Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), one of the 10 House members who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection, announced his retirement Tuesday morning.
There’s no place in the fascistgooper cult for integrity. Stunning that they get so many votes and it’s a damning indictment of american culture and values (in their case lack of values).
Short of rescuing the people not in the Trump Cult, I guess we’re sunk.
Maybe someone made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
People in cults don’t usually escape until they wish to. But surely there are some experimental methods to try to deprogram Trump cultists. Pointing out their cognitive dissonance probably won’t do it, nor will statements such as Upton’s.
Just thinking about it now, perhaps there’s a way to offer the Trump cultists an alternative cult to join. Or otherwise convince them that they’ll be happier if they just stop with the politics altogether. Watching Carlson and Hannity really does make a person unhappy. It does not feel good to feel so bad about other people.
A recent study found that Fox watchers came to different views after watching more respectable news for a period of time. How to bring this about on a mass scale is another question. And it is annoying to have to baby people along when they are actively trying to destroy democracy, the environment, facticity itself, and basically all that is good and decent, and doing so in the most asshole ways imaginable.
It would be a better deal than if it were in other countries besieged with authoritarianism.
The American right has been planning this for quite some time on a number of different levels: judicial, executive, communications, legislative
Upton is leaving to spend more time with his sanity.
Dude’s rich.
Last sane person to leave the GOP please bring the straight-jacket…
Upton voted for impeachment. But what caught my attention was that boring ol’ Fred, who’s about as controversial as vanilla ice cream, received death threats. As cited in the Washington Post (below), it didn’t involve impeachment; it was about the boring ol’ infrastructure bill, which would pour asphalt so that these Republican nitwits in the base can drive their monster trucks without breaking the suspension.
The GOP has become a catchment basin for every lunatic in the country.
Too bad Waylon is gone. This song would be ripe for a rewrite and he’d be just the man to sing it.
Not mentioned in this article:
19 term congressman (38 years)
68 years old
You can only keep your head down for so long…
Something else that Trump lost his mind on.
Hey, if Trump didn’t get his Infrastructure Week, he’d be damned if Sleepy Joe got his.
Never mind that Trump never seriously entertained doing a goddamned thing about infrastructure; it was just a campaign ploy to fetch the rubes and gull the media into writing thumb-sucking articles about how Republicans were finally going to do something for the middle and working classes.
and family wealth from Whirlpool (the Uptons, DePrees, Meijers, Millikens are all solid western Michigan sane republican stock–not those crazed pyramid scheme people)
I’m treating Trump rants like I treat Seth Rollins ones. I’ll laugh at the psychotic reasoning and I’ll revisit em in November (well a minority of em).
I’d seen the pictures of the billboard but I didn’t know there was a song!
If these retirees really wanted to get some back at the Trumphumpers, they could just caucus with the Democrats. I guess they, uh… what? Appreciate the irony? of receiving death threats from some of the assholes whose votes they eagerly pandered to get?