Republicans: continued

[Sean Hayden]

[Brian Peacock]

And we all are desperate to hear about the machinations of the evil, left-wing Canadian lizard lords...

We can't criticize our dear leader without a license. Plus the US has more cartoonish and hilariously evil characters.

Diddums.

[Brian Peacock]

His finger on the pulse of the Republican Party...

'Trump-Backed Vernon Jones Says Civil Rights Don't Apply To Gay People Because They "Can Change"'

...

“Civil rights for Blacks, and gay rights for gays are two different things,” Jones declared to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on his “War Room” podcast.

...

Lol. A real insight into how people like this think about human rights, eh? Far more telling than they ever expected.

[Tero]

Democrats don't need to do anything! Just let republicans be republicabs!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-e ... m=news_tab

[JimC]

Democrats don't need to do anything! Just let republicans be republicabs!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-e ... m=news_tab

Do they charge to be taxis?

[Joe]

I guess they could see if the League of Women Voters would host the debates. They'd have to ask nicely.

Republicans say they're quitting the 'biased' Commission on Presidential Debates

In 1987, the Commission on Presidential Debates was established jointly by the Democratic and Republican parties to ensure that debates between the leading candidates for the President of the United States were a permanent part of the electoral process.

Now, the Republican National Committee has voted unanimously to leave the CPD, ending more than three decades of bipartisan civic cooperation.

"The Commission on Presidential Debates is biased and has refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage," Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.

"Today, the RNC voted to withdraw from the biased CPD, and we are going to find newer, better debate platforms to ensure that future nominees are not forced to go through the biased CPD in order to make their case to the American people," McDaniel continued.

The CPD did not immediately comment on the RNC's decision.

[Cunt]

I should host the debates.

I get a suitable sound-studio, put both candidates in there, turn on the live-stream, lock the door with only the two of them, and both can talk until they are done, then leave.

The games they play using the moderator and other theatrics would evaporate, and there would only be their discussion.

[pErvinalia]

Leave two baseball bats in there too...

[Tero]

We have a real trumpster running for governor, even down to the pussy grabbing:
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2022/04/14 ... legations/

[Tero]

Democracy! Always giving those liberal Democrats power!
and: Twitter ideal medium to repeat yourself over and over.

Ben-Ghiat: One of the big talking points and strategy of right-wing authoritarianism, is to label democratic systems as tyrannical. Mussolini was the first to say that democracies are tyrannical, democracies are the problem. And there’s a whole century’s worth of the strategy of calling sitting Democrats, who you want to overthrow, dictators. Biden as a social dictator, [is] a phony talking point. It has so many articulations from “They’re forcing us to wear masks.” And you have people like DeSantis who are doing this very subversive thing of saying, “Florida’s the free state. You can have refuge from the dictatorship of Biden here.” And what this is designed to do is discredit the sitting democratic administration in order to create, a myth of freedom. January 6 was actually marketed as the violence [being] in the service of freedom, and you were overthrowing a dictator.

Kruse: Given Trump, DeSantis, Abbott and so on, is the United States of America still a full democracy?

Ben-Ghiat: It’s deceptive because Trump did an enormous amount of damage. And that was why he was there. He was there to wreck our democracy. And then he was voted out. We can never forget that in the middle of a pandemic, 80 plus million people turned out to get rid of him. And that’s very rare in history where you interrupt an autocratic personality who’s in the middle of his project. And now the individual states are continuing this. And what’s so worrying is that they’re continuing it in a very accelerated fashion.

Also, the midterms are so close. I do believe if [Republicans] capture Congress after the midterms, you always have to assume the worst with people who have been very open about wanting to wreck democracy. And so that’s why they float these scary things, like making Trump speaker of the House. You have to realize that these people have left democracy, and nothing is off the table. And that’s why to go back to DeSantis, it’s very ominous that he established this office of election security. It’s very bad because it has its own prosecutors, and it makes things that used to be a misdemeanor a felony. If you look at the details of it, it’s not only an intimidation machine. It has some prosecutorial powers, and it has informing mechanisms, the tip line, and the whole idea of election integrity as this buzzword, which really means how are we going to start making elections come out the way we need to, is a very anti-democratic thing.

Kruse: Given the stakes, what are Democrats doing wrong right now?

Ben-Ghiat: The reason that Trump was able to shift the political culture, Trump and his allies, is that he imposed an authoritarian party culture [with] unified messaging. Propaganda needs to be repeated with small variations. All the different Fox News hosts, all the GOP politicians, you can tell when the various talking points come up, because they get echoed by all these lawmakers and throughout Fox. Now Democrats by their nature are not going to impose unified messaging. And so Democrats don’t have that force of concentration of message, that repetition, and that’s a failing in this environment.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... d-00024941

[pErvinalia]

Ben-Ghiat: It’s deceptive because Trump did an enormous amount of damage. And that was why he was there. He was there to wreck our democracy.

He was there for himself. That democracy was trashed was a side consequence.

[Tero]

Ben-Ghiat: It’s deceptive because Trump did an enormous amount of damage. And that was why he was there. He was there to wreck our democracy.

He was there for himself. That democracy was trashed was a side consequence.

But that was one reason the trumpsters voted for him. They hate the federal gov't and regulations and bureucrats.
1 appearance of strong, disregarding Europeans and the rest of liberals
2 cut down all gov't functions

He gave the weather bureau to a guy that owns
https://www.accuweather.com

[Tero]

...teaser for Tucker Carlson’s documentary ‘The End of Men’?
It’s quite riveting.
https://twitter.com/vicsepulveda/status ... 5233078272

[Tero]

[Tero]

Oliver explained it so well in that video I linked it in a blog:
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com/2022/0 ... along.html