GOP Insanity Thread: a bunch of weirdos weirding out

LFS · December 7, 2023, 7:40pm

Not to brag, but I emailed her and she emailed me back.

riverman · December 7, 2023, 10:12pm

https://x.com/jonlemire/status/1732885373020176570?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

feedthabeast · December 7, 2023, 10:29pm

More law & order!

pvn · December 8, 2023, 12:54am

let’s check in on my MAGA ex-cow-orker’s insta

Screenshot 2023-12-07 at 6.53.15 PM

riverman · December 8, 2023, 1:32am

https://x.com/sawyerhackett/status/1732927972749742185?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

Surf · December 8, 2023, 2:05am

Man wtf they are really doubling down on this

Article I read seemed like given Texas law has exception for this sort of situations the doctors were just preemptively getting an OK from judge as a CYA despite feeling completely legal to proceed and TX is just straight up like Nah the exception was a joke.

ETA also gotta imagine if this couple has the ability to lawyer up for this they easily can/will go to a different state and this meant to be a test csse?

boredsocial · December 8, 2023, 5:06am

Shit like this is the real reason this idiot got impeached. He’s not just a Republican he’s widely disliked by other Republicans. Put another way Texas Republican politicians are a bunch of grifting monsters and they think Ken Paxton is a massively problematic scumbag.

akm · December 8, 2023, 5:54am

Still 50% approval rating among the GOP (which is admittedly lower than I assumed it would be)

boredsocial · December 8, 2023, 12:28pm

I was talking about the people who matter - other texas gop politicians. They hate him personally. It’s not that his replacement is going to be better on issues, it’s that it won’t specifically be Ken Paxton.

pvn · December 8, 2023, 5:42pm

https://twitter.com/benyahr/status/1732986613418897849

pvn · December 10, 2023, 3:23am

Stop, I can only get so erect

https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1733683149258039306

riverman · December 13, 2023, 4:38pm

https://x.com/igorbobic/status/1734653928883597648?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

JLawOk

akm · December 13, 2023, 5:49pm

Deeply concerned; deeply complicit.

commonWealth · December 13, 2023, 10:44pm

I’m sure Brett Kavanaugh learned his lesson, though.

riverman · December 14, 2023, 5:42pm

This is Rudy’s own lawyer

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1735350727206191319?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

riverman · December 14, 2023, 11:04pm

LOL LAW

https://x.com/lebassett/status/1735418928715702388?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

Coasterbrad · December 15, 2023, 6:17am

Sick apology, (chese)bro.

pvn · December 15, 2023, 10:17pm

hahahahah get fucked rudy

I’m sure this will be tied up on appeal for decades

riverman · December 15, 2023, 10:54pm

He will somehow live at the St Regis until his peaceful death at age 102

goofy · December 15, 2023, 11:46pm

Somewhat interesting article but I love this passage:

Consider the dislocation that flickers across the face of journalist Matt Taibbi in a TV interview this summer for the conspiracist, right-wing Epoch Times. Acclaimed by the Left during Occupy Wall Street as a scourge of corporate power, Taibbi is best known for his years at Rolling Stone. When the day eventually comes, the “vampire squid relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”— Taibbi’s unforgettable embodiment of Goldman Sachs in a 2010 article—will haunt his obituary.

While Taibbi insists his politics haven’t changed — an oddly conservative way to insist one hasn’t become conservative — his surroundings certainly have. Wearing a velvety brown jacket, jeans and his default smirk, he sat for his Epoch Times interview amid the libertarian FreedomFest conference. This year, in addition to Taibbi, it featured as speakers presidential candidates RFK Jr. (an Independent) and Vivek Ramaswamy (a Republican), along with former candidate Tulsi Gabbard (now a former Democrat, too), united in their contempt for “wokeness.” Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek anointed Taibbi an “American Thought Leader” for Taibbi’s critique of a timid, consensus-driven press that, he says, is reminiscent of the Soviet Union.

As Taibbi charges that the media is unwilling “to raise questions about things that have been ‘decided,’” Jekielek’s eyes light up. It reminds him of his own experience bucking consensus, he says, when, as a university student, he realized the core tenet of evolutionary science “simply was untrue.” Gulp. In the midst of nodding along, Taibbi’s normally expressive, still-boyish face seems to freeze, his fingers to tense on his knee. It’s a moment recognizable from countless movies. Imagine the record scratch, the freeze frame, the familiar Hollywood voiceover: “You’re probably wondering how I got here.”