Mitt romney gets cancelled from cpac

[Cosmic Janitor]

*slowly blinks*

Mitt Romney has always been a piece of shit and it's honestly mystifying to me that y'all are willing to give people like him and Bush Jr a pass simply because they aren't quite as manifestly loathsome as Trump.

Politics is all about picking the lesser evil, not really surprising imho.

[arandomuser]

Is he though? He's constantly flip flopping on Trump when it comes to a lot of stuff. One moment he goes against the president and the next he's all buddy buddy with him like the first thing didn't happen.

becuase hes still a republican he votes with presidents trumps agenda the majority of the time, thats what makes his cancellation worst, it wasnt like he suddenly started supporting medicare for all, his literally only opposition to trump was soliciting foreign governments to help his re election and he was outcast.

Imagine how many outlets would run "cancel culture" articles of democrats did something similar where we did something like disinvited bloomberg for his racist search and frisk policy and we'd all be called woke sjws- but republicans have immunity from media criticism i guess or else the media looks "biased"

[Thekri]

Least of Romney's worries really. He is already in line for Night of the Long Knives 2: AmerikaReich.

Seriously, I am quite concerned about that coming around 2021 or 2022 if he wins in 2020. Trump isn't planning on leaving in 2024, and he has to pull a Rohmputsch to make that happen. He is setting the stage nicely, with constant railing about "Coups" and "Traitors" while discrediting the courts and investigative services. The Night of the Long Knives was the point of no return for Germany, as the German courts ruled that extra-judicial executions were legal and necessary for the defense of the state. It finally gave Hitler control over the military, whose officers distrusted him.

See if any of these Wikipedia quotes seem to ring a bell:

Concerned with presenting the massacre as legally sanctioned, Hitler had the cabinet approve a measure on July 3 that declared, "The measures taken on June 30, July 1 and 2 to suppress treasonous assaults are legal as acts of self-defence by the State." Reich Justice Minister Franz Gürtner, a conservative who had been Bavarian Justice Minister in the years of the Weimar Republic, demonstrated his loyalty to the new regime by drafting the statute, which added a legal veneer to the purge.[k] Signed into law by Hitler, Gürtner, and Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick, the "Law Regarding Measures of State Self-Defence" retroactively legalized the murders committed during the purge. Germany's legal establishment further capitulated to the regime when the country's leading legal scholar, Carl Schmitt, wrote an article defending Hitler's July 13 speech. It was named "The Führer Upholds the Law."

Rumours about the Night of the Long Knives rapidly spread. Although many Germans approached the official news of the events as described by Joseph Goebbels with a great deal of scepticism, many others took the regime at its word, and believed that Hitler had saved Germany from a descent into chaos.[l] Luise Solmitz, a Hamburg schoolteacher, echoed the sentiments of many Germans when she cited Hitler's "personal courage, decisiveness and effectiveness" in her private diary. She even compared him to Frederick the Great, the 18th-century King of Prussia.[2]

This is why this needs to stop and soon. We have already gone further then I would have though possible two years ago. It will keep getting worse unless we manage to stop it. Too many cowards in the GOP are enabling this, and it is going to eat them alive.

[Flarelaine]

Least of Romney's worries really. He is already in line for Night of the Long Knives 2: AmerikaReich.

Seriously, I am quite concerned about that coming around 2021 or 2022 if he wins in 2020. Trump isn't planning on leaving in 2024, and he has to pull a Rohmputsch to make that happen. He is setting the stage nicely, with constant railing about "Coups" and "Traitors" while discrediting the courts and investigative services. The Night of the Long Knives was the point of no return for Germany, as the German courts ruled that extra-judicial executions were legal and necessary for the defense of the state. It finally gave Hitler control over the military, whose officers distrusted him.

See if any of these Wikipedia quotes seem to ring a bell:




This is why this needs to stop and soon. We have already gone further then I would have though possible two years ago. It will keep getting worse unless we manage to stop it. Too many cowards in the GOP are enabling this, and it is going to eat them alive.

The absurd thing is that the SA in present context would not be Romney and the moderates. The SA was more rabid than the mainline Nazi party back then and were somewhat of a burden once Hitler was in power and cozied up to the traditional elite of conservatives/businessmen.

[Thekri]

The absurd thing is that the SA in present context would not be Romney and the moderates. The SA was more rabid than the mainline Nazi party back then and were somewhat of a burden once Hitler was in power and cozied up to the traditional elite of conservatives/businessmen.

Right, but the SA were not the only victims of the Night of the Long Knives. He used the opportunity to purge the moderates and military officers that opposed him. Groups that were not aligned with the SA.

The comparison here would basically be purging the Qanon crowd, and using the opportunity to sweep out GOP moderates, Democrat politicians, and opposing military officers out at the same time. Cement military loyalty, and it is all over for us.

[Varvara Spiros Gelashvili]

He's not not a piece of shit, he's just less of a piece of shit.

Not a whole turd but still run off.

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That image of Mitt/Trump. it certainly looks like his eyes are screaming "Help get me away from this madman."

Looks like the preview to a gay porno. Orange orangutan man smashes small former governor desperate for cash.

[Somewhatconcerned]

Least of Romney's worries really. He is already in line for Night of the Long Knives 2: AmerikaReich.

Seriously, I am quite concerned about that coming around 2021 or 2022 if he wins in 2020. Trump isn't planning on leaving in 2024, and he has to pull a Rohmputsch to make that happen. He is setting the stage nicely, with constant railing about "Coups" and "Traitors" while discrediting the courts and investigative services. The Night of the Long Knives was the point of no return for Germany, as the German courts ruled that extra-judicial executions were legal and necessary for the defense of the state. It finally gave Hitler control over the military, whose officers distrusted him.

See if any of these Wikipedia quotes seem to ring a bell:




This is why this needs to stop and soon. We have already gone further then I would have though possible two years ago. It will keep getting worse unless we manage to stop it. Too many cowards in the GOP are enabling this, and it is going to eat them alive.

I think the more likely outcome is that he just pivots hard to try to pave the way for either Don Jr or someone like Stephen Miller.

[Paranoid Android]

Least of Romney's worries really. He is already in line for Night of the Long Knives 2: AmerikaReich.

Seriously, I am quite concerned about that coming around 2021 or 2022 if he wins in 2020. Trump isn't planning on leaving in 2024, and he has to pull a Rohmputsch to make that happen. He is setting the stage nicely, with constant railing about "Coups" and "Traitors" while discrediting the courts and investigative services. The Night of the Long Knives was the point of no return for Germany, as the German courts ruled that extra-judicial executions were legal and necessary for the defense of the state. It finally gave Hitler control over the military, whose officers distrusted him.

See if any of these Wikipedia quotes seem to ring a bell:




This is why this needs to stop and soon. We have already gone further then I would have though possible two years ago. It will keep getting worse unless we manage to stop it. Too many cowards in the GOP are enabling this, and it is going to eat them alive.

Maybe hyperbole here but the politicians getting on the Trump rain realize that if Trump wins in 2020, the next election he will want one of his kids. Do they really think this stops at The Donald? You really think he cares or wants some other politician to be President. Again, hyperbole right now but the Trump cult will elect a Trump, not some politician who swears they were a Trumper from the start.

[Orbitus]

I think the more likely outcome is that he just pivots hard to try to pave the way for either Don Jr or someone like Stephen Miller.

Don Junior will never have a chance, and Stephen Miller will be lucky to make it out of this whitehouse without going to fucking jail. The fact that you are rooting for a white nationalist piece of shit, to get elected ANYWHERE, means we know all we need to know about you.

[Somewhatconcerned]

Don Junior will never have a chance, and Stephen Miller will be lucky to make it out of this whitehouse without going to fucking jail. The fact that you are rooting for a white nationalist piece of shit, to get elected ANYWHERE, means we know all we need to know about you.

Who said I was rooting for him? It just seems like the likely trajectory.

[Orbitus]

Who said I was rooting for him? It just seems like the likely trajectory.

The very fact you mentioned, 2 of the biggest slimeballs in the country, then yeah, you are rooting for them.

[Somewhatconcerned]

The very fact you mentioned, 2 of the biggest slimeballs in the country, then yeah, you are rooting for them.

Wrong again. Predicting is not endorsing.

But even you can see that there's no going back to "normalcy" for the GOP after Trump. And you should really ask yourself why the candidates on your side are so unappealing that people would even entertain the notion of voting for Trump for whoever comes after him. Congrats, you own this.

[Elegiac]

Wrong again. Predicting is not endorsing.

But even you can see that there's no going back to "normalcy" for the GOP after Trump. And you should really ask yourself why the candidates on your side are so unappealing that people would even entertain the notion of voting for Trump for whoever comes after him.

Decades upon decades of indoctrination by corporate media?

I'm not sure what sort of argument you think you're making by pointing out that a significant portion of the American public is brainwashed.

[Orbitus]

Wrong again. Predicting is not endorsing.

But even you can see that there's no going back to "normalcy" for the GOP after Trump. And you should really ask yourself why the candidates on your side are so unappealing that people would even entertain the notion of voting for Trump for whoever comes after him. Congrats, you own this.

Yeah, when Trump has a 40% approval rating, his son has worse, and Stephen Miller is worse than that.

If they are so unappealing, hint, they aren't, then why are they all losing to Trump in polling?

[Mormolyce]

*slowly blinks*

Mitt Romney has always been a piece of shit and it's honestly mystifying to me that y'all are willing to give people like him and Bush Jr a pass simply because they aren't quite as manifestly loathsome as Trump.

I honestly thought the Republicans would never find a worse President than GWB. Dumb as a post, manifestly unfit for office, a spoiled rich brat his entire life entering senility, masquerading as a fundamentalist Christian to excite bigots, and dancing on the puppet strings of despicable crooks and warmongers like Cheney.

Turns out you can take all that, and add "loathsome on a personal level too" to the mix.

[Elegiac]

Funny, that's exactly what they say about you, re: brainwashing.

Why is that?

Projection, lol.

I don't get the vast majority of my news from a single, sensationalist source. They do.

[Dontrike]

I think the more likely outcome is that he just pivots hard to try to pave the way for either Don Jr or someone like Stephen Miller.

Don Jr. has done even less than his father and he has even less of a personality than his father. He's sniveling weasel incarnate.

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Wrong again. Predicting is not endorsing.

But even you can see that there's no going back to "normalcy" for the GOP after Trump. And you should really ask yourself why the candidates on your side are so unappealing that people would even entertain the notion of voting for Trump for whoever comes after him. Congrats, you own this.

Or it shows that those willing to vote for Trump are ones that think silently what Trump says out loud and there's nothing that could convince them to vote for democrats anyways.

The fact that people thought Trump was better than Hillary in any way shows more stupidity, gullibility, and ignorance than anything else.

[Kaleredar]

I honestly thought the Republicans would never find a worse President than GWB. Dumb as a post, manifestly unfit for office, a spoiled rich brat his entire life entering senility, masquerading as a fundamentalist Christian to excite bigots, and dancing on the puppet strings of despicable crooks and warmongers like Cheney.

Turns out you can take all that, and add "loathsome on a personal level too" to the mix.

An applicable sentiment from Malcolm in the Middle:

"You mean no matter how much I lower the bar, they'll always find a way to slip under it?"

"Oh, honey, you still think there's a bar..."

[Dontrike]

Projection, lol.

I don't get the vast majority of my news from a single, sensationalist source. They do.

Hey! The don't get it all from one sensationalist, propagandist source. They get it from many sensationalist, propagandist sources (Breitbart, Fox, Trump himself, QAnon, etc.)

[Breccia]

y'all are willing to give people like him and Bush Jr a pass

Maybe some people in this thread are, but for the record, I am not. I'm just pointing out the way the Party of Trump immediately turned on one of their own who didn't 100% bow and scrape. This is proof it's not the Republican Party anymore.