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Useless Republicans

“The message unfortunately could not be clearer: voting is for fools. You vote, you put these people into office with your votes and in return they patronize you. And when it matters they abandon you, they have contempt for you.”

Tucker Carlson, June 19, 2019

 

 

 

 

He is completely right.  The impotence of the Republican Party, including Trump, in the face of mass rioting and vandalism is obvious and shameful.  So petrified of being called racist they would much prefer that the country burn, and their voters plundered, than lift a finger to do anything to stop this mass lawlessness.  The Democrats deserve to lose in November;  the Republicans do not deserve to win.

 

Update:

Well, Trump was clearly looking at what Carlson said:

 

 

Trump is always Hell on Wheels when it comes to tweeting, not so much on acting recently.   Time to act Mr. President.  A good start would be to go after all the people who toppled Washington’s statue in Portland under this Federal statute:

 

 

The Democrats who control blue cities and blue states are in league with the villains who are doing this.  Time to act now Mr. President to stop this, and you should be stating clearly every day that the Democrats are fine with mass lawlessness as part of a political strategy to seize control of the nation by getting you out of office.

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Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Friday, June 19, AD 2020 10:13pm

Back in 2016, the Federalist had this article titled “This Election Marks The End Of America’s Racial Détente”
https://thefederalist.com/2016/11/14/election-marks-end-americas-racial-detente/

This? This seems well on the way to actually ending it. Religions with sin MUST have a way to atone – to find forgiveness. If nothing you do matters, if you’ll always be a sinner, if you’ll always be “racist” then what’s the incentive for people to put in an effort to not be racist?

I really do not want to see what happens when societal and personal guilt run out – because that’s a sign mercy has as well.

Art Deco
Friday, June 19, AD 2020 10:19pm

I think Trump may be following Kurt Schlichter’s advice and leaving the Democratic mayors stuck with their own tar baby.

McConnell and McCarthy don’t appear to take much of an interest in any of it. Newt Gingrich and his associates were interested in distributing a common message to rally voters. Their successors are interested in Capitol Hill busywork.

As far as I can see, states with Republican governors generally had a one-day burst of trouble around 1 June.

Art Deco
Friday, June 19, AD 2020 10:32pm

Talk about ‘police reform’ is quite gratuitous and Republicans should have nothing to do with it, especially those in Congress. The only reform Republicans in Congress should be working on is re-organizing and depoliticizing federal law enforcement. As far as I can see, Republicans in Congress respond to manufactured controversies much more than they respond to their voters.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Saturday, June 20, AD 2020 2:29am

Tucker is right. We need a new political party. Democrats and Republicans are in bed together under control of the elites who control the economy for the benefit of themselves.

A new American Political Party could begin in a few strongly Republican Western states representing say 5-10% of the Electoral College Vote, enough to end up calling the shots in the Republican Party.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Saturday, June 20, AD 2020 5:58am

I’ve been a small-I independent since Bush I [the Bushes never were anti-abortion despite gratuitously talking it]. The establishment GOP’s only asset is they’re not as bat-shit crazy as the typical Dem. I vote against the Dem. Ergo, I’m not disappointed. I had low expectations.

Now, the Dems and GOP are against Trump: the administrative state (the swamp) and those making trillions on the government spending – Dems welfare and GOP establishment corporate leeches – will never accept the people’s president.

Because, as a Tucker guest said last night, the GOP and so-called conservative think tanks owe their huge salaries and posh offices to donors that are not conservative. So, they talk about subjects like abortion and stopping importation of illegals to compete [push down wages] with Americans for jobs and never do anything.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Saturday, June 20, AD 2020 6:47am

God! imbue us, Your people, with wisdom, discernment and courage
The beautiful post yesterday of Vera Lynn singing of a land of Hope and Glory- You Who have made us mighty, Make us Mightier yet! .
God, our Father! By Whose Almighty Hand! God! All Power! Help us because we need help.

Art Deco
Saturday, June 20, AD 2020 7:46am

To some extent, critics of the think tanks are not being fair, to some extent, they’re only glancing at an important problem. Think tanks when they are doing their job are conducting research and assembling research by other parties, then producing reports which can be digested by people outside of the economics-and-public-policy trade. They then promote these to policy members, elected officials in particular. To some extent, they promote them to a broader public. The problem with starboard philanthropies generally is

They pay excessive salaries. As in ‘the-board-is-guilty-of-breach-of-fiduciary-duty-in-approving-them excessive. This is not universally so, but it is so common that it’s noticeable, and it’s a problem that’s much less pronounced on the other side of the divide. The think tanks are up to their eyeballs in this problem, as are the opinion magazines. Kurt Schlichter was baiting a PR official at Heritage the other day, a 40 year old man with no policy chops at all (education a BA degree from an ordinary college) whose compensation package currently exceeds $400,000 a year. He puts out newsletters and the like.
They hire people as ‘fellows’ who have no background in public policy and economics and who are not talented autodidacts. Heather MacDonald is worthwhile to have on staff. Mona Charen, whose entire career has been spent writing speeches and newspaper columns, is not.
Many people associated with them appear to have value scales very foreign to those of ordinary Republican voters. (Tucker has been making this point lately about the think tanks. Robert Stacy McCain has been making this point about the Capitol Hill nexus for years).

Dale Price
Dale Price
Saturday, June 20, AD 2020 8:34am

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

The GOP gets its walking around money from the business wing, which is perfectly happy to get woke because tax policy ensures it won’t go broke.

Big tech and policies which make sending jobs overseas lucrative means they have fewer actual GOP voters they are accountable to–or even have to interact with. Hell, because of both of those developments, they have to interact with fewer people period. And they’ll bend over quickly for woke millenials because those are among the few people they see–either in person, or because they’re protesting. And that makes them afraid. But middle America looks quiescent, so there is nothing to fear there. Out of sight, out of mind.

The GOP reps’ experience with people outside their bubble is similar. It happens at the occasional townhall or visit to the schlubs manning phone banks or licking envelopes. And they seem ok with all this, too, so shrug.

And you know what–they’re not entirely wrong. With the exception of surging out for Trump in 2016, they really haven’t done much to register displeasure with the serf-treatment status quo.

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Saturday, June 20, AD 2020 10:52am

If the Federal Government is ready to act, they need to act and not sit around with their thumbs up their asses.

What these Dem governors and mayors are doing is beyond impotence. It’s deliberate.

J. Ronald Parrish
Saturday, June 20, AD 2020 8:17pm

A majority of the people in each of these riot torn cities elected the officials kneeling before these criminal anarchist. As long as they refuse to ask for federal assistance, none should be forthcoming. It has too many opportunities for exploitation by the media if unsolicited help is given. Imagine federal troops being forced to fire on the mob and the pictures of dead bodies. It will not matter that the action was justified. Let them stew in the mess they have created. I just hope they don’t turn Texas blue when they flee and take their voting patterns with them.

Donald Link
Donald Link
Sunday, June 21, AD 2020 7:32pm

Evil is always aggressive. It pushes at every weakness. The Republicans are like the well meaning people of whom St. Dominic said “they have no one to preach to them”. President Trump is not the be all to and all but he is a start. Unfortunate too many well meaning, but ineffectual people do not pick up the call and act. Lincoln handled the draft riot during the civil war and a much more serious threat than now with the radicals and anarchists. Retreat is not an option.

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