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US General Domestic Politics #18 Begins 05/29/21.


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43 minutes ago, Foamy T. Squirrel said:

I think operatives, or dupes as best. Propaganda is their trade.

Once you vote to lose your personal economic freedom, you have lost all. Such is their goal. 

Boy, are you guys brainless.  You're only fucking yourselves with your crazy theories, beliefs and hopes.  Too bad, because you're the one's destroying our democracy.

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15 hours ago, O_U812 said:

The greatest danger to American democracy right now is not coming from Russia, China, or North Korea. It is coming from the Republican Party.

Only 25 percent of voters self-identify as Republican, the GOP's worst showing against Democrats since 2012 and sharply down since last November. But those who remain in the Party are far angrier, more ideological, more truth-denying, and more racist than Republicans who preceded them.

And so are the lawmakers who represent them.

Today's Republican Party increasingly is defined not by its shared beliefs but by its shared delusions.

Last Friday, 54 U.S. senators voted in favor of proceeding to debate a House-passed bill to establish a commission to investigate the causes and events of the January 6th insurrection. This was 6 votes short of the number of votes needed for "cloture," or stopping debate – meaning any further consideration of the bill would have been filibustered by Republicans indefinitely.

So there will be no bi-partisan investigation.

The 54 Senators who voted yes to cloture – in favor of the commission – represent 189 million Americans, or 58% of the American population. The 35 who voted no represent 104 million Americans, or 32% of the population.

In other words, 32% of American voters got to decide that the nation would not know about what happened to American democracy on January 6.

Furthermore, the 35 who voted against the commission were all Republicans. They did not want such an inquiry because it might jeopardize their chances of gaining a majority of the House or Senate in the 2022 midterm elections. They also wanted to stay in the good graces of Donald Trump, whose participation in that insurrection might have been more fully revealed.

Eight of these Republicans voted against certifying Joe Biden as president on January 6. Some of their constituents were responsible for the insurrection in the first place.

The Republican Party is also pursuing new laws in many states making it harder for likely Democrats to vote and opposing voting reforms in Congress.

It is actively purging any Republican who has the temerity to criticize Trump. They have removed from her leadership position Liz Cheney, who called Trump's efforts to overturn the election and his role in inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot the greatest "betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution."

Local Republicans leaders have either stepped down or been forced out of their party positions for not supporting Trump's baseless election claims or for criticizing the former president's role in inciting the deadly Capitol riot.

American democracy is at an inflection point.

Senate Democrats must get rid of the filibuster and push through major reforms – voting rights, as well as policies that will enable more Americans in the bottom half – most of them without college educations, many of whom cling to the Republican Party – to do better.

In the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt noted that the survival of American democracy depended on the adoption of policies that comprised the New Deal. In that Depression decade, democracy was under siege around the world, and dictators were on the rise.

Joe Biden understands that America and the world face a similar challenge. And like FDR, Biden is making a strong case that the adoption of his policies will buttress democracy against the forces of tyranny, not only as an example to the rest of the world but here at home. - Robert Reich
 

Stolen from this source--why am I not surprised it is far left 

Nation of Change - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)

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13 hours ago, golfer06 said:
WWW.DAILYKOS.COM

Nikki Haley took a cheap shot at Kamala Harris over a tweet that offended Fox News’ tender sensibilities. The Vice-President had urged Americans to "enjoy the long weekend" over Memorial Day without...

Kamila Harris???   Yep--politicizing rather than paying tribute to the fallen

On this Memorial Day weekend, what does Vice President Kamala Harris decide to talk about in front of the Naval Academy’s graduating class? Solar power.

Kamala Harris' Naval gazing speech (nypost.com)

Kamala Harris' Naval gazing speech (nypost.com)

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13 hours ago, golfer06 said:
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A recent news report of gunplay du jour: �“A sixth-grade girl shot two students and a custodian at a middle school in Idaho yesterday…” We should be able to address the problem of mass ...

The amendment’s text says “arms” — not specifically “firearms.” Arms are broadly defined as instruments carried by a warrior for offensive or defensive purposes, including armor, shields, and swords. 

So my fellow Americans, take up your swords and follow me to defeat our enemies and the aggressors who have now come upon our soil to destroy our Republic. 🤣

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Stop it - My stomach hurts from laughing so hard.  This bitch is about to be broke as Hell.

WWW.RAWSTORY.COM

Hundreds of people gathered in Texas for a QAnon-sponsored conference over Memorial Day weekend to hear the biggest boosters of Donald Trump's Big Lie downplay the Capitol riot and...

 

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Beware false "Profits."

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On Tuesday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," Russell Moore, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention who has warned evangelical pastors are "exhausted" trying to combat QAnon...

 

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