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"Trump's as bad as people are afraid he is, but I could never compromise my values so much that I'd vote for a centre right neoliberal."
Anyone who feels this way is an actual nazi
Those Germans who would do anything, be anything, join anything to stop Bolshevism had, in the end, to be Nazis. And Nazism did stop Bolshevism. How it stopped Bolshevism, with what means and what consequences, did not matter—not enough, at least, to alienate them. None of its shortcomings, mild or hideous, none of its contradictions, small or calamitous, ever swayed them. To them, then and now, Nazism kept its promise.
-They Thought They Were Free, The Germans 1933-45
Fascism is always a right-wing reactionary movement against leftists.
Fascism is always a right-wing reactionary movement against leftists.
Except, in the U.S. our fascists don't have any real Bolsheviks to stop, so they have to pretend that the center-right conservatives are actually Bolsheviks.
We say individuals are evil, amoral, and are the cause of suffering but no mention given to the organizations which enabled the suffering. There is no social reason to abhor Bolshevism but there is a profit driven motive. Bolshevism, and Communism that it became, are scary for businesses and people who see money as the only way to live.
Preventing businesses from having political power will see "We the People" more accurately represented.
Is anyone surprised that Bill Barr is an actual nazi?
Whatever you do, never question what J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO division was up to during the serial murder of black civil rights leaders in the 1960s. Don't question how similar disappearances and slayings occurred during Iraq War protests, the BLM protests, and appear to be happening again during the Palestine protests. Ignore the LA Sheriff's Gangs that operate independently of city government and the mass privatization of police forces in Detroit, Miami, and Atlanta. Don't google who Allen Dulles was or what he spent his career doing (and definitely don't question where he was or what he was doing in November of 1963). Don't ask who Bill Barr's dad is or question why he hired a a very young, very unqualified Jeffrey Epstein to teach at one of the most elite private schools in the country.
Don't ask what the 1994 Crime Bill had to do with the rise in mass incarceration. Don't ask who sponsored that bill. Don't question who wrote large sections of the Patriot Act and lobbied for their passage even before 9/11. Don't think about PRISM or question how the US Congress responded to its outing.
Just fixate on the Big Cheeto who wants to be back in the White House.
Our status as a fascist nation has nothing to do with our long history of police brutality and state surveillance. It has nothing to do with the structure of business or the anti-democratic judicial and senatorial systems that decide our laws. It certainly has nothing to do with the Military Industrial Complex and the continuous need for cheap labor at home and abroad.
Its just this one weird guy who might return to the White House. Everything else is fine.
Everything that keeps happening and everything that has happened keeps making me feel satisfied with my choice to leave. I just wish it felt safe to look away.
You know, if Trump was an elaborate psyop to distract us from the REAL nefarious shit, it would actually help the world make more sense.
“He would say things similar to that on occasions to blow off steam. But I wouldn’t take them literally every time he did it,” Mr Barr said, adding: “At the end of the day, it wouldn’t be carried out and you could talk sense into him.”
So either we're counting on people to refuse the president's orders, or we're hoping the Trump is more mature than he lets on?
How about not electing people who would even entertain such an idea in the first place?
How about not electing people who would even entertain such an idea in the first place?
The people who vote for Trump vote for him because he would entertain such an idea &/or they are deluded enough to think they're not on his list.
Thank goodness there isn't a publicly accessible, written version of a plan to replace everyone with sycophants right here: www dot project2025 dot org
And lawyers working for the dude telling SCOTUS that assassinating rivals should be legal for the president since it should be considered an "official act"...
The fact that he gets so angry that this is his go to proves he’s not mature enough, so people will need to rely on those to oppose those wishes.
"Seriously, but not literally; literally, but not seriously."
and yet when pressed, "the Biden administration's liberal agenda" is worse than anything - ANYTHING - Trump ever did.
fucking shill.
The worst part about this, besides all the other parts, is that the Biden administration is defending against this, like "Nuh-uh, We don't even have a liberal agenda!"
I wish Biden was the progressive that conservatives pretend he is.
I vote for the party that wants to protect abortion rights. It would take quite a lot for me to vote for any anti-abortion Republican. I think Trump-level disrespect for democracy from the hypothetical Democrat would be enough to change my vote, but I'm not sure some people I know would vote for the Republican even then. Would expecting Republicans to vote for Biden be a double standard in this context?
(What this doesn't explain is why Trump was so overwhelmingly popular in the primaries.)
Then, endorsed him for president.
Is he really dumb enough to not realize he's going to be on the list if Trump gets re-elected?
Go on TV talking shit about the guy who wants to kill adversaries.
Vote for that guy anyway
Pikachu skull & crossbones
This is the guy who wanted the Imperial Presidency, where the President is practically a king. Instead of finding some kind of enlightened philosopher king, he finds Donald Trump.
I used to not understand Barr, because he didn't seem to be a complete idiot, but now I think he might actually be an idiot.
Hey its that guy that was found in criminal contempt of congress and is supposed to be in jail
Yeah he just endorsed Trump, why do you ask?
/s I hope unnecessarily.
Barr doesn't want to be the first political rival that gets executed.
Remember that Barr would vote for him again as well.
I wonder, could it be a method for him to tell right wingers how awful Trump is and not get dismissed outright. It is probably helping more people hear the truth than would have.
But for a group of people who always will put party ahead of nation, what will it actually do?
Edited to add Barr's quote:
And in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I will support the Republican ticket. I think the real danger to the country – the real danger to democracy, as I say – is the progressive agenda.
Dude, fuck Bill Barr and Chris Sinunu and Mitch McConnell and all these pathetic hypocrites.
Hes a damn crackpot judge if hes voting for the homicidal orange maniac
We are at war
Dark Helmet said it best.
"... evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
He was just kidding, of course.
/s. Deeply. Deeply. /s
He should have publicly called for Trump to be removed under Amendment 25 while he was still a Cabinet officer.