GOP Insanity Thread: a bunch of weirdos weirding out

[riverman]

“I don’t know if it’s your practice to look the other way when crimes are committed” LOLOLOL

[akm]

That impassioned speech should really get Gym to reconsider a lot of his choices and will definitely move the needle!

[Effen]

Doesn’t he challenge people to wrestling matches when he gets tilted? I feel like that happened.

[goofy]

GOP finally admits that there aren’t just two genders:

The three genders, per one GOP super PAC: Male, working woman and homemaker

[riverman]

Just dumb as rocks

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1750945280046846108?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

[LFS]

And if he were free, we’d be able to say Merry Christmas again without going to jail!

[goofy]

Gift link: Cross burning in South Carolina stirs debate over hate-crimes laws (WaPo)

Monica and Shawn Williams, both Black veterans of the U.S. Army, thought they had bought a retirement home in a neighborhood that lived up to South Carolina’s slogan: “Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places.”

But within hours of moving into their three-bedroom house near Myrtle Beach in 2021, the Williamses said their next-door neighbors, a White couple, started scowling at them. The uncomfortable stares eventually led to racial slurs and a bitter two-year dispute. Then, on the day after Thanksgiving, they discovered a cross set on fire just outside their yard.

“I can’t believe what I am seeing,” Shawn Williams, 59, said he thought. A dozen relatives visiting for the holiday also grew distraught.

When Horry County Police Department officers and firefighters arrived, the neighbors stood near the cross and hurled racial epithets at the family, according to police reports. But police left that night without charging anyone with a crime. South Carolina is one of just two states without a hate-crimes law.

“Since no criminal activity took place, this report will be for informational purposes only,” the initial police incident report concludes.

What the fuck???

But when she approached their property, Hartnett came running out shouting racial slurs, Monica Williams said. Then, she said, her neighbor threatened her.

“She said, ‘I have killed Black people before and I didn’t get caught and I will do it again,’” Monica Williams recalled. “She said, ‘I shoot n-words.’”

Last year, Richardson noted, a man was leaving “disturbing antisemitic literature” on mailboxes and in door hinges in Myrtle Beach. But state prosecutors could only charge the suspect with littering.

Swell state!

[TheDuker]

This has NEVER been a racist country though.

[goofy]

Extra special that this is her fucking home state

[TheDuker]

Extra extra special that they’re both veterans. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!

[TheDuker]

Watching Martha Raddatz interview Trump supporters…

“How many presidents, how many politicians, have come out on a stage and hugged the American flag? That really means something to me.”

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[pvn]

@TheDuker

“How many presidents, how many politicians, have come out on a stage and hugged the American flag? That really means something to me.”

this sounds pretty dumb but not as dumb as being the journalist in this scenario and not immediately following that up with “oh, so if Joe Brandon hugged the flag, you would consider voting for him?”

[commonWealth]

I mean where does it go from here? Flag kinks? Is there going to be a group of MAGA flag fuckers?

[goofy]

Utah passes a bill banning diversity programs in government and on campuses

Last year, Republican-led Florida and Texas were first to enact broad-based laws banning diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in higher education. Since then, other states have followed with similar measures.

The board that oversees Iowa’s public universities in November directed schools to eliminate staff positions focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. In December, the board overseeing Wisconsin’s university system agreed to shift dozens of DEI positions to instead focus on “student success” and freeze hiring for DEI staff in exchange for lawmakers releasing state funding for pay raises and campus construction projects.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, issued an executive order in December restricting state funds from being spent for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in state agencies or higher education institutions. He also barred entities from requiring or considering DEI statements in the hiring process.

Already this year, Republican lawmakers have proposed about three dozen bills in at least 17 states that would restrict or require public disclosure of DEI initiatives, according to an Associated Press analysis using the bill-tracking software Plural.

[pvn]

[LouisCyphre]

No, because that socialist nightmare will finally have come to an end and you can now live unrestrained by the federal government’s shackles. Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

[Jman220]

I say again, there is very little downside in letting Texas just fucking secede. Hell, let the entire former confederacy secede.

[CaffeineNeeded]

Except for all the decent people there

[Jman220]

We can have open borders in the North. They can move. I’m sure plenty of Northern deplorable will buy their house.

[commonWealth]

@pvn

I am willing to offer them a deal. If they let us carve Houston and Austin into Louisiana and remove all nuclear weapons from Texas, they can secede and we’ll cut them a check to seed their own Social Security fund at 50 cents on the dollar for their value if they stay.

It’s a win-win, they rid themselves of all the libs in Austin and Houston, and they get a cash payout.

We turn the electoral college in our favor and turn Louisiana deep blue.