Republicans are in full retreat. (Republicans should be in full retreat?)

[kentuck]

Last edited Fri Mar 10, 2023, 06:14 PM - Edit history (1)

They had all these grandiose ideas about how they were going to show their people "the other side" of the story about the January 6th insurrection. They created a Weaponization Committee to prove it was all politics and nothing criminal ever happened.

They called the Twitter executives before them to prove they were biased against the Republicans and supportive of the Democrats. That backfired rather dramatically. The exact opposite was proven.

The Chairman, Jim Jordan, doesn't have the courage to tell his people that there are no bullets in his weapon. He is shooting blanks.

Likewise, the move by Speaker McCarthy to give Tucker Carlson of FOXNews access to all the video files, was nothing but an act of desperation. They know there is no evidence to prove their case. They are only trying to kill time and keep the hounds from the door.

Republicans in the Senate have mostly decided to follow Mitch McConnell and admit that January 6th was an attack upon our Capitol and our democracy. Several of them finally spoke out in the last couple of days.

Republicans are backing themselves into a corner from which there is no exit.

[Maeve]

1. Rats have been known to chew thru walls to escape

That corner might not be as secure as you hope. They also may attack in weird ways...

[TheRealNorth]

9. Good analogy

[relayerbob]

30. Yep, nailed it

[ananda]

52. As long as they turn into lemmings...

and follow each other over that cliff.

just sayin


evil smiley here

[MichaelSoE]

55. They will also chew off their own limbs if caught in a trap.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. Mitch McConnell bumped his head to avoid the trainwreck

[maxrandb]

17. I don't know. Mitch had a fall shortly after publicly siding with Capital Police

Some might say this fall was "Putinesque"

[lindysalsagal]

35. Possibly mcturtle may pull a full jon boehner, and nosedive off into oblivion

"Zipp-itty do da! "

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[czarjak]

41. If you can't fight 'em, quit 'em?

[lindysalsagal]

42. John went off singing Zippity Do da, he was so gleeful to be done with the gop fools

Boy, did he read the tea leaves right.

[Orrex]

3. Republicans have been in full retreat and on their last legs for my entire life

Until the party is dead on the ground with a stake through its shriveled and blackened heart, it is every bit as toxic a threat as it has ever been.

[niyad]

8. I am going to go with the Carpathians here. You must extract that shriveled, dead

thing and destroy it, burn it to ash and scatter the ash. Otherwise, it could rise again, like the bloodsucking vampire it is.

[soldierant]

53. Don't forget the garlic.

[Vogon_Glory]

16. I feel much the same way.

I live in Texas and our state’s Republican Party is still very energetic. So is the Republican Party in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Gathering of Psychotics is a long way from being dead or just cornered.

[flying_wahini]

19. Texan here, unfortunately they DO seem to be gathering up a head of steam.

Dirty Rats; all of them.

[vanlassie]

20. Should make for a fantastic explosion!

[Butterflylady]

48. Oh it certainly will.

It started out slowly with Nixon, like a pot of water that starts to bubble. Then comes Reagan and the pot starts to boil. Along comes trump and the pot comes to a rolling boil. As that pot boils away the steam it generates dissipates till there is no mor water in the pot. That's exactly what will happen to the republican party. The hate and violence the party generates will be its own self inflicted wound that causes it to die.

[soldierant]

54. But along the way

it will scald and smother far too many people who don't deserve that.

I'm for hurrying it up if we can.

[DownriverDem]

24. So sorry

for you and anyone in not only Texas, but also Florida.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

44. To do what exactly? Stop poor people from voting?

And to supply the impoverished labor force their version of Jesus lauds?

[maxrandb]

18. Yep, dying from the same heart attack for 25 years

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[Boomerproud]

4. I only wish it were true.

Yes, they're a train wreck but who is taking advantage of that and setting things right?

[Lovie777]

5. Seems like they are going further and further into the nowhere land of......................

no return from their total insanity and at the same time trying to pull the USA with them.

[wiggs]

6. They will find the one Peter Strzok or one mysterious sounding email and build a

report and narrative around it in each of these 'committees', regardless of actual evidence. Gives gop and fox something to talk about and debate for the next 18 months.

[everyonematters]

7. It is all driven by the Republican base,

which is manipulated by the right wing media., which is driven by ratings and profit. The result is a big disconnect from reality.

[sanatanadharma]

10. Republican base is fed illusions to nourish their delusions

Republican base is fed illusions to nourish their delusions.

Extreme subjectivity and breaking with objective reality is generally considered to be mental illness; or at least out of bounds social behavior.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. True but I would bet most of them don't know it yet

They are drunk on their own power

[Grins]

12. Republicans: backed into a corner from which there is no exit... They won't care.

And they won't care. Not a whit.

Because the memory of the QOP's rage-drunk "base" goes back no further than last month. (Unless it becomes too inconvenient, and then it's gone before Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, or 'The Five' go on-air.)

The beauty of the Reich-wing Republican brain is - it's ALL short-term memory.

[robbob]

26. It's like that movie Memento, where the main character can't form new memories

So he resorts to tattooing relevant information directly onto his body. With Fox viewers it’s things like “but her emails”, and “Hunters laptop”. Every “scandal” they get fed becomes an indelible imprint on their psyche, regardless of how the facts eventually play out.

[inthewind21]

27. Fox News

Could vanish tomorrow, and the problem would still be there. The echo chamber is vast. Fail to recognize that, and you will be disappointed over and over and over. It will be quite the challenge to un-ring the bell.

[kacekwl]

13. The exit for Republicans is

no prosecution and no consequence. They will keep moving forward like the energizer bunny.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

14. About fucking time...

No more obvious is it than in the House. The craziest of the INMATES in the GOP caucus are running the Asylum.

[Mister Ed]

15. And even in full retreat, their only rallying cry is "Charge!". n/t

[lees1975]

21. The "weaponization" committee is really having a difficult time with, well, just about everything.

They can't even invent stuff with any substance.

This is going to make sweeping the election cycle in 2024 so easy for Democrats. I just hope we take nothing for granted and do our best to turnout and cast ballots.

[Captain Zero]

50. We have a great opportunity to actually CRUSH them.

Part of the crushing will be burying them in their own disinformation and misinformation.

[awesomerwb1]

22. All they are trying to do is create sound bites for faux

and for other right wing media. Then the army of twitter zombies re-tweet ad nauseum and a narrative is created.

They're a long way from dead or even retreating.

[ananda]

23. Sure looks that way to me, but then it has for awhile.

Please proceed, Reeps.

[Stuart G]

25. K & R ...Thanks for This Post and Thank You for Your Work at Democratic Underground

[AZLD4Candidate]

28. Don't worry. Their echo chamber will wipe and clean them, and their cultists will keep drinking

poisoned kool aid.

[Samrob]

31. THIS!!!

It will take some kind of divine intervention from the universe to stop them. Nothing stopped Hitler until he had laid waste to several countries and killed millions. We are headed that way unless people stop it now! Our democracy will not save us when it is control of those against it.

The echo chamber is full of nitwits, haters, racists, fascists, misogynists, and unapologetic hateful with more money than they will need or will be able to spend in their lifetime. These wealthy love being able to destroy the lives of the those they deem lessor than they. They love to see people of color scrimp and scrape and suffer. These people love to nurture hate and divisiveness among their own children as an extension beyond their mortality to be able to continue the harm in perpetuity. They are evil and powerful. And if we don't do all we can to stop them now, shame on us.

[hibbing]

29. If only this were true

The book banning, the attacks on trans' rights, drag story time, drag shows, open-carry, open permitless carry and a whole plethora of putrid legislation is coming your way if your legislature is Republican.

Peace

[CanonRay]

32. If any of them had a smidgen, slice of sliver of character or principles

it would have splintered into two or three parties long, long ago. But, no.....

[grantcart]

33. Unfortunately they are not in retreat they are going straight for default.

[republianmushroom]

34. Republicans lie , and they lie a lot.

[OMGWTF]

36. These fking traitors need to back themselves off a cliff and go the way of the Whigs.

NEVER, EVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN.

[dwayneb]

37. Maybe - but make no mistake they are still the ultimate threat to all of us

You speak from logic. Logic and law and factual discussion used to be the basis of our political systems. Not any more. Not since the emergence of Fox News, and the rollout of the Internet.

When you have at least half, maybe two-thirds of Republicans that believe the Big Lie, you begin to understand that a good chunk of the American public have swallowed the propaganda and disinformation hook line and sinker.

That's the problem, not what the clown politicians on the "radical right" say or do. Remember, their only purpose in life is to get re-elected, they could not care less about governing this country or protecting our Constitution.

The effective brainwashing via propaganda services like Fox News, and social media outlets remains a serious, imminent threat to our freedom and our way of life. Even if we all know this and take the threat seriously, I'm not sure what we can do. There is no way to recall technology once it is released into the wild.

[IbogaProject]

38. Nope

They will break our economy to have a mess to run against. I won't count them out unless 5 or 6 GOP congresspeople formally switch and vote w us for a Democratic Speaker.

[CatWoman]

39. This post made the Mediate comments section

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jim-jordan-and-democrat-stacey-plaskett-throw-down-during-committee-hearing-about-twitter/

[Carlitos Brigante]

40. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that. I'd be able to overpay to buy Twitter! nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

43. You fail to understand that its not the R reps retreat that is important, its the R voters.

And they have indoctrinated their flock into Trump cultists. Or MAGA cultists even if DeSantis becomes the nominee. They still have strong beliefs in Biden working for the Devil himself.

So, even though I think there are a lot of R reps who want to move on past Trump, even just for the sake of stability and sanity, they will NOT put the effort into trying to deprogram the cult. To try and get their voters to see the advantage in compromise,, and working with Democrats again and dropping the wild conspiracies that Ds are satan worshipers and you must oppose any bill they try and pass because they are demonic beings.
No, Republicans are cowards at heart. They will take the road of least resistance, and least amount of effort to get their votes. And if their main voting base is built on misinformation and stupidity. That is what they will continue to use to control them

[Martin68]

45. Perhaps that should read, "Republicans should be in full retreat." I haven't noticed any signs of a

Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

[kentuck]

46. edited:

You may be right? Although some took it as a sign when several Republican Senators spoke out behind Mitch McConnell. There's definitely no retreat in the Republican House. It's like the circus with the clowns and ferris wheels.

[Merlot]

47. Unfortunately I have to disagree with this premise, especially this:

Likewise, the move by Speaker McCarthy to give Tucker Carlson of FOXNews access to all the video files, was nothing but an act of desperation.

The point of hading off the videos was to give the planners of the next attack the complete road map to the Capitol Building. The building security issue is getting lost in the stupid tucker carlson rantings which is the cover that they want. Make no mistake, right now there are people combing through those videos and they're not looking for propaganda.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

49. There is too much money in too few hands

A lot of money will continue to be used to warp voters' perceptions and warp government institutions in order to further concentrate wealth. It's a deadly cycle.

[Joinfortmill]

51. I sure hope so