So the perfect GOP member. Remember there no such thing as a good Republican. They all horrible people who should be removed from society.
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I agree. They are dangerously lunatic in every way. I consider someone who identifies as Republican with admitting to being a child molester, a woman hater, and an abusive parent in every way. I consider them totally and completely mentally unstable and utterly corrupt in every possible sense of the word.
Thank you I agree. Someone tells me they are Republican I immediately think less of them.
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They’re always some combo of stupid, cartoonishly greedy, or a bigot. Most of the time all 3.
Not from society, from office. This is a job, one that has a lot of ramifications and can do a lot of harm, but a job that they should be fired from.
I’m a republican and a good person, not sure what you mean. You need to get out more imho 😔
So you gladly will vote Republican even after everything you know and have seen them do? And you call yourself a good person?
I like you explain what about the Republican party that represents you?
Yes, there are two archetypes of GOP currently:
- Chaos agents who will burn down any decision that isn’t a straight line to fascism. This group is tasked with pushing the Overton window continually rightward. E.g., Trump, Gaetz, MTG, Boebert.
- Calculating Machiavellian strategists who are just as committed to dismantling democracy if it leads to GOP rule, but require that all steps lead to the end result before committing. This group works within the Overton window but will not move until they are reasonably assured victory. E.g., McConnell, McCarthy, Emmer.
Emmer’s post-election actions are perfectly aligned with the second group. He wouldn’t refuse to certify the election, because it was a move doomed to fail. But he supported the lawsuit because he believed (likely accurately) that if a court would provide legal cover for overturning the election, the coup would succeed.
Both groups work in symbiosis, with the first group moving public opinion to enable options for the second, and the second executing plans better than the first.
Another asinine twit throwing “doubt” around about the 2020 groundswell for Biden. We already know it was in fact the most valid and least fradulent election in history. Tom Emmer is a god-damn idiot and another person whose opinion is about as useful and valuable as a mouthful of rat droppings.
He’s getting rejected by Republicans because he didn’t vote against certification of results.
And still has 26 members of his caucus opposed to him.
Oh look, another waste-of-carbon republican traitor.
To be fair to Emmer, he did actually vote to certify the election results. So he’s not actually a traitor like 3/4 of his colleagues. He’s just traitor-adjacent.
'traitor-adjacent". I like it
Me too, and it’s really ashame, I’ve had to let good friends go bye bye. I simply consider republicans far too mentally ill and dangerous to let them be around my family and I do not want them in my neighborhood at all.
I mean, if your convictions are strong enough and you’re not easily swayed, why would you ban from your neighborhood? If they’re actively harming people, that’s different. I don’t get all of the rhetoric in this thread. It seems like some are authentically not a fan of r’s (understandable) and others are extremists.
Republicans are actively harming people. Every day. You don’t get to associate yourself with criminals and fascists then act like you don’t bear responsibility for their actions. If you vote for the Republican party you are knowingly causing harm and supporting it.
Apparently PeleSpirit doesnt think women, lgbtq+, non-white males, or children are “people.”
Well, he is both a criminal and a Republican member of the house, which makes him the perfect candidate for the job. At least in the minds of a totally deranged party.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Later, Emmer signed an amicus brief in support of a last-ditch Texas lawsuit seeking to throw out the results in key swing states.
Though he would vote to certify the results on January 6, 2021, the comments and actions show Emmer flirted with some of the same election denial rhetoric as far-right members of the Republican caucus.
“I had one of my colleagues telling me in Georgia that where we got voter ID we’re doing great, where we can’t reasonably identify the voter, we’re getting killed,” he added, saying he hoped the state would restrict vote by mail in the then-upcoming January Georgia Senate runoff elections.
But in interviews and public comments, reviewed by CNN’s KFile ahead of the speakership vote, Emmer refused to say Biden won the election and bashed the press for calling the race.
Speaking to local news outlets in early December 2020 – after results had been certified in all swing states – Emmer attacked the press for calling the race for Joe Biden.
Emmer later defended signing the amicus brief in support of the Texas lawsuit filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton to invalidate 62 Electoral votes in swing states won by Biden – which would have effectively thrown the election to Trump.
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Anybody surprised that they nominated a criminal? When they probably don’t have any normal person to vote for?
