Republicans are quite simply un-American

[SecretSapphic]

And as a result of Trump’s refusal to obey the Constitution and separate his business empire from the Office of the Presidency, we now have the president of the United States engaging in a murder cover-up, to protect the flow of Saudi cash flowing into his private businesses.

And yet Republican are totally okay with all of this.

Republicans seem to be rejecting EVERYTHING that is good about America! Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Religion and Separation of Church and State all seem to be alien ideas to these people!

They seem to want to live in a Christian theocracy, where the government tells you what religious doctrines you’ll follow and what church you’ll attend and criticizing the government will get you thrown into jail.

Back in the eighteenth century America fought a war to GET AWAY from a government like that! Now, Republicans are pushing America back in that direction!

Republicans are un-American. It’s just that simple.

Republicans have voted to allow foreign governments to interfere with our Democratic elections. They voted to defy the Constitution of the United States.

That's not just un-American, that is anti-American!

 

[icanhelp1]

Republicans have voted to allow foreign governments to interfere with our Democratic elections. They voted to defy the Constitution of the United States.

That's not just un-American, that is anti-American!

Do you have any proof that repubs voted for that, voted to defy the constitution!

 

[Rightguide]

Republicans have voted to allow foreign governments to interfere with our Democratic elections. They voted to defy the Constitution of the United States.

That's not just un-American, that is anti-American!

Pardon me, but you're full of crap.

 

[icanhelp1]

Pardon me, but you're full of crap.

Secret septic tank is bubbling over with crap.

 

[Jesus_Ateo]

Back in the eighteenth century America fought a war to GET AWAY from a government like that! Now, Republicans are pushing America back in that direction!

Republicans are un-American. It’s just that simple.

More like anti-American.

Republicans don't care about American values, or about the American People. They simply don’t care. Whatever it takes for them to win, they will do. They will gleefully feed the hatreds, fears, and irrational beliefs of the Republican base. They will feed the base non-stop bullshit 24/7, if that’s what it takes to get these people to vote against their own interests, even against their own children’s futures.

They are enthusiastically FOR Trump and the horrible Republican programs that are so destructive and harmful to the American people. They may not like Trump as a person, and may in fact despise him. But they love Trump’s racism, his hatred of “uppity” women, the way Trump shovels money into the pockets of the rich, the wildly unqualified right-wing extremists Trump is putting on the Federal bench, and the way Trump grinds the faces of the poor and sick into the ground. They get off on it, as a matter of fact.

These people want unlimited, unfettered, unrestrained, unaccountable power. They want this power to enrich themselves, enrich their friends, maintain their social status, and forcibly impose their so-called “values” on everyone else. These people do not—DO NOT—believe in the principles on which a democratic republic rests. In fact, they emphatically reject them as “mob rule”. Being right-wing extremists they advocate the same things right-wing extremists have always advocated: rule by a small group of wealthy white men. Because there’s a phrase in the Declaration of Independence they hate with the heat of a thousand suns:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

American right-wingers have waged unrelenting, bloody, savage war on this idea for 243 years , resisting the inclusion of entire categories of Americans from the protection of the law is the zen essence of conservatism. And in Donald Trump they see a chance to win the final victory in this war.

They will use ANY tactic. They will block Democrats from appointing judges to federal courts. They will block Democrats from appointing judges to the Supreme Court. They will threaten us with “Second Amendment solutions”. They will encourage hatred and incite violence. They will keep the guns flowing to obtain NRA money and reward gun manufacturers for contributions, consequences be damned. They will lie.

And lie.

And lie.

And lie some more.

They have helped build and eagerly exploit a right-wing propaganda machine of frightening pervasiveness and influence. They have dragged the level of public discourse in America down into the gutter. They have normalized a level of corruption that I scarcely thought possible. They now side with one of this nation’s mortal enemies as a way of maintaining their own power.

Treason? They’re cool with it.


This is what we’re up against. The evil, corrupt, anti-American Republican Party.

 

[jp55665566]

Republicans have voted to allow foreign governments to interfere with our Democratic elections. They voted to defy the Constitution of the United States.

That's not just un-American, that is anti-American!

Ridiculous statements like that, is why sane people are abandoning the Democrat Party.

 

[icanhelp1]

More like anti-American.

Republicans don't care about American values, or about the American People. They simply don’t care. Whatever it takes for them to win, they will do. They will gleefully feed the hatreds, fears, and irrational beliefs of the Republican base. They will feed the base non-stop bullshit 24/7, if that’s what it takes to get these people to vote against their own interests, even against their own children’s futures.

They are enthusiastically FOR Trump and the horrible Republican programs that are so destructive and harmful to the American people. They may not like Trump as a person, and may in fact despise him. But they love Trump’s racism, his hatred of “uppity” women, the way Trump shovels money into the pockets of the rich, the wildly unqualified right-wing extremists Trump is putting on the Federal bench, and the way Trump grinds the faces of the poor and sick into the ground. They get off on it, as a matter of fact.

These people want unlimited, unfettered, unrestrained, unaccountable power. They want this power to enrich themselves, enrich their friends, maintain their social status, and forcibly impose their so-called “values” on everyone else. These people do not—DO NOT—believe in the principles on which a democratic republic rests. In fact, they emphatically reject them as “mob rule”. Being right-wing extremists they advocate the same things right-wing extremists have always advocated: rule by a small group of wealthy white men. Because there’s a phrase in the Declaration of Independence they hate with the heat of a thousand suns:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

American right-wingers have waged unrelenting, bloody, savage war on this idea for 243 years , resisting the inclusion of entire categories of Americans from the protection of the law is the zen essence of conservatism. And in Donald Trump they see a chance to win the final victory in this war.

They will use ANY tactic. They will block Democrats from appointing judges to federal courts. They will block Democrats from appointing judges to the Supreme Court. They will threaten us with “Second Amendment solutions”. They will encourage hatred and incite violence. They will keep the guns flowing to obtain NRA money and reward gun manufacturers for contributions, consequences be damned. They will lie.

And lie.

And lie.

And lie some more.

They have helped build and eagerly exploit a right-wing propaganda machine of frightening pervasiveness and influence. They have dragged the level of public discourse in America down into the gutter. They have normalized a level of corruption that I scarcely thought possible. They now side with one of this nation’s mortal enemies as a way of maintaining their own power.

Treason? They’re cool with it.


This is what we’re up against. The evil, corrupt, anti-American Republican Party.

You're so delusional you're not worth responding to. Why don't you get back to your ANTIFA buddies, they miss you!

 

[allison22]

We have been brought up to believe that American political parties are the same — that they are similar creatures with similar traits and similar ways of behaving. Political science spent decades teaching us this. The idea that one party has become so radically different from the other, despite mountains of evidence, is a tough sell.

It’s a hard sell to make for one very simple reason: It doesn’t have a name, this thing the Republicans are trying to do. It’s not true democracy that they want. But it’s also a bit much to call them outright authoritarians. And there’s nothing in between.

Or is there?

A couple of weekends ago, I tripped across a 2010 book called “Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War,” by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way. If you pay close attention to such things, you will recognize Mr. Levitsky’s name — he was a co-author, with Daniel Ziblatt, of last year’s book “How Democracies Die,” which sparked much discussion. “Competitive Authoritarianism” deserves to do the same.

What defines competitive authoritarian states? They are “civilian regimes in which formal democratic institutions exist and are widely viewed as the primary means of gaining power, but in which incumbents’ abuse of the state places them at a significant advantage vis-à-vis their opponents.” Sound like anyone you know?

I discovered the book somewhat by accident, ordered it and read it immediately. As the subtitle states, the authors, working in a field that Mr. Levitsky likes to call “comparative regime studies,” were looking at regimes in the developing world and the former Eastern Bloc in the years after Communism’s collapse — years, that is, when a number of countries were moving, however fitfully, toward democratization.

There are sections on Mozambique, Kenya and Cameroon; on Taiwan, Malaysia and Cambodia; and on Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. In the late 2000s, when the authors were assembling their research, these were the kinds of countries they had in mind when they conjured up the phrase “competitive authoritarianism.”

But today, incredibly, the phrase has begun to bring to mind the United States of America. I literally gasped as I read certain passages, notably the part about the important role of a strong party in winning elections and in controlling legislatures. “Legislative control is critical in competitive authoritarian regimes,” the authors write. They list four reasons. You can bet Mitch McConnell knows every one of them, and probably a couple more.

Now, I should say that I don’t think we’re there yet. Neither does Mr. Levitsky. “For all of its unfairness and growing dysfunction, American democracy has not slid into competitive authoritarianism,” he told me. “The playing field between Democrats and Republicans remains reasonably level.”

So we’re not there right now. But we may well be on the way, and it’s abundantly clear who wants to take us there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/republicans-trump-democracy.html

 

[Fuzzy1975]

So we’re not there right now. But we may well be on the way, and it’s abundantly clear who wants to take us there.

After this November, you just might be there.

 

[gunthernehmen]

It’s a hard sell to make for one very simple reason: It doesn’t have a name, this thing the Republicans are trying to do. It’s not true democracy that they want. But it’s also a bit much to call them outright authoritarians. And there’s nothing in between.

You do realize the US isn't a democracy, right?

 

[JackLuis]

You do realize the US isn't a democracy, right?

You do realize that there are very few Republicans these days, they have been converted into Trumpublicans. Trumpublicunts are no way Democratic or Republican.

 

[gunthernehmen]

You do realize that there are very few Republicans these days, they have been converted into Trumpublicans. Trumpublicunts are no way Democratic or Republican.

Use your big boy words.

 

[KeithD]

You do realize that there are very few Republicans these days, they have been converted into Trumpublicans. Trumpublicunts are no way Democratic or Republican.

That's how the Trump people keep the percentage figures of Republican support from going right into the toilet. They increase the percentage of Republicans who are Trumpettes by disgusting those who aren't and who leave the party.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Use your big boy words.

He can't "orange man bad" is all he's got.

You do realize that there are very few Republicans these days, they have been converted into Trumpublicans. Trumpublicunts are no way Democratic or Republican.

Deflect to Trump!!! And deny reality.

Jacks natural response when the idea that the USA isn't a mob rule communist state is brought up.

 

[Ireadforpleasure]

Like many Republicans, Sarah Huckabee Sanders hates the Constitution of the United States of America.

When Congress dared to exercise the powers decreed upon them by the United States Constitution, Sarah Huckabee voiced her contempt for the very idea that Congress should have the power to declare war, saying she "couldn't think of anything dumber" than Congress having the power to decide when America goes to war....basically declaring her contempt for America's Founding Fathers for daring to write a document that kept America's president from being a dictator and forcing him to share power.

Of course, Sarah may have inherited her hatred of American Democracy and America's Founding Document from her father who advocated for throwing the Constitution of the United States in the trash and replacing it with Southern Baptist religious dogma.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Like many Republicans, Sarah Huckabee Sanders hates the Constitution of the United States of America.

When Congress dared to exercise the powers decreed upon them by the United States Constitution, Sarah Huckabee voiced her contempt for the very idea that Congress should have the power to declare war, saying she "couldn't think of anything dumber" than Congress having the power to decide when America goes to war....basically declaring her contempt for America's Founding Fathers for daring to write a document that kept America's president from being a dictator and forcing him to share power.

Of course, Sarah may have inherited her hatred of American Democracy and America's Founding Document from her father who advocated for throwing the Constitution of the United States in the trash and replacing it with Southern Baptist religious dogma.

TDS much?

She appears to have stated that Congress isn't responsible for foreign policy. They aren't. Did you read something else into the comment?

 

[YDB95]

She appears to have stated that Congress isn't responsible for foreign policy. They aren't. Did you read something else into the comment?

It appears she is the one who read something else into the question she was responding to. The House resolution was to limit military action without Congressional approval. That is their prerogative, and it's quite different from "being responsible for foreign policy".

 

[gunthernehmen]

The House resolution was to limit military action without Congressional approval. That is their prerogative, and it's quite different from "being responsible for foreign policy".

How is it Congress' prerogative to approve/disapprove tactics?

 

[JackLuis]

‘The bottom has fallen out’: Preet Bharara slams Republican for claiming Democrats love terrorists

On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara raged against Rep. Doug Collins for his claim that Democrats who question the strike on Iranian general Qassim Suleimani love terrorists.

“I think that the bottom has fallen out,” said Bharara. “It would be one thing if it’s in the heat of argument and then you step back and you apologize for it. I’m waiting for an apology … but he says the thing he says, and I don’t know that he has any contrition about it at all. Just say, you know what, it was in the heat of conversation, I shouldn’t have said it.”

“If there’s one thing we can agree on, it should be that everyone in America, Democrat or Republican or independent, does not like terrorism, because we’re all victims of it,” continued Bharara. “When terrorists target Americans, they target Americans, they don’t target Democrats or Republicans. And when the families grieve, they don’t grieve as Democrats or Republicans, they grieve as Americans.”

 

[YDB95]

How is it Congress' prerogative to approve/disapprove tactics?

Congress has the power to declare war. While various presidents of both parties have slid around that rule by arguing that a given conflict was something other than a war (i.e. "a police action"), the Constitution states unambiguously that the right to declare war belongs to Congress, period. Ergo, they also have the right to put the clamps down if there's reason to believe the president is trying to wage war without Congressional approval, as is unquestionably the case here.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Congress has the power to declare war. While various presidents of both parties have slid around that rule by arguing that a given conflict was something other than a war (i.e. "a police action"), the Constitution states unambiguously that the right to declare war belongs to Congress, period. Ergo, they also have the right to put the clamps down if there's reason to believe the president is trying to wage war without Congressional approval, as is unquestionably the case here.

What happened recently in Iraq wasn't a declaration of war OR even a police action. It was a tactical response to an active attack. Congress has no business getting involved with that.

Now if President Trump (unlikely) decides we need to flatten Iran then maybe you have a point. Maybe.

 

[YDB95]

What happened recently in Iraq wasn't a declaration of war OR even a police action. It was a tactical response to an active attack. Congress has no business getting involved with that.

They can't very well get involved with that now that it's been done. But that's beside the point. (Not to mention we've really only got Trump's claim that it was "an active attack".)

 

[gunthernehmen]

They can't very well get involved with that now that it's been done.

Since it wasn't something Congress has any legit interest in, it doesn't really matter that it is done.

 

[allison22]

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal railed against President Donald Trump, saying he believes he is "immoral," self-serving and not representative of American values.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal railed against President Donald Trump, saying he believes he is "immoral," self-serving and not representative of American values.

He's trying to hawk a new book. He'll say whatever he needs to to sell copies.