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Rubio is the ONE guy I didn't expect to go full-on fascist with thos regime, bit he's really taken to it with aplomb.

Why? He has been a little bitch his entire career. Biden tried to help him with Ukraine but he defaulted to back to who he really is.
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11 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Random Awful Realization of the Day:

 

All this time, we thought the GOP was using the NRA money and gun lobby to win elections.  In hindsight, that was a secondary benefit.  What they were chiefly doing was making sure that the armed contingent of Americans was firmly in their corner.  These are the people who have wet dreams about taking up arms against a tyrannical government.  How do you create a tyrannical government and not have to face that?  You support their right to bear arms.  You back them, vehemently, so that they come into your fold wholeheartedly, where you can indoctrinate them so completely, over the course of about thirty years, that they won't even be able to tell that you've instituted a tyrannical regime until it's too late.  You subjugate them last.

This hit you now?  They were never about fighting a tyrannical government, it was always about playing with toys.  They just seduced people with the fantasy.   Unfortunately, they were never challenged and broken even after it came out how corrupt they were and how they were just funnelling russian money/bribes.  

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10 minutes ago, Nivek said:

This hit you now?  They were never about fighting a tyrannical government, it was always about playing with toys.  They just seduced people with the fantasy.   Unfortunately, they were never challenged and broken even after it came out how corrupt they were and how they were just funnelling russian money/bribes.  

Yeah, I get all of that.  But it always seemed like it was about buying elections.  I mean, that's what we all thought.

What I'm saying is that I now think this entire fascist gameplan goes back at least 30 years, and a part of it was controlling the gun nuts so completely that they'd never have to worry about them rising up when it got to the final implementation.

It might actually be the longest long game ever played.  I think they knew what the end game would be all the way back when they founded Fox News.

See also: pumping their horde full of every conspiracy theory they could think of so that they'd miss the biggest conspiracy of all right under their noses.  Every accusation really is a confession.

 

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36 minutes ago, Nivek said:


Why? He has been a little bitch his entire career. Biden tried to help him with Ukraine but he defaulted to back to who he really is.

I probably should have worded it more precisely or with more context to mean the "one person chosen as a member of this Cabinet," which still would’ve been wrong, of course, because here we are. It's not like I expected him to be some savior of liberal democracy. But, yeah, you allude to him turning his back on Ukraine, and I had his previously strong support for them in mind when I typed that up. I was just surprised by how really objectively awful his quick embrace of authoritarianism would be. Mea culpa.

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12 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Yeah, I get all of that.  But it always seemed like it was about buying elections.  I mean, that's what we all thought.

What I'm saying is that I now think this entire fascist gameplan goes back at least 30 years, and a part of it was controlling the gun nuts so completely that they'd never have to worry about them rising up when it got to the final implementation.

It might actually be the longest long game ever played.  I think they knew what the end game would be all the way back when they founded Fox News.

See also: pumping their horde full of every conspiracy theory they could think of so that they'd miss the biggest conspiracy of all right under their noses.  Every accusation really is a confession.

 

They’re not remotely smart enough to hatch a 30 year plan.  All this fell in their lap as America has gotten lazier, fatter, dumber, and browner.

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50 minutes ago, tx ind said:

They’re not remotely smart enough to hatch a 30 year plan.  All this fell in their lap as America has gotten lazier, fatter, dumber, and browner.

Oh, the people behind the scenes -- the Mnuchins, Millers, Bannons, etc -- are plenty smart enough.

And the GOP has been actively working to make America lazier, fatter, and especially dumber.

I don't believe that they just lucked into this.  I'd rather believe that, honestly, but I can't.

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20 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Oh, the people behind the scenes -- the Mnuchins, Millers, Bannons, etc -- are plenty smart enough.

And the GOP has been actively working to make America lazier, fatter, and especially dumber.

I don't believe that they just lucked into this.  I'd rather believe that, honestly, but I can't.

Yep. Trump is just the useful idiot for the puppet masters pulling the strings. 

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2 hours ago, Nivek said:


Why? He has been a little bitch his entire career. Biden tried to help him with Ukraine but he defaulted to back to who he really is.

Yes. Saw this article and thought it was interesting.

Peter Marocco, the Trump administration official in charge of dismantling USAID, left a meeting at the White House last week to return to his office at the State Department. But when he arrived, Marocco could not enter the building: security told him he was no longer an employee there, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Word of Marocco’s firing quickly tore through the Republican Party and MAGA ecosystem, startling President Donald Trump’s loyalists who viewed the aide as part of an elite cohort of administration true believers. Loud voices on the right piled on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, accusing him of undermining their disruptive agenda.

Yet Marocco’s abrupt termination, which has not been fully reported until now, was not an impulsive dismissal or a case of Rubio going rogue. This report was based on conversations with five people, including administration officials and allies, all of whom were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters. Four of the people said Rubio fired Marocco. They gave varying explanations: one administration official said Rubio and others wanted Marocco out due to what they saw as his bulldozer operating style and failure to work effectively with colleagues; others pointed to substantive disagreements between Rubio and Marocco over how to dismantle USAID. Meanwhile, Marocco allies viewed Rubio and his team as insular, controlling and obstructionist to the DOGE agenda ordered by the president.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/18/marco-rubio-peter-marocco-usaid-firing-00297812

11 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

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Watch him and a few others closely.

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1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

Oh, the people behind the scenes -- the Mnuchins, Millers, Bannons, etc -- are plenty smart enough.

And the GOP has been actively working to make America lazier, fatter, and especially dumber.

I don't believe that they just lucked into this.  I'd rather believe that, honestly, but I can't.

I don't think it was a grand conspiracy.  But I do think a series of actions allowed for other exploitations to occur which in turn snowballed into Russia/Trump.   

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I think the country is slowly waking up. But I don’t see one coordinated effort yet. That one group or person. Bernie and AOC are trying I guess, but someone needs to step up. Maybe this gets Van Hollen going. Would prefer someone younger but whatever it takes

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2 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I don't think it was a grand conspiracy.  But I do think a series of actions allowed for other exploitations to occur which in turn snowballed into Russia/Trump.   

The far right christofascists have been planning this since at least Reagan, probably earlier. 

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14 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

One thing that is under-recognized is how much the destruction and cooption of institutions will necessitate the types of purges and investigations that Trump has embarked on in bad faith.  ICE, for instance, is going to need to be dismantled and rebuilt as something else.  Any civil and maybe military officer over a certain rank will need to be closely questioned as to what they did. Any hire or fast riser under DJT— suspect. 
 

Democrats need to start planning ahead, researching what post-Communist nations did in terms of lustration. That’s better than de-Baathification.

And it is going to be so costly.  Part of me wants "the left" to go on a similar wEApoNiZation campaign before returning to normalcy, if it ever regains power.

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17 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

I think the country is slowly waking up. But I don’t see one coordinated effort yet. That one group or person. Bernie and AOC are trying I guess, but someone needs to step up. Maybe this gets Van Hollen going. Would prefer someone younger but whatever it takes

Need a moderate or conservative to lead the charge

Posted
17 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I don't think it was a grand conspiracy.  But I do think a series of actions allowed for other exploitations to occur which in turn snowballed into Russia/Trump.   

Yeah, ultimately this whole mess is a coalition of kind of previously disenfranchised outliers whose interests are probably only temporarily aligned.  There have already been some examples of circular firing squads that may get worse.

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37 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

The far right christofascists have been planning this since at least Reagan, probably earlier. 

Fascism has had its place within the American conservative movement for damn near 100 years. It took them a few generations to fully take over the GOP, but Trump's rise put them over the top.

  1. 1930s: America First movement, Charles Lindbergh, Father Coughlin, paleo-conservatives.
  2. 1950s: Red Scare, McCarthyism.
  3. 1960s-1980s: Realignment of the parties with Southern segregationists leaving the Party, with anti-abortion Evangelicals tagging along (often one in the same); Nixon's corruption and the start of the War on Drugs; pissed off Vietnam Vets forming the backbone of the modern gun movement, NRA, Soldier of Fortune magazine; conservative think tanks established; Ronnie Raygun.
  4. 1990s-2000s: Pat Buchanan's xenophobia (anti-immigrant, Islamophobia) and economic nationalism, 9-11 Freedumb Fries bullshit got added to the mix; Libaugh and FOX News.
  5. 2010-present: Trumpism (a true authoritarian, strong "business man" finally discovered to pick up the mantle); aided by social media.

It's certainly been a progression. Planned or not. This is my interpretation and summary of how we got to this point.

 

Edit: I should've started with the 1920s with its anti-immigrant movement and the rise of the KKK as a national movement. And, of course, a lot of that shit just goes back to the Civil War/Reconstruction and Jewish, Italian, and Eastern European immigration during the Gilded Age.

There's a singular ideological tent pole holding the whole thing up.

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25 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

The far right christofascists have been planning this since at least Reagan, probably earlier. 

And the Klan, Manson Family, and American Nazi's.  That doesn't mean it is a conspiracy.

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3 hours ago, TexArcher said:

Oh, the people behind the scenes -- the Mnuchins, Millers, Bannons, etc -- are plenty smart enough.

And the GOP has been actively working to make America lazier, fatter, and especially dumber.

I don't believe that they just lucked into this.  I'd rather believe that, honestly, but I can't.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Nivek said:

And the Klan, Manson Family, and American Nazi's.  That doesn't mean it is a conspiracy.

They absolutely conspired to take over the judiciary like they have successfully done. So, yes, it’s a conspiracy. Lets not conflate a regular conspiracy with a conspiracy theory such as comet’s pizza or whatever the fuck that was 

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20 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

What is that lapel pin he is wearing?  I'm sure it's some dotard grift, but specifically what

It says The Pentagon on it, and has a picture of The Pentagon. Surprisingly appropriate

Posted
2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

And it is going to be so costly.  Part of me wants "the left" to go on a similar wEApoNiZation campaign before returning to normalcy, if it ever regains power.

Absofuckinglutely. Once the "real" adults get back into power -- if they ever do -- they need to 100% go scorched earth on tying up all the little carve-outs and what-nots that Trump/MAGA have exploited to do the horrific things that it's done. We have to rid our system of all the loopholes that a bad actor can exploit because we've finally learned after nearly 250 years that it is possible to elect a bad actor to POTUS. (Oh, and Steven Miller will be made the caboose on a lengthy MAGA human centipede.)

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

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I love how dipshit can't help injecting himself into this, even though it makes it seem like he was involved in the leak ...

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Posted
18 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

It wont be obvious to some, but that statement quoted above is not a definition, it's some equally ignorant assclown asking about the usage of "to be reckoned with."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010_January_22

 

Kid's spending tons of time trying to justify it, when all he had to say was that he made a mistake. But just like the rest of em, he has to double down. 

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January 6 political prisoner and US Senate Candidate. I use to laugh at things like this but now I wonder how much he will win by and how many more J6ers will be in Congress by 2026. 

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1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

They absolutely conspired to take over the judiciary like they have successfully done. So, yes, it’s a conspiracy. Lets not conflate a regular conspiracy with a conspiracy theory such as comet’s pizza or whatever the fuck that was 

I'm not so certain I agree with your terminology.  Voter Suppression, Gerrymandering, and other tactics also could be lumped in with that power-grab and violation of the naive spirit of our constitution/declaration.  

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2 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I'm not so certain I agree with your terminology.  Voter Suppression, Gerrymandering, and other tactics also could be lumped in with that power-grab and violation of the naive spirit of our constitution/declaration.  

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33 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

This is happening in Frisco tomorrow.

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You are a fucking LIAR.  That is NOT happening in Frisco.

It is happening in FRISO.  GET IT RIGHT, LIBTARD!

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7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Sweet Jesus. https://x.com/jakelangj6

ETA:  it appears that this is not an "organically" Frisco event, but something put together by a Florida rabble  rouser.

A pardoned Jan 6th Congressional candidate rabble rouser.  The details are important to provide clarity as to how truly fucky a timeline we're in.

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Great.  A baby and spouse assaulting thief and fraudster officially representing one side, and a treasonous want to be politician associating (willingly or not, dont know) with the other side.   This weeks event led to subsequent swatting of the deceased's parents house, wonder if the other side will be able to top that.   ThisisAmerica.gif?

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3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

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Thank God, America is respected around the world again.

Why can't we get any domestic people doing this shit. 

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38 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You are a fucking LIAR.  That is NOT happening in Frisco.

It is happening in FRISO.  GET IT RIGHT, LIBTARD!

Came in to say this.  Well, some of it, anyway.

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4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

And it is going to be so costly.  Part of me wants "the left" to go on a similar wEApoNiZation campaign before returning to normalcy, if it ever regains power.

And, it should be noted, it is probably possible for a real administration to bring a lot of Trumpers to justice under the rule of law without resorting to Trump tactics.

Even should we "normalize," I don't harbor a lot of hope for Congress getting its shit together sufficiently to close a lot of the loopholes that Trump found and exploited.

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5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Wait!  I thought he said he would use the art of the deal and stop the war in the first day.   I guess the Deep State has invaded Russia too.

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