You know, I spend so much time these days shaking my head at the post midterm election shenanigans of the GOP, I’m starting to get a crick in my neck. I always thought that age brought wisdom. But when I look around me, all I see is stupid.
The traditional common sense explanation of insanity is Doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting a different result every time. And right now, the GOP is caught in a seemingly endless loop of stupid. Some of it is repetitive stupid, and some of it is brand new stupid, but the kind of stupid that can only be found if you’re on the Starship Enterprise on a 5 years mission to the dumbest corners of the universe.
Howz this for starters? Last night I saw a clip of the My Pillow moron, Mike Lindell tell the host, I am announcing my candidacy to run to unseat Ronna McDaniel as the Chair of the RNC. I’m all in baby. And I gotta tell you, I get big money donors calling me, saying, Mike! Everybody wants you to the be the RNC Chair, They just don’t know it yet!
Is this ass clown for real? Two simple observations on this lunacy. First, in his ads, Lindell actually brags that it took him 10 years to invent his pillow! As I’ve previously noted, back in the 1500’s, it took my ancestors 15 minutes, a needle and thread, a grain sack, and a couple of handfuls of straw to work that one out. It’s not like a moonshot. Second, thanks to his delusional big mouth, Lindell is now awaiting trial on a $1.2B defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Machines, I find it inconceivable that any GOP donor with more than $0.60 in the sofa cushions has Mike Lindell on speed dial.
Now let’s move up the food chain to the actual GOP leadership itself. Trump’s favorite anal prove, Kreepy Kevin McCarthy is still trying to cobble together a path to the Speaker’s gavel. And this miserable cretin is the living proof of the definition of insanity that I quoted earlier. McCarthy keeps running around like a chicken with its head cut off, making the same lame offers to the same people, convinced that if he just explains it better, they’ll suddenly see the light. News Flash! They’re just not into you, Kevin.
But now, in his desperation, McCarthy is reaching for heights of stupidity that it normally requires an oxygen breathing pack to attain. McCarthy is now threatening the renegade caucus members that if they don’t buckle under to him, he’ll take the whole mess to a nasty floor fight in January! What?!? His basic reasoning, as he explained it seems simple, he has 160-180 caucus members who will never vote for anybody but McCarthy, so therefore, everybody else had better fall in line if they don’t want to suffer the consequences.
So much stupid, so little time. In his explanation, all McCarthy did is to highlight what a feckless loser he is. 160-180 is not 218, which is what McCarthy needs. And 160-180 is anywhere from 38-58 bucks short of the ante, the finish line isn’t even in sight! But if your plan to get to 218 is to threaten everybody not on your side with dire retaliation from the drooling mouth breathers in your corner, you might want to hire a new political strategist, stupid.
And now let’s climb to the top of Mount Stupid, the RNC. Yesterday the RNC, chaired by Mar-A-Lago Welcome mat Ronna Romney McDaniel announced it had commissioned an autopsy report to find out why Republicans keep falling flat on their ugly faces every 2 years. And if that sounds familiar, it should.
Back in 2013, then RNC Chair Reince Priebus also commissioned an autopsy report on the 2012 election, trying to figure out why the GOP had lost the national popular vote in 5 out of the last 6 presidential cycles. Priebus wanted an honest critique, so he hired conservative outsiders. And he got what he asked for, an honest report, and lost his Chairmanship in the fallout.
Here’s the difference. This new Blue Ribbon Panel that McDaniel wants to pull no punches? Well, that panel includes Trump ass kissers KellyAnne Conjob, seditious GOP Senator Josh Hawley, and AZ Senate loser Blake Masters.. Really? That’s like trying to quit smoking by hiding the pack of smokes in the dresser drawer. The outcome is a predetermined failure.
And they’re not even bothering to try to hide the fact. Today, even before the Charmin panel meets, they’re dropping 10 gallon hints as to the outcome of their report. They said today that they will be Looking for ways to make inroads into the minority communities in this country. Hot Tip! That is exactly what the 2013 autopsy report called for! Get rid of the goose steppers and bedsheet banditos, and the far right Jesus wheezers, tone down the rhetoric in the ideology, and reach out to minority communities to modernize the party. And that was 9 years ago.
Because the GOP is willfully and blissfully clueless, I want to see how they pull this off. After all, in the last 7 years,, led by The Cheeto Prophet, they have said;
- In Trump’s original campaign candidacy speech he called Mexicans Rapists and drug peddlers
- He called African nations Shithole Countries
- He proposed a full and complete ban on Muslims entering the country, just because
- He called neo-Nazis and KKKlansmen fine people in the aftermath of the Charlottesville riot that left an innocent anti hate protester dead
- He stood there with a straight look on his face, and said in a debate that Nobody has done more for the African American community than I have
- He separated immigrant parents from their screaming infants and toddlers at the southern border, without making any plans to reunite them later
- He basically told American Jews that they had better be grateful for what the US was doing for Israel, and by inference vote GOP, or that largesse could stop
Is it just me, or does this seem like a kind of an uphill lift. The McGuffin is that the 2013 autopsy report extolled exactly the same course of action. Nut the difference is that it was and still is all bullshit. Successfully implementing the autopsy report requires the GOP to jettison the racists and far right Evangelical loonies, which the GOP is no more willing to do now than they were in 2013. It’s all a circle jerk.
A thousand clowns. Also it reminds me of the Monty python skit where the brainless crowd drags a woman before the magistrate to condemn her as a witch. The stupidity that follows is breathtaking.
M.P. movie, not a skit. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But, yeah, that bit was priceless.
“Back in 2013, then RNC Chair Reince Priebus also commissioned an autopsy report on the 2012 election, trying to figure out why the GOP had lost the national popular vote in 5 out of the last 6 presidential cycles. Priebus wanted an honest critique, so he hired conservative outsiders. And he got what he asked for, an honest report, and lost his Chairmanship in the fallout.”
Murf, you might want to do some fact-checking here but Priebus did NOT lose his Chairmanship; he resigned from the Chairmanship to become Trump’s first Chief of Staff. In fact, his second and THIRD elections for the Chairmanship were effectively unopposed and near-unanimous decisions.