This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy
If you think there is a line Trump will cross and lose his supporters, please Google “Jim Jones” or “drinking the Kool-Aid”.
It’s a cult. There is no line.
This is a photo of Republicans in Congress reaching their crossed “line”:
Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more.
Florida passed a law banning airplanes from spreading chemtrails (plus 7 other Republican states – so far). But people look up and still see the vapor trails from planes!!!
Lesson to learn: When they get done removing all the “illegals” (crossing the border is a misdemeanor) They will STILL see people who “don’t look like us” and that huge ICE apparatus they’re building will go to work on the rest of the population, until only the “pure” remain.
The dangers of indulging the fantasies of the crazies.Since the state law went into effect, the Floridians who backed it have grown increasingly angry by seeing the skies just as marked by white trails as they were prior to the state law.
Here’s a smattering of irate posts on X in the two months since the state law went into effect:
— “Yes, the spraying has taken place every single day since the Ban was put in place!”
— “The invasion continues. Florida skies are under constant attack.”
— “DeSantis, why do you lie? Why do you say that you signed a Florida Bill getting rid of these hideous chemtrails, and it is all a fat big LIE?”
— “Welcome to Florida, the chemtrails state. Now we are being sprayed from 4 a.m. to 5 a.m., so by 10 a.m. the skies are cleared but you are breathing heavy metals. Thank you DeSantis.”
— “See how the chemicals are spreading out. Trees are dying, crops are barely growing. Why is our government doing this to us?”
By humoring Florida’s free-dumb coalition on chemtrails, state lawmakers have unleashed a tornado of disappointment upon themselves.While not precisely the same, there is a lesson here about trying to give anti-immigration zealots something you can’t give them. They don’t want cuts to illegal immigration or even legal immigration.
They want you to send them all back again, and if you can’t provide that, they won’t be happy. They will vote for the people who they think might.
Stop negotiating with the imaginary Reasonable Republican in your head, imagining that surely this compromise will appeal to them, because it’s very sensible. Reasonable Republicans don’t exist, and they haven’t agreed to your compromise.
Friday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. As you may have heard, the White house marked the occasion with this statement:
It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust. It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.
Yet, we know that in the darkest hours of humanity, light shines the brightest. As we remember those who died, we are deeply grateful to those who risked their lives to save the innocent.
In the name of the perished, I pledge to do everything in my power throughout my Presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good. Together, we will make love and tolerance prevalent throughout the world.
Can you see what’s missing?
Trump says “you’re going to have to strongly consider” shutting down mosques in the US.
Update – now the Republicans only Christian refugees should be allowed into the US. This is beyond disgusting, it is getting dangerous.
Ted Cruz said in South Carolina last night: “There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror. If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had a different religious view than they we would have a different national security situation.” Jeb Bush said on CNN that the government should focus on helping “Christians that are being slaughtered.”
Ben Carson on evolution:
“I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary, and it has become what is scientifically, politically correct.”
(Note the addition of a new category, “Wingnuttery” over in the list of categories.)