The Republican Party's Final Humiliation

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  1. Modus Ponens

    Modus Ponens Well-Known Member

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    Last week following the Capitol Riot, Susan Collins said “my first thought was that the Iranians had followed through on their threat to strike the Capitol.” This was a rather strange “thought.”

    What if it had been Iranians? What would the world look like today? Permit me a somewhat cliched counterfactual in order to draw out why so many of us are enraged at the response of the Republican party:

    The Iranian militants weren’t acting alone. President Clinton was in on the plot. She encouraged the militants because she thought the election had been “rigged.” She puts out a video during the siege in which she says, “We love you. You are very special.” She ignores requests for military aid for hours while she watches TV and laughs. She invites one of the sponsors of the group to the White House for a meeting the following week.

    Now what do you think Republican elected officials are doing?


    The Republican Party's Final Humiliation - The Triad (thebulwark.com)

    - At this point during the Obama Admin., 4 years ago, a good half-dozen members of Trump's cabinet were already confirmed. Biden will start his Admin. without any of his key officers appointed. How is this itself not an assault on national security?
     
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    Jonsa Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You have to realize that Trump's Republican Party is made up largely of Hatriots not Patriots.

    If you view it from that perspective, all of a sudden so many of those WTF moments in the past four year can be explained.
     
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    The Republican Party's Final Humiliation.

    Oh c'mon. Why would you think it is the final one? I'll bet there will plenty of humiliations in the future.
     
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    If you were not ignorant of the fact the people in place today will remain in place until their successor is confirmed, you would not ask this question.
     
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    Jonsa Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    delaying the start of his presidency out of spite. Yep real grown up approach. Butt hurt from the usual suspects.
     
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    Jeannette Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    500 protesters entered the Capitol, many of them Antifa and BLM instigators, yet how few they were compared to the over a million peaceful men and women that gathered in Washington for Trump. It doesn't matter though, it's being exaggerated and used to curb peoples rights, the same way the Reichstag fire was used by the Nazis.

    Here's a video of the Democrats destroying the city of Washington DC during Trump's inauguration - something that was never shown on the MSM. When we think of the destruction of the inner cities in the past riots, I guess nothing's really changed with them. Once again, it's the haters calling others haters.



    Now you can look at the 'Stop the Steal' march. As for the violence? That occurred when most of the protesters went home, and the anarchists came out and began attacking the few stragglers. This is why the Maga protesters were warmed not to go out after dark.



    At the Maga rally, there were no stores broken into, there were no intentional deaths, except the girl who was deliberately shot by a police officer, after John Sullivan a member of Antifa broke the window, and Officer Brian Sicknick, a strong Trump supporter who was probably killed because of his views by some member of Antifa.
     
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    have you noticed that nobody is saying these things other than conspiracy outlets and their trumpets?
    Sullivan has 0 known ties to ANTIFA and the FBI is focusing on real matters, 500 culprits, with 150 arrests so far.
    why were they chanting for death and screaming to kill the crushed guard with his own gun as they tortured him?
     
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    The party will be back because the two big parties always come back, but the invasion of the capitol is going to hurt the GOP. People aren't going to forget that historic event.

    The GOP played along with Trump playing along with the crazy fringe, and this is what happens.
     
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    Jonsa Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The substance of this post reinforces the notion that the MAGA fish is flapping at the bottom of the boat and Donnie Peachs will be on the lam from process servers at 12 oclock tomorrow.

    Meanwhile back in reality the racist fascist white nationalist QAnon nutbars and lowlifes are getting picked off one after the other. The hammer of enraged democracy will descend on them and I for one have stocked up on the popcorn to observe the hunting season from the comfort of my couch. I refuse to feel guilty about my shadenfreude.
     
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    `The desperate Trumpers have resorted to telling the truth.
     
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    Jeannette Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    This is John Sullivan. Yep, the same one that was set free by the police and was invited to speak on CNN and NBC:

    Now be happy! Because you're now going to see a reality that you'll never see on the MSM. You can watch the following video on this link. Just scroll down a bit and you will see and hear this:

    “It’s all fake,” he explains. “I learned that sh*t already – I am going to wear a Trump hat. I am going to wear a Trump hat. I bought one today. I was wearing a Trump hat at the f*cking last Trump – at that Trump rally during the daytime – because I was like, ‘nah, that sh*t ain’t happening, bro.”

    Moments after Sullivan captured (in the camera) Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt getting shot and killed in the Capitol, a blonde woman accompanying Sullivan who appears to be his accomplice, Jade Sacker, gleefully exclaims,

    “We did it!”

    “You were right! We did it,” she boasts.


    “Dude, I was trying to tell you. I couldn’t say much,” Sullivan replies. “Is this not going to be the best film you’ve ever made in your life?”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...er-breaking-window-us-capitol-building-riots/
     
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    LOL. The GOP is DEAD I tell you DEAD!!!! narrative starts every time the democrats regain power. Something they have an uncanny ability to lose again by their own making in fairly short order.
     
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    yes, we know you have endless woowoo evidence but you'll have to do far better to have any credibility
    please post the guy's Officially proven ANTIFA ties ...cos they don't exist. you're propandizing nasty stories
     
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    There is no real difference between John Sullivan.... and Donald.
    The one wants a coup against Donald to get him replaced.
    The other wants a coup against in the capitol to not get replaced.


    Thing is. John Sullivan aint an elected official and got arrested.
    While Donald got millions of supporters and still walks free.

    That's white privilege.
     
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    I would imagine they're taking a deep breath and getting ready for the mid terms.
     
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    Correction: The one (Trump) wants to remain in office for the benefit and well being of the 80 million people who voted for him, and the other (Sullivan) wants to stifle them with violent means. If you consider it white privilege, then I gather you don't believe in democracy?

    As for the coup, well what do you think the Democrats have been trying to do to Donald Trump ever since he was elected with the Russiagate farce and Palosi's impeachment nuttiness?


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    I'm not insane,
    Trump is to blame!
    That's what my voices say to me.

    They told me hound,
    and beat him down,
    For it's the only way to be

    for one to form a legacy,
    with justice, love, humanity
    of virtue and validity -

    Uhhh! Pelosi, maybe you better stop hitting the bottle - Jeannette
     
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    If a cabinet secretary is gone, the bureaucracy still runs as usual, and the next highest deputy secretary is in charge, answering to the President. From a national security standpoint, it makes no difference.

    President Biden wants you to focus on unity.

    I’m not a Republican, but this is not the time to be gleefully highlighting Republican humiliation. The Republicans picked up seats in the House, and, since the Democrats control both the Congress and Presidency, they will be held accountable in 2022, not Republicans.
     
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    Maybe it's messier to steal an election than it is to win one?
     
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    The fact the people in place today will remain in place until their successor is confirmed, and the fact said people are every bit under the command of Biden as they were Trump, negates, in toto, your claim, above.
    You should really take some time and learn more about the issues you comment on - it will save you considerable embarrassment.
     
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    I'm well aware. But saddling Biden with trump's line up of acting toadies and incompetents does delay the implementation of his administrations policies.

    But by all means presume to think you know what I don't.
     
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    Not me! I'm not propagandizing anything. I'm just repeating what John Sullivan's brother James said. He's the one that contacted the FBI and told them John was part of the Antifa group.

    "...James told the FBI he believed his brother was not only involved in the riots at the US Capitol but somehow was in charge..."

    "...John Sullivan also organized an Antifa-Insurgence rally on January 6th at the Washingotn Monument at 11 AM before they stormed the US Capitol..."

    "...John Sullivan has maintained in multiple interviews that he regularly attends protests only to record what’s going on, but did not actively partake in the insurgence in Washington. This is a lie (James said). He is a leader of the Utah Antifa-BLM movement and has been previously arrested..."

    "...“It’s just recording, solely, and not being active in it,” John Sullivan told Fox News last week.

    "...Yet, in footage streamed to his followers on Discord, Sullivan, who uses the name “Jayden X” on the app, can be heard inciting violence from inside the U.S. Capitol and boasting about breaking a window..."
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...r-breaking-window-us-capitol-building-riots//

     
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    yet nobody credible has confirmed this or any of the drama you've ever proffered here and I doubt you care
     
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    Yeah yeah, but they lost seats (and control) in the Senate, and lost the WH
    Regarding accountability, fortunately the Trump administration dropped the bar so low that it won't be that difficult for the Biden administration to do at least a bit better.
     
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    Me? And what - are you excepted from focusing on unity? Did you vote for Trump? The most divisive president in the history of the country? 'Cause it's clearly curious for those who have sowed disunity as never before in the country, to suddenly be calling for it.

    For the record, the author of the article is a Republican, writing in a magazine founded by Republicans. If they are cheering the downfall of their party, I feel welcome to do so as well.
     
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    It's a lie to say the election was stolen.
     
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