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fishonjazz said:
Best way to get a cheer from a maga crowd is to simply swear. Drop an F bomb and that crowd would explode.


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Or denigrate a marginalized group. Make fun of a handicapped person or accuse a minority of being made up of primarily rapists. They love that ****. Anything that reminds them they are the modern Aryans.
 
www.newyorker.com

Among the Insurrectionists

From 2021: Some of Trump’s supporters had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power, Luke Mogelson writes. A chronicle of an attack foretold.
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fishonjazz said:
Best way to get a cheer from a maga crowd is to simply swear. Drop an F bomb and that crowd would explode.


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Bull**** will do. From the New Yorker article I just posted:

“By the end of President Donald Trump’s crusade against American democracy—after a relentless deployment of propaganda, demagoguery, intimidation, and fearmongering aimed at persuading as many Americans as possible to repudiate their country’s foundational principles—a single word sufficed to nudge his most fanatical supporters into open insurrection. Thousands of them had assembled on the Mall, in Washington, D.C., on the morning of January 6th, to hear Trump address them from a stage outside the White House. From where I stood, at the foot of the Washington Monument, you had to strain to see his image on a jumbotron that had been set up on Constitution Avenue. His voice, however, projected clearly through powerful speakers as he rehashed the debunked allegations of massive fraud which he’d been propagating for months. Then he summarized the supposed crimes, simply, as “bull****.”

“Bull****! Bull****!” the crowd chanted. It was a peculiar mixture of emotion that had become familiar at pro-Trump rallies since he lost the election: half mutinous rage, half gleeful excitement at being licensed to act on it. The profanity signalled a final jettisoning of whatever residual deference to political norms had survived the past four years. In front of me, a middle-aged man wearing a Trump flag as a cape told a young man standing beside him, “There’s gonna be a war.” His tone was resigned, as if he were at last embracing a truth that he had long resisted. “I’m ready to fight,” he said. The young man nodded. He had a thin mustache and hugged a life-size mannequin with duct tape over its eyes, “traitor” scrawled on its chest, and a noose around its neck.”
 
Here’s a cheery thought!

Donald Trump is now 75 years old.

His father lived to the age of 94.
His mother lived to the age of 88.

If he lives to 91, that means we only have 16 more years of his involvement in national politics.

Have a great day!
 
fishonjazz said:
www.yahoo.com

Michigan GOP co-chair says Trump campaign directed fake electors, per CNN audio

The comments from Meshawn Maddock come days after Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said she thought actions by the fake electors were criminal.
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More efforts by trump to steal the election.
Stop the steal indeed. Talk about projection
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There there @fishonjazz keep your panties on.

After all, we aren’t a democracy. We are a republic. <insert benjamin Franklin quote> this is probably exactly what the founding fathers envisioned. Pro trump State legislators and counters throwing out votes and overruling voters so they can grab power. And using violence and intimidation to take over DC if you don’t get your way. Yay! Stealing elections It’s exactly what they envisioned! Definitely not what corrupt banana republics do or anything.

Yay!

Remember now, we’re a democracy Not a republic. This is like super important to the discussion for reasons.
 
Red said:


www.theguardian.com

Outrage as Newt Gingrich says Capitol attack investigators could be jailed

Liz Cheney among those to condemn remarks by former House speaker as committee member Zoe Lofgren says: ‘I think Newt has really lost it’
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Yeah our elected officials are so far removed from their actual duties and obligations to the country it is ridiculous. Their fealty and near-religious zealotry to their party has so far overshadowed their actual constitutionally mandated duties that they don't even make any minor attempts to hide it any more. This is all about vindictiveness and holding onto power. The beginning of the collapse of our republic, but at the heart of it is a populace that allows this **** to go on with no repercussions and, indeed, with full religious fanaticism in support of wresting power from the other guy, no matter what lines must be crossed to do so. Disgraceful.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah our elected officials are so far removed from their actual duties and obligations to the country it is ridiculous. Their fealty and near-religious zealotry to their party has so far overshadowed their actual constitutionally mandated duties that they don't even make any minor attempts to hide it any more. This is all about vindictiveness and holding onto power. The beginning of the collapse of our republic, but at the heart of it is a populace that allows this **** to go on with no repercussions and, indeed, with full religious fanaticism in support of wresting power from the other guy, no matter what lines must be crossed to do so. Disgraceful.
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It’s just a real hard thing to watch. America now. It’s painful. The psychic pain really wears you out. I think back at junior high and high school history classes, and an idealistic image of what America represented. Then assassinations, a war in Southeast Asia, racial turmoil, and “your president is not a crook!” brought reality into sharper focus. But still, not turning one’s back on an idea of America that could not include what has brought us to this point. “It can’t happen here” imparts some of the impossibility of the moment. It’s a phrase usually applied to the specter of fascism, but, really, looking at the widespread irrationality and conspiracism, the daily breakdowns of civility, eruptions of anger, all like a real, real, real slow motion crash and burn, it’s something I’ve not seen before this, like a societal wide mental illness. Apparently, THAT, whatever it is, can happen here. And, if you can see it, it is painful and the feeling of powerlessness is so deflating.

It’s at that point that I usually visit a nature preserve or feed my squirrels.
 
Red said:
It’s just a real hard thing to watch. America now. It’s painful. The psychic pain really wears you out. I think back at junior high and high school history classes, and an idealistic image of what America represented. Then assassinations, a war in Southeast Asia, racial turmoil, and “your president is not a crook!” brought reality into sharper focus. But still, not turning one’s back on an idea of America that could not include what has brought us to this point. “It can’t happen here” imparts some of the impossibility of the moment. It’s a phrase usually applied to the specter of fascism, but, really, looking at the widespread irrationality and conspiracism, the daily breakdowns of civility, eruptions of anger, all like a real, real, real slow motion crash and burn, it’s something I’ve not seen before this, like a societal wide mental illness. Apparently, THAT, whatever it is, can happen here. And, if you can see it, it is painful and the feeling of powerlessness is so deflating.

It’s at that point that I usually visit a nature preserve or feed my squirrels.
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Yeah it wasn't fascism that brought about the fall of the Roman empire, that was largely driven by corruption in the government. It fell from the inside out. Made it impossible for them to adequately address the external forces tearing at the empire at the time. It wasn't some outside socialistic boogey-man or something, it was their own lust for power and failure to address the internal forces tearing the fabric of their political and social systems apart. Sounds kind of familiar, right?
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah it wasn't fascism that brought about the fall of the Roman empire, that was largely driven by corruption in the government. It fell from the inside out. Made it impossible for them to adequately address the external forces tearing at the empire at the time. It wasn't some outside socialistic boogey-man or something, it was their own lust for power and failure to address the internal forces tearing the fabric of their political and social systems apart. Sounds kind of familiar, right?
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Yeah, and I spend way too much time trying to figure out what I have learned about the human race in my lifetime, being fine tuned again, as I weigh present circumstances. Tumult. Gotta handle tumult. We’re in it for the time being.
 
Red said:
Yeah, and I spend way too much time trying to figure out what I have learned about the human race in my lifetime, being fine tuned again, as I weigh present circumstances. Tumult. Gotta handle tumult. We’re in it for the time being.
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Red, serious question.
You were around for the Nixon years, right?
How bad is the national "morale" compared to then, do you think?
What turned it around?
 
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