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The pathetic cries from Republicans this week have been truly astounding in their tone-deafness and out-and-out stupidity which sadly have become the hallmarks of a party desperate to distract from the obvious fact that their pResident is a fucking moron bent on the destruction of our democracy.
I keep hearing pleas from the GOP for everyone to be civil, while their Dear Leader continues to fan the flames of incivility every time he opens his mouth or tweets his bullshit, being too cowardly to do otherwise.
Lets respect each other and find common ground, they say which is like saying that if only the Jews and the Nazis had sat down together and been civil to each other, they could come up with a Final Solution that would be acceptable to all concerned.
I remember when Republicans loved to quote Dubya saying we dont negotiate with terrorists, which has now become we dont negotiate with our allies. Lets remember the now-infamous cry of ensuring that Obama was a one-term president, a tack the GOP adopted and strictly adhered to from the day Obama took office. The same people who cried give Trump a chance had already decided that Obama was to be given NO chance before he even embarked on his presidency, and long before hed done anything for them to complain about.
In their desperation to normalize Trump, the Republicans simply say of his lying, his corruption, and his complete disdain for the rule of law, Oh, thats just who he is. Well, Hitler was just who he was, too and that didnt work out well for the six million people who were exterminated, the deaths of millions of soldiers and civilians, and the utter destruction that followed in his wake.
What the Republicans are now attempting to do is to frame the division between citizens as a minor disagreement between good-intentioned Americans who are equally stubborn, equally angry, equally unwilling to sit down over a couple of brewskies and hammer-out a compromise between those who believe in our democracy and those who think democracy is an outdated, over-rated concept that is no longer relevant.
What is happening in our country is not some vague disagreement between political factions; it is a war between good and evil. It is a battle between those who are horrified by children being kidnapped and warehoused in cages and those who think its a grand idea. It is a fight between those who are willing to abandon every principle theyve ever embraced, every religious tenet theyve ever held sacred, every freedom they once held dear, in order to blindly follow a lying, corrupt racist whose mental state is questionable at best, and whose subservience to our enemies is beyond obvious.
Above all, the debate we are now supposed to engage in can never be argued based on the facts, because one side no longer recognizes anything other than the alternative facts they have come to accept without question. If Trump declares that two plus two equals eight, his adherents will scramble to adjust their mathematical thinking to accommodate his decree and dont find anything odd about his declaration two hours later that two plus two actually equals seventy-six.
This is not a matter of lets play nice and get along, because the Dear Leader of the opposition is the one who is dividing us by race, by class, by colour, by ethnic origins in order to keep us at war with each other.
Ive heard several GOP spokes-whores in the past week state that people who are being confronted in public like Sarah Huckabee and Kirstjen Nielsen have a private life that should be acknowledged as sacrosanct when they are out in public and away from their jobs. I guess the Republicans havent noticed that the parents whose babies have been stolen dont get to take off their prison garb after work hours and gather at a local eatery in the same way theyre unaware that concentration camp inmates never got to check out of Auschwitz at five oclock and just be regular folk at the local beer hall. Oh, look, theres Mengele at the next table lets forget hes an inhumane a monster while hes off the clock.
In a last-ditch attempt to try and convince the populace that Herr Trump is anything other than the monster HE is, the GOP has taken to dangling shiny objects before their brain-dead constituents, things like the rule of law being expendable, and massive tax-cuts for the middle-class being a few dollars more in a paycheck that wont even put a dent in the debt theyve incurred on behalf of the hard-working Americans theyve sworn to serve and protect from an escalating national debt that only benefits the wealthiest among us.
Its often been said that there are none so blind as those who will not see, and we are now at a point in our national discourse where those who truly love their country have seen the pointlessness of engaging with the wilfully blind. They are beyond the reach of common sense, as well as being beyond the call of human decency. There can be no civility between those who revere our freedoms and those blindly obedient to a man who seeks to destroy them.
So buckle-up your seatbelts, true Americans were in for a bumpy ride in the days to come. Stay vigilant, stay focused, and as we have been told, If you see something, SAY something. And if that something looks like a Hitler wanna-be and his minions, shout it down from the rooftops before its too late to say anything at all.
We, the decent people who abhor the nightmare of the Trump presidency must unite in our efforts to save our country from the ignorant fool who was installed in the Oval Office by equally ignorant fools with no small assistance from our countrys enemies.
The time is now, our objectives are unmistakable, our cause is just and the incessant whinging of our enemies is our clarion call.
Its time to show Republicans what stand your ground looks like when that position is upheld and defended by real patriots who love their country, and refuse to accept defeat as an option.
So go ahead, Sarah and Kirstjen, and whine about the fact that decent people dont want you in their midst. Im sure Goebles and Goering faced the same insensitivity and yet somehow managed to muddle through without whining like the pigs everyone knew them to be.
This IS war, people - and those who started it are now begging for a truce before they get their asses kicked in November. Tell them, no uncertain terms, that our defeat is not an option, and they are about to go down with the titanic idiot they chose to cling to as the icy waters of reality drown them all.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)dlk
(11,575 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)bastard looks like...
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)line of reasoning I've ever read:
Lets respect each other and find common ground, they say which is like saying that if only the Jews and the Nazis had sat down together and been civil to each other, they could come up with a Final Solution that would be acceptable to all concerned."
Nance - you never fail to amaze me - what a brilliant mind you have and how you apply it to such significant issues - just outstanding!
bluestarone
(17,025 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)triron
(22,019 posts)But I don't have faith in the electoral system either right now with the voter suppression, Russian electoral corruption, etc.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)The reason they're trying to frame this as a civility issue is they don't want us fighting back the same way they've fought us tooth and nail for all these many years (decades now!).
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Liberalhammer
(576 posts)And have worked for it for decades. A war we do not want,
If we play by the old rules, we lose.
If we use their rules we lose.
It's time to make new rules.
No regrets, no remorse....fight.
Leith
(7,813 posts)- they cheered Ted Nugent said that Obama should suck his rifle and HRC should "ride" it?
- when IQ45 called everyone a stupid nickname and called for journalists to be beaten up?
- they disrespected Gold Star families?
- their TV and radio hosts lie and insult all day every day?
Fuck'em all. When they practice civility for at least 3 decades and put up with the vilest insults a human can think of - like they did and still do to us - then maybe we will consider making nice again. Until then, fuck their feelings.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)KPN
(15,649 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)Caliman73
(11,744 posts)Get your rabid dog under control. Apologize and kiss Obama's ass for all of the shit you put him through. Apologize to Nancy Pelosi for all the bullshit you said about her. Apologize to Elizabeth Warren, and most of all, apologize to Hillary Clinton for the 30+ years of bullshit you put her and her family through... then we can talk about civility.
When Republicans call for civility they are calling for Democrats to stop fighting back.
Once again, Republicans can eat a ...
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Initech
(100,100 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)Fight!
Volaris
(10,274 posts)Perfect.
General Eisenhower didn't want Germany 'punished' after WWII the same way that they had been after WWI (because he was smart enough to understand what had led to the Nazi State, I suspect), but he damn sure DID have the regular townsfolk clean out the concentration camps...so they would NEVER be able to deny what they had helped bring about.
Uncivil of him?
Mabye. But that shit WORKED is all I'm sayin.
I want 'regular Republicans' to have to own this misadministration for a goddamn hundred years. It's the only way.
47of74
(18,470 posts)I think a lot of our problems, including that orange fuck in the White House, are due to the fact that we didn't do much more than give them a little slap on the wrist after the war. We should have rode them hard for years to make sure the culture and institutions changed. But of course we had no will to do that since it would be a hell of a lot more effort than leaving the south to its own devices
blue-wave
(4,362 posts)You blew my socks off. THANK YOU so very much for taking the time to compose and post this OP. You are spot on. We need to shove everything they have coerced upon our nation in their faces, every day until November and well beyond. ENOUGH is ENOUGH! No more!!! Never let them live it down.
47of74
(18,470 posts)And people here not liking it are hereby invited to ignore me.
Fuck being civil with people who want me dead.
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)Mueller must be closing in. He gets the same deference Republicans gave Obama. Our system has been gamed and it is neither majority rule nor the representative democracy first envisioned by Aristotle. Our system has been perverted and the leadership reflects that perversion.
solara
(3,836 posts)You have nailed it once again. This should somehow go viral and be read by everyone, most especially the Vichy Congress. I am so grateful for your voice and the strong and beautiful way you use it. You have always spoken truth to power eloquently, and every word you write speaks for so many of us.
Thank you
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)It's a war they will have.
rocktivity
Hugin
(33,189 posts)I meant it.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)dalton99a
(81,569 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,993 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,033 posts)calimary
(81,441 posts)WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY too many chances.
I've run outta chances, myself. Did so long ago, actually.
ck4829
(35,084 posts)HAB911
(8,911 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)"What the Republicans are now attempting to do is to frame the division between citizens as a minor disagreement between good-intentioned Americans who are equally stubborn, equally angry, equally unwilling to sit down over a couple of brewskies and hammer-out a compromise between those who believe in our democracy and those who think democracy is an outdated, over-rated concept that is no longer relevant. "
I'd like to add on this, the desire / offer to sit down and hammer out a compromise is in effect only until the next time the repugs and dRump decide to issue an insane blistering accusation of treason against the people who believe in our democracy.
In fact, they could be on another channel issuing that attack at the very same second one of their flacks is on the tube calling for civility and offering bipartisan compromise.
Initech
(100,100 posts)Really - they're just morning commute drive time fucking shock jocks. They're the Trey & Cooter Show on 102.3 KUGR FM. They just stupid shit because the one thing they love is to "trigger the snowflake". This latest exercise is just another example in a long list of shock jock values. Yeah they talk a lot of shit about "second amendment solutions" and triggering the snowflakes, but you know what? In the end, they'll never act on what they say. They just do it for shock value. Ann Coulter is a shock jock. So is Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin, and even Donald Trump - that's all they are. And you know the best way to treat a shock jock? Ignore them.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)hwmnbn
(4,279 posts)Thanks for laying it out so clearly.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Like always Nance you come through with words of wisdom. This is a fight for OUR COUNTRY against evil and injustice.
niyad
(113,532 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)this is war......
olegramps
(8,200 posts)The vast majority are totally in tune with the so-called First Lady's sentiments: I really don't care. Do you? The fascists full well know that the can win this war without a shot. If people really were concerned with what is happening, the White House would be under siege 24 hour a day and capital would be surrounded with millions demanding the cessation of this administration. People would actually know what was transpiring and actually show up to vote. Good luck America; you are going to really need it. Some are hoping that maybe they will have some type of religious epiphany such as an awakening of conscience. I don't think that even exorcism would be effective on these imps. They are like something that crawled out of the depths of hell and worship a sexual predator, con-man, habitual liar, misogynist, bastard of the first order.
calimary
(81,441 posts)cooldude
(50 posts)They are like something from an H.P. Lovecraft story that crawled out from the depths of Hell.
calimary
(81,441 posts)YOU are a DU treasure.
gademocrat7
(10,665 posts)marcopolo63
(64 posts)From the Godfathers:
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Gothmog
(145,496 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,748 posts)I needed that crystal-clear clarion call of yours.