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Sep 2, 2021 10:14:09   #
Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio
 
Donald Trump | Republicans
by Thom Hartmann | September 2, 2021 - 6:15am
— from The Hartmann Report



Lauren Windsor is a journalist’s journalist (disclosure: I’ve supported her work, and you can, too) and she just got Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to essentially expose for the world the real con the GOP has been running for decades. It’s burning across the internet right now, as you can see on her Twitter feed.

Conventional wisdom is that the GOP has buried itself up to its eyeballs in Trump’s BS and spittle, desperately holding onto the belief that the 2020 election was filled with “fraud!” and Joe Biden didn’t really beat His Orangeness by over 7 million votes.

Any Republican who wants to survive a GOP primary has to bow to that line, just like they were required to “take a vow against communism” back in the 1950s.


But the communism scam Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Ronald Reagan were running back in the day wasn’t really about the USSR (formidable as their nuclear weapons were), any more than the “voter fraud” scam the GOP is running today is about “election integrity.”

The 1950s communism scam was largely promoted and funded by wealthy rightwingers who simply didn’t want to pay their fair share of taxes; that’s why they called anything that might represent a transfer of wealth from them to struggling Americans “communism.”

McCarthy and his friends had their time in the sun and raised a lot of money, but the real “communism” scam was preventing higher wages, killing unionization and preventing America from having a more inclusive social safety net that would necessarily raise taxes on the morbidly rich.

Average working people and those living on the edge got screwed, but for (mostly white) middle class Americans it didn’t much matter; they were more than happy to watch the spectacle unfold on TV knowing that it was all a largely rhetorical war being waged that didn’t much touch them. Let the Koch brothers fight it out with Ted Kennedy; it was just a circus.

The “voter fraud” scam that Ron Johnson just revealed works along similar lines. Voter fraud isn’t really even a thing in America, and the GOP knows it.

Johnson comes right out and says so, laying it on the line for Windsor: Trump lost Wisconsin because enough Republicans were disgusted with him that they voted for other candidates, even though they voted for other Republicans on other parts of the ticket.

Just like the “communism” scam was actually about keeping taxes low on billionaires, the “voter fraud” scam is actually about keeping Republicans in power when the majority of the voting populace don’t want them there.

At this point, Americans are so familiar with GOP voter suppression laws and their love for voter “purges” that it doesn’t need repeating at length. Suffice it to say, the more the GOP can throw up obstacles to voting for people who are young, poor, Black, Hispanic, Native American or on Social Security the better things work out for Republicans on the ballot.

Democrats in the US Senate represent 41 million more Americans than do Republicans but only have equal power for a reason: the GOP and some of their billionaire funders decided, back in the 1970s, to focus efforts on everything from AM talk radio to local political races on low-cost, low-population states to end up with control of the Senate and, thus, the federal courts including SCOTUS.

Leave the big, expensive states to the Democrats, they figured; after all, Wyoming and Idaho (both going for FDR, Harry Truman and LBJ back in the day) have the same number of senators as California and New York — but could be politically turned to the right with a lot less money and effort.

Similarly, gerrymandering with surgical precision has resulted in multiple states that vote pretty much 50/50 D/R sending lopsided numbers of Republicans to the US House of Representatives.

But even all this structural work hasn’t saved the GOP as it’s gotten farther and farther away from average people and the issues they care about.

So now they have to go back to what worked before the 1965 Voting Rights Act: the 2022 version of “How many jellybeans are in that jar?” using voter ID, restricted voting places and hours, and harsh penalties for even small mistakes to threaten, discourage and prevent “undesirable” people (aka “Democrats”) from voting.

America is suffering from two political poisons, both poured into our nation’s bloodstream by John Roberts and his fellow “conservative” patrons of the morbidly rich on the US Supreme Court: money in politics and legalized voter suppression.

Until we challenge these both head-on with aggressive legislation and a confrontation with the Supreme Court, Republicans will continue to tell lies to hide the ways they’re gaming the system and America can’t truly call itself a democratic republic.


More truth youz can’t handle.

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Sep 2, 2021 10:54:28   #
whole2th
 
Hubris and chutzpah on parade.

The bold-faced lies are so obvious.

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Sep 2, 2021 10:59:51   #
1ProudAmerican
 
Milosia2 wrote:
Donald Trump | Republicans
by Thom Hartmann | September 2, 2021 - 6:15am
— from The Hartmann Report



Lauren Windsor is a journalist’s journalist (disclosure: I’ve supported her work, and you can, too) and she just got Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to essentially expose for the world the real con the GOP has been running for decades. It’s burning across the internet right now, as you can see on her Twitter feed.

Conventional wisdom is that the GOP has buried itself up to its eyeballs in Trump’s BS and spittle, desperately holding onto the belief that the 2020 election was filled with “fraud!” and Joe Biden didn’t really beat His Orangeness by over 7 million votes.

Any Republican who wants to survive a GOP primary has to bow to that line, just like they were required to “take a vow against communism” back in the 1950s.


But the communism scam Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Ronald Reagan were running back in the day wasn’t really about the USSR (formidable as their nuclear weapons were), any more than the “voter fraud” scam the GOP is running today is about “election integrity.”

The 1950s communism scam was largely promoted and funded by wealthy rightwingers who simply didn’t want to pay their fair share of taxes; that’s why they called anything that might represent a transfer of wealth from them to struggling Americans “communism.”

McCarthy and his friends had their time in the sun and raised a lot of money, but the real “communism” scam was preventing higher wages, killing unionization and preventing America from having a more inclusive social safety net that would necessarily raise taxes on the morbidly rich.

Average working people and those living on the edge got screwed, but for (mostly white) middle class Americans it didn’t much matter; they were more than happy to watch the spectacle unfold on TV knowing that it was all a largely rhetorical war being waged that didn’t much touch them. Let the Koch brothers fight it out with Ted Kennedy; it was just a circus.

The “voter fraud” scam that Ron Johnson just revealed works along similar lines. Voter fraud isn’t really even a thing in America, and the GOP knows it.

Johnson comes right out and says so, laying it on the line for Windsor: Trump lost Wisconsin because enough Republicans were disgusted with him that they voted for other candidates, even though they voted for other Republicans on other parts of the ticket.

Just like the “communism” scam was actually about keeping taxes low on billionaires, the “voter fraud” scam is actually about keeping Republicans in power when the majority of the voting populace don’t want them there.

At this point, Americans are so familiar with GOP voter suppression laws and their love for voter “purges” that it doesn’t need repeating at length. Suffice it to say, the more the GOP can throw up obstacles to voting for people who are young, poor, Black, Hispanic, Native American or on Social Security the better things work out for Republicans on the ballot.

Democrats in the US Senate represent 41 million more Americans than do Republicans but only have equal power for a reason: the GOP and some of their billionaire funders decided, back in the 1970s, to focus efforts on everything from AM talk radio to local political races on low-cost, low-population states to end up with control of the Senate and, thus, the federal courts including SCOTUS.

Leave the big, expensive states to the Democrats, they figured; after all, Wyoming and Idaho (both going for FDR, Harry Truman and LBJ back in the day) have the same number of senators as California and New York — but could be politically turned to the right with a lot less money and effort.

Similarly, gerrymandering with surgical precision has resulted in multiple states that vote pretty much 50/50 D/R sending lopsided numbers of Republicans to the US House of Representatives.

But even all this structural work hasn’t saved the GOP as it’s gotten farther and farther away from average people and the issues they care about.

So now they have to go back to what worked before the 1965 Voting Rights Act: the 2022 version of “How many jellybeans are in that jar?” using voter ID, restricted voting places and hours, and harsh penalties for even small mistakes to threaten, discourage and prevent “undesirable” people (aka “Democrats”) from voting.

America is suffering from two political poisons, both poured into our nation’s bloodstream by John Roberts and his fellow “conservative” patrons of the morbidly rich on the US Supreme Court: money in politics and legalized voter suppression.

Until we challenge these both head-on with aggressive legislation and a confrontation with the Supreme Court, Republicans will continue to tell lies to hide the ways they’re gaming the system and America can’t truly call itself a democratic republic.


More truth youz can’t handle.
Donald Trump | Republicans br by Thom Hartmann | S... (show quote)


Laughter is good for the body and soul, you just revitalized mine...

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Sep 2, 2021 11:23:30   #
Liberty Tree
 
Milosia2 wrote:
Donald Trump | Republicans
by Thom Hartmann | September 2, 2021 - 6:15am
— from The Hartmann Report



Lauren Windsor is a journalist’s journalist (disclosure: I’ve supported her work, and you can, too) and she just got Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to essentially expose for the world the real con the GOP has been running for decades. It’s burning across the internet right now, as you can see on her Twitter feed.

Conventional wisdom is that the GOP has buried itself up to its eyeballs in Trump’s BS and spittle, desperately holding onto the belief that the 2020 election was filled with “fraud!” and Joe Biden didn’t really beat His Orangeness by over 7 million votes.

Any Republican who wants to survive a GOP primary has to bow to that line, just like they were required to “take a vow against communism” back in the 1950s.


But the communism scam Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Ronald Reagan were running back in the day wasn’t really about the USSR (formidable as their nuclear weapons were), any more than the “voter fraud” scam the GOP is running today is about “election integrity.”

The 1950s communism scam was largely promoted and funded by wealthy rightwingers who simply didn’t want to pay their fair share of taxes; that’s why they called anything that might represent a transfer of wealth from them to struggling Americans “communism.”

McCarthy and his friends had their time in the sun and raised a lot of money, but the real “communism” scam was preventing higher wages, killing unionization and preventing America from having a more inclusive social safety net that would necessarily raise taxes on the morbidly rich.

Average working people and those living on the edge got screwed, but for (mostly white) middle class Americans it didn’t much matter; they were more than happy to watch the spectacle unfold on TV knowing that it was all a largely rhetorical war being waged that didn’t much touch them. Let the Koch brothers fight it out with Ted Kennedy; it was just a circus.

The “voter fraud” scam that Ron Johnson just revealed works along similar lines. Voter fraud isn’t really even a thing in America, and the GOP knows it.

Johnson comes right out and says so, laying it on the line for Windsor: Trump lost Wisconsin because enough Republicans were disgusted with him that they voted for other candidates, even though they voted for other Republicans on other parts of the ticket.

Just like the “communism” scam was actually about keeping taxes low on billionaires, the “voter fraud” scam is actually about keeping Republicans in power when the majority of the voting populace don’t want them there.

At this point, Americans are so familiar with GOP voter suppression laws and their love for voter “purges” that it doesn’t need repeating at length. Suffice it to say, the more the GOP can throw up obstacles to voting for people who are young, poor, Black, Hispanic, Native American or on Social Security the better things work out for Republicans on the ballot.

Democrats in the US Senate represent 41 million more Americans than do Republicans but only have equal power for a reason: the GOP and some of their billionaire funders decided, back in the 1970s, to focus efforts on everything from AM talk radio to local political races on low-cost, low-population states to end up with control of the Senate and, thus, the federal courts including SCOTUS.

Leave the big, expensive states to the Democrats, they figured; after all, Wyoming and Idaho (both going for FDR, Harry Truman and LBJ back in the day) have the same number of senators as California and New York — but could be politically turned to the right with a lot less money and effort.

Similarly, gerrymandering with surgical precision has resulted in multiple states that vote pretty much 50/50 D/R sending lopsided numbers of Republicans to the US House of Representatives.

But even all this structural work hasn’t saved the GOP as it’s gotten farther and farther away from average people and the issues they care about.

So now they have to go back to what worked before the 1965 Voting Rights Act: the 2022 version of “How many jellybeans are in that jar?” using voter ID, restricted voting places and hours, and harsh penalties for even small mistakes to threaten, discourage and prevent “undesirable” people (aka “Democrats”) from voting.

America is suffering from two political poisons, both poured into our nation’s bloodstream by John Roberts and his fellow “conservative” patrons of the morbidly rich on the US Supreme Court: money in politics and legalized voter suppression.

Until we challenge these both head-on with aggressive legislation and a confrontation with the Supreme Court, Republicans will continue to tell lies to hide the ways they’re gaming the system and America can’t truly call itself a democratic republic.


More truth youz can’t handle.
Donald Trump | Republicans br by Thom Hartmann | S... (show quote)


More ELWNJ BS, not worth reading or giving a response like all your posts.

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Sep 2, 2021 11:48:52   #
microphor Loc: Home is TN
 
Milosia2 wrote:
Donald Trump | Republicans
by Thom Hartmann | September 2, 2021 - 6:15am
— from The Hartmann Report



Lauren Windsor is a journalist’s journalist (disclosure: I’ve supported her work, and you can, too) and she just got Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to essentially expose for the world the real con the GOP has been running for decades. It’s burning across the internet right now, as you can see on her Twitter feed.

Conventional wisdom is that the GOP has buried itself up to its eyeballs in Trump’s BS and spittle, desperately holding onto the belief that the 2020 election was filled with “fraud!” and Joe Biden didn’t really beat His Orangeness by over 7 million votes.

Any Republican who wants to survive a GOP primary has to bow to that line, just like they were required to “take a vow against communism” back in the 1950s.


But the communism scam Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Ronald Reagan were running back in the day wasn’t really about the USSR (formidable as their nuclear weapons were), any more than the “voter fraud” scam the GOP is running today is about “election integrity.”

The 1950s communism scam was largely promoted and funded by wealthy rightwingers who simply didn’t want to pay their fair share of taxes; that’s why they called anything that might represent a transfer of wealth from them to struggling Americans “communism.”

McCarthy and his friends had their time in the sun and raised a lot of money, but the real “communism” scam was preventing higher wages, killing unionization and preventing America from having a more inclusive social safety net that would necessarily raise taxes on the morbidly rich.

Average working people and those living on the edge got screwed, but for (mostly white) middle class Americans it didn’t much matter; they were more than happy to watch the spectacle unfold on TV knowing that it was all a largely rhetorical war being waged that didn’t much touch them. Let the Koch brothers fight it out with Ted Kennedy; it was just a circus.

The “voter fraud” scam that Ron Johnson just revealed works along similar lines. Voter fraud isn’t really even a thing in America, and the GOP knows it.

Johnson comes right out and says so, laying it on the line for Windsor: Trump lost Wisconsin because enough Republicans were disgusted with him that they voted for other candidates, even though they voted for other Republicans on other parts of the ticket.

Just like the “communism” scam was actually about keeping taxes low on billionaires, the “voter fraud” scam is actually about keeping Republicans in power when the majority of the voting populace don’t want them there.

At this point, Americans are so familiar with GOP voter suppression laws and their love for voter “purges” that it doesn’t need repeating at length. Suffice it to say, the more the GOP can throw up obstacles to voting for people who are young, poor, Black, Hispanic, Native American or on Social Security the better things work out for Republicans on the ballot.

Democrats in the US Senate represent 41 million more Americans than do Republicans but only have equal power for a reason: the GOP and some of their billionaire funders decided, back in the 1970s, to focus efforts on everything from AM talk radio to local political races on low-cost, low-population states to end up with control of the Senate and, thus, the federal courts including SCOTUS.

Leave the big, expensive states to the Democrats, they figured; after all, Wyoming and Idaho (both going for FDR, Harry Truman and LBJ back in the day) have the same number of senators as California and New York — but could be politically turned to the right with a lot less money and effort.

Similarly, gerrymandering with surgical precision has resulted in multiple states that vote pretty much 50/50 D/R sending lopsided numbers of Republicans to the US House of Representatives.

But even all this structural work hasn’t saved the GOP as it’s gotten farther and farther away from average people and the issues they care about.

So now they have to go back to what worked before the 1965 Voting Rights Act: the 2022 version of “How many jellybeans are in that jar?” using voter ID, restricted voting places and hours, and harsh penalties for even small mistakes to threaten, discourage and prevent “undesirable” people (aka “Democrats”) from voting.

America is suffering from two political poisons, both poured into our nation’s bloodstream by John Roberts and his fellow “conservative” patrons of the morbidly rich on the US Supreme Court: money in politics and legalized voter suppression.

Until we challenge these both head-on with aggressive legislation and a confrontation with the Supreme Court, Republicans will continue to tell lies to hide the ways they’re gaming the system and America can’t truly call itself a democratic republic.


More truth youz can’t handle.
Donald Trump | Republicans br by Thom Hartmann | S... (show quote)


I see you haven't gotten your TDS Treatment yet. Maybe you like misery or maybe you can't stand to look in the mirror

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Sep 2, 2021 11:58:11   #
Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.
 
Milosia2 wrote:
Donald Trump | Republicans
by Thom Hartmann | September 2, 2021 - 6:15am
— from The Hartmann Report



Lauren Windsor is a journalist’s journalist (disclosure: I’ve supported her work, and you can, too) and she just got Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to essentially expose for the world the real con the GOP has been running for decades. It’s burning across the internet right now, as you can see on her Twitter feed.

Conventional wisdom is that the GOP has buried itself up to its eyeballs in Trump’s BS and spittle, desperately holding onto the belief that the 2020 election was filled with “fraud!” and Joe Biden didn’t really beat His Orangeness by over 7 million votes.

Any Republican who wants to survive a GOP primary has to bow to that line, just like they were required to “take a vow against communism” back in the 1950s.


But the communism scam Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Ronald Reagan were running back in the day wasn’t really about the USSR (formidable as their nuclear weapons were), any more than the “voter fraud” scam the GOP is running today is about “election integrity.”

The 1950s communism scam was largely promoted and funded by wealthy rightwingers who simply didn’t want to pay their fair share of taxes; that’s why they called anything that might represent a transfer of wealth from them to struggling Americans “communism.”

McCarthy and his friends had their time in the sun and raised a lot of money, but the real “communism” scam was preventing higher wages, killing unionization and preventing America from having a more inclusive social safety net that would necessarily raise taxes on the morbidly rich.

Average working people and those living on the edge got screwed, but for (mostly white) middle class Americans it didn’t much matter; they were more than happy to watch the spectacle unfold on TV knowing that it was all a largely rhetorical war being waged that didn’t much touch them. Let the Koch brothers fight it out with Ted Kennedy; it was just a circus.

The “voter fraud” scam that Ron Johnson just revealed works along similar lines. Voter fraud isn’t really even a thing in America, and the GOP knows it.

Johnson comes right out and says so, laying it on the line for Windsor: Trump lost Wisconsin because enough Republicans were disgusted with him that they voted for other candidates, even though they voted for other Republicans on other parts of the ticket.

Just like the “communism” scam was actually about keeping taxes low on billionaires, the “voter fraud” scam is actually about keeping Republicans in power when the majority of the voting populace don’t want them there.

At this point, Americans are so familiar with GOP voter suppression laws and their love for voter “purges” that it doesn’t need repeating at length. Suffice it to say, the more the GOP can throw up obstacles to voting for people who are young, poor, Black, Hispanic, Native American or on Social Security the better things work out for Republicans on the ballot.

Democrats in the US Senate represent 41 million more Americans than do Republicans but only have equal power for a reason: the GOP and some of their billionaire funders decided, back in the 1970s, to focus efforts on everything from AM talk radio to local political races on low-cost, low-population states to end up with control of the Senate and, thus, the federal courts including SCOTUS.

Leave the big, expensive states to the Democrats, they figured; after all, Wyoming and Idaho (both going for FDR, Harry Truman and LBJ back in the day) have the same number of senators as California and New York — but could be politically turned to the right with a lot less money and effort.

Similarly, gerrymandering with surgical precision has resulted in multiple states that vote pretty much 50/50 D/R sending lopsided numbers of Republicans to the US House of Representatives.

But even all this structural work hasn’t saved the GOP as it’s gotten farther and farther away from average people and the issues they care about.

So now they have to go back to what worked before the 1965 Voting Rights Act: the 2022 version of “How many jellybeans are in that jar?” using voter ID, restricted voting places and hours, and harsh penalties for even small mistakes to threaten, discourage and prevent “undesirable” people (aka “Democrats”) from voting.

America is suffering from two political poisons, both poured into our nation’s bloodstream by John Roberts and his fellow “conservative” patrons of the morbidly rich on the US Supreme Court: money in politics and legalized voter suppression.

Until we challenge these both head-on with aggressive legislation and a confrontation with the Supreme Court, Republicans will continue to tell lies to hide the ways they’re gaming the system and America can’t truly call itself a democratic republic.


More truth youz can’t handle.
Donald Trump | Republicans br by Thom Hartmann | S... (show quote)


1) Fear of terrorism is the new fear of communism and Democrats labeling 50% of the population as domestic terrorists is much more reminiscent of McCarthyism than anything the right is saying or doing.

2) 7 million popular votes were nearly all won by Biden in California and New York. Biden actually won by 42K votes in three swing states.

3) Voting in 2022 and 2024 will be considerably easier than in 2016.

4) Gerrymandering was all the rage among democrats during all of the 20th century and still is in democrat controlled in blue states. Just watch how the new districts work out in New York once the 2020 census is worked out. Odds are one lost seat in NY will results in several lost republican seats once the districts are redrawn. It's only in red states that the democrats are complaining about gerrymandering.

5) The majority of republicans voted for Trump's policies regardless of Trump's tweets. His actions spoke louder than his words and his actions were good for all Americans. Something that can't be said about most professional politicians.

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Sep 2, 2021 12:55:01   #
lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas
 
Milosia2 wrote:
Donald Trump | Republicans
by Thom Hartmann | September 2, 2021 - 6:15am
— from The Hartmann Report



Lauren Windsor is a journalist’s journalist (disclosure: I’ve supported her work, and you can, too) and she just got Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to essentially expose for the world the real con the GOP has been running for decades. It’s burning across the internet right now, as you can see on her Twitter feed.

Conventional wisdom is that the GOP has buried itself up to its eyeballs in Trump’s BS and spittle, desperately holding onto the belief that the 2020 election was filled with “fraud!” and Joe Biden didn’t really beat His Orangeness by over 7 million votes.

Any Republican who wants to survive a GOP primary has to bow to that line, just like they were required to “take a vow against communism” back in the 1950s.


But the communism scam Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Ronald Reagan were running back in the day wasn’t really about the USSR (formidable as their nuclear weapons were), any more than the “voter fraud” scam the GOP is running today is about “election integrity.”

The 1950s communism scam was largely promoted and funded by wealthy rightwingers who simply didn’t want to pay their fair share of taxes; that’s why they called anything that might represent a transfer of wealth from them to struggling Americans “communism.”

McCarthy and his friends had their time in the sun and raised a lot of money, but the real “communism” scam was preventing higher wages, killing unionization and preventing America from having a more inclusive social safety net that would necessarily raise taxes on the morbidly rich.

Average working people and those living on the edge got screwed, but for (mostly white) middle class Americans it didn’t much matter; they were more than happy to watch the spectacle unfold on TV knowing that it was all a largely rhetorical war being waged that didn’t much touch them. Let the Koch brothers fight it out with Ted Kennedy; it was just a circus.

The “voter fraud” scam that Ron Johnson just revealed works along similar lines. Voter fraud isn’t really even a thing in America, and the GOP knows it.

Johnson comes right out and says so, laying it on the line for Windsor: Trump lost Wisconsin because enough Republicans were disgusted with him that they voted for other candidates, even though they voted for other Republicans on other parts of the ticket.

Just like the “communism” scam was actually about keeping taxes low on billionaires, the “voter fraud” scam is actually about keeping Republicans in power when the majority of the voting populace don’t want them there.

At this point, Americans are so familiar with GOP voter suppression laws and their love for voter “purges” that it doesn’t need repeating at length. Suffice it to say, the more the GOP can throw up obstacles to voting for people who are young, poor, Black, Hispanic, Native American or on Social Security the better things work out for Republicans on the ballot.

Democrats in the US Senate represent 41 million more Americans than do Republicans but only have equal power for a reason: the GOP and some of their billionaire funders decided, back in the 1970s, to focus efforts on everything from AM talk radio to local political races on low-cost, low-population states to end up with control of the Senate and, thus, the federal courts including SCOTUS.

Leave the big, expensive states to the Democrats, they figured; after all, Wyoming and Idaho (both going for FDR, Harry Truman and LBJ back in the day) have the same number of senators as California and New York — but could be politically turned to the right with a lot less money and effort.

Similarly, gerrymandering with surgical precision has resulted in multiple states that vote pretty much 50/50 D/R sending lopsided numbers of Republicans to the US House of Representatives.

But even all this structural work hasn’t saved the GOP as it’s gotten farther and farther away from average people and the issues they care about.

So now they have to go back to what worked before the 1965 Voting Rights Act: the 2022 version of “How many jellybeans are in that jar?” using voter ID, restricted voting places and hours, and harsh penalties for even small mistakes to threaten, discourage and prevent “undesirable” people (aka “Democrats”) from voting.

America is suffering from two political poisons, both poured into our nation’s bloodstream by John Roberts and his fellow “conservative” patrons of the morbidly rich on the US Supreme Court: money in politics and legalized voter suppression.

Until we challenge these both head-on with aggressive legislation and a confrontation with the Supreme Court, Republicans will continue to tell lies to hide the ways they’re gaming the system and America can’t truly call itself a democratic republic.


More truth youz can’t handle.
Donald Trump | Republicans br by Thom Hartmann | S... (show quote)



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Sep 2, 2021 13:02:07   #
Rose42
 
Milosia2 wrote:
Donald Trump | Republicans
by Thom Hartmann | September 2, 2021 - 6:15am
— from The Hartmann Report



Lauren Windsor is a journalist’s journalist (disclosure: I’ve supported her work, and you can, too) and she just got Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to essentially expose for the world the real con the GOP has been running for decades. It’s burning across the internet right now, as you can see on her Twitter feed.

Conventional wisdom is that the GOP has buried itself up to its eyeballs in Trump’s BS and spittle, desperately holding onto the belief that the 2020 election was filled with “fraud!” and Joe Biden didn’t really beat His Orangeness by over 7 million votes.

Any Republican who wants to survive a GOP primary has to bow to that line, just like they were required to “take a vow against communism” back in the 1950s.


But the communism scam Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and Ronald Reagan were running back in the day wasn’t really about the USSR (formidable as their nuclear weapons were), any more than the “voter fraud” scam the GOP is running today is about “election integrity.”

The 1950s communism scam was largely promoted and funded by wealthy rightwingers who simply didn’t want to pay their fair share of taxes; that’s why they called anything that might represent a transfer of wealth from them to struggling Americans “communism.”

McCarthy and his friends had their time in the sun and raised a lot of money, but the real “communism” scam was preventing higher wages, killing unionization and preventing America from having a more inclusive social safety net that would necessarily raise taxes on the morbidly rich.

Average working people and those living on the edge got screwed, but for (mostly white) middle class Americans it didn’t much matter; they were more than happy to watch the spectacle unfold on TV knowing that it was all a largely rhetorical war being waged that didn’t much touch them. Let the Koch brothers fight it out with Ted Kennedy; it was just a circus.

The “voter fraud” scam that Ron Johnson just revealed works along similar lines. Voter fraud isn’t really even a thing in America, and the GOP knows it.

Johnson comes right out and says so, laying it on the line for Windsor: Trump lost Wisconsin because enough Republicans were disgusted with him that they voted for other candidates, even though they voted for other Republicans on other parts of the ticket.

Just like the “communism” scam was actually about keeping taxes low on billionaires, the “voter fraud” scam is actually about keeping Republicans in power when the majority of the voting populace don’t want them there.

At this point, Americans are so familiar with GOP voter suppression laws and their love for voter “purges” that it doesn’t need repeating at length. Suffice it to say, the more the GOP can throw up obstacles to voting for people who are young, poor, Black, Hispanic, Native American or on Social Security the better things work out for Republicans on the ballot.

Democrats in the US Senate represent 41 million more Americans than do Republicans but only have equal power for a reason: the GOP and some of their billionaire funders decided, back in the 1970s, to focus efforts on everything from AM talk radio to local political races on low-cost, low-population states to end up with control of the Senate and, thus, the federal courts including SCOTUS.

Leave the big, expensive states to the Democrats, they figured; after all, Wyoming and Idaho (both going for FDR, Harry Truman and LBJ back in the day) have the same number of senators as California and New York — but could be politically turned to the right with a lot less money and effort.

Similarly, gerrymandering with surgical precision has resulted in multiple states that vote pretty much 50/50 D/R sending lopsided numbers of Republicans to the US House of Representatives.

But even all this structural work hasn’t saved the GOP as it’s gotten farther and farther away from average people and the issues they care about.

So now they have to go back to what worked before the 1965 Voting Rights Act: the 2022 version of “How many jellybeans are in that jar?” using voter ID, restricted voting places and hours, and harsh penalties for even small mistakes to threaten, discourage and prevent “undesirable” people (aka “Democrats”) from voting.

America is suffering from two political poisons, both poured into our nation’s bloodstream by John Roberts and his fellow “conservative” patrons of the morbidly rich on the US Supreme Court: money in politics and legalized voter suppression.

Until we challenge these both head-on with aggressive legislation and a confrontation with the Supreme Court, Republicans will continue to tell lies to hide the ways they’re gaming the system and America can’t truly call itself a democratic republic.


More truth youz can’t handle.
Donald Trump | Republicans br by Thom Hartmann | S... (show quote)


Poor milosia is frantically trying to divert attention from our Disaster in Chief who has so little regard for the Marines lives lost that he kept looking at his watch

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Sep 2, 2021 13:20:51   #
permafrost Loc: Minnesota
 
microphor wrote:
I see you haven't gotten your TDS Treatment yet. Maybe you like misery or maybe you can't stand to look in the mirror


Your constant reference to TDS betrays you.. thinking you can say trump is gone while at the same time insisting he was the winner of the past free and fair election and other lies.. makes you pointless.

so tell me, who other then trump do you think should be running our country..

Bet you can not even name anyone else..



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Sep 2, 2021 15:02:19   #
whole2th
 
permafrost wrote:
Your constant reference to TDS betrays you.. thinking you can say trump is gone while at the same time insisting he was the winner of the past free and fair election and other lies.. makes you pointless.


Audit results aren't even fully in and permafrost pre-judges the audit results to be lies.

I'm clear you are an expert on betrayal.

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Sep 2, 2021 15:05:00   #
permafrost Loc: Minnesota
 
whole2th wrote:
Audit results aren't even fully in and permafrost pre-judges the audit results to be lies.

I'm clear you are an expert on betrayal.


Which audit are you talking about?

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Sep 3, 2021 23:25:14   #
Oldsargeant Loc: SW Florida
 
You’re a very deranged person. Get mental health help!

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Sep 3, 2021 23:34:29   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
Milosia2 wrote:
More truth youz can’t handle.
If youz ever stumble over some of that "truth", please let us know, we'd be thrilled if a leftist simpleton actually found some.

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Sep 4, 2021 16:52:05   #
WinkyTink Loc: Hill Country, TX
 
Blade_Runner wrote:
If youz ever stumble over some of that "truth", please let us know, we'd be thrilled if a leftist simpleton actually found some.


Here is the truth:

Biden won the election.

The democrats cheated in many ways, this is obvious.

Neither the Trump people nor the republicans have put up any substantial proof of the cheating or its magnitude.

Even if evidence was shown now, it would be disputed, obfuscated and litigated until it was moot, which essentially it is now.

It's time to forget about the last election and concentrate on bashing the current administration for everything they do or fail to do. So far, it's been easy.

MAGA!

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Sep 4, 2021 16:56:11   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
wtroxell wrote:
Here is the truth:

Biden won the election.
No, he didn't.

wtroxell wrote:
Neither the Trump people nor the republicans have put up any substantial proof of the cheating or its magnitude.
And, that is not true either.

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