The Flat Circle Of Republican Stupidity
MCDANIEL: [...] What abortion is a bad idea to Democrats? Ninth month, eighth month, seventh month? They can't even articulate an abortion that's a bad idea. Gender selection, if it's a girl, you get to abort it. Tax-funded abortions for people where it's against their religious conscience. [...]
Nothing, then. They plan on changing nothing and expecting different results. If only there was a phrase for that.
Actually, correction, they do have another political strategy: The ole' "we're rubber, you're glue"!
When asked about Republican attacks on trans people, which are politically unpopular, McDaniel attempted some very strained whataboutism.
MCDANIEL: [...] the Democrats are using this word book banning. [...] That's a lie. There isn't book banning. What Republicans are doing are protecting our children and parental rights [...] But it's good to know the Democrats playbook and we're going to push on that, especially coming from the Democrat party that is banning freedom of speech, that is canceling people, that is destroying your life if you don't think with their orthodoxy. This is the Democrat Party who is saying if you think outside of the box and everything, we are dictating to you, you will make you lose your job, we will destroy you.
Republicans have literally been fighting Disney because it dared exercised free speech, made book banning much easier, extended Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bigotry, and threatened to separate children from parents who are not bigoted toward their trans kids. But, sure, it's the Democrats who are "destroying anyone who doesn't conform to orthodoxy and taking their jobs while threatening to destroy them."
Speaking of, how's that dirt file on fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson?
Let's Default Our National Debt!
House Republican Whip Tom Emmer appeared on CNN's "State of The Union" and wouldn't directly state that his party won't force a default on the nation's debt.
Host Dana Bash tried pointing out specifically how the cuts they want would hurt his constituents, but Emmer made it clear he will ignore them or just blame Nancy Pelosi when the reality doesn't match his delusions.
GOP's Vanity Tech Douche Candidate Returns
NBC's "Meet The Press" had on Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Although considering his polling, calling him a candidate is a bit too generous, but nonetheless, we are all subjected to his stupidity on TV and expected to take him seriously. So fresh from giving Don Lemon his last good journalistic moment on CNN, Ramaswamy made Chuck Todd look like Walter Cronkite.
When Ramaswamy brings up an example of a person who says their gender doesn't align with their biological sex, he seems to know the difference between sex and gender. But when Todd questions his stance on gender being binary, Ramaswamy then perhaps deliberately conflates biological sex with gender.
RAMASWAMY: Well, there's, there’s two X chromosomes if you're a woman. An X and a Y, that means you're a man.
TODD: There's a lot of scientific research out there –
RAMASWAMY: There's a biological basis for this —
TODD: There's a lot of scientific research out there that says gender is a spectrum.
RAMASWAMY: Chuck, I respectfully disagree.
Funny how these transphobic clowns want to bring biology into this UNTIL scientific research disputes their transphobia and then they fall back on what they "feel" or disagree just because.
Ramaswamy also equates abortion with murder but says it's a "states' right issue." That's not how "states' rights" work, even if a Republican nominee barely polling above skim milk says so.
Asa Hutchinson's Decimal Points
Speaking of polling, Asa Hutchinson announced he was running for president almost exactly a month ago. He appeared on CNN's "State Of the Union" this week to call for going back to a Republican Party that died long before Trump came down an escalator in 2015. So how are Republican voters embracing this? We'll let this picture summarize it.
Can this change for Hutchinson? Likely not when he is polling lower than the fictional Conor Roy in "Succession," who we actually compared to Hutchinson too optimistically.
Phrasing, Steve Scalise!
When asked about any possible tension between himself and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on ABC's "This Week," Steve Scalise chose an odd way to describe their closeness yet trust.
Could be worse: Scalise could have kept misunderstanding what "raw dog" is.
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Abortion Clerical Errors
But if you're worried about Republican-run states or right-wing hack judges upending reproductive rights for everyone, Cassidy seems to think you're just paranoid.
CASSIDY: I think that's totally alarmist. It’s totally alarmist. [...]So, I mean, I think that's alarmist. [...]
If we had a dollar for every person who was labeled as paranoid or alarmist when warning about the danger of losing abortion access prior to Dobbs, Wonkette would not need to ask for donations to stay independently snarky (wink, wink).
But Cassidy gave the game away by dodging a question about Republicans' true goal regarding abortion rights. Todd asked if he would vote against creating a federal abortion standard, after he supported the 20-week abortion ban previously, and Cassidy stammered this nonsense.
CASSIDY: [...]You can give me theoreticals all day long. You truly can. I'm pro-life, by the way. I am pro-life. But the fact is, you're going to need 60 votes to get something through the Senate. What Tammy Baldwin was just talking about, there can be no restrictions in the states upon abortion, meaning that a child could be coming through the birth canal and could still be aborted, is that right? No, it's wrong. And most Americans think that is wrong. And the fact is, Tammy will not get that through the Senate. There's not 60 votes for allowing that. On a bipartisan basis, it's already been rejected. So I kind of reject giving me theoretical after theoretical just because I just – I mean, that's what you do if you want to fill air time and get people buzzing. But it's not how we actually govern.
Nice to know we're seen as "alarmist" by a guy who thinks children are aborted even as they are "coming through the birth canal," a lie so ridiculously stupid that it flies in the face of common sense.
Mia Love's Booing Of Encouragement
Mia Love, the former Republican representative from Utah, was on the panel discussion on CNN's "State Of The Union" and was asked about Mike Pence's very frosty reception at the NRA convention in his home state of Indiana.
Mia Love, however, saw it a different way.
LOVE: It's really interesting. The booing sometimes doesn't mean that they're upset with you at the time. Sometimes, it's getting you to know, we're on you. You better do the right thing. It's a warning. Sometimes, it's a warning shot that says, we're coming after you unless you are giving us everything we need.
No one in the crowd was booing you, Mike Pence. They're saying "Boo-urns! Boo-urns!"
When Love was asked about Trump's attack on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis regarding his cutting of social safety net programs, she told a totally true, totally not made-up anecdote about Trump.
LOVE: I remember — do have to say this. I remember, when I was in the Oval Office, and Trump was there, and he was on the phone, and he was talking to... [...]No, but he just said: "No, those are my people. I'm not going to touch their — I'm not going to touch Social Security." [...] "They're my people. Those are my voters. I'm not going to touch Social Security" or — it's — so it's really interesting.
This quote would not sound like a "hipster coffee shop" story if there wasn't documented history of Trump saying one thing about protecting Social Security and then doing the opposite, despite the fun/disgusting Trump PAC ad portraying DeSantis' pudding fingers.
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