The ‘Good’ Republicans Are Bad, and the Bad Ones Are Batshit
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Via: tessylo • 3 years ago • 17 commentsBy: Molly Jong-Fast, The Daily Beast
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The ‘Good’ Republicans Are Bad, and the Bad Ones Are Batshit
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Chip Roy from Texas’ 21st Congressional District didn’t vote to overturn the election of the 2020 election, which made him slightly better than 147 of his colleagues who voted to change the election results because they didn’t like them .
Roy released a statement with a small group of Republican reps who wanted to follow the law despite the fact that their guy lost , warning that trying to overturn the election would “strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant.” He even went as far as to challenge the seating of representatives from states where members of his party were challenging the results of the election—a pretty bold move considering one of the people who was challenging the results was his old boss Ted Cruz.
But what a difference six months makes. Roy is no longer Team Electoral College and the Constitution. He’s joined the rest of his party—with the exception of soon-to-be-purged Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney—on Team Own the Libs Even If It Means Killing Your Supporters.
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This is the Republican brand now: death before decency. What Roy’s colleague Paul Gosar learned from Trumpism is that working with terrifying far-right extremists is totally cool. Gosar is now even more far-right than Steve King, who was censured for his white nationalist statements back when Republicans at least pretended to give a shit.
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Now Gosar is being praised by white nationalist Nick Fuentes—and minority “Leader” Kevin McCarthy is fine with that, just like he’s fine with Marjorie Taylor Greene raving about the Jews and Matt Gaetz ( R-Sex Creep ) staying on the House Ethics Committee so that he could question the head of the FBI while continuing to be investigated by the FBI.
Meanwhile Stop the Steal speaker Mo Brooks is now running for Senate in Alabama. Brooks, who was a planner of the Jan. 6 rally, according to a deleted video from Ali Alexander , claims in a new civil filing that he only spoke at the rally-turned-riot because the White House told him to . That was in the same legal filing in which he said he believes that Trump still won the election (Trump did not).
Since no one in Trumpworld has been punished for anything, Republicans have learned that you do anything at all and no one will ever hold you accountable. Local Republicans continue trying to make it harder for the “wrong people” to vote, including Native Americans in Montana this week. It’s not about racism, they insist; it’s about stopping groups that back Democrats who oppose racism.
Trump taught Republicans that they can be as shitty as they want, and no one will stop them, as long as they don’t cross Trump. Just look at former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, who resigned after he was indicted on felony charges after cheating on his wife with a woman he blackmailed and abused. He’s running for Senate now, and a GOP mega-donor just gave him $2.5 million because allegations of sexual assault are no longer a barrier to entry in today’s GOP; they may even be the mark of a “real man.” Just ask Donald.
These people will continue to break rules and wreck our democracy until someone—are you listening, Merrick Garland?—holds them accountable.
If Chip Roy is the best of this rotten bunch, it’s time to toss the whole barrel. William Butler Yeats must have been writing about the Republicans when he wrote that “the best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”
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Chip Roy from Texas’ 21st Congressional District didn’t vote to overturn the election of the 2020 election, which made him slightly better than 147 of his colleagues who voted to change the election results because they didn’t like them .
Roy released a statement with a small group of Republican reps who wanted to follow the law despite the fact that their guy lost , warning that trying to overturn the election would “strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant.” He even went as far as to challenge the seating of representatives from states where members of his party were challenging the results of the election—a pretty bold move considering one of the people who was challenging the results was his old boss Ted Cruz.
But what a difference six months makes. Roy is no longer Team Electoral College and the Constitution. He’s joined the rest of his party—with the exception of soon-to-be-purged Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney—on Team Own the Libs Even If It Means Killing Your Supporters.
"This is the Republican brand now: death before decency. What Roy’s colleague Paul Gosar learned from Trumpism is that working with terrifying far-right extremists is totally cool. Gosar is now even more far-right than Steve King, who was censured for his white nationalist statements back when Republicans at least pretended to give a shit."
The gqp has made it abundantly clear they care about no one, but themselves.
All else may fuck off.
Real nice way to just tar all with the same brush. Speaks volumes.
Unless you're a democrat then you're an immoral, chauvinistic pig
Indeed. You got that part right.
Then wouldn't trmp be an immoral, chauvinistic pig? He cheated on all his wives and has banged porn stars
He was a democrat when he did all that. People change and improve themselves.
... so was raygun when he was banging 15 year old hollywood starlets. funny how all is forgiven the moment party affiliation changes.
I knew you would fucking justify it somehow.
What does the 10 Commandments say about worshipping false gods?
trumpturd has never changed nor improved himself. He's always been a scumlappingshitbag.
Which is why he couldn't run for POTUS as a democrat. Only the republicans have accepted him with open arms.
I still differentiate between holdout olde school big R Republicans in the Big G Grand Old Party of Lincoln and the lower case gop of Trumpian knownothings!
The old school republicans (I used to be one) are either gone, or hiding so well nobody can see them.
Even if they are still there, lurking in the darkened shadows, they are obediently following whatever their lord and master (Trump/McConnell) tell them to do. Which makes their entire existence inconsequential.