GOP Children's Story

[kpete]

[alterfurz]

1. new GOP logo-?

A Texas yard sign depicted a GOP elephant with its trunk up a girl’s skirt. Police seized it.

[MrModerate]

2. The cops seized it? That sounds a tad unconstitutional to me. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Probably claimed it was child porn, even though cartoon depictions of child porn are not prohibited,

... per some (Supreme?) Court ruling in the 80s, I think it was. The principle being that a photo exploits a specific child who could not give consent whereas a cartoon can be created totally from imagination.

[MrModerate]

4. And some people are always trying to criminalize imagination. n/t

[Norbert]

5. Sounds like an invitation to mass produce these signs

of course Abbott will probably thru executive order make it a felony to display them.

[OMGWTF]

6. The stars are pointing the wrong way

The Rethugs changed their logo to the upside-down (Satan) star when GWB was installed by the SCOTUS.

[calimary]

7. What I'm seriously worried about is that Dems will fully wake up after it's too late.

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And we have to wait ten years til the next redistricting. By then, what kind of country will we be left with?

[Texin]

8. It's already too late for women and girls.

[calimary]

9. Actually, fixed for accuracy: ...that Dems MAY fully wake up after it's too late

No "will fully wake up." I don't have much confidence in my team. They want to do good things. Unfortunately, they're terribly bad at it. (And they're very effective at that.) With the GOP, it's the exact opposite: They want to do bad things. Unfortunately, they're terribly good at it. (And they're VERY effective at that.)


Dayum. Since they "recovered" from the Nixon era, in the mid-'70s, and that decade got old Newt Gingrich erupted on the scene and went outwardly nasty and bullying as the 70s gave way to 1980, and by then, we got stuck with Reagan, who was effective and charismatic and TV-savvy and appealing with that "adorable" "harmless" "Old Dutch" schtick. And schtick was what he knew best, as the B-actor and TV host/spokesman he was. And the Republicans were off and running and haven't looked back. They were also smart, targeting the low-hanging fruit that nobody else was interested (you heard murmurs about "run for school board!&quot and from there, start climbing the ladder to real public-office significance. And from there, hell, you could go all the way if you gamed it out properly.

I think we have to change at least some, if not all, of our behavior as Democrats. And start getting to know a little ruthlessness. If we play by the rules, we wind up GETTING played. The rules only work when both sides follow them, and regard themselves as held to those rules. We're up against an enemy that doesn't do that OR think that way. Not anymore. This Newt-nurtured bunch rewrote the rule book THEIR way, with attitudes and strategies geared toward mean 'n' nasty leading the way. It sucks. It sucks HORRIBLY. But, it seems to me, that this underscores why they win. Why they can fuck things up for us and in effect score a "win" even when we supposedly "have the majority." As we still do right now. But THEY'RE the ones who matter, every time, and we're stuck in the "curses, foiled again" corner. Always on defense. Always earnestly wanting to "be nice." "Nice" doesn't get you anywhere on this playing field.

And I'm FUCKING SICK of it!!!

I just changed part of my signature at the bottom of the page, to include what I think we've gotta do, at least to some extent: THINK DEVIOUSLY.

And thinking further, what I'm also afraid of, but that might - repeat - MIGHT - finally shake us the hell OUT of this sickening and selfish and power-mad era, would be another big cataclysm. Something that shakes everybody awake. Something that jolts us back toward some semblance of what we used to think of as American unity and community. However, we're having some real humdingers right now - as climate change churns up more and bigger and more dangerous weather events; WITH a still-raging pandemic that we thought we'd conquered months ago that, at the very least has kept us isolated, and uncharacteristically inconvenienced; AND the resulting long, miserable hospital ordeals; AND the deaths. Last stats I saw were yesterday at 12:21pm showed more than 40-million cases in the U.S., and a death toll of 652,000-PLUS.

I don't know if we'll ever completely come out of this, snap out of this, or rise anew and chastened by the lessons we've been force-fed. There are still nasty old dynamics at work that are like velcro. Stuff (AND people) will cling to it. Did a jolt as big as 9/11 shake us out of it? Seems almost like the opposite as happened.

And I don't know what to do about it except to fight back the way the bad guys do: Think deviously to throw the enemy off its game when it's expecting behavior from us that we've always fallen back upon. Stop bringing feather-dusters to gun fights, and start arming up accordingly. Riding in an Army tank with friendly fully-armed bombers escorting overhead.


And I'm sorry it's come to this. I wish it weren't so, and that I wasn't thinking things like this, and that we aren't where we are. But it is, and seems to me we've GOT TO have a response, or else it'll be the OTHER guy's Army tank and we'll just get rolled over. AGAIN.