BTRTN: Has America Lost Its Mind?

[reggieandlee]

Born to Run the Numbers observes the month of September and asks the only question salient question... has America lost its mind? The evidence is overwhelming...

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2023/10/btrtn-has-america-lost-its-mind.html

Exerpts: "There were three major stories in September, 2023 – the growing (if that is imaginable) insanity of Donald Trump, the growing absurdity that defines the Republican majority of the House, and the growing ageism that stalks Joe Biden and his reelection campaign every day. It's not hard to detect the common thread: the growing incompetence of the American electorate.
"The Republican-controlled House nearly shut down the government because of a handful of lunatics, led by the despicable Matt Gaetz. And yet, according to a Morning Consult survey this week, only 34% of Americans blamed congressional Republicans for the potential shutdown. Somehow, 23% blamed Joe Biden, and another 21% blamed congressional Democrats. How can that possibly be?
&quot Trump) recently made a point of stopping at ...the same gun store – Palmetto State Armory – that sold an automatic rifle to a white man who used it to kill three Blacks in Florida just a month before. This was intentional. Because, not content with simply appealing to the gun-toting segment of the electorate, he wanted to embrace an even more vile subset, the racist gun-wielders...
"But the Democrats...say Joe Biden is too old to be president, which is a bit like saying that an 80-year old is too old to drive, even if the 80-year old in question was lapping the field in the Indianapolis 500. Biden is giving a textbook lesson on statecraft, both in passing meaningful, even historic, bipartisan legislation, and conducting a coherent foreign policy, rebuilding global alliances and using them to fight off the all too real Russian threat in Ukraine, at the cost of zero American lives."

[grumpyduck]

1. No, America has not lost its mind.

The fucking repukes are deliberately screwing up the government, and the MSM is giving them all kinds of air time.

BTRTN: Don't confuse a small minority of assholes with the nation as a whole.

[tgards79]

4. You're wrong

You have to understand that the rest of the GOP is voting with the crazies, and no one is repudiating them. The GOP is going along with them, and that's why they cntrol the House, have 49 Senators and elected Trump once. You are crazy if you think the problem is just the MAGAs. It's the entire GOP, its part of the independents and all the Dems who are too lazy to vote.

[grumpyduck]

5. I didn't say "the fucking magats."

I said "the fucking repukes," which IMHO includes all of the GOP.

But there are still a lot of people here who have not lost their minds and who are not "compromised," or assholes, or want to do away with democracy. Unfortunately, too many of them aren't doing much of anything about it.

[CrispyQ]

2. A good 20% anyway. That's my estimate of the hardcore cult.

Problem for the repubs is they can't win without the cult. Imagine that. They went out of their way to court the zealots & racists & when the two joined forces & the loons threw in too, the repubs were all surprised when they took over the party. I'd laugh if it weren't the rest of us dealing with this shit.

[Jeebo]

3. MAKE AMERICA SANE AGAIN.

That's what one of the bumper stickers on my car says.

-- Ron