No Such Thing

[NanceGreggs]

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The Republican party is corrupt to its core.

From promoting the Big Lie to suppressing the vote, from waging war on women's rights to kow-towing to a Putin-loving ass-kisser who tried to overturn our democracy, their agenda is obvious.

It is time to stop excusing the people who vote for GOPers as low info, ill-educated patsies who simply don't know who they are electing, and why.

After the past five-plus years, there is no such thing as a Republican voter who truly believes that a narcissistic orange-faced baboon who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy was chosen by God to do the Lord's work.

There is no such thing as a Republican voter who doesn't understand that their party tried to overthrow the US government on January 6, 2021, nor is there a Republican voter who can claim ignorance of the intended purpose and consequences of that event.

There is no such thing as a Republican voter who is simply too stupid to recognize that the people they elect to represent them are self-serving racists whose only interest is money and political power.

The days of the oblivious, "I had no idea who/what I was voting for" Republican voters are over - and it's time to stop pretending that they were bamboozled, led astray, and ultimately misled by sleezy politicians who told them exactly what they stood for at every turn.

If you vote Republican, if you elect proven liars to office, if you support their anti-democratic agenda, you are NOT an innocent bystander - you are complicit.

I, for one, do not want to hear another word about those poor misled voters who hide behind their own feigned ignorance in order to absolve themselves of consciously and deliberately supporting a party that is corrupt to its core - and proves it on a daily basis.

[BSdetect]

1. I'm losing patience with the excuses about charging drumpf. There is overwhelming evidence.

[NanceGreggs]

5. Understood.

But with the Jan/6 committee scheduled to expose Trump and his GOP enablers via public hearings, I don't expect Garland to rain on that particular parade.

[brewens]

17. All I know is if heads don't roll, I'm done. Why waste my time? I can be a middle aged white guy

in Idaho, knowing the SC won't really do anything that will hurt me personally.

[DownriverDem]

26. Huh?

I care about my country and will never give up. Sorry you won't be with us.

[Ponietz]

22. Overwhelming evidence that FBI Director Wray was corruptly installed

The same senators that affirmed Wray voted to acquit drumpf.

It’s unfathomable Wray remains out of respect for that very convention the Traitor Caucus destroyed in installing him, and his tenure as General Counsel for Russian mafia energy companies Rosneft and Gazprom surely disqualifies him.

[gab13by13]

32. Just the fact that Wray is a member of the Federalist Society,

gives me plenty of pause.

He never vetted his Federalist, law school acquaintance Kavanaugh, even though there were 4,500 complaints on the FBI tip line.

Wray does need to go.

[secondwind]

2. K&R

[panader0]

3. I wonder if the Republican party can be saved at all.

It needs to be reconstructed from the bottom to the top. What are the Republican values and ideas at
this point? BS like "cancel culture" and "hunter's laptop" and "CRT" and so many other rallying cries
from them are not values, they are reactions to Democrats over made up divisional issues.
Their party needs some true soul searching and a long look in the mirror. Instead of "People's Convoys",
they should hold serious policy meetings. They are worse than a bad drunk scouring for a drink.

[gaskinite]

40. Driving through central CA the past few days

A lot of trucks and Jeep’s flying the Let’s Go Brandon flag. It’s gonna take a Jonestown mass suicide to kill this off.

[7wo7rees]

4. Quite the righteous rant for so early on a Saturday morning!!

Heading out now to Farmers Markets!!

Christ and Good God Almighty...... What a week it's been!!

[Roy Rolling]

6. Branding

Funny thing about marketing and branding—it’s all between the ears. Republicans are successful at getting their self-image promoted.

But time moves on. That image they promote has an expiration date stamped on it—future generations won’t care about their whiny, victim-of-everyone-else image. Only the true believers will be left to slink back under the rocks where they came from.

When the right-wing tried to use modern media to promote their brand, reality intervened and they got caught in their own lies. Like it or not, Hollywood and state-of-the-art media are the purvey of the creative left, not the repeating right.

The right tried to use the left’s weapons (movies and TV) on innocent Americans but got caught. Now, they are experiencing the frustration of sponsoring TV networks, shows, and myPillows that’s no longer reflecting their dream—a Nazi America.

It’s the difference between actual news and a news release—Republicans can only control the latter. Reality controls the news eventually, but it must be forced upon right-wing sales companies who profit from insurrection.

[jaxexpat]

7. Indeed.

The only semi-logical challenge to an individual's comprehension of what the Republican party has degenerated into is bridging the gap between the candidates and their party. Republicans will continue to vote the Republican ticket with the deluded consolation that they're voting for an individual and not the party affiliation. They will claim to maintain an arm's length attitude, never connecting the party to the candidate. This psychologically and mentally grueling exercise is ultimately undertaken because there are two things Republican voters absolutely cannot do: abstain from voting and vote Democratic. Some of these hypocritical morons may even get a little kick out of "martyring themselves for the constitution".

[Roy Rolling]

9. The "correct" branding response

Every single Republican must be made to own and defend each statement made by idiots like Greene as if it’s their own.

Every statement made by Republican radicals is the same as if they said it themself. I often question my Republican Congressmen why they believe “xyz” said by a right-wing nutjob. It eventually wears them down having to defend someone else and not promote themselves to collect money from political donors. Because begging for money is a Congressperson’s main job nowadays.

[jaxexpat]

20. Good point.

It's hard to find the time to defend monster-under-the-bed conspiracies and flat Earth thinking when you know you should be out begging for lucre and self-flagellating to please the rich and the righteous, the base. So many evils to do and so little time.

[gab13by13]

8. I agree 100%

Oh the poor Republican voters are being misled by propaganda, no the fuck they aren't, it's who they are.

Also, every GQP politician is a member of the Putin Party, Putin puppet Donald Trump is still their leader. Their shift to being pro-Ukraine only came about because their internal polling told them to be so. The GQP, Putin Party wants America to be just like Russia, every one of them.

[The Jungle 1]

10. Charlottesville

There is no such thing as a republican who does not understand that Charlottesville was a massive public display of racism in America. They do not want to talk about it but they KNOW. They are our neighbors!

[NQAS]

11. And yet...

It is we who “must understand” these fascists. It is we who must reach out and talk to them.

[Augiedog]

12. May be the truest thing I'll read all day....well, at least this morning...DU always surprises

[The Jungle 1]

13. I always ask people did we get the check from Mexico yet?

The answer I get is very predictable. Oh we all knew Mexico wouldn't pay for the wall.
So you knew he was a liar and you voted for him anyway.

[niyad]

14. Spot on, as always.

[KS Toronado]

15. Your one line NanceGreggs......

" Republican voter who doesn't understand that their party tried to overthrow the US government on January 6, 2001"

They do know it was their party who attempted to overthrow our government and have known it for some time
now and Rs in my red town are ashamed or embarrassed by that fact.

Going into the midterms, we should focus on their past activities of Jan 6th as our "rallying cry". We'll need some
short & sweet messages that convey the fact that we want to keep our Democracy to can you trust Rs not to
overthrow our government.

[c-rational]

29. +1

[KS Toronado]

34. Thank you

Here's what I was talking about

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216527330

[c-rational]

35. Hey KS, I had just read your post a few minutes earlier. And by the way, Happy DU Anniversary, we

have the same start date, albeit three years apart.

[XacerbatedDem]

16. A hat-tip to NanceGreggs for vocalizing exactly what I've been thinking for some time now...

"... a party corrupt to its core..."

[Mr. Steve]

21. absolutely

without a doubt

[Escurumbele]

18. Brilliant, again...to the point. So much said in that short post.

[Emile]

19. If you vote Republican, you do it to entertain tax evading billionaires!

[FakeNoose]

23. You're absolutely right about this

After Jan. 6th (last year) none of them can claim to be confused or fooled.

After Jan. 6th anyone who votes for the GOP is all in on their agenda. All of it - the lies, the racism, the misogyny, the corruption, the bullying, the cheating, the anti-democracy - ALL OF IT!

They are all in.

[DownriverDem]

24. Except

their white supporters love it. They want to drag us back to the 1950s. Women, minorities and gayys are in danger of losing it all. I just saw where they House repubs now want to end gay marriage and rights. I am at a loss that so many white Americans buy into the hate and think that is the way to go. (I'm white) This is wh I am so against the infighting of those on the left. We just don't have time for this and must focus on fighting the repubs.

[kacekwl]

25. Exactly, the Democratic party has to

seize the moment and point this out. Not to those who have made their choice but to those who haven't swallowed the kool aid and are along for the ride. Since only approximately 40-50% of Democrats can be bothered to vote we have to get voters elsewhere. I have some ideas but long posts bore people.

[Tommymac]

27. The only Republicans who count are the 1% Billionaire backers. And they use the same tools on Dems.

They control the Mainstream media. Not to the extent of Faux, but they very much control the message and the spin. They control what the local news shows cover. They control most of the remaining mainstream newspapers and magazines.

They control the message.

They also demonize Liberals and progressives, and are trying to rip the Democratic Party apart. They prey on those who can't stop fighting the 2016 Election, the 2004 Election and the 2000 Election.

They use the same tools on us that they do on the 'ignorant' reTHUGS.

Unfortunately, their are Democrats who listen to this crap, and spread it, then claim ignorance when the Truth hits them in the head.

They are doing the same thing to us.

Fuck the 1%. They will face the music one day. History will not be kind to them at all.

The fucked part is Climate Change is NOT going to wait for us to play petty politics.

Thanks for the OP.

[Joinfortmill]

50. Totally agree.

[Cozmo]

28. YES!

[c-rational]

30. Well said. K&R and Bookmarked.

[NoMoreRepugs]

31. TY NanceGreggs on behalf of all of us here. You have succinctly

corralled the feelings/thoughts/suspicions of our DU community about our Republican countrymen.

A humble opinion from a geezer……

[njhoneybadger]

33. K+R

[Atticus]

36. 👏 nt

[Skittles]

37. thank you

I've been saying this for a long time- you cannot be a good person and support a party that is homophobic, hates women, is anti-worker, anti-science, doesn't care if people have healthcare, starts wars based on lies, etc.....you just can't.

[Mr.Bill]

38. I don't talk to Trump voters very often,

But the ones I do talk to still are in denial. They still think he is the greatest president in the history of the USA. I don't think they will ever admit to anything different.

[ymetca]

39. The Unholy Alliance

between Big Oil and Big White Jesus that fuels the GOP is starting to falter. They've spent all their time blaming their inexorable, inevitable demise on everyone but themselves. But it's their own damn fault, because they destroyed the one thing that truly kept them in power, and that was their loyal workforce. Once the roughneckers and miners numbers plummeted, all they had left was the pulpit, and what could they blame then? Gays and feminists.

Those folks can be reached with good paying GOVERNMENT jobs, installing solar panels, smart-grid, mass transit, and modern infrastructure for the next century. It's a good plan, if Democrats can just keep the unscrupulous profiteers out of the mix.

40% of the economy runs on government largesse right now, only filtered through profit-taking by mobs of grifters, like Rick Scott. The GOP doesn't want to stop that, or their backend feed would dry up. We got them by the balls, and they know it.

The fact that they are screeching so loudly at this moment indicates their grip is weakening, "bigly!"

[Joinfortmill]

49. Amen.

[Cha]

41. TY Nance!

💙💛

[czarjak]

42. But...

Tax reform? I'd vote R too if they saved me seven million dollars over ten years.

[Jetheels]

43. Feigning ignorance? They have been sucked down into the Q rabbit hole.

They are insane more than stupid.

[DFW]

44. Republicans listen to their one infallible oracle: Mr. Manypeople

They think they know things because Fox Noise always says, “many people are saying.”

Mr. Manypeople is everywhere—except when a Democrat wants to talk to him, that is. Republicans don’t know him and can’t find him in such instances. It’s fascinating to watch. Every time some clown from Fox Noise tries the “manypeople are saying,” line on Jen Psaki, for example, and she asks, “Who, specifically?” it turns out to be a magic incantation that wipes Republican memories clean, and they suddenly can no longer remember who “manypeople” is.

[Joinfortmill]

48. Yup and these phantom 'many people' can go straight to hell.

[Oldtimeralso]

45. Nuance please edit...

The January 6, attempt to have a coup was 2021 not 2001. Otherwise an outstanding post, as usual.

[NanceGreggs]

46. DUH!!!

Thanks!

[Oldtimeralso]

52. Sorry Nance, damn autocorrect!!!

n/t

[Joinfortmill]

47. This!!!!

[TeamProg]

51. Yes, largely, but there is NO CURE for single-issue Republican voters.

Many only want to abortion to be illegal. It does not matter to them that the GOP will hurt them economically, environmentally, with gun crime, or by taking away their health insurance or social safety-nets, if the GOP could. And these voters don't care about the means to that end.

There is no getting through to those people unlike a handful of other TFG supporters who do now see that he's a corrupt idiot.

GOP voters aren't ALL misled, many are WILLING to accept what comes by voting along religious beliefs or straight out racism.

There is "hate" and there is "God works in mysterious ways" -- that is the kind of f'ing BULLSHIT we're all fighting against.

Both sides of the same bitcoin..