Republican Party Letting It's Freak Flag Fly - Will It Cost Them The Mid Term Elections ?
This is a brand new Washington Post /ABC News poll. The far left of the graph represents last Nov , the dot in the middle represents last February, and the numbers on the far right represent today. Since Nov (6 months) there has been an 11 pt swing in favor of the Democrats. There has been an 8 pt swing in favor of the Democrats in the past 3 months. What has happened in the past 6 months? The Republicans have ramped up their culture war themes and in the process revealed and emphasized the freak and crazy personalities in their ranks. Taylor Greene, Gaetz, Cauthorn, Bobert, Texas Gov Abbott, Tucker Carlson, Gosar, Trump Jr, JD Vance, Mike Lindell, Donald Trump himself, Ginni Thomas, and frankly, countless others across the country, have become the public face of the Republican Party, and the American people are recoiling in horror.
Never in the history of the United States have we seen one of the two major political parties put forth such an array of crackpot, weirdo, dishonest, freaks as its national spokespeople. The party leadership doesnt stop them because leadership knows that these people represent the base of the party's voters. To rebuke a Matt Gaetz or a Tucker Carlson could cause an unknown amount of GOP voters to revolt and maybe stay home in November, so Kevin McCarthy and McConnell stay silent.
Do the American people want transgender people harassed and ostracized the way the GOP party does? There seems to be no evidence of that? Do the American people want to end abortion rights the way the Republicans do? No. Do the American people want to punish Disney World? Of course not.
A recent flash poll taken by a "centrist" cable news host showed 92% of 27,000 respondents saying that the Republicans have gone farther to the right than the Democrats have gone to the left. No doubt much of that 92% response represents objection to the GOP freak show we see in media every single day.
The Washington Post poll also shows President Biden gaining 5 points in his approval rating since February , going from 37% then to 42% now.
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Now we need the milktoast Democrats to take it to the GOP on this topic.
Milktoast Democrats to actually DO something?
Hilarious!
It won't be about "culture wars" or "Trump." It's going to be about performance - Biden's performance.
Never in the history of the United States have we seen one of the two major political parties put forth such an array of crackpot, weirdo, dishonest, freaks as its national spokespeople. The party leadership doesnt stop them because leadership knows that these people represent the base of the party's voters.
Nothing tops the crackpot woke policies the American people have endured for 14 months.
I dont think the majority of the American people want deranged grifting weirdos like Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Greg Abbott or Ron Johnson speaking for them.
The majority of the American people don't think like you.
What they don't want is inflation at 8.5%, Gas prices at $5, rising crime rates, a nation flooded with migrants & Fentanyl, teachers indoctrinating young children and a government that is going to control speech.
Your and the rest of the right's addiction to this 'word' requires a lengthy stay at a Betty Ford Clinic.
Let em crow about while they can.
Come November they’ll be whining like like it’s 2016.
Thank God for that!
Maybe the left who embodies the word needs to chill a little.
I dunno.... I agree AOC is terrible, but surely there have been worse.
As abysmal as Biden's performance is, for the left / liberals and Democrats it's still all about Trump. For some reason they think he's still running things for the GOP.
As I keep saying, this time around Biden and the democrat congress has a RECORD. The election will be a referendum on that.
Your predictions were all wrong in 2020, too...
Let's see them?
I agree, Don't forget, as best left wing dems are only about 20% of the voting population and without Trump there may be little motivation. You'll need Mark Elias to mail out ballots to every living soul again.
I think the moderate democrats fear the worst. Kind of like I felt many moons ago when I got lost in a place that had a sign saying "Clasons Point." I think I saw murderous faces there. Oh well, “The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave,” as a great leader once said.
Your man:
Klepop ...... kleptocrity ...... Klepper ...... kleptoababa .... oh never mind.
So what?You were wrong in 2016. So what
You have come to finally realize that neither Trump nor Biden is actually ON the ballot on November, I hope.
Hanging your hopes on two people, neither which are running now, is foolhardy at best.
Americans vote their wallets.
Democrats have not helped their causes with talk of tax hikes, amnesty for illegal aliens, the Disinformation Police farce, etc., etc.
Pray tell WHY forgiving student loan debt is so important or necessary when people like you have proclaimed the Biden economy as great even though the numbers tell the rest of us the truth of the matter.
If we listen to the right wing, the vast amount of Americans are in a panic over "the border". That doesnt seem to be reflected at all in this poll.
This poll is at best an outlier. Not even democrats believe it:
"Thirty-one Democrats, a modern record, are stepping down as the party risks bleak midterms."
One should learn the differences between concerned and panicked before assigning either to others.
How's that high inflation working out for ya?
Funny how people worry less about the border when gas is $5/gallon.
No goppers, you can't be as reprehensible as you want.
Women aren't giving up their rights. LGTB people are not going back in the closet. Alternative families are not going to be torn asunder. You lost on all those issues...
Oh, is that the way people are going to vote?
The people are going to ignore all the hardships they have endured and go out and vote for woke priorities?
I tend to doubt it.
Outside the dystopian far right bubble things are looking up. Putin is humiliated, jobs are plentiful, wages and home equity booming.
Mostly, voters are sick of the gop's meanness.
Meanness? LMAO
So it is/was about mean tweets .........................
Now THAT is hilarious.
"Meanness".
So what you are saying is their feelings were hurt and they don't know how to deal with it. 
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You have links to back that up or are your just spitting out talking points again?
I was hoping we had a deal
seriously?
After someone gives him the links he will say "but where is the proof"? There is no end to this.
So don't let it continue. Ignore his inanities and you won't have to put up with it.
What TDS ridden loons call proof, and real proof, are two completely different things.
I'm not one of your gullible lemmings. I'm surely not going to take something JBB made as absolute fact?
Do you hold Biden responsible for more COVID deaths than Trump 567,000 to 424,000?
Don’t expect any real proof.
They don’t have any. All they have is butt hurt musings.
Nothing more .....
Man .... that Trump and Biden are bad men.
Bad bad men ...
Oh I don't.
He did state that it was all about hurt feelings in 4.1.1 .
Why let their garbage go unchallenged? They wont go away on their own, they have to be overcome.
Interesting .... I feel the same way about you and your lot.
You dont challenge anyone, you spout right wing inanities.
Because you will never change their minds. You could throw facts at them all day but all they do is slobber all over them
Nothing you say can be taken seriously.
Your bias on anything “Trump” is exponential.
You and the rest of the Clinton/Biden boot lickers
I dont mind you being a right winger, but you do virtually nothing to make your points. All you do is complain about the left and the Democrats. It adds nothing to this forum.
Opposing a known liar, crook, bigot , moron, and cheat is not bias, it is reality.
Like I said John, nothing you say can be taken seriously. And making “points” with such a biased individual, is a fools errand.
No point to it. There is no changing TDS.
I guess that makes more sense than ignoring everyone and destroying NT
How does ignoring most people destroy NT? There's a lot less slap fighting, at least for me
The same way it destroyed NV. Two separate echo chambers leads to apathy.
I have nothing to say to many people on NT. I don't think poking fun, insults, and every day trolling is good for NT either
People like their echo chambers Vic.
They are safe because everyone thinks the same way and folks rarely disagree with you.
They are the “safe space” some folks think they need.
On that much, I can agree.
I don't need echo chambers. What I want is for people to discuss rationally and reasonably without blaming society's ills on both parties. Both parties are to blame and the American people are more to blame because they put on their partisan blinders and refuse to accept another point of view. I'm willing to listen to the other side but don't think you're going to change my mind by calling me names or assuming I believe one thing when you've never asked me what I thought.
This is why I don't spend much time at NT anymore. I'm bored with the endless tit for tat, insults, name calling and the refusal to even take a look at another point of view.
Yes....most of you bore me
Same thing is happening here as happened at the other place and some of the same people are behind it. The controls put in place here made it harder on them but they have found a way to scheme and skeeve their way around it.
Not sure how pathetic their lives have to be that they derive some sort pleasure from such actions but they clearly do.
Pretty sad but it is what it is.
I've seen more than enough of "the other point of view". For the most part, in 2022, the "other point of view" presented from the right is illegitimate.
You go Sister.
Now the left is accusing Biden of killing more Americans than Hitler. That’s something,
also funny to claim the economy was “roaring” when trump took over. Trump exceeded the rate of growth of the “roaring” economy of obamas last quarter every quarter but his first (before any of his policies took effect) until Covid. I guess the trump economy was super duper roaring.
Sometimes. And sometimes there's a nugget of truth in there
Then you should be opposing every politician. Instead you fixate on ONE. And have been wrong on a single accusation.
Nonsense, the owners of NV cashed out. MSNBC, the eventual owners, followed other major media sites in deciding that the maintenance costs were just not worth it.
Sort of like your avatar does?
Our country is in a serious crisis for democracy. I dont think this is the atmosphere or the time to give equal weight to "both sides". "Both sides ism " could well lead to the GOP taking control of congress in 2023 and that in turn leading to Trump successfully stealing the 2024 presidential election.
Oh, what's wrong. Does that offend you?
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Bazinga
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What facts? There's nothing to back up anything JBB put in his meme so, how long do we have to wait for these "facts" to be presented?
Apparently you're right since his meme was deleted.
Sure, the economy is so great right now that too many Democrats think college graduates are struggling too hard to actually pay back the money they willingly borrowed and now expect taxpayers to foot the bill--AGAIN.
So they will get bailed out and then bitch about the bail out later when the bill comes due. Blaming all the people they supported when they got their hand out.
And the wheel goes around and around.
And appropriately labeled "Inaccurate". I guess making shit up has its consequences.
Your wish was granted now shut up about it
Not at all, the portrait artist caught your inner self to a T.
LMAO. Not going to fucking happen.
So you think you know me. How cute. You know how many other snowflakes like yourself thought that and were wrong?
.0000931?
“…snowflakes…”
…says the one continually melting away in self-congratulatory argument.
Gawd, is it a new month already?
Honestly I wouldn't have noticed unless somebody hadn't cried about it. And I'll continue to call out garbage like that.
Yawn.
Really, you shouldn't make up stuff and attempt to argue it.
This is a typical Republican candidate in 2022.
www.newsweek.com /gop-governor-candidate-takes-aim-luciferian-regime-satanic-elites-1702523
GOP Governor Candidate Takes Aim at 'Luciferian Regime,' 'Satanic Elites'
Jason Lemon 4-5 minutes 5/1/2022
Georgia's Republican gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor said that she will launch a plan to take on the "Satanic elites," which she previously described as a "Luciferian regime."
Taylor, who is among several Republicans competing for the party's nomination in Georgia's GOP primary to be held on May 24, posted a teaser of what she describes as "Executive Order 10" to her website. On Twitter Sunday, she provided hints about it as well.
"The Satanic Elites have a plan, but so do we. Tomorrow I will be releasing executive order #10. Stay tuned," the Republican gubernatorial hopeful tweeted, and shared a screenshot from the teaser page for the "executive order" on her website.
"What is executive order 10?" the webpage asks. The teaser ad says that the plan will be released on Monday, May 2.
Previously, Taylor discussed the plan in an interview with the right-wing radio program of conservative commentator Stew Peters. In a late April episode of Peters' program, she promised she'd be "evicting the Devil from Georgia" if she wins.
"We will not be kneeling ourselves to a globalist Luciferian regime that has overtaken our nation," Taylor said, adding that "we're going to take Georgia back from these globalist elitists."
The claims about "Satanic" and "globalist" elites controlling the government aligns with a QAnon conspiracy theory . The bizarre belief contends that a cabal of Satan-worshipping Democrats and Hollywood elites attempt to control the country and the world through sexually abusing and sacrificing children. QAnon adherents believe that Trump is fighting against this Satanic group.
Taylor's remarks about Satanic elites come as GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has also been raising alarms about Satan's alleged influence on society. Greene has drawn controversy over the past week after she claimed in a recent interview that the Catholic Church is controlled by Satan, and that Satan whispers in women's ears to encourage them to get abortions.
"Satan's controlling the church, the church is not doing its job," the congresswoman said in an April interview with Church Militant about the church's support for undocumented migrants. She later insisted that she had not slandered the Catholic Church.
Somebody broke into the confessional wine cellar.
That sort of thing happens when one's parents can't spell Candice.
No idea what these folks have against Lucifer, he's very jovial and gives great guitar lessons unlike the other Guy.
She's polling 3% in a four person primary.
At least put some effort in your trolling.