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for a second term?
January 6th, Trumpism, and all the GOP controlled legislation to “put their thumb on the scale” is grounded in desperation and fear. No doubt.
What makes it depressing is that we have to even worry about it still having any life — that January 6th failed to “scare America straight.”
Trump has never been the problem. His voters are the destructive force in America.
America’s survival as a righteous democracy and the greatest nation ever, hinges upon Americans overwhelmingly voting to crush anyone who lacks the courage and integrity to stand up to Trumpism.
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Link: https://twitter.com/i/status/1440776133675388931
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And why did the WH lawyers try so hard to suppress the video do you think?
protesters showing up. Cops were not actually beaten and injured, they opened a lemonade stand
Inside the building to welcome the peaceful visitors.
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Too funny.
Those who feel we were facing a serious threat are being melodramatic. It was a rowdy mob but never a real menace to anyone.
It’s possible you’ve lost a step or two in your 74 years.
You realize that more and more video will be released that will completely contradict the fable that was constructed, right? Man, it'll be tough to evade literal video by exclaiming, "That's right wing source!" Good stuff.
at the Capitol Building - where is it?
Seeing people milling about one of the hallways after climbing through broken windows and doors their pals crashed through doesn't counter the violence
and the intent of the thousands who were there. It just doesn't.
It's kinda' like saying, 7 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were there for the plane ride. They bought tickets and had good seats, so it wasn't really
a terrorist attack.
Just so we're clear, the attack on the Capitol Building really did happen. There were many in that group of attackers who wanted to "hang
Pence and kill Pelosi" - they wanted to stop the certification of our presidential elections and reinstall Trump.
They knew their way around the labyrinth of Capitol's hallways and they broke into the offices of our legislators. They
beat police officers and attacked with makeshift weapons and at-hand weapons. This really did happen on 1/6/21,
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Call it anything you want but it was just a tantrum by losers. Kinda like BLM and Antifa.
chamber and the lawmakers with guns drawn.
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....oh brother.
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A man who absolutely hates workers - he sees as his subjects and yet his supporters, mostly laborers see someone who champions them.
He mauls the English language using it to blame others, yet his followers hear a clarion call even when it is of no substance - rhetoric that in years past would have put him in a nut house, definitely not the Whitehouse. Read 678’s posts. Nothing there but attack. No substance no sense, just attack.
“What makes the Trump movement historically unique is not its passions and paranoias. It is the fact that for millions of Americans, Trump himself is the response to their fears and resentments. This is a stronger bond between leader and followers than anything seen before in U.S. political movements.”
And their fear is the prospect of America’s white dominated power base yielding to a multi culture power base in America. Trump supporters are not necessarily racist, but they will stop at nothing, and turn a blind eye towards everything, so long as “Make America Great Again” (i.e. white men calling the shots) remains our governing platform.
I still believe America will find its path beyond the Trump movement, but it may be a more arduous journey than we otherwise thought after January 6th. This Board proves that many Americans are seemingly OK with what transpired that day and beyond.
Power is everything.
It couldn’t happen here, I thought. We love democracy too much, I thought.
Now a solid third of the country is perfectly willing to overthrow the system to put their chosen one - the worst among us - in charge.
How can you not despair.
White supremacy is the boogie man of the left, along with climate change and unvaccinated people.
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As if that's a bad thing.
You fit the bill.
The most transparently anti-democratic leader in American history…but it doesn’t matter. They love him. He owns the libs!
A major crisis is coming in 2024.
All you Trumpies should read that Kagan piece. And know that he is a lifelong Republican.
We only elect people who have serious personality disorders. We have to rely on institutional checks and balances to keep them from causing too much damage. What’s sad is that centrists are becoming increasing irrelevant.
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Record high employment among blacks and browns, no Hunter, has at least $1.50 per gallon less, strong leadership with UN, climate change fools, and NK. Shall I go on?
You mean record unemployment?
It appears only the Wall is all you have that makes you support Trump - that’s some legit you got going on.
Let's see now. What do you and your president count for? Illegal immigration, shanty villages, wide open borders, cages, abortion, blackface governors, riots, arson, murders, bombing innocent children then lying about it, Americans left behind, making the Taliban great again, billions in useless climate change funding, defund police, later term abortion, complete destruction of education, sports, music, and even religion. censorship, fake fake fake Russian collusion BS, mandates that the left in power don't even follow, homelessness, crime, shutting down jobs, teachers unions, marxists, communists, blm, antifa, 10% for the big guy, Hunter, a cackling fool as VP that couldn't even win, place, or show in her own presidential primary. Did I forget anything? We have R leaders who are painfully elite and useless too.
No honor, no intellectual honesty. A liar and fraud.
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Can you tell us what that is.
Plus, what checks and balances do we need to rely on to keep Biden in line?
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“Trump is different, which is one reason the political system has struggled to understand, much less contain, him. The American liberal worldview tends to search for material and economic explanations for everything, and no doubt a good number of Trump supporters have grounds to complain about their lot in life. But their bond with Trump has little to do with economics or other material concerns. They believe the U.S. government and society have been captured by socialists, minority groups and sexual deviants. They see the Republican Party establishment as corrupt and weak — “losers,” to use Trump’s word, unable to challenge the reigning liberal hegemony. They view Trump as strong and defiant, willing to take on the establishment, Democrats, RINOs, liberal media, antifa, the Squad, Big Tech and the “Mitch McConnell Republicans.” His charismatic leadership has given millions of Americans a feeling of purpose and empowerment, a new sense of identity. While Trump’s critics see him as too narcissistic to be any kind of leader, his supporters admire his unapologetic, militant selfishness. Unlike establishment Republicans, Trump speaks without embarrassment on behalf of an aggrieved segment of Americans, not exclusively White, who feel they have been taking it on the chin for too long. And that is all he needs to do.”
And if 1/6 was just mostly peaceful protesters, why did the R legislators scurry away from their constituents like scared pussies that had to be protected by the cops with guns drawn in the HOR chamber? They have truly jumped the stark with these nutties.
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“The political and intellectual establishments in both parties have been underestimating Trump since he emerged on the scene in 2015. They underestimated the extent of his popularity and the strength of his hold on his followers; they underestimated his ability to take control of the Republican Party; and then they underestimated how far he was willing to go to retain power. The fact that he failed to overturn the 2020 election has reassured many that the American system remains secure, though it easily could have gone the other way — if Biden had not been safely ahead in all four states where the vote was close; if Trump had been more competent and more in control of the decision-makers in his administration, Congress and the states. As it was, Trump came close to bringing off a coup earlier this year. All that prevented it was a handful of state officials with notable courage and integrity, and the reluctance of two attorneys general and a vice president to obey orders they deemed inappropriate.
These were not the checks and balances the Framers had in mind when they designed the Constitution, of course, but Trump has exposed the inadequacy of those protections. The Founders did not foresee the Trump phenomenon, in part because they did not foresee national parties. They anticipated the threat of a demagogue, but not of a national cult of personality. They assumed that the new republic’s vast expanse and the historic divisions among the 13 fiercely independent states would pose insuperable barriers to national movements based on party or personality. “Petty” demagogues might sway their own states, where they were known and had influence, but not the whole nation with its diverse populations and divergent interests.
Such checks and balances as the Framers put in place, therefore, depended on the separation of the three branches of government, each of which, they believed, would zealously guard its own power and prerogatives. The Framers did not establish safeguards against the possibility that national-party solidarity would transcend state boundaries because they did not imagine such a thing was possible. Nor did they foresee that members of Congress, and perhaps members of the judicial branch, too, would refuse to check the power of a president from their own party.”
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