GOP Insanity Thread: a bunch of weirdos weirding out

[McTrollson]

Hahahaha shut the fuck up you angry dangerous freak

https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1684891589041127424?s=20

[Jman220]

LOL looks like Tim Scott is running for president solely for the purpose of converting campaign funds to personal funds:

The Mystery of How Tim Scott’s Campaign Is Spending Its Millions

It’ll be funny if Scott gets got while Trump walks free. Tragically funny, but still funny.

[pvn]

I’m putting RFK insanity shit here, idc he’s a GOP operative as far as I’m concerned

anyway, behold, a 1488 tweet from this fucking shitbag

https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1684909385376575488

[pvn]

also I’m like 95% sure that “candidates” don’t get Secret Service protection until they are at least presumptively the nominee or at the very least later stages in the campaign. They aint assigning agents to Asa Hutchinson

[pvn]

oh twitter already added that context

[Jman220]

I think Bernie got secret service protection during the 2016 campaign, but it was pretty late in the game.

[goofy]

It’s real

[Jman220]

https://twitter.com/LPGAConvention/status/1685265789270536192

[McTrollson]

I know the word “unserious” gets used way too much lately, but that’s fundamentally what the GOP base is now, Unserious toddlers who just want the funny silly man who makes fart noises on TV.

https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1685991893614649344?s=20

[goofy]

NYT has a deep dive on Trisha Cotham (the NC Democrat who bizarrely switched parties to join the Republican supermajority and pass an abortion ban):

Inside the Party Switch That Blew Up North Carolina Politics

More perplexing to many Democrats was why she did it. Ms. Cotham came from a family with strong ties to the Democratic Party, campaigned as a progressive on social issues and had even co-sponsored a bill to codify a version of Roe v. Wade into North Carolina law.

Interviews with former and current political allies depict her as someone who had grown alienated from Democratic Party officials and ideals. Republican leaders cultivated her before she ran and, seeing her growing estrangement, seized a chance to coax her across party lines.

She fumed that Lillian’s List, an abortion rights organization, had “really screwed” her by endorsing another Democrat in the primary, according to a message she sent to a campaign worker, Autumn Alston, that was reviewed by The New York Times.

Ms. Cotham seemed to have embraced a me-versus-them mentality, said Jonathan Coby, her former campaign consultant. “She would say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to talk to that group, they’re out to get me; they don’t like me,’” Mr. Coby recalled.
…
Ms. Cotham’s top campaign donors included the North Carolina Dental Society PAC — which gave almost exclusively to Republican candidates — and the North Carolina Health Care Facilities PAC, which gave mainly to Republicans.

Ms. Cotham would later say she was offended by what she regarded as bullying and groupthink inside the Democratic caucus, which was no longer the “big tent” she had once known. She said the caucus focused too much on process over the hard work of governance.

Democrats said they were baffled by the accusations she later aired. Text messages between Ms. Cotham and house Democratic Party leader Robert Reives reviewed by The Times show friendly dialogue.
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After the gun vote, Mr. Coby said he found Ms. Cotham to be angry. “She said, ‘I’m either going to switch parties or resign,’” he remembered. “The things she was telling me then were like, ‘The Democrats don’t like me, the Republicans have helped me out a lot and been nice to me’.”

She seems…kinda crazy? This reads a bit like the heel turns of Lara Logan or Glenn Greenwald (plus a healthy dose of narcissism, where people being deferential to her is apparently far more important than any political policies).

[boredsocial]

And this right here is why our system is broken. It caters to people with personality disorders when it should be aggressively weeding them out. There’s zero chance nobody knew she was a selfish piece of shit, she just comes from the right kind of family and knew the right people and it was her turn. And now she’s demonstrated that the current system isn’t checking on these people for character at all, and if it is you won’t like what they’re checking for and excluding lol.

[commonWealth]

@goofy

Republican leaders cultivated her before she ran

… Democrats would never, and they should be. Asymmetrical warfare once again.

[commonWealth]

Also that story is incomplete without a description of the size of the bag, because we’re all adults here right? We all know what really happened here.

[pvn]

@goofy

“She would say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to talk to that group, they’re out to get me; they don’t like me,’” Mr. Coby recalled.

good lord that’s such a GOP mindset it should have been a huge red flag

[pvn]

@goofy

Ms. Cotham would later say she was offended by what she regarded as bullying and groupthink inside the Democratic caucus, which was no longer the “big tent” she had once known. She said the caucus focused too much on process over the hard work of governance.

ah yes the old “you bullied me so much, I guess i just HAVE to be a nazi now” gambit

[boredsocial]

She’s from a rich family and sounds certifiably insane. It really could just be she didn’t feel sufficiently supported and is settling scores.

Absolutely insane if so.

[goofy]

https://twitter.com/jakesherman/status/1686127682080137216

Jackson’s “I was not drinking when I was detained at the rodeo for trying to help someone in a medical emergency” shirt inviting a lot of questions already answered by his shirt

[riverman]

Darwin awards. I’m good with it.

https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1686389110339244032?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

[riverman]

lol wat

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1686774778386956308?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

[DrChesspain]

I wonder how the food is at Busch Stadium? I want to plan a trip to St. Louis to see a game and visit the Chess Hall of Fame and St. Louis Chess Club.