On this, the day before Wednesday, let us rejoice in the fact that we aren’t them.
Long before the ‘perfect’ phone call readout, there was an uninformed orange buffoon displaying his ignorance like a senile old frog puffing up to blare out a mating call:
[Vladimir Putin] is not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. — Donald J tRump, Russia had already annexed Crimea in 2014, killing thousands (July 31, 2016)
Giving tRump a strong run for the title of the stupidest man in America, we have Louis Gohmert. How much Koolaid do you have to drink to vote for someone who would say this?:
I had this discussion with some wonderful, caring Democrats earlier this week on the issue of, well, they said ‘Surely you could agree to limit the number of rounds in a magazine, couldn’t you? How would that be problematic?’…
And I pointed out, well, once you make it ten, then why would you draw the line at ten? What’s wrong with nine? Or eleven? And the problem is once you draw that limit ; it’s kind of like marriage when you say it’s not a man and a woman any more, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal?
There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage and it’s the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it’s just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal. — Louis Gohmert
I believe the answer to my question is clear — all of it.
Gym Jordan didn’t actually say this. What’s disturbing is how easy it is to believe he did.
GOP rallies around Trump 9/11 role. 'While Obama and Biden were cowering in fear on Air Force 1, Mr. Trump was on the ground with first responders searching for survivors and pulling people to safety,' Jim Jordan says. 'I remember seeing him on TV, running toward the danger. — Not actually Gym Jordan
He did say this:
Yeah, that’s Strauss — Jim Jordan, 1994 when being informed about sexual abuse at Ohio State University
Devin Nunes has a long listing in the Urban Dictionary. None of it is complementary. He is pwned by a cow, his mom and his left testicle (among others) on twitter and is suing anyone who makes fun of him. In this quote there is not one word about finding out the truth of the matter. Not one. This is raw unadulterated party over country. He’s said lots of things that are exceptionally stupid over the years, but in saying this he destroys any shot at credibility forever. He is publicly admitting that he doesn’t give a damn about honesty or justice and that he really is the worthless shill we always thought he was. Hey Devin, please sue me you pitiful sack of lies and petulance. You’ll enjoy the discovery motions. I promise.
So therein lies, so it’s like your classic Catch-22 situation, where we were at a – this puts us in such a tough spot. If [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions won’t un-recuse and [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller won’t clear the president, we’re the only ones, which is really the danger. That’s why I keep – thank you for saying that, by the way – we have to keep all these seats, we have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away. — Devin Nunes at a closed door fundraiser, August, 2018
There a really tiresome quality to the Goebbelsian repetition of the bullshit. But, I guess a bullshitter just has to shit (and make a total ass of himself while doing so):
the greatest driver of violence … was not the firearm, it’s the fact that we have an immigration system that allows people to come here violently. — Matt Gaetz at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence February 5th, 2019 with Parkland families in attendance
These are just the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg of republican idiocy. Please share your favorite examples of that sound of bacon charring known as brains on republicanism.
Aw, what the heck: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Joyous Kwanza and may you all have one heck of a Holiday, whatever you might want to celebrate (or ignore).