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ON BRINGING KNIVES TO A GUNFIGHT:

Democrats Shouldn't Apologize For Using Fighting Words - Says the New York Times!!!

Bashing the New York Times is a blood sport around here. But sometimes the Times actually gets it right. Two op-ed columns, one by an editorial board member, spell out how the Democrats are right when they say Republicans are out to destroy the country.

Charles Blow (Biden Shouldn’t Apologize to Republicans)  ...even takes Biden to task for toning down the truth of his “semi-fascism” call. There is no “both-siderism” here. Blow wants the Democrats to stand by their words and keep on calling out the Republicans for what they are: in the thrall of a monster.

Times writers are calling on Democrats to do what we’ve been urging them to do all along: Get out there and fight! And DON’T back away from your words when the Republicans — who praise nastiness when it’s their side that does it — cry that we’re beating on them, poor little innocents that they are.

MEANWHILE, POLAND knows what to do with FASCISTS.  After all, THEY LEARNED THE HARD WAY:

California anti-Semitic activist arrested in Poland after gleeful Auschwitz photo-shoot - Raw Story 
 

Barack Obama just won the Emmy that has forever eluded Trump. Cue Trump MAGA meltdown.

Poll: Biden now leads Trump by widest margin in 6 months

WOW! Mary Trump and Guests Gush Over Biden's MAGA Speech

AND, I've always admired Jamelle Bouie's no **** journalism from back when he was with the DB and Slate. Now with the Times he still pulls no punches:

Jamelle Bouie is on fire at The NY Times: "President Biden is right."

MEANWHILE:

OMG! Democrats are Opposed to (as in "Anti") Fascism - Whines Trump-Fluffing FOX News Host

Democrats Determined Not To Let Republicans Downplay Their MAGA Extremism

Biden Goes Full 'Dark Brandon' In Scathing Impression Of Republican Hypocrisy

It's Time to Enforce the Constitution & Ban Seditious Republicans from Congress

THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE - MORE OF IT, FROM JAMELLE BOUIE:

Jamelle Bouie Brings the Burn to Ross Douthat and Bret Stephens and the rest of the concern trolls

Biden and the Democratic Party should make this clear — much clearer than they have so far. The struggle for democracy is the struggle for human equality is the struggle for a fairer economy is the struggle for the rights of workers and the dignity of labor. And if the enemies of democracy are fighting their war on every possible front, its defenders should, too.

MEANWHILE:

It's time to enforce the Constitution and ban seditious Republicans from Congress

AL FRANKEN Shows How to Make a CNN Republican Hack Squirm By Using this One Little Trick - The TRUTH!  

Republicans Want to Talk About Crime, Let's Start With Theirs

Really?! CNN held a panel discussion on whether Biden should invite Trump to the queen's funeral

Uncle Dark Brandon chides Republicans for touting infrastructure spending they opposed
 
 

ON BRINGING KNIVES TO A GUNFIGHT:

For nearly a year and a half, Democrats have had to grit our teeth and bear with President Joe Biden trying to be a nice guy to bastards who didn't DESERVE it... while he spoke of his "friends across the aisle" and defended the filibuster and tried to "reach out" to mfkrs who HATED HIS GUTS and chanted "let's go Brandon" as a way of saying **** him.

Only now, Dark Brandon has finally aWOKEn from his naive SLUMBER, and is **** THEM by calling out these conniving and hateful bstards out for who and WHAT THEY ARE.  And it's ABOUT FKNG TIME:

WATCH: Crowd BOOS Senat Republicans As Biden Torches Them By Name in White House Speech

'Thanks for stopping by': Biden fires back after Rick Scott flaunts toxic Plan to 'Rescue' America by KILLING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE.

MEANWHILE:

Dems Warn Trump and GOP Have Put Federal Workers in ‘Grave Danger’

Democrats attack 'shameless' Republicans for running a 'lawless cult' that refuses to hold Trump accountable

McConnell packed the Supreme Court for Trump. Now’s a good time for payback from Democrats

 

SUCKERS!

Not a Saudi Prince or an oligarch, but it was Donald Trump who had commissioned the world's largest superyacht 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0vPIo9eyY

ON THE FLIP SIDE:

Massive, crippling railway strike averted -- President Biden saves the day (again)

CONTINUED FROM ABOVE - SUCKERS!!

Donald Trump privately admitted he'd lost 2020 election while publicly claiming it had been stolen, book says

Trump and Bannon are partners in crime as they 'line their pockets' with their fans' money: historian

Trumpers losing life savings investing in Truth Social

Every single business Trump has managed has been driven into the ground:  Trump Steaks, Trump Airlines, Trump Vodka, Trump Network, Trump University, etc., etc. He somehow even bankrupted a freaking casino. So OF COURSE his social network is failing. 

It’s going down fast, yet not before his legion of tools decided to invest their life savings:  These people are giving money to help Trump even after they know it’s a grift, and continue to do so. It’s sad, but utterly fascinating to watch.

btw, I disagree with the author's last line above. Personally I think it's fkng HILARIOUS.
 

TRUTH TO POWER - POWER TO TRUTH

It’s Time to Call MAGA a National Security Threat

A short history of fake history: Why fighting for the truth is critical | Salon.com

Reuters Poll Finds 58% Americans Believe MAGA Movement Threatens Democracy - Second Nexus

TRUTH EVEN FROM REPUBLICANS:

Conservative analyst Charlie Sykes: 'The GOP is now run by your crazy uncle — and he's spreading mass psychosis'

Conservative columnist recognizes the weaponizing of Christianity in the GOP

'Pro-Putin Republicans' have become the GOP’s ‘new useful idiots’: former Reagan speechwriter - Alternet.org
 

I've read where there is now some speculation by political analysts, journalists, pundits and the like as to why Trump's recent ENDORSEMENT AND PROMOTION of OANON ****.  IMO there's nothing to speculate about.

His reasoning is precisely the same as his reasons for all his OTHER outright lies, fabrications, and deceptions: to sow DOUBT, DISCORD, DIVISION, CONFUSION, and CHAOS.

Because with that, the minds of the WILLFULLY IGNORANT are RIPE for whatever **** fantasies HE AND HIS MAGA ACCOMPLICES want to plant. ...FASCISM 101:

.Q-sign: "The confusion and lack of ideological rigor in Trumpism 'is part of fascism’s nature,'"   . 
THE RESISTANCE:

White House ‘United We Stand’ summit is a ‘first step’ to combat white extremist hate and violence
 
 

HITLER 2.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZHf7YSwl4Q

ON THE FLIP SIDE:

I just watched the Joe Biden 60 Minutes interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMsbpdFiO2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwUjAO8ZKMU

 

B.See » 25 Aug 2022, 8:22 pm » wrote: ↑

25 Aug 2022, 8:22 pm

North Carolina Republican: Children below 5th grade shouldn't be taught science or history in school

Lt. Gov Mark Robinson...

Would eliminate the North Carolina State Board of Education (apparently the local school districts should decide if science or the book of genesis should be taught in science class)
Would end the teaching of science and history in any public schools to children below the 5th grade level.
Would end women's reproductive rights in North Carolina
Would work to end military service for the transgendered
Who says, "Guess what? Most of the people of North Carolina know global warming is junk science."  
Who says, "Gay people are devil-worshipping child molesters."    

And just to tie this up in a neat little bow, we get this litany...
Transgender identity is a "mass delusion" designed "to turn God’s creation ... into a sickening image of rebellion to glorify Satan," that the Parkland school shooting activists are "silly little immature media prosti-tots," that Michelle Obama is secretly a man, that Muslims in America are "invaders," and that the film Black Panther is a Jewish plot to grift money off of Black people. 

Oh...and one last thing...this wanker is a **** hypocrite...While vehemently anti-abortion, he has also admitted that before their marriage he paid for his girlfriend's abortion.  "I was wrong when I did that." says Lt. Gov Robinson.  He says he was wrong, but is he glad he did it?  Of course he is.

The "prosti-tots" comment is apparently telling.  Mark Robinson is one of those self-hating black Republican conjobs, who as George Carlin used to say, fits..."If you're pre-born you're fine, if you're preschool you're ****."  

 
 

Biden: U.S Won't Walk Away From Storm-Struck Puerto Rico | HuffPost Latest News

Pelosi on 2024: Biden 'did a great service to our country — he defeated Donald Trump'

Joe Biden's Approval Rating Now as Good as Ronald Reagan's at Same Stage

meanwhile:

Massachusetts Democrat Goes Full Boston on Republicans’ Response to Trump Taking Documents: ‘Not a Word!’

THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE:

Voting for Republicans is voting against America — it’s really just that simple   EXCERPTS:

Trump and the GOP are endorsing Tucker Carlson’s “Great Replacement Theory” that argues, in most of its various iterations, that wealthy international Jews (“George Soros”) are collaborating with Black and Hispanic people to replace white people at all levels of society.

This has led to an explosion of antisemitic, anti-Black, and anti-Hispanic violence and the murder of numerous people, both Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Jewish, in venues from synagogues to supermarkets to churches.

These are the tools fascists and dictators use. Viktor Orbán used fear and hatred of Syrian refugees as a lever into political office, just as Hitler identified the “enemy within” as being Jews and immigrants to Germany.The abuse of desperate and fragile human beings in crisis is one of worst political crimes possible.

MEANWHILE:

Biden Gets Big Laughs Mocking GOP Vow to Restore Faith in Elections
 

 
 

It's still amazing to me to read a new article wherein someone has, of late, JUST aWOKEn to SMELL THE FKNG COFFEE!  Like, haven't they even been KEEPING up with current events??

'Donald Trump is more dangerous than ever': Conservative waves red flag after latest appearance - Raw Story

Trump Even 'More Dangerous' Than We Thought, Warns Rep. Adam Schiff | HuffPost Latest News  NO ****!!

ON THE FLIP SIDE:

Mary Trump on the 'Big Problems' if Donald Trump is Indicted: 'We'd Probably Run Out of Beer'

TRUTH!

Dan Crenshaw 'Sick of' MAGA Right's 'Rank Dishonesty' - "They don't write any actual legislation, they won't negotiate anything," "engage in rank dishonesty and conspiracy."

"If the first words out of their mouths are 'RINO' and 'establishment,' and 'globalist,' you can rest assured they are not very thoughtful, and they are probably about to lie to you," he said. "I mean, really, I'm just sick of it."

Crenshaw also rebuked these far-right lawmakers for being "incentivized by extra clicks" on social media and "engaging in rank dishonesty and conspiracy" to get attention.

"They don't write any actual legislation, they won't negotiate anything," Crenshaw said. "It's just fire and brimstone all of the time."  Italy’s Election: What it tells us about post-Trump Republicans.

ON THE PLUS SIDE:

Joe Biden Bypasses DeSantis, Calls Local Mayors About Hurricane Ian

'No White House participation whatsoever': Merrick Garland douses Team Trump's interference claims

Trump installed a historic number of judges. Biden is outpacing him so far.
 

TRUTH TO POWER - POWER TO TRUTH
.I adjusted the original headline for the first story below. From "saving America" to "TRYING to save America." America isn't saved YET. Not by a LONG SHOT:

From Letitia James To Stacey Abrams, Black Women Keep TRYING TO SAVE America From Itself 

We Can't Pray Away Christian Nationalism. We've Got to Vote it Out | Opinion

THE FASCIST CULT OF THE MAGAS:

Judge goes off on GOP leaders during Jan. 6 trial for being afraid to stand up to Trump - Raw Story 

"U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said ...Trump had turned his lies about the election into a litmus test for Republican candidates and that 'high-ranking members of Congress and state officials' are 'so afraid of losing their power' that they won’t contradict him."

"That fealty, she said, comes even as law enforcement and judges involved in cases related to the former president are facing unprecedented threats of violence."

IN RELATED NEWS:

'White grievance and straight-up racism' survey speaks volumes about MAGA attitudes: conservative

Bonkers study: Millions of MAGAS Would Use Force To Restore Trump To Power
 

REPUBLICANS CALLING THEM OUT:

GOP leaders, business groups reportedly spooked the GOP might force a debt crisis if GOP wins House

Former GOP lawmaker rips party for following 'basement dwellers' down election conspiracy rabbit hole - Raw Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZjLHi8x-c

MORE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS:

Desconstructing Karen: New Provocative Documentary Exposing White Women’s Role in White Supremacy

How the GOP weaponized ignorance — and how “smart people acting like dopes” stay in power | Salon.com

ON THE PLUS SIDE:

House Passes Veterans Food Security Act, No Thanks To Some Troops-Hating Republicans​ - Wonkette

AND:

In Last Days in Office Obama Privately Warned Reporters Trump Would Destroy America in 8 Years

I've got Obama beat. In another forum (back when) I predicted, even BEFORE that fat **** Trump slithered his way into the Oval Office, most EVERYTHING that's followed since.

I TOLD 'em so.
 
 

TRUTH:

'Conservative' now just means 'hates America' and CPAC made that brutally clear

MEANWHILE:

Oath Keepers' leader Stewart Rhodes says he can't be convicted of rioting on January 6 because he was only waiting for Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act - an order that never came

So, the argument is, that he and his domestic terrorists CAN'T be insurrectionists because their dear leader was supposed to use the Insurrection Act to "restore the peace and order" that HE and THEY CONSPIRED TO DISRUPT IN THEIR QUEST TO PULL OFF A POLITICAL COUP?

LIKE MUCH OF THEIR PLAN FOR AMERICA, THE REPUBLICAN HEALTHCARE PLAN WAS NO PLAN


  Democrats won the biggest policy battle of our time — why doesn't it feel that way? | Salon.com

TRUTH WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT:

Roger Stone is here to teach us a lesson — and it's one we should have learned years ago - When you give in to a bully HE BECOMES EMBOLDENED. | Salon.com

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