Former FL gov, current US senator and Weekly World News “Bat Child” lookalike Rick Scott is the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Today, he released a bat-shit 11-point plan outlining what Repubs will do if they take back power. All 11 chunks of guano are reproduced below the fold:
1. Education: Our kids will say the pledge of allegiance, salute the Flag, learn that America is a great country, and choose the school that best fits them.
We will inspire patriotism and stop teaching the revisionist history of the radical left; our kids will learn about the wisdom of the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the founding fathers. Public schools will focus on the 3 R’s, not indoctrinate children with critical race theory or any other political ideology.
2. Color Blind Equality: Government will never again ask American citizens to disclose their race, ethnicity, or skin color on any government form.
We are going to eliminate racial politics in America. No government policy will be based on race. People “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” We are all made in the image of God; to judge a person on the color of their epidermis is immoral.
3. Safety and Crime: The soft-on-crime days of coddling criminal behavior will end. We will re-fund and respect the police because, they, not the criminals, are the good guys.
We will enforce our laws, all of them, and increase penalties for theft and violent crime. We will clean up our cities and stop pretending that crime is OK. We have zero tolerance for “mostly peaceful protests” that attack police officers, loot businesses, and burn down our cities.
4. Immigration: We will secure our border, finish building the wall, and name it after President Donald Trump.
Nations have borders. We should give that a try. President Trump’s plan to build a wall was right. We welcome those who want to join us in building the American dream, immigrants who want to be Americans, not change America. We are a stronger nation because we are a nation of immigrants, but immigration without assimilation makes us weaker. Politicians from both parties talk big about border security and do nothing. We are done with that.
5. Growth / Economy: We will grow America’s economy, starve Washington’s economy, and stop Socialism.
Socialism is un-American and always leads to poverty and oppression. We will stop it. We will shrink the federal government, reduce the government workforce by 25% in 5 years, sell government buildings and assets, and get rid of the old, slow, closed, top-down, government-run-everything system we have today.
6. Government Reform and Debt: We will eliminate all federal programs that can be done locally, and enact term limits for federal bureaucrats and Congress.
Many government agencies should be either moved out of Washington or shuttered entirely. Yesterday’s old government is fundamentally incompatible with the digital era. The permanent ruling class in Washington is bankrupting us with inflation and debt, so they must be removed. For you to have more, Washington must have less.
7. Fair Fraud-Free Elections: We will protect the integrity of American Democracy and stop left-wing efforts to rig elections.
Today’s Democrat Party is trying to rig elections and pack the courts because they have given up on Democracy. They don’t believe they can win based on their ideas, so they want to game the system and legalize voter fraud to stay in power. In true Orwellian fashion, Democrats refer to their election rigging plans as “voting rights”. We won’t allow the radical left to destroy our democracy by institutionalizing dishonesty and fraud.
8. Family: We will protect, defend, and promote the American Family at all costs.
The nuclear family is crucial to civilization, it is God’s design for humanity, and it must be protected and celebrated. To say otherwise is to deny science. The fanatical left seeks to devalue and redefine the traditional family, as they undermine parents and attempt to replace them with government programs. We will not allow Socialism to place the needs of the state ahead of the family.
9. Gender, Life, Science: Men are men, women are women, and unborn babies are babies. We believe in science:
Men and women are biologically different, “male and female He created them.” Modern technology has confirmed that abortion takes a human life. Facts are facts, the earth is round, the sun is hot, there are two genders, and abortion stops a beating heart. To say otherwise is to deny science.
10. Religious Liberty and Big Tech: Americans will be free to welcome God into all aspects of our lives,
and we will stop all government efforts to deny our religious freedom and freedom of speech. The Democrat Party and their Big Tech allies are not merely secular; they have virtually created a new religion of wokeness that is increasingly hostile toward people of faith, particularly Christians and Jews. They are determined to drive all mention of God out of public view. We will not be silenced, canceled, or told what words to use by the politically correct crowd.
11. America First: We are Americans, not globalists.
America will be dependent on NO other country. We will conduct no trade that takes away jobs or displaces American workers. Countries who oppose us at the UN will get zero financial help from us. We will be energy-independent and build supply chains that never rely on our adversaries. We will only help countries that are willing to defend themselves, like Israel.
It’s as thorough a distillation of white grievance politics as I’ve ever seen in one place: Christianist, patriarchal, racist and homophobic. In a word, Trumpist.
The scaremongering around (and scare-capitalization of) “socialism” smacks of Scott’s cynical manipulation of Floridians, many of whom are immigrants themselves or descended from immigrants from Caribbean or South American kleptocracies that label themselves “socialist,” e.g., Cuba and Venezuela. It seems to work in Florida. Don’t know if it has legs nationally.
Anyhoo, Mitch McConnell is allegedly displeased with the Scott manifesto because McConnell wanted to run on a policy-free strategy of “Democrats suck,” and Scott’s primal screed endorses a vision that Republicans in purplish areas may have to answer for (if the Beltway journos do their jobs properly — always a big IF).
At the prospect of the midterms coming down to a choice between Democrats in a high inflation, COVID-roiled economic environment on the one hand and radical Republicanism as defined by Scott on the other, I’m caught between hope and dread. My hope is voters will reject this hard-right vision; I dread learning voters embrace it instead.
Oh well. All we can do is everything in our power to ensure the former occurs rather than the latter. Maybe by laying it out in such stark terms, Scott did us a favor. It would, ironically, be the first service he ever rendered his country.
Open thread.
Baud
I still see no difference between them and the Democrats.
laura
Truth be told, this does nothing to lighten my whole Nazi Scum Fuck OFF! mood.
Gravenstone
Dominionist, much?
Damien
Wow, it’s almost like they’re boomeranging back past everything Lee Atwater told them about dogwhistles and have decided that pretty soon the n-word will be on the official Republican platform.
bjacques
Judas priest
Seanly
He keeps spouting a subjective feeling and then saying science. His stupid opinion isn’t science. There is also a huge amount of projection including the entire second paragraph about election “integrity”.
mrmoshpotato
All of this is batshit crazy, but
this hilariously and stupidly runs away with the cake.
Does Bat Child means all manufacturing jobs are coming back to the US with livable wages?
Frank Wilhoit
Pure sadism. We need to start using the word.
But none of this is new. It was all being promised in 1980. And the real trap for us is the inherent dissonance in saying, here is an urgent problem — that has been in place for forty years.
NotMax
@laura
“A swastika in every pot.”
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JoyceH
Jennifer Rubin in the Post about Scott’s agenda:
Yep.
catclub
I saw this and I thought “Why the hell is Rick Scott running for office?”
Chief Oshkosh
So, does this mean that Senator Batboy will finally get to spend quality time in a federal pen?
Gravenstone
@Seanly: Wonder how much of his base he alienated with “the earth is round”?
JoyceH
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The Dangerman
I’ve got Bingo on my Bullshit Bingo card.
artem1s
@Seanly:
Remember this is the party that decided there would be no GOP primaries and they would forego the primary process and
crownnominate TFG without the input of Republican voters. I don’t think this is going to sell with the base the way he thinks it will.Don Quijote
Your lack of faith is shocking…
This is the country that elected Donald J. Trump.
Scuffletuffle
@Gravenstone: Lol! Can we stop his paychecks as a way of shrinking Washington?
NeenerNeener
I’m sure my RWNJ sister would read this manifesto and approve of every last point, as would her husband and all of her in-laws. I’m not looking forward to the coming elections.
Cacti
Yep, it’s a fascist movement.
Martin
I wonder if Scott was aware enough to not go to 14 points, because these look familiar.
gene108
Elections are all about turning out your supporters.
This manifesto should impress the Republican base and help with turnout.
I don’t think, other than revulsion at Republicans, Democrats have the same ability to fire up their voters so succinctly.
Sure Lurkalot
@Frank Wilhoit: Yep, plagiarized David Koch’s 1980 VP platform.
No Country for
OldAnyone but White Men.gene108
@mrmoshpotato:
People lived while working in manufacturing, in the 1880’s. Unions and socialists have distorted what “livable” means. They created an entitlement mentality, where everyone is entitled to the latest iPhone or flat screen T.V. and if they can’t afford it, they aren’t making a livable wage. That’s a crazy left-wing fallacy that has hurt American manufacturing.
//Some right-wing think tank hack
Miss Bianca
@Scuffletuffle: I like the way you think.
Quiltingfool
I really got a kick out of the statement, “We believe in science.” Yeah, right, you stupid asshat.
Science doesn’t give a shit about “belief.” Gravity, for example, has no interest in your believing it exists – you step off a roof, and gravity’s gonna show you a thing or two.
That entire screed is just a pile of verbal vomit.
Benw
Inconceivable!
Baud
@gene108:
Remarkably accurate.
Quiltingfool
@Seanly: Every Accusation Is A Confession.
Elizabelle
@Don Quijote: This is the country stuck with an Electoral College that elected Trump.
Who was defeated, soundly, by popular vote. Twice.
Take it elsewhere.
stinger
@JoyceH: What a great offer! Too bad I can’t take advantage of it. (I already have it and two other Regency Mage books.) ?
Betty Cracker
@Martin: Umberto Eco! God rest his brilliant soul.
TriassicSands
Thank goodness we live in the American Bubble completely separate from everyone else on the planet. Our air is American Air, our oceans are American Oceans, and we don’t have to share any of that. If the planet’s climate heats up, that will be a problem for everyone else, because inside the American Bubble everything will be fine.
How do people get this stupid?
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
Alison Rose
We are now all human forms of Homer-backing-into-the-hedge gifs
A Ghost to Most
@Gravenstone: “Dominionist” is just a purty word for christian supremacist.
bbleh
… if the Beltway journos do their jobs properly — always a big IF.
[Narrator]: They didn’t.
TriassicSands
@mrmoshpotato:
Every American worker will be a billionaire — paid in crytocurrency and decorating their homes with hideous NFTs.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Our Feckless Beltway Press Corpse do it’s job? You did say “big if”. I’d change that to “never in our lifetime”.
Bill Arnold
He literally is a white collar criminal who stole a big pile of money from socialism – he was CEO of a company that defrauded Medicare of billions of dollars. So he condemns himself on two of those sections. (The focus on violent crime is a big tell. White collar crime and kleptocracy are not really crimes in his mind, unless wealthy Republicans suffer.)
That is a seriously unhinged manifesto. I know some party line Fox-news-watching Republicans who would agree that some of it is nuts, at least until they had their minds re-shaped by new mainlined propaganda. (I still suspect that he drove the commission of massive voting fraud (perhaps in rural Red districts) in his last election; he was way too smugly confident of a win.)
Baud
Own goal, Rick Scott.
TriassicSands
They’re still trying to look up the word “science” in their Bibles.
waspuppet
When there’s a Democrat in the White House, Republicans gain seats because people (with an assist from our “liberal” media) forget who Republicans are.
When there’s a Republican in the White House, Democrats gain seats because people remember who Republicans are.
Scott’s statement threatens to ruin that ecosystem.
Brachiator
God is a scientist? Must be the “nuclear” thing.
Who is more powerful, Nuclear Jesus or Quantum Buddha?
misterpuff
The Constitution only referenced as a patriotic touchstone and several broadsides to the results of modern interpretation of said document.
May not be Nazis but not supporters of Democracy.
Tom Q
@Elizabelle: Thanks for getting in with this before I could. Democrats have got the most votes in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections, but saw the presidency go to the loser twice. Every year, it seems the margin Dems have to win by to take the House of Representatives grows another point. And people act as if every bit of this is some shame on the Dems (and their countrymen), rather than the result of an archaic, slave-state-slanted system that GOPers are trying to push into even further unfairness.
It’s definitely important that Dems give as much publicity to this Scott screed as they can (expect the media to discuss it honestly? It is to laugh). But the thing that could best improve Dem prospects this November is for COVID to recede ever farther into the rear-view. As to which, true or not , those medical professionals out there saying something along the lines of “COVID will always sort of be with us from here on” may be the Dems’ worst enemy for 2022.
Patricia Kayden
Lacuna Synecdoche
Betty Cracker @ Top:
You say lookalike, Betty, but I say, “Has anyone ever seen both of them in the same room? Anyone? Bueller?”
I’m just asking …
japa21
Enough projection in there that it should get an Oscar.
But, and what worries me, is that each of those points can be boiled down to a 4-5 word bullet point which sounds nice, even if it is crazy.
BruceFromOhio
Has that “we’re going to do this TO YOU” vibe of the abuser, in contrast to “we’re going to do this FOR YOU.”
Grateful for the blatant embrace of full-frontal Trumpista, although Tyrone needs to update his 27% floor stat. 2 out of 5 voters are gonna look at this and say, sounds good to me.
ETA let’s see what these two-bit soulless ratfuck criminals do when they hit the defense budget bwahaha LOOK WHO IS WEAK ON DEFENSE NOW, SCOTTY
Brachiator
@NotMax:
And every pot made of swastikas…
NotMax
@Lacuna Synecdoche
Rictus Scott.
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Spanky
The earth is not round, motherfucker. It resembles an oblate spheroid but somewhat more pearshaped, to put it in terms that might penetrate your fat bald skull if you had any sense.
BruceFromOhio
@Brachiator: QB for the win, every time.
Roger Moore
@Seanly:
This kind of thing is incredibly common in Republican rhetoric. They can say the science supports them, at least if you assume our knowledge of biology stopped growing in the early 20th Century.
The thing to understand is that the Victorians were phenomenal natural historians, so a huge amount of our basic knowledge of biology started with the observations they made and the theories they based on that study. But they were also deeply affected by the social mores of their time, and that permeated their theories and even their observations. Biology is deeply indebted to their work, but we’re still struggling to remove many of their biases from the science. Older science, like the kind people who are now senior citizens picked from their high school textbooks that were already outdated 50 years ago, is even more deeply affected by those Victorian mores.
Bill Arnold
@Seanly:
Ah good point. That seriously bolsters suspicions that he, Rick Scott, committed serious election fraud in his 2018 election. (Before the election, he was annoyingly smugly overconfident of a win; not a good look.)
Mike in NC
Looks like they took Newt’s “Contract On America” and gave it shiny coating of Trumpism.
NotMax
@Bruce From Ohio
Atomic Jesus would, however, work as a garage band name.
:)
Roger Moore
@The Dangerman:
Scott is disappointed. He was going for blackout.
Ohio Mom
My god, that got nuttier and nuttier.
Starting with school children saying the pledge — okay, I’m betting almost every public school student already does (can’t speak to what goes on in those private schools Republicans love so much).
But after that, Whoa, Nellie. And by the way, Rick Scott, leave my people out of your screed (“… new religion of wokeness that is increasingly hostile toward people of faith, particularly Christians and — emphasis added — JEWS). There’s a reason we Jews vote consistently, overwhelmingly for Democrats, and you just demonstrated why.
Martin
Oh, looks like I accidentally typed some garbage into my comment form. lredd is me. I’d be curious how that happened, but that would take too much effort to figure out.
trollhattan
Can I assume that when these flag-saluting, Constitution-following schools get to this bit from Amendment 1, the school bus screeches to a halt?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
Federal money funding religious schools, yo.
Spanky
@Roger Moore: Not to mention that God’s will matches 100% with their desires.
NotMax
“Our manifesto goes up to 11.”
– Mirror universe Spinal Tap
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Roger Moore
@Spanky:
“Round” is not the same as “spherical”. To be round, something need only approximate a sphere, which the Earth does to reasonable precision.
Lacuna Synecdoche
Rick Scott via Betty Cracker @Top:
God’s design is science now, Rick?
Says the guy who just redefined science.
Ohio Mom
@trollhattan: I don’t know what they learn in other states but the Ohio curriculum is already big on founding documents and capitalism.
TriassicSands
There is a reason¹ why Republicans win elections — their contempt for the intelligence of voters is well-founded.
¹ There are other reasons, too.
DougL (Formerly EmperorofIceCream)
@NeenerNeener: That was my exact reaction as I read it … a sinking feeling that the growing white (and white adjacent) grievance movement will lap this up. The media, which seems determined to put its hand on the scales in favor of the right, will NOT interrogate this American version of Mein Kampf with anything like rigor and/or good faith. This is a contract Newt could only dream of writing…
PS … finally got around to my new name … how could I not use a BJ standard name (my real one, just a happy coincidence although I will make zero claims of coming anywhere close to the writing abilities of “other” BJ Dougs)! We’ll see what the BJ server will ultimately accept as I gracefully drop the Formerly…
WaterGirl
@Martin: I cleaned up your nym and Betty Cracker’s reply. So now the only reference is in your comment #61.
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
They’re also completely bullshitting when they say schools won’t teach any political ideology. They already said the schools would teach kids that America is a great country, which is absolutely a political ideology. I’m not saying it’s an ideology I disagree with, but it’s an ideology all the same. This is completely typical Republicanism. What they believe is simple truth; only things they disagree with are ideological.
UncleEbeneezer
On one of the recent PSAmerica podcasts they noted that the GOP has positions that are extremely unpopular and Dems need to start tying EVERY Republican to them in their public messaging. Taking away Abortion Rights, lifting vaccine mandates, opposing Vote By Mail, banning books, Don’t Say “Gay”, supporting election subversion etc.
All of these are VERY unpopular, even with GOP voters! I don’t expect many GOP voters will be moved because they are trash, but there are plenty of Swing Voters who can be shifted to our side. As much as I love the idea of running on positivity, I do think we need to start tying these things around the necks of every single Republican running for office.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Martin:
Please give us a warning when a link is to a PDF. Some browsers on some devices download it automatically when you click on the link, which is sometimes not wanted.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@Chief Oshkosh:
Beware of what you wish for, Rick Scott. You just might get it – good and hard.
Martin
@Ohio Mom: Put that whole thing in this context:
and
Consider the combination of white supremacy, Christian supremacy, and American exceptionalism. The founders have been elevated to religious figures. The dominant form of judicial review in our highest court is the equivalent to Biblical literalism, and that is combined with actual Biblical literalism. America is not subject to the realities that humanity faces, we are special. We transcend the limits of our species and our planet, because reasons.
It doesn’t matter that every kid says the pledge, we must be told that the pledge is under assault. And the pledge is unerring, despite having been revised 4 times, most recently in the lifetimes of probably half of this board. These 11 points tell a cohesive story. It’s not a good story.
Martin
@Steeplejack (phone): Apologies. I didn’t even notice it was a pdf.
Brachiator
@Bill Arnold:
Great point. This is part of the general conservative mindset all over the world. A few weeks ago, BBC News made note of this little controversy.
And not surprisingly, quite a bit of that fraud was done by Tories or friends of Tories.
Miss Bianca
@TriassicSands: And of course, “America First” also has nasty Nazi-era connotations as well. Just as the rancid Maraschino cherry on the shit sundae.
Don Quijote
@Elizabelle: The fact that an obvious lying sack of shit like Trump got elected says all there is to say about the American Electorate: it’s full of stupid, greedy, short sighted, racist, xenophobic, misogynist assholes .
Lacuna Synecdoche
TriassicSands:
Willfully.
Brachiator
@Roger Moore:
That’s not ideology, that’s truth. The science says so.
Just ask Nuclear Jesus, Science Guy.
Roger Moore
@Spanky:
This was what the Victorians were most guilty of. They saw natural history as a way of looking into the mind of God by observing his creation. They didn’t usually let themselves see things that disagreed with their views on what God was like, and it was an act of incredible heroism to propose a theory that contradicted it.
Honestly, this is a huge thing that made Darwin so great. He started his career an ardent theist, but he was willing to see the world in all its cruelty. When he saw things that he thought were incompatible with a benevolent God*, he did the unthinkable by rejecting God rather than his observations. That underlay his willingness to propose a theory that didn’t need God to explain the world.
*IIRC, the thing that finally got him were parasitic wasps. They paralyze their prey with venom and lay eggs in their bodies. When the eggs hatch, they eat the still living paralyzed prey. Darwin decided he’d rather believe in no God at all than a God who would create such a thing.
Marc
I hate to nitpick, but Cuba and Venezuela were both kleptocracies well before the they became tainted by “socialism”, the majority of the immigrants to Florida are actually the original kleptocrats or their descendants. That’s why most of the immigrants in Florida are nominally “white”, while the actual population of both countries is majority non-white.
NotMax
@Miss Bianca
MAGAschino cherry?
Roger Moore
@Lacuna Synecdoche:
Dude needs to read his Bible and see the kinds of families God wants us to have. I suggest he start with Genesis 38, though Genesis 19 is also some good reading.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@Brachiator:
M-brane Mohamed? Strong Force Jehovah? Atomic FSM? Quark Zeus? Weak Force Agnostic and Strings Atheist?
Niques
@JoyceH: Thank You!
TriassicSands
@Lacuna Synecdoche:
Yes, but it takes a lot of effort. You really have to expend immense numbers of kcal. ignoring things (like reality).
WaterGirl
@DougL (Formerly EmperorofIceCream): Whenever you change either your nym or your email address, the first comment will have to be manually approved. After that you’re home free.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@TriassicSands:
Which is exactly why it can only be done willfully.
Redshift
@TriassicSands: “Globalist” is classic anti-communist/antisemitic dogwhistle.
UncleEbeneezer
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Considering that 25% of the staff at the company I work for quit for better pay, which does manufacturing, quit in the last two months, where does Bat Child think we will get all these manufacturing workers for these jobs?
MisterDancer
I’ll always be grateful to [EDIT: more grateful if I spell Stephen Jay Gould’s name right!] for opening my eyes to how profound the work Darwin did was…and how much of a racist asshole his “opposite number” Louis Agassiz was.
Ksmiami
@UncleEbeneezer: agreed. I’d like Democratic leaders to start explaining we can’t coexist with fascists that want to eliminate us
pat
I just read this screed with my mouth hanging open. I haven’t read any of the comments yet.
MY GOD, wouldn’t it be great if the WaPo and NYT would publish this entire batch of nonsense on the front page?
Back to the comments.
Brachiator
@Redshift:
I thought it was “cosmopolitan.” But I can’t keep up with dog whistles.
And the crazy thing is that I have seen both the right and the left slam “globalism,” with different areas of emphasis.
Miss Bianca
@NotMax: Touché, my dear!
Ruckus
@TriassicSands:
Huff their farts 24/7. It clouds the mind and every thought has a strong oder. I’ll leave it to your imagination as to what it smells like….. but their thoughts and farts emit the same smell…
Citizen Alan
@Brachiator: I’m genuinely curious what sort of steps they want to take to “protect the nuclear family” short of criminalizing not just LGBTs but straights living together out of wedlock.
Jinchi
Scott’s gonna get a lot of pushback on that ‘earth is round’ nonsense.
NotMax
@Jinchi
GOPers live in a factuum.
Ruckus
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
He has zero idea what a manufacturing job is, or the variety, or any aspects of it.
He thinks (to the very, very tiniest difference measurable between zero and .00000000001) of what is required to manufacture anything, including his own gas. IOW he’s a freaking idiot.
Brachiator
@Citizen Alan:
That’s a good question. They want to return to some 1950s fantasy family, but this may be impossible. You would also need the complicity of a nosy community. I hate even thinking about this, but you might have landlords not renting to people who did not look “straight” or make couples show marriage certificates.
It’s depressing to think of all the nonsense that you would have to impose in order to create this phony society.
trollhattan
Jesus Christ Betty and other Floridians, can you declare it Wednesday and stop today’s flow of idiocy?
How do they get away of saying that and nobody cares?
Kay
Five of the eleven are straight culture war.
But every single pundit says Democrats focus too much on culture war issues.
It’s ridiculous. Why is there such an INSANE double standard? Do they do any of their own thinking at all?
Martin
@Jinchi: Probably not. Long video, but very good.
The least important belief of flat earthers is the shape of the earth. It’s a loyalty test.
Kay
Political reporters look at that and somehow conclude DEMOCRATS are the culture warriors.
They have to ignore 90% of the news to get there, but they get there!
Why are Right wing culture wars okay but liberal culture wars forbidden? Ridiculous.
Martin
@Kay: They’re all culture war. It’s just some are more directly so than others.
They say that Democrats are waging a culture war because the historic dominant culture in the US is white christianity, so historically whatever they said was the culture was the culture, and everything else was subversive. And because most of us and the media grew up in that culture, we’re predisposed to see things that way.
What’s overlooked is that for the first time, white christianity is not in the majority, and so we need to reassess who gets to define the culture, but almost nobody can see that, even in multicultural NYC. It feels like a double standard because we think we have an equal right to define the culture, but that’s never been the case in US history. Ever.
marklar
Ah, the Republican 3 R’s.
Religion, Resentment, and Racism.
RSA
Ironically, some of the most popular anti-vaccine and anti-mask memes going around the conservative echo chamber these days say, “Question the science!” and “‘Trust the science’ is the most anti science statement ever!” and “Scientific statements must always be challenged, because science is not about ‘consensus;’ ideology is.” (I looked these up to get the phrasing right.)
Not that Republican voters will even notice the contradiction.
lahke
@JoyceH:
Does this mean that #5 is coming soon?
PST
I hope it’s not too late to point out that the author of the pledge of allegiance, Francis Bellamy, was a socialist.
evodevo
@Brachiator: Landlords nosing around in your social life…Gee…back to KY in the Sixties. In college in Lexington, KY, that was the norm…
BruceFromOhio
@Lacuna Synecdoche:
This made me lol, I HAVE FOUND THE WAY AND IT IS GOOD
BruceFromOhio
@pat:
FTFNYT: “Republican Platform Shows Democrats Remain in Disarray”
ian
Uh?
DebbieAussie
My god, this is projection the size of an IMAX. Corruption in government ✅
that’s the science (not)✅ nuclear family – a modern concept and on and on. I guess I can’t say, unbelievable. ☹️?
WaterGirl
@DebbieAussie: Your comment went into moderation because you usually comment as Debbie(Aussie) and when you left out the parentheses WordPress thought you were a new person.
If that was intentional, then you’re good. If not, you’ll want to change your nym back to the usual one before you comment again from that device.
LiminalOwl
@NotMax: I want that as a bumper sticker.
JoyceH: Downloaded, thank you!
jimmiraybob
Oh no. A return to traditional “Law and order” is for the poors and urbans – the moochers and looters that hold back great men like him.
SFAW
The sooner all these mofos die horrible deaths, the better this country and world will be.
Sorry, haven’t had any coffee yet, and my mood is (surprisingly, I know) not very conciliatory towards the Party of Traitors and all who subscribe to their “philosophy.”
SFAW
@Brachiator:
Shouldn’t it be “Nucular Jesus”?
DougL (Formerly EmperorofIceCream)
@WaterGirl: thank you for explaining!
tam1MI
Slate online has pointed out that Scott’s manifesto calls for raising taxes on 50% of the American people. The author says that this is a boon for Dems and they will be pounding this relentlessly in their messaging.
We’ll see.
LongHairedWeirdo
“Abortion stops a beating heart” is not scientifically accurate. At 6 weeks, there is no heart to beat; there is only an electrical pulsing called a “heartbeat” because it’s emotionally evocative. When Republicans want to be grownups, and argue with facts, they should be treated as if they are still arguing in bad faith for a couple-three decades, so they learn why minority rights really ought to be protected.