Donald Trump’s increasingly violent vision is coming through loud and clear to supporters like the MAGA gunman in New Mexico.
Republicans don’t want freedom or justice or anything that they claim to be for. They only want unrelenting flames of vengeance on everything that they hate: which is basically everything that exists. They literally are a lake of fire.
When my friend became a Republican after a being a lifelong Democrat, one of the first things he started to say was, “never let the opposition control the language.”
The right defines those words, freedom, justice, with what their empty ideology represent; not their actual meanings.
The right has zero credibility on freedom or justice.
I don’t even understand how someone can understand what “right wing” means while also claiming it to equal freedom.
They are literally on the “authority” side!
The freedom to use authority to oppress anyone the in group doesn’t like, you know, anti American freedoms.
There was a great piece on the notion of Southern liberty (the way the right defines it) vs. the way virtually everyone else defines it. The right’s idea of “liberty” is being able to rule over others.
“patriots”
Hatriots
When Bush was elected, his main concern was revenge on Saddam. When Trump was elected, his main objective was to show what he would have done during the 08 financial crisis instead of what Obama had done.
The next republican president will probably be obsessed with getting revenge for the pandemic. It’s what they do and why they can’t govern.
Cruelty is the point. That’s all that guides the right. The base, anyway. The elite just want corporate rule and tax cuts for themselves.
When Trump was elected, his main objective was to show what he would have done during the 08 financial crisis instead of what Obama had done
No it wasn’t. It was to destabilize the country at the behest of Vladimir Putin.
Republicans would be great Daleks.
Ryan Martinez, of East Mountains, pulls a gun during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building in Española, N.M., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.
Wow didn’t even hear about this one.
“As of Sepember 30, at least 571 people have been killed and 1,947 other people have been injured in 487 shootings.” It’s hard to keep up with the shootings when there are nearly two mass shootings every day.
Well written article. That there’s still such discussions about the politics of the US means that maybe there’s still hope.
The world needs more journalists like Will Bunch.
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This is one of the reasons I got a concealed carry permit. These mfers are nuts and won’t respond to kindness. We’re lost as a country. Just a matter of time before it shows.
We definitely need more guns. You know, to shoot the things and combat the guns and destroy stuff.
You should always have your gun on you and loaded, so it can be your first reaction whenever you’re scared
For all of the talk of “a good guy with a gun”, it’s happened like…twice?
Paywall
death of the local newspaper was bad for politics too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClatchy
local news papers are owned by a big national mega news corp stifling real news
no local city council meeting news or any county council meeting news or anything other than propaganda about how well things are just look at this new restaurant that is opening up
hard to do grass roots and all that and have discussions when everyone is in the dark even about local happenings
both parties do what this article accuses
Biden and Obama had someone chained to a chair for wanting to do a debate like the demopublicans are allowed to do
https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala
football or pakled like politics the other side with the other colored shirt and different letter are the problem and my helmet is not big enough never about anything substantial
Of course the president can not wave a magic wand but they still have the media could be saying things everyday that could help sway opinion such as abortion rights or anything
Catholic Biden definitely could have been bitching way more openly about this and other things he ran on
both sides doing the same thing but claiming their different excuses and makeup are better
end of politics in america was in part when the local papers got bought up which was pre2010
sorry for the unrelated post, but what community should this go in?
there’s a lot going on here that needs appreciating
Thank you! Somehow I haven’t seen that community until now.
He looks dejected. Sweet
Political memes. Maybe.
Thank you for the suggestion. I was wondering about that one, but wasn’t sure if this counts as a meme or is meme-y enough… between communities that are only memes and communities that only allow articles, not sure where this is supposed to fall.
