And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

dont forget wens

sig your friends and heil them back

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What’s the AWS of Russia?

Parler’s CEO confirms and says Parler could be off of the internet for up to a week: pic.twitter.com/mrs7bIjMjS

— Brian Fung (@b_fung) January 10, 2021

Roger Stone is calling out @ProjectLincoln, particularly @stuartpstevens. pic.twitter.com/xqKlEjknNa

— Parlertakes🇺🇸 (@parlertakes) January 9, 2021

He who smelt it

Genuinely surprised Stone has not caught Covid from one of his wife swapping parties

Boy, they sure do think and talk an awful lot about penises going into and out of mouths

not so much a bug as a feature

it dawned on me that the republican party is over now. maybe that was obvious to everyone and I was late to it. in a few weeks, there will be a vote to block Trump from ever running again, and that vote is going to pass. We'll see which republicans vote for it and which don't. I think the ones aligning with the Dems are going to be the minority. I don't know if Trumpism can oulive Trump; I don't understand how these people think at all, they are enthralled to personalities with no policies, madison cawthorne, marjorie green, noem, these re like cartoon villains, no one should take them seriously, but clearly the majority of the upcoming repulican party likes this. it's terrifying.

it dawned on me that the republican party is over now

how dare you speak against the will of President Biden. lock him up

There'll always be another trump if conditions demand one, its not like the incumbent is in any way impressive bar the insistence that he is.

who knows where we go next, wild times

Bernie 2024

But as a republican

trumpism is a brand now, but whether it's transferable to his children or not is questionable. but it encopasses all of these other empty suit authoritarians I mentioned above.

The republican party will just more likely remain the skin and slough the current personalities for the new ones, though?

my biggest fear i guess is growing fascism but my second biggest fear corporate dems and corporate republicans merging into some terrible thing that totally marginalizes the left

tho both of those groups seem to have rapidly dwindling constituencies, on the other hand biden was just elected president

the Republican Party is not over, c'mon.

“The Republican Party is dead” made more sense in Jan. 2009 when Obama won a landslide and they had 59 Senators.

They just squeaked it out with 300k dead, lost seats in the House and lost votes with a crucial part of their electoral coalition. I wouldn’t start bringing my “demographics are destiny” merch out of storage.

the republican party could be over who knows things like that happen, something would replace it, conservatism isnt over, tho it has for sure mutated

or maybe the republican party is over... but its not over

the republican after party

Republicans spent millions of dollars on a white paper telling them to moderate and get less racist after 2012, they doubled down on being racist and were very successful.

“The Republican Party is dead” made more sense in Jan. 2009 when Obama won a landslide and they had 59 Senators.

haha yeah exactly. those were the glory days of the republican party being dead, good times

Well twas a white paper

i love how the true story of the republicans after 2012 is that a party of white dudes approached their "racism problem" by commissioning a study which suggested they be less racist, and they ignored it. seems very characteristic

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/e4/db/cae4db4539b244b479dd293e8316dc7c.gif

they're yelling "ice cream!" on a loop

I wouldn't say 'dead', but I do see a ton of infighting and drama coming over the next years and I don't think they'll be 'recovered' by 2024. outside of some kind of random pre-emptive nuclear strike I cannot think of a worse thing to happen to the GOP than having the President's followers LITERALLY ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, even in Trump Fantasyland you cannot spin this the way they spun literally everything else

"don't stop"?

You could read into Biden's statement that we need a strong republican party or whatever that he means we need it because otherwise it's just the centrist dems vs the left with no right bogeyman to scare people into voting for centrist dems

bidens strong gop thing is just standard dem boilerplate trying to sound reasonable and stately eg obama praising reagan the only problem is since the republicans have been in all out attack mode for like 40 years it makes dems sound like total freaking tools, that general dynamic has been key to the democrats sucking shit my whole life imho

Mitch doesn’t think the Republican Party is over

No words minced here: “If you can replicate his draw amongst rural, working-class voters without the insanity, you have a permanent governing majority,” said Josh Holmes, a top adviser to McConnell. https://t.co/Z04mjYcDzb

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 10, 2021

Maybe. But Tom Friedman said we'd be better off with a Biden presidency and a slight GOP majority in the Senate, so there is def that school of thought among centrists

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Don’t use “Tom Friedman” and “thought” in the same sentence unless you can prove to me he’s not secretly an aspic with a mustache

“If you can replicate his draw amongst rural, working-class voters without the insanity, you have a permanent governing majority,”

I mean, isn't this a little like saying "If we can just come up with a healthy product that's as popular as Coca-Cola"? Sure, theoretically that's true, but it ain't easy.

at this point a majority of centrists work as opinion columnists

But I agree that I don’t see how they avoid a huge amount of drama when they’re getting assaulted in airports for publicly holding beliefs that they privately consider deranged, but half their voters consider insufficiently strident. There’s also a huge schism between the median GOP congressperson (completely insane) and the median GOP senator (merely evil).

If Democrats can clone Obama every 8 years they can successfully counter that, though.

everyones got a permanent majority u just slice and dice this and that demographic mix it with some money and bake it, which is a great plan until a psycho reality host blows up yr spot

You can't clone a politician, let alone create a bespoke, genetically modified clone. Trump was a unique figure, and a big part of his appeal WAS the insanity. In theory, some other successful demagogue could come along. That may very well happen. But it's not a formula.

I wouldn’t be confident the democrats would win if Sean hannity or tucker Carlson decided to run. Their rural idiot market is large and those two are sophisticated enough to retain some suburban tax vote. Their problem though is that the GOP is pretty widely seen as an insane criminal enterprise this week, and it might take a few weeks for that waft to go away.

i think what could be copied about trump is admitting that america is deeply fucked and promising to restore glory

hillary was dead as soon as she said america is already great

In all seriousness the 2022 and 2024 attack ads for the democrats write themselves. Just show the gop candidate praising trump, and then cut to trump on January 6.

mike davis's take on where they're at now

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/riot-on-the-hill

I saw that earlier. I really like Mike Kelly but this is idiotic:

“What was essentially a big biker gang dressed as circus performers and war-surplus barbarians – including the guy with a painted face posing as horned bison in a fur coat – stormed the ultimate country club, squatted on Pence’s throne, chased Senators into the sewers, casually picked their noses and rifled files and, above all, shot endless selfies to send to the dudes back home. Otherwise they didn’t have a clue.”

that definitely seemed like a take at first but as more details emerged it quickly became a bad take. The news cycle moves fast.

The rest of the piece is fine!