GOP Insanity Thread: a bunch of weirdos weirding out

[ViridianDreams]

The conservative movement has been intellectually bankrupt since Regan at the very least. Arguably they’ve been intellectually bankrupt since they tried to spin slavery in the south as something the slaves enjoyed. That was in the mid to late 1800s.

[boredsocial]

Unfortunately during the Reagan era the previous cycle had just ended and it was obviously very problematic with good reasons to end (probably not as bad as now, but it definitely wasn’t great).

But then we tried their ideas at scale for a long time and they absolutely didn’t work. At that point you have to either come up with something new to try or let the other side try something… the GOP did neither and that’s how they went intellectually bankrupt.

[MrWookie]

Reagan and HW had at least one idea: supply side, trickle down economics. It was a bad idea, laughable on its face that the people who compulsively hoarded money would somehow hoard less when given more, but it was an idea. But taking that idea seriously set the precedent that we always have to take what Republicans say seriously, no matter how nonsensical.

[Hired_Goons]

Nitpick—I’m pretty sure that HW called it voodoo economics.

[MrWookie]

Fact Check: True! But it was said before he governed as basically a successor to Reagan.

[eyebooger]

This is fucking disgusting, even by Texas Republican standards.

Greg Abbott

[pvn]

Kinda surprised he isn’t pardoning the guy tbh

[Danspartan]

Just wait. Texas two-step.

[CaffeineNeeded]

Nah shooter seems like he’s “illegal” too so he’ll be murdered by the state instead

[goofy]

The shooter seems plenty American, after all he loves shooting his gun and became murderous when asked to stop.

[McTrollson]

oops

Greg Sargent

[commonWealth]

[pvn]

more:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrrFdILp7i5/

[goofy]

More details on what got Tucker tossed:

Carlson’s Text That Alarmed Fox Leaders: ‘It’s Not How White Men Fight’

non-paywall link

In the message, sent to one of his producers in the hours after violent Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Carlson described how he had recently watched a video of a group of men — Trump supporters, he said — violently attacking “an Antifa kid.”

It was “three against one, at least,” he wrote.

And then he expressed a sense of dismay that the attackers, like him, were white.

“Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously,” he wrote.

“It’s not how white men fight,” he said. But he said he found himself for a moment wanting the group to kill the person he had described as the Antifa kid.

The text alarmed the Fox board, which saw the message a day before Fox was set to defend itself against Dominion Voting Systems before a jury. The board grew concerned that the message could become public at trial when Mr. Carlson was on the stand, creating a sensational and damaging moment that would raise broader questions about the company.

The day after the discovery, the board told Fox executives it was bringing in an outside law firm to conduct an investigation into Mr. Carlson’s conduct.

The text message added to a growing number of internal issues involving Mr. Carlson that led the company’s leadership to conclude he was more of a problem than an asset and had to go, according to several people with knowledge of the decision. In other messages he had referred to women — including a senior Fox executive — in crude and misogynistic terms.

[Surf]

Feels like he routinely said worse stuff than that on his show?

[kerowo]

The show is a performance, it’s not really real, the stuff in emails and texts is the actual Tucker speaking.

[ViridianDreams]

@Surf

Feels like he routinely said worse stuff than that on his show?

Yeah, the dude was spouting great replacement theory rhetoric nightly. There’s no way that text concerned executives.

[riverman]

Literally every night.

The Mehdi Hasan Show

[McTrollson]

The texts were very clearly just a pretext for firing Tucker, I can’t believe the media is falling for it.

[ViridianDreams]

@McTrollson

The texts were very clearly just a pretext for firing Tucker, I can’t believe the media is falling for it.

I mean, it’s completely let them fight.gif. I ain’t going to shed any tears for Tucker that his former shitty employer is knifing him on the way out. But god damn, other media outlets, have a fucking critical eye just one time before regurgitating this shit