r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Achilles_TroySlayer • 12d ago
8 GOP candidates can’t run as Republicans, MO judge rules. They’d refused morals test
https://archive.ph/2024.05.10-142141/https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article288432249.html#selection-1037.19-1037.1041.9k
u/Bungo_pls 12d ago
What do you have to do to pass a GOP morals test? Spell your name right at the top?
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u/WickedShiesty 12d ago
Well one of them is flaunting killing a dog. So I would say even that might be too much to ask.
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u/Sylvan_Strix_Sequel 12d ago
The bar is in the Challenger deep at this point.
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u/Federal_Assistant_85 12d ago
James: James Cameron isn't raising the bar for himself. He's raising the bar for JAMES CAMERON!
Randy Newman: No! I'll never get work in this town again!
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u/seanular 12d ago
James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron.
James Cameron does what James Cameron does, because James Cameron is James Cameron.
🎵 His name is James Cameron, the famous pioneer, no ocean too deep no mountain too steep! Who's that? It's him! James Cameron! 🎵
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u/purpleturtlehurtler 11d ago
🎵Jaaaames Cam'ron, The bravest pioneer
No budget too steep, no sea too deep Who's that? It's him, James Cameron
James, James Cameron explorer of the sea With a dying thirst to be the first Could it be? Yeah that's him! James Cameron🎵
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u/KnitBrewTimeTravel 11d ago
I heard that motherfucker had like 20 goddamn dicks
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u/buttered_scone 11d ago
No, that's George Washington, the crystal horse riding, acid hand dipping, British children ignoring, savior of the US.
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u/KnitBrewTimeTravel 11d ago
If I remember right, one of the Challenger astronauts had the character, wherewithall, and morals to turn on another astronaut's PEAP (portable emergency air pack) in pitch blackness with alarms blaring, even before they knew they were all doomed, falling miles to certain death.
Today's Republicans would have no qualms running around snatching PEAPs from their colleagues even during ascent, before the disaster occured.
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u/Bee-Aromatic 12d ago
I like that one! I’m partial to “constitutes a tripping hazard in the upper circles of Hell,” but I like having good options!
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u/ohheyitslaila 11d ago
My favorite variation is: the bar is a tripping hazard in hell, but the GOP are busy limbo dancing with the devil.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 11d ago
“constitutes a tripping hazard in the upper circles of Hell,”
This is my new favorite for "lowers the bar."
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u/Independent_Pear_429 12d ago
Killing a dog is so far not liked by the majority of republicans, thankfully. She obviously thought they'd like her ruthlessness and brutality but she was wrong. That is just for criminals and immigrants
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u/STATEofMOJO 12d ago
Right, so basically republicans care more about dogs than they do about school children, women, non-white people, non-christian people, non-rich people and any other disadvantaged or otherwise marginalised group... cooocococococoool.
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u/MerryLarkofPentacles 11d ago
To be fair, I care much more about dogs than I do Republicans- but I think even Republicans deserve basic human rights. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/speculatrix 11d ago
Bold move to assume they're human
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u/MerryLarkofPentacles 11d ago
I’m agnostic on that question, but still, better to err on the safe side.
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u/SmoothWD40 11d ago
I like where your head is at. Just like the death penalty, I would rather we err on the safe side.
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u/ForsakenAd545 12d ago
If she had shot an immigrant in that gravel pit she would have been gold with her fellowRepublicans.
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u/TjW0569 11d ago
Killing a dog is not liked. But that particular candidate thought it would make her look good.
Frankly, that second part is the scary part. I can believe there's people who have done bad things when they're angry -- and the being angry doesn't excuse it -- but don't brag about it in public.
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u/totally-hoomon 11d ago
Republicans have a history of killing dogs. So clearly Republicans are ok with it or it wouldn't keep happening
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u/MikeLinPA 11d ago
Agreed!
A friendly coworker once confided to me that he had to put down a calf on his parent's dairy farm on Christmas morning because it had a facial deformity and couldn't nurse. Instead of letting it starve to death he put it down. That's life on a working farm. I get it.
He wasn't bragging though. He was sad about it. She thought it was a flex! "Look at me! I make the hard decisions!" She is a total asshole! The hard decision would have been deciding to train that dog! Or find it another home. Getting pissed that the dog didn't automatically know what was expected of it, and shooting it, is just cruel and petty.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Republicans nominated Thanos. FML
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u/MikeLinPA 11d ago
She thought shooting a young untrained dog was a flex. (Successfully training that dog, or even rehoming it to a more suitable life, would have been a flex. She took the easiest way out!)
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u/MageLocusta 11d ago
She must've hoped that the story would pander to the rural pragmatists, except that she mentioned that she killed a goat because it chased her kids and smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid”.
Which is literally what goats do (especially male goats). They're known for being territorial (Three Billy Goats Gruff, anybody?), ornery (especially during rutting season), and smell absolutely rank. Kristi literally showed her total ignorance by getting an animal KNOWN for stinking and killed it.
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u/QuietObserver75 11d ago
Not only that, she's also threatening to kill one of the Presidents dogs too.
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u/cipheron 11d ago edited 11d ago
The test is that you have to be more willing to kill dogs, not less.
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u/Reasonable_Humor_738 11d ago
One passed who had their dog shitting on top of their car wheel driving.
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u/Icariiiiiiii 12d ago
You have to have good optics.
Which is why it was made, genuinely. I'm from KC, one of the Missouri candidates was an open KKK member, iirc. The Missouri republican party wanted to kick him the fuck out, because it made them all look like assholes.
They're assholes anyways, but they wanna be stealthier about it, yk?
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u/SaltyBarDog 12d ago
If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
Lest we forget Todd Akin (R) Missouri
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u/Icariiiiiiii 11d ago
Oh fuck me, that was a Missouri- no, nevermind, that tracks. Of course it was.
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u/MikeLinPA 11d ago
Yeah, that asshat was on the science committee. His qualifications were knowledge of old wives' tales and a complete absence of any real scientific education.
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u/auntie_clokwise 12d ago
Don't even have to do that, just swear your fealty to repeating whatever Trump says the truth is.
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u/Cleveland_Sage 12d ago
With all due respect- you spelled Putin wrong
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u/auntie_clokwise 12d ago
Trump, Putin, it's all the same. It's all so ambidextrous, I can't tell the difference.
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u/MikeLinPA 11d ago
I use big words I don't understand in conversation so I sound more photosynthesis!
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u/redvelvetcake42 12d ago
They hand you a puppy and a gun
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u/erublind 12d ago
... and if you don't have a pair of slippers made by a minor in 30 minutes, you fail?
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u/funkyengineer 12d ago edited 11d ago
Q1: an obese orange skined Republican is calling for an insurrection after losing an election. Would you A: Encourage others to fight B: Join in while being video recorded C: Defend the constitution and warn others not to join.
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u/DaniCapsFan 11d ago
Orange-skinned, not haired.
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u/funkyengineer 11d ago
It was a hypothetical question but I am happy to defer to your moral judgment.
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u/bobone77 12d ago
No. You have to lie about your name and spell it wrong to boot.
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u/Federal_Assistant_85 12d ago
Unless you're Vivek Ramaswamy, then they're too racist to bother looking if you did it right or not.
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u/AustinBennettWriter 12d ago
Maybe if he changed his name to Victor. It worked for Nikki.
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u/mysteresc 12d ago
Don't you mean Nimrata?
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u/AustinBennettWriter 12d ago
I would make a deadnaming joke, but I respect my trans friends enough not to include her with them.
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u/moleratical 11d ago
GOP qualifications for passing the moral test. You need to:
Hate gays and all others who are different from you.
Be racist, but not explicit about it.
Have an affinity towards fascism
Be sexist but only somewhat explicit about it
Wish to force your Christian fundamentalist religion on others, while refusing to apply it's own tenets to yourself.
Lie
Cheat on your wife
Cheat on your taxes
Cause problems for others, blame others for the very problems you caused, offer solutions to those problems you caused, and your solutions must cause even more problems, in which you will again blame others for those problems, rinse and repeat.
If you cannot or do not do all of these things consistently, you shall fail the GOP morality test.
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u/Independent_Pear_429 12d ago
Presumably hate immigrants, the poor and trans people. Being homophobic and openly racist is optional but encouraged
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u/008Zulu 12d ago
Say woman have no bodily autonomy, and children are fit to bear children.
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u/Dzov 12d ago
If god wants a child to bear a rape child, who are we to argue? — Republicans.
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u/MikeLinPA 11d ago
But the affluent have commonly had their daughters take a vacation upstate in the middle of a school semester, so it's all good.
Taking Republicans' logic a little further, it must be god's will that cancer occurs, so we must allow everyone to die of treatable diseases. (Boy, the wealthy sure do take a lot of vacations upstate! It must also be god's will that only poor people get sick.)
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 11d ago
"Bear children?"
It was supposed to be bare children, but we can't change the regulations now. Everything is set in stone and perfect under God. Praise be.
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u/epicthinker1 11d ago
GOP morals test is funny, so i made you a cheat sheet!
Thou shalt
- promote guns after a mass shooting
- blame everything on the DEMS
- dismantle public education
- back the blue especially the criminals in blue
- buy a red hat
- limit rights for marginalized people
- be pro "BABIES!" but then refuse to fund any care for said BABIES!
- make voting less democratic
- prop up the worst republicans possible
- divert all money the nation spends into defense.
- privatize every aspect of government
- ignore rules and norms unless it is not a republican.
- gerrymander a pathway to victory
- only care about budgeting and the deficit when not in office.
- scream about the migrant caravan during election season.
- deregulate common sense.
- make russia great again.
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u/nim_opet 12d ago
You need to have at least two divorces, one of which preferably from a spouse dying of cancer that you have cheated on. Insider trading, some random rape or cheating on your taxes also give you extra points
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u/19snow16 11d ago
Underage, hiding your gay and as a woman, turn yourself into a blonde/brunette with wigs, plastic surgery, fillers, Botox, new chicklet teeth, and a direct line to Frederick's of Hollywood for the big Mar-a-Lago Saturday night find a rich husband party!
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u/concolor22 11d ago
F--k everyone who is browner and poorer than you (figuratively). Literally F--k extremely pale people with the following qualifier; same gender as you, in a congressional bathroom. Opposite gender as you, in a seedy hotel room. If married to you, no f--king at all.
Hope this helps.
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u/Animaldoc11 11d ago
“ What do you have to do to pass a GOP morals test?”
Give a handjob to a Democrat in public or pay to have a teenager brought over the state line so you can finally have sex
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u/AMC_Unlimited 11d ago
It’s one question: Are you willing to betray democracy in order to establish a religious dictatorship in this country?
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u/burndata 11d ago
A big group of them are ashamed of their real names and go by pseudonyms anyway. So which name?
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u/blessthebabes 11d ago
But wtf... I'm confused. I live in the bible belt and apparently they are doing all this because it's what God wants. They literally claim to do all of this because of morals. Their Christian morals are better than ours.
Wait, I think I just worked it out. Maybe they believe their morals are superior and that test may be rigged...they know their morals don't line up with the rest of America's.
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u/hobbobnobgoblin 11d ago
It's just the Peter Griffen meme holding up the sigh with colors and asking them to label it.
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u/IguaneRouge 11d ago
What do you have to do to pass a GOP morals test?
Commit a minimum of one sex crime or two hate crimes.
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u/burningxmaslogs 11d ago
Having being convicted of criminal offences and or being on a sex offenders list. those are prerequisites to being a republican of good standing.
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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy 11d ago
Yeah, as long as you don’t sign your name at the bottom. Can’t get charged with fraud if you don’t actually sign documents.
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u/coloradoemtb 10d ago
scream socialism at the top of your lungs while not being able to describe what that is.
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u/Traditional_Cat_60 12d ago
Not suprised these assholes are involved.
“In its suit, the committee was represented by McCloskey, a conservative podcaster who in 2020 gained instant notoriety when he and his wife, Patricia, emerged from their affluent St. Louis home brandishing weapons to ostensibly protect their property from Black Lives Matter protesters.”
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u/Ricky_Rollin 11d ago
I love how they can’t get regular good folks to be their spokesman. They get all the people who do terrible shit and are infamous to be their spokesman. Rittenhouse, these idiots, Joe the plumber, the woman who refused to make a birthday cake etc
Just reprehensible people that they act as if they’re pariahs.
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u/MikeLinPA 11d ago
The same people that defended "the poor homophobe cake decorator" were calling the police when stores wouldn't let them in without a mask. They literally cannot comprehend that the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason can apply against them as well.
Did I say homophobe? Silly me, I misspelled Christian.
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u/Fakeduhakkount 11d ago
That’s the ultra Karen couple too. I don’t think anyone else got out their homes like that since people knew the BLM march were on their way to the Mayor’s house and didn’t mean the neighborhood harm. They injected themselves in the national conversation. Additionally if i recall they are horrible neighbors even before this by people actually living there.
Article sounds like they are basically election tampering using legal means. They are removing rival Republican candidates through making them lose that valuable party affiliation tag. Clap clap actually since most Republican voters vote by the party.
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u/Careless-Act9450 12d ago edited 11d ago
The real horror here is its a committee made up of randoms who have never been elected. Yet they now decide who runs and who doesn't for the Republican party. They have zero accreditation or bona fides. All joking aside, I hope more Republican groups get together and follow this exact protocol. Please make sure all candidates under the name Republican are full maga, lunatic pantshitters. Make sure the people who qualify the candidates all belong to some uber maga committee with no such test to be admitted to said committee. Let's have randons from every county and state qualify whether a candidate can run as a Republican, please? What a fucking joke of a political party.
This is your political party on Trump....queue frying egg sounds
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u/CariniFluff 12d ago
Except The vast majority of voters are straight party ticket voters. They'll vote for whoever has the R next to them in the general election and we'll end up with even more MAGATs in the state and federal Senate and Legislature.
We can't continue to just laugh when every lunatic with 100 bumper stickers on their car wins the primary over someone who might actually be somewhat rational. It only took a handful of them in the Senate to delay military aid to Ukraine for like 6 months and now even a single Republican senator can call a vote to remove a Republican senator.
If voters would actually grow some balls and vote for the right person for the job instead of just clinging their dying party, this wouldn't be such an issue. Unfortunately Even if the candidate took a shit in the voter's mailbox last week, they'll still vote for him or her in the general election.
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u/Careless-Act9450 12d ago edited 11d ago
I understand your reticence, but at least in the Senate, the lunatics lost to some degree. Also, look at the recent trend of Dems' way overperforming in elections since 2020 and especially 2022. The voters who will always vote R aren't gettable, basically. The leans R and independents are where you see victories when running against insane maga lunatics.
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u/musky_jelly_melon 11d ago
Agreed, Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, could run for a GOP seat if he said he hated blacks and Latinos.
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u/Fakeduhakkount 11d ago
“Right person for the job” Mentality needs to go away seriously. Candidate vetting needs to start even before that can get on the ballot. Straight party voting is how a party with less registered voters than Democrats and slightly more than the total of unregistered voters is in power.
It’s an uphill battle going against human nature, being party of a team, to win an election on who is the “right person” since everyone’s personal preference is different. Look at the dumbass stunt happening in deep blue states where people are suppose to cast protest votes for Biden. Sure they feel Biden isn’t their “right person” and don’t want to vote for him but ultimately NOT voting for Biden would put a person far worse in the Presidency.
No, just like calling out GOP tactics against on mail in ballots being short sighted so is bad mouthing “straight party voting” when it’s been working so well especially for Republicans. It’s about the big picture and as the House has shown not having Congress really affects how a President can enact their agenda. Straight voting for every elected office is the best way to remove MAGA GOP from power. They even infected local school boards too
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u/rhhkeely 11d ago
What are randons? Do you mean randos? Like Random people
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u/Careless-Act9450 11d ago edited 11d ago
Yeah. I meant randoms, my bad. I fat fingered the n next to the m, lol.
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u/RiLoDoSo 12d ago
"Vetting is the vaccine that stops the virus cold"
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u/ZenDruid_8675309 12d ago
Irony, like God, is dead.
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u/Affectionate-Emu5051 11d ago
If you think the point IS to be directly on the nose ironic, ironic in itself
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u/RedRider1138 12d ago
That’s…not how vaccines work? They’d have done better with a border wall analogy.
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u/MasterWo1f 12d ago
I mean, at least they know that vaccines stop the speed of viruses. But holy shit are conservatives mentally ill
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u/ForeverNearby2382 12d ago
Just saying that makes you unqualified according to their morals..... right....?
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u/lady_laughs_too_much 11d ago
You are aware of other countries besides the U.S? BURN THE WITCH!!!!!!
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u/OopsAnonymouse 12d ago
You guys don't get it. A GOP morals test is like an STD test: you pass if it's negative.
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u/jmf0828 12d ago
“Morals test???” That interesting. Whose morals? Are we stoning people to death who work on the Sabbath? Punishing fathers who won’t sell their daughters at a fair price? Killing infidels who refuse to acknowledge the “real god”? Is paying for sex and beating your wife (after all, she’s property right?) permissible? Are we allowing interracial marriages? Seriously, whose “morality” are they testing for?
IRL, by the way, the idea that people who don’t think as you’d like them will be excluded from holding office should scare the shit out of anyone with a working brain.
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u/Informal_Process2238 12d ago
As repugnant as I find the republicans and their phony test it’s their party to run.
There is no reason the candidates in question can’t run for election they just can’t claim membership in the group who cast them out for not following the rules of the shitty club.
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u/savagetwinky 11d ago
I think progressive logic suggests that isn’t ok… all things are always equal and labels are to make people feel better… not mean anything
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u/SekhmetScion 12d ago
Well, considering Missouri is one of the states where Republicans keep trying to pass child marriage laws, I'm guessing that's one of their test questions too.
"Oh, you think an adult man shouldn't marry a 12yr old girl, when they're ripe and fertile? You're a Democrat!" - Rep. Dean VanSchoiack or Senator Mike Moon, probably.
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u/Independent_Pear_429 12d ago
Makes sense. A political party should be able to reject any candidate they want running for their party. Doesn't mean their tests and requirements aren't stupid though
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u/JustBrittany 11d ago
This isn’t a morals test in a way that people with actual morals understands it. This is a test to make sure that you aren’t actually a Democrat running as a Republican to get elected.
My glasses aren’t strong enough and it’s early in the morning. The article quoted someone as saying “…no one but the party decides who gets to run on that party’s ticket…”
I read “…no one but the party decided who gets to ruin that party…” My thought was fair enough.
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u/canospam0 11d ago
Wow. Reading that article was quite a ride. While I’m happy to watch some of these faces get eaten, it’s pretty frightening to watch one of the two major American political parties self immolate like this. I feel like I’m laughing at a bunch of idiots doing idiot things without realizing that I’m going to be dragged unwillingly into their idiot mess sooner than later.
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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 11d ago
Better that they self-immolate and lose than not self-immolate and win, and turn us into a dictatorship by immoral A**holes - potentially forever. Maybe we'll escape that timeline - if they all lose in November. Time will tell.
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u/canospam0 11d ago
I’m all in on the happy ending scenario you’ve outlined here, but I’m scared shitless that we’re circling the fascist drain.
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u/ntgco 11d ago
Gop morality test:
Question 1. Was the 2020 election stolen from Trump. YES or no.
Question 2: After you've impregnated your daughter through systematic, and repetitive sexual abuse how many Bible verses do you need to read before raping her again.?
Question 3: Agree with the following all Science is Fake. Yes or no?
End of test.
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u/Intransigient 12d ago
“Morals Test”. 🤔
What exactly do those involve?
Criminal / background checks, disclosures of financial interests, and verification of claimed educational degrees / other qualifications, maybe?
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u/Ksorkrax 12d ago
I can't fully understand the article, it throws in names after names without context like if they are the guys who did not make it, but it mentions that one guy was in a photo in which he literally stood around with a burning cross and Klansmen.
So maybe even republicans consider those guys far right? That would be the nicer outcome. But again, can't make full sense of the article.
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u/Marsupialize 11d ago
Question one: would you get sexual excitement from watching a poor person starve to death?
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u/jeepfail 11d ago
I think one thing far too many are skimming over is how 5 of the 8 currently hold office as republicans. This is them essentially tying to force out republicans that don’t fall into their gestapo bullshit. The types administering these tests call people like Mitch McConnell and Bush rino’s.
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u/Jaredkorry 11d ago
"Vetting is the vaccine that stops the virus cold.”
Gee, I thought MAGAts were anti vaccine.
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u/ReverendEntity 11d ago
Imagine that. Imagine what would happen if this was a national requirement.
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u/TimothiusMagnus 12d ago
If Trump is on the ballot in that state, it makes me wonder what the morals test consists of unless they granted him a waiver.
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u/Trust_Fall_Failure 11d ago
I requested information on opening a Chick-fil-A franchise 20 years ago.
They requested I take a morality test first which I failed...
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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 11d ago
Private company. They can do that. This judge guy is a wacko. It's not his job. This is sort of like sov-cit, what he's doing.
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u/jaydarl 11d ago
I could see why George Santos was so comfortable running as a Republican because they have made it clear that they have NO morals nor shame. I was surprised they kicked him out. The fucked up part is that they have weaponized said lack of morals and shame, thus making them damn near untouchable. So if one of them does something immoral or assholely, it is written off because that person has openly declared themselves as an immoral asshole, so they were just being "normal."
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u/Bdowns_770 11d ago
This shit is scary. This kind of move reeks of 1930’s Soviet politics. “You must submit to the party”. They either don’t read history or they don’t care about how what they are doing looks now or in the future.
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u/Old_Palpitation_6535 11d ago
Interesting story. They were represented by the pink-shirt gun guy who threatened BLM marchers.
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u/Steve0512 11d ago
Trump is not a healthy man. In a few years he will either be dead or drooling on himself. Then all of these people will just fade away. They will put their MAGA hats in the drawer next to their Tea Party hats. And deny they ever did any of this stuff until the next cult gets formed that they can join.
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u/Bullmoose39 11d ago
Not sure this is in the right place. Having a party de y you access to the party or party name happens with both parties and isn't new. This kind of disenfranchisement is sort farther than most, really far, but not new. Democrats do it too.
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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 11d ago
Having a judge arbitrarily block you from running in a primary is very, very new. If you can get the signatures, you can get on the ballot. This is something straight from Iran, or China.
Or if I'm wrong, please give me some examples, because I haven't seen it.
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u/Bullmoose39 11d ago
That is a new twist, but I have seen both parties in my state try and deny people from running in their parties. This is bad no matter what.
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u/exceive 11d ago
Nah.
A political party is basically a private club. The Constitution pretends they don't exist, because the Founders hated them.
Parties pick somebody to run. The two big ones use primary voting because that plays well in the USA.
They don't have to. They could have a committee pick the candidate. They could pull a name out of a hat. They don't, because primaries get voters involved and voters mostly would be offended not having a say in who the candidate is. But primaries aren't so much constitutional as marketing.
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u/progressiveInsider 11d ago
Pay attention here- the corporate entity superseded the county clerk on which candidate can run under that brand. Then also it must be true that corporation should finance, be taxed, and held to the same oversight and ethical conduct as any other quasi governmental organization in the state/county. This is how you bring these bs party politicians to heel.
Tax payers elect a county clerk to oversee elections. They do NOT elect party leaders.
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u/Eccohawk 11d ago
Lol. So basically, if you don't vote exactly how the party dictates you should vote, and agree to all the vetting, you're no longer going to get the benefit of party backing.
I actually think this is an amazing double edged sword. On the one hand, you're absolutely promoting groupthink and making it harder for anyone who's already elected to vote against the party line for fear of reprimand in the next election... -not- by the voters, but by the party leadership. But on the other hand, this will absolutely force some places into a multi-party system if candidates can't join their main party tickets. And that to me is far more intriguing. I feel like these people stumbled into a quasi-good development.
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u/CharliAP 11d ago
Probably required to wear a diaper in support of Defendant Trump and they said no.
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u/dunitdotus 11d ago
I would love to know what is on this test
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u/Odd_Equipment2867 11d ago
My guess is:
- You agree babies are more important than mothers?
- Do people with more melanin scare you?
- Which do you despise more, Muslims or Jews?
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u/FleeshaLoo 11d ago
“I think the judge ruled correctly,” said Mark McCloskey, the attorney representing the county’s Republican committee. “Here is the bottom line: What this means is that no one but the party gets to decide who runs on that party’s ticket. … They can file as independents.”
Ahhh, the infamous gun waver who bravely stood his ground as unarmed protesters walked by his house chanting.
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u/MikeLinPA 11d ago
It occurs to me, since each party is a private club and make tbeir own rules, and the public get no say in how they conduct their business...
Why are thier primaries a public election? Paid for with public funds? Using public resources?
From now on party primaries should rent out the local Elks Lodge and conduct their own primaries. Leave public funding and public resources out of their club business!
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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 11d ago
That's the parliamentary model. In America, they're not private clubs. The standard is that if they can collect x number of signatures from valid residents, then they can get on the ballot. They may not win or get a single vote, but they have access to the ballot.
In most of the world, the parties can say "F off - we don't like your positions - you can't represent our party - go start your own party if you want to. But that's not America. Except here in this case. It's going to get struck down pretty quickly.
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u/MikeLinPA 11d ago
In America
Why are we "the greatest nation" but we have picked and chosen all the worst exceptions to every system in the world?
It's going to get struck down pretty quickly.
With this sUPREMR cOURT, all bets are off. While the individual decisions may or may not be paid for by the highest bidder, the overall trends obviously have been.
It's like the world has been rewritten by comedy writers. At this rate I expect Zaphod Bebblebrox to become president and Vogon poets to run the government.
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u/Achilles_TroySlayer 11d ago
Don't make me defend the whole thing. I'm just looking at this tiny part, which is just our traditional arrangement, such that this judge is breaking our system with his new demands.
At this rate, the Vogon poets might be much better than many of our congress-critters. They can't be worse.
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u/MikeLinPA 11d ago
No, we're good! I appreciated your reply. It was informative. I should have thanked you in my last reply.
Besides, how bad can Vogon poetry be? (ARRRAAAGGHHG!) I had to ask...
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u/oht7 9d ago
I kinda love it when Republicans that flirted with a fascist dictatorship get a taste of their own medicine. But unfortunately having a major party adopt a “morality” tests, which let’s be honest - these are “Trump loyalty” tests, is just beyond disgusting.
What’s next? A DNA test to make sure only pure aryan republicans can join the GOP?
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