Last week in the Republican Party (sorry, couldn't help myself)...

[Evangelicalhumanist]

 

[paradox]

Trump is the messiah of America

I want to see them go as far right as possible and then go even further right than that

ahahah

 

[metis]

Yep, and this is not the face of the Republican Party.

 

[SomeRandom]

Yep, and this is not the face of the Republican Party.

It’s the face of the hardcore “Trumpists” though.

Watching hardcore Trump supporters (like the really really hardcore ones) over the last few years has made me suddenly appreciate our political parties being allowed to basically vote out the leader whenever they want. I used to view such a thing with scorn. An undermining of the “people’s choice.” But maybe it’s necessary to maintain some sort of discipline. Sheesh!

It’s also fascinating to watch, in a sort of “gawking at a car crash” kind of way.
Like I can understand enthusiastic support for a political leader. But I’ve seen folks who treat Trump as some kind of infallible God.
I dunno, it’s just surreal to me. But then again I don’t think I’ve ever cared that much about my PM. Even the ones I enthusiastically voted for.
So I dunno

 

[Stevicus]

I think I need a scorecard for that video. I only recognized a few of the faces shown.

It's hard to believe that these types even exist in the Party of Nixon.

 

[Windwalker]

Yep, and this is not the face of the Republican Party.

Sadly it is well on its way to becoming exactly all of that. The wako wave is taking it over.

 

[PureX]

All that idiocy in just one week.

 

[Stevicus]

Here's another example I just came across: Masks are linked to satanic rituals, St. Louis County executive candidate claims in suit | Politics | stltoday.com

ST. LOUIS — The Republican nominee aiming to take St. Louis County’s top government job filed suit this week against her former employer over mask and vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming religious discrimination.

Katherine Pinner, a 55-year-old political newcomer from unincorporated St. Louis County near Affton, sued the American Association of Orthodontists on Monday. She said the association forced her to resign because she failed to comply with what she called an ultimatum to either wear a mask or get vaccinated, according to the lawsuit. Pinner, who began working for the association in October 2019, demanded $1.2 million from her ex-employer.

“The state and the employer do not hold sovereignty over my body, my internal systems, or my conscience,” Pinner wrote in the lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court of Eastern Missouri.


Pinner, little known by Republican party officials, won a surprise victory with 56% of the vote in the primary earlier this month over state Rep. Shamed Dogan. Pinner’s campaign website promoted conspiracies about the COVID-19 vaccines, including that they were part of an international scheme to control people through microchips injected into their bodies.

Pinner, who is representing herself in the suit, did not respond to a request for comment.

Lynne Thomas Gordon, chief executive officer of the American Association of Orthodontists, denied Pinner’s claims. Gordon said in a statement that the policies and procedures the organization put in place during the pandemic were to keep employees and members healthy.



Pinner, a self-described author and business consultant, wrote her suit by hand. In it, she said her “unalienable, sacred rights to internal systems, respiratory system, immune system, and conscience” were violated because her employer required staff to either wear a mask or be vaccinated against COVID-19.

In March 2020, she started working remotely because of the pandemic. The following year, the association extended its work-from-home policy to January 2022 and said in policy statements that employees might be called back to the office after that. In July 2021, the association began “tagging” employees with their vaccination status, the lawsuit claims.

Pinner, the daughter of Croatian immigrants, requested an exemption from both the mask and vaccine requirements in June 2021. She claimed her religion, American Traditional Christian and Croatian Roman Catholic, as the reason for an exemption. The association denied her request, and she endured “discrimination, coercion, harassment” and other hardships as a result, Pinner claimed.
Pinner made the following additional claims:
• Getting an injection and wearing a face mask could be considered practicing medicine. She says it’s illegal “under every state law to practice medicine without a license.”
• Face coverings and injections have been used as torture devices. The Geneva Convention, a series of international human rights treaties established after World War II, prohibits torture.
• Wearing a mask is associated with “dehumanization and satanic ritual abuse.”
• Vaccines alter humans, a form of “transhumanism,” she said, which could lead to the removal of a human being from “God’s graces.”
• St. Louis city’s mask order includes an exemption for people whose religion prohibits face coverings.
• Wearing a mask posed a risk because no scientific studies had been done on whether face coverings might cause “accumulation of bacteria in the mouth and respiratory system.”