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Death of Democracy in America - The Republican ENDGAME
Death of Democracy in America - The Republican ENDGAME
By B.See
24 Jul 2022 5:10 am in Liberals Only Political Chat Room
1 Mar 2023 9:53 am
You're comparing apples to diesel fuel...every wave we incurred came after lockdowns were relaxed or change of seasons...we had waves for 2 years...and China is going thru it now...ScottMon » 28 Feb 2023, 8:12 pm » wrote: ↑ Isolation did work. Italy and Spain had massive body counts long before It was a known presence in the USA. New Zealand had Aggressive isolation procedures and they cleared it out in months. We're still struggling with it because people are stupid.
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime”
LAVRENTIY BERIA
"Try to get past your passionate ignorance and learn to accept what actually happened."
brown's unheeded words of wisdom 
1 Mar 2023 4:17 pm
Sure the January 6th insurrection was started by antifa and then carried out by the capital police and the FBI; the Republicans had nothing to do with anything that had anything to do with the insurrection.Majik » 01 Mar 2023, 1:25 pm » wrote: ↑ No, that is your opinion.....
which you tried to back up with the age old debate tactic of trying to bury your opponents with a sea of **** links which share your opinion but ultimately prove nothing ....
You claim there is a Republican Endgame and the goal of that endgame is to bring death to Democracy in America.....
But yet.....your reasoning for this false claim is tethered to your own liberal biased belief system which is more about protecting that belief system than it is about debating your belief system ....
So, now that we have that fact cleared up....
let's begin......
You claim to be liberal which your posting history totally debunks as a lie ....
you are no more liberal than Bernie Sanders is ....whom is not a Liberal at all.....
You created this thread because you are being inundated and overwhelmed by real world revelations that your party is in fact criminal and is working towards destroying democracy in America ......and you can't have your conditioned belief system challenged by reality ....
which is why you created this thread in defiance of that reality and to try and lash out at those you perceive as threats to your belief system .....
When the Truth is you conditioned belief sytem .....will not allow you to be honest especially when confronted with reality .....
Sure
Sure you lie every time you sit at the keyboard.lol
2 Mar 2023 12:45 am
Not to worry. Contrary to the rules of engagement established at the start of these pg threads, his entire diatribe was nothing more than a personal attack, devoid of any basis in reality except the alternate ones those of his ilk dwell in.slideman » 01 Mar 2023, 5:17 pm » wrote: ↑ Sure the January 6th insurrection was started by antifa and then carried out by the capital police and the FBI; the Republicans had nothing to do with anything that had anything to do with the insurrection.
Sure
Sure you lie every time you sit at the keyboard.lol
For which it has been removed.
6 Mar 2023 11:55 pm
DEMOCRACY ON THE BRINK:
JD Vance a shameless apologist for insurrection in America and war crime assaults on democracy abroad - Raw Story
EXCERPTS:
After being on the wrong political end of the MAGA movement in 2016, likening Donald Trump to “America’s Hitler,” J.D. Vance has become one of the foremost apologists for the would-be dictator attempting to tear down the pillars of American democracy in order to serve his own ego.
Donald Trump is an anti-American traitor, and J.D. Vance carries his water like a pitiful little toady, already announcing his endorsement of Trump for president in 2024.
This should come as no surprise, as Vance has espoused openly authoritarian beliefs, such as that Trump should seize control of all levels of federal bureaucracy and the defense department to install his own sycophants, and if the courts try to stop him, he should ignore the courts, Vanity Fair reported:
“Vance described two possibilities that many on the New Right imagine — that our system will either fall apart naturally, or that a great leader will assume semi-dictatorial powers.”
Vance apparently sees America as in late-stage democracy, and he seems to want to hasten the demise of democracy in America by supporting an openly authoritarian candidate.
AND:
Fabiola Santiago: Like the hemisphere’s evil regimes, crafty Florida GOP craves a one-party state - thebrunswicknews (dot com)
JD Vance a shameless apologist for insurrection in America and war crime assaults on democracy abroad - Raw Story
EXCERPTS:
After being on the wrong political end of the MAGA movement in 2016, likening Donald Trump to “America’s Hitler,” J.D. Vance has become one of the foremost apologists for the would-be dictator attempting to tear down the pillars of American democracy in order to serve his own ego.
Donald Trump is an anti-American traitor, and J.D. Vance carries his water like a pitiful little toady, already announcing his endorsement of Trump for president in 2024.
This should come as no surprise, as Vance has espoused openly authoritarian beliefs, such as that Trump should seize control of all levels of federal bureaucracy and the defense department to install his own sycophants, and if the courts try to stop him, he should ignore the courts, Vanity Fair reported:
“Vance described two possibilities that many on the New Right imagine — that our system will either fall apart naturally, or that a great leader will assume semi-dictatorial powers.”
Vance apparently sees America as in late-stage democracy, and he seems to want to hasten the demise of democracy in America by supporting an openly authoritarian candidate.
AND:
Fabiola Santiago: Like the hemisphere’s evil regimes, crafty Florida GOP craves a one-party state - thebrunswicknews (dot com)
10 Mar 2023 12:56 am
Their END GOAL, a fascist, fanatical, religious fundament AUTOCRACY of one party rule - one based upon white supremacy and in which only their will, THEIR way, matters.
DEMOCRACY IMPERILED LIKE NEVER BEFORE - BY MAGA FASCISTS
Texas asks a Trump judge to declare most of the federal government unconstitutional - MSN
Ken Burns Compares DeSantis Bills to ‘Soviet System’ on CNN: ‘The Way the Nazis Would Build a Potemkin Village’ - Mediaite
GOP now a dime-store front for a terrorist group: MSNBC host - Raw Story
Republicans are systematically destroying democracy — and replacing it with strongman authoritarianism - Raw Story
Maddow sounds the alarm on authoritarian Georgia law - Raw Story
The Governator stuns with a 12-minute speech against fascism that’s a must-see - Dailykos
DEMOCRACY IMPERILED LIKE NEVER BEFORE - BY MAGA FASCISTS
Texas asks a Trump judge to declare most of the federal government unconstitutional - MSN
Ken Burns Compares DeSantis Bills to ‘Soviet System’ on CNN: ‘The Way the Nazis Would Build a Potemkin Village’ - Mediaite
GOP now a dime-store front for a terrorist group: MSNBC host - Raw Story
Republicans are systematically destroying democracy — and replacing it with strongman authoritarianism - Raw Story
Maddow sounds the alarm on authoritarian Georgia law - Raw Story
The Governator stuns with a 12-minute speech against fascism that’s a must-see - Dailykos
17 Mar 2023 11:25 pm
DEATH THROES OF DEMOCRACY:
This is no culture war: Republicans are waging a war on democracy - Salon
America is not mired in a culture war. In reality, today's Republican Party and larger "conservative" movement are waging a fascist war against multiracial pluralist democracy and human freedom. Ultimately, to not understand how the so-called culture war is actually a fascist war against American democracy is to almost ensure being rolled over by those evil forces.
History repeating itself: Rachel Maddow charts a new outbreak of Nazism in the US - MSN
EXCERPTS:
"Under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' broad, vague, new laws about what kids can and cannot read, author Jodi Picoult had one of her best-selling books banned from a Florida library because a parent objected to the telling of a story involving the Holocaust.
Maddow explained, "The Storyteller is a novel about the Holocaust, anti-semitism, and fascism in Germany. It was a strange irony that they wanted this particular book removed because it was like history repeating itself. That feeling and stuff we thought we left behind is rearing its head again and that feeling is happening a lot these days.
We got some folks on the right trying to ban books about the rise of nazism and anti-Semitism in 1930. Others are literally trying to make it happen all over again."
MEANWHILE:
GOP-run states are taking explosive steps to override Democratic-run city governments: analysis - Raw Story
Insurrectionists see chance to wipe Democrats out of Wisconsin for a decade: Report - MSN
Teneo - Inside the private and confidential conservative group that promises to crush liberal dominance - MSN
This is no culture war: Republicans are waging a war on democracy - Salon
America is not mired in a culture war. In reality, today's Republican Party and larger "conservative" movement are waging a fascist war against multiracial pluralist democracy and human freedom. Ultimately, to not understand how the so-called culture war is actually a fascist war against American democracy is to almost ensure being rolled over by those evil forces.
History repeating itself: Rachel Maddow charts a new outbreak of Nazism in the US - MSN
EXCERPTS:
"Under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' broad, vague, new laws about what kids can and cannot read, author Jodi Picoult had one of her best-selling books banned from a Florida library because a parent objected to the telling of a story involving the Holocaust.
Maddow explained, "The Storyteller is a novel about the Holocaust, anti-semitism, and fascism in Germany. It was a strange irony that they wanted this particular book removed because it was like history repeating itself. That feeling and stuff we thought we left behind is rearing its head again and that feeling is happening a lot these days.
We got some folks on the right trying to ban books about the rise of nazism and anti-Semitism in 1930. Others are literally trying to make it happen all over again."
MEANWHILE:
GOP-run states are taking explosive steps to override Democratic-run city governments: analysis - Raw Story
Insurrectionists see chance to wipe Democrats out of Wisconsin for a decade: Report - MSN
Teneo - Inside the private and confidential conservative group that promises to crush liberal dominance - MSN
18 Mar 2023 2:50 am
I am not sure what to think.B.See » 17 Mar 2023, 11:25 pm » wrote: ↑ DEATH THROES OF DEMOCRACY:
This is no culture war: Republicans are waging a war on democracy - Salon
America is not mired in a culture war. In reality, today's Republican Party and larger "conservative" movement are waging a fascist war against multiracial pluralist democracy and human freedom. Ultimately, to not understand how the so-called culture war is actually a fascist war against American democracy is to almost ensure being rolled over by those evil forces.
History repeating itself: Rachel Maddow charts a new outbreak of Nazism in the US - MSN
EXCERPTS:
"Under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' broad, vague, new laws about what kids can and cannot read, author Jodi Picoult had one of her best-selling books banned from a Florida library because a parent objected to the telling of a story involving the Holocaust.
Maddow explained, "The Storyteller is a novel about the Holocaust, anti-semitism, and fascism in Germany. It was a strange irony that they wanted this particular book removed because it was like history repeating itself. That feeling and stuff we thought we left behind is rearing its head again and that feeling is happening a lot these days.
We got some folks on the right trying to ban books about the rise of nazism and anti-Semitism in 1930. Others are literally trying to make it happen all over again."
MEANWHILE:
GOP-run states are taking explosive steps to override Democratic-run city governments: analysis - Raw Story
Insurrectionists see chance to wipe Democrats out of Wisconsin for a decade: Report - MSN
Teneo - Inside the private and confidential conservative group that promises to crush liberal dominance - MSN
Hey dude, the links don't work (again)
29 Mar 2023 10:09 pm
REPUBLICAN ENDGAME - THE DISENFRANCISEMENT OF BLACK AMERICA:
Part of the Republican (MAGA) Party endgame in destroying democracy is to attack those who most stand in the way of their achieving those ends, those who don't buy into their hate-based fascist ideologies, Jewish people, the gay community, minorities, etc.
And where Black Americans are concerned, by a coordinated and systematic effort to disempower and disenfranchise Black communities and thereby Black voters, something they've long been undertaking for more than a decade (according to one of the sources cited below).
Jim Crow is alive and living well, in Trump's fascist America.
Republicans' end run around Black Mississippians is being copied in other states - CNN
Mississippi Republicans pass bill to create separate, unelected court in majority Black city - The Guardian
Louisiana secretary of state, criticized for strange deal on recall signatures - Dailykos
Texas Plans To Take Over Houston’s Majority Black School District - Newsone (dot com)
TX Lawmakers Consider Legislation to Prevent Cities from Self Governance - Public News Service (dot org)
How Republican States Are Expanding Their Power Over Elections - The New York Times
Opinion: The two ways Republican politicians are undermining cities - The Washington Post
Georgia’s SB 202 takes over local boards. That’s how state legislatures respond to Black political power. - The Washington Post
Map by Map, G.O.P. Chips Away at Black Democrats’ Power - The New York Times
Part of the Republican (MAGA) Party endgame in destroying democracy is to attack those who most stand in the way of their achieving those ends, those who don't buy into their hate-based fascist ideologies, Jewish people, the gay community, minorities, etc.
And where Black Americans are concerned, by a coordinated and systematic effort to disempower and disenfranchise Black communities and thereby Black voters, something they've long been undertaking for more than a decade (according to one of the sources cited below).
Jim Crow is alive and living well, in Trump's fascist America.
Republicans' end run around Black Mississippians is being copied in other states - CNN
Mississippi Republicans pass bill to create separate, unelected court in majority Black city - The Guardian
Louisiana secretary of state, criticized for strange deal on recall signatures - Dailykos
Texas Plans To Take Over Houston’s Majority Black School District - Newsone (dot com)
TX Lawmakers Consider Legislation to Prevent Cities from Self Governance - Public News Service (dot org)
How Republican States Are Expanding Their Power Over Elections - The New York Times
Opinion: The two ways Republican politicians are undermining cities - The Washington Post
Georgia’s SB 202 takes over local boards. That’s how state legislatures respond to Black political power. - The Washington Post
Map by Map, G.O.P. Chips Away at Black Democrats’ Power - The New York Times
4 Apr 2023 4:25 am
DEATH TO DEMOCRACY - "ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC"
Conservative judge issues stark new warning about GOP'S war against democracy and rule of law - Raw Story One of the nation's most prominent conservative jurists warned that the Republican Party presents a grave peril to democracy.
Conservative Legal Icon Delivers Chilling Prediction If Donald Trump Overturns 2024 - HuffPost
At the heart of Trump's indictment, an unprecedented test of American ideals - NBC News
Danger to our democracy: Schiff warns GOP could use control of Congress to protest Trump indictment - Raw Story
This is neo-Nazi ideology on display: Florida is in danger of being taken over by the far-right - Sky (dot com)
Mass Israel protests after Netanyahu fires defence minister - BBC News
Israeli Chaos Is a Warning to Americans of What Will Happen Here If Trump Is Re-Elected on His ‘Retribution’ Platform - Mediaite (dot com)
COMPLICITORS IN TREASON:
Analyst breaks down how Fox desperately put election liars on air to keep their audience - Raw Story
Leak reveals Fox News CEO raged at host for fact checking Trump: 'This has to stop' - Raw Story
after all, WHY LET FACTS GET IN THE WAY??
Conservative judge issues stark new warning about GOP'S war against democracy and rule of law - Raw Story One of the nation's most prominent conservative jurists warned that the Republican Party presents a grave peril to democracy.
Conservative Legal Icon Delivers Chilling Prediction If Donald Trump Overturns 2024 - HuffPost
At the heart of Trump's indictment, an unprecedented test of American ideals - NBC News
Danger to our democracy: Schiff warns GOP could use control of Congress to protest Trump indictment - Raw Story
This is neo-Nazi ideology on display: Florida is in danger of being taken over by the far-right - Sky (dot com)
Mass Israel protests after Netanyahu fires defence minister - BBC News
Israeli Chaos Is a Warning to Americans of What Will Happen Here If Trump Is Re-Elected on His ‘Retribution’ Platform - Mediaite (dot com)
COMPLICITORS IN TREASON:
Analyst breaks down how Fox desperately put election liars on air to keep their audience - Raw Story
Leak reveals Fox News CEO raged at host for fact checking Trump: 'This has to stop' - Raw Story
after all, WHY LET FACTS GET IN THE WAY??
4 Apr 2023 6:03 am
4 Apr 2023 9:27 am
B.See » 24 Jul 2022, 5:10 am » wrote: ↑ Truth is, the Republican party has been working toward the death of democracy in America for quite some time.
From back when conservative think tanks and groups like the Heritage Foundation and their affiliates dictated policymaking to Republican politicians like Ronald Reagan. Back when their various right winged PACS and interests like the Kochs and Mercers held little pow-wows and retreats with right winged judges like Scalia and Thomas.
And when their Federalist Society provided Republican presidents and lawmakers with lists of potential judgeships comprised of far right ideologues.
Back when their "war" on drugs wasn't a yet "crisis" (as it is now with opioids) and back when they and their right winged media outlets like Fox, promoted and promulgated thinly veiled, racist, dog-whistle rhetoric and anti-democratic propaganda on a 24/7 basis. Just like they do NOW.
The coming of Trump was only the culmination of that ongoing effort. He was only the full EMBODIMENT of all they were already trafficking in.
So it was NO wonder that his hate based, rabble rousing diatribes were so readily devoured by right winged voters, above ALL other contenders. And why they love him STILL.
And now that they can see their goals on the horizon, they've unembarrassingly pulled out ALL the stops. Today, their sights are set on nothing less than a fascist, authoritarian MINORITY RULE style of government founded upon hate based nationalistic sentiment and they are acting, non stop, towards those ends.
They've set about doing so viaThey've done so by turning the GOP into A CULT. And THEIR ENDGAME is nothing less than THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.
- radical right rulings of a rogue conservative court,
- via multi-pronged attacks upon the right to vote,
- via their right winged assault upon the judiciary and the resulting undermining of civil rights,
- via their constant promotion and embrace of Trump/GOP inspired racism and hate towards Jews, minorities, immigrants, the gay community, and anyone else they choose to "other",
- via their continued retrogressive and inhumane assault upon programs that help PEOPLE,
- via their assault upon EDUCATION,
- via the rise of far right religious fanaticism blended with the conspiracy theory lunacy of QAnon.
- and via their legitimizing of an attempted COUP and OVERTHROW OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS by way of a fake elector CONSPIRACY, and a subsequent PLANNED, Trump led Capitol Insurrection.
We are not a democracy, so it can't die.
As a conservative I will let you in on our grand conspiracy for the country.
1. Eliminate as many cabinet positions and departments in the federal government as possible.
2. Eliminate our progressive tax system and replace it with a flat or sales tax.
3. Have a balanced budget amendment.
4. Eliminate federal unions.
5. Eliminate as many useless regulations as possible.
6. Return us to a federalist system where the states get their power back from the federal government.
That is what we want in a nutshell. If we do all of that, the country will not crumble. It will reintroduce liberty back to the republic.
8 Apr 2023 7:29 am
Thanks for your input. But from where I'm sitting, they're also working on raising the retirement age to 70, cutting Social Security and Medicare, rolling back Obamacare protections, culling the electorate via voter suppression efforts and efforts to disenfranchise college age and young people from voting, empowering themselves to remove at will, elected officials, and overturning election results, demonizing gay trans Black and other minority peoples, obliterating Black history and rebranding (or denying) the Holocaust, rewriting the constitution, and installing an authoritarian dictatorship in America...RayJJohnson » 04 Apr 2023, 9:27 am » wrote: ↑ We are not a democracy, so it can't die.
As a conservative I will let you in on our grand conspiracy for the country.
1. Eliminate as many cabinet positions and departments in the federal government as possible.
2. Eliminate our progressive tax system and replace it with a flat or sales tax.
3. Have a balanced budget amendment.
4. Eliminate federal unions.
5. Eliminate as many useless regulations as possible.
6. Return us to a federalist system where the states get their power back from the federal government.
That is what we want in a nutshell. If we do all of that, the country will not crumble. It will reintroduce liberty back to the republic.
... among a whole bunch of other evil s***. The only "liberty" MAGAS respect is that OF THEIR OWN.
8 Apr 2023 7:30 am
Republicans have been working to undermine democracy at every turn and for quite some time.
And now, with their increasingly bolder moves to silence opposition, empower themselves to overrule voter outcomes, impeach and disempower elected officials (as they just did in Tennessee),
with their laws passed in a number of red states that enables them to throw out election results they don't like, their imposing of their will upon education, women's rights, the LGBTQ community, and other minorities,
and with their efforts to obstruct justice while defending insurrectionists, the MAGA Party is racing with ever more fervor toward their ENDGAME:
the end of democracy and the permanent installation of their own one party, right wing, authoritarian rule.
Republicans are even NOW, without full control of Congress and the White House, going about establishing the foundations of a fascist STATE.
Working to:
1. control knowledge and truth via the blacklisting and banning of books and literature
2. seize control of the judiciary and use it to undermine established law
3. willfully and knowingly engage in lies, distortions, and propaganda to further their "alternate realities"
4. demonize and scapegoat minorities, gays, and those within the populace they wish to "other"
5. undermine the function of government, federal law enforcement, and the rule of law
6. disenfranchise the electorate, curtail and cull the vote, and strip some of the citizenry of their right to vote
7. create doubt and distrust in our elections
8. put into place the mechanisms to ignore, throw out, and/or overrule voter outcomes
9. disempower and create police states within municipalities to be controlled by them
10 sow hate, division, and discord within the community
11 advance fascism, racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and xenophobia
12 establish methods by which those elected by the people can be summarily removed at their discretion
13 rewrite constitutional law to align with their own principles and political goals
WHILE
14 going on record as being not only OPENLY critical of democracy itself, but EVEN of the concept of America AS A COUNTRY
When you have a party doing all the above and more, THEN you have a party HELL BENT on replacing OUR democracy with an authoritarian, one party, KAKISTOCRACY.
And this may very well be OUR LAST CHANCE TO STOP THEM.
Why Do These Rightwing States Keep Overruling Local Control? Could It Be The Fascism? - Wonkette
Opinion: The fight against woke is really conservative gaslighting - CNN
Texas Republicans are charting an extreme course -- and other states are following their lead - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
Worse than Trump: Head of the NRSC releases Republican plans for a dystopian, fascist America - Dailykos
Al Franken: Trump Will Be Dictator if Elected Again - Mediaite
(the last three are older articles, but even MORE true today than they were when written)
And now, with their increasingly bolder moves to silence opposition, empower themselves to overrule voter outcomes, impeach and disempower elected officials (as they just did in Tennessee),
with their laws passed in a number of red states that enables them to throw out election results they don't like, their imposing of their will upon education, women's rights, the LGBTQ community, and other minorities,
and with their efforts to obstruct justice while defending insurrectionists, the MAGA Party is racing with ever more fervor toward their ENDGAME:
the end of democracy and the permanent installation of their own one party, right wing, authoritarian rule.
Republicans are even NOW, without full control of Congress and the White House, going about establishing the foundations of a fascist STATE.
Working to:
1. control knowledge and truth via the blacklisting and banning of books and literature
2. seize control of the judiciary and use it to undermine established law
3. willfully and knowingly engage in lies, distortions, and propaganda to further their "alternate realities"
4. demonize and scapegoat minorities, gays, and those within the populace they wish to "other"
5. undermine the function of government, federal law enforcement, and the rule of law
6. disenfranchise the electorate, curtail and cull the vote, and strip some of the citizenry of their right to vote
7. create doubt and distrust in our elections
8. put into place the mechanisms to ignore, throw out, and/or overrule voter outcomes
9. disempower and create police states within municipalities to be controlled by them
10 sow hate, division, and discord within the community
11 advance fascism, racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and xenophobia
12 establish methods by which those elected by the people can be summarily removed at their discretion
13 rewrite constitutional law to align with their own principles and political goals
WHILE
14 going on record as being not only OPENLY critical of democracy itself, but EVEN of the concept of America AS A COUNTRY
When you have a party doing all the above and more, THEN you have a party HELL BENT on replacing OUR democracy with an authoritarian, one party, KAKISTOCRACY.
And this may very well be OUR LAST CHANCE TO STOP THEM.
Why Do These Rightwing States Keep Overruling Local Control? Could It Be The Fascism? - Wonkette
Opinion: The fight against woke is really conservative gaslighting - CNN
Texas Republicans are charting an extreme course -- and other states are following their lead - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
Worse than Trump: Head of the NRSC releases Republican plans for a dystopian, fascist America - Dailykos
Al Franken: Trump Will Be Dictator if Elected Again - Mediaite
(the last three are older articles, but even MORE true today than they were when written)
15 Apr 2023 7:37 am
DEATH OF DEMOCRACY - THE MAGA ENDGAME and EVERYBODY KNOWS IT BY NOW:
Texas GOP's new anti-democracy bill is so bad, people are calling it the Death Star - Dailykos
Republicans are resorting to guerrilla war against democracy to cling to power: columnist - Raw Story
Nicolle Wallace Torches Republicans for Not ‘Doing a Single G*ddamn Thing to Protect Democracy’ in the U.S. - Mediaite
Revenge Is Not the Fascist’s Final, Last-Gasp Option: It’s Their First - Dailykos
They mean to roll back more than we ever suspected - Dailykos
Abortion bans. Partisan expulsions. Pardoning MAGA murders. We're accelerating dangerously into fascism - Dailykos
Must-Read: The Republican long march to overthrow democracy is nearing the end stage - Dailykos
Opinion | The Republican Strategists Who Have Carefully Planned All of This - The New York Times
Republicans on wrong side of polls on mifepristone, choice, indictment, Trump, insurrection, vaccines, biglie - Dailykos
Once a beacon of Southern progress, NC is now a poster child for the opposite | Opinion - Charlotteobserver (dot com)
THE FASCIST'S PROPAGANDA NETWORK - FUX NEWS:
Judge in Fox News defamation case angered by revelation of Murdoch's role in the coverup - MarketWatch
Ex-Fox News producer claims the company withheld damning recordings of Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell that could help Dominion's defamation lawsuit - Yahoo
Texas GOP's new anti-democracy bill is so bad, people are calling it the Death Star - Dailykos
Republicans are resorting to guerrilla war against democracy to cling to power: columnist - Raw Story
Nicolle Wallace Torches Republicans for Not ‘Doing a Single G*ddamn Thing to Protect Democracy’ in the U.S. - Mediaite
Revenge Is Not the Fascist’s Final, Last-Gasp Option: It’s Their First - Dailykos
They mean to roll back more than we ever suspected - Dailykos
Abortion bans. Partisan expulsions. Pardoning MAGA murders. We're accelerating dangerously into fascism - Dailykos
Must-Read: The Republican long march to overthrow democracy is nearing the end stage - Dailykos
Opinion | The Republican Strategists Who Have Carefully Planned All of This - The New York Times
Republicans on wrong side of polls on mifepristone, choice, indictment, Trump, insurrection, vaccines, biglie - Dailykos
Once a beacon of Southern progress, NC is now a poster child for the opposite | Opinion - Charlotteobserver (dot com)
THE FASCIST'S PROPAGANDA NETWORK - FUX NEWS:
Judge in Fox News defamation case angered by revelation of Murdoch's role in the coverup - MarketWatch
Ex-Fox News producer claims the company withheld damning recordings of Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell that could help Dominion's defamation lawsuit - Yahoo
22 Apr 2023 11:54 pm
FASCISM USA:
The modern Republican party is hurtling towards fascism: OPINION - Robert Reich - The Guardian (hurtling?? I'd say the **** have fairly well pulled up in the DRIVE)
We are witnessing the logical culmination of win-at-any-cost politics – and Donald Trump has encouraged it
excerpt:
America no longer has two parties devoted to a democratic system of self-government.
We have a Democratic party, which – notwithstanding a few glaring counter-examples, such as what the Democratic National Committee did to Bernie Sanders in 2016 – is still largely committed to democracy.
And we have a Republican party, which is careening at high velocity toward authoritarianism. OK, fascism.
What’s Behind the GOP’s War Against Democracy? - Dailykos
AND:
Popularity is optional as Republicans find ways to impose minority rule - The Guardian
excerpt:
Opinion poll after opinion poll shows that Republicans are increasingly out of touch with mainstream sentiment on hot button issues such as abortion rights and gun safety. Accordingly, the party has suffered disappointment in elections in 2018, 2020 and 2022. Yet instead of rethinking its positions, critics say, it is turning to rightwing judges and state legislators to enforce minority rule.
The modern Republican party is hurtling towards fascism: OPINION - Robert Reich - The Guardian (hurtling?? I'd say the **** have fairly well pulled up in the DRIVE)
We are witnessing the logical culmination of win-at-any-cost politics – and Donald Trump has encouraged it
excerpt:
America no longer has two parties devoted to a democratic system of self-government.
We have a Democratic party, which – notwithstanding a few glaring counter-examples, such as what the Democratic National Committee did to Bernie Sanders in 2016 – is still largely committed to democracy.
And we have a Republican party, which is careening at high velocity toward authoritarianism. OK, fascism.
What’s Behind the GOP’s War Against Democracy? - Dailykos
AND:
Popularity is optional as Republicans find ways to impose minority rule - The Guardian
excerpt:
Opinion poll after opinion poll shows that Republicans are increasingly out of touch with mainstream sentiment on hot button issues such as abortion rights and gun safety. Accordingly, the party has suffered disappointment in elections in 2018, 2020 and 2022. Yet instead of rethinking its positions, critics say, it is turning to rightwing judges and state legislators to enforce minority rule.
25 Apr 2023 9:25 am
The OP has it nailed.
The Republican Party and especially the **** crazy Far Right are doing all they can to bring down Democracy in the US. Since they can't get everything thet want politically, they're trying to institute nothing less than totalitarian rule. They will go down in history as traitors to their Nation.
The Republican Party and especially the **** crazy Far Right are doing all they can to bring down Democracy in the US. Since they can't get everything thet want politically, they're trying to institute nothing less than totalitarian rule. They will go down in history as traitors to their Nation.
28 Apr 2023 1:42 am
And some of the TREASONOUS fkrs who attempted the overthrow of Democracy on Jan 6, and who are STILL attempting it, are sitting RIGHT IN CONGRESS, not to mention the wife of a Supreme Court "justice."bludog » 25 Apr 2023, 9:25 am » wrote: ↑ The OP has it nailed.
The Republican Party and especially the **** crazy Far Right are doing all they can to bring down Democracy in the US. Since they can't get everything thet want politically, they're trying to institute nothing less than totalitarian rule. They will go down in history as traitors to their Nation.
They can play with words and semantics all they want. IT WAS TREASON.
6 May 2023 11:40 pm
ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC - ARE WORKING HAND IN HAND IN THE UNDERMINING OF OUR DEMOCRACY
And it isn't just Putin/Russian alliances and collusion with far right entities and hate groups right here in America. Alliances WE'RE not supposed to know anything about.
Victor Orbán is Giving the GOP Lessons on "Soft Fascism" at CPAC and They're Taking Notes - Dailykos
excerpt:
Viktor Orbán’s Hungary is hosting the CPAC Republican fascist-fest this week in Budapest, where the Hungarian “soft fascism” strongman president told the audience, to a standing ovation:
“Hungary is actually an incubator where experiments are done on the future of conservative policies. Hungary is the place where we didn’t just talk about defeating the progressives and liberals and causing a conservative Christian political turn, but we actually did it.”
Orbán’s Fidesz Party and the GOP in most Red States have become virtually indistinguishable, from cronies owning the media, to packing the courts, to rigging elections through purging voters and gerrymanders, to putting polluting businesses in charge of regulatory agencies.
Now both have their sights set on the American federal government. Seriously, both. Orbán is now inserting himself into American Republican politics in a big way: last August he gave a major speech to Republicans in Dallas. Orbán has become a role model for many American politicians, particularly those in the GOP’s Sedition Caucus.
And it isn't just Putin/Russian alliances and collusion with far right entities and hate groups right here in America. Alliances WE'RE not supposed to know anything about.
Victor Orbán is Giving the GOP Lessons on "Soft Fascism" at CPAC and They're Taking Notes - Dailykos
excerpt:
Viktor Orbán’s Hungary is hosting the CPAC Republican fascist-fest this week in Budapest, where the Hungarian “soft fascism” strongman president told the audience, to a standing ovation:
“Hungary is actually an incubator where experiments are done on the future of conservative policies. Hungary is the place where we didn’t just talk about defeating the progressives and liberals and causing a conservative Christian political turn, but we actually did it.”
Orbán’s Fidesz Party and the GOP in most Red States have become virtually indistinguishable, from cronies owning the media, to packing the courts, to rigging elections through purging voters and gerrymanders, to putting polluting businesses in charge of regulatory agencies.
Now both have their sights set on the American federal government. Seriously, both. Orbán is now inserting himself into American Republican politics in a big way: last August he gave a major speech to Republicans in Dallas. Orbán has become a role model for many American politicians, particularly those in the GOP’s Sedition Caucus.
16 May 2023 6:24 pm
END GAME: FASCISM ON THE RISE - DEMOCRACY ON THE ROPES
There is one (and ONLY ONE) political party fighting for democracy against a terrorist organization headed by Trump - Dailykos (dot com) excerpt:
"I don't care if people like Biden, Harris, or Democrats. Period. They better damn care about democracy, about the sanctity of their own minds, about their children being able to go to school and live, about their right to vote, about their right to worship or not as they see fit, about their right to enjoy a parade or pick up tonight’s dinner at the supermarket safely, to get the health care they need, to be paid what they are worth, to be free to dream and hope.
The list goes on. This is not about “politics.”
It is about survival. It’s about a far better future for our children’s children — or none at all."
Is This the Most Dangerous Right-Wing Think Tank You’ve Never Heard Of? - The Nation excerpt:
"Republicans want nothing more than to strip vulnerable Americans of their hard-won rights—but they can’t get that done at the federal level. Instead, they rely on the states to advance their unpopular extremist agenda.
a right-wing think tank called the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), and its similarly opaquely named lobbying arm, the Opportunity Solutions Project (OSP).
Most people have never heard of a right-wing think tank called the 'Foundation for Government Accountability'"
(these fkrs sure do have a penchant for giving **** names that belie their TRUE purpose, don't they??)
"and that works to its advantage. As a certified 501(c)(3) organization, it is classified as a charity, or a 'social welfare' group, and thus is tax-exempt. These names and designations may seem innocuous, but the groups’ agenda is anything but.
Founded in 2011, the FGA has spent the last decade influencing Republican state legislatures to gut the social safety net, shrink the voting population, and turn back the clock on fundamental rights that Americans might have assumed they could take for granted."
MEANWHILE:
Rachel Maddow Chokes Up as She Breaks Down Connections Between ‘Bleeding, Ragged Right-Wing’ Politics and Mass Violence - yahoo (dot com) (don't cry Rachael... get MAD.)
Former Rep. Liz Cheney Blasts Donald Trump And The MAGA Mob In New Attack Ad - news.yahoo (dot com) “Donald Trump is a risk America can never take again,” Cheney narrates the video showing footage of the Jan. 6 attack. Trump is “the only 'resident in American history who has refused to guarantee peaceful transfer of power” and “betrayed millions of Americans by telling them the election was stolen,” she continues. Trump is “unfit for office.”
and, NAZIS:
Trump family blasted for appearing alongside a modern-day version of Hitler’s American friends - MSN (dot com)
Trump Hotel, Trump Kid Threw Fun Weekend Bash With Actual Nazis, Is That Bad? - Wonkette the event was to feature an assload of figures from the Trump administration's discard pile: Michael Flynn, former (acting) Attorney General Matthew Peter Navarro, Kash Patel, Devin Nunes and The Pillow Guy. PLUS a couple of full-on antisemitic conspiracy mongers, Scott McKay and Charlie Ward, who openly admire Adolf Hitler and regularly blame Jews for everything they think is wrong with the world.
Rachel Maddow Names Pro-Hitler Speakers Appearing At Same Event As Eric Trump - HuffPost
Gosh, how do the Trumps keep "accidentally" hanging out with Hitler fanboys? - Salon (dot com)
There is one (and ONLY ONE) political party fighting for democracy against a terrorist organization headed by Trump - Dailykos (dot com) excerpt:
"I don't care if people like Biden, Harris, or Democrats. Period. They better damn care about democracy, about the sanctity of their own minds, about their children being able to go to school and live, about their right to vote, about their right to worship or not as they see fit, about their right to enjoy a parade or pick up tonight’s dinner at the supermarket safely, to get the health care they need, to be paid what they are worth, to be free to dream and hope.
The list goes on. This is not about “politics.”
It is about survival. It’s about a far better future for our children’s children — or none at all."
Is This the Most Dangerous Right-Wing Think Tank You’ve Never Heard Of? - The Nation excerpt:
"Republicans want nothing more than to strip vulnerable Americans of their hard-won rights—but they can’t get that done at the federal level. Instead, they rely on the states to advance their unpopular extremist agenda.
a right-wing think tank called the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), and its similarly opaquely named lobbying arm, the Opportunity Solutions Project (OSP).
Most people have never heard of a right-wing think tank called the 'Foundation for Government Accountability'"
(these fkrs sure do have a penchant for giving **** names that belie their TRUE purpose, don't they??)
"and that works to its advantage. As a certified 501(c)(3) organization, it is classified as a charity, or a 'social welfare' group, and thus is tax-exempt. These names and designations may seem innocuous, but the groups’ agenda is anything but.
Founded in 2011, the FGA has spent the last decade influencing Republican state legislatures to gut the social safety net, shrink the voting population, and turn back the clock on fundamental rights that Americans might have assumed they could take for granted."
MEANWHILE:
Rachel Maddow Chokes Up as She Breaks Down Connections Between ‘Bleeding, Ragged Right-Wing’ Politics and Mass Violence - yahoo (dot com) (don't cry Rachael... get MAD.)
Former Rep. Liz Cheney Blasts Donald Trump And The MAGA Mob In New Attack Ad - news.yahoo (dot com) “Donald Trump is a risk America can never take again,” Cheney narrates the video showing footage of the Jan. 6 attack. Trump is “the only 'resident in American history who has refused to guarantee peaceful transfer of power” and “betrayed millions of Americans by telling them the election was stolen,” she continues. Trump is “unfit for office.”
and, NAZIS:
Trump family blasted for appearing alongside a modern-day version of Hitler’s American friends - MSN (dot com)
Trump Hotel, Trump Kid Threw Fun Weekend Bash With Actual Nazis, Is That Bad? - Wonkette the event was to feature an assload of figures from the Trump administration's discard pile: Michael Flynn, former (acting) Attorney General Matthew Peter Navarro, Kash Patel, Devin Nunes and The Pillow Guy. PLUS a couple of full-on antisemitic conspiracy mongers, Scott McKay and Charlie Ward, who openly admire Adolf Hitler and regularly blame Jews for everything they think is wrong with the world.
Rachel Maddow Names Pro-Hitler Speakers Appearing At Same Event As Eric Trump - HuffPost
Gosh, how do the Trumps keep "accidentally" hanging out with Hitler fanboys? - Salon (dot com)
22 May 2023 11:52 pm
A call to arms: Defending America’s soul in an age of extremism - The Hill
excerpt:
"In a speech before last fall’s midterm elections, President Biden warned we are engaged in a battle for the nation’s soul. “As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault,” he said. “We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.”
So, let’s not pretend otherwise. We should start by not calling this a battle. There are white militias that would like nothing better than civil war. They’ve been arming themselves and training for a long time.
Instead, we should defend America’s fundamental principles of freedom, equality, morality, dignity and loyalty to the same Constitution. These are the “soul of the nation.”
The various groups engaged in the assault include white supremacists, white separatists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, Christian nationalists, the Ku Klux Klan and an assortment of self-identified patriot organizations on the far-right wing of politics. Experts classify them as Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic and xenophobic. For the sake of brevity, we can call them the “phobics.”
Mary Trump HAMMERS Trump Fans As ‘White Supremacists, Christian Nationalists, Misogynists, Anti-Semites’ - Mediaite (dot com)
The ambitious Republican plot to take it all down - Salon (dot com) Republicans have come to believe that the entire federal government is filled with woke liberals
The GOP Is Officially the Party of Righteous Violence How Republican states are eroding local democracy - Vox Vigilante violence on a subway is different than political violence to stop a “stolen election.” But they’re both a threat to democracy.
Scorched earth: DeSantis burning Florida for his own political ambitions - Raw Story
Whether it’s watering down the power of Black voters, demonizing LGBTQ people, maligning migrants or targeting private corporations that defy the governor’s political will, Florida Republicans largely acquiesce to DeSantis’ wishes.”
White House Rips ‘Wishlist of Extreme MAGA Priorities’ After Latest Round of Debt Talks - Mediaite (dot com)
excerpt:
"Republicans are recycling a barely watered down version of their extreme budget proposal that would eliminate 100,000 jobs for teachers and support staff, cut 2,000 law enforcement positions and could put the health care coverage for millions of Americans at risk
at the same time as Republicans would extend tax breaks for the wealthiest and corporations while trying once again to reward tax cheats by gutting funding for the IRS.
AND:
Chris Hayes decimates DeSantis’ dystopian hypocrisy: The opposite of freedom -MSN (dot com)
excerpts:
"Hayes explained to viewers how DeSantis peddles fake claims about freedom, while enacting some the most hypocritically “authoritarian” and “dystopian” laws in the country.
“In Ron DeSantis’ Florida, the state will decide what books your child can or cannot leave their school library with, what women can do with their own bodies, how you can dress in public, which costumes you can wear, what kind of speech corporations can engage in, which criticism they can make of the government."
excerpt:
"In a speech before last fall’s midterm elections, President Biden warned we are engaged in a battle for the nation’s soul. “As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault,” he said. “We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.”
So, let’s not pretend otherwise. We should start by not calling this a battle. There are white militias that would like nothing better than civil war. They’ve been arming themselves and training for a long time.
Instead, we should defend America’s fundamental principles of freedom, equality, morality, dignity and loyalty to the same Constitution. These are the “soul of the nation.”
The various groups engaged in the assault include white supremacists, white separatists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, Christian nationalists, the Ku Klux Klan and an assortment of self-identified patriot organizations on the far-right wing of politics. Experts classify them as Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic and xenophobic. For the sake of brevity, we can call them the “phobics.”
Mary Trump HAMMERS Trump Fans As ‘White Supremacists, Christian Nationalists, Misogynists, Anti-Semites’ - Mediaite (dot com)
The ambitious Republican plot to take it all down - Salon (dot com) Republicans have come to believe that the entire federal government is filled with woke liberals
The GOP Is Officially the Party of Righteous Violence How Republican states are eroding local democracy - Vox Vigilante violence on a subway is different than political violence to stop a “stolen election.” But they’re both a threat to democracy.
Scorched earth: DeSantis burning Florida for his own political ambitions - Raw Story
Whether it’s watering down the power of Black voters, demonizing LGBTQ people, maligning migrants or targeting private corporations that defy the governor’s political will, Florida Republicans largely acquiesce to DeSantis’ wishes.”
White House Rips ‘Wishlist of Extreme MAGA Priorities’ After Latest Round of Debt Talks - Mediaite (dot com)
excerpt:
"Republicans are recycling a barely watered down version of their extreme budget proposal that would eliminate 100,000 jobs for teachers and support staff, cut 2,000 law enforcement positions and could put the health care coverage for millions of Americans at risk
at the same time as Republicans would extend tax breaks for the wealthiest and corporations while trying once again to reward tax cheats by gutting funding for the IRS.
AND:
Chris Hayes decimates DeSantis’ dystopian hypocrisy: The opposite of freedom -MSN (dot com)
excerpts:
"Hayes explained to viewers how DeSantis peddles fake claims about freedom, while enacting some the most hypocritically “authoritarian” and “dystopian” laws in the country.
“In Ron DeSantis’ Florida, the state will decide what books your child can or cannot leave their school library with, what women can do with their own bodies, how you can dress in public, which costumes you can wear, what kind of speech corporations can engage in, which criticism they can make of the government."
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