Stupid Republican idea of the day

H.B. 1566

Fortunately, the borders are not guarded.

They’re gonna build a wall, and make Oklahoma pay for it.

Yet.

Arkansas, like Texas, is a great place to be from.

I don’t think Okrahoma has the funds.

We could all chip in! Lot of us have stuff we could sell, houses, cars, children…

That’s a good analogy [for the economic absurdity of the Great Wall of Schweinficker]; I like that.

As I have said in a another thread, I’ve been to the Oklahoma/Arkansas border. The northern half or so is a lot rougher country than you think. Think Snuffy Smith country. There might even be natural tunnels under it.

Trees all around you, and new ones sprouting up right on your wall when you aren’t looking! The expense of maintaining that wall would be quite economically destructive to the rest of the state, given all the money and resources sunk into it. Ironically for a a public works project, I suspect it could be a “job-killer” on balance.

As I said, a good analogy.

As was pointed out in another thread about the possibility of republicans overturning roe v wade, unless they are able to get a national law against, and it “goes back to the states”, then the law needs to punish women who get abortions, which means that the state will need to take a very close and personal interest into your private life.

Any woman of child bearing age that leaves the state will be considered suspect, and if there happens to be any evidence that she may have been pregnant, they are going to need to go after her.

Fortunately for the pro-fetus cohort, there are right leaning people enough, even on this board, who have no problem with the idea of imprisoning their populations, and not allowing anyone to leave without explicit permission from the state, so they could always try that method.

But if abortion regulation went back to the 50 states, that would be a job-creator for liberal-law states.

Pregnant women from neighboring right-wing states would travel there to get an abortion, thus spending money at clinics, travel expenses, overnight rooms, etc. Mostly money going from their home state to the neighbor state, and creating jobs there.

Uh huh. I don’t think radio and TV are his “thing” either.

With a new poll showing voters’ anger that Chris Christie sunned himself on a beach he closed to the public during a government shutdown, the New Jersey governor auditioned for a sports talk radio job on Monday. He soon found himself fighting back against angry callers.
Christie, a Republican, began co-hosting the afternoon show on New York’s WFAN shortly after the first poll released since the beach incident showed his approval rating holding steady at a dismal 15%, an all-time low. Eighty per cent of respondents disapproved of his leadership, the Monmouth University poll showed. … In the Monmouth poll, released on Monday, 800 people were asked for the first word that came to mind to describe how they felt about Christie in the beach photos. Most said “disgusted” and “angry, outraged”. Tied for the next biggest share was “jerk, profanity used.” Eighty-six per cent of the respondents in the Monmouth poll said they saw the photos of Christie with his family on the closed beach.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/341330-clip-of-christie-confrontation-with-sports-radio-caller-goes-viral
During Monday’s show, a caller named “Mike” from Montclair, N.J., blasted Christie for his recent trip to a state beach after he ordered state beaches and parks closed due to a government shutdown.
“Governor, next time you want to sit on a beach that is closed to the entire world except you, you put your fat ass in a car and go to one that’s open to all your constituents,” the caller said. “Not just you and yours.”
“You know, Mike, I love getting calls from communists in Montclair,” Christie said.
The caller quickly interrupted, saying “you’re a bully, governor, and I don’t like bullies.”

Aw, Mike misunderstood. Christie wasn’t being sarcastic! The Republicans love communists now!

I like this here graph because it resembles all error-bars, which is ever so appropriate.

The story is: what we already knew, except, cast into high-contrast stark relief. Two-fucking-thirds of Rs feel that colleges and universities are having a bad influence on society.

No one thought to ask them about high schools. I bet those would still be in negative territory (unless duly christed).

Some Republicans are already on the record as being opposed to public schools, because of all that Communism they teach.

Nigel Farage tweeted, “@DonaldJTrumpJr is the best public supporter of @POTUS in the business. No surprise he is under attack!”

And Eric Trump retweeted it, saying, “This is the EXACT reason they viciously attack our family! They can’t stand that we are extremely close and will ALWAYS support each other.”. Yeah, that’s it, we just hate close families.

Kellyanne Conjob responds to Chris Cuomo’s questions witha bizarre (even by her standards) stream-of-consciousness Gish-Gallop smokescreen attempt.

Representative Steve King“If this continues — this immobilization of the presidency over these kind of things  (The whole Russia collusion thing - yanceylebeef) — it’s gonna force Congress to do an investigation, a complete and thorough investigation, and that means go back all the way to the 650,000 emails of Anthony Weiner and look at [former FBI Director James] Comey and his activities,”

I continue to be amazed at how hypocritical Republicans are about Russia meddling in our election. I mean, I knew they were craven, political animals only out for their own survival, but the Republican party of my father and grandfather’s time would have lost their collective shits over this kind of intrusion. This used to be the kind of thing that started wars, now its “Well, they helped our guy, so it’s cool”.

I’m beyond baffled. I’m positively louvered.

Republicans have clearly moved to a place where it is perfectly acceptable to work with a hostile country, a country that conducts espionage against us, a country that is headed by a despotic dictator… As long as that helps their party.

They are OK with using another country’s agents to disrupt the electoral process, to hack into servers of their political enemies and to become beholden to foreign powers… as long as their party wins.

This is what it has come down to. This is the basic fundamental way that the Republican Party works now.

Steve King has been a star of this thread for a long time. His is not a mind you wish to explore or understand.