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New Doc Looks At How GOP Leadership Traded Rule Of Law For Political Power
52,386 views Sep 3, 2022 Award-winning filmmaker Michael Kirk sits down with host Ali Velshi to discuss his new investigative film, “Lies, Politics and Democracy.” FRONTLINE kicks off its new season on September 6th with a special premiere of the powerful new film investigating Trump’s influence on the Republican Party and the mounting threats to American democracy. The two hour special features interviews with renowned scholars, journalists and key figures in the conservative movement who sounded the alarm about the dangers of acquiescing to Trump’s authoritarian bent. These experts argue that the Republican leadership sold the party’s values in return for political wins even as the twice-impeached president incited the worst elements of the far-right. "The calculation they’ve made is if they want to get reelected, they have to sign on with Donald Trump-- even in the face of their own knowledge that the Big Lie is a big lie,” Kirk tells Velshi.
DIY-HP-LED
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How Do Civil Wars Start?
12,449 views Sep 3, 2022 According to recent polling, 40% of Americans think the next civil war will likely happen within the decade. Jelani Cobb, Barbara F. Walter and Tiffany Cross discuss the current political landscape and what could push America over the edge.
V256.420
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How would we go about having a civil war? How would it start?
A group of guys get together going door to door asking who you voted for?
A group of armed militants form in some far off mountain and then come down to the cities and start shooting people up?
Do 50 million magats from all over the country suddenly decide to pick up a gun and kill their liberal neighbors?
Do all the magats start moving to the same state and start forming their own militias?
Curious minds want to know
DIY-HP-LED
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The modern way is to sow chaos and dissatisfaction, stop social progress and cause social division, then "only I can fix it". The name of the game is seizing the power of the state and using it to suppress their enemies and retain power with minority rule. Trump was a vehicle for this and one of the few who they instinctively knew would follow through on a power grab. You won't see blue and grey with General Lee on his white horse, it will be more subtitle than that. In order for democracy to work you just need good will and there is none, they just wanna stick their thumb in Uncle Sam's eye until he gives in.How would we go about having a civil war? How would it start?
A group of guys get together going door to door asking who you voted for?
A group of armed militants form in some far off mountain and then come down to the cities and start shooting people up?
Do 50 million magats from all over the country suddenly decide to pick up a gun and kill their liberal neighbors?
Do all the magats start moving to the same state and start forming their own militias?
Curious minds want to know
However, win in November and the democrats can give the FBI the tools they need to cut the fuckers off at the knees with anti terrorism laws, a domestic terrorist watch list and hate crime laws to put the assholes on it. Other changes like HR1 and voting rights legislation will level the playing field. The democrats must destroy the MAGA republican wing as a constitutional duty. It is not an option to destroy domestic enemies of the US constitution who tried to install a dictator, to attempt to overthrow the constitution made them it's enemies and they are still trying.
Roger A. Shrubber
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i'm not sure i should give the magats any advice...How would we go about having a civil war? How would it start?
A group of guys get together going door to door asking who you voted for?
A group of armed militants form in some far off mountain and then come down to the cities and start shooting people up?
Do 50 million magats from all over the country suddenly decide to pick up a gun and kill their liberal neighbors?
Do all the magats start moving to the same state and start forming their own militias?
Curious minds want to know
Roger A. Shrubber
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they would need a leader of their own...a battle leader, not a loud mouthed politician who doesn't have a fucking clue about how to fight. a retired high ranking officer, who has led men in the field, and understands how to motivate them. they would also need a core of politicians to coordinate logistics and procure supplies...a "real" civil war would be a war...not a lot of redneck assholes wrecking up the capital building and overpowering cops with sheer numbers.
Fogdog
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The US barely survived a virus that froze our supply chains of food and TP. A war would be hundreds of times worse. Frail elderly and children would be the first wave of deaths followed by tens of millions dying afterward of hunger, disease and battle casualties. Casual talk of civil war is unimaginable to me.
Fuck this civil war and any talk of it. Virtually every MAGA GOP "civil warrior" is 4F by military standards. An actual hot civil war would be a death sentence to them. None of their fantasies make any sense.
Oh, and those US militia. The US reservists who would be sent out to stop them? Those are damn fine soldiers. Many of them fought in real wars too.
Nobody should want this. Biden pleaded with the US public last night for peaceful political resolution at the ballet box. We should take note and listen.
Fuck this civil war and any talk of it. Virtually every MAGA GOP "civil warrior" is 4F by military standards. An actual hot civil war would be a death sentence to them. None of their fantasies make any sense.
Oh, and those US militia. The US reservists who would be sent out to stop them? Those are damn fine soldiers. Many of them fought in real wars too.
Nobody should want this. Biden pleaded with the US public last night for peaceful political resolution at the ballet box. We should take note and listen.
DIY-HP-LED
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Ex-GOP lawmaker says Trump gave Democrats a gift with speech
18,161 views Sep 4, 2022 Former President Donald Trump aired grievances against the FBI, Democrats and President Biden while stumping for GOP candidates in Pennsylvania.
DIY-HP-LED
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They are going for conspiracy in Georgia and Lindsey could be part of it along with the fake electors, Trump and his minions. They do have Donald by the nuts however, but maybe he will cut a deal by ratting out everybody else. Donald walks and a couple of dozen go down over it, that's unlikely, they always target the kingpin. If they just target Donald over the direct election interference it will be an easy case to make and they can also indict him with conspiracy over the fake elector scheme in Georgia. There might be more than one trial in Georgia, one for election interference by Trump and others on the call, that will be easy to prove with the recording. There might also be another trial over the fake electors with Donald and many others as defendants.
Lawyer reveals the most significant question Graham may have to answer about Trump
5,240 views Sep 4, 2022 Constitutional lawyer Page Pate discusses a federal judge's ruling that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) must answer questions before a grand jury about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Lawyer reveals the most significant question Graham may have to answer about Trump
5,240 views Sep 4, 2022 Constitutional lawyer Page Pate discusses a federal judge's ruling that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) must answer questions before a grand jury about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Polly Wog
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Maggots
Polly Wog
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The problem is there are those that are not very rational. It's gawds will.
Roger A. Shrubber
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no...MAGATS...followers of MAGA...i would not insult the noble maggot, who performs an important ecological function, by comparing them with the totally useless and non beneficial magat, who serve no useful constructive purpose, and only tears down everything it touches
captainmorgan
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The Trump-backed candidate for Michigan secretary of state once threatened to kill her husband and two daughters when he asked for a divorce, court records show
Another time, she tried to take control of the car her ex-husband was driving and crash it with their two kids in the backseat, court records show.
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Fogdog
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Lord take them soon, please.
DIY-HP-LED
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How would we go about having a civil war? How would it start?
A group of guys get together going door to door asking who you voted for?
A group of armed militants form in some far off mountain and then come down to the cities and start shooting people up?
Do 50 million magats from all over the country suddenly decide to pick up a gun and kill their liberal neighbors?
Do all the magats start moving to the same state and start forming their own militias?
Curious minds want to know
Clint Watts: Rise In Far-Right Extremism Could ‘Break Up The Country’
1,113 views Sep 4, 2022 Over half of die-hard Republicans believe a civil war is likely in the next decade, an Economist poll finds. Former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts shares how that political conflict is already playing out. “Acute instances of violence are definitely a daily concern,” says Watts. “If we were to have another Oklahoma City bombing today, I don’t think there would be much surprise.”
DIY-HP-LED
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Top Psychotherapist SOUNDS ALARM about Trump’s Descent into MADNESS - PoliticsGirl Full Episode
152,192 views Aug 16, 2022 Today’s pod is a candid conversation with Nick Carmody, psychotherapist, lawyer, and Executive Board Member for the World Mental Health Coalition. Nick uses his psychology expertise to look at politics and how politics affects the personality of the country. If there’s already political science, Nick believes there should be political psychology.
We talk about what’s going on with the Republican Party, Trumpism, and the recent search of Mar-a-lago from a psychological perspective, and we discuss about how the cult of personality has transformed individuals into a tribe who seem almost pathologically devoted to Trump and Trumpism no matter how much damage they do to themselves or the country.
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McCaul: A lot of Republicans were ‘very offended’ by Biden speech
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said many Republicans were “very offended” by President Biden’s primetime speech last week that called out former President Trump and MAGA Republicans as extremists and a threat to democracy.
McCaul told ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz that Biden’s Philadelphia address from Independence Hall on Thursday night had the “opposite effect” of unifying the nation because calling Republicans “a threat to democracy is really a slap in the face.”
Raddatz noted that shortly after Biden’s speech, McCaul tweeted that attacking Republicans would only further divide the country, asking: “When you look at those polls showing 60 to 70 percent of Republicans believe Joe Biden is not the legitimate president, what is Biden supposed to do when the country cannot even decide what democracy means?”
With a potential rematch of Biden and Trump seeking the presidency in 2024, McCaul said Biden is “teeing up who the enemy is in his view.”
“It [was] under the guise of a speech that’s to unite the nation, and I don’t think he succeeded in that,” the Texas lawmaker said of Biden’s address. “I heard it personally back here in Texas, that a lot of Republicans were very offended by that speech.”
Biden — who portrayed the Republican Party as divided between the hardline MAGA faction and mainstream conservatives — was also slammed by Trump, who called the president an “enemy of the state.”
Republicans criticized Biden in the wake of his address, with some declaring him the “divider in chief” noting that it went against his 2020 campaign promise to unify the country.
Biden has stepped up his criticism of Trump, notably mentioning him by name and calling out the MAGA-wing of the GOP and Trump’s influence on the party as a danger to democracy.
Before Thursday’s address, Biden had compared the MAGA philosophy to “semi-fascism,” drawing the ire of Republicans. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) last week said the president “owes an apology” to Republicans for the fascism comment, a call echoed by others in the GOP.
The grip of Trump’s influence was on full display following an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property with Republicans fervently coming his defense in the immediate aftermath. And eight of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him for the Jan. 6 rioting either resigned or lost against an opponent Trump backed.
thehill.com
The truth sometimes hurts.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said many Republicans were “very offended” by President Biden’s primetime speech last week that called out former President Trump and MAGA Republicans as extremists and a threat to democracy.
McCaul told ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz that Biden’s Philadelphia address from Independence Hall on Thursday night had the “opposite effect” of unifying the nation because calling Republicans “a threat to democracy is really a slap in the face.”
Raddatz noted that shortly after Biden’s speech, McCaul tweeted that attacking Republicans would only further divide the country, asking: “When you look at those polls showing 60 to 70 percent of Republicans believe Joe Biden is not the legitimate president, what is Biden supposed to do when the country cannot even decide what democracy means?”
With a potential rematch of Biden and Trump seeking the presidency in 2024, McCaul said Biden is “teeing up who the enemy is in his view.”
“It [was] under the guise of a speech that’s to unite the nation, and I don’t think he succeeded in that,” the Texas lawmaker said of Biden’s address. “I heard it personally back here in Texas, that a lot of Republicans were very offended by that speech.”
Biden — who portrayed the Republican Party as divided between the hardline MAGA faction and mainstream conservatives — was also slammed by Trump, who called the president an “enemy of the state.”
Republicans criticized Biden in the wake of his address, with some declaring him the “divider in chief” noting that it went against his 2020 campaign promise to unify the country.
Biden has stepped up his criticism of Trump, notably mentioning him by name and calling out the MAGA-wing of the GOP and Trump’s influence on the party as a danger to democracy.
Before Thursday’s address, Biden had compared the MAGA philosophy to “semi-fascism,” drawing the ire of Republicans. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) last week said the president “owes an apology” to Republicans for the fascism comment, a call echoed by others in the GOP.
The grip of Trump’s influence was on full display following an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property with Republicans fervently coming his defense in the immediate aftermath. And eight of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him for the Jan. 6 rioting either resigned or lost against an opponent Trump backed.
McCaul: A lot of Republicans were ‘very offended’ by Biden speech
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said many Republicans were “very offended” by President Biden’s primetime speech last week that called out former President Trump and MAGA Republican…
thehill.com
The truth sometimes hurts.
Unclebaldrick
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People are saying that John Fetterman is a druggie.
Sad.
Sad.
Roger A. Shrubber
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who gives a fuck if they're offended? if they're offended at people's opinions of them, maybe they should examine themselves and see why people have those opinions...just fuckin SAYIN...McCaul: A lot of Republicans were ‘very offended’ by Biden speech
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said many Republicans were “very offended” by President Biden’s primetime speech last week that called out former President Trump and MAGA Republicans as extremists and a threat to democracy.
McCaul told ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz that Biden’s Philadelphia address from Independence Hall on Thursday night had the “opposite effect” of unifying the nation because calling Republicans “a threat to democracy is really a slap in the face.”
Raddatz noted that shortly after Biden’s speech, McCaul tweeted that attacking Republicans would only further divide the country, asking: “When you look at those polls showing 60 to 70 percent of Republicans believe Joe Biden is not the legitimate president, what is Biden supposed to do when the country cannot even decide what democracy means?”
With a potential rematch of Biden and Trump seeking the presidency in 2024, McCaul said Biden is “teeing up who the enemy is in his view.”
“It [was] under the guise of a speech that’s to unite the nation, and I don’t think he succeeded in that,” the Texas lawmaker said of Biden’s address. “I heard it personally back here in Texas, that a lot of Republicans were very offended by that speech.”
Biden — who portrayed the Republican Party as divided between the hardline MAGA faction and mainstream conservatives — was also slammed by Trump, who called the president an “enemy of the state.”
Republicans criticized Biden in the wake of his address, with some declaring him the “divider in chief” noting that it went against his 2020 campaign promise to unify the country.
Biden has stepped up his criticism of Trump, notably mentioning him by name and calling out the MAGA-wing of the GOP and Trump’s influence on the party as a danger to democracy.
Before Thursday’s address, Biden had compared the MAGA philosophy to “semi-fascism,” drawing the ire of Republicans. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) last week said the president “owes an apology” to Republicans for the fascism comment, a call echoed by others in the GOP.
The grip of Trump’s influence was on full display following an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago property with Republicans fervently coming his defense in the immediate aftermath. And eight of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him for the Jan. 6 rioting either resigned or lost against an opponent Trump backed.
McCaul: A lot of Republicans were ‘very offended’ by Biden speech
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said many Republicans were “very offended” by President Biden’s primetime speech last week that called out former President Trump and MAGA Republican…
The truth sometimes hurts.