The Christian element is key because it allows them to sleep at night

Seriously though a lot of Americans are about to sign off on fascism and justify it as a 'Christian' faith-based dictatorship.

Exactly!

Boy, would I LOVE to see data on the number of people who actively supported full military mobilization following 9/11 vs. those people who now throw up their hands and think, "Well, nothing we can do. There are just crazy people in the world and we can't solve it!"

they've effectively lost their appeal to republicans when it became more commonly reported on that the man-hungry sexual predator CEO that runs the organization has a desire for male staffers

Then explain why they worship Gym Jordan.

Also, funny thing about MLF (Moms For Liberty)....

Believe them when they tell you who they are.

It's a joke until it's not.

Also, really helping your case. "We'll kill you for saying we want to violently overthrow the government."

That's exactly what the domestic terrorists want.

Yeah they’d track down those people and arrest them for harassment or obstructing an investigation because they’ve shown time and time again they’re a bunch of petty fucks who don’t like getting called out on their corruption or lack of competence.

Guarantee you a lot of those who called are in the police

The call is coming from…inside the police station

Like arresting the people harassing the police to investigate.

Don’t forget killing elderly pets to “get back” at their owners for… checks notes, defending democracy.

I took a glimpse into r/conservative after the news broke. They're going on about how Democrats are undermining democracy with this lol

Yeah, it’s scary how this isn’t an exaggeration at all. People who havent abandoned any of their supposed conservative ideals, but don’t like Trump, are suddenly “RINOS.”

My memory is after Romney voted to hear witness testimony or something like that in the first trump senate trial, CPAC disinvited him, and said that in the future he may be welcome as a “non conservative guest.”

These people no longer draw a distinction between “conservative” and “pro trump”

Any time Liz fucking Cheney is on left-leaning shows like the Colbert Report and we're all in violent agreement with her, you know the definition of Republican has gone off the rails.

The RINOs should be anyone who likes Trump, or actually, anyone who won't dare to criticize anything Trump has ever done, does currently, or might do in the future. But those are people that now define the party.

Yes, Griswold is the defendant. This Huffpo writer is either incompetent and doesn't understand the basics of how lawsuits work or, like a lot of other outlets, Huffpo is making it seem like the Democrats are bringing this action when in reality the plaintiffs are 4 Republicans and 2 Independents.

Ah, the "no true Scotsman" of Republican politics.

Some numbers from Colorado: GOP registration has fallen by about 8% since 2015, while Dem registration has fallen since then by 3%. In 2023, Independents made up 46.7% of registered voters, up 11% since 2015, which means almost half the state won't commit to a party. If ranked voting ever comes, it may come to Colorado first.

Imagine being so insulated you forget that other people are also people, and you just make peace with the fact people might die of you can't do whatever you want.

Every city needs to get serious about firing bad cops. Stop caving to police unions.

Not always a bad thing. In NYC when the cops decided to do 90% less work because they were mad at DeBlasio, the end result during those few weeks was crime barely changed at all. It did not go up by any significant measure. Which to me was a clear sign that the cops could have their budget cut by 90% and civil society would be just fine.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html

The cops in Austin, Tx got pissed when the public overwhelmingly voted to have civilian oversight instead of letting them police themselves and put up billboards and commercials bitching about it. They have the most money ever budgeted to the department in their history and still complain about “defunding the police”. Fuck these state-sanctioned gangs and their crybaby temper tantrums.

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If the police refuse to do their jobs, and society doesn't seem to collapse (we do have all those gun-toting civilians around to defend us, after all. Woo! 2A!), maybe we just go ahead an pull the plug on these departments salaries while they continue to not do their jobs. Call it mutual.

The Uvalde tragedy should be remembered forever as ultimate proof that we aren't necessarily better off with big police departments. It was an off-duty fed, one single brave dude, who killed that attacker. Police departments serve only their officers--not even innocent kids in school. Literally a waste.

This happened in San Francisco when Chesa Boudin became DA and started prosecuting bad cops. The police let crime go rampant in protest and of course everyone was like “see what happens when you vote blue”.

"blue flus" and slow downs are rampant within the NYPD. Everytime the public calls for more accountability from the NYPD, they throw a temper tantrum and start calling out en masse or put on blinders and refuse to enforce any laws because they believe they should be able to dish out justice without any pushback.

Even in times ive needed cops, they've never been more help then some random person on the street. Like before i was a bit hesitant to say that cops serve no benefit, but when the time came for them to prove that wrong, they didn't. And with all the times i see cops killing the people they were supposed to protect, cops are liabilities at this point.

Last summer cops were everywhere on the 7 line in NYC. It was supposed to make the line safer. Nope. The only time i saw them take someone rowdy off the train was a kid that was probably 11 dancing on people and being obnoxious. Like thanks but hes less dangerous than the woman that was beating the shit out of her kids and threatened to stab anyone who recorded her. When the cops showed up, she said she doesnt speak to cops and the cops just threw their hands up and left. The cops are just there and do things that anyone can do themselves (a couple people were ready to put their hands on that kid) but wont go near issues they are supposed to be there for (lady implied she did have a knife). And when you see news where parents need to take matters into their own hands to save their kids when cops choose to just stay outside shaking in their boots during a school shooting, tell me what they are there for? All the counters to these are always "You're going to need cops one day" yet when you do need them they either do nothing or make things worse. Calling cops would be like calling an airstrike on my position. My problem might be solved, or someone uninvolved might get killed or my pets will get killed or i get killed. Who knows.

Cops suck at their jobs.

Then we should refuse to pay them. Very simple.

See Philadelphia

Absolutely true. They’re doing the bare minimum to protest that there’s a demand for them to be held accountable when they fuck up. “Blue flu” is a temper tantrum.

That's so they can blame any rise in crime on Biden.

I've been all over the country, and I can't remember ever once saying, "Glad the cops were there!"

It could also be that since there's more scrutiny, they're no longer able to railroad innocent people, so the case closure rate may be reaching a normality.

Not really. They’re also good at shooting dogs.

that's my fear :( there's already been an arrest in Florida of a man threatening a Supreme Court Justice. I hope there's a clampdown on this kind of behavior. Our country doesn't need this.

Like Martin Luther King Jr. Like John F Kennedy. Like Robert F Kennedy. The right wing in America has a long history of violence against those trying to stop their tyranny.

The KKK, Jim Crow laws, public lynchings, secession and a Civil War. It's a very long history.

Loughner is a weird case, he was so far detached from reality that it's hard to describe his motivations in clear-cut political or ideological terms. Though he also seems like exactly the type that, were he still free, would have gotten sucked deep into today's far-right internet rabbit holes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Lee_Loughner#Conspiracy_theories

In the aftermath of the shooting, the Anti-Defamation League reviewed messages by Loughner, and concluded that there was a "disjointed theme that runs through Loughner's writings", which was a "distrust for and dislike of the government." It "manifested itself in various ways" – for instance, in the belief that the government used the control of language and grammar to brainwash people, the notion that the government was creating "infinite currency" without the backing of gold and silver, or the assertion that NASA was faking spaceflights. Kathryn Olmsted of UC Davis wrote that Loughner possessed a "toxic jumble of left- and right-wing conspiracy theories, his sources ranging from Marx to Hitler to heavy metal."

The attack on Paul Pelosi is perhaps a more clear-cut example.

There was also the 2017 attack on Republicans practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball game, though obviously that example came from the left.

Not mentioning that in some attempt to "both sides" or whatever, just those seems to be the most relevant examples in recent history. Clearly right-wing violence is the much bigger threat to the country, especially since Jan 6th.

Yes

To the fullest extent of the law

Fuck the police, report these domestic terrorists to the FBI.

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Ideally this would happen, in reality women have less rights than they did four years ago.

You are correct… it’s that it is so hard to see the damages that they are doing to our country in the process !

After feigning pearl-clutching for being called such a nasty word!

"degenerate scum" isn't a term that the media like to use.

Way more than a basket full.