i kinda get the feeling that this nutjob is payback for booting mccarthy and nixing jordan.
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Payback for who? The people who wanted this nutjob are the same folks who booted McCarthy.
And I kinda wonder just how many backup christofascists the GOP has.
A lot. The past decade has been a “get in line or get out of the way” primarying purge. Add in the effects of project redmap and gerrymandering and yeah it’s bad
There's a literal pipeline. I'm not joking. For decades now the right has been recruiting them straight from college, charting their careers, and this latest bunch has been in the chute since the 80s. Ever heard of Leonard Leo? If you have the time, that link is well worth the read, because it tells you exactly how the machine works, not just for the Supreme Court but for the extreme-right as a whole.
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It's creepy that he looks so similar to Steven Colbert.
Considering everything about the Colbert Report was making fun of conservatives, I'd think it means Colbert knocked it out of the park.
Scarier still when you realize that Colbert's impersonation was so good he actually kept getting invited to Republican Dinners and Events because they didn't know it was satire.
He claims to this day he still gets people asking him to bring back the Colbert show because of a "Lack of conservative figures on liberal media."
I love how they don't realize these unaborted kids are likely going to be unwanted, unloved, impoverished, lack education...and instead of turning into "able bodies workers" they will turn into the criminals Republicans think lurk around every corner ready to shoot them
I prefer the Carlin take: "They want live babies so they can turn them into dead soldiers"
Oh they are fully aware. More criminals means more prisoners, which means more money for the prison industrial complex and super cheap (basically slave) labor.
It's not basically slave labor. It is slave labor. The US Constitution still has codified slavery as long as you're a prisoner.
Thats exactly what they want.
They need poor uneducated voters to stay in power.
They need poor uneducated criminals to hate lest they focus on themselves and tear themselves apart.
I don't think they're unaware of that at all. Until those kids become criminals, most of them will have to survive somehow. Given their presumed lack of education and prospects, that means meat to throw in the "entry level" grinder.
More "leeches on society" that they also pretend are the single source of all Americas budget problems
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