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Was just looking this guy up:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Scott_(politician)
He's clearly Conservative on social issues. Most Lemmings here won't like him. But among his "political stances" listed on Wikipedia are:
Which shows how far gone we really are if "Condemned insurrection against the US Congress" and "Acknowledged the result of a lawful election" are now Political Stances.
The bar has been lowered to the ground
The bar is in that collapsed mine in Chile. You need special mining equipment to get lower than that, but God Almighty I swear some of them have their mining hats on, pickaxes in hand.
Pretty sure it's somewhere in the Mariana Trench. Send James Cameron...
No, send the other OceanGate submarine. Only the best for House Republicans!
So that's what those guys in the submarine were looking for......
The bar has been disassembled and turned into fleshlights
So https://youtu.be/jUsf_BXUbKY then?
Pickaxes?
Buddy, they've got industrial earth movers, excavators, and lots of dynamite.
start diggin
It's probably time to call in James Cameron to help raise it again
Holy shit. He's not an active traitor and he wants the basics of our government to work. That's the best we're going to get out of the Republicans.
Well we won’t, as the Qanuts won’t support him. So, a vanity run, really.
I don't know that I'd go that far when characterizing his record.
Yes, he ultimately ended up certifying the election, but he also signed the Texas v Pennsylvania amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to help throw out millions of votes (despite the suit lacking any sort of standing, and being "constitutionally, legally[,] and factually wrong about Georgia" in the words of Georgia's AG, which rings pretty true when you read the brief). When he did finally vote to certify, the GOP letter he signed very clearly implies things would have gone differently if he had been allowed to vote for the slate of obvious fraudsters that were stopped before they made it to Congress. There was a long line of fundamental safeguards that prevented the illegal toppling of the government, every one of which was stressed to its breaking point (mostly with Austin Scott's help), and any of which could have tipped the scales, but Scott wasn't exactly on the side pushing for Democracy. That said, you're right. At least he did better than Jordan, I guess?
For the record, Scott's other political stances are:
So... several decades and a few million voters removed from where the actual American population stands, and farther to the right than even mainstream fiscal conservatives, but that's par for the course these days.
The Right wouldn't support him for being such a traitor to their Confederate cause.
He also supported Texas’ attempt to sue Pennsylvania over the 2021 election like a dumb dumb. He’s only marginally less human garbage than jungle gym but I guess that’s where we’re at.
So he’s not a traitor, it seems. That’s a significant step above the rest of the republican filth.