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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

The Southern Poverty Law Center does more good in a day than Angus could dream of in a lifetime.
 
Trump showed his true colors when he had the racist AG Jeff Sessions cut ties with the SPLC. Neither Trump nor Sessions have any interest in tracking, infiltrating or prosecuting white supremacist groups. The people at SPLC would not stay quiet. They had to go.

To prove this point, Homeland Security has disbanded it homegrown terrorist section. We don't even have people looking at white supremacists who have killed more people since 9/12/2001 than any other groups. But Trump needs their votes.
 
 
It is political though. Which is why presidential candidates release their tax returns as candidates -- so it doesn't become a political issue once they become president.
 
When will moderate white people address the violence in the white community?
 
Time and again, the GOP in the Age of Trump has shown themselves to be a party that really values diversity and change in our national life. The tolerance they have displayed for the first female Muslim members of Congress is just inspiring, as has been their acceptance for Millennial politicians and new ideas as a whole. You're pushing left-of-center ideas like the Green New Deal? You're an anti-American socialist traitor to your country. You're a Muslim who dares to criticize Israel and its influence over US Government policies? You're an anti-Semitic un-American foreigner who needs to be driven from Congress. You're a Democratic member of the House of Representatives? Then you're a member of a party that is no longer "welcoming" to middle-aged and older white men who have pretty much run everything since the beginnings of the Republic, and who should continue to dominate everything. How dare these worthless young Millennials challenge this idea!
 
Trumpism Extols Its Folk Hero: The president’s devoted supporters have turned him into a legend of sorts.


...The only vulnerability the folk hero has is an exposed betrayal of the folk. Trump fawns over his base, and they reciprocate.

Edwards once joked on the eve of one of his elections, “The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.” He won, of course. This is not wholly unlike Trump joking — bragging? — that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, O.K.?” He won, of course.

I think it is a mistake to believe that Trump’s supporters don’t see his lying or corruption. They do. But, to them, it is all part of the show and the lore. They have personal relationships and work relationships like the rest of us, and those relationships depend on honesty and virtue. They, like my mother did, are allowing in him something that they would not allow in themselves.

And, when you survey the constellation of folk heroes, you see that many have been criminals. Bonnie and Clyde. John Dillinger. The Sundance Kid....


...Perhaps one of the most popular folk heroes in the world is mythological: Chinese folklore’s Monkey King.

The British Council wrote of his legend:

“Despite his superpowers, at the heart of the Monkey King’s appeal is his human fallibility — he is greedy, selfish, and prone to sudden changes of mood and outbursts of exceptional violence. He defies divine authority, laughs at attempts to be controlled, and leaves chaos in his wake. But we know that there is fundamental good within him. He is the misbehaving child who only needs a firm hand and a sense of purpose to come good.”

Sound familiar?

Anti-Trump forces must stop operating as if they are doing battle with a liar; they are doing battle with what his supporters have fashioned into a legend. How does one fight a fiction, a fantasy? That’s the question. Its answer is the path to America’s salvation.
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Three historically black churches in LA have been burned to the ground over the past ten days. Thanks Trump!!
 
Nunes Hints At Criminal Referrals He’ll Send Barr, Including A ‘Global Leak Referral’

Nunes implied in the interview that he’d waited two and a half years to send the referrals to the Justice Department because there wasn’t “a grown-up” leading the department.

“We’ve been working so hard for two and a half years, waiting for a real attorney general, which we have now in attorney general Barr, a grown-up is finally in the room, which is why we’re prepared to do a lot of cleanup here,” he said.
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Glad we have such an expert on the law faithfully executing his office (obvious /s):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...a47831b326b0f7f38f346/?utm_term=.6dab2fba9588

Excerpt: “The president called Ms. Nielsen at home early in the mornings to demand that she take action to stop migrants from entering the country, including doing things that were clearly illegal, such as blocking all migrants from seeking asylum,” the New York Times reports. “She repeatedly noted the limitations imposed on her department by federal laws, court settlements and international obligations. Those responses only infuriated Mr. Trump further.”

Also, fuck Stephen Miller.
 
Fishbelt Deac said:
Glad we have such an expert on the law faithfully executing his office (obvious /s):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...a47831b326b0f7f38f346/?utm_term=.6dab2fba9588

Excerpt: “The president called Ms. Nielsen at home early in the mornings to demand that she take action to stop migrants from entering the country, including doing things that were clearly illegal, such as blocking all migrants from seeking asylum,” the New York Times reports. “She repeatedly noted the limitations imposed on her department by federal laws, court settlements and international obligations. Those responses only infuriated Mr. Trump further.”

Also, fuck Stephen Miller.
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For all those Trumpites who keep laughing at the concern that liberals and Democrats have shown over Trump's fascist or authoritarian tendencies, it's crap like this which shows that those concerns are justified. The guy has repeatedly criticized and attacked our traditional democratic allies, while cuddling up to Putin and expressing his admiration for other authoritarian regimes, while demonstrating here at home that he cares nothing for the rule of law or human rights or established governmental procedures. He doesn't act like an elected leader of a democracy, but rather a mob boss or banana republic dictator. And his supporters love it, which says more about them than they care to admit.
 
Yeah Miller is absolutely a white nationalist. I looked through comments to Omar's tweets and damn does she take a lot of flak. I suspect there will be more arrests for threatening a Congresswoman than simply the one that came out in the past couple days.

I think Twitter needs to do something about that type of vitriol and "discourse" on their platform even if they don't have any obligations to do so.
 
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