Do voting Republicans not see what assholes their congress people are?

Closet racists. Nothing is more important than keeping America as white-male dominated as can be. They are convinced the only way is to vote "not liberal" no matter what the cost.

"white, STRAIGHT" that is

I would love to see MTG and Boebert as guests on The View. They would never do it though.

The Republican voting base are largely stupid assholes. They have the representation they want.

They will go on Fox, but they will never go any place that would challenge them.

.......

A large swath of the white largely male populace mourns the time when there was a clear caste system in the U.S. where they were always on top and had first dibs on whatever bounties this country offered. Everyone else needed to keep their heads down, keep quiet, and know their place.

Now they're being told they need to share and they don't like it one bit. Trouble is, what there is to share has been dwindling and thanks to deregulation, weakened unions, globalization, and unabated corporate greed these white voters are competing for jobs that pay shit.

So they're pissed. But instead of targeting their wrath where it belongs, they chow down on a steady diet of right wing bullshit that diverts their attention away from the GOP (which holds them in contempt) and it's policies and towards blaming anyone not like them for "ruining America."

People vote for people that feel the same way they do.

They know it and love it.

[quote]Now they're being told they need to share and they don't like it one bit.

Communism/socialism does not, did not, and will not work! Europe and other Asian and Latin American countries proved that in the past century. That is why many people are turning away from the Democratic Party, who insist on embracing socialism. We don't want those failures repeated here.

Republican has always been the only option. Democrats appear to be either crooked opportunists, jealous wannabes or mentally ill.

I have a lot of clients who are Republicans on the Upper East Side, Westchester County, NY, and Fairfield County, CT. I see combinations of these things:

1) They don't think. They are Republicans, they have always been Republicans, and they will always vote for Republicans.

2) They are not paying attention. There are many factors at play, but social media really has destroyed us. The squeaky wheel really does get the grease. It's almost shocking to see how disengaged so many people are until something WAY over the top gets their attention. And then:

3) They HATE _____ more than anything. That blank is usually AOC but it might be racial or "lazy" or homelessness or crime or anti-Second Amendment legislation... Basically, they are single issue voters and they will vote against anyone who opposes their issue.

4) They think they can use the troglodytes like MTG to seize power and then they'll just dump them aside and govern as they wish. Basically they look at the mudslingers as frontline infantrymen.

5) They're bullies just like those listed in OP. They refuse to believe in systemic inequality because that would mean a level of admitting that they do not fully deserve every single thing they have.

6) They really aren't as smart as they think they are.

7) At a certain level, not much will change for them either way so it's a game. Literally, just a pastime. For one thing, they just want a win--like going to Vegas. But also, because they are comfortable and gas prices really, really, aren't that huge a deal to people who can spend $7k for ANOTHER assault rifle, the bloodsport of politics is entertainment to them.

8) The flip side of #1, they don't see any option. They have given in to the idea that Democrats are inherently worse. As bad as the lying, treason and vitriol is to them, they see it as a binary and they must let their side do it lest IT WILL BE DONE UNTO THEM.

Oh do fuck off, shitstain Trumptard at R10.

(And by the way? That social security check you cash? Your unemployment benefits? Your stimulus check? That's all socialism, toots. You ARE a socialist.)

It's the proverbial "It's a feature, not a bug."

Republicans aspire to their level of assholery. It's all they have.

Exactly what R15 said. They wouldn't see it because the voters are assholes themselves.

Op did you just awaken from a coma?? We had the ultimate asshole for President for four years!

Any Republican rep who DOESN'T fit this description is automatically labeled a RINO, OP. The worse they are, the more they love them.

It's white panic. They see their grand and great grand children as minorities in this country and that is unacceptable.

You’re acting as if these people are capable of rational thought. They overwhelmingly tend to be religious nuts, which means they are prone to idiocy and illogical thinking. The imaginary man in the sky doesn’t like two men fucking. What do you expect? Do you expect them to be well thought out?

Simple.

Republicans see that they are assholes and that is why the vote for them, you like to elect people you can relate to.

Trae points out that one of the GOP pressing questions for Judge Jackson is about prayer at football games...

Republican Party have a handful of mega assholes who have branded the party as the choice for bigots, homophobes, and ALL ASSHOLES.

[quote] Republican has always been the only option. Democrats appear to be either crooked opportunists, jealous wannabes or mentally ill.

R11 or it is more likely that it is you that is mentally ill.

I always think of an analogy someone made with Democrats as single mothers and Republicans as deadbeat dads.

Moms get punished for constantly being responsible, nurturing and diligent.

Dads know kids are bereft of their affection and they will get rewarded for (finally and occasionally) showing up with a shiny new toy.

Thanks for the extra screen view on my reply, R25! BTW, I am definitely not mentally ill., however if you enjoy sucking off strangers in toilets you might just be a little bit.

OP, no disrespect, but your opener reveals the naïveté. You do realize they are not watching the same media as you darling, right? 90% of the problem is the lies and distortions of the media (across the board, stop thinking your media is unbiased, if it’s from the US, it’s biased, period/end-of). So the lens you are viewing these characters through makes them look different from where you’re standing. You just get to see the villain. But even villans punch out. Even villans can be funny or compelling. So you get to watch their villan-side, but on Faux, they are showing a totally different narrative, where they are not villans but are instead actually heroes! So we are watching a different movie, reading a different book, eating a different dish than them. We don’t even have the same context anymore, which is part of why it is so hard to have a breakthrough with them. Crazy, I know.

We should all start using the phrase “white flight” and do not stop until November, because it reveals their true fear, and shows the world their absolute cowardice. Their asses are puckered up, they are literally shitting their pants in complete terror at all the brown and black people, and instead of the 1960’s white flight, it has turned into white rage. They aren’t moving again, why should they? Nope. They’re just going to take it all back, this country only belongs to them. All of their behavior goes back to fear — and we need to pound that message all year long, because it will drive them insane. We need to especially point out how when L’Orange is really really scared, he sounds angrier, flip the script so we continually call him a pussy who can’t lead, a pussy who is followed by pussies.

[quote] I have a lot of clients who are Republicans on the Upper East Side, Westchester County, NY, and Fairfield County, CT. I see combinations of these things: 1) They don't think. They are Republicans, they have always been Republicans, and they will always vote for Republicans. 3) They HATE _____ more than anything. That blank is usually AOC but it might be racial or "lazy" or homelessness or crime or anti-Second Amendment legislation... Basically, they are single issue voters and they will vote against anyone who opposes their issue.

You could say exactly the same thing about Democrats. I'm not a Republican or Democrat. I'm registered to vote with "no party preference".

OP, they LOVE that they voted for racist assholes, that is “owning the libs”. That was the ONLY job description out there for them

[quote] You could say exactly the same thing about Democrats

Here's the things most of the (white) idiots who vote Republican can't tell you: How exactly does your Republican representation screaming about "Critical Race Theory" pay your bills?

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[quote]You could say exactly the same thing about Democrats. I'm not a Republican or Democrat. I'm registered to vote with "no party preference".

I'm also registered with no party, but there's nothing stupider than thinking Trump or MTG or Boebert or Cawthorn is the counter to ANYONE on the left. Vile, stupid, bigoted, racist piles of shit. No amount of hyperbole or hysteria regarding any elected Dem, will make you look intelligent.

I have two things to add to R12

9) Lowering the bar gives them a deniability. They can say and do horrible things and then turn around and pretend that those are mainstream. Thresholds don't exist; It's like standing next to a slut because that makes you a virgin again.

10) Similarly, what we saw with 45 is an elation at elevating such a low, worthless cretin to the highest office in the land. In the below (HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK IS THAT?!?) clip a woman who is incapable of reading, brushing her hair or showing basic human dignity is given the prestige of a senior US Senator. They celebrate that the rules don't matter anymore. They are vindicated because being "right" is all that counts.

For anyone who plays the "both sides" crap, this is what it comes down to when you think it's "both sides":

[quote]@MaryLTrump: The fact that two seditionists still sit on the Judiciary Committee and have the opportunity to ask this brilliant woman any questions at all is maddening. The tenor of their questions and what the senators themselves are implying make it even worse.

Mary Trump is right. But the way to win is to reveal their hypocrisy without any emotion, just stare the facts. And then state what the outcome will be due to the facts. Avoid any/all subjective or opinion-based stances, just stick to the facts.

They enjoy pissing off liberals more than they care about their own interests.

I've made a deliberate decision to not react to their theatrics, because I know my disdain fuels them.

Exactly r38

Mental illness is a terrible thing.

A (relatively) short thread. As implied previously, in a society focused on conflict and/or competition the icons are inherently going to be those whose raison d'ê·tre is symbolism of such.

[quote] It has reached a point where people no longer enter politics to “fight” for ideology or specific issues.

[quote] Instead, it's reached a point where people enter politics simply TO fight.

[quote] The “fight” is both the "means", & the "ends".

A rose by any other name..

Meanwhile, from the Dirty South...

It is actually shocking to see that people do not see how craven some of these mofos are.

Not surprising, but...kind of surprising: Ted Cruz is even more of an asshole than we knew.

This article also helped me understand better his reprehensible behavior during the confirmation hearing last week. He has clearly committed unpardonable (metaphorically and maybe literally) actions and has nothing left to lose. He's all in and his only hope is to make it to the top or, at the very least, establish his legal dominance.

...And he has to step on, at minimum, Josh Hawley to get there.

[quote] An examination by The Washington Post of Cruz’s actions between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021, shows just how deeply he was involved, working directly with Trump to concoct a plan that came closer than widely realized to keeping him in power. As Cruz went to extraordinary lengths to court Trump’s base and lay the groundwork for his own potential 2024 presidential bid, he also alienated close allies and longtime friends who accused him of abandoning his principles.

[quote] Now, Cruz’s efforts are of interest to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, in particular whether Cruz was in contact with Trump lawyer John Eastman, a conservative attorney who has been his friend for decades and who wrote key legal memos aimed at denying Biden’s victory.

Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley should be on trial for sedition. I'm not holding my breath.

[quote]Do voting Republicans not see what assholes their congress people are?

Do Republicans not hear what their congress people say about each other?

[quote]If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you,

...or how they try to safely distance themselves from batshit crazy extremists?

[quote]the lawmaker said a number of moderates are upset with how McCarthy, of California, has embraced some of the extremists in the GOP conference and warned it could hurt the party in swing districts and undermine their chances of winning back the majority.

[...]

[quote]The moderate GOP lawmaker warned the two wings of the party were headed for a "collision course," and predicted other moderate lawmakers would start speaking out publicly if McCarthy doesn't do more to rein in the fringe members in the party.

[quote]"Our side isn't going to take this much longer," the lawmaker said.

Their jackassery works in our favor but it is troubling to see how unfazed a sizeable portion of their voters are.

Retired GOP Congressman (Beto's travel buddy) Will Hurd:

[quote] For the first time in his adult life, the guy who’d climbed so quickly—from college class president to star CIA operative to lone Black Republican in the House—didn’t know his next move. Finally, Hurd sat down with his nearly 90-year-old father and shared his concerns.

[quote] “William, I can’t give any advice on what you should do, because I don’t understand any of these things,” Bob Hurd told his youngest son. “But I know what you shouldn’t do. Don’t be desperate. Because when you’re desperate, you make bad decisions.”

[quote] “Some of my friends, some of my former colleagues, they are desperate,” Hurd tells me. “They are so desperate to hold on to their positions, to hold on to their power, that they make really bad decisions.”

[...]

[quote] Hurd proposes a wholesale reorientation of our politics—away from the dopamine-inducing cultural conflicts of the day, and toward the generational trials that will shape American life in the 21st century. To pull it off, he says, we’ll need both a groundswell of reasonable people reclaiming the political discourse from absolutists and ideologues, and innovative, unifying leadership at the highest levels of government.

[quote] “The moderates are the ones who behave the same way regardless of whether their party is in power or not. The moderates are critical to crafting and passing legislation that actually gets signed into law. The moderates are the ones who work the hardest,” Hurd writes in his book. “And we are the ones who get shit done. Extremists do the most bitching and get the least accomplished.”

[quote] “Look, my hypothesis is that 80 percent of Americans are around the center—40 percent left of center, 40 percent right of center,” Hurd told me. “And they’re all persuadable. The letter next to my name should matter less than my message.”

[...]

[quote] Hurd’s most pressing concern for his party is that it’s become an agent of disinformation. This is not a uniquely Republican phenomenon, he emphasizes—the book contains a blistering critique of Democrat Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, for leaking faulty information regarding Trump colluding with Russia—but it’s the Republican Party’s embrace of lies and propaganda that most immediately threatens our system of government. Hurd says that watching the January 6 assault on the Capitol, just three days after his retirement from Congress, felt like he was watching a sequel to 9/11—extremism infiltrating America in a new form.

[quote] The senator was caught immediately checking his phone for Twitter mentions by a Los Angeles Times photographer positioned behind his seat at the dais.

[quote] “How embarrassing,” late night host Jimmy Kimmel quipped later. “Can you imagine being Ted Cruz and still wanting to know what people were saying about you?”

While the House Sedition Caucus is annoying, this is fully reprehensible.

Oh, and 45 again tonight called on Putin to destroy President Biden.

We know they're traitors. Are they getting nervous as well?

Again, they don't necessarily have all of the relevant information.

New campaign ad

They want their taxes low. They are angry about what is socially going on in the country. Either or or both. Not rocket science.

R54, except unless they're wealthy, their taxes aren't getting lower and the people they vote for are destroying SS/medicare, so those white morons have NOTHING left. And what "socially" is going in the country at the hands of the Dems, since it's the GOP that is legislating the social issues?

You're right, it's not rocket science: Predominantly white morons who know Obama was the reason they got affordable healthcare for the first time in their worthless lives have actually stated they resented having to credit him for it. These would be the same idiots Obama tried to help with retraining programmings for jobs so that they could actually compete in a global economy and in a future that isn't stopping for their uneducated asses.

They vote Republican because they are mostly racist, ignorant trash, because they sure as hell don't have enough $ to benefit from whatever "tax cuts" the GOP proposes.

Voting against their own best interests…

I love being a Deplorable!

They do know and they don't care because they agree with them.

[quote] This is such a familiar pattern in reactionary centrist "objective" news reports: All the specific examples are evidence of Republican radicalization, yet all the context and analysis describes a bipartisan problem.

Because they are not awful. There are far more awful people that are Democrats. AOL, Pelosi. Duckworth and Mad Maxine to name but a few.

They are THE WORST and they are Democrats

But because the OP doesn't like them, they are bad.

Well you know what OP, you are entitled to your opinion but that opinion and the fact you follow it blindly makes you and idiot.

R59, that drives me crazy. It's 100% the Republicans who have caused every REAL problem and the media insists on the "bipartisan" bullshit. No, it isn't the Dems who are enacting laws to suppress or invalidate the most basic tenet of being an American: The right to vote. No, it isn't the Dems who want to ban books or keep a woman from her right to choose.

Republicans hate all the people their troglodyte supporters hate. Ain't harder than that.

The GOP's base is rural America. Peasants - wherever in the world they are - mistrust new ideas, outsiders. They cling to the Old Ways and consider anything progressive to be the handiwork of the Devil. Unless Democrats can either make in-roads with rural populations or get our damn voters off their asses in cities and suburbs and to the polls, we're fucked.

[quote]Republicans hate all the people their troglodyte supporters hate. Ain't harder than that.

But here's the thing: Do you think people like Trump would rather have dinner with the Saudis or meet JimBob at Golden Corral? Do you think the Republican elite actually "hate" those same people, particularly when many of those people are educated or wealthy? Those groups are used by the elite because they know the trogs are uneducated trash who just hate anyone different.

Republicans are elite snobs but they've developed a technique to talk to idiots which excites them. Maybe if a Democrat could break through to these idiots but Democrats are usually far too happy to flaunt what elite snobs they are to learn how to talk down to the masses. The last one who could pull this off was Bill Clinton because he'd grown up with these people.

It will be interesting to see the fallout in the next few months in places abortion bans have already passed: Texas, Idaho, etc.. I don't see a lot of organized effort to combat them

Will this shake women wake up or will it become another wedge issue?

All grievance all the time.. The GoP got nothing

Because they don't care if the person they vote for is nuts as long as they fulfill their agenda -- ban abortion, keep guns, punish poors, inject religion, etc. They're getting almost everything they want.

The lie about it all being poor white trash needs to go as well. Republican voters are higher income. I have family that votes republican (don't talk to them) and they are upper class, 6 figure earners, even belonging to unions. Hell, they put down unions while they've benefited from them. As long as they got theirs. Yes they're many poor rural republicans too, but there's many poor people that vote democrat as well.

Because they don't care if the person they vote for is nuts as long as they fulfill their agenda -- ban abortion, keep guns, punish poors, inject religion, etc. They're getting almost everything they want.

The lie about it all being poor white trash needs to go as well. Republican voters are higher income. I have family that votes republican (don't talk to them) and they are upper class, 6 figure earners, even belonging to unions. Hell, they put down unions while they've benefited from them. As long as they got theirs. Yes they're many poor rural republicans too, but there's many poor people that vote democrat as well.

The House Freedom Caucus (all of the usual suspects) just voted against...freedom

[quote] Bill Number: H. Res. 831; Calling on the United States Government to uphold the founding democratic principles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and establish a Center for Democratic Resilience within the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

As long as it doesn’t affect them and their MONEY they don’t care. They are also racist, scared, greedy, narrow minded, and purposely ignorant.

[quote] Dietrich specifically mentioned Austin, who is Black, and claimed the measure was in fact a plot “to remove conservative, freedom-loving Americans from the roles.”

[quote] He added, “These so-called ‘leaders’ are so vile and racist, there’s no way to describe them other than in terms their own people understand. They are nothing more than dirty, stinking ni***rs.

[quote] “We are being forced into a corner by these enemies of the People. If it is a civil war they want, they will get it in spades. Perhaps the best way to pull us back from the brink is a good public lynching.”

I have a boss who ever year goes into a childish whine about health care prices, and never connects it to the fact that he votes Republican. Some people are just stupid.

R72 is who they are. I wonder how that new Lt. Governor feels when she hears shit like that. It's adorable she thinks simply being a conservative keeps her being from being called that word by her own party.

Back when I was a wee gayling my Dad's GOP consisted of well off middle-class suburbanites who were fiscal conservatives but were fairly liberal as fas as social issues go. Somewhere in the 80s this started changing and it's now a bunch of low intellect, mean, ugly racists.

R72, and "won't resign"? WON'T RESIGN? Fuck that. He should be arrested. Make that motherfucker a Muslim threatening the Defense Sec and he'd already be in GITMO. It's amazing what these white conservative assholes are allowed to get away with saying and doing. Fucking insane.

R64, it's hilarious when I hear the Jim Bobs saying "Trump's one of us, he could sit down and have a beer with us and be comfortable" which earns a side eye and "bitch, please" from me.

Laughable.

Water finds its own level.

R77, I always ask his idiot supporters who go on about "elites" and "liberal Hollywood": If Trump had the choice between going to the Oscars to be with all of those liberal elites or a ceremony honoring military vets (since you assholes think Trump is a "real patriot"), which do you think he would choose? If you have the guts to be honest, you know what the answer is and you should STFU and admit the only reason you support someone who is everything you claim to rail against, is because he's racist, bigoted trash like you. It would be the ONLY reason they could support him because he's a fucking moron who knows less than shit about being a real patriot and knows even less than that about the actual history of this nation.

Republicans are brainwashed from an early age on religion. They worship death and their living dead god creature. They wear a bronze age torture/execution machine/cross around their necks. They consider that rational and "righteous". Reality means nothing to them. Their clergy rape children, they still donate. A deadly plague kills 1000 a day, they would rather take horse paste and die than take a vaccine, only because it's being distributed by a Democratic President. They crave their fantasy Fox News world. They are dangerous authoritarians who kill indiscriminately. They're proud of their ignorance and will not budge an inch into reality. They cannot be reasoned with. They are evil incarnate and must be stopped by any means possible. They are on the side of Putin, Hitler and Trump. Look at what they say and do and tell me I'm wrong. They deserve death for the good of the United Staes and the world.

The dumbing down of America is almost complete. We are on the edge, and I am scared for our future.

R81 Yes. Scary it is....

But there's hope for the youngins', R82

Fuck...

The "fuck..." was for my screw up @r83, not the clip. The clip is great:

R82 That voice is grating.

R82 She's either mentally challenged or has escaped from a mental hospital.

The idiot who thinks Pelosi and Duckworth would be forced to change his mind if he ever met any of these people, along with people like Trump or Abbott or that FLorida hellspawn. But of course he won't because he knows in his heart he's lying and that all the personal attacks he hears every day against the Dems don't amount to anything compared to how republicans actually behave.

R75, it happened when Reagan and the GOP embraced the Religious Right, but to be truthful, the GOP was not socially liberal before that

This is who they are:

Of course not- they’re the trolls who put them in office. Hello?

[quote] Do voting Republicans not see what assholes their congress people are?

Its a feature, not a bug.

MTG and TRUMP are the price we pay for the Black President. I really believe that. This is about racism. The Republican voters saw racism slipping away and Trump was the ultimate weapon to reverse it. Throw in unhappy Black Democrats and self loathing LGBT and you have the MAGA...

R90, can you imagine what that old ugly bitch looks like and she's calling that attractive woman "ugly." They really are fucking delusional. All they have is their epidermis and nothing else. No education, hate and time to call someone to be nasty. Jesus Christ.

[quote] But there’s something more insidious behind the sudden rash of pro-gun ads than protecting the Second Amendment. It’s a visual reminder that the party believes Jan. 6 was a good thing, that the attack on the Capitol was a valiant effort, and that Republicans deserve candidates who is willing to implicitly or explicitly condone the use of violence to reclaim a bygone version of the United States they’ve seen slip through their fingers under Democratic leadership — to make America great again.

[quote] “It’s an extremist movement,” says Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist and co-founder of The Lincoln Project. “The GOP base, at least a wide swath of it, has been radicalized. There are very few things you can do to demonstrate you’re more extreme and intense on tribal issues than to insinuate, tacitly or overtly, violence, that you are willing to fight for the cause. That’s what it is. It’s not a Second Amendment issue. It’s saying, ‘I’m this intense. I’m this extreme. I’m willing to go to these measures to fight for our tribe.’ That’s what it’s all about.”

[quote] “The Second Amendment has always been a defensive posture,” Madrid continues. “It’s always been a don’t take my guns. What we are moving into now is something foundationally different. It’s now advocating that gun ownership and bearing arms is a virtue. It’s not a right. It’s almost an obligation. … There’s a desire to see a society that is centralized on this type of weaponry. There’s a lot of paranoia involved here, but it’s also demonstrative of a society that a lot of these members feel is out of their control. They feel quote unquote America is gone. It’s behind them. It’s already been taken, and the only way to defend themselves from whatever that boogeyman is, is to have a stockpile of gold bullion, canned goods, and a ton of weaponry.”

It's like they see the action and assume that if their side is doing it than the "bad" people must be doing much, much worse.

They admire aggression, rudeness, insults, threats, bullying... it's their only power against The Elites- whom they are increasingly unhinged about.

But they don't seem to understand these politicians are spoiled and wealthy, and wouldn't give them the time of day ordinarily. They just need the votes earned by upsetting their already disturbed minds.

It should be noted the knuckle-dragging neanderthal terrorist filth @R95 reported Jimmy Kimmel to the police...over a j o k e

Follow the(ir) leader:

[quote] Do voting Republicans not see what assholes their congress people are?

Do voting Democrats not see what assholes the Squad members are?

[quote]Do voting Democrats not see what assholes the Squad members are?

Your bigotry towards those women is what clouds your judgment. They haven't done a fucking thing that comes close to what the Republican party has done. You can't actually point to legislation or them in any way pushing violence towards their own co-workers.

Not a single one of them has said or done anything that could be equated with the vileness on the right...unless you're a white supremacist or a Zionist - it's one and the same at this point considering that alignment between the two ideologies. Steve Bannon and Richard Spencer are huge fans of Zionism.

They see it. They're assholes too.

We must do more like this.

If they can't see it, we must show them: