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originalleftist · 3 months

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Trump and the Republican Party are using white supremacist "Replacement Theory" as a pretext to effectively seize control over the border and immigration from the Federal government by force.

https://www.mediate.com/trump/trump-calls-on-states-to-deploy-national-guard-to-texas-as-state-clashes-with-federal-government-over-border-crisis/

25 Republican state governors have signed on their support.

This will likely be part of the pretext for secession/insurrection if their fascist cult leader loses in November.

This should not deter anyone from voting for Biden and Democrats. Capitulation will not prevent violence- it will simply be submission to fascist rule by fear, and the genocide-of immigrants, Latinos, queer people, and others-that will follow. We must stand firm.

I also will criticize the language of the article here, and of most commentary I've seen on this issue, in referring to a "border crisis". This term, without clarification as to its meaning, implies that the fact of (primarily Latin American) immigrants entering the country is inherently a crisis, a threat. It therefore essentially concedes most of the argument to the Republicans, who portray immigrants entering the country, including children, as an "invasion" in order to justify murdering them, and so they can portray their sedition as patriotism.

I end this post with the words of a man who was instrumental in defeating the last widespread insurrection against the Federal government in the United States:

"Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party."- General US Grant, 1861, following the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter.

#US #Border #Immigration #Greg Abbott #Donald Trump #P01135809 #Replacement Theory #White Supremacy #Fascism #Republican Fascism #Republican Sedition #Republican Traitors #Vote Blue

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odinsblog · 8 months

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Inmate No. P01135809

#republicans #donald trump #politics #lock him up!#trump mugshot #fulton county #tre45on #traitors #sedition #trump indictment #trump indicted again #inmate p01135809

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 6 months

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Republikkkans are domestic terrorists.

#republican assholes #crooked donald #republican hypocrisy #january 6th #justice #insurrection #sedition #treason #traitor trump

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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#us politics #2022 #memes #shitpost #republicans #conservatives #donald trump #mar a lago #sedition #treason #classified documents #top secret documents #fbi #fbi raid #department of justice

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karadin · 2 years

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“All (US Congress) members are in the tunnels under Capital seal them in," reads the message. "Turn on gas."

Maga supporters who were on a tour of the Capitol (then shut because of covid) with rep Loudermilk on Jan 5th taking pictures of stairwells, halls and tunnels then made these threats in the attack on Jan 6th.

https://www.rawstory.com/turn-on-the-gas-capitol-riot/

#jan 6th #republicans #terrorists #sedition #insurrection

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frank-o-meter · 6 months

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On September 3, Jenna Powell reveled in her new found fame, calling herself “Mugshot Barbie”. Today she’s singing a different tune - pleading guilty to “aiding and abetting false statements, a felony stemming from the election lies that Ellis and other Donald Trump lawyers peddled to Georgia lawmakers in December 2020.”

#fuck trump #election fraud #Jenna Ellis is an idiot #guilty plea #mugshot Barbie #fuck all republicans #sedition #Georgia election fraud

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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President Biden is right to call out the “MAGA Republicans,” but he’s still having the wrong conversation about the greatest threat to democracy.

It’s white supremacy.

Without it, there would be no “MAGA Republicans.” Those devoted to Donald Trump, who would sooner leave this nation in ashes than uphold democracy’s promises, are only the latest manifestation of the racist malignancies embedded in this nation’s foundation.

The same forces that sustained and justified slavery for nearly 250 years and sabotaged Reconstruction thread through the Jim Crow era. It flowed in the veins of the white men who snatched Emmett Till from his bed in Mississippi in 1955 as well as the white police officers who lied and falsified evidence for the no-knock warrant that led them to Breonna Taylor’s door as she slept in her Louisville apartment in 2020.

And it exhales in the shrill whine of the defeated man who incited thousands of white insurrectionists in a violent attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. That centuries-old brew of racism, grievance, and entitlement continues to roil and undermine the nation.

More than a century before MAGA Republicans, there were the Red Shirts, White Leagues, and Ku Klux Klan terrorizing and massacring Black people and their allies across the postwar South. For them, the Civil War never ended; it simply moved to new fronts.

“With them, the end sanctifies the means, however desperate and bloody; and that end is first, midst, last, and always, ‘A WHITE MAN’S GOVERNMENT’ — tantamount to the old slaveholding oligarchic supremacy,” William Lloyd Garrison, the Boston abolitionist, wrote in an 1875 letter to the Boston Journal.

Not a single word needs to be altered to capture the current climate. The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are nothing more than rebranded Red Shirts and White Leagues. And Garrison’s descriptions also apply to Trump’s acolytes whether they’re on school boards, in Congress, or on the Supreme Court.

In coining the term “MAGA Republicans,” the Biden administration has taken great pains to distinguish the hardcore Trumpists from the rest of the party. During his speech last week about threats to democracy, Biden said, “Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.”

But he added: “There’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.”

I am not as generous as the President. If there are Republicans opposed to their party’s full embrace of Trumpism, most have remained awfully quiet about it. During both Trump impeachments, there were stories about Republicans who privately wanted Trump held accountable. But they voted publicly to save his hide and, by extension, their own political futures.

Some Republicans may disapprove of Trump as their party’s brand ambassador, but there’s been no mass repudiation. After four catastrophic years, Trumpism should have been soundly rejected in 2020; instead, even though Trump lost, millions more voted for him that year than in 2016. Clearly, Republicans were focused not on the messenger but the messaging, such as swarming the Supreme Court with Federalist Society-approved conservatives who all ultimately voted this year to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Trump gave Republicans what they wanted. That earned their silent loyalty and showed their enmity for democracy. They may not like Trump, but his vision for America matches their own and permits them to rest easy in the comfort of lies about “election integrity” and banning “divisive” books in schools.

But in Biden’s willingness to separate comparatively "reasonable Republicans" from “MAGA Republicans,” he absolves them. And that allows them to look elsewhere for answers to the sorry state of the nation instead of inward at their own complicity. In times of crisis, saying and doing nothing is disgraceful yet that’s the path that “good” Republicans have chosen as democracy falters. It’s a reminder that not every white supremacist wears a white hood — or a red MAGA cap.

Never let it be forgotten that an American President felt compelled to give a televised speech because, as Biden said, “equality and democracy are under assault,” by fellow Americans. “We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise,” he said.

We also do ourselves no favors pretending that Trump is the sole architect of a treacherous moment many bloody centuries in the making. To save democracy, it’s not enough to cut off “MAGA Republicans” like a diseased branch. White supremacy itself, the soil from which Trump and MAGA grew, must be uprooted.

After Biden’s speech, some journalists and pundits complained that the President went too far in his condemnation of MAGA Republicans. I would argue that until Biden calls out white supremacy as democracy’s biggest enemy, the President still hasn’t gone far enough.

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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Kevin McCarthy’s “devil’s bargain” :: March 1, 2023

Robert B. Hubbell

In Kevin McCarthy’s desperate bid to become Speaker of the House, he made corrupt and depraved promises to friends and enemies alike, promises that now threaten to fray the fabric of democracy. One such promise was to release all surveillance tapes from the Capitol Hill complex on January 6th. That promise was made to the Insurrection Caucus of the GOP, which claims that the assault on the Capitol on January 6th was a “false flag” operation rather than an attempt to overturn an election. The promise was part of a devil’s bargain—and McCarthy is intent on fulfilling his end of the bargain, “come hell or high water.” Literally.

McCarthy’s opening gambit was to secretly grant access to Fox’s on-air entertainer Tucker Carlson, who is also a Big Lie promoter and January 6th denier. Carlson was given unrestricted access to review the surveillance tapes at a private computer terminal at the Capitol so he could prepare a “special report” that would, presumably, demonstrate that the violent assault on the Capitol was just a big misunderstanding. After a week of outrage over the privileged access for Carlson and silence from McCarthy, the Speaker finally addressed reporters’ questions Tuesday.

In answering reporters’ questions, McCarthy attempted to describe the special access to Carlson as an “exclusive story” that would eventually be made available to all media and the American public. In fact, McCarthy attempted to walk back the unrestricted access he had granted to Carlson and claimed that no video clips would be released unless and until they were reviewed by GOP Insurrection Caucus members. See The Hill, McCarthy, GOP pump brakes on release of Jan. 6 footage to Tucker Carlson.

McCarthy denied that he had “promised” to release the surveillance video as a chit in his negotiations to become Speaker. GOP members to whom he had made that promise made a liar of McCarthy. As reported in The Hill,

Some of those [GOP] critics said McCarthy had promised them, during the hard-fought Speaker’s balloting, that he would release the full library of Jan. 6 footage in return for their support. Carlson himself also suggested that McCarthy pledge to release the tapes to earn support for the Speakership.

McCarthy’s decision to grant an “exclusive” to Tucker Carlson is especially depraved because Carlson has been an unrelenting critic of McCarthy for years. What better way to “buy” favorable coverage than to grant an “exclusive” to your biggest media critic?

But it gets worse. Much. Now that the Insurrection Caucus has control of the surveillance video, they intend to grant access to the video to defendants charged with crimes arising from the January 6th insurrection. See Politico, House GOP moving to let Jan. 6 defendants access Capitol security footage. Per Politico,

House Republicans are moving to provide defendants in Jan. 6-related cases access to thousands of hours of internal Capitol security footage, a move that could influence many of the ongoing prosecutions stemming from 2021’s violent attack.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who chairs the House Administration Committee’s oversight subpanel, said that the access for accused rioters and others — which Speaker Kevin McCarthy has greenlighted — would be granted on a “case-by-case basis.”

Defendants in the January 6th prosecutions are entitled to obtain exculpatory evidence from the government. But access to those materials must be granted in accordance with the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Congress is not a party to those criminal prosecutions and should not meddle by granting unfettered access to irrelevant materials that can be used by insurrectionists to inflame and prejudice jurors.

But it gets worse. Much. The member of Congress who will supervise access to highly sensitive surveillance tapes by January 6th defendants is Rep. Barry Loudermilk. You may recall Rep. Loudermilk because he was accused of giving tours of the Capitol on the day before the insurrection (January 5th)—a day the Capitol was closed to the public. Loudermilk vehemently and indignantly denied that charge until the January 6th Committee released a video of Loudermilk giving tours of the closed Capitol to a group of people on January 5th. See International Business Times, Republican Congressman Denied Giving A Capitol Tour To Rioters, New Video Evidence Shows He Did.

McCarthy’s attempt at damage control asserts that he will give access to surveillance tapes to the American people at some point in the future. Of course, that begs the question of why he decided to give preferential and exclusive access to an insurrection denier (Tucker Carlson) and to January 6th defendants before giving access to the American people. And it raises serious questions about why McCarthy appointed someone accused of giving reconnaissance tours of the Capitol to supervise access by insurrectionists to highly sensitive surveillance tapes of the Capitol.

There are no innocent explanations in response to those questions. Kevin McCarthy can bob and weave all he wants, but the result is incontestable: Republicans in Congress have taken the side of those who mounted the violent insurrection on January 6th—because Kevin McCarthy’s pathetic, shriveled ego would not be satiated until he became Speaker of the House, regardless of the damage inflicted on our democracy.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

#Speaker McCarthy #treason #sedition #House Republicans #National Security #Robert B. Hubbel Newsletter #Robert B. Hubbell

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corporationsarepeople · 1 year

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Honestly at this point every one of these assholes should be removed from office for sedition.

Based on TPM’s analysis, Meadows received at least 364 messages from Republican members of Congress who discussed attempts to reverse the election results with him. He sent at least 95 messages of his own. The committee did not respond to requests for comment. Some of Meadows’ texts — notably with Fox News personalities and a couple members of Congress — have already been made public by the committee, media outlets, and in the book “The Breach.” However, the full scope of his engagement with congressional Republicans as they worked to overturn the election has not previously been revealed.

#sedition #mark meadows #republicans #us politics

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odinsblog · 8 months

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#lol #politics #donald trump #civil war #trump indictment #republicans #traitors #tre45on #jan 6 insurrection #sedition #insurrection

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socialjusticeinamerica · 6 months

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RepubliKKKlans don’t care about American kids being slaughtered in the streets but they’ll cry their eyes out over Israeli kids. This is not a condemnation of Israeli kids but rather the callous lust for NRA money RepubliKKKlans display everyday. The NRA, gun lobby, and oligarchs pay them to ignore the shooting sprees on American streets and this has to stop.

Dead American children are not the price of freedom. RepubliKKKlan voters have been whipped up into a frenzy over the right to own guns and it is perverse and destabilizing.

#republican assholes #fuck the nra #republican hypocrisy #republican family values #republican values #mass shooting #gun violence #gun control #traitor trump #sedition Caucus #the nra is a terrorist organization #fuck the oligarchs

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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 7 months

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