All this is too much. Trump needs to step down so the Republicans can nominate someone else at the convention.

Weird how republicans keep doing everything that America is supposed to stand against while calling themselves patriots / "Real Americans"

:smh:

Almost like they are actually an enemy that infiltrated America

Implying that they're coming from the outside and aren't home-grown conservatives

Almost like they are actually an enemy that infiltrated America and are trying to destroy it from the inside.

That's exactly why they are getting so much support from Russia and why Russia and China are fucking with us over social media/the internet. They can't win a traditional war and America largely stands against their goals so the best way to take us down is by having us do it to ourselves. I think Republicans are just too power hungry to serve their greed and they're too naive/heartless to consider what they could actually do to the country by taking advantage of the disruption other countries are causing.

I actually really believe they're going to succeed in "taking us down" and have already done severe damage to our "social fabric." Hell we can claim without exaggerating that there are large portions of our population that are living in completely opposite versions of reality via the media they consume. Propaganda exists to serve a specific purpose.

It's more deflection, Republicans rail against what Democrats supposedly want to do, then in the long run they just do it themselves.

If you wrote that about the baddies in a YA Fiction novel, people would laugh at you

So was Nazism.

It’s not at all

I mean, it is bizarre, yes. But it’s also terrifying. The undoing and overtaking of the democratically guard-railed structures of law enforcement is one of the last stages in a fascist collapse. After that, there’s basically nothing left.

They’re trying to figure out how to make an armed force that will go out and use deadly force in public on American streets against anyone who’s disloyal to the movement in any way. And, it’s vital to cloak it in a veneer of legitimacy - hence using friendly sheriffs, hence the confusing setup of “State Guards” by analogy with National Guard, but explicitly loyal to a person as opposed to the constitution. And, because a lot of these people will have friends in law enforcement and normal-looking badges and uniforms, and endorsement from the highest offices in the for real US government, the real law enforcement will hesitate to do anything about it, in a way they wouldn’t (as much) if it was a Patriot Front mob in khakis that was “arresting” a Democratic governor or whatever they are doing.

They’re not sure how to do it, yet, and what will work and what won’t. That’s why it’s so bizarre and hamfisted. But they keep trying, and no one’s stopping any of the explicitly seditious efforts which in any functioning democracy would be instantly recognized as the incredible danger that they are. And sooner or later, one of these things they try is gonna catch on and start working.

Republicans have said as much, win or lose they're going to spill American blood.

I've been saying since the early 2000 that I will see another civil war in my lifetime. I thought it'd be in my 80s. But nope.

Here we are.

Putins pet already started it.

But will it happen before or after conservatives set up extermination camps for anyone left of Himmler?

Possibly.

The civil war never ended. It’s just been simmering for 159 years.

And to find out what he has already done, just listen to what he accuses others of doing.

The Democrats still seem to think you can fight fascists by pointing out that they're being naughty and impolite.

Sadly, Joe has morals and ethics.