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tomorrowusa · 5 months

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« Trump can’t beat Biden, but apathy just might. And the stakes are far too high to let that happen. »

— Columnist Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post. (archived)

Engagement is the opposite of apathy. Both engagement and apathy are contagious. We set the tone for people around us. Even boosting our signals can have an effect over time.

Be constant about messaging, this is a ten month project. Voters need to be continuously and creatively reminded of the stakes this year. If you don't remind them, who will?

Liberals tend to be squeamish about repetition; but repetition is the best friend of campaigners and advertisers. It doesn't matter if people you know get tired of your message as long as your message sinks in and becomes regarded as common knowledge.

Chances are that you still remember advertising jingles and slogans that you heard on TV when you were 7 or 8. That's how effective repetition is.

Ronald Reagan, no fan of the Evil Empire, was apparently fond of the Russian proverb "Доверяй, но проверяй" (Trust but verify). We should keep a different Russian proverb in mind this year: "Повторение - мать учения" (Repetition is the mother of learning).

We have it easy compared to Ukraine. They need to shoot down deadly missiles and drones Russia buys from North Korea and Iran. We only need to publicly and repeatedly shoot down MAGA bullshit and conspiracy theories while robustly firing back with our defense of democracy.

Of course things like voter registration and GOTV are still absolutely essential. But those are facilitated when there's a constant background vibe that freedom and democracy are on the line in November.

#donald trump #oppose trump's dictatorship agenda #republicans despise democracy #republicans hate freedom #messaging #repetition is your friend #democracy is under threat #register to vote #vote blue no matter who #election 2024 #eugene robinson

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sher-ee · 10 days

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5/25/2024 - Here is a clip of Trump getting booed last night at the Libertarian National Conference in Washington, DC. You can hear the people yelling "Bullsh*t!" and "F*ck You!"

Watch his face after each boo - when he typically gets cheers - it's priceless.

Outside of his cult he is despised.

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thecursivej · 3 months

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SOTU - 2024

Well, I'm forcing myself to watch the State of the Union while I grade speeches, so I figured I'd record my reactions and thoughts here.

Do I hope for the words "Immediate Ceasefire"? Absolutely. Will we get them? Looking at the track record, probably not. But I remain optimistic because otherwise I'd be six feet under by now; ANYWHO here is a list of my reactions/thoughts/general feelings of the evening's watch.

I do want to give a point of clarity: I technically am identified as a democrat; truly, I'm a socialist, but seeing as how the U.S. is stuck in this godforsaken two-party-system, that is where I am. Though both sides have me feeling very french-revolutionary-esque.

Of course the first thing I see if MTG rifling through her purse on screen. I quite literally despise her.

AP is discussing Ukraine's need for weapons and funding; I would truly rather us align with Ukraine than Isr@el. I will stand unapologetically firm for Palestine and Ukraine.

Who is actually in the cabinet? I know Blinken, Garland, and Buttiegeg. Damn, wish he was running again. Would rather have him than Biden.

How insane is it that the Sec. of Defense didn't even let the White House know that he had to go in for surgery because of cancer. Like, that's just bonkers to me.

Republicans truly look like fucking robots right now. No warm greetings, no hellos, simple nods.

Republicans out here wasting fucking time with that impeachment of Mayorkas. Like how about we house the homeless populations with the money they wasted on this circus.

Oh funky fresh look at the Ultra-Mormon(TM) Mitt Romney.

MTG with that stupid fucking MAGA hat on is just... disgusting. Like this bitch is crazy.

Okay Joe, speed it up down the fucking aisle please. I got papers to grade.

Lowkey Joe looks like he might have had a five-hour energy drink with that big-ole look in his eyes.

I do appreciate that Joe still smiles and is kind to MTG. She truly doesn't deserve it.

Okay this is getting just a wee bit too monarchy for me.

MTG holds up a button saying "Laken Riley..." (couldn't read the rest). Riley was a 14 year old girl murdered by a man who was an illegal immigrant of venezuela, and instead of handling this situation with grace, empathy, and love; MTG and others seem to be capitalizing on her death to push their anti-immigration rhetoric.

Okay, cool selfie skills Joe, but let's get on with it.

ALSO HOW IS JOE BIDEN GONNA BE SO IN DEPTH WITH TECH AND "Savvy" WITH IT WHEN MOTHERFUCKER WANTS TO BAN TIKTOK!? Hello?!

BERNIE AND RAPHAEL! I feel like I haven't seen these guys in 10 million years.

Oh thank god we're starting.

Aww the little hand shake thingy he does with Kamala makes my heart happy.

Did Joe just yell "tony"?!

Wow, even got some republicans clapping for him (probs not a good thing but here we are)

Okay, good bit of humor at the top; and a throwback to the 40s. Funky fresh.

Yeah we ain't living in ordinary times for damn sure.

Interesting point of democracy being attacked here in the U.S. AND Internationally. (Mentions Ukraine and Putin; no word on Gaza yet).

Someone busted out a Ukrainian flag and shook it; rock on.

OH SHIT HE GOT MIKE JOHNSON TO CLAP!

Appreciate the insistance that the U.S. won't send troops to UKR.

Good use of Reagan to connect with the Repubs; and compare to the predecessor (aka Tr*mp).

Mike Johnson nodding instead of clapping about the predecessor comment, trying to save his ass in Orange Man's eyes.

Welcome to NATO, Sweden!

If there is one thing that should connect Democrats and Republicans; it's hatred for Putin. Yet there's a mix of Repubs standing in agreement and sitting to back up the predecessor's comment on Putin doing "whatever the hell he wants"

Talking about Jan 6. What breaks my heart? My parents still believe it wasn't an insurrection. Yikes on Bikes for me.

The line "You can't love your country only when you win" hits hard and even got Mike Johnson to applaud in agreement.

Foreign AND Domestic. Need a hefty focus on that with the right-wing republican group (@ MTG, Gaetz, Cruz, etc.)

Discussing IVF in Alabama; good connection to the overturning of Rowe v. Wade. It sucks that Republicans HAVE THE POWER to protect IVF nationally but shot the damn bill down not even a week ago.

ABORTION IS A HUMAN RIGHT. BODILY AUTONOMY IS A HUMAN. FUCKING. RIGHT. (@ The Missouri Senators who support taking away bodily autonomy).

WOMEN AREN'T WITHOUT ELECTORAL AND POLITICAL POWER; WE ABOUT TO TURN UP IN FORCE MOTHERFUCKERS!!! Bring back the strats from the 1900s; time to use our power and go bonkers.

Someone get Joe a glass of water please. Motherfucker looks a bit parched and keeps coughing. I get that when my throat goes dryyy

Can Biden not restore RvW? Can he not by an executive order make RvW the law of the land already?

Revisiting COVID's start from 2020 (Next week is the four year anniversary since the global pandemic).

PFFT idk who just yelled "LIES" but that was comical AF.

Well, the pandemic still controls a big part of our lives... so...don't agree with that shit.

Man, everyone sitting-and-standing must be getting a HELLA calf work out.

Sure, unemployment is down and new jobs are built; but corporate greed is quite literally killing us. Can Congress or Biden do something, damn it?!

Are we beginning to feel it, though? Are we feeling good economics? I doubt we are.

Good job pointing out how both parties have failed to buy american products, but how this admin has established that.

There's a good two rows of Republicans who stand in applause; but the rest just... sit there. Like robots. It's freaky as fuck.

Joe is actually doing pretty great with the flow of this speech. Only a couple of stumbles, but overall pretty gucci. (He'd get a 9/10 on delivery in my public speaking class).

God these fuckers are really gonna make me run for office at this damn point.

Removing poisonous lead pipes... but there's still a water crisis in Flint, Biden. Like, what the fuckeroni do you mean?

Yes, let's invest in family farms; lets stop selling our farmland (especially in Missouri) to foreign countries (@ China buying up TONS of Missouri Farmland).

I love that the UAW president is here, because he straight up is my kind of people. Dude wears eat-the-rich shirts and calls out the unethical-ness of billionaires.

UAW President pointing to Biden saying "It's you!"; nah dawg, it's you Sean.

MIDDLE CLASS DID BUILD THE COUNTRY AND UNIONS BUILT THE MIDDLE CLASS MOTHER FUCKERS!!!

Yes we get back up but right now...we might be getting more french revolutionary-esque if y'all don't stop PLAYING WITH OUR LIVES.

Oh jesus not the 4-more-years chants.

Oh now we talking about the future

YES PLEASE END TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMIES.

Says he's not anti-corp; but points out how trickle down economics has only helped the wealthy.

Yeah, how the fuck does it hurt the wealthy to pay just a weeee bit more in taxes? Like dawg, what are you gonna do with another million? What's the point?

Ooooh is Biden about to rope the repubs into some bipartisan shit? Please do.

What is Republicans huge issue with capping insulin? Truly? Who does it harm? Billionaires still get billions.

#u.s. politics #state of the union #sotu 2024 #election 2024 #joe biden

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kirbylover34 · 1 month

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PLEASE READ!

look I fucking get it, Tumblr I get you’re pissed off with Biden, and all the awful crap he’s done, So am I. but the Republican Heritage Foundation PROJECT 2025 is literally the end of our democracy, as we know it, and I’m not fucking exaggerating!

please please for the love of god vote for Biden so we can still have our rights! Please I fucking beg you! Even if you don’t like him, or despise him please think of it as a necessity, or for the people of this country. Please! I don’t want to live under a dictator, Lets keep it that way. I don’t know what it’s like to live under a dictator and I don’t want to know what it’s like.

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Monday interview that he believes Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, is the “most dangerous person in the world.”

In an interview with Semafor, Pompeo, who is thought to be eyeing a potential 2024 White House bid, said that education is one of the central issues that Republicans should focus on, noting his criticism of Weingarten and the current teaching curriculum in U.S. school systems.

“I tell the story often — I get asked ‘Who’s the most dangerous person in the world? Is it Chairman Kim, is it Xi Jinping?’ The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten,” Pompeo said.

“It’s not a close call. If you ask, ‘Who’s the most likely to take this republic down?’ It would be the teacher’s unions, and the filth that they’re teaching our kids, and the fact that they don’t know math and reading or writing,” the former top U.S. diplomat added.

“These are the things that candidates should speak to in a way that says, ‘Here’s the problem. Here’s a proposal for how to solve it. And if given the opportunity, these are the things I will go work on to try and deliver that outcome that fixes that problem,'” Pompeo concluded. “Pretty straightforward stuff.”

In a thread on Twitter, Weingarten said she didn’t know if the remarks should be considered “ridiculous or dangerous.”

“At the state department, Pompeo defended Middle East’s tyrants & undermined Ukraine. He was more focused on pleasing Trump than fighting 4 freedom, national security & democracy. To compare us to China means he must not know what his own department says,” she wrote.

“Maybe spend a minute in one of the classrooms with my members and their students and you will get a real lesson in the promise and potential of America.”

Education was one of the issues Americans cited as the most important during the 2022 midterm election cycle, as many GOP-led states implemented laws that prohibited the teaching of critical race theory — a college-level theory that posits racism underlies American institutions and public policies — or LGBTQ perspectives in classrooms.

Florida’s state legislature earlier this year passed its Parental Rights in Education bill, commonly known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The law prohibits educators in the state from talking about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary schools, and parents are able to take legal action against school districts they believe have violated it.

Weingarten, who has been AFT’s president since 2008, told USA Today in August that “extremists on the right wing” despise teachers unions and their commitment to creating a safe and welcoming environment for every student.

“Our job is about what kids need, what communities need,” she said at the time. “Because when you’re doing that, you’re also doing what your members need.”

“But it’s never been as bad as right now — where it’s not just political, it’s cultural,” Weingarten said. “People had a different view of how to do education, but there was not this attack on people’s basic humanity. This is really new.”

The Hill has reached out to AFT for comment.

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dhaaruni · 2 years

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I wish dem messaging would be less school-marm-y as well. I live in a deep red area and i guarantee you i'd get jumped for (sadly) talking abt trans people and banning guns, but like whenever i talk about socially liberal things in terms of "well its no-ones BUSINESS how i raise my children, it may not be how YOU would do it but my kids ain't your kids" like even THAT gentle pushback gets some people to scratch their heads for a second. Guns are a total no-go here bc of all the white nationalist chuds but the truth is a bunch of my lefty friends here have guns too so its like. Ok we all got guns now what like that should be the conversation in these areas. I start losing hope bc whenever someone starts messaging RIGHT someone on the squad or ~~liberal media~~ gets them cancelled or smthn it pisses me off lol

That's what I'm saying!

I’m not claiming that Americans agree with the nitty-gritty stuff activists are saying on abortion or LGBT issues (most people don’t support abortion “on demand without apology” and are divided on trans girls in sports) but most Americans don’t really care what other people do if it doesn’t impact them. America’s very individualistic, borderline libertarian in many ways, and it’s probably the best thing about this country. Like, Trump banning transgender people in the military had like 20% support, and people overwhelmingly support trans people not being professionally discriminated against, which is leaps and bounds better than most other countries.

So many "liberal" policies, both social and economic, are really just common sense, and we should frame it as that instead of claiming we want to revolutionize these people's way of life. Like, Steve Bullock, the former governor of Montana, said it in his NYT op-ed: most people want the same things for their families, the opportunity for a good education, a job they don't despise that puts food on the table and can provide for them and their families, to not fret about going bankrupt over an emergency appendectomy or whatever, and some occasional leisure. It shouldn't be rocket science to win enough of these people over when Democratic economic policies ARE better for most Americans than Republican ones, they do agree with us on the essence of social issues, and yet, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden lost non-college voters to Trump while Barack Obama won them, which that should be a major electoral red flag given only about 35% of Americans even have a college degree.

And even with social issues, if you frame abortion as "Do you really want your 14-year-old daughter to be forced into having a baby when she's a straight-A student and sports star and could get a scholarship to college?" or "Do you really want your beloved wife to die a painful death when that baby you both desperately wanted is already dead inside her?", you're going to get a whole lot more support even among avowed conservatives than if you scream about abortion being rad and joke about celebrating abortion, you know what I mean? I don't celebrate a root canal or appendectomy, why would I celebrate an abortion? It's just a medical procedure, and glorifying it as as bad as moralizing it.

But you're right, like it's partly misogyny in the Democrats = feminine Republicans = masculine stereotype, but even aside from that, Americans associate Democrats with being lame and didactic and out of touch with normal people, and that's both untrue given what the party actually stands for and electorally devastating. And when half the House Republicans voted to overturn the 2020 election, Democrats need to win as much as possible for the sake of our democracy like we don't have another option right now other than to win over moderates. If you have another idea, let me know lol.

#answered #anonymous #politics

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laundryandtaxes · 2 years

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I think it's wild that Democrats are looking at a situation in which a good half of their opposition party believes the last election was stolen and is fine with political violence that resulted from that belief, in which a good 40% of the country is okayish at least with the recently ousted leader of that opposition, in which the portion of the country they consider to be the most legitimate threat to democracy is the portion of the country with a lot (not all, or nearly all) of its HUNDREDS of millions of personally owned firearms, and looking at that board decided to subpoena the recently ousted opposition leader to speak before their committee on the matter. For what? The 40% of the country that they despise isn't watching, and their news cycle hasn't touched on the Jan 6th hearings as anything other than partisan political theater. The other 60% of the country knew ON the day that Trump was at least partly to blame for the events of the day, even if only through his refusal to concede. As a private citizen, he has the right not to incriminate himself, and as a former president he has the ability to invoke presidential privilege where there absolutely is none. Handing him a megaphone, after he's already been banned from his biggest soap box yet, Twitter, right around an election season, in the hopes that he'll get on television and what??? Apologize? Wild. This could be helpful for Republicans, who it seems will need to find a way to quietly purge him to wrangle back some control over their own party, but it's very difficult to see any upside for Democrats here other than appearing to be really serious about the rule of law while also trying to pass major legislation through budget loopholes. It is really difficult to walk back talk of "illegitimate" court justices, and really easy for any media personality to portray every move Democrats have made here as empty political theater whipped up in an attempt to browbeat people they hate. Someone will portray the move in exactly that way, and they will portray it to an audience that Democrats on the whole believe to be potentially dangerous actors.

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medici-collar · 2 years

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Political Chess : A New Song

A poem calling Washington King and Hamilton his Queen, they get check-mated and Adams is upset.

"Ye political gamblers of every degree,

Stock-holders, land jobbers, come listen to me,

Since you've play'd all your cards with such skill and address,

I'll teach you the game of Political Chess:

Then let us in Chorus undauntely sing,

With our pawns we will certainly check-mate your king:

Let the contest begin, come, the Chess-board display,

Set all your gens noir up in technic array;

Let your Chieftain surrounded with troops of his blacks,

Still think himself safe from immediate attacks.

And we will in Chorus, &c.

Let HAMILTON sweeping the board at a stride,

Be plac'd next in rank at his Majesty's side:

To our pawns the most investrate foe,

And the principal engine of mischief and woe.

And we, &c.

Two Bishops in order next these must be seen,

Possessing one motion alone of the Queen,

Her diagonal track they can only pursue,

In their passage they keep a snug corner in view.

And we, &c

These Bishops are easily found by a glance,

At two chiefs of Department, of State, and finance;

Of HAMILTON'S arts no one these can accuse,

Mere "successors in form to his talents" and views.

And we,&c.

TheKnights who our pawns by their quirks circumvent,

By two chiefs of the law we might well represent,

To the view of your party their motions are true,

They the straight line of principle never pursue.

And we, &c.

In PITT and ADAMS your castles display,

Tho on opposite sides, they move the same way;

Both advocate pow'r at the people's expence,

And are both to the King a strong tow'r of defence.

And we, &c.

By our phalanx of pawns see your Monarch beset.

Let him try all his skill at a Treaty Gambette;

Tho' he castled with PITT, he has found to his cost,

By this desperate move that the partie is lost.

And we, &c.

Let the Queen make defence an eternity long,

And your Bishops & Knights interpose in a throng;

If our pawns move but true , we shall spoil their effect,

And your principal piece by discov'ry be check'd .

And we, &c.

In possessions for others your Bishops profuse,

Our pawns from their objects may hope amuse,

On the Chess-board of France they are known to be fools, +

And at best ambition and tyranny's tools.

And we, &c.

Tho' your numerous Checks and your long-boasted skill,

May fave you a while, we will press on your still,

In spite of your nicks you shall meet with your fate,

And the pawns of Democracy give you check-mate

And then in full Chorus shall Democrats sing,

Our pawns, my brave boys, have check-mated their King.

+Fou, the name given to the Bishops in the French Game.

This Poem was published on the 15th of January 1796 in the Aurora General Advertiser , a newspaper run by Benjamin Franklin Bache, which was known for its extreme Anti-Federalist and Pro-Republican stance as well as attacks upon, the Jay Treaty, President Washington and Federalists like Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. The author called himself " The Ghost of Samuel" and is identified by the editor as Samuel Sweetbriar.

While I could find neither Hamilton's nor Washington’s reaction, John Adams inclosed this poem in a letter to his wife Abigail and wrote:

"The Democrats continue to pelt as you will See by the inclosed Political Chess."

John Adams to Abigail Adams 15th of January 1796

Abigail Adams herself despised the Aurora describing its work as a

"Mad rant, which is totally disregarded. the people have in general learnd how to estimate their contents"

Abigail Adams to John Adams 3rd of February 1796

#alexander hamilton #george washington #thomas jefferson #john adams #abigail adams #benjamin franklin bache #amrev #american revolution #william pitt

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your-krazy-uncle-bob · 2 years

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Democrats Are Semifascist

The projection that characterizes Democrats reached its apogee when Joe Biden accused his opposition of “semifascism.”

Even liberal propagandist Don Lemon was curious what Biden meant by that. He asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, but received only hyperpartisan duckspeak in response.

Looks like Biden has given up on the unity he promised, even if he does plan to host an absurd “Unity Summit.”

Try again, Cringe Pierre. Why are Republicans semifascists?

“You look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they’re doing in attacking our democracy, what they are doing in taking away our freedoms…our voting rights.”

This is a reference to Republican opposition to election fraud and resistance to Democratic attempts to seize control of elections in violation of the Constitution.

“Our democracy” is liberalese for “Democrat rule.”

Let’s have a look for ourselves at the definition of fascism. From Merriam-Webster:

a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

True, the Democratic Party openly despises the American nation. But exaltation of the federal government over the individual defines its policies. Critical Race Theory is in effect our state religion under Democrat rule. Biden’s unlawful transfer of half a $trillion in student loan debt epitomizes centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader.

Severe economic regimentation is the point of Democrats’ climate ideology. Severe social regimentation is the point of political correctness. A more obvious example of forcible suppression of opposition than the Mar-a-Lago raid would require throwing Trump in prison or having him shot.

Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini said that fascism should more properly be called corporatism, “as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” Prime examples of this are Big Tech suppressing revelations of Biden’s influence peddling to the communist Chinese right before the election and Pfizer delaying its Covid vaccine at the request of Democrats so that it wouldn’t give Trump an electoral boost.

Democrats are semifascists rather than full fascists because even fascists have positive qualities. They usually love their country, unlike the party that promises to fundamentally transform America. People say Mussolini got the trains running on time. Try to imagine Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg getting trains to run on time.

The staggering hypocrisy of the semifascist Biden denouncing his opponents as semifascist is so massive that the sheer weight of it can be felt on the other side of the world. Australia’s Rita Panahi weighs in:

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davidearle · 2 months

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I spent four minutes watching Trump's six minute Nazi propaganda campaign video. To sum up: America is at war with Democrats, referred to as "woke globalists", who are using immigrants to take over the country from "real" Americans. Donald Trump is the only candidate who will fight them and the only candidate who will get MAGA to fight them, because he loves MAGA and MAGA loves him, so Republicans need to back him even if they despise him. Democrats are only complaining about fascism because they're scared of losing. White people should not feel any white guilt because Donald Trump has never felt any guilt at all. If they throw him in jail he'll just roar louder. All that backed with clips of Trump glad-handing Kim Jong Un and shots of prominent Democrats whenever the messaging turns violent.

This election is a point of no return moment for the country and it is very scary that no one in power seems to recognize this except the ones eager to drive democracy over a cliff.

#2024

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cattarattat · 6 months

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A MUST, MUST, MUST READ!!!

"This leads me to the latest Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a super-evangelical who apparently believes that the devil is at work in our country, gradually destroying the American family, democracy and Christian liberty. Now, to be clear, as a minister who believes in God, I am compelled to believe in the devil. But I see him much more at home within the evangelical movement than in most liberal causes. It is well understood in Christian history that the best place to disrupt goodness is through the church itself. Consider the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the history of American slavery, the attempted genocide against Native Americans and the oppression of women. All these evils are or were firmly backed by biblical theology — at least, as many Christians understand it — and, in my opinion, are all fully endorsed by the devil himself. This is now true of the evangelical political movement, which I believe is led by the devil and his followers.

As a Christian minister who believes in God, I am compelled to believe in the devil. But I see him much more at home in the evangelical movement than in most liberal causes.

You see, if the devil is real I am pretty sure he doesn't care about same-sex marriage, taxes on the wealthy, building a wall along the Mexican border, denying health insurance to poor and working-class people or even abortion. The devil isn't about issues. He wants to control and mislead people and get them to do evil things. Currently, the evangelical agenda advanced by people like Mike Johnson involves ignoring the needs of the poor, the sick and immigrants from foreign lands. They support Donald Trump — which should be enough evidence that the devil is real, by the way — and believe that our planet's population of 8 billion people started with a man and a woman in a garden. Yikes!

Here's the truth: There is evil in this world. That is evident to anyone paying attention, and for the most part I see it in people who loudly claim to be pure and good. You can certainly find that hypocrisy on the 'liberal' side as well, but honestly it's more common among the evangelical leadership, whom I know very well. Jesus gave his sternest warnings against the religious hypocrites of his day — those who misuse the word of God to oppress or subjugate people and restrict their rights. Jesus knew, as we must know too, that the real evil, the genuine devil, is often found in the pulpit. The devil has many followers. He sells many books. He runs for president. He misleads God's people.

I feel afraid when I fetch my laundry from the basement, because I know the devil and his minions are real. My irrational fear of my back hallway and that dark basement is based on something I know to be true. As that remarkably ignorant man said on TV, the devil hates us and I hate that devil. Mike Johnson, Donald Trump and the evangelical leadership that supports these evildoers are being controlled by the devil. They tap into evil desires to control, manipulate, and condemn the very people Jesus taught his followers to protect, serve and love.

Just as a quick example of this evil and manipulation in action, just watch as Donald Trump appears to alter his position on abortion. It's obvious to anyone paying attention that Trump, much like the devil, couldn't care less about abortion. It is an issue manipulated to motivate followers and put evil people into power. But now that the abortion issue is hurting the Republican brand, Trump will of course shift his views to win, because power is more important to evil than following any moral code.

To combat that power, those who oppose Trump and his evangelicals must remember the plain truth expressed 2,000 years ago by Jesus Christ. His ministry of Jesus revolved around two ideas: Serving the poor, the sick and the despised outsider, and exposing religious hypocrisy. Defeating Trump is simple, or at least it ought to be: Listen to the working poor, to blue-collar Americans, and expose the evangelical leaders who just want to sell books, gain power and fly in private jets.

Evil only loses if the people at the bottom pull together. Just as the lights in my apartment scare away the devil who may be pursuing me, it is time to shine the light on these massive hypocrites in evangelical leadership and the Republican Party. If we stand together, they will be forced to retreat into the dark basement, at least for now."

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dennisbmurphy · 8 months

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Republicans hate democracy and despise the voters

State GOP lawmakers file lawsuit to void voter-approved election proposals - https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/michigan/state-gop-lawmakers-file-lawsuit-to-void-voter-approved-election-proposals

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xtruss · 11 months

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The Case For A Third-Party Campaign In 2024 Is Actuarial, Not Ideological

No Labels wants to be political insurance for the democracy, yet may doom it

— July 20th, 2023

Nothing in American politics is more quixotic than a third-party presidential campaign. Thus, to political insiders, nothing is also more pathetic or else more cynical: in the best case, the campaign is detached from reality, and in the worst (and, to insiders, the more probable case, since this is politics for God’s sake) it is serving some hidden motive, some interest in the shadows.

Yet, because nothing is more quixotic than a third-party campaign, might it not actually be the most idealistic expression of American politics? Americans may have elected only one candidate to the presidency from a third party, but he was Abraham Lincoln. And good third-party politicians always seem so pure. They know the odds are stacked against them, but they also know Americans yearn for something different, for big ideas and hard truths. It sounds good to anyone who is in fact yearning for something different, which is pretty much everyone who is not an insider.

Enter Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, one of the more cynical American politicians or possibly one of the more principled, weighing a third-party bid in the latest twist of a presidential melodrama no strike-breaking screenwriter could pitch with a straight face. Whatever further criminal indictments, mislaid cocaine, unacknowledged grandchildren, unvaccinated Kennedys, old-age pratfalls or attempted Russian coups may yet await, Mr Manchin’s eventual choice could prove decisive.

Craggy and folksy, Mr Manchin has won in a state Donald Trump carried twice by about 40 points, but by casting votes that made progressives despise him. What Mr Manchin has seen as wise positions for an old-school blue-collar Democrat from coal country, they have seen as evidence of racism, truckling to special interests and egomania. As the spotlight of presidential speculation shines upon him, Mr Manchin is doing nothing to dispel that last suspicion. A fellow Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, recently called him “America’s biggest political tease”.

If Mr Manchin runs for president, he would do so as the candidate of No Labels, a centre-left organisation that argues Americans are dissatisfied with their emerging choice, between President Joe Biden and Mr Trump. The group intends to raise tens of millions of dollars and petition its way onto the ballot in every state. On July 17th, in the early primary state of New Hampshire, Mr Manchin appeared at a town-hall meeting organised by No Labels alongside a Republican, Jon Huntsman, a former governor of Utah, ex-ambassador to Moscow and Beijing, and past presidential candidate.

“I truly believe that all 435 people elected to Washington want to do good,” Mr Manchin said when asked about a radical House member. But the “business model” of both parties leads politicians to motivate supporters by creating or exaggerating division rather than compromising. Through No Labels, he said, “We can talk about the real problems. We don’t have to villainise the other side just because they might think different than I do.”

All of this is driving some Democrats crazy. The more sensible a No Labels candidate sounds, they fear, the more he will undercut Mr Biden’s advantage among sensible people. They argue that polling shows more Republicans identify with their party’s extreme than Democrats do with theirs, meaning a centrist candidate will take fewer votes from Mr Trump.

No Labels insists its polling shows it would hurt Mr Trump at least as much. It says it will field a candidate only if, after the Super Tuesday primaries next spring, the choice does come down to Mr Trump and Mr Biden, and only if the No Labels candidate has a clear shot at winning. “Those are deeply subjective judgments,” warns Matt Bennett of Third Way, a centrist Democratic group organising against No Labels, “and so far at least we have no faith they are making those judgments correctly.” The day Mr Manchin turned up in New Hampshire, some political luminaries opposed to Mr Trump launched Citizens to Save Our Republic, a super pac dedicated to fighting No Labels. The Arizona Democratic Party is suing to keep No Labels off the ballot there.

Unfortunately for those opposed to No Labels, such machinations are classic grist for the third-party idealism mill. In New Hampshire Mr Huntsman remarked that he had previously heard only Russian and Chinese officials discourage more political participation. Mr Manchin argued that fear of No Labels would force the Democratic Party to embrace more centrist positions. “Why are they scared that they may be threatened to do the right thing?” he asked. “Why are they scared to say, ‘Hey, you’re too far to the left and it doesn’t make any sense’?”

Better Angles

Yet No Labels is also playing games. As a non-profit organisation, it is not obliged to disclose its donors and it does not. Struggling to defend that practice, Mr Manchin fell back on saying that Republicans and Democrats also benefited from “dark money” and that he would vote, if given the chance, to do away with it.

There is no reason to doubt the sincerity of Mr Manchin or No Labels in seeking more public debate about the national debt, the need for national service or the decline of patriotism. But after the attack on the Capitol, only cynical political calculation could pinpoint the sensible centre of American life as equidistant from both parties. A party in thrall to Donald Trump is dangerous in ways a party resigned to Joe Biden is not.

In fact, some of his Democratic colleagues acknowledge, Mr Manchin deserves credit for blocking Mr Biden from moving farther left in the heady years when Democrats had majorities in both chambers, and for helping achieve landmark bipartisan legislation. Partly thanks to Mr Manchin, Mr Biden can justly claim to be the centrist’s alternative to Mr Trump. Only should Mr Biden’s health fail might Americans be lucky to have No Labels on the ballot (though Mr Manchin is 75). That is the only real argument for this third party, and it is the most cold-blooded one imaginable. ■

—This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Manchin in the Muddle"

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worldofwardcraft · 1 year

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Another reason to hate this man.

May 4, 2023

To say that Texas senator Ted Cruz (pictured above imagining the destruction of the Republic) is not widely beloved is something of an understatement. Former Democratic senator Al Franken famously quipped, "I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz." Republicans can't stand him, either. Here's Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina: "If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you." Even Donald Trump, who always has a kind word for everyone, was forced to concede, "He's a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him."

Cruz has built a political reputation on reliably voting against any bills that might conceivably help his constituents, taking credit for legislative benefits (like highways) he didn't vote for, missing Senate committee meetings and floor votes, abandoning his state when the electrical grid froze up, and trolling the libs on social media with outlandishly stupid lies. His most recent approval rating, according to a poll by the Texas Politics Project, is a pitiful 40%. That's right, even his fellow Texans dislike him.

It's almost like Cruz is on a mission to become the most despised person in American politics. And now new reporting provides an additional incentive to detest him. Turns out Cruz conspired to subvert our nation's democracy and flagrantly violated the oath he took to "support and defend" the Constitution.

Back in January 2021, Cruz (supported by some other Republican senators) made noises about setting up a "special commission" to conduct "an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states."

Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission's findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.

At the time, nobody paid much attention because making noises is what Ted Cruz does. But now it turns out he was dead serious. In a conversation with Faux News host Maria Bartiromo, recorded on January 2, 2021 and recently made public, Cruz can be heard detailing his plan to help Donald Trump illegally seize power and overthrow the election. Says MSNBC's Ari Melber,

Basically they would hijack the certification and use their own made-up, fake commission to declare that the Biden win was fraudulent and then that would decide who was inaugurated.

So, congratulations! You now have one more excuse to loathe the insufferable — and seditious! — Mr. Cruz.

#ted cruz #sedition #coup attempt

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cyarsk52-20 · 1 year

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Fuck you, Montana.

Forever

BREAKING: Montana Republicans just BANNED transgender Rep. Zooey Zephyr from speaking – FOR THE YEAR.

This is f**king outrageous. It's anti-democratic. It's wrong.

The GOP says it's because Rep. Zephyr said their anti-trans actions harms trans kids.

But she has PROOF. 👇

Zooey pointed out that ALL Montana legislators and the governor got a letter from an ER doctor who dealt with a suicide attempt from a trans teen who specifically cited THE MONTANA LEGISLATURE as a factor in wanting to commit suicide.

"My state doesn't want me," they said.

We have to boomerang this on Republicans.

They want to be bigots and silence LGBT community in the darkness? No. Let's expose them.

We will RAISE her voice to be heard by more people than they could ever imagine.

Lift up the cause they so despise.

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questionthebox · 2 years

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Misanthropy should never be

Branded on those,

Who are going beyond the parameters.

To go beyond

Means that these people aren’t willing

To go along with the comedy anymore

When Misanthropy exists

It exists because the wound of

Normal Life is to much to bare,

There are all these ill fitting parts

In terms of how to overcome

Liberal Democracy,

One must fit them all together

In a populist guise,

Furthermore violence is necessary

Because these ideas are about

The fight over “the worlds spirit”

&

How Humanity is supposed to live & behave.

I’ll forever be a Radical,

As I hate liberal democracy

Capitalism

The Republican form of Government,

I hate the cosmopolitan culture of the cities

I hate that LGBT is the only avenue of identity

I just completely despise the totality of

The norm.

Yet to overcome it

Radicals must be populist

And obscure their real intentions

Via the use of the mainstreams idiotic sense of decorum.

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