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comment by katakowsj

Did Boebert get her start on the Home Shopping Network? I watched her for a minute, no sound, waiting for her to whip out the latest Sham Wow. What a clown.





kleinbl00  ·  1258 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The thing to keep in mind about the current crop of Republicans is that they're hand-picked from a highly-refined, exclusive collection of contenders that have surveyed the landscape, watched 4 years of Trump betrayals, observed the cultural blowback, internalized the eventual betrayal over the slightest little act of independence, and then said

yeah I wanna spend a couple million bucks on that!

Objectively speaking, Lauren Boebert is extremely well-qualified to be a trade show booth babe. Marjorie Taylor-Green? A retired booth babe. Boebert defied safe food-handling orders and gave 80 people food poisoning, then defied safe operating orders and gave Colorado's 3rd district a high school dropout for a congressperson. MTG, on the other hand, appears to have spent 2002-2016 doing crossfit while her husband ran the construction company her dad gave her.

And remember - the 2020 Republican platform was literally

    RESOLVED, That the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.

So the current crop of Republicans must be

1) Bored

2) Rich

3) Stupid

4) Evil

If they are not bored, rich, stupid and evil, they'd best hide their kids, hide their wife, because they'll get primaried by someone who is.

All them Project Lincoln fucks? Doing penance for normalizing Sarah Palin. This shit's been a long time comin' but it's rapidly approaching a breaking point, methinks.

am_Unition  ·  1258 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For those unaware, Caitlyn Jenner had at least one barrage of transphobic comments hurled at her while attending CPAC. No need to link to that. She ticks three of your four boxes, but might have to sub "Incredibly ignorant" for "Evil".

I agree with the Bulwark article (author worked for Jeb Bush in 2016? wild). The top three GOP "policy" motivations are: 1. Trump's imagined election fraud, 2. Big Tech's imagined free speech infringements, and 3. Opposition to acknowledging that any racism still exists or has ever existed in the United States. But c'mon, pretty much always somewhere near the middle of the top ten is transphobia, in some form or another. For Caitlyn to not understand that, or even worse, be willing to tolerate it to attempt political ascendance? Either is disqualifying.

Now, if I'm gonna bump my garbage post, I'll have to add some more trash: Stephen Miller's homage to lip-lickings, menacing squintings, and pausings for laughter or applause that often don't come. Oh, and the nationalism-on-ultra-'roids.