Elections; 2024
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What an absolute shitshow US politics has become
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What an absolute shitshow US politics has become
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Just wait until the AI bots start putting out all of the deepfake videos that people can't even tell aren't real... assuming that hasn't been going on already.
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Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals As 2024 Priority: As states across the country move to make sure students are well-fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back.
https://newrepublic.com/post/173668/republicans-declare-banning-univer
sal-free-school-meals-2024-priority
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Quote:Republicans Are Bringing Back Their Plan to Gut Social Security and Medicare
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What an absolute shitshow US politics has become
A new budget proposal for the 2024 fiscal year makes sweeping cuts.
https://hern.house.gov/uploadedfiles/202306141135_fy24_rsc_budget_prin
t_final_c.pdf
The proposed 2024 Republican budget includes efforts to:
• Cut Social Security and Medicare
• Make Trump’s tax cuts for the top 1 percent permanent
• Impose work requirements on “all federal benefit programs,” like food stamps and Medicare
• Extend work requirements on those aged 55-64
• Bring back all of Trump’s deregulations, including the weakening of environmental protection.
And that’s just a taste of their hopes and dreams. But don’t mistake it all as just wish-casting: “The RSC Budget is more than just a financial statement. It is a statement of priorities,” the party assures in the document.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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A woman in a hot-air balloon was lost, so she shouted to a man below, "Excuse me. I promised a friend I would meet him, but I don't know where I am.”
"You're at 31 degrees, 14.57 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude," he replied.
"You must be a Democrat,” the woman shouted back.
"I am. How did you know?" said the man.
"Because everything you told me is technically correct, but the information is useless, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've been no help,” the woman replied.
"You must be a Republican,” answered the man.
"Yes. How did you know?" she said.
“Because,” the man replied, “you’ve risen to where you are due to a lot of hot air, you made a promise you couldn't keep and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met but somehow now it’s my fault.”
https://twitter.com/rcdewinter/status/1669584953502253063
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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A woman in a hot-air balloon was lost, so she shouted to a man below, "Excuse me. I promised a friend I would meet him, but I don't know where I am.”
"You're at 31 degrees, 14.57 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude," he replied.
"You must be a Democrat,” the woman shouted back.
"I am. How did you know?" said the man.
"Because everything you told me is technically correct, but the information is useless, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've been no help,” the woman replied.
"You must be a Republican,” answered the man.
"Yes. How did you know?" she said.
“Because,” the man replied, “you’ve risen to where you are due to a lot of hot air, you made a promise you couldn't keep and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met but somehow now it’s my fault.”
https://twitter.com/rcdewinter/status/1669584953502253063
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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LOL @ pretending that Democrats know how to Math.
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The “anti-intellectual attack” on higher ed
Here’s what’s really behind the right-wing campaign.
Republican lawmakers around the country are moving quickly to remake higher education in their conservative vision. About 76 percent of conservative Republicans said colleges affect the country negatively. In red states, attacks from the state legislature and the governors are damaging higher education and its role as a public good.
https://www.vox.com/policy/23762357/republican-attack-higher-education
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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The “anti-intellectual attack” on higher ed
Here’s what’s really behind the right-wing campaign.
Republican lawmakers around the country are moving quickly to remake higher education in their conservative vision. About 76 percent of conservative Republicans said colleges affect the country negatively. In red states, attacks from the state legislature and the governors are damaging higher education and its role as a public good.
https://www.vox.com/policy/23762357/republican-attack-higher-education
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Higher education outside of STEM is little more than 4 or more extra years of Liberal indoctrination that start kids off with debt they'll never pay off and a lifetime of wage-slavery.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
The writers at Vox are great examples of this fact.
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Still hoping Trump wins the primary.
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Biden Baffles US Audience, Closing Speech With 'God Save The Queen'
I laughed out loud when I read this! Seems Biden* is even further from reality than his handlers.
This poor, senile man should be allowed privacy as he declines, not propped up behind a microphone and required to speak. Yanno, put him in a fancy-looking office, have him dress up for 'work' every day, have attendants call him 'Mr President' and ask his opinion on world matters just so he feels like he's still in charge, and pay no attention to him outside of that.
I can't imagine how the DNC imagines that he can run for President. They've already nixed debates, I'm sure they'll limit RFK's social media exposure, they're doing their best to jail Trump, jigger the polls, and they might even have boxes of absentee ballots already printed up but MOST people know he's not fit for office. If Biden* 'wins', you'll see widespread disbelief at best and outright rebellion at worst.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Press Secretary Olivia Alair Dalton said Biden's remark was directed at someone in the audience. Dalton said Biden was unable to do a full rope line, where he usually interacts with audience members in close spaces, because he needed to leave as a storm approached.
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Pro-Trump Pastor Suggests Christians Should Be Suicide Bombers For Trump
A Christian pastor who supports Donald Trump recently delivered a sermon urging Christians to strengthen their passion and suggested they should be willing to die for their faith.
Regeneration Nashville pastor Kent Christmas has often spoken favorably of Trump, who is running his third presidential campaign and is the clear front-runner among a crowded field of GOP candidates. In last Sunday's sermon at his Pentecostal church in Tennessee, Christmas said the Muslim faith has become so successful because its followers are "willing to die for their beliefs."
The video was first reported by watchdog group Right Wing Watch, which tweeted the clip on Tuesday.
In it, Christmas is seen preaching vehemently as he paces the stage.
"You want to know why the Muslim faith has had its advancements? It's because the Muslims were willing to die for their beliefs. They were willing to strap bombs to their chest," he said.
Christmas then asked God to give the Christian faith some men and women with passion in their spirit who are willing to "lay down [their] life for the Gospel."
Newsweek reached out to Regeneration Nashville by email for comment.
Pro-Trump pastors have delivered thunderous sermons for years, often following the former president's rhetoric and preaching that the nation has been seized by "witchcraft." Trump often asserts on his Truth Social platform that the federal government is conducting a witch hunt against him, particularly after the Justice Department launched investigations into his handling of classified documents and his actions leading up to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The first case recently brought an indictment that charges Trump with 37 felony counts. He is accused of mishandling sensitive presidential records by taking them after leaving office and then obstructing the government's efforts to get them back. Trump is the first former president to face federal charges, which he pleaded not guilty to during his arraignment this week.
Recently, Christmas doubled down on a purported prophecy that he said showed Trump is the rightful president despite President Joe Biden's election victory in 2020.
"In the eyes of God, the president of the United States right now in the courts of justice in Heaven is not Joe Biden but it's Donald Trump," Christmas said in a May 15 clip on Twitter shared by Right Wing Watch.
Michael Ferguson, a political strategist with PoliticalVIP, told Newsweek that Christian leaders may support Trump because they admire what the former president has accomplished, such as attracting major crowds and his ability to inspire his supporters.
"He created a movement back in 2015 and 2016 which has essentially stayed with him to this day, and his strongest supporters have been very loyal to Trump regardless of positive or negative events connected to him," Ferguson said. "Politically, Trump has been quite supportive of the Christian right, and so this certainly adds to why some Christian leaders may be attracted to helping him succeed."
Ferguson added that other GOP presidential candidates may be more aligned with Republican Christian voters, such as Mike Pence, but the former vice president "lacks the appeal and firebrand that Trump has."
"For some pastors, they may see in Trump what they hope they could be for their faith and feel partnering with him could prove to be most beneficial for them," Ferguson said.
Right Wing Watch's report about last Sunday's sermon said that Christmas was infuriated over what he falsely said was legislation approved in Vermont that makes it legal to "kill a baby" up to 21 days after a full-term birth.
"I am at war with evil," Christmas said in his sermon. "This is one preacher that is not backing down. I can tell you this: I will give my life for the Gospel."
He then asked God to provide
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Quote:Yeah? Who? And why?
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Press Secretary Olivia Alair Dalton said Biden's remark was directed at someone in the audience.
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Dalton said Biden was unable to do a full rope line, where he usually interacts with audience members in close spaces, because he needed to leave as a storm approached.
Yeah, right. Must have been someone as out of touch with reality as he is. THE QUEEN IS DEAD. Or haven't they heard?
/snicker
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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SECOND, with one of his usual exaggerated out of context quotes, which he spins into an entire fairy tale.
Here's a couple of tips for you, SECOND:
The person that you (mis)quote IS NOT TRUMP. Insinuating that Trump believes as this person (you claim) believes is as ridiculous as you misquoting some random Russian and attributing it to Putin.
Like most of your other quotes, you put words in someone's mouth that they never said, and attribute thoughts to them that aren't there. Your mind-reading skills? Non-existent.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Still hoping Trump wins the primary.
Don't worry about it, Ted. He will without even trying.
The he's going to destroy Biden*.
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Quote:Trump said “I Am the Only One”: Trump’s Messianic 2024 Message
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SECOND, with one of his usual exaggerated out of context quotes, which he spins into an entire fairy tale.
Here's a couple of tips for you, SECOND:
The person that you (mis)quote IS NOT TRUMP. Insinuating that Trump believes as this person (you claim) believes is as ridiculous as you misquoting some random Russian and attributing it to Putin.
Like most of your other quotes, you put words in someone's mouth that they never said, and attribute thoughts to them that aren't there. Your mind-reading skills? Non-existent.
The master of fear and anger takes another dark political turn.
By Susan B. Glasser, June 15, 2023
The Republican political consultant Richard Berman is something of a legend, often credited with taking the art of negative campaigning on behalf of undisclosed corporate clients to the next level. When “60 Minutes” did a profile of him, in 2007, he was portrayed as the “Dr. Evil” of the Washington influence game. More than a decade later, when I visited his office in downtown D.C., he still had a tongue-in-cheek “Dr. Evil” nameplate on his desk. (“If they call you Mr. Nice Guy, would that be better?” he asked me. “I don’t think so.”) Berman devised an acronym to capture his firm’s aggressive approach to politics: flags — fear, love, anger, greed, and sympathy. Of those, he believed, anger and fear were undoubtedly the most effective.
I’ve often thought of Berman’s formula while watching the descending spiral of American politics in the past few years. It’s not all that complicated, unfortunately: fear and anger, peddled by a skilled demagogue like Donald Trump, have captivated a large segment of the Republican electorate. Other politicians, recognizing Trump’s appeal, also increasingly eschew love, sympathy, and even greed in favor of this simpler and more straightforward approach. The 2024 G.O.P. primary is shaping up as a veritable stew of hatreds, with the candidates raising alarms about everyone from scary trans activists to marauding migrants and “woke” radical-left Communists.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20230616162053/https://www.newyorker.com/n
ews/letter-from-bidens-washington/i-am-the-only-one-trumps-messianic-2024-message
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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the DNC and its whores, which brought us the completely fictitious TRUMP!RUSSIA!COLLUSION! the covid BEAFRAID!BEVERYAFRIAD! long-term lockdowns and mandatory jabs, WHITESUPREMACY!NAZI!TRUMP! and INSURRECTION! and the current RUSSIA!PUTIN!EVIL! and (soon to be) CHINA!CHINA!CHINA! ... they have the gall to object to fear-mongering?
Trump, if you recall, had a positive message - make America great again. The DNC has no such positive message bc all they seem to be able to do is fuck up America even more than before.
I say, make America great again.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Yeah? Who? And why?
Originally posted by THG:
Press Secretary Olivia Alair Dalton said Biden's remark was directed at someone in the audience.Quote:
Dalton said Biden was unable to do a full rope line, where he usually interacts with audience members in close spaces, because he needed to leave as a storm approached.
Yeah, right. Must have been someone as out of touch with reality as he is. THE QUEEN IS DEAD. Or haven't they heard?
/snicker
You're funny comrade. Hey, have you heard?
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Quote:Entire books could be written about you, Signym, starting with your deliberate misquoting of Henry Kissinger. Signym, you get everything inside out and backwards, but you won't stop: https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/it_may_be_dan
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
the DNC and its whores, which brought us the completely fictitious TRUMP!RUSSIA!COLLUSION! the covid BEAFRAID!BEVERYAFRIAD! long-term lockdowns and mandatory jabs, WHITESUPREMACY!NAZI!TRUMP! and INSURRECTION! and the current RUSSIA!PUTIN!EVIL! and (soon to be) CHINA!CHINA!CHINA! ... they have the gall to object to fear-mongering?
Trump, if you recall, had a positive message - make America great again. The DNC has no such positive message bc all they seem to be able to do is fuck up America even more than before.
I say, make America great again.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
gerous_to_be_americas_enemy_but_to_be_americas_friend_is_fatal
Despite what Trump says, America has always been great so it doesn't need to be made great, again. But America does have millions of extraordinarily bad people, who have an antipathy to being great. One historic example was the millions of traitors/slave-owners who formed the Confederate States of America. Those murdering, raping, lying, slave-owning Confederates insisted they were the very flower of American excellence. They were wrong and were forced into poverty after the Civil War because they were evil people. They deserved far worse punishment, but they didn't get it because slave-owning President Andrew Johnson pardoned them. These murderers had a hero, General Robert E Lee, who just so happens to have two schools with his name in the town I live, Baytown Texas. The Trump voters in Baytown do not see what is evil about naming schools after a mass-murderer/traitor/slave-owner, which is why it is completely unsurprising when these defective people, these Trump voters, do NOT prosper in America. They don't deserve to prosper. Think of drunk 6ix. He didn't prosper and every sorry thing that happened to him was just deserts. Think of the Trumptards that cheat and end up divorced and going bankrupt. Think of Trump. He is getting the punishment that he deserves because he is even more rotten than 6ix. For people who are rotten inside, be they Confederates or Trumptards, getting the shit kicked out them by decent Americans is just deserts.
Signym, Russia did interfere in the 2016 election. Signym, stop spreading nonsense about Trump/Russia/Collusion. Russia put Trump in the White House with the help of the rotten Americans who name schools after General Robert E Lee and see nothing wrong with doing that or with Russia interfering with American elections.
Trump explains why he was treated worse than Abraham Lincoln — who was assassinated
For the second weekend in a row, Fox host Mark Levin continued showing videos of his conversation with Donald Trump. Among the things Trump thought the Fox audience needed to know is that he was treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was killed before leaving office.
Trump began by saying that former President Andrew Jackson was treated very badly after he broke previous treaties, stole land, and forced the march of Native Americans to "Indian Territory." That land was then taken from the Native tribes and became known as Oklahoma.
"Abraham Lincoln, they say, was, you know, he had a civil war going on," Trump educated Levin. "But Abraham Lincoln was just vilified. But now they say Trump got treated the worst of all."
He never explained who "they" were.
"Because what they did was come up with phony stuff. Russia, Russia, Russia. It was all hoaxes. The Mueller witch hunt, which turned out to be 'no collusion.'"
That isn't what Mueller found. He never looked into Trump's potential collusion with Russia. What he did document were
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Jan. 6 Firebrand Turns On Trump: ‘Dishonest, Disloyal, Incompetent, Crude’
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), a onetime loyalist to Donald Trump who spoke at the infamous Jan. 6 rally that led to the assault on the U.S. Capitol, trashed the former president in a new interview.
“It would be a bad mistake for the Republicans to have Donald Trump as their nominee in 2024,” Brooks told AL.com amid reports Trump will declare his candidacy on Tuesday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jan-6-firebrand-turns-on-trump
-dishonest-disloyal-incompetent-crude/ar-AA144HlF?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=0cdd53f93b4f4a37bd2e49fa003adbe8
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A troll who shall go nameless keeps suggesting anybody who doesn’t like Trump will be crying into their soup in 2024. He said this same thing going into the 2018 and 2020 elections. Again, more recently 2022. He's been saying it for the past four years.
Just wait you'll see he says again and again and again. How funny is this shit? Too funny...
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Your guy won through en-masse mail in ballot fraud and ballot harvesting.
Look at everything that's happened here and worldwide since, Ted.
I'm the one doing the laughing here. Not you.
Woke is dying. The people have finally come out of their slumber and are shutting down Leftist indoctrination on every level. This never would have happened if Joe* didn't win* the 2020 election and wreck the world economy.
A great current example: It's June 18th, and I haven't heard People of the Pride by Coldplay a single time yet, when it was INESCAPABLE on every radio station every hour last year for the entire month of June.
The difference between you and I Ted, besides the 80 or so IQ points in my favor is that I'm enjoying life either way. All you did for 4 fucking years is complain about everything, and 2.5 years after your guy won you still complain about everything and jerk off to the idea of Trump going to jail.
Meanwhile, find one single thread where I complain that Hillary should be thrown in jail still. I'm sure that I've said it a few times here or there as a throwaway comment, but you post about it a dozen times a day because you're a fucking lunatic who made his politics his entire existence. You are sick in the head.
And sure... Joe* and his son should be in jail too, but I know how the game is rigged and the entire apparatus is behind the Biden* family and it will never happen, so I don't cry about it every day or make tick tock threads to nowhere and bitch and moan because I'm not a little fucking baby like you are.
Grow up son. Shake the sand out of your vagina.
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ROBERT COSTA: Would he put the country at risk if he was in the White House again?
FMR. ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR: He will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest, there’s no question about it. This is a perfect example of that. He’s like, you know, he’s like a nine year old, defiant nine year old kid who’s always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it. It’s a means of self assertion and exerting his dominance over other people. And he’s a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country’s, his personal gratification of his, you know, his ego, but our country- our country can’t, you know, can’t be a therapy session for you know, a troubled man like this.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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I guess chronic lying, fat sack of shit Billy Barr isn't part of the 1.8 pts worth of people voting for Trump in the general election over Biden* in the polling aggregate, huh?
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Republican loyalty to Trump veers into “authoritarian bargain”
To the surprise of no one, Trump’s second federal indictment reinforced Republican loyalty to the now twice indicted, twice impeached former president.
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We are the ones speaking truth to power.
You're sucking on its teat.
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What Is Fascism?
A century of attempts to define and whitewash Fascism
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Dec 7, 2022
Are you confused about the meaning of Fascism? If so, you're not alone. Benito Mussolini, the creator of Fascism, famously did not define it until 1932. With Nazis once again making news in America and a neo-Fascist as Italian head of state, I thought it was a good time to offer you an excerpt of an essay I wrote for a German publication on how the meaning of Fascism has changed over a century. I hope you find it useful.
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“Everyone is sure they know what Fascism is,” writes Robert Paxton in his 2004 work The Anatomy of Fascism. Paxton gives perhaps the most comprehensive definition I have found, collapsing into one very long sentence many traits of Fascism:
“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
The Jan. 6 coup attempt changed Paxton's mind about whether Donald Trump and Trumpism can be called Fascist. That brought Paxton into line with scholars such as Jason Stanley, who deems Fascism “a political method” that can appear anytime, anywhere, if conditions are right. This line of thought risks emptying the term of its historical specificity but is essential for understanding our new authoritarian age and the risks we face in America today.
Trump has long kept the Fascist flame burning in America. He started his 2016 campaign by retweeting a racist meme from the Nazi outlet The Daily Stormer (the publication of Andrew Anglin, whose Twitter account has just been restored by Elon Musk).
Trump brought Mussolini admirer and far-right operative Steve Bannon into the White House to launch his own “revolution of reaction.” In 2017 his administration gave Holocaust deniers a big gift: a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that made no mention of Jews.
The GOP politicians who now feign outrage at Trump's association with Nazis such as Nick Fuentes had no problem with his mainstreaming of extremism, perhaps because some of them are extremists themselves (Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene have appeared with Fuentes).
It’s time to accept that the GOP, which was complicit with Trump's Jan. 6 attempted authoritarian takeover, has become a party that furthers Fascist values and practices. That means the hate crimes that have skyrocketed in America since 2016 will likely continue to expand.
However we define Fascism, remembering that its essence is violence is more important than ever.
More at https://lucid.substack.com/p/what-is-fascism
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Donald Trump, who claimed to only hire the best people, was thoroughly asked why so many key players of his administration do not want him to be president again.
• Donald Trump appeared on Fox News with anchor Bret Baier on Monday.
• Baier reminded Trump he said he was going to hire the "best" people to his administration in 2016.
• He then pointed out much of Trump's former administration doesn't support his 2024 White House bid.
Baier then pointed out to the former president that many of those "best and most serious people" no longer support him:
This time, your Vice President Mike Pence is running against you. Your ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, she's running against you. Your former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said he's not supporting you.
You mentioned National Security Adviser John Bolton. He's not supporting you either. You mentioned Attorney General Bill Barr. Says you shouldn't be president again. Calls you 'the consummate narcissist' and 'troubled man.' You recently called Barr a 'gutless pig.'"
Your second defense secretary is not supporting you. Called you irresponsible. This week, you called your White House Chief of Staff John Kelly 'weak and ineffective' and 'born with a very small brain.' You called your acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney a 'born loser.' You called your first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, 'dumb as a rock,' and your first Defense Secretary, James Mattis, 'the world's most overrated general.' You called your White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany 'milquetoast.'
And multiple times, you've referred to your Transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, as 'Mitch McConnell's China-loving wife.'
"So, why did you hire all of them in the first place?" Baier asked.
Trump responded by pointing to unnamed people who were "phenomenal" for the economy in his administration.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-who-claimed-to-on
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Video of Trump on FOX News:
Trump: First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot
Baier: You lost the 2020 election
Trump: They were counting ballots, not the authenticity of the ballot. The ballots were fake ballots.
5:32 PM · Jun 19, 2023 https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1670922502510452738
The exchange was particularly notable after Fox News in April settled a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems, which accused the network of promoting unfounded claims that ballots cast through their voting machines were "flipped" from Trump to President Joe Biden while privately acknowledging those claims were untrue.
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If either party can claim both the White House and Congress in next fall’s elections, there’s a huge prize for the taking: Unchecked power to reshape taxes for millions of Americans.
Much of the GOP’s sweeping Trump-era tax breaks are set to expire in 2025, which will almost certainly push Congress to act on their future. So the 2024 campaign will determine whether Republicans can keep the cuts, Democrats can rewrite them — or, if neither party gets a clean sweep, whether a split government prompts a massive fiscal collision.
The ability to mold the country’s tax structure may not ever become the primary focus of the presidential campaign or the battle for Congress. Yet both Democrats and Republicans are actively strategizing over how to handle the very real consequences of the tax cliff.
First, though, one party has to try to win it all.
”Anything at this point would be a wish list. Because it depends on what happens in 2024. It’s huge stakes,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). “You almost have to win all three branches: House, Senate and presidency.”
Both the House and Senate could remain closely divided in two years, but remaking tax policy can happen with simple majority votes thanks to congressional budget rules. That’s how a 50-50 Democratic Senate managed to impose a new corporate minimum tax last year, and how a 52-48 GOP Senate passed 2017’s massive tax law. It’s enough to raise the stakes of every single congressional campaign next year, because one or two House or Senate seats could make the difference between tax gridlock or one party rewriting the entire code.
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A woman in a hot-air balloon was lost, so she shouted to a man below, "Excuse me. I promised a friend I would meet him, but I don't know where I am.”
"You're at 31 degrees, 14.57 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude," he replied.
"You must be a Democrat,” the woman shouted back.
"I am. How did you know?" said the man.
"Because everything you told me is technically correct, but the information is useless, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've been no help,” the woman replied.
"You must be a Republican,” answered the man.
"Yes. How did you know?" she said.
“Because,” the man replied, “you’ve risen to where you are due to a lot of hot air, you made a promise you couldn't keep and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met but somehow now it’s my fault.”
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Yep, she is a victim. What goes wrong in her life is always someone else's fault. Sounds like Trump. Sounds like Jack.
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Yep, she is a victim. What goes wrong in her life is always someone else's fault. Sounds like Trump. Sounds like Jack.
Explain how. I want specific details justifying your statement that I come off as a victim.
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Quote:There is an essay on what Fascism is.
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The people who have good things to say about Trump or Russia are aligned with what Fascists are.
“Everyone is sure they know what Fascism is,” writes Robert Paxton in his 2004 work The Anatomy of Fascism. Paxton gives perhaps the most comprehensive definition I have found, collapsing into one very long sentence many traits of Fascism:
“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
The Jan. 6 coup attempt changed Paxton's mind about whether Donald Trump and Trumpism can be called Fascist. That brought Paxton into line with scholars such as Jason Stanley, who deems Fascism “a political method” that can appear anytime, anywhere, if conditions are right. This line of thought risks emptying the term of its historical specificity but is essential for understanding our new authoritarian age and the risks we face in America today.
https://lucid.substack.com/p/what-is-fascism
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Quote:There is an essay on what Fascism is.
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Originally posted by THG:
Yep, she is a victim. What goes wrong in her life is always someone else's fault. Sounds like Trump. Sounds like Jack.
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The people who have good things to say about Trump or Russia are aligned with what Fascists are.
“Everyone is sure they know what Fascism is,” writes Robert Paxton in his 2004 work The Anatomy of Fascism. Paxton gives perhaps the most comprehensive definition I have found, collapsing into one very long sentence many traits of Fascism:
“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
The Jan. 6 coup attempt changed Paxton's mind about whether Donald Trump and Trumpism can be called Fascist. That brought Paxton into line with scholars such as Jason Stanley, who deems Fascism “a political method” that can appear anytime, anywhere, if conditions are right. This line of thought risks emptying the term of its historical specificity but is essential for understanding our new authoritarian age and the risks we face in America today.
https://lucid.substack.com/p/what-is-fascism
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OK, Fascist.
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Trump is now up 2.4 points over Biden in the General Election polling aggregate.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-ele
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Quote:Good. Independent voters will slowly realize Trump ran his mouth like the defective person he is.
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Trump is now up 2.4 points over Biden in the General Election polling aggregate.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-ele
ction-trump-vs-biden-7383.html
Trump’s Fox News interview was a defense attorney’s nightmare
In a tense Fox News interview on Monday, Trump’s statements reinforce the charges against him.
Trump clashed repeatedly with Baier on other subjects, as he was pressed regarding falsehoods about the 2020 election results and critiques from members of his former administration. Below are four takeaways from their contentious conversation.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/6/20/23767291/trump-bret-baier-fox-n
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Why it is best to be educated.
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Trump is now up 2.4 points over Biden in the General Election polling aggregate.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-ele
ction-trump-vs-biden-7383.html
Let's just be honest here and admit that the independent voters are not siding with the guy that made everything they buy a hell of a lot more expensive than before he was in office.
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Yep, she is a victim. What goes wrong in her life is always someone else's fault. Sounds like Trump. Sounds like Jack.
Explain how. I want specific details justifying your statement that I come off as a victim.
Still waiting, pussy.
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis... You think it’s because he’s some kind of investing genius? Or do you think it’s because he was sitting next to the POTUS for 4 years doing favors for the Saudis?
Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, a close ally during the Trump administration, despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal.
A panel that screens investments for the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund cited concerns about the proposed deal with Mr. Kushner’s newly formed private equity firm, Affinity Partners, previously undisclosed documents show.
Those objections included: “the inexperience of the Affinity Fund management”; the possibility that the kingdom would be responsible for “the bulk of the investment and risk”; due diligence on the fledgling firm’s operations that found them “unsatisfactory in all aspects”; a proposed asset management fee that “seems excessive”; and “public relations risks” from Mr. Kushner’s prior role as a senior adviser to his father-in-law, former President Donald J. Trump, according to minutes of the panel’s meeting last June 30.
But days later the full board of the $620 billion Public Investment Fund — led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler and a beneficiary of Mr. Kushner’s support when he worked as a White House adviser — overruled the panel.
Ethics experts say that such a deal creates the appearance of potential payback for Mr. Kushner’s actions in the White House — or of a bid for future favor if Mr. Trump seeks and wins another presidential term in 2024.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-f
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis... You think it’s because he’s some kind of investing genius? Or do you think it’s because he was sitting next to the POTUS for 4 years doing favors for the Saudis?
Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, a close ally during the Trump administration, despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal.
A panel that screens investments for the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund cited concerns about the proposed deal with Mr. Kushner’s newly formed private equity firm, Affinity Partners, previously undisclosed documents show.
Those objections included: “the inexperience of the Affinity Fund management”; the possibility that the kingdom would be responsible for “the bulk of the investment and risk”; due diligence on the fledgling firm’s operations that found them “unsatisfactory in all aspects”; a proposed asset management fee that “seems excessive”; and “public relations risks” from Mr. Kushner’s prior role as a senior adviser to his father-in-law, former President Donald J. Trump, according to minutes of the panel’s meeting last June 30.
But days later the full board of the $620 billion Public Investment Fund — led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler and a beneficiary of Mr. Kushner’s support when he worked as a White House adviser — overruled the panel.
Ethics experts say that such a deal creates the appearance of potential payback for Mr. Kushner’s actions in the White House — or of a bid for future favor if Mr. Trump seeks and wins another presidential term in 2024.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-f
und.html
When you realize Jared had 0 experience at running an investment firm, which is the reason the Saudis claimed to have given him the money, to invest on their behalf, the question as to why they actually gave him the money answers itself. It is still possible that if this is not currently being investigated, it will be.
Fingers crossed...
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To get back to the topic of this thread, the coming elections 2024, I’ll post an opinion.
Do not underestimate the effect that overturning Roe v. Wade is going to have on the elections. I heard this morning the democrats believe this will gain them 3 senate seats. The horror stories of women being denied health care while pregnant are piling up. And for the next year, every time women get together, they will be talking about this. Every time they speak on the phone, they will be talking about this. Every time they go on the internet, turn on the news or radio in their cars, they will hear about this.
They will be making sure the men in their lives get an earful. And remember, men are starting to wake up to the fact, no abortion, then 18 years of childcare payments are in their future.
Guns too, are showing up in conversations had by women. What's the point republicans?
Tick tock
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This YouTuber’s video essay did a great job of contextualizing anti-abortion and the current transgender political focus in the larger history of the religious right in American politics. The whole video is 25 minutes long, but it is a great primer for understanding this aspect of Election 2024.
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mash corporal klinger was supposed to be a comedy not a Documentary?
Lawmakers demand answers about Space Force general’s LGBT-QRSTUVWXY+ + speech
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To get back to the topic of this thread, the coming elections 2024, I’ll post an opinion.
Do not underestimate the effect that overturning Roe v. Wade is going to have on the elections. I heard this morning the democrats believe this will gain them 3 senate seats. The horror stories of women being denied health care while pregnant are piling up. And for the next year, every time women get together, they will be talking about this. Every time they speak on the phone, they will be talking about this. Every time they go on the internet, turn on the news or radio in their cars, they will hear about this.
They will be making sure the men in their lives get an earful. And remember, men are starting to wake up to the fact, no abortion, then 18 years of childcare payments are in their future.
Guns too, are showing up in conversations had by women. What's the point republicans?
Tick tock
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You'd be surprised, Theodore.
A lot of women, believe it or not, aren't on board with en masse murdering of babies.
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Quote:If you elect Trump, you will get a national ban on abortion. No state will have legal abortion, no matter what the majority of that state wants. Such a Federal law would be upheld as Constitutional by the Republican-controlled Supreme Court.
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You'd be surprised, Theodore.
A lot of women, believe it or not, aren't on board with en masse murdering of babies.
Donald Trump marked the one-year anniversary of the end of Roe v. Wade by adopting new language and endorsing the idea of national abortion restrictions.
Trump, who has previously discussed abortion as more of a state issue, told the cheering members of the Faith and Freedom Coalition "I will fight for you like no president ever" on the abortion issue.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/24/donald-trump-n
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Why stop with banning abortion? Ban Disney. Make it a Federal law that climate change is a hoax. Declare war on Ukraine if it refuses to surrender to Putin. Trump said he could end that war in one day and that's the fastest way to do it.
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Trump says Democrats are "executing babies after birth" in one of his wildest speeches
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Trump's “FINAL BATTLE”
The ranting about “communism” from Trump and the right is unsettlingly familiar.
In 1945, Dönitz (Hitler's political successor) sounded exactly the same as the leaders of the Republican Party today. Here’s what Trump recently said again:
“At the end of the day, either the Communists destroy America, or we destroy the Communists.” (Trump is calling Democrats Communists)
And here are more of Dönitz’s words:
“It is my first task to save the German people from destruction by the Bolsheviks.”
It’s tough to know how exactly to feel about this. It may be the case that ultra-right wing political rhetoric always reaches this destination, but only occasionally explodes in a farrago of mass murder.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230625122133/https://theintercept.com/20
23/06/25/trump-communism-red-scare/
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Where have you been. This extreme has actually happened. It's the reason you lost Roe v Wade in the first place.
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Quote:Trumptards' "reality" is fake all the way. But then that is expected since Trumptards want and need to be fooled:
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Trump says Democrats are "executing babies after birth" in one of his wildest speeches
Where have you been. This extreme has actually happened. It's the reason you lost Roe v Wade in the first place.
The Con Artists Who Blame Ukraine Aid for America’s Social Problems
RFK Jr., Glenn Greenwald, and other Putin apologists are making disingenuous, pseudo-populist arguments against U.S. support for Ukraine.
A scene of squalor unfolds as the camera moves along a city street lined with apparent drug addicts to the soundtrack of Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.” A caption reads, “While American citizens live on the streets and take drugs not to feel the pain, the United States would rather finance a proxy war against Russia,” while a bar graph says the U.S. has sent $46.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
The video, on TikTok, is but one of the countless posts across social media that convey the same underlying message: By helping Ukraine defend itself from bloody subjugation by Russia, the U.S. is depriving its own citizens of critical aid. This pernicious narrative has spread in part thanks to fringe yet popular media and political figures who already had a history of littering the discourse with Kremlinesque talking points, and who now have weaponized and monetized the perception that the U.S. has been too generous to Ukraine and too stingy to its own people.
More at https://newrepublic.com/article/173902/ukraine-war-cost-russian-propag
anda-rfk-jr-greenwald
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Where have you been. This extreme has actually happened. It's the reason you lost Roe v Wade in the first place.
Invalid reply to the argument.
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The GOP Is Scrambled On Its Anti-Abortion Message
The right to abortion is only getting more popular among voters. The GOP candidates are only getting more extreme.
It was clear which candidate was being pressed to further specify his position on federal abortion legislation.
It’s Donald Trump. And to be blunt, it is hard to believe that Trump, on a personal level, gives a shit about abortion. (We’ll leave it to others to speculate about his personal history with the practice.)
And yet the former president has had a successful transactional relationship with the religious right. He nominated loads of judicial candidates, up to and through the Supreme Court, who’ve spent every waking moment of their lives dreaming of ending legal abortion. These judicial picks delivered the religious right the win that had been its central policy goal for 50 years: The overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the elimination of a constitutional right to an abortion.
Trump, of course, loves to take credit for delivering that victory.
“No president has ever fought for Christians as hard as I have,” Trump said in his own speech at the conference. “I got it done, and nobody thought it was even a possibility.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/abortion-trump-desantis-pe
nce-political-stances.html
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Supreme Court strikes down chaos in election rules
The Supreme Court has backed away from madness:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the theory that state legislatures have almost unlimited power to decide the rules for federal elections and draw partisan congressional maps without interference from state courts.
....The “independent state legislature theory” holds that the U.S. Constitution gives that power to lawmakers even if it results in extreme partisan voting maps for congressional seats and violates voter protections enshrined in state constitutions.
The vote was 6-3, which is closer than it should have been for this wacky idea, but at least it went down in flames. The whole thing was based on a shiny new conservative theory that when the Constitution says election rules shall be "prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof," then by God that's exactly what it means: the legislature and nothing but the legislature. Governors can't veto election laws and courts can't overturn them, as they can for all normal laws. The Founders meant this by deliberately omitting "legislature and laws thereof," or some such, from the Elections Clause.
It was ridiculous from the start, but it's been gaining steam in right-wing circles ever since Florida courts intervened in Bush v. Gore two decades ago.
If today's Court had gone along, it would have meant, for example, that the Florida Republican legislature could have unilaterally decided the 2000 election. It would mean North Carolina could enact its most egregious gerrymandering fantasies with no judicial review. It would mean absolute authority to set rules for things like voter ID laws and absentee voting no matter how ridiculous or racially tinged.
So we dodged a bullet and 6 justices on the Supreme Court demonstrated some common sense and respect for 200 years of freely accepted precedent. But 3 justices went bonkers -- stark raving mad. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1271_3f14.pdf Starting on page 39, Justice Thomas proves he is an idiot with a large vocabulary, using the word "moot" over and over to persuade readers that the other 6 justices are wrong, wrong, wrong.
https://jabberwocking.com/supreme-court-strikes-down-chaos-in-election
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Jack Smith has email from top Trump aide calling stolen election claims 'BS'
Even Donald Trump’s inner circle didn’t buy the former president's claims that the 2020 election was rigged, according to a mountain of evidence built by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith.
Emails and interviews gathered from multiple members of Trump’s team suggest that many knew the election fraud claims were a lie even as they pushed them, a Washington Post report on Smith's investigation into efforts to overturn President Joe Biden's election revealed.
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Even Donald Trump’s inner circle didn’t buy the former president's claims that the 2020 election was rigged, according to a mountain of evidence built by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith.
Emails and interviews gathered from multiple members of Trump’s team suggest that many knew the election fraud claims were a lie even as they pushed them, a Washington Post report on Smith's investigation into efforts to overturn President Joe Biden's election revealed.
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It was rigged through en masse unsolicited mail in fraud ballots and ballot harvesting in blue and swing states.
You didn't close that loophole like I told you that you should have.
Republicans and Trump have now embraced it and are going to cheat better than you ever could.
Should have been on the right side of history and agreed with me when you had a chance, Ted.
I'm now looking forward to you spending 2025 whining about how unfair the elections of 2024 were.
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Quote:Love your attitude about Trump's potential cheating, 6ix. How do you feel about Trump's potential incest?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Republicans and Trump have now embraced it and are going to cheat better than you ever could.
Wed, Jun 28, 2023
Exclusive: Trump Made Shocking Comments About Ivanka, Says Ex-Staffer
"Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her," a new book by Miles Taylor says.
By Khaleda Rahman | Senior News Reporter
Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, describes several incidents that made women in the Trump administration uncomfortable in his upcoming book 'Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump', an extract of which was obtained exclusively by Newsweek.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ivanka-naked-sexism-miles-taylor
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Once Trump is President, nothing can stop him from living out his sexual fantasy . . . A Vote For Trump Is A Vote To Live Shamelessly . . . And You Will Never Pay Taxes Again! (the other Trump fantasy)
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Love your attitude about Trump's potential cheating, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Republicans and Trump have now embraced it and are going to cheat better than you ever could.
Yeah. He's going to cheat. Just like I've been saying for years that he was going to if Democrats didn't close up the cheating apparatus that they opened up for Covid. It's the only reason that Trump lost in 2020, and it's the only reason that Democrats did as well as they did in 2022.
You'll notice that none of the Republicans or Trump are calling to close them down anymore. Just like I told you they would when I was asking you two idiots who you think is going to actually be better at cheating once Republicans and Trump stopped fighting them and embraced them. Democrats legalized cheating in many blue and swing states.
Don't pretend like this is the first time I've talked about this. I have long walls of collections of dated posts where I was talking about this.
And I don't want to hear either of you bitching about it when it comes full circle and bites you in the ass either. Not one fucking word out of either of you.
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How do you feel about Trump's potential incest?
The key word is Potential. The key element is the source.
Just throw that dumb shit on top of the pile of dumb shit you lunatics obsess over every day while your current Administration flushes America down the toilet.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Love your attitude about Trump's potential cheating, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Republicans and Trump have now embraced it and are going to cheat better than you ever could.
Yeah. He's going to cheat. Just like I've been saying for years that he was going to if Democrats didn't close up the cheating apparatus that they opened up for Covid. It's the only reason that Trump lost in 2020, and it's the only reason that Democrats did as well as they did in 2022.
You'll notice that none of the Republicans or Trump are calling to close them down anymore. Just like I told you they would when I was asking you two idiots who you think is going to actually be better at cheating once Republicans and Trump stopped fighting them and embraced them. Democrats legalized cheating in many blue and swing states.
Don't pretend like this is the first time I've talked about this. I have long walls of collections of dated posts where I was talking about this.
And I don't want to hear either of you bitching about it when it comes full circle and bites you in the ass either. Not one fucking word out of either of you.
Here you go...
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November 14th, 2022 (From the Mid-Term Elections 2022 thread: http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64267&p=7Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Steve Bannon claims a Maga Red Wave Trumper win is coming any moment now...and if not, if the MidTerms become a crap show then maybe blame North Korea or Jimmy Carter or someone else?
No. Blame GOP Neo-Con "leadership" and en masse mail-in fraud ballots.
This guy gets it:
Republicans need to figure out mail-in voting
It’s being used by Democrats to influence the course of elections
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/democrats-mail-voting-midterms-fix/Quote:
I raised the idea of outlawing mail-in voting with a canny friend. “The Dems would never allow it,” he said, comparing the practice to nuclear weapons. Once they exist, it is impossible to get rid of them. Maybe so, in which case it behooves Republicans to become experts in organizing and deploying mail-in voting for their own candidates.
If nothing else, a little competition in the mail-in ballot sweepstakes would counter the invitation to corruption that follows on the feeling that the fix is in. In the election just past, it seemed, despite media forecasts of a red wave, that a certain complacency was abroad in and about the headquarters of certain contentious races. Gretchen Whitmer never seemed particularly worried about Tudor Dixon, nor did John Fetterman seem worried about Dr. Oz. Of course, Fetterman is a special case. But the point is, I believe, they knew that the fix was in and therefore — to employ another common idiom — that the race was in the bag.
Let me break that down for you...
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. ~Bugs Bunny
If they want to cheat, let 'em cheat. We're going to cheat better, and we're going to end up taking all the Democrat strongholds away from them co-opting the platform that they championed to allow widespread cheating and never let them cheat better than we will cheat.
We don't allow the cheating in Indiana, but I just might stay overnight at my Grandma's for a few weeks in 2024 and go door to door collecting thousands of ballots from people who would have otherwise been too lazy to vote. That's how they win. We can do it better. And it will all be legal because they made it legal.
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November 17th, 2022 (From this thread):Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh... and P.S.
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Quote:My life is going fine in America. Look at your own life, drunkard, for why you got flushed down the toilet. Look at your drug-addled parents' life for why awfulness happened to you.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
How do you feel about Trump's potential incest?
The key word is Potential. The key element is the source.
Just throw that dumb shit on top of the pile of dumb shit you lunatics obsess over every day while your current Administration flushes America down the toilet.
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A warning the U.S. Army issued troops in 1945 rings true today
On March 25, 1945, the United States Army issued “Fact Sheet #64: Fascism!”
It is worth revisiting the Army’s warnings as Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans denounce legal due process and threaten civil war. The War Department warned:
"An American fascist seeking power would not proclaim that he is a fascist. Fascism always camouflages its plans and purposes . . . Any fascist attempt to gain power in America would not use the exact Hitler pattern. It would work under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-American- ism’."
The War Department identified three attitudes and practices that fascists share in common.
Fascists pit “religious, racial, and economic groups against one another in order to break down national unity . . . In the United States, native fascists have often been anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Negro, anti-Labor, anti- foreign-born.”
Fascists also “deny the need for international cooperation” and that “all people — regardless of color, race, creed, or nationality have rights.” They “substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count.”
Finally, for fascists, the “indiscriminate pinning of the label ‘Red’ on people and proposals which one opposes is a common political device.”
Learning to identify American fascists and detect their techniques was not going to be easy, but "it is vitally important to learn to spot them, even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy . . . In its bid for power, it is ready to drive wedges that will disunite the people and weaken the nation. It supplies the scapegoat — Catholics, Jews, Negroes, labor unions, big business — any group upon which the insecure and unemployed" are willing to blame.
"They become frightened, angry, desperate, confused. Many, in their misery, seek to find somebody to blame . . . The resentment may be directed against minorities — especially if undemocratic organizations with power and money can direct our emotions and thinking along these lines."
The goal of the fascist doctrine is to prevent “men from seeking the real cause and a democratic solution to the problem.”
Fascists may talk about freedom, but "freedom . . . involves being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened."
Alan Singer is a historian and professor in the Hofstra University
More at https://www.rawstory.com/army-factsheets/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:My life is going fine in America. Look at your own life, drunkard, for why you got flushed down the toilet. Look at your drug-addled parents' life for why awfulness happened to you.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
How do you feel about Trump's potential incest?
The key word is Potential. The key element is the source.
Just throw that dumb shit on top of the pile of dumb shit you lunatics obsess over every day while your current Administration flushes America down the toilet.
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Awwwwww.... That's not very nice.
I'm sober over 6 1/2 years now. Neither of my parents do drugs or have done drugs, at least since I was alive.
I'm doing fine. Have fun at work tomorrow, bitch.
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Quote:I wonder why I find everything you write preposterous? Now I remember: you are full of bullshit and more than half crazy. But those parents of yours can take partial credit for your grand achievements. You ended up this way (unemployed, unmarried, obsessed with The Little Mermaid, giving "Heil Hitler" salutes to Trump, toothless smoker with a 450 lb brother, etc.) because of erratic parental guidance. Your mom and dad should have gotten you into the habit of brushing your teeth twice daily and visiting the dentist but they didn't want to interfere with your "freedom".
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Awwwwww.... That's not very nice.
I'm sober over 6 1/2 years now. Neither of my parents do drugs or have done drugs, at least since I was alive.
I'm doing fine. Have fun at work tomorrow, bitch.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told NewsNation that he was "proud" to have Donald Trump's support after the former president referred to him as a "common-sense guy." Trump said Monday that Kennedy was "a very smart guy," adding that the Democratic candidate has "been very nice to me."
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-praise-made-rfk-jr-proud-1809756
The most expected news I have ever heard: RFK Jr. is surging only in polls among Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/28/robert-kennedy-jr-b
iden-democrats-republicans/
‘I can’t listen to myself’: RFK Jr. explains neurological disease. “I think it makes it problematical for people to listen to me. I cannot listen to myself on TV. … I feel sorry for you guys having to listen to me,” Kennedy said.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/i-cant-listen-to-
myself-rfk-jr-reveals-neurological-disease/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I wonder why I find everything you write preposterous? Now I remember: you are full of bullshit and more than half crazy. But those parents of yours can take partial credit for your grand achievements. You ended up this way (unemployed, unmarried, obsessed with The Little Mermaid, giving "Heil Hitler" salutes to Trump, toothless smoker with a 450 lb brother, etc.) because of erratic parental guidance. Your mom and dad should have gotten you into the habit of brushing your teeth twice daily and visiting the dentist but they didn't want to interfere with your "freedom".
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Awwwwww.... That's not very nice.
I'm sober over 6 1/2 years now. Neither of my parents do drugs or have done drugs, at least since I was alive.
I'm doing fine. Have fun at work tomorrow, bitch.
So... you didn't have fun at work then, did you?
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What would America be like if Trump or a similarly fascist Republican were to take the White House in 2024? What would the dire warnings about American fascism, were they realized, mean in real life?
Most Americans, when they think of fascism, think of goosestepping Nazi soldiers and death camps, and believe that system of government was totally crushed by the Allies in 1945 at the end of World War II. But Spain was fascist right up until dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975 at the age of 82.
There are still many people here in Spain who regard the Franco time fondly; if you were on his side, supported his Falange party — later called simply “The Movement” — or were assiduously nonpolitical, life could be relatively normal.
If you spoke out against his fascist movement job opportunities vanished, you could be imprisoned, or even “disappeared,” as happened to tens of thousands. One of the people we spoke with here told us how the media was entirely in the bag for Franco with pro-fascist slogans and news shorts airing constantly, along with commentary praising him even interspersing music and programs on radio and TV.
Trump and his followers have given us numerous insights into how he’d transform American society to resemble something like Franco’s regime.
Trump has promised — most recently just a few weeks ago — that he would use the awesome police powers of the federal government to target his political enemies for persecution, imprisonment, and possibly even death.
Much more at https://andrewtobias.com/the-threat-is-real-ignoring-it-just-makes-it-
more-likely-to-happen-what-fascism-might-look-like-here/
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The only fascists in this country are Democrats in power.
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07/05/2023 Donald Trump’s Next Crazy Idea Has Arrived
Now that the FBI has raided Mar-a-Lago, and now that the DOJ seems to want to put him behind bars, it should come as no surprise that Donald Trump is calling for the two law enforcement agencies to be defunded.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/house-gop-escalating-doj-atta
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07/05/2023 Donald Trump’s Next Crazy Idea Has Arrived
Now that the FBI has raided Mar-a-Lago, and now that the DOJ seems to want to put him behind bars, it should come as no surprise that Donald Trump is calling for the two law enforcement agencies to be defunded.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/house-gop-escalating-doj-atta
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Oh. He's been calling for that for a long time, honey.
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TYT: It's now illegal to feed the hungry.
No. It's not.
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Only former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has the kind of attitude that could be considered even vaguely Trumpian: He called Trump a “petulant child, ” “three-time loser,” and “a lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog.“ And we know at least one of those stung, because Trump responded by making fun of Christie for being fat. Infantile, yes, but exactly the kind of repartee GOP voters expect from their candidates these days.
So, here is my mostly sincere advice: Go low, Republican presidential hopefuls! Go very low! Mock Trump’s desperate, Norma Desmond-like refusal to part with the accumulated memorabilia of his fleeting fame, but double down on basic schoolyard taunting. Campaign on the way Trump looks, the way Trump sounds, the way Trump walks, the way Trump eats, his physical fitness. Basically, say the things about him that he says about other people.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-2024-republican-riva
ls-desantis-go-low-rcna92703
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America Is Doing Just Fine
Every year, American colleges and universities dominate rankings of the best schools in the world. Maybe that’s why some of the most powerful political and business leaders across the globe keep sending their children to American colleges. They do so for the same reason many Republican politicians with Ivy League degrees worked hard to get admitted into Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania years ago: because nobody in the world does higher education better than the United States of America.
All of this anti-American drivel coming from Trumpists can be tedious. But stay with me, because there’s much more to be said in America’s defense.
Childhood poverty has dropped to the lowest level on record; teenage pregnancy has done the same; the U.S. dollar has experienced generational highs over the past year; unemployment recently hit a 54-year low; the number of job openings this past year also hit record highs.
Overall, the U.S. economy continues to surge forward despite economists’ dire predictions. America’s GDP grew to $25 trillion last year; Texas has a bigger economy than Russia, and although California is routinely rebuked by right-wing critics, it has the fourth-strongest economy in the world—stronger than Britain’s, France’s, Canada’s, or India’s. The United States and its European allies collectively run an economic machine that doubles China’s stagnating output. Despite record debt levels, a stubborn case of inflation, and other structural challenges, American capitalism continues to drive and dominate the world economy.
All of this is not to say that the United States is free of challenges. Like any great power, we have our fair share of political and moral failings.
Our Declaration of Independence was written by a slaveholder, the government has yet to address what it owes to Native Americans, and the right of women to control their own bodies has been shattered by Supreme Court rulings and radical state legislation.
But it was American democracy that provided a swift political rebuke to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and led to right-wing defeats in red states such as Kansas, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. The political backlash to Roe’s demise has been so dramatic that even Ann Coulter and The Wall Street Journal editorial page now take exception to the GOP’s extreme abortion stance.
And when Abraham Lincoln emancipated millions of enslaved Americans in 1863, he was relying on the logic of that same Declaration of Independence, which Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed “a promissory note” to all Americans.
James Madison, another slaveholder, wrote a Constitution that provided the checks and balances that led the same high court that overturned Roe to rebuff Donald Trump’s most autocratic plans. As politically disorienting as it may seem after the overturning of Roe and affirmative action, the Roberts Court also finally stopped Trump’s efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election, and is now allowing criminal cases against him to move forward.
So yes, it’s true that a fulsome defense of Uncle Sam often requires dialectical thinking. But remember this: Even with all of its failings, America has fed and freed more human beings than any other country in history. And despite the blather that cable-news hosts spit at you daily, your country is doing pretty damn well.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/america-is-doing-just-fine/ar-A
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Yep, sorry jack, signym and jaynestown, despite all your bullshit, we're doing just fine.
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America Is Doing Just Fine
Every year, American colleges and universities dominate rankings of the best schools in the world. Maybe that’s why some of the most powerful political and business leaders across the globe keep sending their children to American colleges. They do so for the same reason many Republican politicians with Ivy League degrees worked hard to get admitted into Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania years ago: because nobody in the world does higher education better than the United States of America.
All of this anti-American drivel coming from Trumpists can be tedious. But stay with me, because there’s much more to be said in America’s defense.
Childhood poverty has dropped to the lowest level on record; teenage pregnancy has done the same; the U.S. dollar has experienced generational highs over the past year; unemployment recently hit a 54-year low; the number of job openings this past year also hit record highs.
Overall, the U.S. economy continues to surge forward despite economists’ dire predictions. America’s GDP grew to $25 trillion last year; Texas has a bigger economy than Russia, and although California is routinely rebuked by right-wing critics, it has the fourth-strongest economy in the world—stronger than Britain’s, France’s, Canada’s, or India’s. The United States and its European allies collectively run an economic machine that doubles China’s stagnating output. Despite record debt levels, a stubborn case of inflation, and other structural challenges, American capitalism continues to drive and dominate the world economy.
All of this is not to say that the United States is free of challenges. Like any great power, we have our fair share of political and moral failings.
Our Declaration of Independence was written by a slaveholder, the government has yet to address what it owes to Native Americans, and the right of women to control their own bodies has been shattered by Supreme Court rulings and radical state legislation.
But it was American democracy that provided a swift political rebuke to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and led to right-wing defeats in red states such as Kansas, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. The political backlash to Roe’s demise has been so dramatic that even Ann Coulter and The Wall Street Journal editorial page now take exception to the GOP’s extreme abortion stance.
And when Abraham Lincoln emancipated millions of enslaved Americans in 1863, he was relying on the logic of that same Declaration of Independence, which Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed “a promissory note” to all Americans.
James Madison, another slaveholder, wrote a Constitution that provided the checks and balances that led the same high court that overturned Roe to rebuff Donald Trump’s most autocratic plans. As politically disorienting as it may seem after the overturning of Roe and affirmative action, the Roberts Court also finally stopped Trump’s efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election, and is now allowing criminal cases against him to move forward.
So yes, it’s true that a fulsome defense of Uncle Sam often requires dialectical thinking. But remember this: Even with all of its failings, America has fed and freed more human beings than any other country in history. And despite the blather that cable-news hosts spit at you daily, your country is doing pretty damn well.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/america-is-doing-just-fine/ar-A
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Yep, sorry jack, signym and jaynestown, despite all your bullshit, we're doing just fine.
T
Did you even read this woke ass trash article past the first paragraph? Written as an OPINION piece for woke ass trash rag The Atlantic, by the guy who raped and murdered his interns?
Get fucked, Ted.
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Quote:We’ve had 46 Presidents.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Did you even read this woke ass trash article past the first paragraph? Written as an OPINION piece for woke ass trash rag The Atlantic, by the guy who raped and murdered his interns?
Get fucked, Ted.
They’ve been indicted on a total of 71 felony counts.
Here’s how it breaks down:
Presidents / # of Felony Counts
1-44 / 0
45 / 71
46 / 0
DONALD TRUMP BY THE NUMBERS
Felony Counts - 71
Sexual assault accusers - 26
Bankruptcies - 6
Hush money payments - 2 (known)
Losses to New York Attorney General - 2
Impeachments - 2
Divorces - 2
Arrests - 2
- TRISTAN SNELL
Former New York Assistant Attorney General
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John Kelly has some more choice words for his former White House boss
“He’s scared s---less,” said John Kelly, his former chief of staff. “This is the way he compensates for that. He gives people the appearance he doesn’t care by doing this. For the first time in his life, it looks like he’s being held accountable. Up until this point in his life, it’s like, ‘I’m not going to pay you; take me to court.’ He’s never been held accountable before.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/13/donald-trump-arraig
nment-day-speech/
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Originally posted by THG:
America Is Doing Just Fine
Every year, American colleges and universities dominate rankings of the best schools in the world. Maybe that’s why some of the most powerful political and business leaders across the globe keep sending their children to American colleges. They do so for the same reason many Republican politicians with Ivy League degrees worked hard to get admitted into Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania years ago: because nobody in the world does higher education better than the United States of America.
All of this anti-American drivel coming from Trumpists can be tedious. But stay with me, because there’s much more to be said in America’s defense.
Childhood poverty has dropped to the lowest level on record; teenage pregnancy has done the same; the U.S. dollar has experienced generational highs over the past year; unemployment recently hit a 54-year low; the number of job openings this past year also hit record highs.
Overall, the U.S. economy continues to surge forward despite economists’ dire predictions. America’s GDP grew to $25 trillion last year; Texas has a bigger economy than Russia, and although California is routinely rebuked by right-wing critics, it has the fourth-strongest economy in the world—stronger than Britain’s, France’s, Canada’s, or India’s. The United States and its European allies collectively run an economic machine that doubles China’s stagnating output. Despite record debt levels, a stubborn case of inflation, and other structural challenges, American capitalism continues to drive and dominate the world economy.
All of this is not to say that the United States is free of challenges. Like any great power, we have our fair share of political and moral failings.
Our Declaration of Independence was written by a slaveholder, the government has yet to address what it owes to Native Americans, and the right of women to control their own bodies has been shattered by Supreme Court rulings and radical state legislation.
But it was American democracy that provided a swift political rebuke to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and led to right-wing defeats in red states such as Kansas, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. The political backlash to Roe’s demise has been so dramatic that even Ann Coulter and The Wall Street Journal editorial page now take exception to the GOP’s extreme abortion stance.
And when Abraham Lincoln emancipated millions of enslaved Americans in 1863, he was relying on the logic of that same Declaration of Independence, which Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed “a promissory note” to all Americans.
James Madison, another slaveholder, wrote a Constitution that provided the checks and balances that led the same high court that overturned Roe to rebuff Donald Trump’s most autocratic plans. As politically disorienting as it may seem after the overturning of Roe and affirmative action, the Roberts Court also finally stopped Trump’s efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election, and is now allowing criminal cases against him to move forward.
So yes, it’s true that a fulsome defense of Uncle Sam often requires dialectical thinking. But remember this: Even with all of its failings, America has fed and freed more human beings than any other country in history. And despite the blather that cable-news hosts spit at you daily, your country is doing pretty damn well.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/america-is-doing-just-fine/ar-A
A1dF4i8
Yep, sorry jack, signym and jaynestown, despite all your bullshit, we're doing just fine.
T
Did you even read this woke ass trash article past the first paragraph? Written as an OPINION piece for woke ass trash rag The Atlantic, by the guy who raped and murdered his interns?
Get fucked, Ted.
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First GOP Debate Shaping Up to Be an Embarrassing Fiasco
When the Republican National Committee announced their first presidential debate of the 2024 cycle would be in August in Milwaukee, officials dangled the prospect of making it a two-night affair if enough presidential contenders qualified. Now, just over a month later, the prospect of an overly crowded stage is no longer a serious concern. The central party committee is more likely staring down a dud: the frontrunner is threatening to counter-program it, and perhaps a majority of the rest of the field, even some with gold-caliber resumes, may not qualify for a spot on stage under the RNC’s rules.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/first-gop-debate-shaping-up-to
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OH, so sorry.
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America’s power-hungry Christians need to face their own flaws
There’s a popular story in Christian circles that’s literally too good to be true. According to legend, in the early 1900s, The Times of London sent an inquiry to a number of writers asking the question, “What’s wrong with the world today?” The Christian apologist G.K. Chesterton responded succinctly and profoundly: “Dear Sirs, I am.”
The real story is just as profound, but less succinct. In 1905 Chesterton wrote a much longer letter to London’s Daily News, and that letter included these sentences: “In one sense, and that the eternal sense, the thing is plain. The answer to the question ‘What is Wrong?’ is, or should be, ‘I am wrong.’ Until a man can give that answer his idealism is only a hobby.”
I’ve thought about that Chesterton quote often during the age of Trump, especially as I’ve seen the “new” Christian right re-embrace the authoritarianism of previous American political eras. At the exact time when religious liberty is enjoying a historic winning streak at the Supreme Court, a cohort of Christians has increasingly decided that liberty isn’t enough. To restore the culture and protect our children, it’s necessary to exercise power to shape our national environment.
And so the conservative movement is changing. When I was a younger lawyer, conservatives fought speech codes that often inhibited religious and conservative discourse on campus. Now, red state legislatures are writing their own speech codes, hoping to limit discussion of the ideas they disfavor. When I was starting my career, my conservative colleagues and I rolled our eyes at the right-wing book purges of old, when angry parents tried to yank “dangerous” books off school library shelves. Well, now the purges are back, as parents are squaring off in school districts across the nation, arguing over the words children should be allowed to read.
Years ago, I laughed at claims that Christian conservatives were dominionists in disguise, that we didn’t just want religious freedom, we wanted religious authority. Yet now, such claims are hardly laughable. Arguments for a “Christian nationalism” are increasingly prominent, with factions ranging from Catholic integralists to reformed Protestants to prophetic Pentecostals all seeking a new American social compact, one that explicitly puts Christians in charge.
The motivating force behind this transformation is a powerful sense of threat — the idea that the left is “coming after” you and your family. This mind-set sees the Christian use of power as inherently protective, and the desire to censor as an attempt to save children from dangerous ideas. The threat to the goodness of the church and the virtue of its members, in other words, comes primarily from outside its walls, from a culture and a world that is seen as worse in virtually every way.
But there’s a contrary view, one that emanates from the idea of original sin, which Chesterton argued was “the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.” The doctrine of original sin rejects the idea that we are intrinsically good and are corrupted only by the outside world. Instead, we enter life with our own profound and inherent flaws. We are all, in a word, fallen. To quote Jesus in the book of Mark, “There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” All manner of sin and evil comes “from within, out of the heart of man.”
Under this understanding of Scripture, we are all our own greatest enemy — Christians as fully as those who do not share our beliefs. We do not, either as individuals or as a religious movement, possess an inherent virtue that should entitle any of us to rule. We shun the will to power because we rightly fear our own sin, and we protect the liberty of others because we do not possess all wisdom and we need to hear their ideas.
Of course that is not to say that external voices and ideas can have no negative effect in our lives. We might be our own greatest enemy,
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INTRODUCTION to David French’s book “Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.”
Download the book for free from the mirrors at http://libgen.is/search.php?req=David+French+Divided+We+Fall
A House Divided
It’s time for Americans to wake up to a fundamental reality: the continued unity of the United States of America cannot be guaranteed. At this moment in history, there is not a single important cultural, religious, political, or social force that is pulling Americans together more than it is pushing us apart. We cannot assume that a continent-sized, multi-ethnic, multi-faith democracy can remain united forever, and it will not remain united if our political class cannot and will not adapt to an increasingly diverse and divided American public.
We lack a common popular culture. Depending on where we live and what we believe, we watch different kinds of television, we listen to different kinds of music, and we often even watch different sports.
We increasingly live separate from each other. The number of Americans who live in so-called landslide counties—counties where one presidential candidate wins by at least twenty points—is at an all-time high. The geography that a person calls their home, whether it be rural, exurban, suburban, or urban, is increasingly predictive of voting habits.
We increasingly believe different things. America is secularizing at a rapid rate, but it is still the most religious nation in the developed world, and is set to remain so for the indefinite future. While the “religious nones” (those with no particular religious affiliation) grow in number, many of America’s most religiously fervent denominations are growing as well, some rapidly. Moreover, America’s secular and religious citizens are increasingly concentrated in different parts of the country, supplementing geographic separation with religious separation.
We increasingly loathe our political opponents. The United States is in the grip of a phenomenon called “negative polarization.” In plain English this means that a person belongs to their political party not so much because they like their own party but because they hate and fear the other side. Republicans don’t embrace Republican policies so much as they despise Democrats and Democratic policies. Democrats don’t embrace Democratic policies as much as they vote to defend themselves from Republicans. At this point, huge majorities actively dislike their political opponents and significant minorities see them as possessing subhuman characteristics.
Moreover, each of these realities is set to get worse. Absent unforeseen developments, the present trends are self-reinforcing. Clustering is feeding extremism, extremism is feeding anger, and anger is feeding fear. The class of Americans who care the most about politics is, perversely enough, the class of Americans most likely to make negative misjudgments about their fellow citizens. Our political and cultural leaders are leading us apart.
Given this reality, why should we presume that our nation is immune from the same cultural and historical forces that have caused disunion in this nation before and in other nations countless times?
I’m writing this book from a unique position. For the first time in my life, I’m a man without a party. I have no “tribe.” And I must confess that it has opened my eyes. I see things differently than I used to, and I understand the perspective of my political opponents better than I did before.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Sudden Jihad among Minnesota Democrats, the Somali vs Pakistani
At least two people were injured
1 person taken to the hospital
there was an emergency meeting of the party’s executive committee about what to do about the Sharia Law in-fighting.
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Originally posted by second:
INTRODUCTION to David French’s book “Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.”
Download the book for free from the mirrors at http://libgen.is/search.php?req=David+French+Divided+We+Fall
A House Divided
It’s time for Americans to wake up to a fundamental reality: the continued unity of the United States of America cannot be guaranteed. At this moment in history, there is not a single important cultural, religious, political, or social force that is pulling Americans together more than it is pushing us apart. We cannot assume that a continent-sized, multi-ethnic, multi-faith democracy can remain united forever, and it will not remain united if our political class cannot and will not adapt to an increasingly diverse and divided American public.
We lack a common popular culture. Depending on where we live and what we believe, we watch different kinds of television, we listen to different kinds of music, and we often even watch different sports.
We increasingly live separate from each other. The number of Americans who live in so-called landslide counties—counties where one presidential candidate wins by at least twenty points—is at an all-time high. The geography that a person calls their home, whether it be rural, exurban, suburban, or urban, is increasingly predictive of voting habits.
We increasingly believe different things. America is secularizing at a rapid rate, but it is still the most religious nation in the developed world, and is set to remain so for the indefinite future. While the “religious nones” (those with no particular religious affiliation) grow in number, many of America’s most religiously fervent denominations are growing as well, some rapidly. Moreover, America’s secular and religious citizens are increasingly concentrated in different parts of the country, supplementing geographic separation with religious separation.
We increasingly loathe our political opponents. The United States is in the grip of a phenomenon called “negative polarization.” In plain English this means that a person belongs to their political party not so much because they like their own party but because they hate and fear the other side. Republicans don’t embrace Republican policies so much as they despise Democrats and Democratic policies. Democrats don’t embrace Democratic policies as much as they vote to defend themselves from Republicans. At this point, huge majorities actively dislike their political opponents and significant minorities see them as possessing subhuman characteristics.
Moreover, each of these realities is set to get worse. Absent unforeseen developments, the present trends are self-reinforcing. Clustering is feeding extremism, extremism is feeding anger, and anger is feeding fear. The class of Americans who care the most about politics is, perversely enough, the class of Americans most likely to make negative misjudgments about their fellow citizens. Our political and cultural leaders are leading us apart.
Given this reality, why should we presume that our nation is immune from the same cultural and historical forces that have caused disunion in this nation before and in other nations countless times?
I’m writing this book from a unique position. For the first time in my life, I’m a man without a party. I have no “tribe.” And I must confess that it has opened my eyes. I see things differently than I used to, and I understand the perspective of my political opponents better than I did before.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Good for David. Affiliating yourself with a political party is what assholes do.
I don't know exactly what he's arguing here though. The ruling class want diversity in EVERYTHING, except for diversity of thought.
He takes a long time to say it, but that appears to be what he's saying here too.
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As for the Democrats in Minnesota, both the left and the right have nuts within their ranks. By what they did, they showed they have no understanding of what free and fair elections means. You have to win office; to do so you cannot bully others out of the race.
As for having a political affiliation, it gives you support, backing in an election. I am independent. I believe that even makes me affiliated with a party. The independence party, which allows me to vote based on principal.
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Christie on if Trump is a danger to the U.S.: I don't want him to be POTUS,
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Quote:Short version of the book that you refuse to read is as follows: It’s time for our warring tribes to understand a simple reality: that to embrace illiberalism and intolerance is to court dissolution. At the extremes, it even risks civil war. . . . Embracing pluralism means embracing the lessons of history and understanding that not even our great nation is immune to the forces that have fractured unions older than ours. Our nation’s angriest culture warriors need to know the cost of their conflict. As they seek to crush their political and cultural enemies, they may destroy the nation they seek to rule.
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Originally posted by second:
INTRODUCTION to David French’s book “Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.”
Download the book for free from the mirrors at http://libgen.is/search.php?req=David+French+Divided+We+Fall
A House Divided
Good for David. Affiliating yourself with a political party is what assholes do.
I don't know exactly what he's arguing here though. The ruling class want diversity in EVERYTHING, except for diversity of thought.
He takes a long time to say it, but that appears to be what he's saying here too.
Meanwhile, Trump is threatening to go to war against the United States. Obviously, he didn't read the book.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-apocalypse/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Meanwhile, Trump is threatening to go to war against the United States.
No, he's not.
He's going to war FOR the United States.
You are the bad guys here. I don't think you read the book.
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Quote:You still do not understand that I live around Trumptards. I've known your kind for decades. Your lives are hard and disappointing for you because of what you are, not because Democrats exist. But I have NEVER known even one Trumptard that could make the connection between what they are and what happens to them. Did they get fired? No comprehension of their incompetence was the cause. Instead, blame the Democrats. Did they get divorced? No comprehension that the wife can't tolerate their rotten behavior any longer. Instead, blame woman's liberation and the Democrats. 6ix, I am at work, making America go and fixing the screw-ups of my stupid Trumptard employees (fewer and fewer Trumptards all the time because they get fired for living their true selves) and you are asleep, but when you awake you will be bitching that the Democrats aren't making your life easier, you lazy drunken fool.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Meanwhile, Trump is threatening to go to war against the United States.
No, he's not.
He's going to war FOR the United States.
You are the bad guys here. I don't think you read the book.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Journalists Need To Sound The Alarm, writes Mark Jacob. “It’s high time for news media to confront the rise of fascism.”
He asks why “journalists covering the biggest story of their career—the attempted overthrow of democracy—treat it like routine politics?”
And he offers four reasons.
E.g.:
Some journalists see the alarming fascist turn of the Republican Party as a temporary error in judgment, like a basically good dad staying out drinking with his pals all night. Except it’s been eight years and dad hasn’t come home yet. He may never come home.
“It’s time,” he concludes, “for journalists to panic responsibly.”
More at https://america.substack.com/p/journalists-need-to-sound-the-alarm
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You still do not understand that I live around Trumptards. I've known your kind for decades. Your lives are hard and disappointing for you because of what you are, not because Democrats exist. But I have NEVER known even one Trumptard that could make the connection between what they are and what happens to them. Did they get fired? No comprehension of their incompetence was the cause. Instead, blame the Democrats. Did they get divorced? No comprehension that the wife can't tolerate their rotten behavior any longer. Instead, blame woman's liberation and the Democrats. 6ix, I am at work, making America go and fixing the screw-ups of my stupid Trumptard employees (fewer and fewer Trumptards all the time because they get fired for living their true selves) and you are asleep, but when you awake you will be bitching that the Democrats aren't making your life easier, you lazy drunken fool.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Meanwhile, Trump is threatening to go to war against the United States.
No, he's not.
He's going to war FOR the United States.
You are the bad guys here. I don't think you read the book.
Just another tired old repeat of a post from a miserable little pile of shit.
Nobody cares about your problems dude. Get some help.
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Donald Trump is promising to implement what he is describing as "Agenda 47" when he takes back the White House in the 2024 Election.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47
Agenda 47 would consist of an end to birthright citizenship, further criminalizing transgender people and the LGBTQI community more broadly, expanding censorship laws to end the teaching of "critical race theory" and to defeat "Woke" and "Black Lives Matter", attacking academic freedom and replacing it with "patriot education", implementing a national stop and frisk law, pardoning the Jan. 6 terrorists, putting homeless people in camps or some other designated area under threat of arrest, building high tech "freedom cities", ending the professional civil service and replacing it with political appointees and partisan agents, gutting the Department of Justice and other parts of the government that opposed Trump's attacks on democracy and the rule of law, executing drug dealers, starting a trade war with China, and making "peace" with Vladimir Putin by withdrawing support for Ukraine. In many ways, Agenda 47 is a continuation of the policies Trump put in place during his first regime but now made even more extreme and cruel.
https://www.salon.com/2023/07/14/be-very-afraid-agenda-47-is-no-joke/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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This Was a Great Week for American Diplomacy but you might not know it from the headlines.
July 14, 2023
President Biden’s trip to Europe this week produced some of America’s biggest diplomatic triumphs in years. Yet news reports were mixed, with the harrumphing led by this New York Times headline: “Despite Successes at NATO Summit, Divisions Remain.”
This from a summit where Turkey finally (and, to most observers, surprisingly) relented to Sweden’s bid for NATO membership; the alliance members created a NATO-Ukraine Council, which President Volodymyr Zelensky attended; the G7 nations agreed to massive long-term security assistance to Kyiv; Germany and others swelled their lists of heavy weapons to be exported to the Ukraine army; and all the NATO nations revised their long-stated pledges to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense from a “target” to a “minimum.”
No NATO summit in recent memory has accomplished so much and with almost no controversy. But if Trump had been there, it would have been a three-ring circus with Trump doing incredible acts. Trump would be the elephants doing headstands and the snarling lions and the prancing ponies and the trained dogs barking in the circus rings as Trump does his trick: Look at me, the most important person in the Universe! as Trump loves to remind his Trumptards.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/nato-summit-diplomacy-ukra
ine-turkey-sweden.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Report: Top Democrats Know Biden Is NOT Running For 2nd Term
“Multiple big donors aren’t locking in”
14 July, 2023
Steve Watson
According to a CNN report (make of that what you will) leading Democrats have begun reaching out to “possible replacements” for Joe Biden because they know that the 80 year old president will not run for a second term.
https://summit.news/2023/07/14/report-top-democrats-know-biden-is-not-
running-for-2nd-term/
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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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