Here it is. I didn’t believe this at first...Must have been an Onion bit...but no. This is straight off Cotton's thread.
This is exactly what the problem is...
The GOP cannot be bothered w facts, laws, truth, or even Constitutional principles. The façade is breached...[thread]
This is exactly what the problem is...
The GOP cannot be bothered w facts, laws, truth, or even Constitutional principles. The façade is breached...[thread]
The GOP façade is ripped off...The illusion that they care for anything other than the getting and maintaining power is exposed for what it has always been.
This is why it has been so confusing. How the seeming foundational principles of the GOP have been so fungible.
This is why it has been so confusing. How the seeming foundational principles of the GOP have been so fungible.
They were never true. They were always a cover implemented as a strategy. The books and recantations by some of the participants making this point have been leaking out for some time. Becoming a torrent.
Those principled few, like G.Will, Frum, maybe some of the reluctant
Those principled few, like G.Will, Frum, maybe some of the reluctant
Senators, like Flake, have all left the party in astonishment. Others, like Romney, are conflicted, but understand that something is seriously off. Even if the GOP no longer takes them seriously, since they are not in lockstep.
Regardless of all of that...
Regardless of all of that...
This is a party and an administration that has figured out it has this one last chance to take control.
In the days of GW Bush, Molly Ivans sagely noted: "They do not wish to govern. They wish to rule."
This has been true and now is happening, in real-time, without even
In the days of GW Bush, Molly Ivans sagely noted: "They do not wish to govern. They wish to rule."
This has been true and now is happening, in real-time, without even
the pretense of principle any longer. There is no time for that now. The game is up. They have to make their move.
It is a sprint for grabbing power by any means possible.
Absolutely nothing matters except winning. Getting & establishing a power base that cannot be overturned.
It is a sprint for grabbing power by any means possible.
Absolutely nothing matters except winning. Getting & establishing a power base that cannot be overturned.
There is no surprise in all this. The GOP and especially Trump&Admin have not been secretive re their intentions, even if they have been master deceivers as to the details, the secret meetings, master stonewalling avoiding accountability, masters at using the system they are
eroding to avoid accountability.
Cotton says all when he says this: I don't care about facts. We knew that. And now we know it explicitly. Add it to the mountain of indictments against this malevolent force once called the Republican Party.
Cotton says all when he says this: I don't care about facts. We knew that. And now we know it explicitly. Add it to the mountain of indictments against this malevolent force once called the Republican Party.
What happens next determines what happens next.
We are in the flow of historical patterns. We are at the point of the Third Ghost, & the question is "Are these the things that Must happen, or only Might happen?".
We are in the flow of historical patterns. We are at the point of the Third Ghost, & the question is "Are these the things that Must happen, or only Might happen?".
The next major battle is the election. If this is lost, the patterns become context; become reality.... and the next step in the patterns will present itself...
It is not pretty.
If America is able to win this election by defeating, not just Trump, but what he stands for,
It is not pretty.
If America is able to win this election by defeating, not just Trump, but what he stands for,
what is easily described as "Trumpism" but is really just our version of the long human history of authoritarian power lusting to take total control.
This is not new. But it is new to us at this time.
We need to care about facts. And Truth.
Especially since the GOP does not.
This is not new. But it is new to us at this time.
We need to care about facts. And Truth.
Especially since the GOP does not.
Just **Some** of the facts and lies that SenCotton and the GOP no longer care about... And this is just fact checking the speech.
How huge & impenetrable the mountain of lies over the life of Trump, and especially this administration.
How huge & impenetrable the mountain of lies over the life of Trump, and especially this administration.
Hardly gets more clear than this:
Veteran Republican strategist says the party's support for Trump reflects the abandonment of principles it long claimed to embrace, such as fiscal restraint, personal responsibility and family values....
npr.org/2020/08/11/901…
Veteran Republican strategist says the party's support for Trump reflects the abandonment of principles it long claimed to embrace, such as fiscal restraint, personal responsibility and family values....
npr.org/2020/08/11/901…
