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The GQP Thread: I'm even sick of that fuck's number and, anyway, he's gone (for now)

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I can't wait for the whataboutisms when a GQP'er digs up AOC's dunking on Ted Cruz on Twitter and yell "See! They're the same thing!" *rolleyes*
 
https://mobile.twitter.com/adamgoldm...24100675387395

Activists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump ‘Enemies’ in Government
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WASHINGTON — A network of conservative activists, aided by a British former spy, mounted a campaign during the Trump administration to discredit perceived enemies of President Trump inside the government, according to documents and people involved in the operations.

The campaign included a planned sting operation against Mr. Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and secret surveillance operations against F.B.I. employees, aimed at exposing anti-Trump sentiment in the bureau’s ranks.

The operations against the F.B.I., run by the conservative group Project Veritas, were conducted from a large home in the Georgetown section of Washington that rented for $10,000 per month. Female undercover operatives arranged dates with the F.B.I. employees with the aim of secretly recording them making disparaging comments about Mr. Trump.

The campaign shows the obsession that some of Mr. Trump’s allies had about a shadowy “deep state” trying to blunt his agenda — and the lengths that some were willing to go to try to purge the government of those believed to be disloyal to the president.
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aparch said:
I can't wait for the whataboutisms when a GQP'er digs up AOC's dunking on Ted Cruz on Twitter and yell "See! They're the same thing!" *rolleyes*
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AOC headed down to the border anytime soon to stand in front of a fence and sob for all the migrant children in cages?

Theatre for Chumps.
 
Republicans. Amoral? Perhaps.

But thorough.

A Colorado man who was recently charged with murder in the disappearance of his wife a year ago has also been charged with voter fraud for voting for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election using his wife's mail-in ballot
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French Rage said:
Having good ideas is too hard. Let's just stop people from voting. https://twitter.com/cbsnewspoll/stat...38110426275840
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This is evidence that the Republican rank and file are cognizant of and on board with the strategy of restricting voting rights. I believe this is the first instance of a non-trivial number of voters in a democracy consciously campaigning to restrict democracy to themselves since South Africa.

Until now I assumed we combat right wing authoritarianism by exposing and ridiculing it. The average conservative would be sickened by her party elites and rebuke them. This says half of all conservatives are fully aware of what they are doing and approve of it -- suppression is not an insider political strategy imposed from the top but a grassroots social movement bubbling up from the bottom.

In other words, a fascist party is not nefariously hoodwinking conservative America, as the corporate cons did with Reagan and his aftermath. Conservative America is sending a representative fascist party into legislatures to work their will.
 
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Kepler said:
This is evidence that the Republican rank and file are cognizant of and on board with the strategy of restricting voting rights. I believe this is the first instance of a non-trivial number of voters in a democracy consciously campaigning to restrict democracy to themselves since South Africa.

Until now I assumed we combat right wing authoritarianism by exposing and ridiculing it. The average conservative would be sickened by her party elites and rebuke them. This says half of all conservatives are fully aware of what they are doing and approve of it -- suppression is not an insider political strategy imposed from the top but a grassroots social movement bubbling up from the bottom.

In other words, a fascist party is not nefariously hoodwinking conservative America, as the corporate cons did with Reagan and his aftermath. Conservative America is sending a representative fascist party into legislatures to work their will.
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R means Racist. Simple as that. Hard to deny that when you want to restrict voting for people who are not like themselves.
 
Kepler said:
This is evidence that the Republican rank and file are cognizant of and on board with the strategy of restricting voting rights. I believe this is the first instance of a non-trivial number of voters in a democracy consciously campaigning to restrict democracy to themselves since South Africa.

Until now I assumed we combat right wing authoritarianism by exposing and ridiculing it. The average conservative would be sickened by her party elites and rebuke them. This says half of all conservatives are fully aware of what they are doing and approve of it -- suppression is not an insider political strategy imposed from the top but a grassroots social movement bubbling up from the bottom.

In other words, a fascist party is not nefariously hoodwinking conservative America, as the corporate cons did with Reagan and his aftermath. Conservative America is sending a representative fascist party into legislatures to work their will.
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What part of 'Nazi' don't you understand?
 
Anyone who doesn't think 40% of this country (at least) is lost forever is living in a fantasy land.

The reason all of this is happening (cops shooting people with little or no consequence for so long, tax-break after tax-break for the top 1/10th of 1%, GQP party actively seeking to severely restrict the amount of people voting in every area of the country, public schools in almost every urban area being starved of funding, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc) is because almost half of the country (at least) is fully on board with all of it.

They may be idiots, they may not understand they are rubes and dupes who are being used, they may not even know WHY they love trump and trumpism, but they do. Couple that with the fact their side has a lot of wealth behind it that amplifies their voices far more than the progressives and Americans who really do just want a peaceful country and a functioning government that looks out for the well-being of the nation, and that 40% (at least) has the power of a majority.

This is what we're up against. How do we peacefully fix it? Do we peacefully fix it?
 
rufus said:
What part of 'Nazi' don't you understand?
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But the Nazis and the Italian Fascists did not bubble up. They were top down. They were Men with a Plan who had to galvanize, even convert, supporters.

This is something else, that's my point. Yes, it's racist and authoritarian, but it isn't like what we have seen before. The only comparable example I have is South Africa. Maybe the NeoNazi movements in Europe and Britain which haven't gained state control (yet) fit the bill.

Or maybe Fidesz in Hungary is the best current example, since that is a similar combination of a populist bottom up authoritarian movement and a charismatic top down charlatan.
 
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How do we peacefully fix it? Do we peacefully fix it?
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It has become patently obvious in the last 5 years that the far right's idea of a peaceful solution is getting everything they want, including permanent, absolute control of government with a thin veneer of democracy (c.f. Russia).
 
Dump and his cronies were definitely aiming to be Putin and his vory.

I don't know if that's what the GQP wanted, but as they belong to Dump I guess it's what they are now whether they like it or not.
 
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