An example of the depths to which the Republican party has sunk can be seen in Chris Cillizza’s description about what went down at the convention of the Republican party in Texas last weekend.
* They approved a measure that stated that President Joe Biden “was not legitimately elected.”
* They rebuked the 10 Senate Republicans involved in the bipartisan talks on gun legislation — including Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who was booed during his speech Friday at the convention.
* They voted to advance language in the party platform that describes homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and calls on students “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child.”
* They harassed Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw, calling him “eye patch McCain.” (Crenshaw lost an eye during military service in Afghanistan.)
Taken together, the message was simple: This is Donald Trump’s party. Period. End of sentence.
“Donald Trump radicalized the party and accelerated the demands from the base,” University of Houston political scientist Brandon Rottinghaus told the Texas Tribune. “There simply aren’t limits now on what the base might ask for.”
So what was Crenshaw’s sin that so offended his Republican colleagues? It was that at an event late last year in Texas, Crenshaw said this:
“There’s two types of members of Congress: There’s performance artists and legislators. The performance artists are the ones that get all the attention, the ones you think are more conservative because they know how to say slogans real well, they know how to recite the lines that they know our voters want to hear.”
Later, he added this: “We have grifters in our midst … in the conservative movement. Lie after lie after lie.”
So his sin was telling it like it is. If you do not buy completely into the fantasy world created by Trump, you have gone over to the enemy and must be destroyed.
Cornyn and Crenshaw are as right-wing as they come but that is not enough these days. The Republican party is beginning to eat its own.
Not fast enough.
The Republican party is beginning to eat its own.
That lament goes back (at least) to the ’90s, when an ousted Newt Gingrich complained of “conservative cannibals”.
To add on to flex’s comment @ # 1, I suggest we send them all bottles of ketchup.
Sure, but the disease has infected the Supreme Court which means we are all affected. To wit: today, the court struck down a NY law that limited the carrying of guns in public places (i.e., once outside of your home, you had to demonstrate need). Now it’s “All guns, everywhere, all the time”, whether or not the people of your state agree with that, and whether or not the data and science indicate that it’s a bad idea (and we have boatloads of data to show that it is a bad idea). Funny how “state’s rights” is only a valid argument if you’re pushing a conservative position. As a NYer, this decision is particularly appalling. If Texas wants to screw itself, fine, but don’t drag us down with you.
My answer to this is: From here out, if I am in any public space, for example, a grocery store, and someone walks in with a gun, I will immediately drop whatever I am doing (no, I am not going to unload my cart), and head out the nearest exit. If I happen to pass a store worker on the way out, I will tell them why I am leaving. In terms of MY self defense, I have to assume that the person carrying the gun is there to cause mayhem because there is simply NO good reason why the average person needs to carry a gun into a place like that; and two, there are sufficient examples of gun toters shooting, maiming, and killing the patrons of businesses for their own twisted reasons.
If enough people refuse to live in that environment and normalize this twisted gun fondling behavior, things will have to change because businesses stand to lose a lot of money, and money is what talks in this country. Consider it an anti-gun strike.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-says-second-amendment-guarantees-right-carry-guns-public-rcna17721
“there is simply NO good reason why the average person needs to carry a gun…”
“there are sufficient examples of gun toters shooting, maiming, and killing the patrons of businesses…”
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There will be those who will say that they latter is indeed a good reason.
I don’t think this ruling would keep private businesses from having their own open-carry prohibition.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf
You can read the decision there. It repeatedly references a second amendment right to self defense. How any rational person can read ‘well regulated militia’ and understand it to mean self defense is beyond me. Right wingers are illiterate.
txpiper: based on your comment history, you have shown that you are not an honest debater. You are a troll. Maybe others find potential entertainment in dealing with you but I do not, and will not waste my time with you.
Shorter txpiper: people need to have guns because other people already have guns.
(Presumably, eventually everyone will have a gun, and all will be well)
PS
But… but… that’s plain unconstitutional!
(Gotta be able to, um, bare arms!)
In txpipers’s world it is
die Waffe macht frei
@txpiper,5;
“There will be those who will say that they latter is indeed a good reason”
There will be those who say all sorts of demonstrably stupid things. Those people can and should be simply ignored. But here I am, not doing that.
Later, he added this: “We have grifters in our midst … in the conservative movement…”
Correction: the grift is the movement, and the movement is a grift, and has been AT LEAST since the 1970s…if not the 1870s…or maybe the 1770s…