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THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2021-10-31 at 9:31 PM UTCThis makes me wonder who was under those robes in Charlotte.
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2021-10-31 at 9:39 PM UTCAnother "You have to pass it to know what's in it" maneuver.
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2021-10-31 at 10:46 PM UTCmy first you tube video
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2021-10-31 at 11:28 PM UTCMay they
All get a
Gun shoved up their
Asses just like Lindsay Graham wanted
Mediaite
Lindsey Graham Reportedly Called for Law Enforcement to Shoot Jan. 6 Rioters During the Attack: ‘We Give You Guns For a Reason. Use Them.’
Ken Meyer
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly called for law enforcement to gun down the rioters who broke into Congress during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
The Washington Post has released a new retrospective article on the riot Donald Trump’s supporters carried out in their violent attempt to overturn the former president’s 2020 election defeat. The piece offers a massive reconstruction of January 6th, and amid all the shocking content that turned up during the Post’s investigation, the paper presents a detailed timeline of how the situation on Capitol Hill plunged into chaos.
In the Post’s second chapter — titled Bloodshed — the report goes in-depth on how Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress were evacuated or sheltered in place after rioters breached the Capitol. One anecdote describes Graham’s reaction to fleeing the Senate chamber, including him urging the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms to use guns against the mob.
The Senate and House leaders also had been evacuated by Capitol Police and taken to an undisclosed location, but many lawmakers remained in their chambers for a few minutes before they were led to safety in the Hart Senate Office Building. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham was irate that senators were forced to flee their own chamber. He yelled at the Senate sergeant-at-arms. “What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns. Use them.” The South Carolina senator was adamant. “We give you guns for a reason,” he repeated. “Use them.”
In the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot, Graham declared himself politically done with Trump and refused to go along with his colleagues objecting to the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory. But in the months that followed, Graham has fallen back in line — holding up the ex-president as the Republican Party’s leader, and cozying up to him in person. -
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2021-10-31 at 11:40 PM UTCthat was only 45 mph
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2021-10-31 at 11:51 PM UTCMAGAts
Are
Going to
Always cheat
Business Insider
Want to hear something really scary? We're living through the death of democracy, but thankfully there's a solution.
insider@insider.com (Michael Gordon)
This Halloween let's face something really scary: the death of American democracy.
We're watching the ideals of free and fair elections get further and further away in real time.
Passing pro-voting bills could be a solution, if politicians have the gall to pass them.
Michael Gordon is a longtime Democratic strategist, a former spokesman for the Justice Department, and the principal for the strategic-communications firm Group Gordon.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
Today is Halloween - so it's as good of a day as any to acknowledge that the US is experiencing something very, very frightening: the death of our democracy.
Unlike a horror movie villain jumping out from the shadows, it's easy to see the destruction of American democracy coming. One democratic norm falls, then another, then another, and before long we are left with only a shattered husk, full of the trappings of democracy but with none of the actual representation.
But all hope is not lost. Democrats have a narrow window to strengthen the foundation of our nation, if they're strong enough and smart enough to seize the moment.
Deliberate erosion
As it stands, we find ourselves living through democracy's slow and painful death. All the outward symbols of democracy are present: party leaders are still stumping for candidates in New Jersey and Virginia and political operatives are gearing up for the 2022 midterms. But it's still unclear just how much those elections and the air of normalcy they have around them will help slow the norms being eroded.
In Virginia, the GOP has summoned an "army of poll watchers" to help police voting booths around the state during Tuesday's statewide elections. While poll watchers are nothing new, an electoral strategy predicated on intimidating voters with excess poll watchers, and then claiming voter fraud before the election even happens are prime examples of long-held democratic norms being tossed aside in the name of political expediency.
In many other states, Republican-led state legislatures are passing laws that make the act of voting more difficult. In Texas, the ability to request a mail-in ballot and use drive-thru voting were curtailed, an attack on the shift workers and the voters of color who are more likely to use these methods. In Georgia, lawmakers made it illegal to bring food and water to voters in line, which is undeniably an attack on voters of color, who are routinely forced to stand in longer lines to vote than their white counterparts.
A common theme from this erosion of democratic norms is that a single party, the Republican party, is responsible. And what's worse, national Democrats don't seem to be doing anything about it, despite controlling Congress and the presidency.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which has already passed the House, would restore parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that were struck down by the Supreme Court. The For the People Act would ban partisan gerrymandering, make it easier for Americans to register to vote, overhaul campaign finance laws to strengthen everyday Americans' voices, and curb the corruption of big money in politics.
But so far both of these bills have been stopped cold by the threat of a Senate filibuster - something the Democrats will not fix.
Democrats are democracy
The deck is stacked against Democrats, and considering the autocratic path Republicans are going down, it appears the deck is stacked against democracy as well. Conservatives have a majority on the Supreme Court, big advantages in the Electoral College and Senate maps, and control many state legislatures, and with it the redistricting process that will determine the future of the House.
That legislative control could cause the next major destruction of democratic norms as well: having state legislatures simply appoint presidential electors, rather than having voters choose them. While this was considered a long-shot unlikely to succeed in 2020, with enough time and enough will to disregard democracy, authoritarian-minded Republican legislators could surely figure out a way to permanently rig elections in their favor.
These voting restrictions and other plans to curtail democracy in the United States are all in the service of the de-facto dictator of the Republican party: Donald Trump. While he has made no overt claims to be running in 2024, the writing is certainly on the wall. The Republicans intend for the 2024 election to be a coronation, the final chapter in their quest to entrench minority rule.
And in '24 they may be able to finish what they started in '20: overturning the results of a legitimate election that they lost.
The Democrats have only one more year of guaranteed majorities in Congress. This is the urgent moment for them to get Sen. Joe Manchin in line, dump the filibuster if needed, and enact the voting laws that will solidify our fragile democratic tradition.
Without passing major legislation that secures Americans' right to vote and provides a bulwark against democratic backsliding, they could allow the final pillar of our democratic system to fall. That's a scary thought. -
2021-10-31 at 11:56 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 MAGAts
Are
Going to
Always cheat
Business Insider
Want to hear something really scary? We're living through the death of democracy, but thankfully there's a solution.
insider@insider.com (Michael Gordon)
This Halloween let's face something really scary: the death of American democracy.
We're watching the ideals of free and fair elections get further and further away in real time.
Passing pro-voting bills could be a solution, if politicians have the gall to pass them.
Michael Gordon is a longtime Democratic strategist, a former spokesman for the Justice Department, and the principal for the strategic-communications firm Group Gordon.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
Today is Halloween - so it's as good of a day as any to acknowledge that the US is experiencing something very, very frightening: the death of our democracy.
Unlike a horror movie villain jumping out from the shadows, it's easy to see the destruction of American democracy coming. One democratic norm falls, then another, then another, and before long we are left with only a shattered husk, full of the trappings of democracy but with none of the actual representation.
But all hope is not lost. Democrats have a narrow window to strengthen the foundation of our nation, if they're strong enough and smart enough to seize the moment.
Deliberate erosion
As it stands, we find ourselves living through democracy's slow and painful death. All the outward symbols of democracy are present: party leaders are still stumping for candidates in New Jersey and Virginia and political operatives are gearing up for the 2022 midterms. But it's still unclear just how much those elections and the air of normalcy they have around them will help slow the norms being eroded.
In Virginia, the GOP has summoned an "army of poll watchers" to help police voting booths around the state during Tuesday's statewide elections. While poll watchers are nothing new, an electoral strategy predicated on intimidating voters with excess poll watchers, and then claiming voter fraud before the election even happens are prime examples of long-held democratic norms being tossed aside in the name of political expediency.
In many other states, Republican-led state legislatures are passing laws that make the act of voting more difficult. In Texas, the ability to request a mail-in ballot and use drive-thru voting were curtailed, an attack on the shift workers and the voters of color who are more likely to use these methods. In Georgia, lawmakers made it illegal to bring food and water to voters in line, which is undeniably an attack on voters of color, who are routinely forced to stand in longer lines to vote than their white counterparts.
A common theme from this erosion of democratic norms is that a single party, the Republican party, is responsible. And what's worse, national Democrats don't seem to be doing anything about it, despite controlling Congress and the presidency.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which has already passed the House, would restore parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that were struck down by the Supreme Court. The For the People Act would ban partisan gerrymandering, make it easier for Americans to register to vote, overhaul campaign finance laws to strengthen everyday Americans' voices, and curb the corruption of big money in politics.
But so far both of these bills have been stopped cold by the threat of a Senate filibuster - something the Democrats will not fix.
Democrats are democracy
The deck is stacked against Democrats, and considering the autocratic path Republicans are going down, it appears the deck is stacked against democracy as well. Conservatives have a majority on the Supreme Court, big advantages in the Electoral College and Senate maps, and control many state legislatures, and with it the redistricting process that will determine the future of the House.
That legislative control could cause the next major destruction of democratic norms as well: having state legislatures simply appoint presidential electors, rather than having voters choose them. While this was considered a long-shot unlikely to succeed in 2020, with enough time and enough will to disregard democracy, authoritarian-minded Republican legislators could surely figure out a way to permanently rig elections in their favor.
These voting restrictions and other plans to curtail democracy in the United States are all in the service of the de-facto dictator of the Republican party: Donald Trump. While he has made no overt claims to be running in 2024, the writing is certainly on the wall. The Republicans intend for the 2024 election to be a coronation, the final chapter in their quest to entrench minority rule.
And in '24 they may be able to finish what they started in '20: overturning the results of a legitimate election that they lost.
The Democrats have only one more year of guaranteed majorities in Congress. This is the urgent moment for them to get Sen. Joe Manchin in line, dump the filibuster if needed, and enact the voting laws that will solidify our fragile democratic tradition.
Without passing major legislation that secures Americans' right to vote and provides a bulwark against democratic backsliding, they could allow the final pillar of our democratic system to fall. That's a scary thought.
Do you agree with the conceit here, that the real problem isn't oligarchs or lobbying or corruption or jedi ethnic interest or the two party system, it's that some people want you to have to be able to show ID to vote?
Isn't that the definition of a deflection? -
2021-11-01 at 12:05 AM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 May they
All get a
Gun shoved up their
Asses just like Lindsay Graham wanted
Mediaite
Lindsey Graham Reportedly Called for Law Enforcement to Shoot Jan. 6 Rioters During the Attack: ‘We Give You Guns For a Reason. Use Them.’
Ken Meyer
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly called for law enforcement to gun down the rioters who broke into Congress during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
The Washington Post has released a new retrospective article on the riot Donald Trump’s supporters carried out in their violent attempt to overturn the former president’s 2020 election defeat. The piece offers a massive reconstruction of January 6th, and amid all the shocking content that turned up during the Post’s investigation, the paper presents a detailed timeline of how the situation on Capitol Hill plunged into chaos.
In the Post’s second chapter — titled Bloodshed — the report goes in-depth on how Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress were evacuated or sheltered in place after rioters breached the Capitol. One anecdote describes Graham’s reaction to fleeing the Senate chamber, including him urging the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms to use guns against the mob.
The Senate and House leaders also had been evacuated by Capitol Police and taken to an undisclosed location, but many lawmakers remained in their chambers for a few minutes before they were led to safety in the Hart Senate Office Building. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham was irate that senators were forced to flee their own chamber. He yelled at the Senate sergeant-at-arms. “What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns. Use them.” The South Carolina senator was adamant. “We give you guns for a reason,” he repeated. “Use them.”
In the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot, Graham declared himself politically done with Trump and refused to go along with his colleagues objecting to the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory. But in the months that followed, Graham has fallen back in line — holding up the ex-president as the Republican Party’s leader, and cozying up to him in person.
Like rats fleeing the sinking ship. -
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