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(Yahoo)   "In the House it's a showdown between GOP moderates and the far -right. Which one will win?" Well, given one of those groups is purely mythical, or at the very least completely extinct in the wild, that's a pretty easy question to answer   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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yohohogreengiant [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:00:03 PM  
Moderate Republicans became Democrats a generation and a half ago.

This is also why the Democratic party is very conservative today compared to the left in other countries.
 
koder [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 4:14:09 PM  
They're the same.picture.
 
giantmeteor [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:14:22 PM  
The GOP is painting itself into a corner; the further right they drift the more they alienate rational people.
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 4:16:54 PM  

yohohogreengiant: Moderate Republicans became Democrats a generation and a half ago.

This is also why the Democratic party is very conservative today compared to the left in other countries.


Present


This two year shiatshow is old and it just started.
 
Myrdinn [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 4:38:15 PM  
On the upside, if they get rid of Santos... then... uh... damnit.
 
Benevolent Misanthrope [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 4:40:03 PM  
It was a showdown, between the far right and the absolute fascist loon wing.  But it's done now.  The far right lost, the loons won.  Now everyone will get in line again and go on with their normal business - making sure the nation crashes and burns, and blaming Democrats for it.
 
Nintenfreak [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:50:30 PM  

Benevolent Misanthrope: It was a showdown, between the far right and the absolute fascist loon wing.  But it's done now.  The far right lost, the loons won.  Now everyone will get in line again and go on with their normal business - making sure the nation crashes and burns, and blaming Democrats for it.


Yeah, probably
 
MrBallou [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 5:18:11 PM  
It's just that the big grifting money is all on the far right. That's why everybody is gravitating that way.

It's really just a mob turf war.
 
Blathering Idjut
2023-01-11 6:07:16 PM  

giantmeteor: The GOP is painting itself into a corner; the further right they drift the more they alienate rational people.


They've gerrymandered rational people into impotence.
 
AAAAGGGGHHHH
2023-01-11 6:07:34 PM  
There is no such thing as "GOP moderates" anymore. They were eaten into extinction by the MAGA Cult long ago.
 
AAAAGGGGHHHH
2023-01-11 6:08:30 PM  

giantmeteor: The GOP is painting itself into a corner


That's when the GOP sets fire to the house and says "WHAT corner?"
 
EyeballKid
2023-01-11 6:09:29 PM  
There are plenty of moderate Republicans in Congress.

They're among the leadership of the Democratic Party.
 
SplittingAces
2023-01-11 6:09:58 PM  
GOP moderates? Whar?

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alex10294
2023-01-11 6:10:22 PM  

yohohogreengiant: Moderate Republicans became Democrats a generation and a half ago.

This is also why the Democratic party is very conservative today compared to the left in other countries.


The US is very conservative, and the left in other countries would get on the order of twice the votes of the green party.
 
SplittingAces
2023-01-11 6:10:49 PM  

EyeballKid: There are plenty of moderate Republicans in Congress.

They're among the leadership of the Democratic Party.


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Jack Sabbath
2023-01-11 6:10:50 PM  
Margarine Traitor Groan will run for POTUS with Lowrent Blowburt as her VEEP candidate in 2028.
 
Lochsteppe
2023-01-11 6:11:51 PM  
I only read the first part of the headline and then I ran here--yes, literally ran through the internet on my legs--to say that there aren't any moderate GOPs any more. Just the bad ones. All GOPs Are Bad!
 
EyeballKid
2023-01-11 6:12:03 PM  

Jack Sabbath: Margarine Traitor Groan will run for POTUS with Lowrent Blowburt as her VEEP candidate in 2028.


And the usual suspects will start their diatribes, "Look, Liz Cheney wasn't my first choice either, but she won the Democratic primary fair and square."
 
SplittingAces
2023-01-11 6:13:28 PM  

Lochsteppe: I only read the first part of the headline and then I ran here--yes, literally ran through the internet on my legs--to say that there aren't any moderate GOPs any more. Just the bad ones. All GOPs Are Bad!


What I like about Fark, as opposed to mainstream media outlets, is that it's completely above clicky baity headlines.
 
Cokezeroinacan
2023-01-11 6:14:52 PM  

EyeballKid: Jack Sabbath: Margarine Traitor Groan will run for POTUS with Lowrent Blowburt as her VEEP candidate in 2028.

And the usual suspects will start their diatribes, "Look, Liz Cheney wasn't my first choice either, but she won the Democratic primary fair and square."


🙄
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-11 6:15:00 PM  

SplittingAces: EyeballKid: There are plenty of moderate Republicans in Congress.

They're among the leadership of the Democratic Party.

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https://www.newsweek.com/pelosi-says-no-upside-infighting-dem-colleagues-rip-manchin-sinema-filibuster-1671295

https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-run-out-the-clock-on-a-congressional-stock-ban-2022-12
 
SplittingAces
2023-01-11 6:17:23 PM  
With an article about shiatty Republicans being shiatty, it took eleven posts to jack the thread.

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/ surprised it took that long

// there is no threadjacking on Fark
 
austerity101
2023-01-11 6:21:33 PM  
The non-MAGA Republicans have every power to cast out the MAGA ones from Congress.

They choose not to. They can suffer.
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-11 6:21:47 PM  

SplittingAces: With an article about shiatty Republicans being shiatty, it took eleven posts to jack the thread.

[Fark user image 425x318]

/ surprised it took that long

// there is no threadjacking on Fark


I'm guessing this guy's on your "ignored" list:

https://www.fark.com/comments/12712912/158430042#c158430042

And I'm also guessing your "ignored" list includes everybody that's ever debunked your comforting lies.
 
Super Chronic
2023-01-11 6:22:16 PM  
I think George Pataki's performance in the 2016 Republican presidential primary was the last whimper of the "moderate Republican" phenomenon. Did he ever go above 1% in the polls? Or perhaps it was Olympia Snowe's retirement in 2012. Anybody heard from Christie Whitman lately?

Of course, nowadays very conservative people like John Kasich, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney and the late John McCain are sometimes branded "moderates" simply because they're not complete mouth-breathers. That's probably where TFA is going.
 
Markus5
2023-01-11 6:22:43 PM  

Jack Sabbath: Margarine Traitor Groan will run for POTUS with Lowrent Blowburt as her VEEP candidate in 2028.


No.  Turns out the howler monkeys are in different tribes.  Sporkfoot will easily win reelection and has joined with the establishment tribe.  Bonobo will probably not get reelected and has chosen the Jackhole Prime tribe.
 
EyeballKid
2023-01-11 6:22:49 PM  
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ToastmasterGeneral
2023-01-11 6:24:52 PM  
There are still some GOP moderates.  But they can't reproduce, as they lack any semblance of testicles.
 
red230
2023-01-11 6:25:28 PM  
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Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-11 6:25:31 PM  

Super Chronic: Anybody heard from Christie Whitman lately?


She had a speaking slot at the 2020 Democratic convention, along with John Kasich and Susan Molinari.

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It's hard to convince people you're a forward-looking, left-leaning party when your convention looks like a rerun of the 1996 Republican National Convention.
 
Cokezeroinacan
2023-01-11 6:25:39 PM  

EyeballKid: [Fark user image image 425x644]


Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard routinely guest hosts for Tucker Carlson.

But it's really defenders of the admin that sound like Republicans...
 
SplittingAces
2023-01-11 6:26:45 PM  

EyeballKid: [Fark user image image 425x644]


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/ now do Blue MAGA
 
Dr Dreidel
2023-01-11 6:28:00 PM  
Yes, the Tuesday Group: until recently, led by Charlie Dent (the rare pro-choice Republican, who resigned from Congress rather than face an increasingly hostile conservative base), then by Fred Upton (who declined to run for re-election rather than face an increasingly hostile conservative base), then by Elise Stefanik (whom you may recall for having affixed herself like a remora to noted moderate Donald Trump), and now by David Joyce (who voted "no" on both Trump impeachments, refused to censure Paul Gosar for The Gosarian's video about killing a fellow member of Congress, and said he'd vote for Trump even after Trump's call to suspend the Constitution).

So very, very moderate. Much influence.
 
Cokezeroinacan
2023-01-11 6:28:09 PM  

SplittingAces: EyeballKid: [Fark user image image 425x644]

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/ now do Blue MAGA


Is there anyone who uses the term shiatlib who doesn't have actual ties to fascists? Anyone?
 
kkinnison [OhFark]
2023-01-11 6:29:51 PM  
wait, there are still GOP moderates?

i think you mean "more moderate" GOP, you know, the ones that are not into Fascism
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-11 6:30:26 PM  

SplittingAces: EyeballKid: [Fark user image image 425x644]

[Fark user image 425x239]

/ now do Blue MAGA


Your argument might be more valid if you hadn't spent the last 7+ years tarring others as "Bernie Bros", "Verucas", "Eeyores", "The Alt-Left", and "Fauxgressives".

Physician, heal thyself.
 
SplittingAces
2023-01-11 6:31:32 PM  

Cokezeroinacan: SplittingAces: EyeballKid: [Fark user image image 425x644]

[Fark user image image 425x239]

/ now do Blue MAGA

Is there anyone who uses the term shiatlib who doesn't have actual ties to fascists? Anyone?


Fark's Proglodytes just parrot Sirota's/Knight's/BrieBrie's Twitter feeds.  Those three certainly have pro-fascist agenda.
 
EyeballKid
2023-01-11 6:32:41 PM  

kkinnison: wait, there are still GOP moderates?

i think you mean "more moderate" GOP, you know, the ones that are not into Fascism


They're all fascists, but some of them think it's gauche just to say it out loud.
 
SplittingAces
2023-01-11 6:33:13 PM  
Not feeding it. Nor should anyone else.

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Smelly Pirate Hooker
2023-01-11 6:34:11 PM  
Linked story's headline: Can GOP moderates in the House outflank the right?

I can answer that for you, Yahoo, in clear language almost everyone can understand:

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A REPUBLICAN MODERATE.

As submitter's headline suggests. LOL
 
Smelly Pirate Hooker
2023-01-11 6:36:13 PM  

AAAAGGGGHHHH: There is no such thing as "GOP moderates" anymore. They were eaten into extinction by the "Tea Party" MAGA Cult long ago.
 
anuran
2023-01-11 6:36:22 PM  

alex10294: yohohogreengiant: Moderate Republicans became Democrats a generation and a half ago.

This is also why the Democratic party is very conservative today compared to the left in other countries.

The US is very conservative, and the left in other countries would get on the order of twice the votes of the green party.


The American "Left" is slightly to the right of Eisenhower and slightly to the Right of center for advanced countries
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-11 6:39:47 PM  

anuran: alex10294: yohohogreengiant: Moderate Republicans became Democrats a generation and a half ago.

This is also why the Democratic party is very conservative today compared to the left in other countries.

The US is very conservative, and the left in other countries would get on the order of twice the votes of the green party.

The American "Left" is slightly to the right of Eisenhower and slightly to the Right of center for advanced countries


All the things that American moderates and conservatives call "far-left" are just common sense in other prosperous nations.
 
Zerochance
2023-01-11 6:48:07 PM  
It's not a moderate vs. farkwad fight for the GOP.

It's "republicans getting screwed out of committees" vs. the Freedom Caucus.

McCarthy's position is completely untenable.  He's just dumb enough to think the Speakership eventually gives him a path to the Presidency.  No reason he would gut the fark out of the position just to have it. He wants the title, not the actual functions.
 
austerity101
2023-01-11 6:50:30 PM  

kkinnison: wait, there are still GOP moderates?

i think you mean "more moderate" GOP, you know, the ones that are not into Fascism


All of them are into fascism.
 
Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-11 6:57:13 PM  

austerity101: kkinnison: wait, there are still GOP moderates?

i think you mean "more moderate" GOP, you know, the ones that are not into Fascism

All of them are into fascism.


Liz Cheney voted *against* the John Lewis Voting Rights bill and applauded the Supreme Court negating Roe v. Wade.
 
Mr.Insightful
2023-01-11 6:57:25 PM  

Bith Set Me Up: All the things that American moderates and conservatives call "far-left" are just common sense in other prosperous nations.


Like making fun of Black Vernacular English, for example...

...just totally common sense.
 
Karma Chameleon
2023-01-11 6:58:10 PM  
I only get my news from Fark so I thought Democrats won the house. What gives?
 
jso2897
2023-01-11 7:04:59 PM  

SplittingAces: With an article about shiatty Republicans being shiatty, it took eleven posts to jack the thread.

[Fark user image 425x318]

/ surprised it took that long

// there is no threadjacking on Fark


Well, with no trolls, how could there be threadjacking?
 
austerity101
2023-01-11 7:05:07 PM  

Bith Set Me Up: austerity101: kkinnison: wait, there are still GOP moderates?

i think you mean "more moderate" GOP, you know, the ones that are not into Fascism

All of them are into fascism.

Liz Cheney voted *against* the John Lewis Voting Rights bill and applauded the Supreme Court negating Roe v. Wade.


There are two types of Republicans:

- "It's time to gas the Jews and queers again."

- "Let's hold off on the Jew-and-queer-killing rhetoric until we have all the power. There's still money for me to make and you're cramping my style."
 
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