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Republicans do not have a monopoly on crazy. Just a high market share.
Interesting. Which crazy person was given a committee assignment by Democrats?
They’re almost all given committee assignments but if you want an example, how about Maxine Waters?
She’s hardly an MTG equivalent. But I’ll drop the thread drift.
She is if racism is “normal” for you.
Apply a bigger market share… sorry, make it larger… nah, you are still short.
1. The House Freedom Caucus . Among New York’s Five Families, the closest parallel to the House Freedom Caucus is the Colombo family, which New York Times reporter and veteran mob chronicler Selwyn Raab once identified as the most erratic and troublesome. “Crazy Joe” Gallo, the diagnosed paranoid-schizophrenic who was gunned down at Umberto’s Clam House in Manhattan’s Little Italy in 1972, was a Colombo family member. Crazy Joe once kidnapped his own bosses. In a similar spirit, the Freedom Caucus tried to deny the speakership to McCarthy without ever articulating exactly why except that they just didn’t like his face.
The Freedom Caucus has only 34 members. That’s because they won’t take just anybody. As with Yale’s Skull and Bones, you have to be tapped. Founded in 2015 in opposition to the Republican leadership, the Freedom Caucus was instrumental that year in persuading House Speaker John Boehner to resign (and also in persuading Kevin McCarthy not to take his place). Trump won their allegiance by hiring Meadows, a Freedom Caucus founder, as chief of staff. In return, most Freedom Caucus members refused to certify President Joe Biden’s victory. Another founding member, Ron DeSantis, now governor of Florida, is considered Trump’s most formidable opponent for the 2024 nomination. Its current don is Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
Perry is a piece of work. In 2017 he accused CNN’s Cuomo of dispensing “fake news” about the devastation wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. “You’re simply just making this stuff up,” he said. “If half the country didn’t have food or water, those people would be dying. And they’re not.” That was Trump’s bizarre position too, but not a lot of people were willing to echo it. According to the official death toll, 2,975 Puerto Ricans died in the hurricane, and that was probably too low. Perry later tried to secure a blanket pardon for Trump in connection to the January 6 attack.
For all that, Perry is not the Freedom Caucus’s Crazy Joe, because competition is fierce for that title. I’d call it a tie between Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene and Arizona’s Paul Gosar, who two years ago tried to form a breakaway America First Caucus committed to “Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” The rebellion was quickly put down, and now Greene, one of the few Freedom Caucus members openly to embrace white nationalism, has gone quasi-respectable in exchange for McCarthy treating her like the serious person she so obviously is not.
If Congress forces the United States into default, the Freedom Caucus will be the likely culprit. On March 10 it laid out its demands for raising the debt ceiling. All “topline discretionary” spending (i.e., spending that must be appropriated, excepting emergency spending) must be frozen at current levels, “allowing for 1 percent annual growth” (i.e., inflation increases that will be far below the annual level of inflation, even if the Fed achieves its target of 2 percent). All major regulations must be approved by Congress. Remove all regulations and subsidies concerning energy (i.e., kill investment in green technologies and drill, baby, drill). Stiffen work requirements for welfare. And lower nondefense discretionary spending to its 2019 level (which means the freeze on top-line discretionary spending starts domestic spending at a lower level than defense spending). There is no chance Biden will agree to this. The White House last week declared the Freedom Caucus proposal a “five-alarm fire.”
2. The Republican Study Committee. This is the largest of the Five Families, with 173 members. The bad news is they’re almost as nuts as the Freedom Caucus. Like the Freedom Caucus, the RSC was founded in opposition to the Republican leadership, but it was founded way back in 1973, when House Republican leaders could more plausibly be described as moderate accommodationists. Its founder was not a member of Congress but Paul Weyrich, a hard-right nutter with theocratic leanings and a fair claim to being the Johnny Appleseed of the New Right, having also co-founded the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the American Legislative Exchange Council. Because of its size and age, the RSC is best compared to the Genovese family, the oldest and largest of New York’s Five Families, founded in 1931 by Lucky Luciano. The RSC’s don is Representative Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, nicknamed “McCongressman” for his past ownership of several McDonald’s franchises. Hern is a fiscal conservative whose Tulsa-based KTAK Corporation received about $1 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans, all of it forgiven, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a March 15 letter, Hearn demanded a reversal to recent increases in discretionary spending, deregulation of the oil sector, tax cuts, and congressional approval for all major regulations. Unlike the Freedom Caucus, Hern is bucking Trump by demanding cuts in Medicare and Social Security (phrased euphemistically as “Codify procedures to ensure the federal government honors critical obligations”). McCarthy is likely hoping Hearn will be as hypocritical about a debt-ceiling deal as he was about PPP. He shouldn’t count on that.
Doesn’t she realize her religion was named after one of the most woke guys who ever lived?
eta; the religion she professes to.
Yes! No one need be a Christian, but if you profess to be one, how do you get around the stuff that Jesus, you know, actually preached? He was a tireless advocate for the abject poor and marginalized, and commanded us to take care of the stranger, the poor, the prisoner.
I’d ask anyone with a WWJD bracelet, do you really think Christ’s reaction at seeing throngs of desperate people seeking asylum would be, “Separate the families, and lock ‘em all up, including the kids”?
I’m not sure what Sunday school they attended…again, no one need be a Christian, but Jesus was the very definition of woke…
All of that stuff is overlooked by such “Christians” when it’s not convenient to their worldview, political goals, or “othering.”
Wait a minute. Are you saying that Jesus would not have chased a school shooting survivor down the sidewalk, verbally taunting him?
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Point of Doper Nitpickery: at least 3,000 people more than would have been statisticaly expected in a normal year died attributable to situations arising from the hurricane and its aftereffects. Not “in” the hurricane as people normally understand that. I know that’s the Atlantic’s and Times’ words, not yours, and Perry is still a dick anyway because he is, but gotta honor the board vibe.
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Yes, I will take that controversial position. 
I know, but those commands are pretty central to Christ’s message. I just don’t know how they resolve that cognitive dissonance. It’s kind of an enormous gap.
I know how my own MAGA right wing father dealt with that cognitive dissonance: He left the church.
That actual question was put to my father in church by his priest. Didn’t fly well with my RWD ( right wing dad ), so he left.
By understanding that Jesus did not understand what Christianity was about as goodly as Paul did.
That’s at least a coherent philosophy. It seems your dad realized that Christian beliefs are incompatible with MAGA ideals. So he said to hell with that whole Christ business.
Those who continue to profess their supposed Christian bona fides while shitting all over anyone who doesn’t look and think like them—well, those guys fascinate me.
All those who claim Christ’s message has been distorted are partly right: it has been distorted, but not by the MAGA movement or its predecessors. No, it’s been corrupted by liberals with stuff like “love your neighbor” and “turn the other cheek” 
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Fortunately there’s the Conservative Bible Project, the brain(?)child of Andrew Schlafly, who also founded Conservapedia. (He’s the son of Phyllis Schlafly, and for those who are at all familiar with her that tells you all you need to know.)
For reasons of principle I refuse to link to either Conservapedia or the CBP directly, but here’s the latter’s mission statement:
The Conservative Bible Project is a project utilizing the “best of the public” to render God’s word into modern English without liberal translation distortions.
They’re going to have to edit out most of what Jesus said.
So basically he was like “Fuck that Jesus guy and what he said. I want to hate people so fuck you all.”