In my retirement years as a middleclass workaholic, I really need to write a book about what I have witnessed happened to this country in just the last 20 years with this GOP mindset destroying the country.
problem is, it’s would be 10,000 pages long and I don’t know if I have enough years left. lol
So, I will ride this rollercoaster and hope democracy wins out and the GOP always gets to ride in the last car, if at all.
I’m all for it, a kind of Reactionary Battle of the Somme.
Neither side wins, but the carnage is breathtaking.
This guy was not “standing up” against his “wild mob” until it turned on him. plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
I love that they are eating their own
They never seem to understand reality until she smacks them right in the kisser.
This has been the modus operandi of the Republican Party for a long time, Raffensperger. Not a very pretty sight when you look at it with open eyes, is it.
He did.
They occasionally talk a “law and order” line, that is sometimes nearly able to be mistaken for being sincere.
But deep down …
How about standing up for Jesus for a change? He begged you to do all these things to save your soul. But it takes death threats to make a Republican admit that they have supported the devil?
Why is it so easy for the GOP Pharisees to turn against His gospels but continue to insist they are Christians? They will be nailing a CombOver on Christ’s head on the crucifixes in their churches next.
Kind of like the covid patients screeching that they don’t have covid until they are intubated.
Cult of the Damned and Atwater?
meanwhile
I’m sure Raffensperger has had no problem with death threats to prominent Dems before. Had these threats all been made against Ihan Omar or even local Georgia Dems he wouldn’t be saying a thing, He’s just mad that the right-wing hate machine has turned and he’s the target of right wing hatred, not some liberal.
Just more of the ‘they’re hurting the wrong people’ syndrome.
Glad you included the article - for a second I was “Wait, which is which? Or is that both of them?”
“Let’s you and him fight” has some appeal, but it bears risks, too.
Raffensberger knew about death threats and good people on both sides and remained silent.
He stood idly by as Trump threw one good person after another under the bus.
He also knew Trump was never a Republican and still backed him.
I have no pity for this man but hope he and other Republicans can finally see what they have allowed and see the light.
There was a screenplay written called “Snowpiercer” that already chronicled most of these events in a really dramatic way. It Includes systematic racism, income inequality and the effects of global warming…everything but the virus…but who could have saw that coming, Trump asks?
He and his whole family voted the straight Republican ticket, apparently. It’s part of why he feels so betrayed.
Any bets he’ll vote for Perdue and Loeffler? After they told him he should resign in shame for not rigging the vote enough?
In the end, the GOP has an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. Republicans like Raffensperger believe in GOP ideas, but haven’t fallen deep enough into the groupthink, so they still believe in fair elections. This is why I thought on Election Night, that this guy wasn’t like Brian Kemp, and would never be Governor.