! I acciddently left out Georgia Rep, “Empty” Greene. Yeah, quote her nonsensical blather, too. Often.