It’s already getting rolled up with the Civil War. The Lost Cause, which is sadly for our country never lost.
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It tells me that they’re morons.
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Well the point of the movie was that it wasn’t just the anti-comet mob that gets wiped out. They took everyone with them.
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Not Gonna Happen.
Republicons are about to take the House and the Senate. They know this and they have their eyes firmly on the prize. They will fight and squabble among themselves, but they will be united when it comes to hating Dems.
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Gotta love a happy ending huh?
They haven’t really attempted any governing for decades.
I think these people are smart enough, cunning and scheming enough, to know they can’t WIN. Not if the game is real governance. Not if the game is about facts and problems and solutions.
But if the game is purely bloodsport and culture wars and being able to stop and harm the opposition…I think they are doing very well. They aren’t playing the same game we are. And all these ‘fug-you’ candidates are worming their way into election oversight and will gladly lead mindless and massive fraud and disenfranchisement when the next election is challenged. And these candidates are managing to chase out all the ‘sane’ R candidates and their quaint ideals about governance or public service. They are changing the game.
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I really have mixed feelings about it, on reflection. The good guys do find a happy ending - in the most literal sense. They find love and companionship and go out celebrating the life they know is about to end. And then it’s fast and it’s over.
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To add a little perspective, the GOP assembly voted to pit University of Colorado Regent Heidi Ganahl against repeat contender Greg Lopez for the Republican nomination for governor. Ganahl, elected in 2016, is the only Republican to hold a statewide office — a fact she touted as being “ballot tested.”
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This country is totally fucked. Just like Thelma and Louise, we are barreling toward the cliff and I see nothing to stop it.
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Bits of it are, for sure. The worst GQP insanity can be mitigated by the big blue states in the state itself (although in CA we just swap GQP insanity for far left Dem insanity) but every GQP fiefdom state is gleefully pushing the pedal to the metal and going “shiny and bright” towards the Mad Max future.
Of course, we share the same planet (if not the same reality) so are all fucked, anyway.
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I agree with most of your post, but I don’t think that part is true. In two different cycles, they lost Senate seats in very red states because their candidate was trying to make some anti-abortion argument about pregnancies resulting from rape. Marriage equality is the law of the land and a large majority of Americans support same sex marriage. It remains to be seen how the book bans and the made up CRT controversy will play out, but it doesn’t look to me like they’re winning the culture wars. They’re just a whole lot louder than the people who oppose them.
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I think I first heard Qcumber from @pluckyinky
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I’m quite at a loss for feelings here - whether to offer the Colorado Republican Party my condolences for such an unfortunate choice of candidates or congratulations for staying faithful to their loony base.
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I agree - we are not playing the same game. And screaming about the Democrats doing something isn’t working. I do think that Biden needs to grab the bull by the horns here and issue some serious executive orders - e.g., substantive tuition forgiveness - that remind people that the Democrats are the only party that care about moving the country forward. The Democrats can seize the narrative this way—not by screeching and doing performance bullshit but with SUBSTANCE. It will generate desperately needed, positive headlines.
What is there to lose, for crying out loud??? The governing from the center IS NOT WORKING. Be bold! Arggghhh! I’m frustrated…
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I do not ‘get’ it: Biden won Colorado by THIRTEEN and a HALF Percent (13.5%).
That was a huge margin.
I think they’ve done their 2 or 3 ‘mandatory’ recounts (it’s like recounting California and/or Illinois – um, you ain’t gonna find anything that substantially messes with the outcome) so is this fellow speaking of ‘other’ states or does he think ‘somebody’ changed that many votes.
I REALLY do not get it. The pressures of Arizona and Georgia and Wisconsin were ‘understandable’ to me because the margins were so close in those states. Biden won by 10+% points in 2020 as well and there was a push for a recount. (One of my neighbors was a precinct captain and he said that the numbers kept changing daily; I said I called the County election clerk and ‘they’ said it was because mail-in votes – legal – were coming in for the next few days after the DAY of the electon; he still is dubious.)
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My larger point (sorry, not trying to move the goalposts) is their game is to stymie progress, roll any D gains back, and fight every known law of science and reason and they have done an astounding job of tainting everything and reducing everything into a streetfight. Our politics is no longer about government. We saw what they just did with COVID. That wasn’t some long simmering civil rights or abortion or gay marriage thing. Something new came on the scene, they waited to see how Ds, science, reason, and logic were going to respond…then they went to THE MAT to disrupt it no matter how repulsive, all at a huge lethal toll to themselves. Wow
So even if they lose some seats sometimes, that doesn’t stop them from being harmful or burning shit down. If governance was their goal, it would hurt them a lot worse…but that isn’t their goal and isn’t the game they are playing.
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Up until, say, 1933 late, the German military kept saying ‘they’ were the steady hands at the tiller.
That was so funny I forgot to laugh (TM Emily Litella)
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