What the fuck ??? What happens if this creep wins the primary election and is then convicted of murdering his wife...will he be allowed to keep his seat on the Clinton Township Board. It will be funny if the board legally can not remove him if he wins and is convicted of murder. He will be the first elected politician...running things in Clinton Township from prison. wrbtrader
Let's take a look at the future of the Republican party... ‘I’m Done’: Former Trump Official Quits Republican Party, Burns The GOP On His Way Out https://dailyboulder.com/im-done-fo...epublican-party-burns-the-gop-on-his-way-out/ Miles Taylor, a former Trump administration official who served as Homeland Security deputy chief of staff and then chief of staff from 2017 to 2019, has announced that he’s leaving the Republican party, saying that the GOP is now a threat to the country. “I no longer believe the Republican Party can be saved,” he wrote on Twitter. “The vitriolic rhetoric is inspiring violent radicals. I’m quitting the GOP. And I hope more do the same. In his tweet, Taylor linked to an editorial he wrote for NBC News saying: “In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday, it’s become glaringly obvious that my party no longer represents conservative values but in fact poses a threat to them — and to America.” The former DHS official was referring to the white supremacist who shot and killed 10 at a Buffalo grocery store and specifically targeted Black people. The shooter reportedly wrote a manifesto referencing “great replacement theory,” a racist conspiracy theory promoted by some Republicans and amplified by figures such as Fox News host ― and self-confessed liar ― Tucker Carlson. The Theory claims that Democrats are trying to replace white Americans with people of color. Taylor noted that a poll last year found nearly half of Republicans agreed with sentiments of the “great replacement theory.” “The Republican Party — which branded a violent insurrection in the nation’s capital as ‘legitimate political discourse’ — is poisoning Americans’ minds and supplanting respectful disagreement with loaded-gun rhetoric,” he wrote. Although some good people remained in the Republican party, Taylor urged them to quit, too, “until it is rehabilitated or a suitable alternative is created.”
Having never heard of "The Daily Boulder", I decided to use GWB's own "Mediabiasfactcheck" to determine what kind of source it is. And I LOL'd. Pegged to the extreme left, and labeled "Questionable".
So let's carefully read what Miles Taylor told NBC News -- which is what the article is reporting on. After Buffalo, saving the GOP means leaving the GOP I thought the Republican Party could be saved. I was wrong. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...placement-theory-trump-gop-stefanik-rcna29266 By Miles Taylor, author of "A Warning" I’ve been a political conservative most of my life, having worked for two Republican presidents and for a GOP-controlled Congress. In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday, it’s become glaringly obvious that my party no longer represents conservative values but in fact poses a threat to them — and to America. That’s why I am quitting the GOP. I was wrong in thinking it could be saved. I worked with top Republicans to stop Trump in 2016, tried to limit the fallout from within his administration after he was elected (including warnings from within about Trump’s instability) and unmasked myself to publicly oppose his re-election in 2020. He was defeated, but this effort ultimately failed. Transformed in the contemptible image of the man who remains its standard-bearer, the Republican Party’s moral implosion is complete. The vitriolic GOP rhetoric is inspiring violent radicals, and I don’t say that lightly. After more than a decade in counterterrorism, it’s clear to me that my party is mainstreaming conspiracy theories that are fueling a statistical spike in political intimidation, attitudes toward violence and the specter of domestic terrorism that we witnessed this weekend in New York. This isn’t a partisan broadside. It’s a public safety warning. The Buffalo shooter was apparently radicalized by racist viewpoints that many Republicans espouse, and that danger can’t be tolerated any longer. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a rock-ribbed conservative, put it bluntly this week. “The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism,” she wrote on Twitter. “History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse.” She asked the bare minimum of party leaders, urging them to “renounce and reject” such views. Instead, the office of No. 3 House Republican, Elise Stefanik, who has echoed extremist sentiments in her own campaign ads, went on a tirade against the mainstream media, failing to take responsibility for the toxic discourse that has become the engine of a wayward GOP. The party of Lincoln once stood on granite-solid ground — promoting free minds, free markets and free people — but no longer. The GOP is now a party of misinformation and false grievances, of protectionism and nativism, of election subversion and anti-democratic sentiment. Look no further than how Republicans have pushed the conspiracy theories of QAnon, the 2020 stolen election myth and, chillingly, the “great replacement” lie that hangs over the tragic events in Buffalo. The suspect in the Buffalo shooting allegedly wrote and posted a manifesto referencing this race-baiting theory before carrying out his massacre, eerily reflecting the ideas of major GOP figures. Fox News host Tucker Carlson, for instance, has repeatedly claimed that the Democratic Party is attempting to “replace the current electorate” of white voters with so-called “Third World” voters. An Associated Press poll in December found that nearly 50 percent of Republicans agree to some degree with the sentiments of the “great replacement theory” the Buffalo shooter allegedly used as justification for hunting and killing Black Americans, who comprised most of the victims of Saturday’s attack. This is hardly the only hate-filled conspiracy circulating in some quarters of the GOP. Before the shooting, Stefanik gave a nod to QAnon fanatics by suggesting top Democrats were pedophiles. According to an Economist/YouGov survey in March, around half of Republicans now believe in core QAnon concepts, such as the assertion that a single group of people “secretly … rule the world” and that “top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings.” Meanwhile, the vast majority of Republicans (more than 70 percent in a University of Massachusetts poll released more than a year after the 2020 election) still contest the results of the last presidential vote. This has seemed to encourage dozens of GOP candidates to compete in federal primaries by campaigning on rage over a “rigged” election. These would otherwise be fringe beliefs, if GOP elites like Trump and Stefanik weren’t making them go viral. Alarmingly, the normalization of such conspiracy theories is helping to create a powder keg. Violent radicalization is no longer limited to a tiny group of people or lone wolves. One in 10 Americans, liberals and independents as well as conservatives, now believe violence against the government is justified and that Trump should be forcibly reinstalled in the White House, leading to an inescapable conclusion: The Republican Party — which branded a violent insurrection in the nation’s capital as “legitimate political discourse“ — is poisoning Americans minds and supplanting respectful disagreement with loaded-gun rhetoric. At the same time, the party is going after the foundations of democracy itself. GOP lawmakers have curtailed voting rights in nearly half of U.S. states, and a slew of Republican “election deniers” are running for positions charged with overseeing state elections. What’s more, most Republicans still favor a twice-impeached Trump for president, despite the fact that at least one former aide has said he would “absolutely” impose some form of autocracy in a second term and some of his cabinet members have warned he’s a “threat to democracy.” This is not the Republican Party I signed up for. Before Trump, the GOP was moving toward a bigger-tent party. Now it’s regressing into culture wars and incivility closely resembling mob rule. Make no mistake: There are good people such as Cheney in the GOP trying to restore sanity, but I believe that change from inside the party is a lost cause. Real reform — the kind that is needed to restore the soul of our political system — can only be achieved from the outside. Accordingly, conservatives of conscience must quit the GOP and oppose the Republican Party until it is rehabilitated or a suitable alternative is created. So today, in the tragic aftermath of Buffalo, I’m becoming something else — an independent — and my fellow conservatives should do the same.
Sooo you've got someone who is moving left saying they've had it? Like you? Remember when you used to be centrist before you lost your mind and went hard left? Nothing in any of these posts is really factual, its all subjective and editorial. You have your view, I have mine. I can post a dozen such silly news articles of people leaving the Democrat party. Hell, a hash tag (#walkaway) was created about it. So what? As it stands right now, the Democrats are going to get slaughtered in November. Biden is at all-time low poll numbers. The administration is a laughing stock. High inflation, war, food and gas shortages, most likely already in a recession, and now a stock market crash. Yeah, things are going just swell with your party now! And then there's Kamala!
Yet you cannot fail to see that his statements are consistent with other conservatives who have walked away from the current Republican party -- which is driven by MAGA drivel rather than conservatism. I will fully admit that the Democratic party has clearly wandered too far in the progressive direction as well -- which is leading to many mainstream voters and moderate Democrats from walking-away from it as well. So in summary -- both parties have been recently marching to the extremes and it is not good.
Trump lives in your head rent free. You've been whining and pissing about him since he was in office. I don't like the guy either, but he's out of my life. For you, its still PTSD. MAGA isn't a bad philosophy - making American great, or putting America first. You're a shithead if you think that's a problem. In any other country, putting that country first would not be an extreme position. Now, if you don't agree with particular policies that these politicians follow - state what you disagree with. But you don't. You just do your best to defame and cry about them, or to discredit. And your sources are hilarious because that's all they do, too. Both parties have been reaching extremes, yes. But the difference is that the left extremes are things like "men can get pregnant" or CRT or any one of a dozen ridiculous philosophies that you - yourself - have called out in the past. If it weren't for the fact that you are a raging COVIDian, you'd have been a republican long ago. But you know they are the party that won't lock down, and won't push your COVID agenda, so you're torn. The right "extremes" may say silly things, but the left "extremes" go mainstream. And that's the reason why they - you - are going to get your asses handed to them in November and beyond (unless something really changes).
Enjoy your rant. I am quite amused. Now for a truth bomb. MAGA is not about putting America first or making America great. It is about putting the golden idol, Trump, first -- and everything else including the citizens of America are secondary. For MAGA pushers -- facts don't matter, the truth does not matter... only their twisted fact-free narrative matters. Remember to go worship your MAGA idol...