Friday, January 29, 2021

Liberals demand that half of conservatives follow QAnon

But can only offer a handful of actual examples of anyone really following it?
Definition of gullible : easily duped : easily fooled or cheated especially : quick to believe something that is not true. 

The issue here for liberals is that they want to believe in a good vs evil world where only their view points are considered good, and everyone else's are bad.  This is why you have mainstream liberal views on one side versus what is always described as extremist alt-right views on the other.

For example,  any alternative to Twitter will be automatically defined as a platform for the "alt-right" extremists. Parler, Gab, you name it. If a platform is unwilling to flag a President standing by a flag as "offensive content" then it must be alt-right or possibly even QAnon. 

The reality is that conservatives in 2021 are much more like the conservatives from 2011 or 2001 than liberals from 2021 are like liberals from 2011 or 2001. Liberals would like you to believe that they have created a "new normal" of liberal ideas and that those who do not follow them are the extremist. You want border security, your a racist. You don't believe that there 37 different genders or take issue with biological men competing on women's sports teams and you are genderphobic. You still go to church and believe it god, well then you must be several different things that end with "ist". 

Ultimately if you cannot be otherwise defined by liberals, you become part of something like QAnon. At the end of the day it's a combination of gullibility, fear, and flat out bigotry against viewpoints that differ from theirs. Such a combination makes them think and believe really really stupid things.

46 comments:

rrb said...



Vice has a tv show Searching for QAnon that is absolutely fucking hilarious.

the misfits they interview claiming to be the 'leaders' are a collection of people so fucked up you'd swear they're all broken down alcoholic domestic abusers living in senior group homes.

https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/show/qanon-the-search-for-q

Commander-in-Thief Biden said...


Following is often done for reasons other than support. I'm sure CNN follows them and used to follow Trump before he was banned.

The media (DNC) is just creating a false narrative and stoking division, race baiting and misinformation.

Enemy of the people

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Once again Scott puts up a headline that is a lie. No one is claiming ("demanding") that half of conservatives are QAnon followers. Rather, it was stated that "fully half" of those still supporting Trump (a number that has already sharply declined) are QAnon or QAnon leaning or believe in QAnon lies.

As usual, he also cannot figure out the correct use of the word "demand," a word he constantly and incorrectly misuses.

Caliphate4vr said...

Thanks rrb I’ll try to find it.

If you liked documentaries I highly suggest Wild Wild Country about the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the dude that had a 100 Rolls Royces up in Oregon. It’s fucking nutty watching the local townspeople discussing a free love commune as their neighbor

Myballs said...

Now it's Qanon. 20 years ago it was Neocon and Paul Wolfowitz lover. Now its racist. 20 years ago it was war monger.

Same old play book.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

And once again, if you really want a better insight into what really is happening, go to politicalwire.com where is is apparent that the future of the GOP is grim. They cannot find a way of putting the Trump fiasco behind them even though he has proved and will continue to prove "toxic" to them.

Caliphate4vr said...

https://www.netflix.com/title/80145240

Forgot to include

rrb said...

Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...

And once again, if you really want a better insight into what really is happening, go to politicalwire.com where is is apparent that the future of the GOP is grim. They cannot find a way of putting the Trump fiasco behind them even though he has proved and will continue to prove "toxic" to them.



two things, pederast:

1) go fuck yourself

2) stop trying to 'diagnose' what 'ails' the GOP with the idiotic opinions of asshole liberals who wish nothing but harm to the GOP.

Myballs said...

Gop future is so grim that it did far better than was projected in housr, senate, and states. Even Trump received 74M votes.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Ever hear of objective reporting, rat? Here's some.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
McConnell Was Done With Trump. His Party Said Not So Fast.

BY Nicholas Fandos and Jonathan Martin
Updated Thu, January 28, 2021, 2:23 PM

WASHINGTON — Three times in recent weeks, as Republicans grappled with a deadly attack on the Capitol and their new minority status in Washington, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky carefully nudged open the door for his party to kick Donald Trump to the curb, only to find it slammed shut.

So his decision Tuesday to join all but five Republican senators in voting to toss out the House’s impeachment case against Trump as unconstitutional seemed to be less a reversal than a recognition that the critical mass of his party was not ready to join him in cutting loose the former president. Far from repudiating Trump, as it appeared they might in the days after the Jan. 6 rampage at the Capitol, Republicans have reverted to the posture they adopted when he was in office — unwilling to cross a figure who continues to hold outsize sway in their party.

“Anybody surprised by that vote wasn’t paying attention before yesterday,” said Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a close ally of the Republican leader.

For McConnell, a leader who derives his power in large part from his ability to keep Republicans unified, defying the will of his members would have been a momentous risk, putting his own post in peril and courting the ire of the far right.

But in a series of discreet forays, the stoic 78-year-old had tried to nudge senators toward a different outcome.

He made clear to associates after the Jan. 6 attack that he viewed Trump’s actions around the riot as impeachable and saw a Senate trial as an opportunity to purge him from the party, prompting an article in The New York Times that his office notably did not challenge. In a letter to colleagues, McConnell signaled he was open to conviction, a stark departure from a year before when he had declared he was not an “impartial juror” in Trump’s first impeachment trial and guided him to acquittal.

And then last week, in a speech on the Senate floor, McConnell flatly said the president had “provoked” the mob that sent the vice president and lawmakers fleeing as it violently stormed the Capitol, trying to stop Congress from formalizing his election loss.

They were striking moves for McConnell, who for four years consistently supported and enabled Trump, including backing his refusal to concede the election for more than a month after Joe Biden was declared the winner. Trump spent that period spreading the false claims of voter fraud that fueled the Jan. 6 rampage.

But in the wake of the mob assault and a pair of Senate losses in Georgia, McConnell had come to view the former president as a dangerous political liability and saw an opening to marginalize Trump.

He may have brought exceptionally energetic new voters into the Republican fold, McConnell and his advisers believed, but Trump’s excesses and personality had driven women and suburban voters away, and with them control of the House, the Senate and the White House in just a few short years. And after the Capitol riot, his actions had also put at risk the backing of donors and corporate groups that power the party’s campaigns.

Still, the always-restrained Kentuckian never mounted a campaign to persuade other Republicans to join him, knowing how difficult it would be for his party to break from someone who polls indicate that half of its voters believe should remain their leader.

If all senators were voting, it would take 17 Republicans joining every Democrat to convict Trump, something that seemed all but unthinkable after Tuesday’s vote.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

In the week since Trump skipped Biden’s inauguration and decamped to his private club in Florida, it had become increasingly clear that his departure from the Oval Office had done little, if anything, to loosen his grip on rank-and-file Republicans in Congress. While few have defended his conduct, many fewer have dared to back the impeachment push. The 10 House Republicans who did join Democrats in voting to impeach him faced fierce backlash, and in the Senate, constituents were flooding offices with phone calls indicating they expected their senators to stand behind Trump.

“Let’s face it: Many of the people there — they want to be reelected, most of them,” said Bob Corker, a former Republican senator from Tennessee who retired in 2018 after clashing with Trump. “For those people, whose service in the Senate is their entire life, I’m sure just what they are hearing back home has an effect on them.”

When Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., raised an objection to Trump’s trial, arguing that trying a former president would be unconstitutional, 45 of the 50 Republicans in the Senate — including McConnell — supported his challenge.

By Wednesday, the Republican Party stated an official position against holding Trump’s impeachment trial.

“Not only is this impeachment trial a distraction from the important issues Americans want Congress focused on, it is unconstitutional, and I join the vast majority of Senate Republicans in opposing it,” said Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman.

Far from elucidating his position, McConnell has adopted a sphinxlike silence in public. As late as Tuesday morning, according to Republicans briefed on the conversations, his own aides were uncertain how he planned to vote on Paul’s motion. He has declined to explain his vote, telling reporters Wednesday that as a juror in the coming proceeding, he planned to keep an open mind.

“Well, the trial hasn’t started yet,” he said. “And I intend to participate in that and listen to the evidence.”

His advisers declined to speculate on his thinking.

McConnell remains eager to move beyond Trump. While his House counterpart, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, was set to meet Trump on Thursday in an effort to repair his relationship with the former president, the Senate leader gladly told reporters he had not spoken to Trump since Dec. 15, after McConnell congratulated Biden as the president-elect. He has told allies he hopes never to talk to Trump again.


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Yet his public silence has left even some of the most loyal members of his conference flummoxed.

Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, who said last week that McConnell had told him to vote his conscience on matters of impeachment, ticked through a series of possible explanations for the leader’s vote Wednesday.

“Maybe this is one of those votes that you can be a reflection of your conference, and clearly he does that a lot,” he said of McConnell. “Our conference was pretty overwhelming in its support.”

The vote clearly bewildered some Democrats, some of whom questioned whether it was even worth the effort — or the costs to Biden — to spend time on an impeachment trial destined once again for acquittal. Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, floated a bipartisan censure of Trump in lieu of a trial, setting off a flurry of debate over the topic.

“To do a trial knowing you’ll get 55 votes at the max seems to me to be not the right prioritization of our time,” Kaine lamented.
But Democratic leaders were adamant they would move forward on Feb. 9 as planned with oral arguments. And even Republicans theoretically in favor of a reprimand like censure conceded it was most likely unworkable, at least for now. Collins raised it with McConnell directly anyway, people familiar with the exchange said.
“No one will be able to avert their gaze from what Mr. Trump said and did, and the consequences of his actions,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader. “We will pass judgment, as our solemn duty under the Constitution demands. And in turn, we will all be judged on how we respond.”

TRUMP WILL NOT GO AWAY. THE GOP MAY.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

By the way, that NYT article was taken from RealClearPolitics, a conservative leaning site in much of their commentary, but whose policy is to feature opinions of others as well. (Though they seem to lean more strongly conservative when the GOP is in difficulties.)

And their polling information is strongly objective.

rrb said...




REPORTER: Do you believe you may be required to break down the COVID bill into smaller chunks in order to get it passed?

BIDEN: "No one (But China or Cum-Allah or my handlers) requires me to do anything."


https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1354877187682402309

LOL

JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...


TRUMP WILL NOT GO AWAY. THE GOP MAY.


If it would only be the lying, spamming POS "pastor" the blog and the world would be a better place.

What a fucking retard.

Learn how to post a link and brief comment, not a book. I'm sure roger can help you with that too.

ROFLMFAO !!!

Myballs said...

RCP is not a conservative site. We've told you this before.

And with such close party breakdown in both the house and Senate, it's assinine yo proclaim the gop finished.

Commander-in-Thief Biden said...


BIDEN: "No one (But China or Cum-Allah or my handlers) requires me to do anything."

He's rally grown into that dictator role in his dementia world

Commander-in-Thief Biden said...

really

C.H. Truth said...

Rather, it was stated that "fully half" of those still supporting Trump

Well Reverend...

Unless you can show that "those still supporting Trump" has fallen down into the range of a few dozen faithful, you still wouldn't have evidence that "fully half" of anything.

Even if you want to argue that Trump approval and favorables had fallen into the 40% range, that is still approximately 130 million Americans. That means that you would need to prove that there are 65 million Americans who are following QAnon.

Right now, you would be lucky to show us 65 Americans who are openly supporting QAnon, much less 6500, 65,000, 650,000, 6,500,000, or 65,000,000.

C.H. Truth said...

Reverend...

The fictional story being told by Nicholas Fandos and Jonathan Martin, picked up by the fiction periodical called the New York Times, provides us with an interesting excuse for why their original fictional story ended up not being true.

Lot's of people seems surprised that they apparently didn't read the tea leaves correctly or that the never-Trumper ex-conservative sources turned out to be wrong again.

As far as anyone can actually say with any real non-fictional assurances, Mitch McConnell has never stated that he believed that the President was going to be impeached, he never told anyone that he was going to support the impeachment, he never told anyone in his caucus to support impeachment, and he certainly never let on to anyone that he, himself, was going to be a guilty vote.

He did, however publicly and officially rebuke the Schumer request to bring the Senate in for an emergency impeachment trial, which SHOULD HAVE provided enough fodder to know that McConnell was not all that excited about bring forward an impeachment trial. Moreover, in what was a second REAL LIFE TANGIBLE move by McConnell, he voted that the trial of an ex-President was likely unconstitutional.


Perhaps rather than defend old fake stories that turned out to be untrue with new fake stories that attempt to explain away why the original story was untrue...

Perhaps... just perhaps...

I know it's a stretch, but...

Perhaps... you just judge McConnell by what McConnell actually does. Not on what fake anonymous sources "say" he is going to do.

I know it's tough to rely on reality for your narrative. But it might do you good to at least give it the old college try?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

This just in from politicalwire.com, taken from The Hill:

Take a look at it, Scott. And by all means simply dismiss it as left wing propaganda:

Moderate Republicans Say Party Headed for Disaster
10:06 am EST
“The Republican Party is riven by internal tensions, and moderate voices fear it is headed for disaster at the hands of the far right,” The Hill reports.

“The centrists’ worry is that the party is branding itself as the party of insurrectionists and conspiracy theorists. This spells catastrophe for the GOP’s ability to appeal beyond a hardcore base, they say.”
_______

But of course that does not worry Scott one single bit -- or rather, it well could be his conscience is hurting him because he knows damn well HE has been compromising with these fanatics and outrageously making excuses for them and for Trump year after year now, even before Trump came along.

You have made that bed. You must now lie in.

anonymous said...

se still supporting Trump" has fallen down into the range of a few dozen faithful, you still wouldn't have evidence that "fully half" of anything.


More twisted and obtuse than usual Lil Schitty.....the question I have is why anyone, let alone Greene, would believe anything that is associated with Q Anon!!!!!!!!! It is obvious that most who follow that BS are right leaning assholes like you and that the rest of the country is appalled by the crap... You thinking that the evidence does not support half.....great .....Like those who still believer Obama is kenyan or that the election was stolen clearly fall into the R leaning voters.....Sad it is sooooo obvious all you can do is provide the typical straw man BS circular argument that only you can believe!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

rrb said...



unnamed "moderate republicans" and unnamed "centrists."

LMAO.

pederast, you have bullshit oozing from every pore.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Scott says:
Perhaps... you just judge McConnell by what McConnell actually does [and says?]. Not on what fake anonymous sources "say" he is going to do [and say?].
__________

James says:
McConnell has openly said senators should listen to the evidence and vote their consciences, not that they should refuse even to hold the trial and call Trump innocent, no matter what the evidence says.

And he's being viciously condemned for saying that.

Why is that, Scott?
Why did he say that?
Could it be that he, unlike you, has at least some small shreds of integrity and common sense left?

Caliphate4vr said...

Democrats Vote To Reinstate Trump As President So Impeachment Trial Is Constitutional

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Trump has been reinstated as president so Democrats in Congress can be sure the impeachment trial will be constitutional.

Trump will resume serving as president effective immediately so that Democrats can vote on the article of impeachment filed against him.

"We must make Trump president again so we can constitutionally impeach him again," said Chuck Schumer. "It's the only way to be sure. Normally, we don't care about the Constitution, of course, but when you're talking about impeaching Trump, we have to make sure we get it just right."

Democrats everywhere approved of the move, saying they have had nothing to live for since Trump left office last week.

"I had all these protest signs and nothing to protest," said Portland-area BLM activist Jacob Brier excitedly as he got on his gas mask. "We tried firebombing the local DNC headquarters, but it just wasn't the same. Sure, we could protest Biden starting new wars, but it's more fun to protest war under a Republican president. Feels more righteous-y."

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

When the Babylon Bee is the best you can come up with ...

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Why hasn't Scott responded to my last post?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Scott said:
[McConnell] certainly never let on to anyone that he, himself, was going to be a guilty vote.
___________

James says:
No, but he openly said that he had not made up his mind but would listen to the evidence and make his decision based on it.

Why did he say that, Scott?

Caliphate4vr said...

Babbee is far more interesting than the shit you spam with daily that no one reads

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

"Why hasn't Scott responded to my last post?"
______

The answer is clear. What Scott dismisses as a "fictional" NYT story at 8:52 and 9:30 above is not fictional at all, but true.

It's called objective journalism.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT TRUMP WON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CIVIL WAR.

C.H. Truth said...

McConnell has openly said senators should listen to the evidence and vote their consciences, not that they should refuse even to hold the trial and call Trump innocent, no matter what the evidence says.

Well he did "VOTE" that he felt that the trial of the President was unconstitutional. So I might just argue that this action falls under the category of believing that there should not be a trial.

But it's ultimately not up to McConnell to tell other elected Senators what to do. They are all adults and shouldn't need anyone to tell them what to do.



At the end of the day, Reverend...

You can argue till you are blue in the fact that the NYT had it all right until they didn't have it all right. But that now they actually have it all right based on their explanation as to why they previously had it all wrong.

If you so choose to continue to make that argument.

But personally I will continue to mock you and all of your faith that a bunch of liberal media people have the inside scoop on what conservatives are doing and thinking... and that you stick to this premise regardless of how many times it turns out 180 degrees flat out wrong.


I don't know... pretty amazing how if you actually follow what they DO (rather than what is written about them) that you are never actually wrong about what they do, huh?

JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...

JamesNewLeaf said...
"Why hasn't Scott responded to my last post?"



Looks like someone just got run over.

Again.

And what a pompous POS the "pastor" is while constantly getting trampled while demanding attention.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Scott says
"But it's ultimately not up to McConnell to tell other elected Senators what to do. They are all adults and shouldn't need anyone to tell them what to do."
___________

Changing the subject?

Ah, but they WANTED him to say that they should definitely vote Trump innocent. Why did he not say that?

Why are you having so much trouble with this, Scott? Why, when the NYT reports that McConnell "gladly told reporters[!] he had not spoken to Trump since Dec. 15, after McConnell congratulated Biden as the president-elect. He has told allies he hopes never to talk to Trump again" -- why do you have so much trouble admitting that this is true reporting, and that McConnell wants to get Trump out of the GOP's hair forever?

Seems quite obvious to me.
But then, I go with facts, not fancy.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

McDaniel Urged Trump Not to Form Third Party
11:21 am
RNC chair Ronna McDaniel encouraged Donald Trump not to form a third party, the Patriot Party, as he had been discussing, the Washington Post reports.

“The embittered Trump made no promises.”
__________

Fake news? Fake facts? Seems correct to me.

rrb said...



Why, when the NYT reports that McConnell "gladly told reporters[!] he had not spoken to Trump since Dec. 15, after McConnell congratulated Biden as the president-elect. He has told allies he hopes never to talk to Trump again" -- why do you have so much trouble admitting that this is true reporting, and that McConnell wants to get Trump out of the GOP's hair forever?


true reporting?

the NYT use of "anonymous sources" and track record of LYING is legendary.

Damned fools take the NYT at face value. those seeking truth use it to line bird cages.

insisting that it's honest and credible with a legion of instances to the contrary is the work of an imbecile.


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

When McConnell tells reporters something and they report it, it's lying?

And if the NYT article has grossly misrepresented McConnell, why hasn't he said so?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

GFP
Grand Fanatic Party

JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...

JamesNewLeaf said...
GFP
Grand Fanatic Party



No, it's Get Fucked "pastor" (GFP)

ROFLMFAO !!!

JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...

the NYT use of "anonymous sources" and track record of LYING is legendary.

Damned fools take the NYT at face value. those seeking truth use it to line bird cages.

insisting that it's honest and credible with a legion of instances to the contrary is the work of an imbecile.


Or a pathological liar

rrb said...



The New York Times:

The New York Times published more than a dozen opinion articles and letters to the editor by Kaveh Afrasiabi. A 2018 Times op-ed under his byline identified him as “a former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team.” A 2012 Times op-ed identified him as “a former political science professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team.”

This week, Afrasiabi was arrested and charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Iranian government.

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Frequent New York Times Opinion Writer Was Secret Iranian Agent, Federal Prosecutors Charge
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A taxi passes by in front of The New York Times head office, Feb. 7, 2013. Photo: Reuters / Carlo Allegri / File.

The New York Times published more than a dozen opinion articles and letters to the editor by Kaveh Afrasiabi. A 2018 Times op-ed under his byline identified him as “a former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team.” A 2012 Times op-ed identified him as “a former political science professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team.”

This week, Afrasiabi was arrested and charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Iranian government.

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A press release from the Department of Justice announcing the unsealing of a criminal complaint in the case says, “Since at least 2007 to the present, Afrasiabi has also been secretly employed by the Iranian government and paid by Iranian diplomats assigned to the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in New York City (IMUN). Afrasiabi has been paid approximately $265,000 in checks drawn on the IMUN’s official bank accounts since 2007 and has received health insurance through the IMUN’s employee health benefit plans since at least 2011.”

The press release said that while employed by the Iranian UN mission, Afrasiabi “authored articles and opinion pieces espousing the Iranian government’s position.”


https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/01/20/frequent-new-york-times-opinion-writer-was-secret-iranian-agent-federal-prosecutors-charge/



so yes, we should be believing the NY Fucking Traitorous Times.


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

NYT opinion piece
by Michelle Goldberg

When Joe Biden became the Democratic nominee, it seemed that the coming of a new era had been delayed. Reconstructive leaders, [some say], repudiate the doctrines of an establishment that no longer has answers for the existential challenges the country faces. Biden [I was told] is “a guy who’s made his way up through establishment Democratic politics.” Nothing about him seemed trailblazing.

Yet as Biden’s administration begins, there are signs that a new politics is coalescing. When, in his inauguration speech, Biden touted “unity,” he framed it as a national rejection of the dark forces unleashed by his discredited predecessor, not stale Gang of Eight bipartisanship. He takes power at a time when what was once conventional wisdom about deficits, inflation and the proper size of government has fallen apart. That means Biden, who has been in national office since before Reagan’s presidency, has the potential to be our first truly post-Reagan president.

“Biden has a huge opportunity to finally get our nation past the Reagan narrative that has still lingered,” said Representative Ro Khanna, who was a national co-chair of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. “And the opportunity is to show that government, by getting the shots in every person’s arm of the vaccines, and building infrastructure, and helping working families, is going to be a force for good.”
.

Pretty simple. Pretty difficult, but pretty simple.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Pentagon May Send Troops to Assist with Vaccines
7:29 am
New York Times:
“The Pentagon is considering sending active-duty troops to large, federally run coronavirus vaccine centers, a major departure for the department and the first significant sign that the Biden administration is moving to take more control of a program that states are struggling to manage.

“The Federal Emergency Management Agency is hoping to set up roughly 100 vaccine sites nationwide as early as next month, and on Wednesday night requested that the Pentagon send help to support the effort. The sites, and the use of the military within them, would require the approval of state governments.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

GOP strategist predicts what will become of the GOP if Donald Trump isn’t convicted
HuffPost
Republican strategist Sarah Longwell warned Thursday that Donald Trump will control the GOP “for the next 10 years” if Senate Republicans don’t vote to convict the former president for inciting the deadly U.S. Capitol riot.


Longwell, who founded the "Republican Voters Against Trump" group that before the election released ads featuring rank-and-file members revealing why they’d ditched the party, told CNN’s Don Lemon that GOP lawmakers should “get past” their fear of Trump because “this impeachment vote is their off-ramp.

“This is their best chance to put a stake through Donald Trump’s political future,” she said. “If they don’t take it, Donald Trump is going to control this party for the next ten years.”


Longwell warned that, otherwise, the GOP will become the party of the QAnon conspiracy theory-believing Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

It’s “not just dangerous for the Republican Party,” she added, but “an existential threat to the country to have one of the two major political parties controlled by people who are out there spreading conspiracy theories.

“And I’m not talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Longwell clarified. “I’m talking about (House GOP Minority Leader) Kevin McCarthy and (Florida GOP Rep.) Matt Gaetz and so many others in Congress who voted to object to a free and fair election, who told voters that it was stolen from them, who followed Donald Trump and it led to a violent attack on the Capitol.”

Longwell said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should be saying that “this is our chance to be done with Trump” but added: “I am worried that that is not the direction they are going to go.”

________

That's a GOP strategist saying that, folks! Not the NYT.

C.H. Truth said...

James...

We have no idea why the NYT anonymous sourced stories about the GOP are continuously wrong.

It could be that they are lying about what they are being told, it could be that they are stretching the truth, it could be that they have unreliable sources, they could literally be making things up, or could be one of many things.

The most logical would be that nobody who is actually a real conservative who is in the loop would "ever" talk to the NYT, WaPo, or any liberal reporter anonymously. The types of people who might be considered conservative as well as willing to speak to a liberal reporter in those regards are those with an ax to grind. Likely never-Trumpers and others who are looking to undermine the current GOP culture.

But what we can attest to is that the NYT anonymously sourced stories are almost entirely wrong, almost every single time. They may have a worse track record than the broken clock (which is right twice day).


But what is really, really puzzling here Reverend.

Is why you still don't get that no conservatives actually believe ANYTHING that is reported in those rags, for the very reason that they are pretty much always wrong.

Moreover, we believe their "opinions" about things even less. I would rather listen to my dog bark and believe it makes sense, than to believe the opinions of a NYT reporter about what is happening with the GOP.

So when you continue to cite things written in the NYT or WaPo it is akin to telling us that you believe that 2+2=5. We simply roll our eyes and tell you that you are peddling stupidly dumb wrong information.

C.H. Truth said...

That means Biden, who has been in national office since before Reagan’s presidency, has the potential to be our first truly post-Reagan president.

Last time I checked, Ronald Reagan won 44 and 49 states respectively and won reelection by 18 points. Slow Joe's victory was so unimpressive that over 100 million Americans still question that he is legitimate.

To compare the two is like comparing Tom Brady to the NY Jet's third string quarterback. Oh and in case you are wondering Reagan would be Brady and Slow Joe would be that emergency quarterback.