They invented it. I can remember listening to people rail against Proctor and Gamble during the early 80’s. It was also in this time that I sat and listened to a relative complain about some corporation or another being, no doubt, “anti-God”, and explain that she was boycotting them, but she needed one of their ingredients to make a specific recipe, so she would buy it. We were supposed to throw away our Beatles albums because one of them had made a comment that people misinterpreted.
They would love for cancel culture to work, but the reasons they give for cancelling someone or something are usually so transparently selfish or stupid that no one pays attention. Their real issue is that they can’t control people or corporations.
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Somebody in the Nebraska GOP is back home waxing his moustache, checking his coursers for stringhalt, and telling his prairie wife he got to use the word "calumny.”
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Censuring Sassy Ben?! Say it ain’t so!
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Term limits for president didn’t solve that problem, or did it?
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Political party with an ever shrinking percentage of the electoral vote works to alienate its more sensible members.
Happy Friday folks!
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Can’t stand the heat? Become a Dem!
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Ben Sasse is just another elite, egghead, Ivy League Washington swamp creature that cares more about “ideas” and “principles” and “policy” and “democracy” than he does about his own party. He’s part of the problem. Of course he’s going to be censured, and probably primaried too.
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Key part of his statement:
“You are welcome to censure me again, but let’s be clear about why this is happening: It’s because I still believe – as you used to – that politics isn’t about the weird worship of one dude,”
Ben Sasse trys to deprogram some fellow Republicans from The Cult of The Person That Must No Longer Be Acknowledged. Now if Senator Sasse could follow the dots of how they got to The Cult, may be there would be true enlightenment.
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Our state legislature has term limits. I would like to blame the idiocy on term limits (we have a bill this year creating a season in which it will be legal to hunt Big Foot), but I think that’s just the hijacking of the GOP by pandering to the lowest intelligence level. I know, however, that term limits emptied the Legislature of people who knew how, when, and why to work across the aisle, people who knew how to develop a budget, and people who knew how to write bills that would function. In the case of Sasse, term limits would open up the seat for the most extreme to win a race to the bottom against other people who, as Sasse puts it, will be happy “bending the knee”.
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Guys, Joe Biden is President now. Thedonald is grousing around the golf course and lonely Mar-a-Lago residence waiting for indictments, law suits, divorce papers, attention, or the sweet mercy of death. Since all y’all are happy to forget all about 1/06/21, don’t you think it’s time to move on with your little annoyance about Sasse refusing to take a knee?
I thought you didn’t like people to take a knee.
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They’re worried by Jewish space lasers when their own party is being infiltrated by bi-coastal elites?
They’ve really gotta get their priorities in order and clean house! With a quickness, I’d hope.
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This is it exactly: term limits kill institutional memory, which a governing body needs to effectively function.
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Generally, I’m ambivalent to Sen Sasse’s posturing and attempts to skirt the fray. But how close do the bombs need to land before he takes cover? That his political future relies on trusting people pining for dictatorship?
Sasse should see clearly through this lens.
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I honestly don’t know how he gets off thinking he can represent ordinary Nebraskans after spending all that time being indoctrinated at Yale and Harvard.
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And I’m willing to offer long odds on a bet that he’s vacationed on the Vineyard.
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Our state has term limits, too. It doesn’t actually open any office for new office holders as they just trade around the existing one. House, Senate, County Commissioner, etc. It also means more legislation from ALEC and other lobbying groups because, as you said, no one in office has any idea how to write a bill.
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Well, Ben, at long last your strategy of splitting the difference didn’t work. If the GOP were going to wake up and embrace those who were mildly critical of Trump in the quietest, most sotto voce sort of way, it would have done it by now. But it’s hardened into a kind of Stalin-era orthodoxy and you’re a deviationist.
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The Nebraska state GOP chastised Sasse for persistent “public acts of ridicule and calumny” against Trump.
I know it’s the heartland but where were these folks for the past 5 years?
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Not only that, Nebraska GOPs are still a little butthurt over Pres. Biden winning the EV in NE-2.
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