The Sewer That Is The GOP: With All The White Supremacists, Conspiracy Nutters, And Other Malicious Whacko Subgroups, How Does It Get Fixed?

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How ‘Owning the Libs’ Became the GOP’s Core Belief

 

For a political party whose membership skews older, it might be surprising that the spirit that most animates Republican politics today is best described with a phrase from the world of video games: “Owning the libs.”

 

Gamers borrowed the term from the nascent world of 1990s computer hacking, using it to describe their conquered opponents: “owned.” To “own the libs” does not require victory so much as a commitment to infuriating, flummoxing or otherwise distressing liberals with one’s awesomely uncompromising conservatism. And its pop-cultural roots and clipped snarkiness are perfectly aligned with a party that sees pouring fuel on the culture wars’ fire as its best shot at surviving an era of Democratic control.

 

In just the past month, Sen. Ted Cruz self-consciously joked at the Conservative Political Action Conference about his ill-timed jaunt to Cancun, decried mask-wearing as pro-statist virtue signaling, and closed his speech by screaming “Freedom,” a la William Wallace; House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted a video of himself reading a Dr. Seuss book in protest of the supposed censorship of the children’s author (whose estate decided to stop publishing six titles on account of stereotypes in their illustrations); Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene erected a sign outside her congressional office in Washington declaring “There are TWO genders: MALE & FEMALE” across the hallway from the office of Democratic Rep. Marie Newman, whose daughter is transgender; even Rush Limbaugh, the late talk radio giant and progenitor of liberal “ownage,” got in one last braggadocious slap from beyond the grave: the occupation listed on his death certificate is “greatest radio host of all time.”

 

In one sense, this is the natural outgrowth of the Trump era. Inasmuch as there was a coherent belief that explained his agenda, it was lib-owning — whether that meant hobbling NATO, declining to disavow the QAnon conspiracy theory, floating the prospect of a fifth head on Mt. Rushmore (his, naturally), or using federal resources to combat the New York Times’ “1619 Project.”

 

But in a post-Trump America, to “own the libs” is less an identifiable act or set of policy goals than an ethos, a way of life, even a civic religion.

 

“‘Owning the libs’ is a way of asserting dignity,” says Helen Andrews, senior editor of The American Conservative. “‘The libs,’ as currently constituted, spend a lot of time denigrating and devaluing the dignity of Middle America and conservatives, so fighting back against that is healthy self-assertion; any self-respecting human being would… Stunts, TikTok videos, they energize people, that’s what they’re intended to do.”

 

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[LD0506]

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[The Evil Genius]

The GOP in one cartoon. Spoilers for NSFW language.

 

Spoiler

 

[TradeTheBeal!]

The Kraken is struggling.

 

 

[goskins10]

6 minutes ago, TryTheBeal! said:

The Kraken is struggling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Larry]

4 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said:

The Kraken is struggling.

 

 

 

Dominion response:  "Our case does not allege that the defendant's untrue statements defamed us to 'reasonable persons'.  The fact that the defendant's untrue statements were directed at suckers is not a defense.  

 

"And, in fact, a claim that 'no reasonable person could have believed that what I said was true' is, in fact, a declaration on defendant's part that defendant herself, at the time, knew that her statements were untrue.  Plaintiff moves for immediate judgment.  

[TradeTheBeal!]

18 hours ago, Larry said:

 

Dominion response:  "Our case does not allege that the defendant's untrue statements defamed us to 'reasonable persons'.  The fact that the defendant's untrue statements were directed at suckers is not a defense.  

 

"And, in fact, a claim that 'no reasonable person could have believed that what I said was true' is, in fact, a declaration on defendant's part that defendant herself, at the time, knew that her statements were untrue.  Plaintiff moves for immediate judgment.  

 

 

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Poll: Majority of Republicans support same-sex marriage for the first time

A majority within all partisan groups, including Republicans, now support same-sex marriage, according to a poll from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) released on Tuesday.

 

In 2019, less than half of those who identify as Republican — 47 percent — backed gay marriage, but the survey indicates that number rose to 51 percent last year.

 

Approval also increased among independents, with 72 percent now in support. In previous years, figures among independents hovered in the mid-60s.

 

Democratic approval stayed strong, with around three-fourths in support, similar to previous polling years.

 

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Someone needs to go Clockwork Orange on this guy and make him see sense (or cut out his tongue).

 

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson complained about the failed drug hydroxychloroquine not getting FDA approval, and refused to say the COVID-19 vaccine is safe

 

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is still espousing blatant falsehoods on the coronavirus.

 

Johnson refused to say the vaccines are safe in an interview with The New York Times.

 

He also blamed the FDA for costing "tens of thousands of lives" by not approving a failed drug.

 

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin doubled down on COVID-19 misinformation in an interview with The New York Times on his growing reputation as a conspiracy theorist.

 

Johnson has been ratcheting up his conspiratorial rhetoric in recent months, particularly in his attempt at revisionist history over the January 6 Capitol siege. He has made a variety of false claims depicting the riot as peaceful and that he would have been afraid if the insurrectionists were affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement.

 

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[LD0506]

[DCranon21]

Keep peddling that racism GOP....

 

 

 

Edited March 24, 2021 by DCranon21

[PCS]

No. Minorities are considered AS important as white people. That whole we're all human thing. Oh the horror. 🙄

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

She's going to be smiling all the way to the grave.

[The Evil Genius]

1 hour ago, PCS said:

No. Minorities are considered AS important as white people. That whole we're all human thing. Oh the horror. 🙄

 

This dem treats minorities more important than certain white peoples (like Ms. Loomer).

Edited March 24, 2021 by The Evil Genius

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[Captain Wiggles]

Equality is the real cause of racism? 🤔

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[skinsmarydu]

IT'S FREE MONEY!!!!

WTF is wrong with these idiots? 

 

Answered my own question.  Ooof.

 

 

Edit, add:  just watched that signing. 

****in' redneck dingleberry...that's what we've got for a governor. 

Edited March 25, 2021 by skinsmarydu

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[Larry]

20 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

 

SD:  "What?  And share the grossly disproportionate power we have in Washington, right now?"