ShivaX
4121
I mean, I kind of assumed that is what they did.
They’re the propaganda arm of the GOP, of course they are responsible for sending out the talking points so everyone is on the same page when they go on air or social media.
jpinard
4122
That was supposed to be illegal. That’s the whole, “offering equal opportunity to all parties” part of the voting system.
You’re probably thinking of broadcast (FCC-regulated) media. Cable has no such equal-time burden.
Neither does broadcast, anymore. Not since 1987.
ShivaX
4125
A thread of stupidity and racism.
Kruse has been eating D’Souza alive on Twitter. It’s a great example of the difference between a scholar and what passes for a scholar in conservative circles.
jpinard
4128
Who is that jerk tweeting such vile stuff?
rowe33
4129
Just some random Trump supporter I assume, if they’re even real and not a bot.
However, as repugnant as it may be, I bet Twitter decides it doesn’t violate their “standards.”
Corey Stewart, the Nazi-adjacent GOP candidate for the Virginia Senate seat this fall tweeted out an image of Tim Kaine (his Dem opponent) posing with “leftist guerrillas” in Honduras when he was there as a missionary in the 1980s.
Several issues with that. First, it is pretty obviously a photoshop job. Second, the fighters he’s posing with in the picture are Nicaraguan contras, not Hondurans. And of course the Contras were fighting the leftist Sandinistas; they were not a left-wing group.
When called out on it, Stewart offered this utterly incomprehensible defense:
“Of course it was photoshopped,” he said. “It was meant to prove a point: that Tim Kaine was a radical leftist back in the ’80s and is a radical leftist today.”
I dare you to parse that so that it makes any sense.
rowe33
4132
Over/under for how many photoshopped pics will pop up that prove Corey Stewart is into bestiality?
Timex
4133
That’s what I think of when I think of Tim Cain in his dad sweaters: RADICAL.
Miramon
4134
I think it’s not so much that they believe America has no future, but rather that they believe the GOP has no future. They never cared about America to begin with. They expected to lose big in 2016 but Trump delivered a windfall. So they are exploiting their current advantage for all it’s worth, with less of a veil over their greed and malice than usual because they expect it to be taken away soon anyway. If they had higher hopes for the GOP they would have excluded Trump from participation and behaved in such a way as to maintain a superficial facade of respectability.
In my most recent piece for The New York Review of Books , I hit on a new theory, one that just came to me while I was writing the piece. D.C. Republicans don’t fail to object to Trump because they’re afraid of his base. They refuse to stand up to Trump because they like what Trump is doing.
They’re embarrassed by him here and there (tweets), and they disagree with him here and there (tariffs).
But for the most part, they don’t complain too much out loud or carefully limit the scope of their complaints when they do because they’re with him on the most fundamental commodity in politics: power, and its use. Trump’s anti-democratic instincts, which are so dangerous to so many of us, do not trouble Republicans in the least.
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I’ve thought a lot about why the Republicans didn’t just go through the motions of giving Garland his hearing and then rejecting him, as they had the votes to do. They could have scheduled it so that they voted him down in August, and then semi-plausibly argued that it was now too close to the election to proceed. Then, they would have played by the rules but still prevailed. So why didn’t they?
To my mind, there’s only one answer. They wanted to show the Democrats and the country that they didn’t play by the rules. They wanted to make that public demonstration to establish a precedent—to show, to return to my phrase from above, that they could exercise public contempt for the democratic allocation of power. And win.
Also:
But one thing was missing—a president who agreed, who gave them permission to proceed with the flaunting of the rules of the democratic game.
Flaunt/flout claims another victim.
I’ve seen plenty of I miss Obama articles by Conservatives, even a few I missed George Bush by liberals, but this is a first.
ShivaX
4139
You know how sometimes you just accidentally attend these things.
