Carville was pretty interesting on his latest pod with Al Hunt. Basically, he's telling the GOP that they need to be prepared for the 2026 wave because the Dems are keeping records of all the corruption.
The GOP just got a wake up call. That wake up call though will be largely unheeded - like many wake up calls sent to the rooms of people sleeping off a bender.
The average Republican rep fears a primary and the excommunication from the cult more than the effect of denying food benefits to their constituents. They can nod along with Speaker Johnson as he rants about neo-marxism while nazis enjoy dinner with the President. They can absorb the effect of a total crumbling of our civil aviation system during the holidays because the alternative - funding the air traffic controllers - is equated with Pol Pot's Cambodia by the RW press.
Somewhere they image a couple wearing Dickies coveralls sitting in their farmhouse watching a dusty cathode ray TV from their wooden rocking chairs. Their soybean crop mouldering and unsold. Their children with no job prospects except inheriting the farm from them once they pass this mortal coil: "They'd better not open the government and bring back those neo-marxists federal workers!"
I was thinking about a thread titled "Why are there so many sex pests in the GOP?" but its sort of part of the lunatic thing.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/15446969
They love the power. The country club locker room culture is fully extant.
Then there is the twisted gay/anti-gay culture in the GOP.
I mean, Stuart Stevens wrote about this quite a few times. He called it a "pink mafia".
I was going to riff on the difference between Billy and grandson Franklin Graham and it turns out they both are full of weird sex stuff. https://medium.com/belover/the-secret-sex-life-of-billy-graham-669734837461
I dunno...maybe the GOP needs to come to terms with some things.
Jim Leyland was right when he said momentum was only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher. Don't be complacent. Keep protesting this crackpot administration. Keep up the pressure on friends and family to not normalize this evil, vile regime. Mock and rebuke the crazies. Maintain a running mental diary of your redlines.
GOP: Do what we say
Dems: No
GOP: We will starve the people
Dems: FU!
GOP: You will pay twice as much for healthcare
Dems: FU! No. That's monstrous!
GOP: Even if courts say we must feed people we will not!
Dems: What is wrong with you?
GOP: We will have a Great Gatsby party!
Dems: We will take whatever measures are necessary to prevent you from destroying our country any more.
Well, if they killed Kirk because he wouldn't shut up about Epstein, its similar to how they killed Virginia Giuffre to shut her up. If Mr. Schicklegruber/Bowman/Hammel/Vance wants to take his reward with the widow, that's just pudding.