An Autopsy Report
“Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see.” — John Lennon
The time of death is fairly easy to report. The patient had been clinging to life on life support, but finally decided to pull its own plug when the RNC decided to censure Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney. That by itself was horrific news for any fan of democracy.
Mind you, the simple act of censuring a politician is almost completely symbolic. It can be loosely defined as an expression of official disapproval. So, what exactly are they disapproving? Kinzinger and Cheney were the lone Republicans to participate in the House January 6th committee.
It wasn’t for lack of effort. One thing Democrats are always guilty of doing is reaching out in the interest of fairness. In a process that took nearly three months, they tried to get more Republicans on board. It was never going to happen. Republicans can only say no at this point. They’ve somehow regressed into the mind of a two year old.
Mind you, the commission itself is not the cause of death. There are dozens of plausible reasons for not participating. Often, these things become more political than useful. The death officially came when the RNC declared that January 6th was legitimate political discourse.
This is not one of those play on words. I’ve heard these before on the other side. I’ve had people tell me the Democrats are dead in terms of electoral politics. They said this back in the Bush administration. Ironically, Bush have been the only Republican politicians to win a popular vote in the presidential elections since 1988.
Yet, this isn’t some dramatic postmortem that will turn out the other way. Conservatism is not dead. It is alive and well. Patriotism certainly isn’t dead. There are still more than enough people that love their country. The zombie version of the party has managed to rig enough elections to send the undead in the halls of Congress for generations to come. The bodies will be there, but something will definitely be lacking.
Cities perform autopsies when the cause of death is undetermined or material to a criminal case. Countries should do the same when one of the major political parties dies. We should pour over all of the relevant information to determine if a homicide has occurred. It would either be a homicide or a suicide depending on your point of view.
The outlook on that largely depends on whether you believe the forces that took over the party were ever conservative in the first place. They said they were. They still insist they are. Yet, all of the available evidence suggests that they have abandoned every principle they held dear. That is ultimately the cause of death. It was essentially self immolation.
Believing things that are plainly untrue is a sign of mental illness or denial on a galactic level. When you force fealty to that delusion you cease to be a party. You become a cult. The Republican party isn’t a democratic party anymore. It’s a death cult dedicated to the rule of one man minus the law. Democracies don’t die in a blaze of glory. They atrophy when people honor the man over the mission.
Painfully true. We have Democrats, and we have a zombie party that stands for nothing except what its leader, TFG, wants–and what he wants varies from day to day, but always comes down to “what’s best for Trump.” They, like their leader, live in an alternate reality, in which power for themselves is the most important goal, not the welfare of the country they want to control. It’s a mess, and I have no idea how we eliminate the zombie threat, with our current Supreme Court and Cultist control of so many state legislatures. It’s not looking good.
1It was a nice democracy while it lasted.
2How about we put TFG’s fat ass down on one of these ice floes?:
Detroit RiverCam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5hbEO2UQns
Detroit River Live Cam from the Dossin Museum, Detroit, Michigan USA
[brrrrrr]
3You mean sent adrift a la Steven Oboutman in the Canadian Strike episode of South Park? “I’m not your buddy guy. I’m not your guy friend. I’m not the your friend buddy….”
4Here! Here! @ Texas Trailerpark………….you said it all.
5Do we remember the brown shirts? Thugs sent in to intimidate and stoke fear into people for their beliefs or because they weren’t considered the pure race all for the benefit of one man. Just because the thugs wear blue suits with red ties now, doesn’t make them any less than thugs. What I want to know is how they will feel when they finally wake up out of their trances and find out that they have no more freedoms?
I don’t know a thing about ‘South Park’, assume it’s some kind of crappy cartoon show that I’ve never watched.
But yeah, like the Inuit are alleged to do [they don’t actually]. Haul that TFG outta nice warm Mar-A-Pendejo and put his sorry ass down on a nice big frozen floating slab of ice going down the river, probs solved.
6As quickly as COVID spread, the disease of “every man for himself” has spread even faster. It’s been coming on since Newt’s time, and the Old Pretender only gave everyone permission to catch and spread the disease. If only we had a vaccination for that.
7I think repugnanticans are taking the only path they have left. The only thing the cult flock responds to is what TFG spews. Conservative principles don’t get the popular vote (as shown in 2 decades plus of elections), so with the fire lit by trumpf and his racist underlings, they’ve chosen to do the only thing they see as insuring the votes. This goes from the top office holders down through state and local politicians. I just wish the Democratic Party would focus on doing whatever possible to get out the vote even in states where repugnanticans are making it difficult. Our only hope is overwhelming voter turnout by democrats and non cultists. Starting now.
8Coastie cutter/icebreaker upbound at the moment probably going to escort a laker down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5hbEO2UQns
9If the republicans want to fall into step behind a loser, it isn’t my job to stop them.
10slipstream@ #9: So long as the loser loses, great. But the cultists are doing their best to rig the system so that he doesn’t. If he wins, we’re in deep sh. ..trouble.
11@8, Upon AISing things, that was a Canadian Coastie, the upbound CCGC Griffon, escorting the Canadian tanker Algonova to Sarnia, ON.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCGS_Griffon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonova_(2008)
An ice floe still sounds good for the TFG Ratbastard, imo.
12JJ/Ms B should like this, another ice floe prospect :
Nehls [R-FtIdiota]:
13https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/8/2079252/-Texas-Republican-and-Trump-ally-accuses-Capitol-Police-of-snooping-through-his-office
Ideal campaign song for the Rethugs and minions like Nehls:
“…Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away…”
Not that the group would let those mofos use it:
14Buffalo Springfield Lyrics
“For What It’s Worth”:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/buffalospringfield/forwhatitsworth.html
Regarding Covid-19, they are not a suicide cult.
Jonestown was a death cult. They didn’t go out to local villages and seek non-participants to kill.
Heaven’s Gate was a death cult. They didn’t go into their town and seek others to kill.
GOP antimaskers and antivaxxers are a homicide cult. Like the Manson Family where Charles Manson never actually murdered anyone himself. The GOP leaders are all vaccinated. They don’t care if their own minions die, and they don’t care who else they infect and kill.
15I have a bit of problem with line “Patriotism certainly isn’t dead. There are still more than enough people that love their country.”
I don’t disagree, but I feel “patriotism” has been hi-jacked. If you ask the cultist, they flout the word all over the place. They have equated it as being “their America.” And anyone not onboard is “unamerican.”
I feel patriotism is critically wounded because people are using it as an inflammatory trigger word that no longer has a common definition.
It is like using “Nazi” “Communism” “Fascism” and such–they trigger a strong reaction, often without understanding of what they really mean.
16Every time I see the death of the GOP predicted, they come back worse than ever. Always worse.
17Star, I totally agree that the term “patriotism” along with the Stars and Stripes have been hijacked. The flag has been permanently soiled by the maggots that wave it along with the name of TFG. Pictures of Jan 6 are burned into my memory forever.
18Star, I agree with you 100% about the hijacking of patriotism as well.
19And to me the same thing is true of Christianity. Both are used as cudgels against anybody they don’t like, supposedly because of a deficit of whichever cudgel is being used.
One of the things that’s so mind boggling to me is that most of the people utilizing the cudgels don’t see what I believe to be the extent those cudgels will be used if they get what THEY THINK THEY WANT. The freedoms they believe they’re fighting for are the ones they’re destroying.
The ones they take for granted.
The ones that would’ve protected them from being discriminated against for being accused of flying a flag that’s not quite big enough.
By somebody who wants to buy their house cheap.
Or protected from persecution of their children because the church they belong to just isn’t quite pious enough.
So little Timmy has to wear an armband and get spit on by kids who’s parents just happened to join the RIGHT church.