Again, I ask - if PEDOnald and the GOP were not sent into our government to carry out a wishlist of what Russia wants done to this country, how would we even fucking tell?

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” -LBJ

I think what broke their brains is that having Obama as President meant you really couldn’t tell the lowest white man he was better than Obama. Obama was President. Even the stupidest among them are going to see that.

The GOP was always deeply fucked, but they had their brains completely broken by two things:

1. Completely losing the culture war on gay marriage. When they were assured by their insular bubble that it would never happen, because something something “[my] [g]od don’t like it and fuck you if this is a secular country, I’m used to having xtianity centered in all things”. Well, that bubble popped and while normal people reacted with a yawn, because it doesn’t affect anyone but those getting married, and while cons pretend to be so unbothered by it in public, it eats at them still. So they are punching down on trans at the moment, biding their time.

2. Having a black President. They had to pretend for most of eight years to be concerned about things like long form birth certificates and BENGHAZZZZZI and tan suits and latte salutes and not wearing a tie and feet on the desk and Obama being “divisive” and uppity, I mean, “arrogant”, when they wanted to run out into the street and scream the n-word at the top of their lungs at him, really. They had to hold that shit in for the most part. Then along came Donvict to give them a permission structure to be their “retribution”. Retribution for having to hold their tongue when it came to Obama, at least in mixed company.

Because of this, they spun to things like DEI and trans. They’ll get back to the gays soon enough, if they are successful at rolling back anything that smacks of “DEI” and have pushed trans back into the closet and have unleashed enough violence on them.

For the younger set, they are now building resentment at women their own age that have economic autonomy and are not all that interested in dating/fucking backward chuds that want to take away their rights. That’s probably the next wave of GOP awfulness we going to be dealing with - all these unfuckable assholes frustrated as hell that women have more education and possibly a better job than them.

How can we commemorate him if he’s not even dead yet?

I’m sure Kamala would have been jUsTaSbAd

There are non-voters, and people who won’t admit they’re Republican.

Ain’t that the truth. Most especially that last part.

They are more properly called reactionary centrists. And boy, do they looooove Murc’s Law. That’s the tell.

LOL, dumbass donnie talked about low gas prices before he came into office the second time and just a few days ago said high gas prices will make us a lot of money.

Consistency is not really something that conservatives do…

Guess they were not watching him in the first term, LOL.

But then, they don’t really look at how W handled things, either.

I would not be surprised if he dies in office, regardless if it’s less than 4 years or not.

But when it comes to all those around him that enable(d) all these horrors, no effort should be spared in going after them in every possible legal way: Bondi, Noem, Miller, Bannon, Stone, just every single one of them, if still alive, should have constant “lawfare” leveled at them.

The Republicans will never learn any lessons otherwise. Basically nothing happened to any of them the first time around (and for Nixon and for Ronnie Raygun) so they got even worse.

Also, we need to have some carve-outs for pardons for assholes that work for a party and do crimes on their behalf - if you are in prison for doing crimes as a Republican politician in the interest of carrying out the Republican platform, no Republican president should be able to pardon you.

Right now, this would only apply to Republicans, since they are the only ones doing this kind of thing.

Christian nationalists cannot fucking stand that you don’t share in and support their delusion, that you’re not subject to their little club

I truly love telling some xtianist trying to lecture me on how I should do things this:

Your rules are for you, bro. They simply bear no relevance outside the context of xtianity.

If you talk to some of these people, many don’t even seem to have any kind of understanding that there are millions of people that don’t accept their framing. Like, at all.

Telling them that trying to cite “the bible” at someone like me has as much of an effect as citing Harry Potter or Dianetics makes them just about glitch out. They want to find the right bit of their “scripture” that could be used like a spell on others and make them into another drone at their church. Ain’t going to happen: I don’t value your text like you do.

If these guys were going to impose, say, the Quaker interpretation of “the” Bible on America, I might not mind quite so much.

But no, these jerkoffs always take up the most ridiculously hateful and tyrannical version of xtianity that conservatives can find. It’s the most hateful version they can find to validate all their preconceived notions of morality.

Kinda weird how that works - people with a decent set of morality join up with things like Quakers, or the UUs, or something like that.

People with extreme conservative views join up with the militaristic groups that want to back Israel in order to bring about their end of the world fantasies.

It’s almost like they treat “the” bible like a Rorschach blot, and that’s if they’ve even read the thing.

These xtianists don’t really seem to give a fuck about the Sermon on the Mount very much.

I remember a particular asshat on DP forums that would try to get me booted all the time, and always crying that there is no such thing as xtian Shariah Law and that calling xtianists talibangelicals was so very unfair and so mean, and oh my god, the civility of it all!

The xtianists definitely have Shariah Law even if, sure, they don’t call it that, duh.

Other than the days they worship and a few other differences about ritual and so on, explain the difference between backward dumbasses of the fundamentalist stripe of either of these Abrahamic religions?

Both groups ache to subjugate women and murder infidels and gays, etc.

And frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you

No, you fucking ARE NOT.

this is how we should run the United States of America by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible.

You can go ahead and go fuck yourself pal, because this is a secular nation. Besides, the “morality” in the Bible is a horrible model for morality, sorry.

Meanwhile, dumbass donnie doesn’t want any more solar installations, wind installations and took away offsets for EVs and solar.

He’s such a visionary.

This same asshole just sat in front of cameras and rattled off a bunch of bullshit about how prescient he was about 9/11. Dude is so full of shit - he cannot even predict what his own actions are going to negatively impact. Or worse, he does and just doesn’t give a fuck because he wants to ruin this country.

Foraging for wild plants is a skill you need fully established before having to rely on it for survival, it’s just like hunting, dressing an animal, and meat preservation. Do it wrong and at best you’ll get a little sick, at worst it will kill you quickly.

Oh, without question. I don’t mean to imply it’s something all us coddled moderns could just start doing. As you point out, it’s like these other things most people (myself included) have no idea how to do. Even people fairly decent at identifying mushrooms sometimes get it wrong.

Also, in a hypothetical apocalyptic situation, you’ll be competing with millions of people who will be eating anything they can. I can’t remember the stats, but I think the Appalachian deer population took something like 40-50 years to fully recover from the Great Depression. A lot of hungry people will do a lot of damage.

Yeah, I would think it’d be like catastrophes of old - all the cats and dogs would mysteriously disappear. Again, people have this romantic notion of “living off the land” as a homesteader and “hunting for food” and thinking they are going to bag a deer whenever it’s time for lunch and it will be easy and something sustainable and I think it’s pure delusion.

Ever watch Alone? Those people are avid survivalists, just doing it for a few weeks and even that looks hard as hell.

She was denied her cheese plate, the poor dear!

https://www.wonkette.com/p/lets-liveblog-sarah-huckabee-sanders-bellyaching-about-her-free-cheese-plate-like-an-asshole

Oh, no!

Was she denied her cheese plate?

I remember how very butthurt all these assholes were the first failed term of this dumbass “president” when this happened:

https://www.wonkette.com/p/hero-restaurant-gives-sarah-huckabee-sanders-the-boot