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Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Fucking amazing. So so accurate.
Watts on point.
So... did nobody review what she was going to say, or how she was going to say it, before they filmed it?
The scariest thing about this isn't even Britt's speech, it's that there must be a group of people around her who were totally on board with it. This is the message they wanted to send.
Like most cults (and Trump/conservative have become one).
Getting to positions of power is based solely on dedication to the cult. NOT competency at the job. It usually ensures the least qualified person is in charge.
It happens to ALL fundamentalist movements.
Partial list of organizations severely infected with or taken over by fundamentalist movements:
GOP
College Democrats
CCP
Catholic Church
Evangelical Protestants
Certain Muslim denominations
I’m somewhat suspicious that there are huge swaths of the Republican Party that simply refuse to talk to each other or coordinate in any official capacity. Like, some of them are coordinating with the old guard, some are coordinating with Trump directly, some are coordinating with the national GOP, and some are just doing what they think Trump would want them to do.
All that said, it’s deeply disconcerting to see that their ramshackle organization still has a shitload of momentum simply due to the fact they’ve kinda converted into a cult.
Kinda? My dude, it is a cult.
I was going for ironic understatement lol
The Q tards are some of the scariest people I've ever encountered.
I honestly wonder if that BrainDead tv series was cancelled because it was too close to home and some right wing billionaire made it happen.
Not to invoke Godwin's Law, but decentralization like this worked GREAT for the Nazis before they took power. It's real terror-cell tactics - if one of them gets busted saying or doing something that's totally fucking whack, the national GOP can just say "well we weren't coordinating their messages, those words and actions don't represent us, etc etc".
I love Julia Ioffe, especially her takes on Russia. She’s always so good at saying the important thing in a very succinct and straightforward way.