We Lost the Battle for the Republican Party’s Soul Long Ago

[Shirley]

https://x.com/TizzyEnt/status/181405526 ... fkiAA&s=19

There's money to be made stocking the We So Persecuted Christian grievance machine.

Some people have a look.

He, has a look!.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Blowbert thinks Joe is dead.

https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/statu ... 4008475918

[Overlander]

Biden should have Ronny Jackson draw up a letter.

[Overlander]

So, I assume the GOP will open a few investigations and file some lawsuits over Biden dropping out?

It’s literally all they do.

[Shirley]

Biden should have Ronny Jackson draw up a letter.

Ronny has lost his license to practice medicine.

Perhaps that means I can quit telling him to stop embarrassing our profession on every one of his tweets I happen to see?

[Overlander]

That didn’t stop him from filing a letter stating his care and diagnosis of Trumps traumatic ear injury.

My god man…. It nearly required a suture.

[Shirley]

So, I assume the GOP will open a few investigations and file some lawsuits over Biden dropping out?

It’s literally all they do.

They're threatening to. But then, they threaten to do a lot of things...

Attorney on Republicans BLOCKING Kamala from securing the nomination

[Shirley]

That didn’t stop him from filing a letter stating his care and diagnosis of Trumps traumatic ear injury.

My god man…. It nearly required a suture.

Turns out, Ronny's medical opinion isn't worth the paper it was written on.

Trump complaining the top of his ear was blown off, yet, it didn't require any stitches?

Color me skeptical.

[KUTradition]

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance's hometown state senator said at his rally Monday that if Republicans don't win the 2024 election it could lead to a civil war to "save the country."

The comments came from Ohio state Sen. George Lang, R-West Chester, right after he took the stage at Vance's first rally in Middletown, Ohio, since becoming former President Donald Trump's running mate and chanted, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"…

so, representative democracy until your side loses?

sounds about right

[Shirley]

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance's hometown state senator said at his rally Monday that if Republicans don't win the 2024 election it could lead to a civil war to "save the country."

The comments came from Ohio state Sen. George Lang, R-West Chester, right after he took the stage at Vance's first rally in Middletown, Ohio, since becoming former President Donald Trump's running mate and chanted, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"…

so, representative democracy until your side loses?

sounds about right

Trump's been setting the stage for this for the last 8 years with his war on the media, and telling his cult not to believe what they see and hear. Normalizing violence 24/7, his constant compliments for dictators and autocrats, telling his cult "only I can fix it", constant characterization of every issue in terms of us against them, they're out to get me but they're really out to get you, the poisoning of our nation's blood, etc., etc., etc.

[KUTradition]

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance's hometown state senator said at his rally Monday that if Republicans don't win the 2024 election it could lead to a civil war to "save the country."

The comments came from Ohio state Sen. George Lang, R-West Chester, right after he took the stage at Vance's first rally in Middletown, Ohio, since becoming former President Donald Trump's running mate and chanted, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"…

so, representative democracy until your side loses?

sounds about right

Trump's been setting the stage for this for the last 8 years with his war on the media, and telling his cult not to believe what they see and hear. Normalizing violence 24/7, his constant compliments for dictators and autocrats, telling his cult "only I can fix it", constant characterization of every issue in terms of us against them, they're out to get me but they're really out to get you, the poisoning of our nation's blood, etc., etc., etc.

hilarious to think there would be any sustained message of unity after the assassination attempt

all he and his campaign have is exactly what you’ve laid out

and as has been said before, zero messaging about any actual policies other than deportation

[japhy]

That didn’t stop him from filing a letter stating his care and diagnosis of Trumps traumatic ear injury.

My god man…. It nearly required a suture.

Turns out, Ronny's medical opinion isn't worth the paper it was written on.

Trump complaining the top of his ear was blown off, yet, it didn't require any stitches?

Color me skeptical.

It proves once again that trumpty dumpty, like DeSantis is reptilian. His tail would grow back in a week if he lost it was well.

And what's up with DeSantis doing that tongue thing in public? I thought they only did that in private.

[KUTradition]

reptiles everywhere resent that characterization

[Shirley]

That didn’t stop him from filing a letter stating his care and diagnosis of Trumps traumatic ear injury.

My god man…. It nearly required a suture.

Turns out, Ronny's medical opinion isn't worth the paper it was written on.

Trump complaining the top of his ear was blown off, yet, it didn't require any stitches?

Color me skeptical.

It proves once again that trumpty dumpty, like DeSantis is reptilian. His tail would grow back in a week if he lost it was well.

And what's up with DeSantis doing that tongue thing in public? I thought they only did that in private.

He was shown on TV here for like 5 seconds or so the other day, and I'll be damned if he didn't do the tongue thing even then.

Trad, is it true they're sampling the air, trying to take stock of their surrounding when reptiles do that?

[japhy]

Imagine how creepy it would be if he shed in public?

[jfish26]

Imagine how creepy it would be if he shed in public?

Probably pornographic and banned in P25.

[japhy]

It worked for Saint Bartholomew, not sure why it wouldn't elevate the status of Ron.

[KUTradition]

Turns out, Ronny's medical opinion isn't worth the paper it was written on.

Trump complaining the top of his ear was blown off, yet, it didn't require any stitches?

Color me skeptical.

It proves once again that trumpty dumpty, like DeSantis is reptilian. His tail would grow back in a week if he lost it was well.

And what's up with DeSantis doing that tongue thing in public? I thought they only did that in private.

He was shown on TV here for like 5 seconds or so the other day, and I'll be damned if he didn't do the tongue thing even then.

Trad, is it true they're sampling the air, trying to take stock of their surrounding when reptiles do that?

yes

reptiles (at least those with forked tongues) basically “smell” in stereo. they pick up chemical cues in the air, and then when the tongue retracts into the mouth, those chemicals are “read” by a Jacobsen’s organ on the roof of the mouth (dogs have similar set up, actually, but without the forked tongue). they’re able to pick up differential concentrations of a given cue to pinpoint location…of a game trail, a potential mate or rival, or in the case of venomous snakes, even their own venom (tracking prey they’d already envenomated)

[Shirley]

It proves once again that trumpty dumpty, like DeSantis is reptilian. His tail would grow back in a week if he lost it was well.

And what's up with DeSantis doing that tongue thing in public? I thought they only did that in private.

He was shown on TV here for like 5 seconds or so the other day, and I'll be damned if he didn't do the tongue thing even then.

Trad, is it true they're sampling the air, trying to take stock of their surrounding when reptiles do that?

yes

reptiles (at least those with forked tongues) basically “smell” in stereo. they pick up chemical cues in the air, and then when the tongue retracts into the mouth, those chemicals are “read” by a Jacobsen’s organ on the roof of the mouth (dogs have similar set up, actually, but without the forked tongue). they’re able to pick up differential concentrations of a given cue to pinpoint location…of a game trail, a potential mate or rival, or in the case of venomous snakes, even their own venom (tracking prey they’d already envenomated)

That reminds me of a documentary I saw years ago about Komodo dragons (or monitor lizards sorry, they look alike to me) and one bit a water buffalo on the ankle, and then followed it slowly and deliberrately for a couple of days until the infection (venom?) took its toll and then the banquet commenced with the assistance of his friends.

[KUTradition]

He was shown on TV here for like 5 seconds or so the other day, and I'll be damned if he didn't do the tongue thing even then.

Trad, is it true they're sampling the air, trying to take stock of their surrounding when reptiles do that?

yes

reptiles (at least those with forked tongues) basically “smell” in stereo. they pick up chemical cues in the air, and then when the tongue retracts into the mouth, those chemicals are “read” by a Jacobsen’s organ on the roof of the mouth (dogs have similar set up, actually, but without the forked tongue). they’re able to pick up differential concentrations of a given cue to pinpoint location…of a game trail, a potential mate or rival, or in the case of venomous snakes, even their own venom (tracking prey they’d already envenomated)

That reminds me of a documentary I saw years ago about Komodo dragons (or monitor lizards sorry, they look alike to me) and one bit a water buffalo on the ankle, and then followed it slowly and deliberrately for a couple of days until the infection (venom?) took its toll and then the banquet commenced with the assistance of his friends.

all Komodo dragons are monitor lizards, but not all monitor lizards are Komodo dragons

Varanus komodoensis is just one of several dozen species (actually close to 90 species and subspecies now) of monitor lizard (genus Varanus)

venom, along with noxious bacteria, are generally what doom komodo prey items. several years ago (early 2010s, i think) a research group out of Australia, led by Bryan Fry, coined the term Toxicofera for the lineage of lizards and snakes that decended from a common ancestor that is thought to have possessed some kind of venom system. subsequently, some lineages saw that system highly modified and “perfected” (rattlesnakes, for example), while many if not most others are rarely considered to be venomous today (most lizards, corn snakes, etc) by the general public, despite having the same basic families of proteins present in their salivas that classically venomous reptiles have (phospholipases, and serine and metalloproteinases most notably)