***Official Political Discussion Thread***

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[Mark Antony]

Now I'm picturing isis rolling into town, **** swinging, guns blazing, then moments later "oh my God one of us got shot!!! Whyyyy, people can be so cruel"

 

[mplsdunk]

I’d rather have isis roll into clown than a damn trump rally. At least 99% of people would be on the same page as far as dealing with that problem.

 

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[Sharpshoeter13]

I just want the WHOLE Trump family to go to jail with life sentences, and those complicit as well.

Every time I open this thread, they either stole something or involved in fraudulent schemes.

 

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[Sharpshoeter13]

Ignant *** fool really delivered a speech about being anti-fascism when he clearly LOVES it

 

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[biggie62]

I mean this is how you have to handle these sort of commentators. Shut them up when they talk about whataboutisms and trying to deflect into their talking point. Stick to the topic or S T F U.

 

[gry60]

He's talking to you, dwalk31

 

[RustyShackleford]

U.S. Intelligence Says Republicans Are Working With Russia to Reelect Trump

The collusion is happening in plain sight.

nymag.com

Frank Rich: Trump Thinks Racism Is His Best Chance

Trailing in the polls, he used the Republican National Convention to ratchet his violence-encouraging rhetoric to an even more dangerous level.

nymag.com

A racism that is welcoming foreign interference into our elections.

This is what Delk supports. Shameful

 

[dwalk31]

Trump Administration Begins Payroll Tax Deferral Plan

Trump Administration Begins Payroll Tax Deferral Plan

The Treasury Department began implementing President Trump’s plan to allow payroll tax deferral, which he says will help the economy weather the pandemic-induced recession.

www.wsj.com

 

[obeahmyal7]

Over the last few days I've come to recognize the urgent need to distinguish between white supremacism and Nazism.

The GOP is the party of white supremacists. Some blow the dog whistle. Others traffic in biological notions of race and nativism. And others are unapologetically anti-black. Despite these differences, the entire party believes in elite white rule.

Of course, Nazism, like all fascists regimes, is predicated on white/aryan rule. But it's increasingly clear that we are not only facing white supremacists thugs and thuglicans, but also a would-be Hitler backed by Nazis. What's the connection?

• Peep the material connection in the form of donations from Neo-Nazis ( IATT ).
• Check the symbolic regalia at last week's RNC: the innumerable eagles atop the American flag was eerily similar to the Reichsadler of the Nazi Party in Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsadler#Modern_history).
• Rhetoric. Do you Hear echoes of the 'Big Lie'? How the president and his enablers can say, with a straight face, that the division he has sown and that is happening RIGHT NOW, portends a Biden presidency. The 'little lies' are petulant and may have enabled such bold-faced lies regarding the economy, covid-19, and civil unrest. But more than that, the 'Big Lie' they're telling is a Nazi move: to blame the other side for that which they have created, to insist that only they can fix it, and to deploy their ministers of propaganda, state power, and law enforcement to bury the truth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie).

So the GOP is a party of white supremacists, with different factions battling over just how far to take its logical conclusion. Some factions want to hold onto white supremacy through the Nixonian/1970s plan of law and order, continued incarceration, gerrymandering, and select incorporation of racial 'others.' For 30+ years, that was the plan to stomp out black radicalism and Third World solidarity movements by offering black capitalism and representation within existing institutions. It is what helps explain the rise of the 'lonely' Black republican and ovetures to Hispanics. That project of assimilation and emasculation is basically dead.

Another faction wants to maintain white racial dominance while still performing the rituals of constitutionalism and democracy (about which they ultimately care little). This is the John Roberts Ted Cruz contingent.

Then there's the ascendant faction--the Trump faction, the Nazi faction--that wants to destroy non-pliable institutions and purge all alternative political projects (BLM, Occupy, Democratic Socialism, etc). As a rule, that means eliminating the majority of black folks, POC, white allies, and others who oppose Nazism.

We are in danger.

 

[don ramon]

this is bad. the extremist right wing is gaining ground really fast in this country. this past week's events have exacerbated the propaganda which is making these mush heads even more complicit and participatory to the violence while local governments are too chicken **** to speak out against any sort of impropriety for fear of reprisal from el douche

 

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[moonman818]

In 2020, we have armed White terrorists rolling through American streets like Isis.

 

[langfor5]

To echo the last two comments. The rise, or more the explosion of the popularity of the extreme right wing is gaining ground because they finally have a voice who promotes their ideals. Flag and country. Backing the troops and the police and most important, and extremely dangerous the ability to blame another race (s) for the shortcomings of the 'American' people.
Initially COVID was associated with the Dems because it was viewed as their 'only' way to get Trump out of office. Now thanks to Trump's speech (and his assistance all along of calling it the 'China Virus) he has pivoted the narrative so that COVID is always associated with the Chinese and what he believes is collusion between Biden and China. Staunch Republicans and the rising extreme right are eating that up. Nothing fires up that group like someone infringing on their American beliefs.

I'm not scared of COVID (okay, maybe just a little) I'm more scared of what happens when these hate groups become the norm not the exception.

 

[IATT]

Trump Administration Begins Payroll Tax Deferral Plan

Trump Administration Begins Payroll Tax Deferral Plan

The Treasury Department began implementing President Trump’s plan to allow payroll tax deferral, which he says will help the economy weather the pandemic-induced recession.

www.wsj.com