persagen, to random
@persagen@mastodon.social avatar

Mandate for Leadership Then/Now
Heritage Foundation’s 1980 manual to roll back gov., free markets
2025 vision is far more extreme/dangerous
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-conservative-promise

  • de facto, long-standing conservative guide to GOP for U.S. federal governance

Project 2025: Guide to Subverting Democracy
2nd Trump admin. would weaponize existing government agencies to dismantle democracy
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec

persagen, to missouri
@persagen@mastodon.social avatar

Anti-Trans Missouri A.G. Can Access Trans People’s Medical Records
https://newrepublic.com/post/180680/missouri-attorney-general-bailey-planned-parenthood-transgender

  • judge ruled Missouri A.G. Andrew Bailey entitled to Planned Parenthood’s transgender care records
  • orders nonprofit to turn over some most sensitive files to man who built his unelected political career on restricting health care access for trans people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bailey_(politician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bailey_(politician)#Transgender_care_bans#Transgender_care_bans)

mreader, to Wisconsin
@mreader@mas.to avatar

Kyle Rittenhouse's former spokesman turns on him

David Hancock offered evidence that Rittenhouse not only failed the standard tests for entry into military service, but was permanently banned from applying to the Marines.

"Kyle failed to learn a single thing. He remains the same uneducated, arrogant, and antagonistic individual, incapable of telling the truth."

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/killer-kyles-ex-spokesperson-spills-beans

LiamOMaraIV, to random
@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social avatar

Seems there is a pretty clear correlation between support for and a lack of basic scientific literacy. Whodathunkit?

br00t4c, to random
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cdarwin, to random
@cdarwin@c.im avatar

Beau Biden died of brain cancer in May 2015.

Poleaxed by grief, his father chose not to seek the Democratic nomination in 2016

But, four years later, appalled by Donald Trump’s authoritarianism and especially by the racist violence in Charlottesville, he decided that the best way of honouring his son was to enter the subsequent race.

The threat of has not gone away

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br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Trumpism must continue to push the next angriest idea -- no matter how irrational

https://www.alternet.org/trump-irrational/

persagen, to LGBT
@persagen@mastodon.social avatar

Project 2025: The Right’s Dystopian Plan to Dismantle Civil Rights and What It Means for Women
https://msmagazine.com/2024/02/08/project-2025-conservative-right-wing-trump-woke/

Will the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 Turn Trumpism Into a Governing Agenda?
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/will-the-heritage-foundations-project-2025-turn-trumpism-into-a-governing-agenda/
Be scared, be very scared.

#neofascism #Trumpism #GOP #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #hate #LGBT #democracy #WomensRights

StephenRamirez, to Quotes

Fun Fact: When Hitler came into power democratically it took him like 3 months to dismantle democracy completely and there were no new elections for 17 years. He came into power after earlier starting an insurrection. State institutions and government failed to ban him from future elections — @thomasfuchs

StephenRamirez, to Quotes

Terrorists Don’t Deserve Bipartisanship. For months I’ve been hearing about pursuing a bipartisan America; about this nation needing to forge a new spirit of political collaboration if we ever hope to bridge the massive divides here... I don’t care about bipartisanship, I care about protecting humanity. If the fight for that humanity places me on one side of a partisan political line, that likely points to the inhumanity on the other side of it. I will not partner with terrorism and I refuse to make peace with white supremacy and I will not cooperate with fascists. I’m not apologizing for that and neither should the rest of us — John Pavlovitz

StephenRamirez, to Quotes

There are no false equivalencies to be made here at this place and time in the history of this nation. This abomination of a political party is now nothing more than a death cult whose sole platform is appeasing, pleasing, and defending a wannabe despot. To elevate them to something worthy of partnership is political treason and theological heresy. To entertain conspiracy or abide terrorism or enable bigotry in the name of some ceremonial both sides-ism makes a mockery of the costly battles so many vulnerable communities have fought before us, in order to make this a place where blind nationalism does not rule the day and where a minority of extremists cannot have their way — John Pavlovitz

StephenRamirez, to Ukraine

The GOP is playing with fire by blocking aid to , an act the majority of them know is in our national interest. Our allies and partners won't forget this short-sided act. Neither will historians. "Who lost Ukraine" will be a GOP legacy — Michael McFaul

StephenRamirez, to Quotes

These so-called moderates play an essential role in Trumpism. They wring their hands and speak in regretful tones while they launder the cult of Trump through a false veneer of respectability — Marc E. Elias

JMad17, to iowa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_trial_of_Donald_Trump

For all of my fellow Iowans who decided that the racist, sexist, twice-impeached orangutan who literally tried to overthrow the government is, for whatever reason, the best guy for the job, I'd like to wish you all a Happy Fourth Anniversary of Trump's first impeachment trial!

(insert smiley faces and birthday hat emojis)

mreader, to brazil
@mreader@mas.to avatar

Two Capitol Riots. Two Very Different Results.

On Jan. 8 of last year, a mob ransacked Brazil’s Congress and other offices, claiming an election had been stolen. Unlike the Jan. 6 rioters in Washington, the Brazilian protesters have almost no support now.

https://news.yahoo.com/two-capitol-riots-two-very-181446618.html

BPStuart, to random
@BPStuart@mstdn.social avatar

Trump voters are those “Americans” who can’t escape the sleeplessness and anxiety that come with imagining how much “better” their miserable lives would be had the Union not crushed the Confederacy, and had the Allies not handed Hitler his ass.

nxadm, to worldwithoutus

(Probable) Loss of the far-right in the referendum for a new Chilean Constitution:

It looks like the new proposed Chilean Constitution was rejected by the clear majority. Seeing how the fascist Milei won in Argentina, this is great news for the continent.

Last year a progressive Constitution was proposed to the voters, but it was clearly rejected. The political consequences were severe for the government: months later the centre-left and left lost the majority in parliament and the far-right became dominant force in the right-wing block. Their discourse was extremely aggressive and destructive, supported by the classic right, like in Argentina.

This resulted in a weird, almost postmodernist, situation. The progressive parties had to campaign to keep a Constitution that originated during the horror of the Pinochet years, when their militants were tortured and disappeared. This in the hope to be able to change it later, way way in the future.

While the Chilean Constitution is where neoliberalism was historically codified, this didn't go far enough for the far right that calls itself openly "Pinochetist". So they ended campaigning against the Constitution of their hero.

DarleneRyan, to Canada
@DarleneRyan@mastodon.social avatar

From the 1st time I heard speak, I thought hmmm, ’s wannabe.. spreading to 🇨🇦, Trump gave all permission to reveal themselves. 🙏🏼 God help us all..

GW, to random

The Republi-Fascist Specter Looms

It is darkly comedic to think that I used to catch Hell from left-identified folks for making the obviously accurate observation that then United States (US) President Donald “Stand By, Proud Boys” and were .

The ridiculous Trumpen left fascism-denying criticism continued even after the orange beast sent thousands of his frothing backers to physically attack the US in an effort to block...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/17/the-republi-fascist-specter-looms/

StephenRamirez, to Quotes

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human — Aldous Huxley

_ohcoco_, to random
@_ohcoco_@mastodon.social avatar

“Today at a momentous time in our history, the country is about to go through a great trial. By this, I do not mean any of the several trials of the former president, but rather a trial of the proposition that we are a nation of laws committed to the rule of law and that no one is above the law....it is a proposition well known around the world because it is the one essential ingredient in all democracies...”



https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/adam-schiff-republicans-trump-dictatorship-b2416161.html

hannu_ikonen, to narcissism
Acronymesis, to politics
@Acronymesis@mastodon.world avatar

Hold on to your asses everyone, the political dumpster fire that is Florida is about to assume its final form:

Trash Heap Hellfire 🔥🗑️🔥

'He's 100% in': Matt Gaetz widely expected to run for Florida governor.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/111091956511482228

BPStuart, to random
@BPStuart@mstdn.social avatar

“Ignorance is strength.”
~ Orwell

It damned near took down U.S. democracy.

courtcan, to random
@courtcan@mastodon.social avatar

"(Lee) Atwater’s draft memoir makes clear that he had already mastered the dark political arts as a teen-ager. In fact, it seems that practically everything Atwater learned about politics he learned in high school. It’s easy to see the future of the Republican Party in the anti-intellectual dirty tricks of his school days."






https://mstdn.ca/@Lynnd/111007487934942426

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