The Republican Party is Broad and Inclusive?
“Hygiene. That's the important thing. Hygiene. The toughest thing in the world: [you] have to turn to your mate one night and say: "You gotta wash your ass!" Shit. Knowing how difficult it is, I said it for you: You Gotta Wash Your Ass!” –Redd Foxx
Anyone watching highlights of this year’s CPAC (Crazypants Political Action Conference) can only be left with one realization; These people are fucking nuts. From the literal Golden Calf, golden statue of T**** being wheeled into the hall, to the stage that (by just pure coincidence) is an exact replica of an ancient rune that the Nazi’s used in Germany, to the pole dancing by Kimberly Guilfoyle…the whole thing has moved way past Star Wars Cantina and whooshed past Barnum and Bailey.
In the words of the former Republican chair of CPAC: “The Republican Party really no longer stands for any kind of principles, conservative or otherwise. It just follows the lead of ONE man wherever he goes, which is the definition of a cult. All that matters is: ‘T**** is for this, so we’re for this.’ And that includes denying truth, denying fact, denying reality.” –Mickey Edwards
At this point, you can call yourself a Republican, but do NOT call yourself a Conservative…because there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that this ‘party’ is doing that even remotely resembles conservatism. CPAC is basically just pulling your pants down and shitting all over everything that conservatism stands for….in public.
Witness how Liz Cheney has been dragged through the ringer since the middle of January. Yes, she voted for impeachment. Yes, she made some strong statements…but her real sin is that she had the gall to stand up the orange god-king. In the new GOP, that is blasphemy. When they are wheeling in a literal golden idol to the god-king, you are out of step if you dare to criticize the Dear Leader.
Cheney is, albeit the daughter of the actual 43rd president, one of only a small handful of genuine conservative voices in the party. You can, maybe, count on two hands the number of elected GOP officials in the country that represent a genuine conservative ethos. The rest of the party has jumped the shark and embraced the shitballs insanity of QAnon or the dangerous vulgarity of white supremacy. There is a shameless embrace of the insane, cuckoo nonsense now that has derailed conservatism and left the country without a sane ‘right.’
"It's very important for us to ignore the temptation to look away," Cheney said. "And it's very important, especially for us as Republicans, to make clear that we aren't the party of white supremacy.”
"You certainly saw anti-Semitism. You saw the symbols of Holocaust denial... you saw a Confederate flag being carried through the rotunda," she said, referencing the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. "We, as Republicans in particular, have a duty and an obligation to stand against that, to stand against insurrection."
Not only is this a normal, sane, and rational way to look at the world in general…it is a critical way to view the United States and a healthy political environment. It is past time now for anyone who gives a shit about conservatism to kick this T**** shit to the curb and get back to rational governing party. It is time for some fucking clean up on aisle 45.
Thank you for the Kool aid Reverend Jim
At CPAC, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy says that we (the GOP) are going to follow the exact same model that we followed in 2020. So, does this mean more lying, more losing, more QAnon? Look, cults NEVER end well…like, ever. The GOP is just a shadow of its former self. There can be no rebranding until the grown ups start to take charge and expel the stench of T**** and his spawn. It might mean, short-term, you will sacrifice the next 3, 4, maybe even 5 cycles…but in the long run you will have a party that is meaningful and has something to offer politically. Bottom line, it is time for some fucking hygiene…time to wash your ass.
In the flip-flop world of politics, the far right that has taken over the modern GOP is now the party of whining, grievance, butthurt and all-out fucking insanity. It was not that long ago that the liberals could be labelled as the “snowflakes,” the soft, easily offended whiners. The script has flipped. The same people who, just four years ago told everyone else to “Fuck Your Feelings” and basked in the glory of “liberal tears,” is now the party of “2020 never really happened,” because the election was ‘stolen.’ This has resulted in a CPAC that is a whine-fest. I guess we can call it MAGA tears now?
A rational person would have thought, going into the 2021 CPAC, that the approach would be the responsible one that includes the traditional party autopsy, crosstab forensics on voting blocks and a strategy to build a broader coalition that would lead back to winning. Nope. Not the new improved GOP! Rather than actually representing to the voting public…as opposed to just mouthing the bullshit lie on stage, rather than developing actual policy positions, the GOP has settled instead for the old, tried and true, method of cutting off voters at the knees…particularly if there is a melanin issue involved. “Republicans roll out “tidal wave of voter suppression”: 253 restrictive bills in 43 states”
You would think that if corporate America stood up after January 6th and said, enough is enough, we are not sending any more cash your way because you supported an insurrection against the government born by a cult leader and a cadre of white supremacist, home grown terrorists…that the GOP would have gotten the memo. However, there are a scant few left in the party with the cajones to stand up to the Cult45 whack-jobs and tell them that this is not a viable path forward for the party.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan stood up to the choads. He forcefully declared that the crazy had no place in the party when addressing the NAACP: “A few isolated groups in the backwater of American life still hold perverted notions of what America is all about. Recently, in some places in the nation there's been a disturbing reoccurrence of bigotry and violence. If I may, from the platform of this organization, known for its tolerance, I would like to address a few remarks to those groups who still adhere to senseless racism and religious prejudice, to those individuals who persist in such hateful behavior. If I were speaking to them instead of to you, I would say to them, "You are the ones who are out of step with our society. You are the ones who willfully violate the meaning of the dream that is America. And this country, because of what it stands for, will not stand for your conduct." My Administration will vigorously investigate and prosecute those who, by violation of -- or violence or intimidation, would attempt to deny Americans their constitutional rights.”
Here we are in 2021, and CPAC is a vulgar display of stupidity and adherence to the cult. Mom used to say, “When you point your finger, there are three pointing back.” CPAC 2021 is all about the finger pointing. “They,” “them.” “They are socialists, they are communists, Marxists, they want to destroy ‘our’ way of life.” Really? We are 40 days into a Democratic administration and, so far, there has not been a takeover of the means of production, the police haven’t been eliminated, Cory Booker hasn’t been seen in affluent suburbs scoping out where Pedro and Jamal are going to be living…we have not seen the frickin’ frogs turned gay. It is not just the stage of CPAC that uses Nazi symbolism, it is the language. The reality: Dehumanization leads to violence. Always has, always will.
“To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny what is self-evident in another member of one's own species.” ― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Make no mistake about what is happening right now in the United States. QAnon conspiracy, outright lying and the language of dehumanization is the pathway that every single authoritarian regime has taken throughout history. As Liz Cheney said: "It's very important for us to ignore the temptation to look away." Which is all CPAC is doing…it is like January 6th never really happened. And, if it did, it was NOT T**** supporters, it was Antifa and BLM. DAFUQ? Antifa? What gave it away, the red hats?
“Post-truth is pre-fascism.” ― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Exits are Clearly Marked
Recently, Bob Dole made public that he is in stage 4 lung cancer. The same Bob Dole who, in 1996, in his nomination speech, echoed Ronald Reagan when he said: “The Republican Party is broad and inclusive. It represents many streams of opinion and many points of view. But if there's anyone who has mistakenly attached themselves to our party in the belief that we are not open to citizens of every race and religion, then let me remind you, tonight this hall belongs to the Party of Lincoln. And the exits which are clearly marked are for you to walk out of as I stand this ground without compromise.”
Are we to just accept the fact that Reagan is dead, McCain is gone and Dole is on the way out? That Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney are just dinosaurs of an era gone by? If so, why? Because “the base” wants T****? Really? Reagan and Dole had the balls to stand up to the nutjobs and tell them to their faces that they had no place in the party…they understood the need for hygiene. In 2021, the Jordan’s, Greene’s, Boebert’s, Gaetz’s, McCarthy’s and the rest are in full embrace of the crazy. Did the insurrection scare them so much that they lost any possible moral compass (assuming there ever was one?) Maybe they are legit afraid of the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, the Patriot Prayer and Boogaloo Bois? Not even one of these people can ‘stand this ground without compromise?’
Prion Disease
Let’s be clear, we are here because the party embraced an asshole, a demagogue, a shit-for-brains human being. A guy that kept a copy of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside. The only solution now is for a forceful and permanent ass washing. The GOP needs to disown the loser T**** and his spawn and take the hit. Tell the fucking nutjobs to crawl back under their rocks and begin to build a party that has ideas, policies, and inspiration. Right now, the party embraces fascism and cult of personality. It may be this is what the modern GOP wants…litigate away voters that threaten you, offer nothing in terms of policy other than ‘making liberals cry,’ and dehumanizing over half the country to achieve your mission.
Gee, gosh, golly…Tucker could not even find QAnon, so it must not be real. After all, if there are people who truly believe that a cabal of Satan worshipping pedophiles are out there killing babies and drinking their blood, ol’ Tuck could not find them… “where the public is getting all this false information.” Apparently ol’ Tuck does not use Facebook? For sure, he is REALLY BAD at using search. Tucker Carlson, the voice of the aggrieved American Great Replacement white supremacists.
No. No more. The GOP needs to disown the Q’s, the crazy religious right and the AFPAC nut-jobs. Fuck the crazies, fuck the white nationalists, fuck the America First bullshitters, and get out of the autocracy lane. It may be too late. It may not even be worth saving. We must also live with the reality that the voices of The Bulwark are also the very same voices that brought us Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and basically teed up the progression to T****…even if these folks now choose to romance over the days when there was a ‘sane GOP.’ Which leads us to: The Republican Accountability Project…”which — at the direction of Kristol — seeks to rid the Republican party of what it calls ‘unsettling nativist and authoritarian impulses,’ and ‘abuses of power that threaten to undermine the integrity of U.S. elections, federal agencies, and the Republican Party as a whole.’”
If this were a family member or a neighbor, and we saw this much willful ignorance to hygiene, we could trust that the person was clinically depressed. For sure, their ass would stink. In the case of the GOP, this ignorance may only be the start of a new fascistic movement. “A Pennsylvania woman accused of stealing Nancy Pelosi's laptop during the Capitol insurrection allegedly posted a video online in which she performed a Nazi salute and pledged her allegiance to Adolf Hitler.”
Wash your ass or Heil Hitler, which will it be?