I doubt it will have any impact one way or the other. I think she represented a heavily Republican district and will be replaced on the ballot by someone who will also be a Republican.
That actually happened about 3 miles from my office, I knew it was pretty bad just by the response from the fire dept in town and didn't find out until later what had actually happened.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/wi07p4/at_cpac_what_the_actual_fuckkk/ You ever get the feeling you're watching things about which, years from now, historians will say "it is unclear how such obvious warning signs were ignored, and the country continued to sleepwalk toward disaster"?
Believe me when I tell you that the rest of the world is looking at you going "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!?!?"
I usually try to keep in mind there could be some missing context to these types of things, but I can't think of anything missing that could possibly make that less weird.
I didn't understand what was going on, but apparently that is an actor portraying a jailed Jan 6th rioter, and MTG fake crying on him
I thought it was the first part of a really bizarre porn. I mean, we can both be right, but like.... Seeing this makes me wonder who does this work for? Like, who's viewing that and going, "yup, that's where my votes, donations and probably tax dollars should be going!"? Biden just had a helluva a week, and the conservative response is....that?
How can you have watched what has unfolded for the last ~6 years or so and think there isn't a large swath of the population that wants exactly this kind of person representing them? These are people who are un-tethered from reality. Big chunks of the republican base now believe in things that flat-out did not happen. It's a pretty blurry line between the theater of crying in front of a fake inmate at a political event, and the theater of leaders standing up in front of a microphone and yelling lies until people start to believe them.
And you have Trump calling for the removal of the Board of Education... and that is EXACTLY what a bunch of Fundies want to happen... go back to home school, where it's easier to indoctrinate kids into the cult.
I see the US Conservative party as a bunch of extreme Christian whack jobs that want the Bible to get top billing over the Constitution. Prove me wrong.
I have to imagine at some point this becomes repulsive to most normal folks. I think we got a glimpse of that in the Kansas abortion referendum, and the Republican L on the diabetes block. There's a limit to what that chunk of the electorate will go along with, and I think it's rapidly approaching. It could be deteriorating in the face of evidence, consequences, etc. or it could just be dying because this shit isn't exactly "inspired leadership." I'm not Christian, but was raised in a Baptist church, and hail from the deep South. This shit is cringe-inducing to me now, and I can't imagine I'm the only one. My friends in SC, all middle-aged millenials, are now increasingly uncomfortable with the shit being conducted under the guise of their religious beliefs. The church is slitting it's own throat in that regard, because they are increasingly intolerant and the younger folks are hesitant to go, donate, or bring their children. Here in DC circles, among the few folks I know who work in the conservative sphere, they are increasingly baffled, embarassed and distancing themselves from their religious upbringing. I've seen conservatives excluded on multiple fronts, including one of my favorite dating profiles that basically said "if you're conservative, go suck Jesus or Trump's dick, see which one will hinder progress faster." Their hostility, intolerance and obstruction/malfeasence seems to be mirrored all of the sudden, albeit in small and intensely personal ways. Fox News is a decent example of this trend: Hannity used to be the top show, featuring Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, etc. and the premise of his success was cheerleading conservative policy. Now, it's Tucker Carlson, and the premise of his success has fuck-all to do with policy, or establishment GOP figures, and all about....well, whatever the fuck this is. I think there's a requirement for that sort of...spectacle, and it's substance. Without anything of substance to back up whatever the fuck this is, it begs the question "what the fuck made you think this was a good idea?" Bottom line, the chunk of the nation that puts a lot of stock in this sort of thing seems to be hollowing out, or at a minimum going, "Why the fuck should I vote for this?"
I'm hoping for the emergence of a meaningful 3rd party by 2024. This shit is untenable. I'll probably be disappointed.
Maybe. I'll believe it when I see it. Until people stop turning out for this fucked up party, I'm not going to hold my breath. Even those who aren't actually into this rancid spectacle are still showing up to the polls to mutter to themselves, "...but my guns," as they vote a straight Republican ticket. I feel for those moderate conservatives whose party has been taken from them. But the party has been well and truly coopted by the lunatics. Continuing to vote them into office isn't going to change that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstNazis/comments/wj8384/a_photo_of_the_cpac_stage/ Apparently, and I genuinely hope this is fake, CPAC has an enormous banner that says...."we are all domestic terrorists"?? So....um....fuck the what?
It is possible to believe that Jesus is Lord, and also see that type of weird shit as deservedly cringeworthy. I am that guy. I don’t talk about it much here, because who wants to hear it?
I don't think the whole base is openly saying "we're all Timothy McVeigh on this great and glorious Day of our Lord Trump, 2022" but I do think there are elements in the movement that are more cynically strategizing that, if they can discredit any and all accusations of supporting terrorism, that that will give them cover to actually advocate violence and threaten their political enemies, all while being defended by a shield of "oH, wE're ALl DomeStIc tErRoRIstS NOW" denial from the base.