What has Trump done to this country?
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As I've mentioned before, no social construct has ever existed in its purest form. Liberty has never existed in its purest form. Just because every government on the planet takes your money without your permission to provide services for the masses, does not mean you do not have liberty. It just means that if you're expecting the purest form of it, you may need to adjust your expectations in order to exist with any degree of happiness.
DIY-HP-LED
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American Democracy Can't Survive Unless the Far Right Is Marginalized. Here's How to Do It (yahoo.com)
American Democracy Can't Survive Unless the Far Right Is Marginalized. Here's How to Do It
Fri, March 19, 2021, 7:30 AM
As our nation comes to grip with the horrific events of January 6 and watches the Republican Party descend further into Trumpism as it pushes hundreds of restrictive voting laws across the country, the obvious question is how does American democracy come back from all this?
There is a path forward: The super-majority of Americans across the political spectrum who reject the extremism need to come together. This includes the pro-democracy right. But for the pro-democracy right to thrive, we need to reform the U.S. voting system to allow for new parties to emerge outside the existing two-party system. Without electoral reform, third parties are likely to fail as spoilers. But only a new small “l” liberal Republican Party—distinct from the increasingly illiberal Trumpist GOP, can establish a new partisan identity that gives center-right voters a meaningful home. Only a new party can create a distinct pathway to elected office that avoids the combatively hyper-partisan Republican primary voters. A party faction cannot do these things. Left to fight a losing battle in the Republican Party, as the recent CPAC confirmed, the withering pro-democracy faction is up against frightening odds.
American Democracy Can't Survive Unless the Far Right Is Marginalized. Here's How to Do It
Fri, March 19, 2021, 7:30 AM
As our nation comes to grip with the horrific events of January 6 and watches the Republican Party descend further into Trumpism as it pushes hundreds of restrictive voting laws across the country, the obvious question is how does American democracy come back from all this?
There is a path forward: The super-majority of Americans across the political spectrum who reject the extremism need to come together. This includes the pro-democracy right. But for the pro-democracy right to thrive, we need to reform the U.S. voting system to allow for new parties to emerge outside the existing two-party system. Without electoral reform, third parties are likely to fail as spoilers. But only a new small “l” liberal Republican Party—distinct from the increasingly illiberal Trumpist GOP, can establish a new partisan identity that gives center-right voters a meaningful home. Only a new party can create a distinct pathway to elected office that avoids the combatively hyper-partisan Republican primary voters. A party faction cannot do these things. Left to fight a losing battle in the Republican Party, as the recent CPAC confirmed, the withering pro-democracy faction is up against frightening odds.
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CunningCanuk
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What makes Bob happy is people engaging with him when he spews his nonsense.
This was his reaction after seeing you responded to one of his posts:
MTG is a disgustingly vile witch,I'm disgusted by these newbie politicians who push the limits w/their radical stances and diatribes to make news and self promote, unfortunately the more the limits are pushed by these publicity seeking whores the harder it is to come back to a more reasonable place.Like sand eroding off the beach, once its gone its gone,that's what I liken all this granstanding BS to.ccguns
Jimdamick
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Fogdog
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Elderly Asian woman attacked in San Francisco fights back, sends alleged attacker to hospital
The 76-year-old says the attack in San Francisco was totally unprovoked. She hit back, sending the man to the hospital on a stretcher, his face bloodied.
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She said she was just waiting at a traffic light when the suspect suddenly punched her by her left eye.
Immediately, her instincts kicked in to defend herself. While she suffered injuries and required medical attention, it was her attacker that ended up on a stretcher. Li says, "She found the stick around the area and fought back."
Witnesses told the station they saw the woman pummeling her assailant.
In a video taken at the scene, the suspect is handcuffed to a stretcher with his face bloodied. The sobbing victim appears to berate him and wave what looks to be a wooden board at him as he's being taken away.
"You bum, why did you hit me?" the woman said in Chinese.
dandyrandy
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Nothing like thumpin a trumpkin.
Fogdog
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DIY-HP-LED
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There is no neutral in this fight, it's one way or the other, no middle ground between democracy and fascism. If yer gonna break the filibuster, ya might as well go all out with whatever will help get ya elected in 2022 and retain or increase power.
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The GOP prepares to go on the defensive as D.C. statehood movement gains momentum (yahoo.com)
The GOP prepares to go on the defensive as D.C. statehood movement gains momentum
The campaign for Washington, D.C., to become the 51st state has been gaining momentum in the Democratic Party, The Washington Post reports. Several Democratic lawmakers, like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), said the urgency stems both from a "powerful democratic imperative for getting everybody equal political rights and representation" and also the sense that "the Senate has become the principal obstacle to social progress across a whole range of issues." In other words, two more senators from the heavily blue capital city would diminish the skew toward lower-population, Republican-leaning states in the chamber.
But as the idea becomes more and more of a priority for Democrats, it's also glaring brighter on the Republican Party's radar. "Our base is concerned," Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told the Post. "This is the first step of their political power grab. And we're going to make sure that America knows what they're trying to do and why it wasn't created as a state to begin with."
In reaction to Comer's quote, CBS News' Wesley Lowery argued against the idea that the D.C. statehood movement is just a Democratic "power grab" in disguise, noting that he'd like to hear a counterargument about why the city's population should continue to be taxed without any votes in Congress. Read more at The Washington Post.
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The GOP prepares to go on the defensive as D.C. statehood movement gains momentum (yahoo.com)
The GOP prepares to go on the defensive as D.C. statehood movement gains momentum
The campaign for Washington, D.C., to become the 51st state has been gaining momentum in the Democratic Party, The Washington Post reports. Several Democratic lawmakers, like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), said the urgency stems both from a "powerful democratic imperative for getting everybody equal political rights and representation" and also the sense that "the Senate has become the principal obstacle to social progress across a whole range of issues." In other words, two more senators from the heavily blue capital city would diminish the skew toward lower-population, Republican-leaning states in the chamber.
But as the idea becomes more and more of a priority for Democrats, it's also glaring brighter on the Republican Party's radar. "Our base is concerned," Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told the Post. "This is the first step of their political power grab. And we're going to make sure that America knows what they're trying to do and why it wasn't created as a state to begin with."
In reaction to Comer's quote, CBS News' Wesley Lowery argued against the idea that the D.C. statehood movement is just a Democratic "power grab" in disguise, noting that he'd like to hear a counterargument about why the city's population should continue to be taxed without any votes in Congress. Read more at The Washington Post.
DIY-HP-LED
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Inside Look At All-Black Militia Group
NBC News' Morgan Radford joins Morning Joe to discuss her new reporting on the NFAC, an armed Black militia group with a mission to defend the Black community.
NBC News' Morgan Radford joins Morning Joe to discuss her new reporting on the NFAC, an armed Black militia group with a mission to defend the Black community.
All this siding up W/different militias prepping is downright ominous,60's all over again but w/speed of digital world to provoke,spread rumor,and just turn up the heat to epic proportions starting to get a queezy feeling and it sure as hell is not from my Phizer shot.ccguns
Like I just said one word OMINOUS.ccguns
DIY-HP-LED
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Actually it might be the best thing yet for gun control. Back in the stone age pictures of black panthers armed to the teeth exercising their second amendment rights in the national media lead to gun control in CA, by Ronald Reagan himself.
The black Militia was what a Militia is suppose to be, a disciplined defensive force that is required by circumstances and the reality of the situation. White racist militias are generally more aggressive and founded over imagined fears, not real threats. The black Militia in the video appears more community based than the all male white drinking clubs where paranoid idiots rant and rave. The Black people in America have been and are subjected to social and political warfare by a third of the white population, while another third looks on in moral confusion. The are subjected to assaults on their persons and family, by white citizens and law enforcement, in addition to insults, organized terrorism and random acts of baseless hate. They have good reason to arm and discipline themselves into an armed force, they are Americans whose rights are being denied and abused.
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I hear you, but the justification for certain reasons gets real messy, real quick. If black people get to point to white people going crazy with their militias and Jan 6th and a million other incidents, then white people could point to black crime data as a reason and while you and I would say, hey wait a second there are some significant socioeconomic issues that point right back to white people again, it doesn't make that data disappear and would probably be upheld in courts.
I'd rather skip all that mess and see both sides focus on the constitution and make concessions, like dems could support the 2a and the current state of gun laws even though they want to make changes, then reps could support womens rights to abortions even though they want to see changes. I think a core sickness we have is a high degree of selfishness and both sides are trying to create a world of only the things they like and that's why we see so much hypocrisy and philosophical inconsistency. And yes, republicans want waaaaaaay worse things.
People need to get comfortable with supporting things they don't like and rejecting things they do like, because that's what honesty looks like, and when people are honest, they're easier to understand, and when you can understand someone, you can work with someone.
I'd rather skip all that mess and see both sides focus on the constitution and make concessions, like dems could support the 2a and the current state of gun laws even though they want to make changes, then reps could support womens rights to abortions even though they want to see changes. I think a core sickness we have is a high degree of selfishness and both sides are trying to create a world of only the things they like and that's why we see so much hypocrisy and philosophical inconsistency. And yes, republicans want waaaaaaay worse things.
People need to get comfortable with supporting things they don't like and rejecting things they do like, because that's what honesty looks like, and when people are honest, they're easier to understand, and when you can understand someone, you can work with someone.
