I Don't Agree With Hitler But At Least He's Not Hillary

Mediaite: CNN Town Hall Attendee to Paul Ryan: How Do You 'Morally Justify' Backing Racist Trump? 

He can't.  But the GOP will support Trump anyway because the base of the GOP is a neo-Confederate, America hating, racist, POS.  

The Klan Candidate

Reuters: Clinton says Trump is most divisive candidate 'in our lifetimes'

Uh, divisive? The KKK is not "divisive," it's racist.  The Neo-Nazis are not "divisive," they're anti-Semetic and celebrate the murder of 6 million Jews.  And the KKK, the Neo-Nazis, and the white supremacists are giddy over this guy.  They absolutely love him.  Trump is the Klan candidate.  Clinton and the Dems need to start saying so every day, every time, all the time.  

Civil War

The Hill: The New York Post faced a barrage of criticism for its cover on Friday that declared "civil war" in large text following the Dallas police shootings.

The New York Post is the Rupert Murdoch owned Fox News of newspapers.  Very Republican.  And of course, since the base of the GOP is a neo-confederate, racist piece of shit that's still pissed off the confederacy lost the civil war, they're just saying what their treasonous, America hating audience wants to hear.

Brown Trump Shirts

Huffington Post: “We’re essentially just going to show up and make sure that the Donald Trump supporters are defended from the leftist thugs,” Matt Parrott, a spokesman for the white supremacist Traditionalist Worker Party, told McClatchy. Parrott said the party expects around 30 members will be in Cleveland during the convention, which runs July 18 - 21.

On Sunday, the party hosted a rally in Sacramento, California, in conjunction with a group of skinheads. In addition to voicing support for Trump, organizers said they also wanted to “make a statement about the precarious situation our race is in.”

Because, of course. 

Team KKK

Snopes: The leader of the Rebel Brigade Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, identified only as their "Imperial Wizard," told a reporter for Richmond, Virginia-area news outlet WWBT in a wide-ranging interview on 28 April 2016 that he (like many KKK members) supports Trump for President of the United States.

Voting for Trump doesn't necessarily make you a Neo-Nazi, a white supremacist or a member of the KKK.  But it most definitely puts you on the same team. 

The Secessionists

Lindsey Graham’s challenger in the South Carolina Republican primary gave a speech in the state Senate on Wednesday in which he likened the American Civil War to a domestic dispute that escalated to murder.
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“This was a war,” he continued, in which “basically folks in the North decided that — kind of like a marriage, the South had decided it wanted to separate, and the North said, ‘We’re not going to separate, and if you want to separate, we're just going to kill you."

That's the way they see it in the confederate states of Republican Dumbfuckistan.

The civil war was about southern conservatives taking up arms against the United States in order to preserve slavery.   They obviously haven't gotten over it.

Racisms

TPM: Rubio Calls Crist's Comments On GOP Racims 'Ridiculous And Silly"

They are.  Well, except for that fact they're 100% correct.  And it's a slam dunk case.  Since Rubio apparently wants to talk about it, let's oblige him, shall we?  First the GOP deliberately built its base with racists. So there's that.  Any drive around the white GOP south will make it pretty clear the base prefers the confederate flag to the American flag, so there's that on top of that (Fargo reference).  And there isn't one single elected African American member of congress that's a Republican (and not too many more that voted for any of the white ones).  When you consider the mountains of evidence, it's ridiculous and silly not to conclude Crist is exactly right.  Democrats shouldn't be afraid to say so.

Concern Troll

Raw Story:  CNN Crossfire host S.E. Cupp pushed back at criticism of the National Football League’s Washington franchise on Friday by insinuating it was a distraction from other issues facing Native American communities.

“Native Americans have real problems,” Cupp told Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). “Poverty, domestic abuse, high suicide rates.”

So it's ok to heap a little cheap racism on them as well?  Idiotic argument from the dumbest conservative on TV.   Thanks though for the fake concern for minorities and the disadvantaged.  But better yet you stop constantly advocating policies that push them under the bus in favor of your transnational billionaire masters.

One Heartbeat Away From The Presidency

TPM: Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused President Barack Obama on Monday of coming dangerously close to "impeachable offenses."

Right, well, she's an idiot.  Everybody knows that.  The scary part is the Republican party vaulted her right to the top just because she's a MILF. 

Deport The Republicans

Politico: A reality is beginning to dawn on — and eat away at — many House Republicans: They aren’t at all sure of their party's strategy to re-open government and lift the debt ceiling.

After forcing leadership to pick a fight it didn’t want to pick, sitting through hours of meetings with lots of internal hand-wringing and failing to force Democrats to negotiate, the path to avoid a prolonged government shutdown and the first debt default in American history is completely uncertain.

Attention Republicans:  Rather than burning down the country, why don't you do us all a favor and leave.  Just get the hell out.  Move to Somalia.  You'll love it.  No government, lots of guns, no regulation, no taxes. 

Of course they don't have any sewage treatment either, so go there and wallow is shit for a while.  Let's see what that does for your worldview. Hey, send a postcard when you get there (actually sorry, you won't be able to do that.  They don't have a postal service).

Destruction

WASHINGTON -- With the government shutdown in its fifth day, many Republicans have conceded the fight is no longer about Obamacare. Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.) added his name to the list on Saturday, saying the matter now boils down to "pride."

Proverbs 16:18: Pride goeth before destruction.

And destruction is where we're heading with the GOP shutting down the government and causing us to default on our debt.  Look, we can't have people in our government who will threaten our future, our standard of living, our families - over pride, or holding out for billionaire "healthcare" executives or whatever.  We just can't have it.  These people have to got to respect the electoral process and work within our democratic system to change policy by majority rule.  Anything else is just political terrorism.

Honestly, what's going on here as much as anything else, is the Republicans are seeing things getting better and they don't like it.  Once again Democratic public policy is improving things.  The economy is improving, the housing market is improving, the job market is improving, and Obamacare is about to start working. And politically speaking, that's very bad for them.  So rather than allow things to continue on as they are they figure they don't have much to lose by burning it all down.

Boehner Threatens To Shoot The Hostage

TPM: Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) insisted Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that he won't bring up a "clean" debt limit increase under any circumstances, warning that the U.S. will default on its debt unless President Barack Obama agrees to make policy concessions.

(credit to Huffingtonpost for that title)  Attention America, you're the hostage.  Your 401k is the hostage.  Your ability to borrow money for a car, or a house, or a business is the hostage.  The value of your dollars is the hostage. Your standard of living is the hostage.  Your future is the hostage.  And the Republicans have just threatened all of it.  Whatever you do America, whatever ends up happening, don't ever forget this.  

Shooters

Daily Kos:  Is there some damn law that says congressional Republicans have to be assholes? Is "not being a gigantic prick to anyone you meet" one of the now-countless things that will get you kicked out of the party? Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX, because of course he is), come on down. Show the little people how being a grandstanding self-important ass is done.

In an astounding confrontation that took place yesterday at the World War II Memorial in DC, a Tea Party congressman from Texas appeared to blame the Park Service for denying veterans access to the facility — and then made a Park Ranger apologize for the shutdown. "How do you look at them and ... deny them access?" Rep. Randy Neugebauer asked the unidentified Ranger in an incredible exchange that was caught on camera by NBC Washington.

So they shut down the government, then run down to yell at the park ranger because the government is shut down.  We suppose that's rather like shooting somebody in the back and then berating them for bleeding on the carpet. 

Ted Cruz Is Going To Smash Hitler!

TPM:  During a floor speech Tuesday aimed at reviving the already-dim prospects for his effort to defund Obamacare, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) likened his doubters to Nazi appeasers.

Sure.  Because passing a law that provides more affordable healthcare is just like gassing 6 million Jews.  And Obama is just like Hitler.

This guy Ted Cruz is a real piece of work.  And make no mistake, he is the new face of the Republican party. 

Owned

Buzzfeed: A small group of conservative Republicans have forced their leaders John Boehner and Eric Canto to toe the ideological line..

Which apparently includes defaulting on the debt, shutting down the government, and who the fuck knows what else, secession probably.  Look, if you believe in government by the people, if you're not a fan of chaos in government, if you believe in science, if you find the things that come out of the far right-wing of the Republican party scary, you have to vote, indeed you have to work to make sure the Republican party has no power. Because if they do, as you can plainly see, they're owned by the crazy in their party and the crazy in their party can't help themselves but to burn it all down.

Shit For Brains

Think Progress:  The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday in favor of seceding from California to form a new state called “Jefferson.” Siskiyou also plans to invite nearby counties in California and southern Oregon to join with them in casting off the bonds that have tied them to their fellow Californians and Oregonians for generations.

Residents attending the supervisors meeting were virtually unanimous in supporting the predominantly Republican county’s secession. According to the Redding Record Searchlight, a local paper, one member of the board of supervisors raised a laundry list of complaints related to “regulation, restriction of rights, lack of representation, regionalism and restoration of limited government.” 
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Such an outcome is unlikely, however, as the Constitution provides that “no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”

Better they just get the hell out of the country.   If they want limited government they can move to Somalia. In Somalia the government is as limited as they come.  There is no regulation. There are no taxes. Of course there is no sewage treatment either.  So they should go there and wallow in shit for a while. Let's see what that does for their worldview. 

Base Republicans Are Crazy

TPM: A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed an eye-popping divide among Republicans in the Bayou State when it comes to accountability for the government's post-Katrina blunders.

Twenty-eight percent said they think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama.

This closely mirrors the 24% of Republicans that believe Obama just may be the anti-Christ. This 20-30% of Republicans is the GOP base.  They're crazy.  Well and truly crazy.  Now, you can vote with crazy people if you want to, but unless you're after crazy public policy, it's really not a good idea. 

Can We Get Some Real Americans Please?

Daily Kos:  So, first the bad news: In the wake of revelations that he was in fact a citizen of both Canada and the United States, Ted Cruz has made his choice. And, sadly, it's not our neighbors to the north.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship. “Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship,” Cruz said in a statement. “Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator; I believe I should be only an American.”

I guess this puts Cruz in a similar position as Michele Bachmann, who renounced her Swiss citizenship last year—and once again, we are the losers, because we keep on getting stuck with lunatics who say things like this:

 Asked about the possibility of impeaching President Obama, Ted Cruz did not rule it out. In a question and answer session following a speech he gave at a Montgomery County GOP dinner last night, an audience member asked Cruz, “Why don’t we impeach him [Obama]?”

“It’s a good question,” Cruz responded, “and I’ll tell you the simplest answer: To successfully impeach a president you need the votes in the U.S. Senate.”

A nice question from the GOP base, eh?  A real American (or just somebody who's devoted to democracy), would have answered that question thusly:  "We don't impeach people for no reason because if we did, that would undermine our democracy.  It's just not the American way."

And he's not the only one.

Democracy is one of the core American ideals.  Obviously Ted Cruz is not a real American.  And neither are his buddies in the Republican party.   

No Debates For You!

TPM headline: RNC Unanimously Passes Resolution, No Debates For NBC Or CNN

They have decided the way to minimize the damage from the fact their party is full of crazies, racists, corporatists, and theocrats, is to not show it to people that aren't crazy, racist, corporatist or religious zealots.  They way they indend to do this apparently, is to limit their debate broadcasts to Fox News.

And as if this was not as pathetic as it could be already, they're doing this on direction of their leader, Rush Limbaugh (note from the link that he decreed it should be so last week).

GOP Rep: Women Are Stupid

Huffintonpost: Maine House Minority Leader Ken Fredette (R-Newport) appeared on the state House's floor Wednesday, making his pitch to oppose federal funding (of Medicare expansion). Maine People's Alliance posted video of Fredette invoking the book during his speech, which also included some differences between the brains of men and women.

"From the other side of the aisle I hear the conversation being about 'free this is free, we need to take it and it's free and we need to do it now' and that's sort of the fundamental message that my brain receives," Fredette said. "Now, my brain being a man's brain sort of thinks differently, because I say, well, it's not if it's free is it really free because I say in my brain there's a cost to this."

ThinkProgress captured backlash from the female side, with State Rep. Diane Russell (D-Portland) blasting Fredette's remarks.

“I thought it was 2013, not 1813," Russell told the site. "Apparently, I was wrong.”

Let us set this stupid, neanderthalic, assclown straight:  Obamacare and the expansion of Medicare contained within save money over what we currently do because those dollars are spent on medical care and not private jets, massive yachts, and yet another mansion for transnational insurance company CEO's.

As for calling women stupid, yes the base of the GOP is not only racist, but sexist as well.  So let's make sure as many women in this country read what he said and remember that when they vote.

Now onto the latest mandatory rape with a foreign object law in the bizarre dystopia that is GOP rule.