Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — one of the few House Republicans to endorse Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s 2024 bid — joked that DeSantis should get indicted in order to boost his poll numbers among voters.
These people need to be told to not attempt humor. They’re not good at it
Now we are really speaking “a dumb son of a bitch!”
“ Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — one of the few House Republicans to endorse Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s 2024 bid — joked that DeSantis should get indicted in order to boost his poll numbers among voters.”
Dark humor with a grain of truth, at least for the GOP, where venality and cruelty are virtues.
Human trafficking should work.
Well, that’s a new take. Unless you endorse a multi-indicted, thoroughly corrupt, lyin’ cheatin’ lowlife you, of course, are ‘swampy’.
Just call me ‘Swampy’.
It’s a shame the Fashion Police have no legal standing. Those boots…
Skip the indictment. I believe the term of art is “Lock 'em up”?
Ironically, I am somewhat confident that he’s lining himself up such that “not getting indicted” is not gonna be a problem.
When Nixon was caught the entire nation wanted him out of office. We were pretty much all agreed that a President shouldn’t be a crook. Damn this country has gone to hell ever since the evangelical Christian nationalists have taken over both the Republican party and the right wing media.
Since when do judges issue indictments? If stupidity were a crime, this bozo would do life.
Massie is blessed to live in such an overwhelmingly stupid district. Every time I read his name I’m reminded he exists.
I don’t care for it.
Your general point about the nation wanting him out is true, but it wasn’t unanimous. Nixon left office with a 24% approval rating.
Nixon had his MAGA-like core of supporters all through the Watergate scandal. It was driven by the same kind of tribal politics that drives MAGA; the idea that you have to fight those damn hippies no matter how bad our Dear Leader is. And social media has amplified the tribal base into something like 35% of the GOP now.
I think it’s more like the country has gone to hell ever since far-right libertarian fossil barons took over the GOP and allied themselves with anybody who wants to hurt government.
The reason Christian nationalists are able to get candidates elected at the national level, despite being a fringe, dysfunctional subculture whose resources are mostly monopolized by a dwindling number of megachurch pastors, is that the Koch machine and Murdoch’s media will happily grant them the cash and professional services needed to mount and win a campaign in exchange for their loyalty while voting on bills.
Both parties to that bargain are happy to make it because the issues they care about really don’t overlap: fossil barons want no taxes for the rich, courts that side with business, a supply of captive workers, and enough control over foreign policy that they can trigger an invasion when somebody else has natural resources they want to seize. Christian nationalists want to force the masses to worship their idols and to order the social world according to the values of their dogma. The fossil barons don’t care because the super-wealthy will always be exempt from the social mores of the public, and because religious cults tend to produce obedient drones.
It’s a marriage made in the future dystopia their combined visions will inevitably lead to.
Seems like a perfectly logical option for the criminal GQP and their supporters to consider.
What a dilemma for Republicans. Seemingly, the
successful candidate must be under indictment(s) to
win their primary, thus sticking it to the “swampy
deep state”, whereas the general electorate frowns
upon criminal behavior and again, generally, will not
vote for such scoundrels.
If Massie was in a remake of The Graduate, I can just
see him telling the Dustin Hoffman character that the
future, son, in one word is in….indictments.
So I would have believed. But in the years shortly after, I met Repubs who grumbled “it isn’t fair. They all do it, just that he got caught. So he should not have been punished”
ETA, @zenicetus, you got here first!
TFG’s “plight”? Oh, the poor passive victim!
