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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe party that Newt built has no leadership
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The party that Newt built has no leadership. It is captive to the whims of whichever mob is loudest an energy cultivated and stoked by right wing media and ideologue billionaires. No one has been in charge for years.
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This is why they almost all play along with this madness.
Perhaps the defining moment of the end of the Republican caucus was when Boehner was like screw this, Im outta here, yall have fun with these Freedom caucus yay-hoos, Im gonna go swill wine and invest in cannabis and no one literally no one wanted his job. No one.
Its like being the bus driver of a school bus with no steering wheel or brakes: youre responsible for the safety of the people in the bus, but youre not in control of it at all, you can just beg them to sit down and tell them to stop throwing boogers at you & each other
Oh and you arent actually going to a school where someone might learn something from actual books, but to some traveling carnival of oddities, where they look at the two-headed calves and other mutations and think SEE I KNEW ALL ALONG THIS TOTALLY IMPROBABLE THING IS REAL HA
And no one knows what is true, or who believed this nutso quackery first, or why they have become obsessed, barking out catchphrases and talking points until 50-year-old men in Oklahoma are reflexively telling you that the two-headed calf is 100% proof that democrats are monsters
They dont know who started the game of telephone, or what the original message was.
They just think that Rush deserves his medal because they believe the power to unleash anger & fear is the most important manifestation of their chaos god view of democracy & how to keep power
How to keep power while everything burns
Oh well, they say. Im fine. 401k is great. We all have to look out for #1. Lets watch the chaos god drumline march thru the nation from this balcony here. Lets post a selfie at the parade so the unruly mob thinks we dont disdain them
This is where this madness was heading all along.
Theyre all still playing along, not understanding or caring about what the stakes are, because they will be fine no matter what, and who cares about the rest of us.
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... Sen.
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reveals what some of his Republican colleagues have said to him in private -- "please convey my well wishes to the President-Elect, but I can't say that publicly yet."
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The party that Newt built has no leadership (Original Post)
octoberlib
Nov 2020
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)1. It's interesting to me that the silence of many persons sends a very LOUD message. Let's
be sure that we listen to it and respond appropriately.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,490 posts)2. And yet they control everything.
Even when we win, we dont win. Joe and Kamala won the White House but the GOP will block everything. Even if we win the senate, our own fucking party will block everything and vote with them. What the fuck man? This country is so fucked up that we nearly voluntarily allowed a fascist to take over.
They go along with the crazy because they fucking are the crazy. This Тяцмр shit simpl revealed who they are and always were. They are fascists bent on one party, right wing rule. And one day theyre going to get it. Its only a matter of time.