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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat motivation do you think drives the despicable comportment of the GQP in this hearing?
The balance of the Supreme Court? I don't think so. KBJ will change nothing.
Exercising power over Democrats/owning the libs?
Playing the crazies back home? Mmmm. Maybe.
Something else?
I think it is about race and racism.
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)Shes black.
Shes female.
Shes everything they could never even hope to be in their wildest dreams. And more.
maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)Re-election, or the 2024 Presidential Primary.
hlthe2b
(101,711 posts)can only endear them to their base (or so they think).
Most of all, their motivation is that no one is going to do anything about it and they don't care if they are rightfully called out as the total abhorrent cretins that they are by MSM.
MOMFUDSKI
(5,190 posts)That is all.
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)the president of Mar-a-lago.. dispicable men.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)This is all a show. They can't govern worth a damn so all they have is BS and their supporters eat it up. The more BS the better for them...
...they are such enlightened individuals.
jobendorfer
(508 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)ESPECIALLY strong black women
raccoon
(31,089 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)tenderfoot
(8,424 posts)eom
barbaraann
(9,086 posts)The Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria shooting was motivated by a belief that Dems were trafficking children, for example.
caraher
(6,276 posts)It's just red meat for the MAGA mob
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)Acting like assholes and gumming up the works and preventing anything getting done boosts support for a strongman leader to take over the country.
taxi
(1,895 posts)Add that to the pressure of being unable to motivate or unify a base and how that hurts campaign efforts. They're already at odds with tfg for cash, so they pull out all the stops, do and say stupid shit, and sound like fools because it's become a habit and they don't even know it.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)LOCK THEM ALL UP!
Hotler
(11,353 posts)tax cuts for the rich and hate for the rest of us.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,780 posts)It all makes for great sound bites for FOX, Brietbart, OANN
It is race and it isn't race. it is about a traditional power structure wanting to regain lost ground and regain control. It's as much about religion as race. Conservative, largely white, baby boom America feels angry and cornered. They want LGBTQ America to go back to it's closet. They want hip hop culture to go away and for African American music artists to back to being like Diana Ross and Michael Jackson and the Spinners. They don't want to hear "dial ocho for Espanol" or hear Spanish spoken at the supermarket. Instead, they want a conformist America of endless 4th of July Parades with veterans and soldiers and policemen. They want kids to play on bikes and drink from garden hoses like they did. They think bullying is a perfectly acceptable behavior. They like their guns. They think that federal regulation and affirmative action and illegals and tax-and-spend liberals are the cause of every one of their problems.
It's alienation. It's a rural and suburban America that feels like it has nothing in common with the folks they view as "elites" in Chicago, New York, LA, San Francisco. It's a culture that values conformity, comfort, law & order, and appearance and has no use for diverse thought or opinions. American "freedom" is seen as an economic construct - the unfettered ability to get rich. And of course, the freedom to own and use a gun - or 50 guns.
...AND it's payback. That's been a common theme of the past decades. People questioned the votes for George W Bush and Russian influence in 2016. So conservative PACs funded Stop the Steal as payback. Many alleged Putin nas some sort of compromising information on Trump, so conservatives countered with a fanciful tale of Hunter Biden's laptop. Conservatives felt that Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas (yes - they are still salty about that) were smeared and dragged through the mud by the J-Comm, so they see no reason not to drag Biden's nominees through the mud. That also accounts for what we've witnessed.
Apologies for the scope of the answer.
Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)homophobic, transphobic, and anti-Semitic, etc, element among the US voting population.
The GOP is the largest organized hate group on the planet.