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How have we come to point where Chris fucking Christie seems like a sensible choice out of a tray of crap?
The guy who closed down a public bridge to cause political harm to a rival. What a jerk.
I feel like we've moved past just a tray of crap and right into the triceratops scene from Jurassic Park.
I don't like Christie either, but he's probably the most sane choice on the right at the moment.
This is why u don't vote for ppl on the right.
I wouldn’t trust any of these people to wander around unsupervised in my home. I sure as hell don’t want them having the nuclear football.
Well yeah, there’s that.
What absolute hell, lol. There are no solutions to actually help the America people. Just insults, hate, and bullshit. Wtf man.
New GOP mission statement: There are no solutions to actually help the America people. Just insults, hate, and bullshit.
they needed something to pair with CPAC’s “We are all domestic terrorists.”
"We are all malicious, self-serving toads"?
New? Where have you been the last several decades?
Well, I think until recently it was "Don't say the quiet part out loud"
I thought that was their 2020 platform
It's been their platform since at least 1980.
What did you expect?
The GQP don' need no steenking ideals, or goals, or logic, or sanity, or humanity. Just your votes and money.
Well, they'll just take those anyway.
Rammy isn’t wrong when he says fascist neocon, but he is mistaken by assuming he must issue a caveat with the lipstick comment.
Women can be fascist neocons just as easily as men; see: Italy, France, etc. And that’s just in the past few years; I know I’m missing more.
Yeah but Rammy is a fucking asshole, so it fits.
No one is wrong, but they are all evil...
Some are more evil than others…
Sucks none of these debates matter and only reinforces Trumps popularity. It’s impressive really: The man doesn’t have to do anything to be part of the Republican Party, yet, he continues to be the dominant and popular force in the party.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
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Chris Christie is running again? Poor guy likes getting punched in the stomach.
Seems like he has no hope of winning, and is running to restore his "reasonable moderate" reputation that took a hit when he latched onto Trump like a mating anglerfish.
Maybe he's hoping for a spot in Haley's cabinet? Or just as a power broker in the post-Trump GOP, if that ever happens.
Dude just likes the attention
Where a snake eats its own tail, there will always be entertainment.
Tha fuck is a neocon?
"new conservatives," an older conservative movement in line with reagans bullshit. Lower taxes, american foreign policy can do no wrong, make puppy eyes at the troops while you fuck them over, bust any union you can, keep people desperate, gut services to lower taxes more, etc. The Bush's were neocons, as are Romney and Bob dole.
They have been usurped by the alt right in the current party. "Burn it down fuck you facist populists that want women pregnant and beaten, and want to shoot anyone in the street who they dont like. Keep taxes low because idk, you let me kills the gays and minorities again so do what you want with taxes" party. The Trump party.
This is an alt right shithead calling a neocon shithead a shithead.
I’m pretty sure all conservatives want their 12 year old wiveS pregnant and in the kitchen
Any Con that isn't drinking the MAGA koolaid in modern parlance. "Neocons" care about foreign policy and actually have principles, warped and weak as they may be, other than "I agree 100% with whatever Trump said this week".
Neocons are the Republicans tapdancing because Russia is being humiliated in Ukraine, while MAGAts are ready to give authoritarian countries free reign because they also loathe gay people.
I looked up the definition, and it actually sounds like batshit nationalism.
Hahaha - they do not have principles, as has been proven over and over by their inability to hold criminals to account in their own party.
They use words that would otherwise indicate such, yes, but it's absolute utter bullshit. They DO NOT CARE about the law, or governance in any way, shape, or form that does not serve them personally. That's not having principles, that's a flaming hypocritical bag of shit.
Ah, you seem to have fallen under the false belief that "having principles = having good principles that I agree with". Neocons are not just mindlessly going around doing evil. They are evil in measured, predictable, logically consistent ways, with actionable goals.
Lawful evil, if you will.
I only know some about them but the main thing is that they support a STRONG military form of foreign policy to support “democracy”, stuff like George Bush on invading Afghanistan and Iraq. They support NATO and defending US interests cross the seas.
They’re basically the tankies of conservatism, with wanting to have tanks solve everything and denying their failures, but they kinda died out like a decade ago.
Found the gen z. I can't believe it took less than 20 years to forget/ not know.
It speaks to how bad a disaster that ideology was that the generation born when it took control have never heard of it by the time they've become adults.
Millennial. And, I’ve never heard of neocon because it’s not used anymore since they’re all that now. So it’s just CONS
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