The GOP is still morally corrupt, even if Discourse breaks

[HumanTon]

Jim Mattis, pillar of integrity:

Jonathan Lemire (JonLemire)

Regular stupid is, of course, absolutely fine. That comes with being a Republican.

[HideousRex]

@KevinC

That’s where I’m at. I don’t like Mitt Romney. He’s the 1% and a vulture capitalist and his politics and policies are based around enriching those like himself. I voted against him in his run for Senate and I’d do so again if he ran again.

At the same time, I can acknowledge that a vote in the Senate to convict his party’s President – when that party is in the grips of a cult of personality no less – is a lot more than a furrowed brow.

None of that means we’re Romney fans or think he’s a saint.

My name is HideousRex and I approve this message.

[Timex]

@HumanTon

Regular stupid is, of course, absolutely fine. That comes with being a Republican.

Honestly, this is a reasonable position, to me at least.

Harmless stupid is dumb, and offensive to someone of Mattis’ intellect, but not harmful.

But stuff that actually harms the country being a bridge too far? That’s a good line to draw.

[MikeOberly]

John Harwood (JohnJHarwood)

[Menzo]

Uh huh. These are the same people who said Labor Day would be when they cut and ran.

They’re not going to run.

[RichVR]

But… but… the all inclusive medical package he proposed?

[Pyperkub]

@HideousRex

@KevinC

That’s where I’m at. I don’t like Mitt Romney. He’s the 1% and a vulture capitalist and his politics and policies are based around enriching those like himself. I voted against him in his run for Senate and I’d do so again if he ran again.

At the same time, I can acknowledge that a vote in the Senate to convict his party’s President – when that party is in the grips of a cult of personality no less – is a lot more than a furrowed brow.

None of that means we’re Romney fans or think he’s a saint.

My name is HideousRex and I approve this message.

Yeah, it’s a sign of potential hope. Not real action as yet, but hope that integrity and decency in the GOP can survive the MAGA idiots and Trumpism (in that order, as the MAGA idiots were there before Trump, and will be there after Trump).

[Pyperkub]

The LOL Nothing Matters Republicans:

Bob Woodward and the Nihilism of "LOL Nothing Matters" Republicans - The Bulwark

[MikeOberly]

Tim Miller is the former republican operative I’d most like to have 14 beers with.

[Wallapuctus]

We have so many threads, and I don’t know if this has been posted. But we were discussing why conservatives are so obsessed with Trump being an alpha male, why they call people cucks… Well, JErry Falwell Junior is a cuck. Literally.

Becki Falwell asks for 'forgiveness' over pool boy 'cuckold' sex scandal

It’s all projection with these assholes. They create these systems to repress the very behavior they crave.

I have no problem if you like watching other men screw your wife. That’s your business. But these guys are such frauds.

[MikeOberly]

Jerry Falwell Sr. was a huge fraud, but his son has far surpassed him in that realm.

[HumanTon]

@MikeOberly

Jerry Falwell Sr. was a huge fraud, but his son has far surpassed him in that realm.

There’s a ongoing theme with Team Trump. It’s populated by the even more appalling sons of appalling fathers. Falwell Jr., Cohen, Kushner, Kavanaugh (tho in that case it was his mom), Trump himself: they’re all outdoing their parent not by achieving new notable things but by instead by coasting along on their privilege and doubling down on their parent’s assholery.

(I’d go on about how Team Trump is an exemplar of what happened to America after World War 2, but that would fill an entire book.)

[MikeOberly]

Goo point. Don’t forget Billy Barr.

[sillhouette]

Brian Beutler (brianbeutler)

[Menzo]

There should be no question that Barr will release some sort of report in October that vaguely suggests that Hunter Biden maybe did a thing that is questionable. It will then be followed by scripted outrage and calls for hearings by Senate Republicans who will want to Benghazi the shit out of it.

[RichVR]

But how does that really move the needle?

[Menzo]

Oh I don’t think it will, but it worked in 2016 so why not try again?

[RichVR]

I get that. And it seems like trying the old shit won’t fly this time. But I could be wrong.

[sillhouette]

If you know there is a lot of bad press coming out about your candidate in the last months, then part of your strategy is probably convincing your voters that the other guy is corrupt also, so they may as well stay on your team?

[Thrag]

Clearly the Durham report will directly implicate Biden in spying on Trump’s campaign, which as you know is treason. Obama and Biden will be arrested and executed along with Hilary and the rest of the deep state. It’s the start of the storm.