Prickly City by Scott Stantis for April 12, 2021

So is Scott.

Scott, give some hints as to what ideals you are talking about.

Money?

Power?

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It’s a pretty short list.

I’m losing hope that the GOP will turn away from its Trump worship. I’m just looking for the right moment to drop my Republican registration.

Yet Hunter’s book has been praised for its searing honesty and literary style and for challenging the stigma of addiction.

As Republicans flail to find a line of attack against Biden that will stick, Hunter’s self-revelations have been met by a shrug in a nation seemingly inured to scandal by Trump himself.

“It is amazing how many of their hopes and dreams did centre on Hunter Biden’s addiction, Hunter Biden’s sex life, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and interesting for a political party that has based so much on ‘nothing matters’ to discover to their disappointment that nothing matters,” said Charlie Sykes, author of How the Right Lost Its Mind.

“Haven’t they sort of established a small universe where nothing matters? You can pay off a porn star and it doesn’t make a difference.

Did they really think that somehow Hunter Biden was going to make a difference?”

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None of this gives Republicans the ammunition they hoped for. Politically, the book has been a dog that didn’t bark (unlike Biden’s actual dogs, Champ and Major, which have made headlines over biting incidents and excrement in a White House hallway) and, instead of turning into a liability, only appears to reinforce Biden’s image as compassionate and humane.

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Rightwing efforts to demonise Hunter have been further blunted by a crisis in their own ranks.

The memoir played second fiddle to almost daily revelations about Matt Gaetz, a fiercely pro-Trump Republican congressman, reportedly under investigation over allegations of a relationship with an underage girl and payments for sex with women recruited online.

Many observers find Gaetz a less sympathetic figure than Hunter.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/10/hunter-biden-scandal-republicans-trump

Worship of a person is now the only Republican principle. Look at how they attacked Liz Cheney, who is a hard-right conservative. They now call her a RINO for not bowing down to Trump.

It’s weird. Trump never won the popular vote. He’s the only President who never had 50% approval. In the last election, the rest of the GOP did MUCH BETTER at the polls than he did. Yet they seem determined to tie themselves to this anchor. Makes no sense.

One might think Stantis is just messing with us now that the political winds have shifted in public opinion polls.

good luck with that, Carmen, the infestation has mutated most GQPers DNA……………….their change is permanent.

In the end the lying racist Republicans vote for the guy who insults them the most.

Sad Little People.

I don’t think anything short of a party split will save the GOP. And they won’t do that because it would ensure Democratic victories in all but the reddest of red States.

‘Coward’ Nikki Haley mocked for claiming she’ll support Trump after saying ‘we shouldn’t have followed him’

https://www.rawstory.com/nikki-haley-coward-donald-trump/

She is a Republican not a Trumpublican.