Defining the 21st Century Republican Party?

[Carpet_pissr]

I, however, am a bastion of kindness. My very presence causes music in the air, a slight scent of lilacs and a feeling not unlike that of playing with a puppy on a warm spring day.

You’re a closet psychopath with murder in your heart and everyone knows it.

I forgive you, my child.

Add "cross-burning" to your list of adjectives above, gah. Why do the evil always seem to like doubling down?! Weird.

[hepcat]

And lo, Hepcat did forgive the pissr of carpets yet again, saying unto him "go forth and spread the charity and kindness which I've shown you even after you tried to have me committed".

[LordMortis]

And for the record, I 100% put myself in that "more irritable" group.

I've been working with various levels of success and defeat against this. I even have a daily note to myself on my to do list to make sure I find a reason to smile.

[GreenGoo]

I, however, am a bastion of kindness. My very presence causes music in the air, a slight scent of lilacs and a feeling not unlike that of playing with a puppy on a warm spring day.

Lol. This only applies if no one implies the mildest of criticisms. Then the wheels fall off. For example, see:

JFC, I actually didn't think it was a big effing deal that Grifman is posting it that way. I was more or less trying to say that there really are multiple complaints about how things should be formatted and I was making a (apparently) less than obvious comment that we all do it wrong in someone' else's opinion.

But I guess I shouldn't be surprised at your subsequent long reply detailing why I'm a dick.

[Blackhawk]

And for the record, I 100% put myself in that "more irritable" group.

I've been working with various levels of success and defeat against this. I even have a daily note to myself on my to do list to make sure I find a reason to smile.

So have I.

I also think it's important to think of this a little like a significant other who's had a bad day. They may snap at you, but that doesn't mean it's personal. Right now, everyone in the US is having a bad day (that's lasted several years.) And much of the rest of the world isn't exactly having a picnic, either. Add a personal bad day (or bad year, in my case), and it's hard to always be positive, especially when people are being short with you.

So I try to keep my irritability in check, but I also make an effort to not take others being irritable personally, to engage too deeply with it, or to let it color other interactions with them. With exceptions for deliberate assholery, of course.

[Carpet_pissr]

With exceptions for deliberate assholery, of course.

*COUGH*Hepcat.*COUGH*

[hepcat]

I, however, am a bastion of kindness. My very presence causes music in the air, a slight scent of lilacs and a feeling not unlike that of playing with a puppy on a warm spring day.

Lol. This only applies if no one implies the mildest of criticisms. Then the wheels fall off. For example, see:

JFC, I actually didn't think it was a big effing deal that Grifman is posting it that way. I was more or less trying to say that there really are multiple complaints about how things should be formatted and I was making a (apparently) less than obvious comment that we all do it wrong in someone' else's opinion.

But I guess I shouldn't be surprised at your subsequent long reply detailing why I'm a dick.

I forgive you as well.

With exceptions for deliberate assholery, of course.

*COUGH*Hepcat.*COUGH*

And you...again.

[LordMortis]

I also make an effort to not ... let it color other interactions with them. With exceptions for deliberate assholery, of course.

I try and it's hard. That's part of what led me to make sure to force myself into smiling happy people moments, even if they're faux smiling happy people moments. The other part is hitting an inner turmoil at times when I used to have find a sort of inner peace. Again, success and failure. Enough success that I keep doing it. Not enough to try and track measruables or anything, like I am trying to do with my physical health.

[hepcat]

With people like Greengoo, it's best to just attempt to understand what they must go through in life that causes them to lash out so frequently, and try to be compassionate and understanding.

[Freyland]

*backs slowly out of room. Closes door.*

[hepcat]

If I have to climb down off this cross there will be spankings!

[$iljanus]

If I have to climb down off this cross there will be spankings!

Does a search for nun costumes in incognito mode on duckduckgo. Nope not gonna post it here...

[GreenGoo]

I forgive you as well.

[hepcat]

If I have to climb down off this cross there will be spankings!

Does a search for nun costumes in incognito mode on duckduckgo. Nope not gonna post it here...

I love how you try to make it read like it isn't on your Favorites bar.

[YellowKing]

For me it's largely work stress. End of year is when everyone's project needs to be completed yesterday and they're all your #1 priority. Packing all that on top of the daily fires that need to be put out is always a pressure cooker. But yes, to Blackhawk's point, I try not to take anything personally on the forums. Trying to communicate through text under the veil of relative anonymity is always fraught with danger.

[hepcat]

Humans squabble from time to time. Friends even more so. It’s best to accept it as a fact of life and not a failure of character, and just move on.

It is my benevolent nature that makes me rise above that though. I am an ascended being of divine nature. Haven’t you ever wondered what the H in Jesus H Christ is short for?

Hepcat.

[Carpet_pissr]

If I have to climb down off this cross there will be spankings!

Per your pic upthread, you burn crosses, not hang from them! Come on...

[hepcat]

Well…I was baptized Methodist.

[Blackhawk]

Shall we kumbaya?

[Trent Steel]

I also make an effort to not ... let it color other interactions with them. With exceptions for deliberate assholery, of course.

I try and it's hard.

That’s what hepcat said.

[hepcat]

I also make an effort to not ... let it color other interactions with them. With exceptions for deliberate assholery, of course.

I try and it's hard.

That’s what hepcat said.

Forgiven.

[Carpet_pissr]

I also make an effort to not ... let it color other interactions with them. With exceptions for deliberate assholery, of course.

I try and it's hard.

That’s what hepcat said.

Forgiven.

LOL!!

[$iljanus]

If I have to climb down off this cross there will be spankings!

Does a search for nun costumes in incognito mode on duckduckgo. Nope not gonna post it here...

I love how you try to make it read like it isn't on your Favorites bar.

For research purposes, of course.

[waitingtoconnect]

Wait till the topic of what part of North America makes the best maple syrup; then it is ON.

ON as in Ontario? Let the Battle of Maple Syrup Hill begin…

All your maple syrup belong to us … charge!!

[YellowKing]

Let the Battle of Maple Syrup Hill begin…

This made me laugh thinking about "The Battle of Fucktard Ridge" #oldschoolOOcallback

[Pyperkub]

The fraud and corruption seems to have become a defining characteristic...

He doesn't report having checking or savings. So where did Andy Ogles get $320,000 for his campaign?
Watchdog: 'It's not clear from his financial disclosure reports where he got the money' that he claims to have loaned campaign

[Carpet_pissr]

The fraud and corruption seems to have become a defining characteristic...

He doesn't report having checking or savings. So where did Andy Ogles get $320,000 for his campaign?
Watchdog: 'It's not clear from his financial disclosure reports where he got the money' that he claims to have loaned campaign

Foreign terrorist cell.

For reference, I'm at the end of a massive binge-watching of Homeland.

[malchior]

The fraud and corruption seems to have become a defining characteristic...

He doesn't report having checking or savings. So where did Andy Ogles get $320,000 for his campaign?
Watchdog: 'It's not clear from his financial disclosure reports where he got the money' that he claims to have loaned campaign

This is the door that the Ted Cruz loan lawsuit opened. It not hard to imagine he fund raised money, claimed a loan from whatever the source is, and paid himself out of the war chest. It pretty much what the dissent in the Supreme Court decision on Cruz's case and common sense thought was possible.

[Smoove_B]

Gotta watch out for that slippery slope:

Two months after a prominent conservative activist and fundraiser was caught hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes, leaders of the Republican Party of Texas voted against barring the party from associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers.

In a 32-29 vote on Saturday, members of the Texas GOP’s executive committee stripped a pro-Israel resolution of a clause that would have included the ban— delivering a major blow to a faction that has called for the party to confront its ties to groups that have recently employed, elevated or associated with outspoken white supremacists or antisemitic figures.

...

In at-times tense debate on Saturday, members argued that words like “tolerate” or “antisemitism” were too vague or subjective, and could create future problems for the party, its leaders and candidates.

“It could put you on a slippery slope,” said committee member Dan Tully.

Supporters of the language disagreed. They noted that the language was already a compromise, didn’t specifically name any group or individual and would lend credence to the Texas GOP’s stances in support of Israel.

“To take it out sends a very disturbing message,” said Rolando Garcia, a Houston-based committee member who drafted the language. “We’re not specifying any individual or association. This is simply a statement of principle.``

[Kraken]

After all, you don't want to forestall the option of working with the very fine Nazis.

[malchior]

I think McCarthy will be next. This is sure beginning to shape up as an intensification of MAGA whether or not Trump wins.

[GreenGoo]

Gotta watch out for that slippery slope:

I was watching old Simpsons episodes and in particular the Halloween special with the Avatar spoof. In it Krusty says he's playing a fundraiser/something for the Nazi party. He then breaks the 4th wall and says "oh yeah, they're back." with a look of frustration.

That was from 2011. Sigh.

[Unagi]

Translation: "I'm out. Not sure how else to say it, but I am so out. And it can't happen too soon."

[Pyperkub]

Translation: "I'm out. Not sure how else to say it, but I am so out. And it can't happen too soon."

But I'm going to make sure I have a sweet gig lined up

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opin ... tary-lives

[malchior]

"Retaliated". It'd be akin to obstruction if this wasn't a political stunt and the DOJ already had the footage. Still the Speaker of the House legitimizing criminality and insurrection.

[Alefroth]

The law and order party.

Can he held accountable for hiding someone wanted by the DoJ?

[Smoove_B]

Remember, the people doing violence on 1/6 were Antifa sleeper agents. And so we must...blur their faces to protect them from prosecution, because that makes sense.

[LordMortis]

We don't want the DOJ to retaliate against and charge insurretionists and rioters?

:finger in the air with gaping mouth:

[El Guapo]

Is there footage that the House has that the DOJ doesn't?

[malchior]

Is there footage that the House has that the DOJ doesn't?

I doubt it. A non-insurrectionist House probably shared it all with the FBI long ago. This is just an 'I'm one of you' grandstanding moments.