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Bill Barr says Trump often suggested executing rivals in heated White House outbursts
(www.independent.co.uk)
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"Trump's as bad as people are afraid he is, but I could never compromise my values so much that I'd vote for a centre right neoliberal."
Anyone who feels this way is an actual nazi
The problem is that all the people inside the right-wing media bubble don't know he's as bad as people are afraid he is. Because they're regularly lied to.
I feel like I've said this before, but maybe letting right wing billionaires own all the major media outlets was a bit of an oopsie.
what I would not give to have 70's style regulation again, of course getting rid of citizens united would be bigger but owe man I hate the direct we have taken since the 80's
The older I get, the more I realize just how much I hate Ronald fucking Reagan.
yup. it reminds me a bit of nixon. growing up I understood he was bad but boy how rabidly upset he would make folks older than I. I did not get it but then I learned more and more about his actions and understood over time. Reagan same but experienced it. One thing is you don't even know the real bad stuff till its to late. People still don't seem to understand iran contra or the october surprise. effed up. now we just had trump. can you imagine the stuff we don't know yet. ugh.
The Reagans fucked this country like Hollywood fucked Nancy's mouthhole.
Tha throat goat.
Tracy Morgan: "gurgle gurgle"
He’s also the one who set the precedent in 1986 of support in the Israel-Iran proxy conflict that we’re protesting today.
He did that after supplying Iran with arms in the Iran-Contra scandal.
Prior to that, he removed foreign aid from Israel, and then supplied military aid under specific agreement that they use it to invade Lebanon and attack Hezbollah.
He put this shit pot on the stove and started stirring.
"Fun" fact: Those two things are connected! Without the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine by Reagan's FCC in 1987, the group called Citizens United would likely not have been able to form in 1988, as they would have been required to provide opposing viewpoints when they expressed their terrible views on national tv or radio networks.
Additional fun fact: Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio show (which began in 1988) also would not have been possible without the repeal of the fairness doctrine.
unholy hannah. thanks. I did not know this connection. Once again finding out more about a politician make me hate them more.
And Limbaugh opened the door for Hannity, Alex Jones, and the rest of the Faux News screaming liars.
Its almost like they were just waiting in the wings to swoop out and create these social bubbles for the sole purpose of weakening the American people.
Just a little uh-oh Woopsie-doodle flub
They're a lost cause - but apathetic left wing voters need to hear that message.
Our democracy may simply end if Trump is reelected.
-They Thought They Were Free, The Germans 1933-45
Fascism is always a right-wing reactionary movement against leftists.
Except, in the U.S. our fascists don't have any real Bolsheviks to stop, so they have to pretend that the center-right conservatives are actually Bolsheviks.
We say individuals are evil, amoral, and are the cause of suffering but no mention given to the organizations which enabled the suffering. There is no social reason to abhor Bolshevism but there is a profit driven motive. Bolshevism, and Communism that it became, are scary for businesses and people who see money as the only way to live.
Preventing businesses from having political power will see "We the People" more accurately represented.
Is anyone surprised that Bill Barr is an actual nazi?
Whatever you do, never question what J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO division was up to during the serial murder of black civil rights leaders in the 1960s. Don't question how similar disappearances and slayings occurred during Iraq War protests, the BLM protests, and appear to be happening again during the Palestine protests. Ignore the LA Sheriff's Gangs that operate independently of city government and the mass privatization of police forces in Detroit, Miami, and Atlanta. Don't google who Allen Dulles was or what he spent his career doing (and definitely don't question where he was or what he was doing in November of 1963). Don't ask who Bill Barr's dad is or question why he hired a a very young, very unqualified Jeffrey Epstein to teach at one of the most elite private schools in the country.
Don't ask what the 1994 Crime Bill had to do with the rise in mass incarceration. Don't ask who sponsored that bill. Don't question who wrote large sections of the Patriot Act and lobbied for their passage even before 9/11. Don't think about PRISM or question how the US Congress responded to its outing.
Just fixate on the Big Cheeto who wants to be back in the White House.
Our status as a fascist nation has nothing to do with our long history of police brutality and state surveillance. It has nothing to do with the structure of business or the anti-democratic judicial and senatorial systems that decide our laws. It certainly has nothing to do with the Military Industrial Complex and the continuous need for cheap labor at home and abroad.
Its just this one weird guy who might return to the White House. Everything else is fine.
You know, if Trump was an elaborate psyop to distract us from the REAL nefarious shit, it would actually help the world make more sense.
He's like the giant cold sore that lets us know we've got herpes.
Except we keep insisting if we just put a band-aid on it, we won't have herpes.
Everything that keeps happening and everything that has happened keeps making me feel satisfied with my choice to leave. I just wish it felt safe to look away.
Now, now don't be hasty. Maybe he meant to say, "Trump often suggested executing rivals in heated outbursts... and I really like that in a president." Not hypocritical at all really. Just a, you know, personal choice or something.