Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy fed the base beer; Ronald Reagan gave them grain alcohol punch; Bush Jr. made it pure white lightning; Trump gave them meth.
Now the base has lost its mind and isn’t going to be happy with anyone who offers any type of compromise.
The next step is to just main line fascism straight into the veins and lace it with authoritarian Fentanyl
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We’ll I imagine Caesar was pretty red by the end
Authoritarian Fentanyl is the name of my doom metal band.
Krokodil is the only obvious solution here, and it will also allow Ted Cruz to show his true form as a lizard person while keeping a logical alibi.
Cruz seems like he indulges in some jenkem too.
Purely for the taste, of course.
HW bush had a baggie of crack:
You can tell he’s seen that rock before. Was probably directly selling it himself to the inner cities in the 70s. The best shit came from the CIA.
so… that particular rock came from a bust that secret service set up in Lafayette Square (just outside the WH).
The thing is, they set up the buy and had them (the dealers) send out a kid to Lafayette so that they could get the crack and put it in a baggy and scare people into believing that it was common for dealers to sell out of lafayette. here’s a fairly good article about it
they fucked over a kid’s life for a photo op. And then probably smoked the shit out of most of the crack anyhow.
He kept that for himself. The peasants got what the peasants got.
That was actually a fascinating read. Anybody who is just glancing at the title and jumping to the comments, I strongly urge you to go actually read the article.
It was very illuminating. I agree that right wing media is a big problem. Someone like Greene, Gaetz, or Boebert make for “good television” (or radio or podcasts, etc). They say provocative things and can get viewers so whipped up that they can’t wait to watch the next segment to see what else to be outraged about.
The problem is “what makes entertaining media” is different from “what makes a politician effective.” Republicans always pushed their agenda, but they used to find compromises with the Democrats. To use numbers, if Republicans wanted 1 and Democrats wanted 10, Republicans and Democrats used to be able to get together and pass 5.
Now, with right wing media figures calling any compromise “treason,” no Republican is willing to work with Democrats. So Republicans call for 1. Democrats want 10, but are willing to settle for 5. Republicans demand 1 or they’ll burn the government down. And when they don’t get 1, Republicans act shocked that everyone isn’t capitulating to their threats. After all, when they go on right wing media and make those threats everyone there cheers them on.
Edit: It’s also obvious that the right wing media folks don’t need to deal with elections. If their rhetoric results in Republican losses, they will just rage twice as hard about the Democrats. If Republicans win, they’ll take all the credit.
“what makes entertaining media” is different from “what makes a politician effective.”
Reminds me of the old Reagan quote:
“I don’t want your job Mr. Carter. I want to be President.”
Great summary
Roe v. Wade was still the law of the land
And Republicans would use that to gin up the base and fundraise, likely assuming it would never get overturned. Whoops!
Now they are drumming it up against trans people.
Yep; divide and conquer is one of the oldest games in the book.
conservative media fuming
isn’t this its natural state?
Easiest way to engage morons
Absolutely no double edge in this comment at all
I’m pretty sure there at this point there will be multiple speakers without a year tenure. It’s going to be a terrible time for us all
I wonder if we can beat Liz Truss’s record
We’d need to find a queen to kill, first.
Being American means failing miserably without the help of royalty
We’ve got democratically elected royalty, thank you very much.
When did we become Poland-Lithuania?
Time to get the cabbages ready!
Well, time to look for the best place to buy cabbages. We have time before we need to buy the cabbage. I doubt the Republicans will have a Speaker soon.
Hey, great idea, maybe she wants the job!
“Conservative media fuming….”
Good.
