Discussion: GOPers In Georgia Gov Race Try To Out-Crazy Each Other

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Ugh! I’m a Georgia resident.

Over the past three weeks, this head attire has been selling like hotcakes.

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And, next door in Alabama, the citizens breath a temporary sigh of relief that the spotlight for the moment has left their constant stream of crazy. Well, except for Mo Brooks declaration that rocks and dirt from erosion are what is causing sea levels to rise. And a former gay female state rep accusing the female governor of being gay, i.e. a clumsy attempt at outing her. As someone who grew up in Alabama in the fifties / sixties, we always comforted ourselves with the knowledge that Mississippi was even more ignorant and backward. We always thought of Georgia as being a suspicious liberal thorn in the South because of Atlanta. Birmingham is a failed city because it chose to pursue racism over commerce, while Atlanta made the opposite decision, and became a hub of industry, business, and air travel.

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"…we have very high-income, high-educated people voting in this election, and these ads are not speaking to them.”

One might expect that could be true.

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“It’s almost humorous that the left has taken all of that so serious and doesn’t get that we had fun doing that ad,” Kemp said of the backlash he’s received. “It was a playful way to draw attention to our issues and my values.”

I understand they used to sell popcorn at lynchings. You know?..Playful.

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The barrage of stupid fucking commercials is mind numbing, while the contrast with the Dem candidates couldn’t be greater. The Dems talk about family, health care, housing, etc. while the right screams about guns and immigrants. If America ever moves forward again it will be in spite of the right.

@michaelryerson - kemp is the worst of the bunch, with that leering smile like it’s all one big inside joke, but we’re serious about getting rid of the brown skin people, just as long as they’re not installing our roofs, mowing our yards or working in blazing hot restaurant kitchens…

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Only to sick white Georgians!

So sad, they feel it’s their right to HATE!

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This just in … Georgia will not suffer a cracker shortage in the foreseeable future.

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The supposedly humorous stuff about rounding up illegals in the truck, as if they were stray animals, is deeply worrying. The very word ‘illegal’ when used as a noun is disgusting and dangerous, and laid the foundation for this idea that there is a class of people who cannot achieve personhood and are liable to be rubbed out or herded by any person with a truck, like the outlaws of old. We know where that leads.

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In a second ad released days later, Kemp disembarks from the cab of a Ford F350 and tells the camera, “I’ve got a big truck, just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take them home myself.”

“Criminal illegals” are the worst kind of “illegals”.
Yes, Republicans really do talk like that in the South.

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The funny thing is that if they carry this through they will lose all their crops. You picked a fine time to Trump me, Lucille.

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A loong time ago (late 50’s) I worked in a hot restaurant kitchen for a couple of summers, where we had inter alia students at Yale, Brown, Wellesley, Harvard, Bowdoin, and MIT as waitstaff, busboys and scullions. I think this would be very unusual today, and I’m not sure I fully understand why…It was minimum wage work, equivalent to about $9/hr today, and front-of-the-house didn’t share tips with the back. but it was deemed honourable and reasonable to do such work even as a would-be ‘high-educated’ person. It was also hard to find better paying jobs because things had slowed up in the waning days of Eisenhower’s presidency.

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The good news is that all this crazy is paying off in spades for Georgia farmers … if their goal is massive losses.

Be careful what you wish for, bigots.

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Dean and Altemeyer on tRump supporters - in other words, they don’t care if they get wiped out, they’ll still support him:

Most of Donald Trump’s supporters are probably people whom social psychologists call authoritarian followers, because they are so supportive of the authorities they consider legitimate. These are the people Trump was talking about when he famously bragged that he could shoot somebody in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue and it would make no difference to his backers. They are the people who so willingly took the “loyalty pledge” at Trump rallies in the early primaries—even calling on Trump to “do the swearing” when he had skipped it.

We know enough about authoritarian supporters from research, and history, to know it will be very hard to change their minds about the leader they adore.

They are extremely ethnocentric, dividing the world sharply into people in their in-group, and automatically disliking all others. They feel politicians who promote minority rights and immigration discriminate against them. Donald Trump tells them they are right. He is their champion.
They are highly dogmatic. They get their ideas from others in the in-group, especially from their leader, not from evidence and logic. They say there is no evidence that will make them change their minds. They’re quite comfortable believing “alternate facts.”
They get great satisfaction from being part of a large movement. Being in a cohesive crowd at rallies thrills them because they silently tell one another, just by being there, that they are powerful and right. They create an echo chamber that reinforces the belief that all the good people think like they do.
They severely limit their sources of information. They get the news that they want to get. This also produces an echo chamber when the news sources they trust are copying each other and relaying Trump’s message.
They have highly compartmentalized minds. When an unpleasant truth forces its way into their awareness, they do not try to integrate the other things they believe with it. Instead they put it in a box and isolate it from the rest of their thinking, which proceeds as if the truth never existed.
Put all this together and you get an idea how hard it will be to change their minds about Donald Trump.

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For the past eight years, we’ve had a relatively sane governor in Nathan Deal who, despite his corruption charges while in DC, has managed to keep the crazies in control. With the advent of Trump and his open racism etc., the crazies are frothing. These folks really really want to cripple Atlanta and maintain the old ways as in Alabama and Mississippi.

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Our Senator Perdue is one of the forces behind reducing the number of legal immigrants allowed in temporarily to harvest crops. This forces farmers to either sell to agribusinesses or buy more equipment.

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Kemp is a dolt. “Accidentally” released the entire state’s voter rolls complete with Social Security numbers.

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Plus this nice piece of work:

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office said Monday that Kennesaw State University’s elections center acted “in accordance with standard IT procedures” when it wiped data from a computer server shortly after a lawsuit was filed seeking to force the state to overhaul its election technology.

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My wife wants to move to Georgia, mostly for the affordable housing. I’m using this article to help dissuade her.

Seriously, though, this one statement got to me:
“I think sometimes national media simplifies Georgia into somewhat of a simplistic, one-dimensional Republican audience but we have very high-income, high-educated people voting in this election, and these ads are not speaking to them.”

If these people are so well-educated and well-heeled, why don’t they pony up the money to support a candidate that makes sense, doesn’t rachet up people’s phobias, makes legitimate promises to help Georgians instead of acting like they have all the machismo in the world just because they own a gun and a pick-up truck? Why don’t they support someone who will do what they say, and make great decisions for all people, not just the Caucasians?

You know, someone who’s Democrat?

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“We’ve gotten threats and we found water in our gas tank,” he said. “So you put the two together.”

Condensation is a real thing, pal. No humans required.

I always thought putting sugar in the gas tank was a good way to disable a vehicle :slight_smile:

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