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February 26, 2024

If social media can no longer moderate content in the

First Amendment case in front of the Supreme Court today, which of us one the DU are going to infiltrate GOP websites? Should we co-ordinate our underground attacks? First topic we should share in the Republican bubble is that Sinclair Media surveys people once a year and asks what people are most afraid of and then spoonfeed the public that fear, of say, crime, all year long to make Biden look bad. Year after year they do this. I'm sure MAGA base would like to know this.

If 500 of us picked one topic a week and flooded them with info on it they would no longer be in a bubble. Next week it could be Trump's plans to do away with Obamacare. One topic a week. None of them could get away from the light/truth. Or we could have the Democratic Party Come up with a topic a week for Dems to infiltrate right wing websites with. 100,000 of people could be involved.

February 26, 2024

Republicans claiming Democrats are recruiting voters

for the left with immigration. Projection. Democrats want the robust growth that immigration always gives the economy. What about the 60,000 babies of rapists currently being born due to the overturning of Roe. The rapists are masogynists and psychopaths. Psychopaths have 50% chance of fathering psychopaths. These are future Republican voters. That is what will change the electorate. That is voter social engineering.

February 25, 2024

Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

February 25, 2024 at 12:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 200 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/02/25/quote-of-the-day-3765/

"SNIP..........

“I’ve seen him up close, I’ve seen him from afar, but here’s my point: It’s because of his age that he’s been so successful.”

— Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), quoted by Politico, on President Biden.

........SNIP"

Applegrove:

Biden has some muscle memory of how to govern before Reagan and trickle down. Not many politicians have that. No wonder he has made great deals again and again.

February 22, 2024

I hit a nerve. These are actually current or soon to be cases before judges that's why they are anologies.

There are anologies everywhere in case law. That is how the law works.

(Responder said it was not an analogy).

February 22, 2024

"If selling cakes makes bakers participants in gay marriages, then selling assault rifles

Mayba_6

And there you have it.

https://flic.kr/p/2pzunYp

"If selling cakes makes bakers participants in gay marriages, then selling assault rifles makes gun manufacturers participants in mass shootings"

February 20, 2024

Trump Allies Embrace 'Christian Nationalism'

Trump Allies Embrace ‘Christian Nationalism’

February 20, 2024 at 6:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/02/20/trump-allies-embrace-christian-nationalism/

"SNIP..........

“An influential think tank close to Donald Trump is developing plans to infuse Christian nationalist ideas in his administration should the former president return to power,“ Politico reports.

“Spearheading the effort is Russell Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget during his first term and has remained close to him.“

“Christian nationalists in America believe that the country was founded as a Christian nation and that Christian values should be prioritized throughout government and public life. As the country has become less religious and more diverse, Vought has embraced the idea that Christians are under assault and has spoken of policies he might pursue in response.”

.........SNIP"

Applegrove:

DeSantis and "being anti-woke" failed as did moms for liberty so being anti lgbtq will now be cloaked in Christian Nationalism I bet. I guess they think Christian nationalists is not a movements that can fail.

February 15, 2024

I'm in Canada and we folk didn't feel we were at war with the

Soviets very often. We were under the USA umbrella and the talk of fighting or spreading freedom did not make it to regular people as much as it did those who dealt with intelligence in the Canada. My grandfather would have known a lot about the Soviet threat, we had a siren in our school yard in case of attack, but no drills, and we did not get the duck and cover stuff you did in the US. That being said the wife of a friend of my Dad's got the anti-nuke documentary "If You Love This Planet" into Communist Poland when they were posted there. She was a real old school activist. So I never heard about Bibles being given to Russians on the sly but don't doubt that is the freedom of religion the evangelicals wanted for those suffering under communism.

For sure Russians are not very free these days. Autocrats begat corruption and the economy grinds to a halt. Politics is dangerous to engage in. Even well educated people live in old apartments with crummy salaries. The population is declining. If Putin actually wanted to solve these problems he would be so busy he would have no time to corrupt the West through right wing populists and then gaslight Democrats and true liberals about it. The libertarians in the US were working on the same project to do away with democracy (they called undoing the power of the federal government: freedom) and made evangelicals a bulwark for a certain lack of liberty, that existed 2000 years ago in Judea and Galilee, that could be used to herd the people into voting against their best interests. Now they have common cause with Putin (or think they have). Evangelicals are being used. Their leaders see power. Same as the libertarians and Putin. That is the prize. But the people are getting wise.

February 15, 2024

They've figured out that if Trump creates an autocracy

it will be a bad place to invest since the USA oligarchs will be kleptocrats and corrupt. Info will not flow. The US will not be open to launder money. And then where is Putin going to invest his very own stolen money? How would he wash it? Does he want him and his also evil oligarchs to compete with evil American ones in the international sphere?

Either that or he is gaslighting the world and wants to give Trump an election boost by claiming (he) Putin is not interfering in the US election on Trump's behalf.

Probably gaslighting.

Here the NYTimes goes into how Putin likes puppets and uses them all the time. Biden, is nobody's puppet. Trump is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/putin-russia-election-nadezhdin.html

February 11, 2024

If I had to know the people whose comments

I repost I would never repost anything. Same could be said for those going after Garland. Who are these people? Frankly we should stick to the issues and not get off track on the integrity of the person who made the post. Who does attacking Garland instead of Hur and Trumpians really work for? It is a fine question.

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