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I just don’t get it. They are literally giving away the power they have to someone who has demonstrated he is planning to destroy the county in which they live.
There is ZERO upside to them doing this…
They share his desire to destroy the country.
Professional politicians are looking forward to the day when they can come out from under the shadow of dark money and influence peddling and financial reports and openly live as lords of the corporate/kleptocratic new world order.
Christian Dominionism: Look it up.
They have the same goals. Doing it this way, they get their objectives met without getting their own hands dirty.
Traitors. I hope they meet the traditional traitors fate.
The GOP playbook for decades has been to try to dismantle government to the point that they can point at its corpse and say "see? We were right. Government doesn't work."
As this is still the goal, it makes perfect sense that they want to give more power to the Dismantler in Chief.
What has never factored into the equation is the absolute suffering it will bring to the American people -- largely against their will. The GOP has never gotten this far before, and I carry the teensiest, tiniest bit of optimism that it is too far for most Americans and the bottom may finally fall out of this approach -- meaning Republicans in government will finally have to give in and eventually learn to govern, if they're even given another chance at all.
But it is only a teensy, tiny bit of optimism, and it requires that very basic things like voting in the US still actually exist.
It’s amazing how much Mike Johnson looks like Stephen Colbert when he was a conservative.
It’s amazing how much Mike Johnson looks like Stephen Colbert when he ~~was a conservative~~ played a conservative every night on TV.
FTFY.
He should bring back the character and try something like this again.
Stephen Colbert was a conservative and the democratic party offered him a late night show to switch parties.
…what…?
Did you not ever watch The Cobert Report?
Wait - do you think he’s being serious in Colbert? You realize that’s a bit, right? It’s not his serious beliefs. The entire show is satire.
Why are you treating me like an idiot?
Of course he was serious it was Comedy Central’s attempt to balance Jon Stewart’s liberal show.
I’m genuinely confused. Not trying to treat you like an idiot. Yes, he was the “conservative counterpoint” to Stewart, but his character - and the entire show - is an exercise in reductio ad absurdum of American conservatism.
I’m not sure if you’re being coy and contrarian, or if you’ve simply never actually seen it. Because if you’ve seen it, it’s fairly apparent that it’s making fun of conservatives. And it’s made even better by the fact that a lot of conservatives didn’t understand that - including W Bush. That speech he gave at the press correspondents dinner in ‘06 EXCORIATED the Bush administration, and they were NOT stoked about it. (E3: and to be clear, they thought he was going to cheerlead the bush admin right up until he got a couple sentences into his routine. Seriously, you should watch it. It’s quite good.)
Edit: I’m gonna go with “my sarcasm detector is broken” 😅
E2: I am now less concerned that my sarcasm detector is broken. I’m also far less confident that you’ve actually watched anything more than short clips of Colbert Report.
Do you think this book is satire?
Yes. It is absolutely, 100% satire. I am completely and entirely serious, and am genuinely not being sarcastic. Have you even seen one of the self-promos he did for the book on his show? It’s like… he’s making fun of himself. It’s entirely a joke.
I’m honestly curious if you’ve ever actually watched or read any of the “damning” content that you’re trying to debate with here.
Looks like it, yeah.
Can't unsee that now.
"to give"? I'm sorry but "gave" would be the correct tense here.