• lorty@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t think they need to worry, the dems like losing a lot more.

  • KingOogaBooga@lemmy.world
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    So they get power and do a bunch of shitty things. Then no one wants them in power anymore. Seems the country was doing quite well without them at the helm. Now…not so much.

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    I used to be a swing voter before Trump, after this admin, I will never vote for a Republican again. Especially since most support him.

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      I will go to my grave before I support a Republican for anything. I wouldn’t vote for a Republican for street sweeper.

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    Notice how he worries about HIS job… he couldn’t care less about the harm to the country or the people

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    Really? I don’t think your idiot voters will remember for longer than 5 years. And with an opposition like the Dems it’ll be easy for you to get back into power. Don’t overestimate the Americans. We all made that mistake once.

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    It would be too soon, if we got rid of them and these Corpo Dems. We could remove citizens United and few other worthless pieces of legislation. That and stop this fucking election tampering in the name “stopping fraud” fucking clowns making voting a single day during the work week and these Red hatted goons cheer for this shit like the mouth breathing inbred ghouls they are because they hate everyone else is beyond annoying.

    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
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      Citizens United wasn’t legislation, it was a Supreme Court decision. The only way to fix it following the current rules is to ask the court again or to change the Constitution. Of course, if you are willing to just ignore laws then you have many options (see current Presidential administration for examples).

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        No. Congress absolutely has the authority to enact legislation that overturns a court decision, even the Supreme Court.

        However, the disgusting piles of human shaped filth currently making up the Supreme Court would find some illogical excuse for why said law is unconstitutional. But only once one of there lackeys manages to appeal the issue all the way up the chain. But this process IS utterly corrupt and subverts the Constitution…not like they care. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        But courts are given authority only to interpret existing legislation; their decisions do not restrict the legislature’s authority to enact new laws. Thus the convoluted shit they come up with to abuse the appeals process, as mentioned.

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        Hawaii was recently successful in enacting state laws to limit campaign contributions. I’d hope that other states willing to tackle the fight could do the same. The biggest chance would be if it could be done in battleground states.

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        Not sure why you were downvoted for stating facts, guess they hurt someone’s feelings as a certain annoying little gremlin loved to say

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    Republicans should be wiped out. Fools, monsters, and traitors. They’ve done incalculable damage to the world and all those who live here.

    Every Republican that dies should be cause for celebration.

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      Maybe when the MAGA dorks try to convince us this is short term for long term gain; what they don’t realize is ousting the republican stranglehold on the country is the long term gain.

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      Look, I’m pissed too, I want them tf out of power and I want them to face consequences for what they’ve done. But celebrating the death of every Republican is more than a little extreme. The top dogs / those responsible? Sure. But let’s not go calling for the deaths of our countrymen - who are, tbh, blind fools who’ve been brainwashed by propaganda. That doesn’t make them worthy of death. I’d recommend avoiding turning the heat straight to 100 unless you want to watch our country walk an even darker path in coming years. If you’ve convinced yourself that’s the outcome you actually want - of civil war and all the other fucked up shit that tends to come with war - then you’re your own type of blind fool.

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          Do you not think it’s a little hyperbolic to claim that every single member of the Republican party is a Nazi deserving of only death?

          I mean, sure, it feels great to sound like a tough guy on the Internet, but you’re talking about tens of millions of Americans.

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          I wouldn’t disagree. But not every Republican is on board with or even aware of what’s happening. As someone who’s escaped a cult, it’s hard to see through a smoke screen of propaganda, misinformation and dogma when you’re surrounded by it. Getting us to fall into left vs right, black vs white etc camps and fight each other to the death is exactly what the rich elite (our actual enemies) want to happen. I’d recommend Andrew Callaghan’s film “Dear Kelly” for a first hand look at what this looks like in action; how an otherwise innocuous, well meaning citizen can be brainwashed by far right propaganda and how quickly they can lose touch with reality - as well as how they can be brought back from that brink.

          People are nuanced and groupthink is holding us back as a species. Hold the grand old party to task, and put on blast all those who have been profiting off of the suffering of others and leading the destruction of society. But don’t lower yourselves to their level and paint everyone on the other side of the fence the same shade, or miss the nuances of how these people are being manipulated, and by whom.

          The manipulators are the problem. Not the manipulated.

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            I do agree they are sheep misled. But a penchant for being a Nazi does not a good citizen make.

            This soft approach after the civil war is why we are here again.

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            This reminds me of the Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht. In short: No, not so many of them are victims and puppets.

            There are some cases where people are pulled out of cults by exposure to outside opinions. Anyone among the Republicans that has frequently had that exposure, on some level (for instance, hearing arguments from Democratic senators prior to votes) agrees with and wants the destruction.

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    “During this two-to-five-year period, asserted Bezmenov, what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it.”

    We are here: attacking Canada, Greenland, Mexico (damaging our economy & theirs, and clearly our foreign relations) Trump also offered to cut defense spending if Russia does. It’s all very obvious if you’re not in the cult.

    https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/