Anonymous wrote:JFC

No comments on this, “both parties are the same” posters? You’re just going to pretend you don’t see this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JFC

This deserves its own thread. A Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford 100% knows what he's doing here. Paramilitaries are a pillar of fascism.

Now this can’t be; I’ve been assured that because I think that the GOP is oozing toward fascism that I am in an echo chamber, but here you offer evidence that the GOP is knowingly oozing toward fascism? I thought both sides were equally bad and that Hillary wouldn’t be any better than Trump?

Anonymous wrote:JFC

This deserves its own thread. A Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford 100% knows what he's doing here. Paramilitaries are a pillar of fascism.

JFC

Anonymous wrote:The GOP wants to preserve the representative republic because what distinguishes it from a democracy is the idea that your rights are yours by birth, not by government. Hence you were born with a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Slavery was an abomination because it stripped people of all three of these. Government was the entity enslaving people. In a democracy, what the government gives, the government can later take away. Not ideal. The Constitution limits Federal power for this reason.

That’s some delusion right there. Republicans want a weak federal government so their states can operate as corrupt and bigoted police states. The federal government didn’t enslave people, but until the Civil War and Reconstruction it weakly allowed states to let their residents enslave people. Republicans then organized by war and Constitutional amendment to nullify the presumption that the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not apply to the states. Republicans today take the old bigots position that states with Republican governments can deny rights to anyone they choose and the Right-wing Supreme Court will ensure that the federal government can’t do anything to stop them.

Anonymous wrote:I mean, Pence is the best they have right now, because he's not completely crooked and treasonous.

It's become a death cult with fascist overtones.

I'd rather have Rubio or DeSantis.

Anonymous wrote:Leopard Eating Faces Party

Some other things happened at the Texas GOP convention:

Anonymous wrote:The GOP wants to preserve the representative republic because what distinguishes it from a democracy is the idea that your rights are yours by birth, not by government. Hence you were born with a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Slavery was an abomination because it stripped people of all three of these. Government was the entity enslaving people. In a democracy, what the government gives, the government can later take away. Not ideal. The Constitution limits Federal power for this reason.

Wut

I mean, Pence is the best they have right now, because he's not completely crooked and treasonous.

It's become a death cult with fascist overtones.

Leopard Eating Faces Party

was Pence ever actually relevant?

I mean, I guess thank goodness he didn't go along with the insanity on Jan 6th

But that's all I've got

cue the "GOP in Disarray" articles

Anonymous wrote:The GOP wants to preserve the representative republic because what distinguishes it from a democracy is the idea that your rights are yours by birth, not by government. Hence you were born with a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Slavery was an abomination because it stripped people of all three of these. Government was the entity enslaving people. In a democracy, what the government gives, the government can later take away. Not ideal. The Constitution limits Federal power for this reason.

Out-of-touch non-sequitur. Right now, the GOP is all about taking away. Womens' autonomy. Capability to deal with pandemics. Historical, political and scientific accuracy in school textbooks. Religious freedoms that aren't aligned to conservative christianity. The list goes on and on.