There are many lessons to be learned from this year’s election. The main one right now, though, is that because the RNC failed three times to protect America from a dictatorial madman that job now falls to us.
Thom Hartmann
If Trump and Vance are elected, under the rules defined by Republicans on the Supreme Court they’ll become our first king and king-in-waiting.
“Look at my entire Deep State target list,” Ivan Raiklin said. “That is the beginning. This is the scratching of the surface of who is going to be criminalized for their treason, okay?”
From the founding of our republic, protecting the power of the press to call out anti-democratic behavior has been a firewall, protecting our form of government. It is their job.
The answer to the question about why Trump is polling better than Biden regardless of the realities in the fact-based world: “It’s the media, stupid.”
Once again, patriots who believe in the ideals of July 4, 1776 must defend America against those who don’t.
If Trump is elected, the six Supreme Court Republicans just gave him near-Putin-like powers to end our democratic republican form of government, as Justice Gorsuch said, “for the ages.”
If you want to see what Republicans have in mind for the rest of America if Trump or another Republican becomes president and they can hold onto Congress, just visit the Old South.
Republicans and Trump keep referring to a post-constitutional era where the middle class, civil rights and even the rights of women to vote would rolled back.
The new GOP motto might as well be, “We don’t need no stinkin’ issues; we just want power and revenge for the heroes of the Old South and the New Insurrection.”
Trump and the GOP are pushing brazen lies like people were better off four years ago—when thousands a day were dying from Covid, the economy was tanking, millions had lost their jobs, and people sat in 5-mile-long lines for food banks.
No matter how hard Republicans try to reinvent the Founders and Framers in the image of their libertarian billionaire patrons, the reality is that America was history’s first great liberal experiment.
The bottom line is that we as a nation, voluntarily or involuntarily, have now had the full Republican experience. Which is why we’re no longer listening to the Republican politicians’ BS.
Today’s Christian Taliban made their the first great mission the seizing of control of the rest of the Republican Party. Now that that has been accomplished, they’re coming for the rest of us.
The techniques of irregular warfare are part of what helped the US and western Europe bring down the Soviet Union. Now fascists like Putin and others are applying them back against the United States.
A movement, being about ideas, has specific, achievable goals. A cult, on the other hand, is mainly about devotion and faithfulness to one person.