#F—k the Republicans

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

This f—king idiot is going to kill or severely injure millions if given any substantial authority.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Tex-ass Republicans are stone cold killers.

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[rejectingrepublicans]

[meandmybigmouth]

GOP Senators celebrated blocking a critical veteran health care bill with a fist bump on the Senate floor on Wednesday. Activist Susan Zeier, mother-in-law of late veteran Heath Robinson, for whom the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act — or PACT Act — is named

[lurkingleighbee]

She's a legend. She IS the moment.

[cynicalclassicist]

Yeh, I think that this pretty much sums it all up.

[thenewdemocratus]

ABC News: 1968 Republican National Convention: William F. Buckley VS Gore Vidal

Source:The New Democrat  The ultimate debate, when it comes to wit, humor, and intelligence was between Gore Vidal and Bill Buckley. You don’t need a moderator in a debate like this and there really wasn’t one, with Howard Smith letting Vidal and Buckley basically just go at it because the two men could carry the conversation by themselves and knew where to go and what they wanted to say. They…

[progressivepower]

Republican Party doesn’t give a f**k about you, all they care about is money and power #dumpGOP #voteblue http://dlvr.it/SnHglf

[alarrylarrie]

Alright- it’s time for Aunt Amanda’s regular plea to anyone of voting age in the United States.

PLEASE VOTE. Please. If you need money for an uber or something let me know and I’ll send it to you.

If you have any say with conservative family members who are pro vaccines, please let them know that Trump is likely going to appoint RFK Jr. who will abolish vaccine mandates. (Not covid vax mandates, ALL vaccines.) Meaning they and their family members will now be at risk for diseases like measles, mumps, whooping cough, etc.

They (republicans) also want to really scale back the department of education, if not just get rid of it. Which means no one to monitor IEPs and 504 plans, and no monitoring of federal funding for super rural schools.

Sometimes, liberals/leftists talk about Trump’s abhorrent character or his threat to democracy. But conservatives don’t give a flying f**k about that. They just remember that gas and groceries were cheaper. So we just gotta talk to them about the practical stuff, you know?

Don’t assume they’re a lost cause. And don’t fight, or call them stupid. Just say, hey I was listening to RFK Jr. talk and he said… blah blah blah. Maybe it’ll make them think. Maybe it won’t. But we have to try!

And we HAVE to vote. Also, if you live in a conservative area/household, NO ONE gets to see your ballot. Who you vote for is between you and the sky, okay? So you can lie, after you submit your ballot, if you need to, to keep yourself safe. Do what you gotta do- but know those circles on that ballot is between you and whatever god you believe in.

[wilwheaton]

In recent days I’ve seen every major paper write a version of the How Did This Tragic Train Derailment Become a New Culture War story. I didn’t need to ask myself whether any of them gave the actual answer, which I think most of us know. How is it that a train derailment caused by a major GOP-donating corporation, in a state run by a Republican governor, caused at least in part by regulations rolled back by Republican President Donald Trump … well, how exactly is that a story about Democrats not caring about people in “flyover country”? The Republican crackpot investigations complex is even now prepping to hold hearings about it. The reality of the situation is that big corporations like Norfolk Southern spend millions in Washington for lax regulation and our railroad infrastructure is woefully aged and deficient — and not just for freight rail. Virtually every upgrade to the country’s railroad infrastructure and the quality of its rail stock pays dividends either in safety or efficiency. Republicans are simultaneously calling out corporations for not caring about ordinary Americans while carrying their anti-regulatory water on Capitol Hill. Democrats should run a freight train right through that contradiction. Only good things can come of it. Democrats should pound on the fact at every opportunity that the Trump White House not only rolled back those regulations but Trump literally bragged about doing so on Twitte

Bring it The F**K on ….

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Rowe

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Good morning. This is what fascism looks like.

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Oct 26, 2024

It crept in overnight, while we were sleeping.  Fascism showed its face not with jackboots and concentration camps…not yet, anyway…but rather as just another day in Capitalist America.  Two major media companies, the Washington Post and the LA Times, made decisions to capitulate to the man they fear will be elected president before a single vote has been counted.  They decided not to run editorials endorsing their preferred candidate for president, Kamala Harris, because the owners of the companies, Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, are afraid if they anger Donald Trump, he will hit them where it hurts:  In their pocketbooks.

Bezos sees himself as particularly vulnerable to the wrath of Donald Trump.  Before he left office in 2021, Trump appointed a puppet to run the United States Postal Service (USPS):  Louis DeJoy, a long-time Republican fund-raiser and major Trump contributor who was appointed as one of three deputy finance chairmen of the Republican National Committee shortly after Trump took office in 2017.  The USPS prioritizes package delivery for Amazon and sets the price it pays for the service.  Trump has threatened Bezos with jacking up his Amazon delivery prices before, in 2018.  The Postmaster General was then Megan Brennan, appointed during the Obama administration, who resisted Trump’s demand to raise delivery prices, but such resistance is unlikely to happen if Trump is elected and DeJoy is there to carry out his wishes.

This is the way it happens.  An autocrat like Donald Trump, with his history of impulsive decisions and threats against perceived enemies, has two billionaires cowering in fear, and he didn’t even have to pick up the phone.

Fascism is not an all-at-once transformation.  We’ve already had our Brownshirt day, on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump’s MAGA army stormed the Capitol waving Confederate and Nazi flags and assaulting police officers and attempting to hunt down and kill Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence, all of it, we now know, with Trump cheering them on from the White House.  Fascism uses symbols – MAGA this time, Swastika last time – to rally followers, and then it feeds them fear and lies and the demonization of minorities and others perceived as not like us.

I don’t even know that you can name the period of fascism we’re in right now.  Giving it a name doesn’t matter.  What matters is that it is happening right in front of our eyes, and little if nothing is being done about it, other than fascism finally being called out by political leaders such as Kamala Harris and other Democrats, and some news organizations have at last crossed the Rubicon of using the “F” word of fascism and the “H” word of Hitler in the same sentences with Donald Trump.

What can we do?  We can all vote for Kamala Harris and whatever Democrat is running for whatever office in your district and state. 

Journalists everywhere, but particularly at the Washington Post and LA Times, have a crucial role to play right now.  It is journalism about Donald Trump’s crimes and political extremism that has revealed him as not just a totalitarian politician, but as a man consumed with a fascist lust for absolute power.  It has been people like Timothy Snyder and Heather Cox Richardson who have put Trump’s rise in historical perspective and compared what is happening right now in this country to what happened nearly a century ago in Germany with the rise of Hitler, when German corporate titans of the day bowed down to him in fear. 

Now the reporters and editors at the Post and the LA Times can help show the world what contemporary fascism looks like by refusing to countenance the craven subservience of their owners.  There are leaders at the Washington Post, in particular Bob Woodward and Eugene Robinson and David Ignatius and Ruth Marcus and Karen Tumulty, who can show the way for their colleagues by leading a newspaper-wide walk out.  With what we are seeing every day from Donald Trump, they can call it a “Strike Against Fascism,” or “A Call to Arms.”

You might accuse me as a freelancer of not taking seriously the possibility that people at both papers might lose their jobs for leading or participating in a walk-out.  But people have already resigned in protest at both papers.  This isn’t a time to show fear.  It’s a time to stand up to power. The writers and editors have a lot to lose, but they have already been treated as expendable, and they’ve been told they are in danger of losing their jobs anyway.

The guy Bezos put in as publisher of the Post, former Murdoch hitman Will Lewis, bluntly told Post staffers when he was appointed, “We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”   He could have been talking as well to the staffs of the New York Times and the three major television networks and cable news like CNN and MSNBC.  All of them are in an existential crisis at this crucial moment in our history.  Newspapers are closing across the country.  Television networks and cable news shows are hemorrhaging viewers. 

The arrival of Bezos and Soon-Shiong to “rescue” two major American newspapers has shown us how hollow were any hopes that billionaires will or even can make a difference in today’s economic and political climate. 

But workers can make a difference.  With ten days to go until the election, let’s see if a day with no newspaper in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles can make a difference.  Maybe a strike will teach reporters and editors and the rest of us that we are beyond the point of being able to affect our lives and the lives of others.  Or maybe rallying against the fascism that has been stealing our national politics will help to send more people to the polls to vote for Kamala Harris on November 5.

I do know this:  When you are bullied, you STAND UP or you lose your self-respect and your dignity and your right to life. The fascism of Donald Trump would take away all three.

Lucian Truscott Newsletter

[sixbucks]

Also, legalizing child labor.

[meandmybigmouth]

"UNCONDITIONAL LOVE" TOWARDS FAMILY CAN LEAD TO BETRAYAL! ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY VOTE REPUBLICAN AND THAT ARGUMENT BCOMES A FINANCIAL, HEALTHCARE ,PHYSICAL AND MENTAL IMPACT ON YOU'RE LIFE!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Bollinger at LGBTQ Nation:

A Republican candidate for Missouri secretary of state is now using slurs on social media to talk about LGBTQ+ people. Candidate Valentina Gomez is among the many conservatives outraged at the Olympics for allowing Algerian boxer Imane Khelif to participate, even though she is a cis woman who has, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), met the eligibility requirements for the 2024 Olympic games. This year’s strict eligibility rules have prevented any trans woman from participating in the Olympics.

“These fa***ts should get their own fa***t category because before if a man hit a woman, it used to land him in jail. Now, it gets you a gold medal at the Olympics,” Gomez said, wearing an Olympic sweater. “Let me remind you: there’s no such thing as a chick with a d**k,” she concluded. “Keep women’s sports female.” Khelif was assigned female at birth and identifies as a woman, making her cisgender. She was treated as a girl in her rural community when she was growing up, and it’s unlikely that a trans child in rural Algeria would have been raised as a gender that didn’t match their outward appearance.

But many on the right have latched on to a statement last year from International Boxing Association (IBA) president Umar Kremlev, who said that DNA tests had “proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded” from competing at IBA events. He also said that countries were recruiting cis men to compete in women’s sports. There is no evidence of that. Kremlev has long been criticized as an ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, using the IBA to extend Russian soft power. Putin has been using its anti-LGBTQ+ policies to differentiate Russia from Ukraine and the West, which he believes support LGBTQ+ rights because of U.S. brainwashing.

[...] Unlike the IBA, the IOC is permitting Khelif to compete but isn’t commenting on the results of gender testing, genetics, or the hormone levels of individual competitors other than to say that they meet the IOC’s eligibility rules. The IOC pulled recognition of the IBA last year due to a lack of financial transparency, which means that the IBA–unlike other individual sports organizations–has “no involvement in either the qualification for or the organization of” boxing at the 2024 Olympics.

With the Missouri primary elections coming this Tuesday, Secretary of State candidate Valentina Gomez continues her anti-LGBTQ+ hatred campaign by disparaging the LGBTQ+ community as “f***ots” in response to cis women Imane Khelif’s victories at the Olympics.

Hope you enjoy getting crushed Tuesday at the polls, you vile Andrew Tate fangirl and anti-LGBTQ+ extremist!

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Jack Elbaum

The Libertarian Party of Michigan on Wednesday posted an antisemitic cartoon depicting Jews as puppet masters who control both the Democratic and Republican parties in the US.

The graphic was posted on multiple social media platforms, but gained particular traction on X/Twitter, where it received widespread blowback but also a chuck of support — garnering over 1,000 likes before it was ultimately deleted.

The Libertarian Party of Michigan did not respond to The Algemeiner‘s request for comment for this story.

“I know some people think of me as ‘libertarian.’ I have used that word to describe myself at times,” journalist Brad Polumbo wrote in response to the graphic. “But please understand that I have no affiliation whatsoever with whatever the f–k this is.”

[scottguy]

Hell, the government would subsidize it!