Cocksucker just wanted a chance to see her tits up close and maybe touch them!
There’s a decent semi-documentary on her on Netflix.
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Notice how Mitch says it’s bad for the GOP first, the country second.
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Such a kidder you are.
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This is a very interesting, and apt, analogy. Thank you! 
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As opposed to those who lose sputtering lies and insults…
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Interesting. Wonder if someone has something on Lindsey?
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Remember; Moscow Mitch only cares about one thing: POWER.
He sees the GOP DONORS to his Super PAC and the NRSC (National Republican Senatorial Committee) jumping ship due to;
A) Their fear of being EXPOSED as donors to outright Lunatics and Seditionists.
B) Their Disgust at the Publicity they DO NOT WANT.
Mitch has realized that without the CASH from those Donors, the Republicans are dead in the water for the 2022 midterms.
SO…Mitch has (cynically) decided that he can safely throw a Freshman Republican Congressperson to the wolves and “High-Horse Tut-Tut” about her without damaging HIS campaign goals, in the hope that it will bring the GOP DONORS back into his Super PAC and the NRSC.
Simple as that.
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and is trying to square his self with what history is going to say about him?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Dream on! He’s been my Senator for 36 years, you can believe me when I say he does not care what history will say about him when he’s gone, or even at the end of his life.
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Obama received 65,915,795 votes in 2012. Hillary received 65,853,514. And Biden just received a whopping 81,268,757.
So…how much of that expansion is coming from the natural growth of the electorate, and how many people are they driving out of the party by riding the tiger?
Even if the tiger is expanding their party, the cost is too high. They’ve lost what, 8 out of the the last 9 popular votes? And that’s including riding the tea party tiger and now the maga tiger.
Its the problem the GOP has been staring down for decades. They know the demographic trends are decidedly against them, so they keep trying to mine the fringes for votes. But they are hitting (have already hit) a point where the rightwing lurch that creates drives people out the other side (i.e. moderate conservatives). At some point, the net effect is negative.
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Once again they conflate rural America with “the rest of the country”. Trump lost by 7 million + votes. Because the rest of the country rejected him soundly.
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Nah, McConnell has one overriding concern right now, and that’s flipping the Senate back to Republican control in the 2022 midterms.
He’s making a calculation that it’s safe to quash the most extreme Qanon stuff, while remaining silent about Trump’s lies about a stolen election. Because that can be weaponized for draconian election laws that disproportionately target Dem voters. GOP’ers in Red state legislatures are already pushing for it.
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Narcissism seems to be the downfall of a lot of these people.
From the book jacket of Craig Unger’s new book on the KGB’s 40 year efforts to squeeze and control Trump (my emphasis):
Was Donald Trump a Russian asset? Just how compromised was he? And how could such an audacious feat have been accomplished? American Kompromat is situated in the ongoing context of the Trump-Russia scandal and the new era of hybrid warfare, kleptocrats, and authoritarian right-wing populism it helped accelerate. To answer these questions and more, Craig Unger reports, is to understand kompromat—operations that amassed compromising information on the richest and most powerful men on earth, and that leveraged power by appealing to what is for some the most prized possession of all: their vanity.
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But Trump expanded the Democratic vote even more. Trump gained 9 million votes from 2016 to 2020, but Biden got 15 million more than Hillary, Riding the Trump tiger was a disaster for the Rs and Mitch knows that. It’s fine for MTG, who represents a district that any one with an R will win automatically, but Mitch has to win competitive races.
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Spot on.
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A lot of the voter increase on both sides was probably because of the ease of mail in voting.
Or do you think only democrats used mail in voting?
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“I don’t know much about the movement (QAnon), other than I understand they like me very much. Which I appreciate. But I don’t know much about the movement,” Trump said.
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One telling thing about ‘Q’ is everyone following it has a different interpretation of it. The only fundamental beliefs they all seem to share is a hatred of Dems/liberals and the idea Trump is the one to fight them. No one who held any sort of ’normal’ political beliefs ever read QAnon bullshit and thought ‘hey, that makes sense, I believe this’. Nope, it was always just Pizzagate 2.0 for people who already were in the mindset that Dems are the most evil thing they can imagine and are just looking for ways to justify that belief.
Trump is now gone, and increasingly for them looking like he’s not fighting to come back. But the utter hatred of liberals isn’t going away and will just take another form. Greene and this new wing of the GOP base doesn’t so much represent ‘Q conspiracies’ as mush as they do a hatred of liberals. That’s the foundational philosophical belief at the core of this new(ish) wing, ‘fight/hate the liberals’ all other beliefs comes from that. The variable is how crazy and violent will it be.
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Thank you bringing up this wonderful holiday – one of my absolute favorites. (although I hate the abusive practice of hauling out a cuddly little rodent out of hibernation). Especially the thought of doing this in Pennsylvania, today. It comes from the ancient Celtic traditions and later, the blessing of candles known as Candlemas.
If you haven’t watched the Bill Murray movie, Groundhog’s Day, at least a thousand times, it is time to start – best movie about Samsara, ever! (the practice of doing the same thing over and over again, until you finally get it right…)
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I agree.
And a lot more people were motivated or were paying closer attention due to the pandemic and being at home more.
Think the expanded participation will last?
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