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Dark Brandon meet Dark Alex. I see her advising the republicans to stick to their guns and never compromise. They don’t want to do anything, only obstruct. So they don’t actually need to be unified. Chaos isn’t organized. This is fine. Read all about it from Heather Cox Richardson, a historian who covers current events. "As their policies threatened to lose voters by concentrating wealth upward and hollowing out the middle class, Republicans increasingly warned that minority voters wanted socialism and were destroying the nation to get it. Trump rode that narrative to power, and now tearing down the current government is the idea that drives the Republican base."


While we're at it, here's another funny photo from the Onion:



And then:


I listened to the Times podcast about George Santos. He basically lied about, I don't know, 80% of his resume, and has a mysterious $700k in his "corporation" which has no clients. So he's a Russian or Chinese plant, or whoever is trying to undermine our democracy, and the Republicans created a new district, basically gerrymandered it, and they didn't even check to see if their candidate was legit. There were some warning signs, and basically asked the same questions the journalist uncovered. And the NY Times used to cover local elections more but the newspaper industry is hit hard, nobody wants to pay for journalism now, so they really can't get too into it. His case in Brazil of fraud is being opened up again because he disappeared, and now they know where he is. So there's that. And the shambles of the Republican party is that because they haven't elected the leader of the house, nobody has been sworn in. I don't think he should be sworn in. 

In my childhood the republican party was about not raising taxes, not changing things too drastically, and basically deregulation, so business could run itself, without government interference. 

No the party is a bunch of clown grifters. Not too far of a journey from my childhood, but significant. They used to pretend to be about democracy. 

I really believe in the dialectic between conservatives and progressives, but the dialectic right now is more of a dialectic of chaos versus order, anti-democratic versus democracy. That's gone skuewed. Republicans used to like order.



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