#9 yeah, when will the riots start?

I think it's obvious the GOP electorate is increasingly electing unhinged extremists into high office, so yes, they are going to act incompetently and even bizarrely. But rather than kneejerk reacting to the ever increasing number of GOP crazies we have in Congress now (Boebert, Taylor-Greene, Goemert, Rand P, Cruz, Hawley, etc), I am much more interested in the psychosis the overall GOP electorate seems to be in, where this group not only puts clearly unhinged people into Congress, but also just almost reelected Trump. The same electorate where 75 million! voted last November to reelect an overtly incompetent, corrupt, and sadistic racist, misogynist, sociopath, and sexual predator (to list just a few of his faults). How could these people be this mentally lost? Has the extreme right wing, fear/hate-mongering conspiracy nut media machine (Limbaugh, Fox, INFOWARS, etc) that predates Trump by decades, combined in more recent years with Trump's spew, finally taken its toll? Not to mention the evangelical churches putting Jesus in the back seat while Trump rides shotgun? Maybe the actual goal was to simply brainwash these people to vote against their own interests, but have they, intentionally or inadvertently, inflicted over time, some type of mental illness on these people on a mass scale? I am thinking that this is the case. If the Dems don't want to face Trump in 2024, this issue needs to be hit head on, somehow breaking at least some of these people out of their trance. Properly handling COVID is a good start but this can't be addressed in such a passive way, as you can see the lie machine is trying to give Trump the credit for the recent vaccine successes. After all, without his 75 million lemmings, Trump is nothing but a bag of wind.

#22

Your site so free pass on the "goofy" insult. :)

First, in contrast to your assumption, I have no affinity nor delusions whatsoever regarding the "royals", as in my view their antiquated kind range from glorified dictatorships to the more benign Kardashian types like in the UK, all fame no talent, and having no real power to wield, justify their gilded lives by attending to "duties" of questionable importance, the last remnants of a lost empire. Now that that's cleared up:

My issue is what looks to me like an overt victimhood/cancel-culture hit job, esp the race card aspect. Why not name the name? Harry says he'll never do it, so why was this mentioned it in the first place? Because he leaves that door open for Meghan to do that deed of course. But timing is everything, and this has to be orchestrated in the most melodramatic and profitable way possible. This is pure leverage and manipulation.

So now we have a whodunnit! Can't tell you who it was who disparaged poor little Archie, oh no, not just yet. Guess you'll have to tune in next season! Drag out the story, all the while cashing in on the victimhood/cancel-culture merry go round! And why do I suspect Meghan is pulling the strings here? Elementary my dear Watson. Harry already had global fame and fortune and knew of nothing else since birth.
Meghan? Not so much. Only recently and vicariously. So who's the loser here? Harry stands to permanently damage relationships with his father, brother, sibling, and the rest, to be disowned. Not just to his family but also to the citizenry in his home country. Meghan? Not so much. She's already burned the bridges with her own family, so now she burning Harry's. And turning a buck and cementing her tabloid fame in the process.

#5 Hilarious and witty!

Back on topic: I say forget secession, anybody for kicking TX out of The Union? Not a problem, we'll just add Puerto Rico so we don't have to change the flag. Bye bye, clown state! And we could solve Trumpism as well. I'm sure the country of Texas would gleefully coronate His Holiness and Grand Poo-bah Donald Trump as their first King.

#8

And let us not forget about g**** eggs and ham! As everybody with two eyes and a functioning brain should know by now, due to the riots last summer, the "g" word is considered a slur to the vast majority of yellow eggs. Why must Dr. Seuss focus on color when talking about eggs!? Can't an egg just be an egg! All those diehard egg racists who insist on using the "g" word need to be cancelled. Fired from their jobs, confronted while they eat at restaurants with their families, at the airport, and of course their houses get egged on Halloween. Easter Bunny obviously gets cancelled too. That hopeless, anti-egg racist is obsessed with the color of eggs...

My sister in law is an RN and has witnessed a long trend of fewer and fewer nurses managing more and more patients. All in the name of lining the pockets of the capitalist vultures, who, via their politician lackeys, morphed the USA health care system into a cash cow scam. Much to the detriment of the health care professionals and the patients. Add in COVID 19 with the lack of PPE and you have the predictable outcome. A disaster for all the world to see...

#10 I have been trying to cut Liz Cheney a break, as she looks at least superficially courageous, especially when comparing her to GOP brethren who are either semi-covert white supremacists themselves and/or being cowardly silent. But you have a valid point, and I ask myself "Is she denouncing white supremacy in the GOP because it's the right thing to do, or is she doing it because it's bad for her political party?" The latter seems far fetched to me as she is putting her political career, and maybe even her life, in real jeopardy. Unless. Unless there is another, more selfish motivation. Maybe she is gambling on the long game, even if it's a moon shot. The inevitable time when the members of the Trump Cult come out of their trance. Singling herself out as the true conservative who courageously spoke out against a fascist/racist when others in the GOP had their tails between their legs. Then she leap frogs past others who thought the path forward was bowing to the Orange Adolf. I want to say this is far fetched, but who is advising her? Rhetorical question. Darth "I am your father" Cheney!

#12 or a double standard supporting idiot

#6 nice racism

Wow that building went down just like WTC 1 and 2. Hmmm. Was Giuliani lurking in the area with his Al Qaeda Manual?

Was Orange Adolf inside when it went down? No? Damn. Well at least Limbaugh is dead, today was a good day...

DANNI POST #11 "I have to be honest, anyone that still identifies as a Republican is mentally ill."

Couldn't agree more. Sadly my brother has gone completely off the deep end with the rigged election fantasy. A complete conspiracy nut. No point arguing, like talking to a brick wall, so I decided I would not converse with an insurrectionist, traitor, useful idiot of the fascist right, regardless of our genetic affinity. What pisses me off the most is he has a PhD in Chemistry, no excuse to be so brainwashed. Guess he's just booksmart! And my brother/sister in laws are worse. They would swear on a stack of bibles that there wasn't any insurrection. All those people were actors, staged by the Leftists. We are talking real ------- here, you can't make it up...

Yes, Rand, you are a liar. And a nutjob too, which clearly runs in the family.

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