Just remembering how Erick Erickson called Justice Souter a “goat fucking child molester.” Just a reminder that Trumpists were freaks decades before Trump came down the escalator. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

kenwhite.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Just remembering how Erick Erickson called Justice Souter a “goat fucking child molester.”

Just a reminder that Trumpists were freaks decades before Trump came down the escalator.

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mattferrel.bsky.social•4 days ago

Naturally Erick’s son can’t handle criticism in return. He blocked me on Twitter for something mild.

mithras.bsky.social•4 days ago

In what context (case, I assume) was Erick, son of Erick, using such terms?

madbastard-v2.bsky.social•4 days ago

"That mean Supreme Court Justice ruled a way I don't like!", probably.

mithras.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well yeah.

That was obvious. I was curious as to which case.

beckya.bsky.social•4 days ago

He’s always been an accelerant for the rot that was already there, much more than a cause

mapablue.bsky.social•4 days ago

eric son of eric has been a genuine prophet of the Lord, revealing in his own words and deeds just how horrible and hateful American Christendom would become over these last three decades. purveying far-reaching detriments to the faith.

beckya.bsky.social•4 days ago

I was referring to Trump, but agree about Erickson too

mapablue.bsky.social•4 days ago

yep

padrock.bsky.social•4 days ago

lol and he used to be a never trumper!

vasily.bsky.social•4 days ago

they're always projecting too

olivercolander.bsky.social•4 days ago

Erick’s descent into total irrelevance is one of the only tangible benefits of the Trump era.

nickel76.bsky.social•4 days ago

Tucker Carlson?

lizamazel.bsky.social•4 days ago

don't forget Ann Coulter, occasionally poking her head above the bubbling void to pronounce something startling like disagreeing with Trump's denial of habeas corpus, only to slide back down bc she's totally redundant now

digitalramble.bsky.social•4 days ago

yah that's the thing. 🍊💩and this regime are the current pimple on top of the festering boil that has been racism, xenophobia, homophobia and many other isms in this country since its existence

5thkid.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump is the obvious & inevitable result of the GOP/right wing manipulating its base’s ignorance & hate for 60+ years for the sake of power. The mob was fully primed!

syncpol.bsky.social•4 days ago

At the end of the day, they couldn't then, and never have been able to deal with the least bit of dissent without the most inappropriate reactions.

edwinmix.bsky.social•4 days ago

Erickson, pictured here.

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edwinmix.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's how I knew he would be the nominee as soon as he came down that elevator. He is the living embodiment of the depraved GOP base.

thelordgod.bsky.social•4 days ago

And yet, inexplicably, all the "former republican" never-Trump people somehow believe Trump coalesced out of the ether with nary an antecedent in their once-beloved party to be found.

mattferrel.bsky.social•4 days ago

My local favorite is the former WA GOP chair Never Trumper who will fight you to the death if you say anything negative about Ronald Reagan

thechristom.bsky.social•4 days ago

A TikTok account is doing a countdown to the Mt St Helens anniversary. They've run a few interviews with Harry Truman. At the time, he was portrayed as a little off his rocker but kinda adorable. Seeing those interviews now...hoo boy.

daver98133.bsky.social•4 days ago

And somehow continues to get work as a "moderate Conservative/Christian" pundit...

okgrown.bsky.social•4 days ago

Pals of Erik

https://youtu.be/NeYsNCUuJss?si=Usv40E4GzbgpKsR5

chris-mas.bsky.social•4 days ago

I still think of Sara Palin as our first real nationally recognized MAGAesque freak. The scope of her unabashed deplorability is so very extensive and depressing.

eltoninatlanta.bsky.social•4 days ago

Her ignorance was trumpian, but not quite a full Trump.

chris-mas.bsky.social•4 days ago

4 examples that I always think of are
-"the bridge to nowhere" that was to connect a strategic airport to the mainland
-death panels
-mocking Obama supporters and the press
-cashing in on campaign donations
Tho tbf she didn't really have enough time to go completely full Trump.

ubermitch.bsky.social•4 days ago

she was more of a malfunctioning prototype

lizamazel.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump's John the Baptist, carrying her own vapid, still chattering head on a platter

katefromnyc.bsky.social•4 days ago

She was unfit for office because she was just remarkably juvenile and ignorant. She wasn’t obviously delusional, cognitively impaired, and malevolently aggrieved, the way Trump is.

tuesdaysjustasbad.bsky.social•4 days ago

I remember Dan Burton shooting watermelons in his backyard to prove Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster back in the 90's. The mouth breathers remain convinced that the Clinton's have had numerous people assassinated. They've been stupid for a long time.

lizamazel.bsky.social•4 days ago

watermelons.

so Gallagher was doing political commentary this whole time?

sodalis.bsky.social•4 days ago

The republican party has always been a political dross magnet.

mormonatheist.bsky.social•4 days ago

Eh...
It certainly is now.
But it's worthwhile to remember that not too long ago RFK Jr., Peter Navarro, Tulsi Gabbard, Rod Blagojevich, and Donald Trump were all Democrats.
Today's GOP has aggregated the worst across the political spectrum. But Dem Party history is hardly something to be proud of.

sodalis.bsky.social•4 days ago

Politics attracts many unsavory characters but the Democratic party doesn't actually cater to them the way the Republican party does (and has in the past).

beachbums79.bsky.social•4 days ago

How many did the repscum put in jail? We'll wait for that answer.

mormonatheist.bsky.social•4 days ago

I don't know exactly what you mean. Of the examples I gave, only Blagojevich went to jail. And he was prosecuted by a Republican.
Neither party is particularly good in policing their own.
Republicans are worse. Absolutely. Right now. I'm not bothsidesing this.

mormonatheist.bsky.social•4 days ago

I just think, in the interest of introspection, we should acknowledge that Democrats have been pretty crappy in the past. From Andrew Jackson (genocidal oath-breaker who is the inspiration for the Party's Donkey symbol) to Huey Long to Robert Byrd to RFK Jr. Democrats have a lot to be ashamed of.

beachbums79.bsky.social•4 days ago

I just think , that now is not the time to be taking any time on criminals except the ones that are trying to fast walk us into fascism. By all means ewe should sue them or something though.

jeanchimera.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wasn't Rod a D when he was put in jail? Then Trump pardoned him.

katefromnyc.bsky.social•4 days ago

Although at this point, to survive in the Republican Party, you have to be willing to be vile. To consistently and brazenly lie. To be part of a personality cult.

Democrats are far better at rejecting corrupt Democrats. And it’s not a personality cult.

mormonatheist.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes. This is exactly right. Today's GOP is its worst iteration. Today's Democratic Party is probably its best.

katefromnyc.bsky.social•4 days ago

That’s a really interesting question. I’d like to think material corruption was less evident. Just can’t say that about Republicans.

I can’t imagine Dems trying to throw a court election like GOP did in NC. And tho often ineffectual, Dems do good things, eg led the fight for fair maps in WI.

katefromnyc.bsky.social•4 days ago

Good point. I do think there’s a difference in that typical Democratic corruption is usually mostly about personal political gain. Trump’s corruption is certainly that, but shaped by delusion, cognitive impairment, hatred.

And people like S Miller or L Graham embody the Republican Party.

lizamazel.bsky.social•4 days ago

ORIGINALLY of course it was the Party of Lincoln but needless to say that was a VERY long time ago

psybrdoc.bsky.social•4 days ago

That’s when they were just called Republicans.

kimmurphy100.bsky.social•4 days ago

Remember when he collapsed on his kitchen floor and couldn’t move and heard God and embraced the error of his ways and vowed to fight against Trump?

I guess he’s over that now.

lizamazel.bsky.social•4 days ago

lol no but that's perfect. peak right wing pundit

ianbionic.bsky.social•4 days ago

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roselover772.bsky.social•4 days ago

Tr,ump gave the freaks the power to go ahead and pull off any mask of civility

georgiabluedevil.bsky.social•4 days ago

I agree, but there were people like Rush before Trump. He was vile and incredibly popular. His popularity gave people, including GOP politicians, license to be vile.

roselover772.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes he was a total scum bag wasn't he? Trump pushed it through the stratosphere though, I'll say that. He burned down the veneer of decency covering the hate and evil.

peteinpa.bsky.social•4 days ago

And he is part of the purportedly "respectable" wing

ablativmeatshld.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thanks for reminding me that freak exists.

nzheretic.bsky.social•4 days ago

"Erick Erickson Is Sorry About Some of the Things He Has Said"
By Charles Bethea
October 29, 2016

Never sorry enough.

3fecta.bsky.social•4 days ago

He walked .75 miles to record a radio show. And he got a blister on his foot. Hasn't he suffered enough without this reminder?

cmonagan.bsky.social•4 days ago

The really nasty on-the-record talk began with Lee Atwater.

umbrumray.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is the Republican party. Has been for decades. It's why theY love him so much.

joewv.bsky.social•4 days ago

You couldn’t slide a thin dime between the beliefs of George Wallace voters in 1972 and MAGA

theglobalvc.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's an apt connection.

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amk58.bsky.social•4 days ago

And while we’re on that subject, fuck Morning Joe where Erickson was a regular guest. (Past tense bc I haven’t watched in over a year.

achilleselbow.bsky.social•4 days ago

Did he allege the goat fucking and the child molesting were simultaneous, or separate incid…nvr mind

gplusb.bsky.social•4 days ago

Erick Erickson, himself, has fucked hundreds of kids. He doesn’t like fucking adult goats.

deangloster.bsky.social•4 days ago

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lampsofgold.bsky.social•4 days ago

Like when he argued Matt 25’s “least of these” applied to Christians only?

chadlevinson.com•4 days ago

Yep. Breitbart was Breitbart before Bannon.

minnie18.bsky.social•4 days ago

Why did he do that? That’s awful

jeanchimera.bsky.social•4 days ago

He's always been awful. I remember a blog in the oughts called Sadly, No! that used to drag him to Hell and back. Sooo funny. Eric's writing then was much less, er... polished? Let's say he hadn't been writing long so he just vomited RW talking points.

lizamazel.bsky.social•4 days ago

I remember Sadly No! they were funny.

jeanchimera.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yay! Glad to find another old-timer who remembers those guys. I sometimes wonder where they ended up in life.

untilwemeetagain.bsky.social•4 days ago

I haven't thought of Erick Son of Erick for years.

jsunrise.bsky.social•4 days ago

True, and now that the freaks are in power there's tariffs and measles!

ceciliachase.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes I had forgotten about that.

emmreef.bsky.social•4 days ago

Remember him celebrating an Asian reporter being called Kung Flu during the pandemic

schfinkes.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump just gave them a common club to belong to.

kenner3616.bsky.social•4 days ago

He also called Michelle Obama a “Marxist harpy.” Just an awful, awful bigot.

thenoteheleft.bsky.social•4 days ago

And he still got invited to all the cool kids cable shows as a GOP expert.

malaclypse.bsky.social•4 days ago

Remember when Reagan thought it was hilarious to say “A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah,” because Republicans have been sex-obsessed freaks since before I was born.

spooknine.bsky.social•4 days ago

I don't even really get the "walks like Jane" part but if a guy looks like Tarzan and smells like a chimpanzee he might actually be Tarzan and you should tread lightly

allegedlyjoel.bsky.social•4 days ago

He was saying Hippies Are Girly and Feminine And Probably Gay And Those Are Bad

spooknine.bsky.social•4 days ago

He was a real piece of shit

dirkbender.bsky.social•4 days ago

I would love to introduce legislation that would change any Federally funded projects named after him to "Real Piece of Shit."

greglwhite.bsky.social•4 days ago

What was wrong with calling it "Washington National Airport"? I guess "Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport" is so much easier to say.

weshlovrcm.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not to mention that Dishonest Donald was committing adultery decades before he came down that escalator!

wmatt.bsky.social•4 days ago

mm

thonkthwackthwoot.bsky.social•4 days ago

Almost everything that Trump/Republicans are about now can be found on a Limbaugh broadcast thirty years ago. Trump didn't change the GOP, he just allowed them to dispense with a few polite facades.

jaywillis.net•4 days ago

I know it’s off-topic, but my favorite Erick Erickson moment was when he said his family boycotted eating “Asian food” on December 7 because of Pearl Harbor, and then a reporter tracked down his mom and asked her it and she was like, “what are you talking about”

counterpunkt.bsky.social•4 days ago

lol

bullgooseparty.bsky.social•4 days ago

One of my favorite related stories was when Jonathan Turkey claimed not to know what chicken tikka masala was but he also had written blog posts about his love of Indian food

craigipedia.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is correctly the funniest thing ever about Name Nameson.

adrianwashere.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is the funniest way to refer to him without using his name.

I like "Erick, son of Erick," but this is a new favorite.

craigipedia.bsky.social•4 days ago

eltoninatlanta.bsky.social•4 days ago

Erick FitzErick
Erick MacErick

adrianwashere.bsky.social•4 days ago

Erick bin Erick?

missyrunyon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Moms will always out their kid. Looking at you, Mrs Hegseth.

anonoma3.bsky.social•4 days ago

Honorable mentions to his utterly shameless never-trump-yes-trump twists & turns, and approval for throwing people out of helicopters

garfieldsghost.bsky.social•4 days ago

TBF, Jesus would have lied about such a thing to gain market share too…

itstygrey.bsky.social•4 days ago

He’s such a fat POS. I catch him on the news talk radio every now and then here in Atlanta and can’t flip the channel fast enough. Just want the traffic, not this Fat Bozo Fake Christian Jack Ass.

crary.bsky.social•4 days ago

Genuinely one of the most assholish internet posts of all time.

stiffelman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Jesus

cypress-tx.bsky.social•4 days ago

when Lindsey Graham tweeted his approval of Trump's pope dream post, I thought to myself, 'wonder exactly what they have on him, young boy? dead girl?' I settled on barnyard animal... and gimp

okgrown.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump has had the Epstein files since his DOJ lead by Bill Barr attained them. He has been holding that info over all these pedos heads ever since…which explains the blind devotion.

lizamazel.bsky.social•4 days ago

I don't think so. Maybe some people but, I hate to say it: a lot of people LIKE this dynamic. Or at least it's very familiar and comfortable.

every penny ante dictator out there did not/does not have kompromat on every toady (tho yes it is A tool, more for opponents). They don't need it.

lizamazel.bsky.social•4 days ago

I mean maybe there is and maybe there isn't, but tbh there are people who are at their core authoritarian bottoms and Graham is one of them. he's not happy unless he's remora-ing off someone bigger and stronger. we were all better off when it was McCain, but he's the same invertebrate he always was

piercepresley.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also, EE has had more mainstream media rehabilitation attempts than any Betty Ford Clinic frequent flyer.

jpwilliams.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump didn't create MAGA. He simply unlocked its cage.

jeshk0.bsky.social•4 days ago

erick, son of erick, correctly called out trump as a fascist, but then went on to support him regardless. when asked why he openly supports a fascist his response was basically "buhhhhh i dunno"

what a towering intellect

lizamazel.bsky.social•4 days ago

welp Vance called him "America's Hitler" back when he was pretending to be a "never Trump guy." I guess he decided he wanted to be America's Himmler so fuck it

andyvb.bsky.social•4 days ago

The fruits of limbaugh

cyclonerunner.bsky.social•4 days ago

I mean the dudes name literally means “Erick son of Erick”…….. he couldn’t even remember his own dad’s name!

spiderstumbled.bsky.social•4 days ago

He was just kidding.

msmollympls.bsky.social•4 days ago