Kansas Crimson

twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:43 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:37 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:27 pm

I think McConnell is/was a mixed bag.

On the negative side, his resistance to anything that could, theoretically, have threatened the power he and his clique had accumulated -- both from the Left of the GOP (McCain) and from the Right (Cruz) -- did much to radicalize the base over the last 20 years. Someone more attuned to GOP voters' frustrations might have defused some of the MAGA fury.

Also, you're not gonna get a Hawley or a Vance as the leader, so I think the risk of drastic MAGAfication is probably overblown.

I haven't bothered looking at betting markets, but - Cotton's got to have a great shot, right? I do not consider that to be, in substance, non-MAGAfied.

South Dakota Sen. John Thune is the #2 behind McConnell followed by Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso. Both hold leadership roles now. Texas Sen. John Cornyn is also mentioned in most lists of those most likely to replace McConnell. Cotton is full blown MAGA so I doubt he could garner enough support.

For months, Senate Republicans have operated on the assumption that McConnell’s successor would be one of the “three Johns” close with the current leader: Minority Whip JOHN THUNE (R-S.D.), former Whip JOHN CORNYN (R-Texas) or Conference Chair JOHN BARRASSO (R-Wyo.).

But Trump allies are itching for a dark-horse candidate to shake things up, quietly complaining that any of those three would lead to more of the same. Multiple GOP senators and aides tell Playbook that a group of about a dozen McConnell antagonists in the Senate might band together and use their numbers — along with public pressure — to install a leader more to their liking.

“The idea that it’s just between the ‘Three Johns’ is an outdated narrative from a year ago,” said one Republican ally of the rebels. “There will be somebody else — and possibly a scenario where none of the ‘Johns’ can get consensus, so it takes another candidate to step in.”

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:04 am

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:05 pmNah

There is a crisis in America. There is only one man who can stop the Biden Crime Family from destroying our country and stop the persecution of conservatives. You know it, I know it and Lara trump nose it.

DC, You Must Act Now If We Are To Save Our Country! I ask this most humbly.

Please send $50,000 or $100,000 or $100,000,000; whatever your can afford to the RNC. Lara will be a good and faithful custodian of the money. She will make sure that it is spent where it is most needed and can do the most good for the Grand Old Rube Party. No one holds conservative values more closely to their cold dark heart than Lara. Her kids say the pledge of allegiance every night before bed for fucks sake.

Oh.....and fuck Mitt Romney.

I pledge allegiance to the Fraud of the United States of Merica
and to the Rubepublic for which it stands
one nation ruled by Don
divisible, with impunity and vengeance for the pure of blood

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:13 am

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:04 am I pledge allegiance to the Fraud of the United States of Merica
and to the Rubepublic for which it stands
one nation ruled by Don
divisible, with impunity and vengeance for the pure of blood

Mittens Romney?

The guy who murdered his dog, tortured gay kids, gave Kansas City women cancer, and was gonna put black people back in chains?

He sounds exactly like the kinda guy who would end democracy.

I wonder what bored we were using back then. You s'pose Vega has the archives?

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:19 am

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:13 am

japhy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:04 am I pledge allegiance to the Fraud of the United States of Merica
and to the Rubepublic for which it stands
one nation ruled by Don
divisible, with impunity and vengeance for the pure of blood

Mittens Romney?

The guy who murdered his dog, tortured gay kids, gave Kansas City women cancer, and was gonna put black people back in chains?

He sounds exactly like the kinda guy who would end democracy.

I wonder what bored we were using back then. You s'pose Vega has the archives?

It's quaintly amusing looking back.....as trumpty dumpy and his winged monkeys continue building the Eye of Sauron.

But seriously, brother can you spare a few $100M for a fellow Merican in need?

twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:29 am Cornyn has officially thrown his hat in the ring to replace McConnell. It will be interesting to see if a MAGA throws in as well and just how many MAGA senators there are in the Senate Republican Conference. No clue if they have anything resembling a "majority" or if they just have enough to drag the process out through a dozen votes.

Our thoughts are with our Democrat colleagues in the Senate on the retirement of their Co-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (D-Ukraine). No need to wait till November…Senate Republicans should IMMEDIATELY elect a *Republican* Minority Leader.

Sparko wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:23 pm It is the stunned inaction which hurts. It does things like prevent Biden from unilaterally using powers he has to say save Ukraine. We are too image conscious politically. People actually appreciate just getting stuff done. It doesn't always work, but take action. Inertia loves a vacuum with no moving parts. Newton's third law of Nabisco.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:46 pm

Sparko wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:23 pm It is the stunned inaction which hurts. It does things like prevent Biden from unilaterally using powers he has to say save Ukraine. We are too image conscious politically. People actually appreciate just getting stuff done. It doesn't always work, but take action. Inertia loves a vacuum with no moving parts. Newton's third law of Nabisco.

The macro failure is one of imagination. Rule-followers have a very hard time considering that their opponents will not follow the rules.

twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:19 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:46 pm

Sparko wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:23 pm It is the stunned inaction which hurts. It does things like prevent Biden from unilaterally using powers he has to say save Ukraine. We are too image conscious politically. People actually appreciate just getting stuff done. It doesn't always work, but take action. Inertia loves a vacuum with no moving parts. Newton's third law of Nabisco.

The macro failure is one of imagination. Rule-followers have a very hard time considering that their opponents will not follow the rules.

And the opposite is true. Rule breakers just assume that everyone else is breaking the rules because "why wouldn't they?"

DeletedUser wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:41 am https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3_ZI0pM ... c1bWwyNnFo

Yikes.

She's completely serious.

twocoach wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:09 am

DeletedUser wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:41 am https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3_ZI0pM ... c1bWwyNnFo

Yikes.

She's completely serious.

Hopelessly brainwashed. And that's probably just someone's grandma saying that shit.