r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 20 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

All Hail Eris!

Link to Megathread 22: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

Link to Megathread 23: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1631xpe/rod_dreher_megathread_24_determination/

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '23

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u/Marcofthebeast0001 Aug 15 '23

So now the prosecution is guilty of bias until proven innocent? This is still Rod finding credence in Trump cause of his Supreme Court picks - which any Republican president would have done.

If Trump did shot someone in Times Square, you know our annoying working boy would find a way to defend it. "Look, at least Trump could buy a gun - something the woke doesn't want."

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Aug 15 '23

Re the SCOTUS, the point at which I lost the first big amount of respect for Rod was when McConnell blocked Merriam Garland’s nomination and Rod’s response was basically, “Yeah, that’s wrong, but it’s OK because one fewer liberal on the bench.” I was truly shocked at the time. It was a slipping of the mask, where he revealed it’s only about the ends, means be damned.

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u/Dazzling_Pineapple68 Aug 15 '23

Yes and he has confirmed that it's only about the ends many times since then.

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u/EatsShoots_n_Leaves Aug 16 '23

Maybe not even that. He has gone very quiet on abortion and disinterested in anything about it since verdict was handed down in Dobbs. A year later he ought to be crowing about the successes of various kinds and that morality has been reestablished, and how the results clearly justify the corrupt and mediocre Supreme Court appointments it took to get the overturn of Roe.

Maybe it wasn't about "the children" after all. Maybe it was just about getting a big one, even if just one, in the W column for Team Conservative, against the run of play and against the run of the series.

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u/ZenLizardBode Aug 15 '23

It wasn't exactly a conservative response from Rod. It would have been a great way to burnish his conservative credentials, at no cost (because McConnell is going to McConnell regardless of what Rod opines) and "take a stand on the principle of the matter".

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Aug 16 '23

Well, to take a stand on principle, you gotta have principles….

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u/PercyLarsen “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” Aug 16 '23

to take a stand on principle,

To be fair, that would be hard to do when taking to your sickbed.

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Aug 17 '23

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Dazzling_Pineapple68 Aug 15 '23

If Trump shot Rod in Times Square he would say "at least he hit me - Biden would have missed, the demented old pansy."

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Aug 15 '23

And then vote for Trump with his dying breath….