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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey are not outraged, not outraged in the least.
These fuckers are not outraged, not outraged in the least. All the blustering, the finger jabbing, the ranting and the huffing and puffing are complete and utter nonsense. You know how they say that politics is like acting but for ugly people
folks meet the republican party. And not just rather smug and unattractive on the outside, but rotten to the core of their beings on the inside. They have a co-ordinated approach of feigned outrage to ram home a message of they are victim to their poor deluded base, while they are taking the country for everything they can grab with their grubby little paws, before their time, quite rightly comes to an end.
This is what we are witness too right now. This is not white male rage, although they would have you believe it is JUST that. This shit they are pulling right now. This nasty that is impacting significantly on the mental health of the rest of us. This undermining of justice, of law, of democracy itself. This gaslighting of a nation. This example of toxic masculinity taken to the extreme. All of this is straight, 'Christian' male white privilege and everything that encompasses. Attempts by the rest of us to play fair, to want everyone to act within the law, irrespective of power and privilege, and our demands to level the playing field is denounced as oppression to those who've had every opportunity since birth. Oppression my arse.
How dare we demand that they play within the laws of the land and be impartial in their supposed service to the country? They think we are irrelevant because we are not exactly like them, and, oh, we are sinners
Need to show those wankers in November 2020 exactly how 'irrelevant' we are. Biff. Baff. Uppercut. Boom.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)The RNC was hacked, too
Nothing has been released publicly tho
Sooooo....
Trailrider1951
(3,415 posts)Scared of losing their power, fame and fortune. And oh so scared of, not Trump, but of Pooty-poot (he who must not be named). They know what he is capable of.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)patriotism or honesty in the gop they would not have reached this low point. Traitors. The group who spent July 4th. in Moscow were there making money-making deals for themselves. Putin must have had a good laugh at their greed once they left. His plan to rule the world has been much easier than he thought!! He was smart enough to know that the only way to get the USA in his grip was to bribe gop members. Their open greed is known worldwide.
gab13by13
(21,447 posts)got money from Russia and from Mitch?
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)Cash I believe is the preferred option with gangster threats to ensure follow through!
lark
(23,177 posts)Graham, Ron Johnson, Devin Nunes are obvious, but how many others of them are also complicit and getting money. Collins is getting bribed from drumpf via her husbands international shipping co. so probably gets it internationally as well? These are the ones I know about, but I'm damn sure that there's a ton more.
Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)The thing they fear most is to be primaried by a Putin paid thug or to have some terrible private information released, or perhaps some dire revenge acted on them and theirs. That is not hype. It is what the Russians call pressure.
On the other hand, they have much to lose and I suspect they have been promised that as long as they keep Trump in power they will likewise stay in office. They have been told that their seats are protected by the same corrupt mechanisms that "elected" Trump.
The next thousand-year Reich has begun. It is enabled by GOP thugs who believe that they are connected and protected. They also know that to leave the "family" and dispute GOP doctrine one pays a very heavy price.
In Russia, certain politicians and journalists who oppose Putin and his patrons have lost their lives. Businessmen who challenged the Hegemony of the Oligarchs have been prosecuted, imprisoned and had their assets taken. The fortunate ones have gone into exile outside Russia. Others have ended by falling from buildings or in staged "suicide".
Can you imagine how the Trump enablers in the House and Senate would act when they realize what the deal is they signed? Or is that perhaps what we ARE seeing now?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,496 posts)The propaganda machine works on the ones in office as well as their base supporters.
The Wizard
(12,552 posts)Just like Pox News says in their 24 / 7 Republican campaign ads.
Dirtdude
(47 posts)Ive been a long term lurker so a little hesitant posting anything, however, I would like to know something.
Is there a plan for a massive, coordinated fundraising effort against these treasonous Republican senators? Im much more inclined to donate larger sums of money if I know its a big team effort that can be tracked.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)I reckon once the candidate has been settled then fingers crossed a national co-ordinated approach will come together.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,755 posts)Senate Majority PAC, the super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, raised $61 million in 2019, a record sum that will boost Democrats as they seek to recapture the Senate this year.
The fundraising total, which was shared first with POLITICO, shattered the group's previous off-year fundraising records from recent election cycles and topped their GOP counterpart's haul for last year. The super PAC entered 2020 with more than $47 million in the bank, more than triple the $13.7 million it had at the same point two years ago.
Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and the GOP is defending 23 seats to just 12 for Democrats this year. At least a half-dozen GOP seats are considered battlegrounds, while Democrats are defending two or three vulnerable incumbents. Democrats must net three seats to win back control of the chamber if they also win the White House.
That math has Democrats seeing a viable path back to control of the Senate, six years after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans took the majority.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/28/senate-democrat-super-pac-raises-61-million-107479
Snoopy 7
(530 posts)First of all there is a person who is suppose to stop such BS from happening and his name is "judge Roberts" who is also corrupt and is allowing the BS to flow. Next it's being allowed to flow simply because (now think back 2 years or so) no real major Lawyers firms will take the case. Some big law firms tried helping trump but with all his lies they quit.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)That's them, all over.