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10-27-2022 , 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Victor
its not about which one I would prefer. dont really care. my point was that Liz is insane. and by extension, they all are insane.
I think that belief requires further explanation. She certainly doesn't present as someone who lacks sanity in the way the institutionalized often do (or even as close as Trump acts to the insane). It's likely that you have explained in the forums at some point before I was frequenting the Politics forum, but I would love a summary or a link to where you explained.
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12-02-2022 , 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by c double
I expect the trend toward wackiness to continue
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Two months later, the House GOP deletes its most notorious tweet

As recently as early October, Republicans seemed eager to gamble on Kanye West.
As the GOP saw it, the disturbed entertainer, could be a politically powerful ally,
thanks in part to the fact that he — unlike most prominent voices on the right —
is a culturally relevant Black celebrity who was willing to wear MAGA caps.

a simple, three-word tweet: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.”

It was as concise as it was direct: Americans looking to better understand what
the contemporary GOP is all about should look no further than these three men:
a corrupt, failed former president, a red-pilled billionaire going through
a midlife crisis, and one of the nation’s most prominent antisemitic bigots.

These Republicans seemed willing to tolerate some of West’s antisemitism — yesterday’s garbage
was hardly a surprise — but public praise for Hitler was apparently a bit too much for the party.

It was not too much for Trump, who did not respond to this latest controversy
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...weet-rcna59794
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12-04-2022 , 08:37 AM
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Kevin McCarthy’s GOP extremism problem is a very bad omen

America has never been this divided, but we’ve never been so narrowly divided.

Since most Democrats and Republicans run and win in districts that are either
solidly blue or solidly red, there is little incentive to do anything but be partisan.

As long as the likely next speaker of the House is offering more fealty to Marjorie Taylor Greene and
Donald Trump than to millions and millions of Americans who would prefer a more normal politics,
America will remain a very divided country.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...omen-rcna59615
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12-04-2022 , 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by steamraise
What exactly was the point of that tweet to begin with?
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12-04-2022 , 06:19 PM
That poster almost never offers his specific takes on things, rather he simply shares the MSNBC feed on a regular basis.
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12-04-2022 , 06:22 PM
I don't get why so many modern Republicans seem to go for douchebag a$$holes. I mean, before I knew any political opinions of any of these three men, I knew they were douchebag a$$holes.

I used to play poker in Trump's casino in Atlantic City. The only conversation ever made about him was mockery, and that was mostly from the people who new him best, residents of NYC/NJ. Then his job was being the a$$hole boss on TV, firing everyone with gusto. He never even seemed like that good of a businessman, having declared bankruptcy several times. That was all before his presidential campaign, where he went on to do such things as make fun of the handicapped, claim to physically molest women, suggest his supporters attack others at his rallies, etc. It never shocked me though, because I already knew he was an a$$hole.

The first I knew anything about Kanye was when he went up on stage at an awards show, grabbed a microphone out of the hand of the person who is now probably the world's most popular musician, and said she didn't deserve to win the award. I've never listened to his "music" but out of all the musical artists popular in the last 20 years, he has to be the biggest a$$hole. This all was before recently when he did such things such as threaten physical violence on a suitor of his ex-wife, praising Hitler and the Nazis, etc. But again, it never shocked me, because I already knew he was an a$$hole. (I have to admit the seeming embrace of white supremacists did surprise me though).

Finally, Elon Musk. I never got why people think this guy is a genius, or even a smart person. He just comes across as a blowhard who attempts to diminish everyone else (including the people who actually were responsible for the technology he sells). As far as I can tell, he has made his money by being lucky about where he has invested his money, not from any actual business skills. Yet he thinks he is god's gift to the world, and attempts to have as many children as possible to get his "good genes" out in the world. Now the Twitter thing is blowing up, and the company immediately lost a good part of its value, as the market knows that he really has no management skills.
He hasn't yet broken out of his cage and gone completely nuts like Trump and Kanye have, but I think it is more likely than not that he will do so within the next year or two. All it will take is Twitter going down the tubes or Tesla having some kind of major technical issue, or one of his rockets blowing up. Then I predict he will show his true colors and do something wacko. And it won't shock me, because I will have already known he was an a$$hole.

I'll probably never understand how these sorts of people get wide public support. I couldn't have brought myself to vote for Trump even if I agreed with him on every important political manner, because I wouldn't want someone like him as the representative for our country.
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12-04-2022 , 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by chillrob
What exactly was the point of that tweet to begin with?
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It was as concise as it was direct: Americans looking to better understand what
the contemporary GOP is all about should look no further than these three men:
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Originally Posted by chillrob
I don't get why so many modern Republicans seem to go for douchebag ass holes.
I have a maga friend who likes that they stir up things up.
He buys all the Hillary, Hunter, migrants, Obama's birth place, Muslims taking over, all of it.

A lot of women seem to go for douchebag ass holes. Similar? Maybe just for the drama?

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Musk’s irreverent behavior has been seen by many of his followers as refreshing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...e-show-n907476

Last edited by steamraise; 12-04-2022 at 07:07 PM.
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12-04-2022 , 06:55 PM
Yeah, you may want to stick with the no content MSNBC feed moving forward.
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03-15-2023 , 09:46 AM
Before hosting a Fox News show, Tucker Carlson warned against "conspiracy theories.”

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03-15-2023 , 07:39 PM
man you love MSNBC. I actually feel bad for you.
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03-19-2023 , 10:41 PM
When your reality is that you are devoid of any translatable talents or skills and you are watching the world pass you by, it's easier to find something that explains your failings other than the truth, however absurd.
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03-22-2023 , 05:23 AM
Seem to me frank Zappa was right and saw the future …
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03-22-2023 , 05:32 PM
Tomorrow is 3-23-23 which means the Cabalistic Global Satanists should not be able to resist having a big "happening" of some kind tomorrow. Just as they could not resist having Russia invade Ukraine on 2-22-22 over TWO disputed territories, which also happened to be a TUEsday. Numerology is how the Satanic Cabal works their memes, numerology is just Pepe the Frog for the ancient ruling class to meme into reality events that will increase their wealth and power. The numeric beauty of Two 2's and Three 3's is too tempting to let that day pass without event.
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03-22-2023 , 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Monteroy
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03-23-2023 , 09:35 AM
It's true they do like 323.
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06-16-2023 , 08:03 AM
Republicans Admit They ‘Don’t Know’ if Biden Bribery Tapes ‘Really Exist’

Johnson simultaneously claimed, “We know the Biden family is corrupt” and that there may not be any tapes at all.

GOP lawmakers are engaging in the same behavior that they
criticized Democrats and liberals of allegedly doing with the Steele dossier,

Republicans are pushing a conspiracy first started by Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump
that the Biden family accepted a $10 million bribe to remove former Ukrainian prosecutor...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republ...s-really-exist

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/polit...eme/index.html
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06-16-2023 , 07:13 PM
Partly grunching, apologies if this is a repost, but an article from 1964 entitled 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics':

https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/...ican-politics/

It's been the commies, it's been the Masons, the Jesuits, you name it. This is not a new thing, though perhaps we've not seen this level of embracing of outright lies and disinformation by one side so far in american history.

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The Double Sufferer

The paranoid style is not confined to our own country and time; it is an international phenomenon. Studying the millennial sects of Europe from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, Norman Cohn believed he found a persistent psychic complex that corresponds broadly with what I have been considering—a style made up of certain preoccupations and fantasies: “the megalomaniac view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the attribution of gigantic and demonic powers to the adversary; the refusal to accept the ineluctable limitations and imperfections of human existence, such as transience, dissention, conflict, fallibility whether intellectual or moral; the obsession with inerrable prophecies . . . systematized misinterpretations, always gross and often grotesque.”

This glimpse across a long span of time emboldens me to make the conjecture—it is no more than that—that a mentality disposed to see the world in this way may be a persistent psychic phenomenon, more or less constantly affecting a modest minority of the population. But certain religious traditions, certain social structures and national inheritances, certain historical catastrophes or frustrations may be conducive to the release of such psychic energies, and to situations in which they can more readily be built into mass movements or political parties. In American experience ethnic and religious conflict have plainly been a major focus for militant and suspicious minds of this sort, but class conflicts also can mobilize such energies. Perhaps the central situation conducive to the diffusion of the paranoid tendency is a confrontation of opposed interests which are (or are felt to be) totally irreconcilable, and thus by nature not susceptible to the normal political processes of bargain and compromise. The situation becomes worse when the representatives of a particular social interest—perhaps because of the very unrealistic and unrealizable nature of its demands—are shut out of the political process. Having no access to political bargaining or the making of decisions, they find their original conception that the world of power is sinister and malicious fully confirmed. They see only the consequences of power—and this through distorting lenses—and have no chance to observe its actual machinery. A distinguished historian has said that one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen. It is precisely this kind of awareness that the paranoid fails to develop. He has a special resistance of his own, of course, to developing such awareness, but circumstances often deprive him of exposure to events that might enlighten him—and in any case he resists enlightenment.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.
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