Sometimes you see something and it just leaves you basically speechless:
holy shit https://t.co/75MGZiexio
— Cake or Death (@Johngcole) March 17, 2019
This is the Republican party in 2019.
by John Cole| 27 Comments
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Sometimes you see something and it just leaves you basically speechless:
holy shit https://t.co/75MGZiexio
— Cake or Death (@Johngcole) March 17, 2019
This is the Republican party in 2019.
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JPL
First they come after…..blah, blah, blah, blah.. It’s the Irish’s turn especially on St. Patrick’s Day.
I might add that even the president didn’t attack the Irish today. That should say something about the party.
Gravie
Yes, the GOP is just assholes from the top all the way down.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
The massive Beto Mania crowds are freaking them out.
Mount Pleasant, Iowa (photo)
Waterloo, Iowa (photo)
Shocked for Beto (photo)
Girls for Beto (photo)
And it should:
banditqueen
The GOP just can’t think outside the stereotype box. At all. And ironically, the GOP has now turned itself into the stereotypes of white supremacy, racism, bigotry, sexism, hatred, terrorism, selfishness etc.
Ted Lautenschlager
Vile scum…and “the media” will both sides….it
schrodingers_cat
Didn’t you used to be an R not that long ago? I have always wondered why, since even then you seemed to be far nicer and saner than the average R.
Bobby Thomson
No Irish need apply.
Now that’s kickin’ it old school.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat:
My mother was an R. My husband used to be an R. Abraham Ribicoff, Jacob Javits, Nelson Rockefeller . . . . They weren’t like this.
Betty Cracker
If they had a smidgen of honesty, a lot of the “how come Kanye gets to say the n-word and it’s okay to stereotype white folks huh HUH?!?” people would get cognitive dissonance whiplash from this. But they’re hypocrites to a man.
guachi
I saw this earlier. As someone who has Irish relatives on both sides of my family the only response I could give the Republicans would be expletive filled.
Bigots.
The lot of them.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: They have been pretty bad since at least the Gingrich era if not earlier.
hilts
@zhena gogolia:
Abraham Ribicoff was a Democrat not a Republican who said this at the 1968 Democratic convention:
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
zhena gogolia
@hilts:
Oh, you’re right, I’m sorry! I got mixed up because my mother loved him even though she was a Republican.
zhena gogolia
@hilts:
Substitute Lowell Weicker.
Litlebritdifrnt
Have they no shame? I mean seriously are they going to now alienate every Irish American? Seriously? Who the hell thought that was a good move?
zhena gogolia
The funny part is, he looks cute even in his mug shot. And he’s rocking that little green hat!
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
hahahahhahahahahahhaahahhaha
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
central texas
“This is the Republican party in 2019.”
This is the same republican party there has been since the first time i could vote in a presidential election, for Kennedy, not Nixon. It has just become louder since Reagan, not different.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@hilts: Zhena was probably referring to fellow new york liberal republican, John Lindsay.
Lindsay, Rocky, Javitz were a NYC trio
schrodingers_cat
@central texas: They were the same immigrant hating party with crackpot ideas about the economy a hundred years ago too. Smoot,Hawley and Reed, Johnson were all Rs IIRC.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@central texas:
@schrodingers_cat:
All true. I remember reading that during Eisenhower’s admin several R congressmen proposed super-wingnutty constiutional amendments like abolishing the separation between church and state.
I think that the R party had more actual moderates in the past. That’s part of the reason Eisenhower ran on the R ticket. He wanted to strengthen the moderate wing of the Republican Party and stop men like Taft from returning the United States to the 1920s where we didn’t give much of a shit about the rest of the world. IOW, he was trying to protect both the New Deal and the recent post-WW2 institutions/global order. Opposing the USSR was also a reason for doing all of this.
He was still traditionally conservative, but he wasn’t a reactionary IIRC
Ruviana
@schrodingers_cat: I was a teenager in the 1960s and there were *LIBERAL* republicans! The range of perspectives in both parties was far broader than what we have today.
Bill Arnold
@zhena gogolia:
Likewise, well, father’s side of the family[1]. Northeast Republicans were different. Banker/reasonable/centrist/moderate types, though certainly not progressive. Father held out until the 1992 election, pushed to the Democrats by the anti-environmentalism that started (in the modern era) with Reagan/James Watt et al. Being kicked out of Death Valley at the start of the Gingrich Shutdown was the kicker.
[1] Republicans since there was a Republican party; R congressman in my ancestry.
J R in WV
@central texas:
In 1963 I was in junior high school. On that fateful day in November when JFK was shot, I was in a science class with Mr Emmet Pugh, teaching. Early in the class, the PA system came on, very unexpected.
They announced that the President, President Kennedy, had been shot, and school was dismissed early. Mr Pugh couldn’t control his glee that the dirty Catholic bastard was shot. It was despicable, and I hated him from then on.
He also told revealing stories, that showed how bigoted he was towards black people, things I won’t repeat because they were despicable even in 1963!! He also didn’t teach much science, I learned more reading books in the school library than I did in class.
That’s how bad it was 50 years ago. Not that it’s that much better today. Republicans, Know-Nothings, Ku Klux Klan, Trump, all the same!
ETA to add the comment I was responding to.
Tehanu
@J R in WV: I was in the 11th grade. My English teacher, who up to that point I had rather disliked, had a very deep tan. He got a note from the office and when he read it, he turned absolutely white, or rather gray, in the face with shock, and then he told us that the President had been shot and asked us to sit quietly for a moment. I totally changed my attitude toward him because of that. Later the same day, my dad was driving me home from school and we saw the local John Birch Society head walking down the street, a transistor radio held to his ear, with a big smile on his face. Needless to say I was horrified, shocked, and disgusted — and I’ve never had any reason to change that opinion in the half-century since.