The 2024 GQP Thread: Because Deutsche Gopher Fan ENDED the Last One

[aparch]

Seriously...have none of you ever met a phucking Jew in your life?

Like this?

 

[Kepler]

Growing up in North Dakota, we'd see them now and then just walking around. They seemed nice.

"Walking around."

 

[Kepler]

I'd just like to say I'm sorry.

 

[LynahFan]

I'd just like to say I'm sorry.

The only shocking part of that story is that the author seems to be a woman.

 

[French Rage]

Wait so they weren't serious about it?!?! https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2817236/rnc-closed-hispanic-community-centers/

As national Republicans prioritize reaching Hispanic Americans and other minorities for the 2024 cycle, they are facing a significant setback: Most of the Hispanic community centers launched in the last election cycle are closed.

Twenty community centers were opened during the 2022 cycle. Now only five are open, two of them having been opened in 2023, according to the Messenger, which said the Republican National Committee confirmed the closures.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

I'll bet there was likely far less interest from Hispanic & Latinx voters than the narrative they've been touting.

 

[Kepler]

I'll bet there was likely far less interest from Hispanic & Latinx voters than the narrative they've been touting.

 

[Kepler]

This is a good analysis. tldr: Dump does do better with Latinos than you'd expect, less for policy than social reasons. So GQP gains with Latinos should not be dismissed, but also not exaggerated.

Ultimately voters get something for their vote. Uneducated whites have their grievances fed by Dump, so even though GQP policies harm them their votes still make sense -- even uneducated white women, who would otherwise be inexplicable.

But it's hard to see what Latinos, outside of reactionaries like Cubans and Fundies, would get from voting for Dump and/or the GQP. Non-whites do not tend to vote for white supremacists in large numbers.

 

[Handyman]

From what it looks like the GOP does better in local elections with Latinos but nationally have real issues outside of Cubans.

 

[Handyman]

https://www.threads.net/@calltoactivism/post/C2gAEo8RAL-/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

 

[Kepler]

https://www.threads.net/@calltoactiv...c4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

I wish the TV had just held on the GOP dou-chebag the whole time.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Navarro gets 4 months of jail. It's jailtime at least. Should be more.

 

[Swansong]

So the RNC is floating a resolution to skip the rest of the primaries and declare Trump the presumptive nominee.

 

[French Rage]

So the RNC is floating a resolution to skip the rest of the primaries and declare Trump the presumptive nominee.

Remember it's Crooked Joe who wants to circumvent the primary process.

 

[Bronco]

If it is good enough for mother Russia, then it is good enough for the GOP.

 

[Handyman]

I wish the TV had just held on the GOP dou-chebag the whole time.

Yeah that was my favorite part. That guy has the same face Comer has every time a Dem points out they have zero proof in their Hunter Biden hearings.

 

[Handyman]

So the RNC is floating a resolution to skip the rest of the primaries and declare Trump the presumptive nominee.

So they want to create chaos and a possible war at the convention? I realize Trump is smoking Haley and will continue to but she still got in the 40s in NH and likely will be around there up until Super Tuesday. That is a lot of people to upset in an already shrinking base over a foregone conclusion...

 

[Kepler]

These headlines are next to each other on DW:

• Cameroon first country to roll out vaccine against malaria
• Alabama executes man using nitrogen gas for first time

 

[WeAreNDHockey]

These headlines are next to each other on DW:

• Cameroon first country to roll out vaccine against malaria
• Alabama executes man using nitrogen gas for first time

Capital punishment is an odd duck. How many people who support it as a fair means of punishment or deterrence really give a 5h!t if it is "humane" or relatively pain-free? And how many people who oppose something like what Alabama is now doing really believe that there can be "humane" state sponsored killing?

I believe capital punishment is wrong, period. It is the only punishment you can't correct or back-track on if you eventually realize a mistake was made in convicting someone, and only a moron would think the application of it is any more fair to the poor or people of color than any other portion of our justice system. I'm all for shooting and killing someone who poses an immediate physical threat. But once a person has been convicted of a crime and sent away to prison, they're not posing much of a threat to me anymore, are they?

I'm curious if any of our regular posters here support capital punishment but ONLY if we "humanely" execute those who are convicted and sentenced to death.

 

[Kepler]

The potential value of capital punishment is:

• protection
• deterrence
• vengeance

I reject protection for the reason you said. Deterrence does not seem to be borne out by studies. That leaves vengeance, which I suspect is what most supporters of state-directed death are after.

So the question is, is vengeance a valid social aim? Maybe. There are crimes that are so heinous that a large number of people -- likely the vast majority -- howl for blood. Denying those howls risks delegitimizing the judicial order, which only has power as it is respected.

I think it's case by case, TBH. I think there is a point where the lines cross and the risk of a false positive is so small that it is exceeded by the risks of social disorder because the outcome is so counter-intuitive to most people.

That is not ideologically pleasing and it flaunts principle, which suggests it's on the right track.