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Off Topic => News - Off Topic - Weird & Wacky => Topic started by: Rick Plant on September 12, 2022, 10:48:08 PM
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New polling says:
The majority of Americans say that MAGA Republicans are threatening the foundations of democracy.
These 58% of Americans, which is the majority of the country, is certainly not going to be voting Republican in November when they believe MAGA Republicans are a threat and danger to democracy.
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New polling shows that the majority of Americans say MAGA Republicans are a threat to our democracy which coincides with democracy being the #1 issue on the ballot in November.
MAGA Republicans are more than just a threat to our democracy...they already tried to end our democracy on January 6th with a violent coup to illegally keep Trump in power.
Trump unleashed his MAGA mob to storm the Capitol where his supporters beat Capitol Police officers and broke inside the Capitol trying to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory from happening.
147 MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to overturn a free and fair election because they didn't like the results and wanted to illegally keep Trump in power taking away the will of the majority of Americans.
Read: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html
The right wing media and MAGA Republicans pushed blatant voter fraud lies trying to steal an election from the American people. Their lies and conspiracy theories is a threat to our democracy and our free and fair elections.
This was all a coordinated effort by MAGA Republicans to steal the election from the American people.
These are the same treasonous traitors that want to take over our government crafting laws that take away our rights and freedoms like they have been doing against women and groups of people they don't like for this entire year.
Political violence is what you see in fascist regimes where they attempt a coup to illegally seize power. This is exactly what MAGA Republicans attempted on January 6th.
This is MAGA and why they are a danger to democracy.
Pro--Trump rioters beat and stomped DC police officer with American flag pole
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New polling says:
The majority of Americans say that MAGA Republicans are threatening the foundations of democracy.
These 58% of Americans, which is the majority of the country, is certainly not going to be voting Republican in November when they believe MAGA Republicans are a threat and danger to democracy.
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I think the real numbers are over 90 % of Americans believe MAGA Republicans are threatening the foundations of democracy. MAGA people sense that with the changing demographics working against them, with minorities getting a higher and higher percentage of the population, the only way to keep whites in control in the long run is to jettison democracy.
I don't buy that the MAGA people, deep down, have been fooled into thinking the 2020 election was stolen from them. I think they are upset that the election was not stolen, from Biden. But they won't admit to that. That is why they so readily accept Trump's claims about the election, even the most obviously false ones. Like Dominion Voting Systems had rigged software, a claim, that if true, could have easily been proven by requesting a manual recount of the ballots. Which they did in only a few counties which found the Dominion count matched quite closely the manual recounts (machine counts and manual recounts are never totally identical).
Trump is still the overwhelming favorite among the MAGA people. Not despite Trump's obvious threat to democracy, but because of it. That is why MAGA politicians like DeSantis have such a hard time overtaking Trump as the 2024 Presidential favorite among Republicans. DeSantis agrees and will follow all Trump's policies. All, with the possible exception of one. Doing whatever it takes to keep MAGA politicians in power after 2028, and permanently thereafter. Trump will strive hard to do that, everyone knows that. Perhaps DeSantis would do that. Perhaps not. Nobody knows. For my part, I will vote against and try to warn people about DeSantis or anyone else who supports the '2020 Stolen Election' claim. Maybe they are doing this so the Trump's base doesn't turn against them. Maybe not.
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Majority sees Trump MAGA movement as threat to democracy: poll
A majority of Americans believe former President Trump and his “Make America Great Again” movement poses a threat to democracy, according to a new Reuters-Ipsos poll.
The new poll, published on Wednesday, found that 58 percent of respondents believe that the MAGA movement is a threat to U.S. democracy.
One in 4 Republicans agreed that the party’s MAGA wing is a threat to democracy, while 60 percent said they don’t believe Trump’s movement represents the majority of their party, the poll said.
The new poll comes in the wake of President Biden’s “Soul of the Nation” address last week, in which he warned that the MAGA wing of the GOP was pushing anti-democratic ideas, such as its continued claims the 2020 election was stolen.
“Not every Republican, not even a majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology,” Biden said in his prime-time speech.
“But there’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.”
Read More Here:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-americans-see-trumps-maga-threat-democracy-reutersipsos-2022-09-07/
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MAGA Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert said she is "tired of this separation of church and state junk".
People who read that quote from her on Twitter said, "she is ignorant and never read the Constitution". That's probably a correct assessment since she is a High School drop out and never graduated High School, but her comment is more dangerous than her just being ignorant and her lack of education.
MAGA Republicans like Lauren Boebert hate our democracy and our Constitution.
MAGA Republicans like her want to rewrite our Constitution into how THEY want it to be based on their own extreme evangelical religion.
MAGA Republicans do not believe in a separation of church and state, they want their "church" to govern America and they want to implement laws based on their own extreme evangelical religion.
We already see this happening with Republicans banning abortion forcing women to give birth based on their radical extreme religious beliefs. MAGA Republicans feel that their religious beliefs are superior to anyone else and we all have to follow what they believe. They want to force us to live our lives based on how they want us to live. And the majority of Americans agree this MAGA extremist movement is a threat to our democracy and our lives.
So, what if you belong to another religion? MAGA Republicans do not care. They believe their Christian Nationalism is superior to your religion and you have to go by what they tell you.
What if you don't have a religion? MAGA Republicans do not care. They believe their Christian Nationalism is superior to you not having a religion. In fact, MAGAs despise people who don't have a religion. They are on the record as calling those people "demons".
MAGA Republican and QAnon supporter Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is a proud "Christian Nationalist" and spoke at white supremacist conventions preaching her extreme religious views.
Christian Nationalism is basically white supremacy through religion with Christian Nationalists believing their religion is superior to any other religion.
Christian Nationalists are not afraid to use violence to achieve their goals as most of them belong to the QAnon conspiracy cult. We saw them use violence on January 6th to attempting to overthrow the government. So yes, these people are a danger to our democracy because they already tried to end it once.
Our Constitution makes very clear that there is to be a "separation of church and state" but these MAGA extremist Republicans want to end that making their church be the state we all have to follow.
MAGA Republicans like Lauren Boebert have made very clear in their speeches they no longer want a "separation of church and state". And the extreme laws MAGA Republicans are passing is based on religion as they are going against our democracy and what is written in our Constitution.
If MAGA Republicans ever controlled Congress, they will be passing extreme religious laws that we would all have to follow which is the end of our democracy as we know it. That's what's on the line in November.
Again, that's why the majority of Americans say MAGA Republicans are a threat to our democracy.
Lauren Boebert complains that she is "tired of this separation of church and state junk"
"The church is supposed to direct the government"
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Far-right politician Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., won her primary by nearly 30 points on Tuesday night after calling for an end to the separation of Church and State. Boebert, who has been a steadfast supporter of right wing conspiracy group QAnon, gave a speech at the Cornerstone Christian Center in Basalt, Colo., on Sunday claiming that the constitution does not support a government free from Christian influence.
Instead, Boebert called for the opposite. "The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our founding fathers intended it," she said.
Boebert has built her political career around taking radical stances on national issues beginning with her surprising defeat of five-time incumbent Rep Scott Tipton, R-Colo., back in 2020. In her first term as a congresswoman, Boebert introduced a bill to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. Earlier this year, Boebert made national headlines when she and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., repeatedly heckled President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address.
Now making national news again, the video of Boebert's speech has gone viral, having been shared on Twitter over 770,000 times.
“I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk.”
Lauren Boebert went full theocracy, and proclaimed, “The church is supposed to direct the government” per the founding fathers.
Watch Video Here: https://twitter.com/i/status/1541508454740885511
Her speech falls in line with an overall push from the Republican Party, most notably by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, to chip away at the Constitution's Establishment Clause.
"I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk — that's not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter, and it means nothing like they say it does," Boebert said in her Sunday speech.
While many cite the Constitution's First Amendment stating that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" as grounds for separation of church and state, Boebert is among the group of right-wing individuals that disputes this interpretation.
The letter that Boebert is referring to is a private note written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut in 1802 in which he states that "religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God" and that the American people have chosen to build a "wall of separation between Church & State."
In accordance with Boebert's understanding of the non-constitutional origins of the separation between church and state, the Supreme court ruled earlier this month that Maine cannot prohibit religiously affiliated schools from participating in a taxpayer-funded tuition program.
In May, the Supreme Court again ruled in favor of the church, stating that the Boston City Council had acted unconstitutionally when they prohibited a Christian organization from hanging their flag in the city hall.
And while Friday's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling does not mention religion as grounds for the verdict, many conservatives attribute their anti-abortion political beliefs to the Bible. Referring to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Boebert applauded members of the Church for fighting against abortion. "Look at what happened this week. This is the fruit of your labor, of your votes and of your prayers – this is your harvest," she said.
https://www.salon.com/2022/06/29/lauren-boebert-complains-that-she-is-tired-of-this-seperation-of-church-and-state-junk/
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MAGA Extremism in Schools: Republican-Led States Are Banning Books, Not Guns
In 2022, Democratic-led states focused on passing laws to keep kids safe in schools, while Republican-led states focused on banning books.
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As students return to schools across the country, many are entering classrooms in states where it is now easier to carry a gun than it was earlier in the year. In 2022 alone, five states with Republican leadership—Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, New Hampshire, and Ohio—passed laws to eliminate firearm permitting requirements, and across the country, Republican-led states have enacted more than 20 bills to weaken gun laws this year.
Weak gun laws are driving increases in violent crime, and children and teenagers are often the most vulnerable. In 2020, the 10 states with the highest rates of gun deaths among children and teenagers all received an “F” grade for their weak gun laws, according to the latest scorecard from Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The same year, the rate of gun homicides among children and teenagers rose by 40 percent, making guns the No. 1 killer of children in America.
Republicans have made it easier for shooters to access guns, but they’ve made it harder for students to access books. Since fall 2021, Republican-led states have banned more than 1,000 books in schools, including through legislation in Florida, Missouri, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah. In Missouri, one of the few Republican-led states with a legislature open at the time of the Uvalde shooting, lawmakers took no action on gun crime but did manage to ban Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. While countless studies show stronger gun laws keep kids safe, no study has established a causal link between student safety and book banning.
While Republicans passed laws that exacerbate gun crime, Democratic-led states have taken steps to lower gun violence and keep communities safe. In the wake of tragic mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, Democratic-led states passed more than 30 bills to reduce gun crime.
When it comes to school safety, Republicans have taken action to prevent kids from reading books but to increase access to guns in their states, while Democrats have acted to protect children from gun violence in their schools.
Republican-led states banned more than 1,000 books in schools in recent months
According to data collected by PEN America, Republican-led states banned more than 1,000 books from fall 2021 through March of 2022. There were 27 school shootings across the country during the same period.
- All book ban legislation passed in 2022 occurred in Republican-led states: Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah.
- In Missouri—one of the few Republican-led states with a legislature in session at the time of the Uvalde shooting—lawmakers refused to take any action on the issue of gun crime. They did find time to ban literature classics such as Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.
GOP-led states enacted more than 20 bills to weaken gun laws in 2022
This year alone, Republican-led states have enacted more than 20 bills to weaken gun laws, including in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming:
- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, and Ohio, all passed bills that will allow anyone to carry a firearm in public without getting a license or any training from the state.
- In New Hampshire, Republican legislators made it more difficult for law enforcement to work in collaboration with federal agencies to solve gun crimes.
MAGA Republicans nationwide are targeting their efforts to increase guns in schools
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Republicans have introduced more than 100 pieces of legislation to increase the presence of guns in schools since the Parkland, Florida, shooting:
- In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) responded to the Uvalde shooting by signing into law legislation allowing teachers to carry guns in classrooms after receiving just 24 hours of training.
- In Arizona, the Republican-led state House of Representatives passed a bill to require all children in sixth through 12th grade to take a National Rifle Association (NRA) gun safety course in school.
- In Tennessee, the Republican-led state House of Representatives passed a bill supported by the gun lobby to lower the age for people to own a handgun to 18, giving high schoolers the ability to legally possess guns.
- In Arkansas, Republican-led school districts are implementing policies to increase guns in schools, including a recommended goal to ensure an armed presence on every campus at all times.
- In North Carolina, one Republican-led school district is storing high-powered rifles, ammunition, and other equipment in six schools.
MAGA Republicans tout their support for law enforcement but pass bills that put police in danger
- In 2022, four states with Republican leadership—Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, and Ohio—passed permitless carry legislation despite the objections of law enforcement. Weakened permitting laws have been shown to increase violent crime rates by 13 percent to 15 percent—putting officers and the public at increased risk.
- An additional six Republican-led states, including Texas, passed similar legislation in 2021.
- In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed a law that will allow anyone in the state to carry a gun concealed without a license. Republicans passed this policy over the objections of law enforcement officials from across the state, including from Macon-Bibb County, Muscogee County, Savannah, and Mercer University law enforcement.
- In Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed a similar permitless carry bill into law over the opposition of law enforcement organizations, including the Alabama Sheriffs Association. Alabama also passed a law this year that would forbid state law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws.
- In Indiana, Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed the state’s permitless carry law, despite state sheriffs openly stating that it could make law enforcement’s jobs considerably harder.
Democratic-led states are working to lower gun crime
- According to CAP Action’s analysis, all 13 Democratic-trifecta states with legislative sessions in 2022 enacted proven solutions to reduce gun crime, including gun violence prevention legislation and funding for community violence intervention.
- Multiple states enacted ghost gun bans this year, including Illinois, Delaware, and Washington, making it more difficult for people—particularly children—who should not have firearms from gaining access to them. In 2019, a 16-year-old in California killed two students and injured three more using a ghost gun. Earlier this year, a 13-year-old in Maryland brought a ghost gun to school.
- In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed a new bill into law that allows the state attorney general to sue gun manufacturers and hold them accountable for infractions related to the sale or marketing of firearms.
Oregon enacted H.B. 4045 to support public health approaches to gun violence and provide additional funding for community violence intervention programs.
- Delaware passed legislation to prohibit the sale and transfer of assault weapons, along with five other significant gun reforms following the Uvalde shooting.
Democratic- and Republican-led states had extremely different responses following the Uvalde and Buffalo mass shootings
Seventeen states had legislative sessions ongoing at the time of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings.
Seventeen states had legislative sessions ongoing at the time of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings. Of these, six had a Republican trifecta: Arizona, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, and South Carolina; five had a Democratic trifecta: California, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island; and six had split power: Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
In states led by Democrats, legislators passed more than 30 gun safety bills to protect children and communities following mass shootings:
- California, New Jersey, and New York improved law enforcement’s ability to solve gun crimes.
Delaware, Rhode Island, and New York raised the minimum age to purchase certain types of guns, including the weapons used in Buffalo and Uvalde.
- Delaware and Rhode Island limited large-capacity magazines.
- Delaware banned assault weapons.
- New Jersey and New York increased firearm training requirements for purchasers.
Not a single Republican-led state took action to keep kids safe in the wake of Buffalo and Uvalde—but two states actively made it easier for dangerous people to access guns:
- Four of the six states with Republican governors and majorities in both chambers in session at the time of the mass shootings—Arizona, Iowa, Missouri, and South Carolina—ignored skyrocketing gun crime and refused to act.
- The two Republican-led states that did act—Ohio and New Hampshire—increased access to guns. In Ohio, Republican lawmakers made it easier to bring guns into schools and in New Hampshire, Republican legislators made it more difficult for police to solve gun crimes.
2 tragedies, 2 responses: How New York and Texas responded to mass shootings in their states
In the days following the shooting in Buffalo, the New York Legislature and governor passed 10 substantial gun reforms into law.
The new laws will reduce gun crime by raising the age from 18 to 21 for the purchase of semi-automatic rifles like those used in the shooting and by strengthening the state’s extreme risk law, which keeps guns out of the hands of those who are at risk of harming themselves or others. The laws will also enhance information sharing across law enforcement agencies to support police in preventing and responding to gun crime.
In the days following the shooting in Uvalde, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ignored calls for a special session to pass reforms that could have prevented the Uvalde mass shooting. Instead of taking action, Gov. Abbott attended a campaign fundraiser the night of the Uvalde shooting.
Just days later, Gov. Abbott and other Republican state lawmakers welcomed the NRA convention to Texas, where they called for expanded access to firearms.
Conclusion
Democrat-led states are working to prevent gun violence in schools by passing commonsense gun safety legislation and holding the gun lobby accountable. Meanwhile, extreme MAGA Republicans are making it easier for dangerous people to access guns and undermining law enforcement’s attempts to respond when gun violence breaks out. Instead of working to keep kids safe in schools, Republican-led states have focused on keeping books out of classrooms.
https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/maga-extremism-in-schools-republican-led-states-are-banning-books-not-guns/
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CAP Action @CAPAction
This is extremism like we’ve never seen before—and MAGA Republicans won't stop at abortion rights.
Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1568253082039107591
Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski
A man who walked into a Demont, PA Dairy Queen, wearing a vest, rainbow wig, and a loaded firearm was arrested. He said he was “working to restore Trump as President King of the US” and was going to “kill Democrats and liberals.”
Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1569864620801753090
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1569864620801753090
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MAGA rioter who committed bloody attacks on police takes plea deal calling for up to 8 years
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A Georgia man who attacked Capitol Police on January 6 and told one “you’re gonna die tonight” has pleaded guilty to assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon.
Jack Wade Whitton, 32, of Locust Grove, Georgia, entered the plea to one of the more serious felony charges to date among the 870 defendants arrested in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol. His plea deal, if accepted by a federal judge, would carry either sentencing range from 63 to 78 months, or 78 to 93 months.
“Whitton was part of a mob that confronted law enforcement officers at the Archway leading into the Capitol Building from the Lower West Terrace,” according to a Department of Justice news release. After another rioter kicked an office guarding the Capitol, Whitton jumped in.
“Whitton kicked at this officer, who was still on the ground. He then grabbed another MPD officer, first by his baton, then by the helmet and the neck of his ballistic vest. He pulled him down and started to drag the officer down a set of steps in a prone position. Others joined him in dragging this officer into the crowd, where other rioters beat the officer with weapons, including a flagpole and baton.”
As reported last year at Raw Story, “Whitton, allegedly told an officer, "You're going to die tonight," and later boasted in a text message that he had "fed him (an officer) to the people."
"Idk (I don't know) his status," Whitton wrote in the text message to a friend, referring to the officer. "And (I) don't care tbh (to be honest)."
According to court documents, the attack left one of the officers with head wounds that required staples to close. This was after rioters "ripped off his helmet, maced him, took his gas mask and MPD-issued cell phone, kicked him, struck him with poles, and stomped on him."
He used a metal crutch to beat one Capitol Police officer and kicked another. Afterward, he boasted of his bloody hands and that he “fed an officer to the people,” according to court documents.
https://www.rawstory.com/j6-jack-wade-whitton/
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Earlier this year Democrats brought a bill to the House floor to combat domestic terrorism in the United States.
This bill would have given more funding to police departments and law enforcement agencies to combat domestic terrorism coming from white supremacists and right wing militia groups.
Every single Republican except for Adam Kinzinger voted NO to protect you and your family from dangerous domestic terrorists.
Republicans can't claim they care about "crime and violence" when they just voted against a bill that prevents crime and violence from domestic terrorists.
Republicans sided with these right wing radicals that are intent on political violence. Republicans voted to protect the same MAGA insurrectionists that stormed the Capitol and beat police officers attempting to overthrow the government.
Republicans also sided with these white supremacists who are involved in mass shootings based on racism and antisemitism.
So when people say that MAGA Republicans are threat to our democracy, that is indeed correct, because MAGA Republicans in Congress voted to protect those MAGA Trump supporters that are a threat and a danger to our democracy through political violence coming from white supremacists and right wing militias.
As you can see the official and final House vote below, 203 House MAGA Republicans voted "NO" to keeping American cities safe from violent domestic terrorists that threaten our democracy and the lives of Americans.
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MAGA Republicans are now kicking 18 year olds.
Marjorie Taylor Greene's kicking of 18-year-old Gen Z activist may result in legal action
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Controversial GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia may have legal exposure after kicking an 18-year-old Gen Z activist and posting the video to her official congressional Twitter account.
"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) appeared to kick an unarmed demonstrator during a confrontation outside the Capitol on Thursday afternoon," The Washington Post reported.
The newspaper reported Greene "at first appearing to step on demonstrator Marianna Pecora’s foot" and then "appearing to intentionally draw back her foot and aim for Pecora’s leg."
“Oh my God,” Pecora said.
Pecora is the deputy communications director of the Gen. Z group Voters of Tomorrow and was with the group's executive director, Santiago Mayer, when the incident occurred.
On the issue of pressing charges, Mayer said, "we're talking to our legal team and keeping our options open."
"I’m so sorry but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect members of Congress to not kick an 18 year old citizen," Pecora said earlier.
"Think about the fact that a bunch of kids having meetings in Congress held themselves with better composure than a full grown adult and sitting member of Congress. Put a little more faith in Gen Z. Please and thank you," she added.
The group emailed a statement to reporters saying they were fed up.
"Far-right Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has spent her time in office launching attacks against our democracy and the young people who will soon inherit it," the group wrote. "This afternoon, she took her offenses to another level, as she physically and verbally attacked members of our team. In addition to yelling at our Executive Director, a Mexican immigrant, to ‘go to another country,’ she physically assaulted another young staffer. Gen Z is fed up with politicians who continue to put our lives in danger, and this aggression is one of the most visible examples yet of what we are up against.”
Watch Video: https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1570530379550916609
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Thomas McDermott @tommcdermottjr
As a US Senate candidate, if I were caught in a picture, shouldering an automatic weapon, standing alongside an Antifa member, that would make headlines.
Somehow, this picture of #Indiana @SenToddYoung standing armed next to an “Oath Keeper” hasn’t made news at all. Go figure.
https://twitter.com/tommcdermottjr/status/1569401924809621510
IND Progressives @INDprogressives
Wells County Commissioner Mike Vanover is a member of the terrorist group, the Oath Keepers. Here he is hanging out with Indiana US Senator Todd Young.
#Indiana
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https://twitter.com/INDprogressives/status/1569079897544425476
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This photo was taken last night at a Trump rally by @gmorsephoto. Biden was right when he called MAGA fascism. MAGA has their own Hitler salute for Trump. This is fascism.
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Violent MAGA Trump supporters will attack police officers with fire extinguishers as part of their political violence to overthrow the government.
MAGA Rioter Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher at Capitol
Watch
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‘Ignoring the truth is not a path forward’: Critics warn on Trump’s rally – ‘uncanny resemblance’ to ‘Nazi salute’
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Donald Trump's Ohio weekend rally is being held up as a warning by critics who say it was a dystopian display of fascism and are sounding the alarm on his supporters’ religious-like supplication to QAnon and the former president – complete with a disturbing salute.
Central to their argument is this moment, at the end of Trump’s rally, when supporters raised their arms, holding one finger pointed in a QAnon reference, which many saw as far too close to, as The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin writes, the Nazi salute.
Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger
The display bore an uncanny resemblance to the infamous Nazi salute. The incitement and zombie-like response should put to rest the notion that Biden should be “reaching out” to these people. They are unreachable, and pretending otherwise misleads voters.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/19/trump-ohio-rally-qanon-media/
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1571846259203342336
"Donald Trump has gone full QAnon. As he spoke during a rally for Ohio Republican candidates on Saturday, a soundtrack associated with the conspiracy theory played. That elicited one-armed salutes — another QAnon symbol — from many attendees,” Rubin says.
"The display bore an uncanny resemblance to the infamous Nazi salute,” Rubin warns at The Washington Post. “The delusional incitement and zombie-like response should put to rest the notion that President Biden (or anyone) should be ‘reaching out’ to these people. They are unreachable, and pretending otherwise misleads voters.”
Dean Obeidallah, an attorney, journalist, and host of SiriusXM Progress’ “The Dean Obeidallah Show,” posted video noting his concerns.
(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah
At Trump rally last night they introduced a new one arm salute to Trump. This is ACTUAL footage from his rally where Trump played music underneath what sounds like a prayer to the devil and the crowd responds with one armed salute to Trump. This is FASCISM on US soil.
Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1571471956645449728
https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/1571471956645449728
"Symbolism matters,” writes former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, pointing to Rubin’s tweet. “This gesture is so reviled it’s impossible to miss it, and although it’s hard to believe anyone could intend it, ignoring the truth is not a path forward.”
Many others are ringing the warning bells.
NBC News and MSNBC military analyst Barry McCaffrey, a four star U.S. Army General (ret.) also makes the Hitlerian connection.
"Astonishing Trump language. The crowd is similar to a Nuremberg rally 1936."
As did government watchdog Citizens for Ethics (CREW).
Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew
On the left, a Nazi rally in New York City in 1939.
On the right, a Trump rally in Ohio in 2022.
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https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1571475307990863872
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/09/ignoring-the-truth-is-not-a-path-forward-critics-warn-on-trumps-rally-uncanny-resemblance-to-nazi-salute/
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Ron Johnson accidentally says 'I condone' white supremacy in 'all-time Freudian slip'
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) mistakenly said he "condones" white supremacy before correcting himself.
Johnson made the remark during a Tuesday interview on Fox Business.
"When I was chairman of Homeland Security, we would have an annual threat hearing," the senator told host Maria Bartiromo. "My ranking member would always be bringing up white supremacy, which I condone."
Realizing that he had made a mistake, Johnson quickly stuttered out the words, "I condemn."
The clip was shared by an American Bridge researcher, who called the remark an "all-time Freudian slip from Ron Johnson."
Johnson has previously said that he would have been "concerned" if Black Lives Matter stormed the Capitol while calling the Jan. 6 rioters "people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement."
Watch the video clip: https://twitter.com/i/status/1572205660363792390
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Biden’s right – Trump and “Maga Republicans” are a threat to democracy
But the US won’t be saved by a speech
WASHINGTON DC – Last week, the US president Joe Biden said that the former president, Donald Trump, and his most ardent supporters represent “semi-fascism”. Last night (1 September), in a speech in Philadelphia, he made it clear that this was no slip of the tongue. In a 24-minute address, he said that Trump and “Maga Republicans” – “Maga” being the acronym of “Make America Great Again”, Trump’s catchphrase – are extremists and constitute a threat to democracy.
“Not every Republican. Not even a majority… But there’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans.” And that, he said, was a threat to American democracy.
To put it plainly: Biden was right. Trump, having falsely claimed that he won the 2020 presidential election, now makes veiled threats of political violence should he face consequences for his actions, which reportedly include taking classified information involving nuclear secrets with him from the White House. Republican leaders have not broken with him, and indeed continue to cast aspersions on those who would keep this aspiring demagogue from breaking the remaining checks on executive power and abuses thereof, claiming that the Department of Justice and FBI are running political errands.
Biden has insisted, repeatedly, that there are Republicans who are reasonable, and with whom he can compromise. So it was revelatory to hear him say out loud what is already evident to many of us: that one of the US’s two major political parties is threatening to burn the whole place down if it and its leader are not allowed to do what they want when they want, and that it considers any election that it loses to be fraudulent. Indeed, the Republican senator Tom Cotton essentially said Alaska’s voting system, known as ranked-choice voting, was invalid after Sarah Palin lost her congressional election to a Democrat on Wednesday.
Yet I have two main criticisms of Biden’s speech. The first is that the president spoke as though the country just had to try and get back to the way it was, back to an idealised past. But the way it was featured slavery, segregation, repression and inequity. America shouldn’t go back to the way it was; it needs to build something better.
And the second is that democracy won’t be saved by a speech. US democracy, if it is to be saved, will be saved because those with the power and responsibility to do something have demonstrated that democracy is worth saving. Biden, after what seemed like a year of passivity and a Supreme Court session in which Americans saw their civil rights – including their right to an abortion – stripped away, has had a remarkable summer. He and congressional Democrats managed to pass a major piece of legislation that will constitute a significant investment in tackling the climate crisis. He finally moved to cancel some student debt, which will be a significant boon to many Americans. Polls show that voters are moved by the threat to abortion rights, and are not falling for Republican claims that the Supreme Court decision that stripped millions in this country of their federal right to an abortion is not an insignificant change.
But Biden cannot rely on words alone. Democracy will survive, maybe, if voters see people fighting for it in deeds as well as in words. This is particularly true with respect to abortion rights; if this is the issue animating voters to not support people who would have free and fair election results thrown out, it would behove this administration to show it is more serious in fighting for those rights.
Still, I felt some relief listening to the speech. Polls show that more than two thirds of Americans believe democracy is at risk. Good. They should. It is. And it is encouraging that their legitimately elected president does not lie to them about what’s at stake. Americans deserve, in what is maybe the 11th hour of the republic, leaders who call things by what they are, and tell the people what position they are in – and show them where, if they refuse to give up on the whole American project, they could be.
“I have no doubt that this is who we will be,” Biden said, depicting a future in which the country is a shining beacon, a democratic example to others. I didn’t believe him. But listening, I wanted to. He had articulated the problem. If I tried hard enough, I could pretend that we could find a solution. And maybe that’s half the battle.
https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/09/biden-trump-extreme-maga-republicans-democracy
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Not only are MAGA Republicans a threat to our democracy they are a threat to the lives of women as they include "no exception for the life of the mother" in their radical and inhumane anti abortion bills.
So, if a woman in your family has a medical emergency due to her pregnancy, and her life is on the line and she needs an abortion to live, far right wing extremist MAGA Republicans say she cannot have an abortion because of their radical religious beliefs. So the woman will most likely die because radical MAGA Republicans made it law. Are you ok with that?
If these Republicans ever take control of Congress, they will pass a national abortion ban with no exceptions, meaning the lives of women in all 50 states will be at risk. Lindsey Graham is already calling for a national abortion ban and Marco Rubio supports the legislation.
Red states are already putting the "no exception" abortion ban into their anti abortion laws.
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/abortion-exception-to-save-mothers-life-rejected-by-idaho-republicans/
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The GOP is the party of #DeathPanels … pass it on!
DCCC @dccc
Republican @BurnsForNH is proposing an actual death panel to decide if a woman's life should be saved. Truly disgusting. #NH02 #NHPolitics
Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1572597247514411016
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Republicans are forcing women to give birth with their inhumane anti abortion laws and now Trump endorsed MAGA candidates don't want women to even vote or work. The Republican party is clearly anti women.
This is an excellent article from Vox showing the Republican assault on our democracy explained in 13 charts.
The Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts
The Trump years revealed a dark truth: The Republican Party is no longer committed to democracy. These charts tell the story.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22274429/republicans-anti-democracy-13-charts
Trump-backed GOP candidate argued against women voting and working: report
One of Donald Trump's endorsed candidates for Congress once argued against women being able to vote, saying the country had "suffered" since the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote nationwide.
CNN reported Wednesday, "John Gibbs, who defeated in the primary an incumbent Republican who had voted to impeach Trump, also made comments in the early 2000s praising an organization trying to repeal the 19th Amendment which also argued that women’s suffrage had made the United States into a 'totalitarian state.'"
CNN reported Gibbs founded the "Society for the Critique of Feminism" while a student a Stanford and argued women did not “posess (sic) the characteristics necessary to govern."
Gibbs argued for a patriarchal society, CNN reported, and then tried to cover-up the evidence.
"Gibbs requested the website for the think tank be removed from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in 2016, according to a spokesman for the Internet Archive. But CNN’s KFile reviewed it on a different archiving service," the network reported. "CNN’s KFile previously reported that Gibbs’ history of conspiratorial and inflammatory tweets included baselessly accusing Democrats of taking part in satanic rituals and defending a notorious anti-Semitic troll banned by Twitter."
When Trump endorsed Gibbs in November, he described him as a "fabulous talent."
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96% of House Republicans voted against legislation that would make it harder to overturn future presidential elections. 96%!
So, Republicans tried to end our democracy by stealing the election from the American people so they could install Donald Trump as their cult leader, and now almost the entire Republican House voted against a bill that would make it harder to overturn future presidential elections.
Republicans are indeed a threat to our democracy because they want to be able to overturn election results they don't like.
That is anti democracy.
The reason is obvious why Republicans voted against this bill because they want to try to overturn the 2024 election when they lose again.
The Republican vote is on full display proving once again how Republicans are a threat to our democracy.
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The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/gop-grave-threat-american-democracy/618693/
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Nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide office support false election claims
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nearly-1-in-3-republican-candidates-for-statewide-office-support-false-election-claims
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Lauren Boebert 'can go to Iran' if she wants religion directing the government: Rick Wilson
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On Thursday's edition of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," Lincoln Project co-founder and longtime Republican strategist turned Trump opponent Rick Wilson tore into Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for promoting an extreme version of Christian nationalism that demands the federal government be subordinate to the church.
His remarks came in the middle of a discussion about a new Lincoln Project ad slamming Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano for his close ties to Gab, a far-right social media platform that has become a nexus of anti-Semitic hatred.
"The thing that bothers me about right Christian nationalism, which they're proud to call themselves, is I mean, this country was founded on the Establishment Clause, the First Amendment clause," said former TIME Magazine editor Rick Stengel. "'Make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' That was a radical notion in the 18th century. Who was it made by? White, Christian men rebelling against an establishing religion, trying to get with the Church of England. This is going back and back, and it's a terrible thing for our country when we should be modernizing and being more progressive and accepting the diversity of the country."
"This is not just on the web sites. This is what elected Republicans say out loud," said anchor Nicolle Wallace, playing several clips of Republicans openly embracing Christian nationalism, including Boebert saying, "The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church."
"She wants to go to Iran, she can. Because that's Iran. She's describing Iran," said Wilson. "They decided there is a little cultural bubble that is separate from the rest of America, that divorces itself from all the values in the founding of this country."
"I wouldn't let them represent a Waffle House," Wilson added. "These are not smart people. But they're persuasive in the group that they — the folks that Tucker [Carlson] spoon-feeds, the sewage pipe he feeds them from, they love it. They think it's chocolate pudding. And they have now decided they're going to separate their culture from the rest of America. It's dangerous to this country. politically and culturally. And it calls into question our survival, frankly."
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Lauren Boebert 'can go to Iran' if she wants religion directing the government: Rick Wilson
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She better update her wardrobe.
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Nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide office support false election claims
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nearly-1-in-3-republican-candidates-for-statewide-office-support-false-election-claims
I hope that these 1-in-3 Republicans will lose in November. And I expect the majority of them will, or I am really misreading the signs since December 2020.
The 2-in-3 Republican candidates? I don't care so much about. Although I would like to see the Democrats retain the majority on the House and Senate. Given the number of extreme Republican candidates, I don't think this is impossible.
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How election deniers could sway the 2024 election
GOP candidates in states including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Arizona are laying the groundwork to challenge an unfavorable result.
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Republican officials in key states stood in the way of former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
But this year, according to recent Washington Post reporting, 54 of 87 GOP candidates running for positions with power over the way elections are certified in presidential battlegrounds have falsely claimed that the 2020 election was fraudulent, and say they would have done things differently. The next time a presidential candidate seeks out help overturning an election, they could find willing accomplices in these candidates.
Though there are candidates who have peddled Trump’s election lies in every projected 2024 battleground, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Arizona present three scenarios for how bad actors — as secretaries of state or state attorneys general, in governors’ mansions or in state legislatures — could abuse their power over certifying elections to subvert a result they personally disagree with. Here’s how they could do it:
Wisconsin: A campaign to seize power from a bipartisan elections commission
How Wisconsin’s election system works:
The success of an effort to put Wisconsin’s elections in partisan hands would require cooperation from officials up and down the ballot there. Because of the checks and balances the state has put in place, overturning an election would mean getting sign-off from the winners of the secretary of state and gubernatorial races, as well as continued GOP dominance in state legislature contests.
What the GOP is doing:
Trump allies are targeting the Wisconsin Elections Commission, which administers elections and has the authority to investigate and prosecute violations of election laws. It was established in 2015 by the Republican-controlled state legislature and was intended to function similarly to the Federal Elections Commission, with three Republican and three Democratic appointees.
The commission has significant discretion over how elections are conducted, and plays a role in certifying election results. In 2020, after Republicans sought recounts in the large, heavily Democratic counties of Milwaukee and Dane based on false claims of fraud, the commission determined that President Joe Biden had won.
State Republicans have since called for the dissolution of the commission, whose policies, they falsely argue, led to fraudulent votes that cost Trump reelection.
“The problem for Republicans is that the Wisconsin Elections Commission was pretty scrupulous. It did not tilt elections towards Republicans like they thought it would,” said Jay Heck, executive director of the democracy group Common Cause Wisconsin.
State Rep. Amy Loudenbeck, the Republican nominee for Wisconsin secretary of state, is one of those Republicans seeking to dismantle the commission and to re-empower the secretary of state’s office to preside over the state’s elections for the first time since the 1970s. (Before the commission, there was the Government Accountability Board, which also ran elections.)
If a Republican secretary of state presided over elections, they could tighten up rules around voting, from identification requirements to who could cast an absentee ballot and where they could drop it off — policies that, individually, might not cause a huge drop-off in voting, but together, amount to “death by a thousand cuts,” Heck said. And, if the secretary of state did assume the commission’s current power to certify the election results, they could try to disrupt that process as well.
Republican legislators introduced a bill expanding the secretary of state’s powers earlier this year, but it didn’t go up for debate before the end of the legislative session. State Republicans also fast-tracked a package of bills earlier this year aiming to strip the Wisconsin Elections Commission of its power and resources and force it to answer to the state legislature. So long as Republicans maintain their big majorities in both chambers, as they’re expected to, voting rights groups warn that these measures are likely to pass.
The legislature isn’t expected to have a veto-proof majority, however, and that makes who becomes governor important.
Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has supported the Wisconsin Elections Commission, is one of the most vulnerable incumbent governors across the country this year. His GOP opponent, construction magnate Tim Michels, has repeatedly echoed Trump’s election lies and has said that he’s open to decertifying Biden’s 2020 win in the state, even though there is no legal means to do so. The Cook Political Report rates the race a toss-up.
How bad it could get:
Essentially, Heck said, “Republicans are trying to weaken the Wisconsin Elections Commission for 2024 so that, when Trump runs again and Wisconsin will again be a very closely divided state, the election apparatus would be able to make decisions that would be very favorable for a Republican presidential candidate.”
Pennsylvania: Where the governor can unilaterally shape elections
How Pennsylvania’s election system works:
The biggest threat to the 2024 election in Pennsylvania is state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for governor.
Mastriano’s an ardent MAGA Republican who bused hundreds of people to Washington, DC, and was outside the US Capitol on the day of the January 6, 2021, insurrection. He was also a key figure in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania. Mastriano organized a state Senate hearing featuring Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, an unauthorized audit of voting machines that ultimately cost him a committee chair position, and a scheme to send fake electors who were favorable to Trump to Congress.
If elected, he would have the power to appoint Pennsylvania’s top election official, the “Secretary of the Commonwealth.” He hasn’t named who he intends to appoint if elected, but he’s indicated that it would be an individual who shares his philosophy on elections.
“As governor, I get to appoint the secretary of state. And I have a voting reform-minded individual who’s been traveling the nation and knows voting reform extremely well,” Mastriano told Steve Bannon, former chief strategist for Trump, in an April interview. “That individual has agreed to be my secretary of state.”
Elections in Pennsylvania are decentralized, with county officials holding most of the power over how elections are conducted. But the secretary of state still plays a key role, largely by issuing guidance; in 2020, for example, they gave county election boards direction on how to interpret a new law that allowed vote-by-mail statewide.
How bad it could get:
Mastriano has indicated he’s interested in a secretary of state who would use that power to restrict access to voting. He notably proposed making everyone re-register in an effort to purge voter rolls of dead voters and those registered to nonexistent addresses — an action that he claims the secretary of state could take unilaterally.
Secretaries of state in Pennsylvania can also choose to participate in defending challenges to election law. And they have to certify the voting machines selected by each of Pennsylvania’s counties. (Mastriano has suggested that he would decertify all of the state’s voting machines “with the stroke of a pen” via his secretary of state.)
Finally, they gather the election results from the counties and certify them. No one has ever refused to certify them, but that’s what watchdogs worry Mastriano’s pick for secretary of state would do.
“If you refuse to do that, you’d run into a situation where there would be litigation, but it would certainly throw a wrench into the process,” Jessica Marsden, counsel for Protect Democracy, a nonprofit focused on preserving fair and free elections, said.
Also worrying to pro-democracy experts are the ways Mastriano’s shown that he can activate supporters; his involvement in January 6 in particular has put voting rights groups on high alert for political violence.
"He has an ability to galvanize people to turn out in person and [do] harm,” said Salewa Ogunmefun, executive director of the voting rights group Pennsylvania Voice.
Arizona: A state that could be completely led by election deniers
All of the Republican nominees for the top three statewide offices in Arizona — state attorney general nominee Abraham Hamadeh, secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem and gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake — have made Trump’s 2020 election lies central to their campaigns.
None of them say they would have certified the results, suggesting that they might challenge an unfavorable result in 2024 if given the chance. Lake even preempted her own primary win by saying that she would challenge the results if she lost because it would have indicated “there’s some cheating going on.”
How Arizona’s election system works:
Each would have a role to play in the election certification process in 2024. Every county in Arizona has to separately certify their election results via the county board of supervisors; those results then get transmitted to the secretary of state. On the fourth Monday following a general election, the secretary of state canvasses the certified results from the counties in the presence of the governor and the state attorney general.
It’s not clear what the legal implications might be if the governor or attorney general didn’t show up for that step, and that could present a potential opportunity for Lake or Hamadeh to delay or undermine the certification, Marsden said.
The secretary of state is then supposed to formally certify the result, and the governor has an additional responsibility to sign the certificate of ascertainment that names the slate of electors, and send it to Congress. The governor could theoretically refuse to sign the certificate or sign a certificate with a slate of electors that didn’t match up with the popular vote.
How bad it could get:
If elected, Finchem would also have some control over the basic rules of how the election is conducted. Among other proposals, he wants to eliminate early voting entirely.
“That would certainly disenfranchise lots of voters and also potentially cause a lot of chaos in an election system that has for years relied on a substantial number of people voting earlier,” Marsden said. And Finchem has, as a state lawmaker, backed legislation that would allow the GOP-controlled state legislature to overturn the results of a future presidential election, allowing it to instead award delegates to its chosen candidate.
Should Hamadeh, Finchem, and Lake try to exploit their offices to overturn the election results, Marsden said, “There would certainly be litigation that would follow … But I think it would certainly increase the chance of a major election crisis.”
Even if they aren’t successful in materially impacting the results, they could still do significant damage to voter confidence. State officials “have really crucial megaphones to either bolster or cast doubt on election results,” Marsden said.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/2/23331716/election-denier-2024-mastriano-lake-finchem
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MAGA Republicans aren't committed to Americans—they've shown us that.
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Extreme MAGA Republican gun laws and inflammatory language have led to a spike in violent crime. When #MAGAIncitesGunViolence, we all pay the price.
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'The worst is yet to come': Experts warn MAGA violence is spreading -- and law enforcement should prepare
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According to two different experts on the rising tide of domestic terrorists since the election of Donald Trump, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better as long as the former president remains free to incite violence in much the way he did on Jan 6, 2020.
Speaking with the New York Times' Blake Hounshell, authors Luke Mogelson and Andy Campbell, both of whom have new books on right-wing extremists, waved the red flag about what they see coming as Trump continues to egg his followers on -- which is setting the stage for more violence.
As Hounshell summed up their warning: "The worst is yet to come."
Getting right to the point, Campbell, who has a new book out on the Proud Boys, told the Times, "I really do believe that, going forward, it’s not just going to be MAGA rallies. It’s not just going to be political violence at Proud Boys rallies or leftist rallies or B.L.M. events. It’s going to be political violence at any civic event that happens to fall in the cross hairs of Donald Trump and company.”
According to Hounshell, "In the United States, it is not illegal to be a part of a domestic extremist group. To go after specific threats, the government has limited tools, meaning that federal officials often must find links to groups overseas in order to crack down on homegrown extremists or prosecute them under other provisions of law," adding, "Complicating matters, Republican politicians like Trump — who instructed the Proud Boys to 'stand back and stand by' during a presidential debate in 2020 — often provide rhetorical cover."
Mogelson claims the violence he saw on Jan 6, when supporters of the former president stormed the Capitol, reminded him of covering armed conflicts around the world for the past decade.
"He witnessed a mob killing of someone in Iraq, which gave him an understanding of what he called the 'intoxicating' feeling that can whip a crowd of seemingly ordinary people into a frenzy," the Times reports before noting, "he began reporting on anti-lockdown groups that mobilized against the pandemic measures put in place by governors like Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, a Democrat, he immediately saw that the story was much larger."
He told the Times, "I soon realized that these groups and this movement was rapidly mutating.”
Campbell chimed in to add the Republican Party appears unable -- or unwilling -- to rein the far-right extremists in.
“The Republican Party seems to not know what to do,” he claimed before warning, “It seems like their inability to rebut the Proud Boys and other extremists is pushing this machine forward so much faster and really making it hard for law enforcement to keep up.”
Read More Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/us/politics/domestic-extremism-warnings.html
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MAGA political violence
Electrocuted, beaten, abused: Capitol Police recall their own 'vulnerability' on Jan. 6
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Rick Wilson pours cold water on Lauren Boebert's desire to turn America into a 'Christian nation'
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Appearing on MSNBC early Sunday morning, former GOP campaign strategist Rick Wilson dropped the hammer on Republicans such as Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) who are campaigning on a promise to turn the US into a "Christian nation."
Reacting to a Politico report on the rise of Christian nationalism among the far-right, Wilson said the Republican Party and far-right evangelicals will rue the day they made this their rallying cry.
According to Politico, "Prominent Republican politicians have made the themes critical to their message to voters in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, has argued that America is a Christian nation and that the separation of church and state is a 'myth.' Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia hard-liner, declared: “We need to be the party of nationalism and I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian Nationalists.” Amid a backlash, she doubled down and announced she would start selling 'Christian Nationalist' shirts. Now Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis seems to be flirting with Christian nationalist rhetoric, as well."
"First off, I need them to stop talking about the founders at this point," he began. "If you stretch back to the Mayflower, this is a country that was founded on fleeing from the religious persecution of an official state religion. And when the constitution was being framed, we had states and we had leaders who all understood that this country was going to have a pluralistic approach to religion, which was to say, the government would neither condone nor suppress any religion."
"This is a fundamental part of American history," he lectured. "This emergence of the desire to be a explicitly Christian nation is something that really thrusts itself into the center in the last 50 years, approximately, but it's blossoming in the last couple years."
"My recommendation to these folks, if they want to live in a country that is governed by the church, that is governed by a religious body, I would recommend that they move to Iran -- that is exactly the kind of government they want," he added.
After citing Boebert, he warned, "I don't like all the Handmaid's Tale clichés, but there are people in that movement, there are people in that subculture who really believe that's how America should be. They have completely divorced themselves from individual liberty. They're completely divorced from religious liberty."
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Republicans want fascism in America!
Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene among US Republicans celebrating fascist victory in Italy
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As much of the world watched with alarm as the fascist Fratelli d'Italia party led a far-right coalition to victory in Italy on Sunday, Republican lawmakers in the United States had a much different reaction: Open glee.
Pointing happily to the far-right's recent electoral surge in Sweden, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted that "the entire world is beginning to understand that the Woke Left does nothing but destroy."
"Nov. 8 is coming soon and the USA will fix our House and Senate!" added Boebert, a loyalist to former U.S. President Donald Trump. "Let freedom reign!"
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a far-right ally of Boebert's in the U.S. House, also applauded Sunday's results, which position Fratelli d'Italia leader Giorgia Meloni to become Italy's next prime minister even though her party won just around 25% of the vote in a low-turnout contest.
"Congratulations to Giorgio Meloni and to the people of Italy," Greene wrote on Twitter, misspelling the right-wing leader's first name.
In her post, Greene linked to a 2019 speech in which Meloni—who was a youth member of the fascist Italian Social Movement—railed against supposed attacks on "national identity" and "religious identity" and vowed to "defend God, country, and family."
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Rank-and-file House Republicans were hardly alone in applauding what's likely to be the most right-wing government in Italy since the death of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House minority whip, said in a Fox News appearance Sunday that "it's interesting to see that Europe is leading the way by throwing out socialists with conservatives—and great bold conservative women like Meloni and [U.K. Prime Minister Liz] Truss."
"We need to bring that kind of conservatism to the United States," Scalise added.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas.), for his part, hailed as "spectacular" Meloni's 2019 address to the World Congress of Families, a far-right Christian fundamentalist organization that campaigns against LGBTQ+ rights globally.
Meloni is well-known to the right wing in the U.S., having spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference and met with former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, a far-right provocateur who has correctly described Meloni's party—also known as Brothers of Italy—as "one of the old fascist parties."
"You put a reasonable face on right-wing populism, you get elected," Bannon said of Meloni in an interview in 2018, a year in which Brothers of Italy garnered just 4% of the vote.
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Italy's election of Meloni, who is also president of the European Conservatives and Reformists party, marks a continuation of the worrying trend of rising far-right, xenophobic, and anti-democratic parties across Europe. In Hungary and Poland, far-right parties are already in power, a situation that has proven to be a nightmare for migrants and other vulnerable populations that have seen basic rights stripped away.
Meloni has voiced admiration for the U.S. GOP and right-wing parties in the United Kingdom and Israel, noting in a recent speech that she "shares values and experiences" with them.
"Hungary has a fascist leader. Sweden's far-right party just won. And Italy has now elected a fascist leader," Qasim Rashid, a human rights attorney, wrote on social media late Sunday. "Eighty years after WW2, fascism is rising across Europe. And if Americans aren't careful, the MAGA GOP will usher in that same fascism here. We cannot let that happen."
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'Mastriano's motives are frightening because they are pure' Ex GOP veteran sends a warning
In Pennsylvania, the gubernatorial campaign of Republican nominee Doug Mastriano has been a major source of anxiety to Democrats as well as Never Trump conservatives. State Sen. Mastriano, a Christian nationalist and conspiracy theorist who believes the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, is even to the right of Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — and he believes that Pennsylvania Republicans should be able to simply throw out any election results they don’t like.
One of Mastriano’s critics on the right is veteran conservative columnist George Will, an ex-Republican who has no use for former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. In a September 25 column for the Washington Post, Will lays out some reasons why Mastriano is not only dangerous for Pennsylvania, but also, for the United States on the whole. According to Will, Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race is “the 2022 election that poses the most risk to the nation.”
“Suppose voters pick the Republican candidate, Doug Mastriano,” the 81-year-old Will warns. “And suppose that late in the evening of November 5, 2024, Gov. Mastriano thinks Pennsylvanians picked the wrong person to receive the state’s presidential electoral votes. Today, candidate Mastriano promises that, as governor, he will have the executive power, and a mandate, to intervene, thus plunging the nation into chaos.”
One thing that separates Pennsylvania from other states is the fact that its governors, not voters, pick the secretary of state — or as it’s called in the Keystone State, “secretary of the commonwealth.” The Democrat who currently holds that position in Pennsylvania is Leigh M. Chapman, who was chosen by Democratic two-term Gov. Tom Wolf.
“A member of the House of Representatives is 1/435th of one half of one of the federal government’s three branches,” Will explains. “A senator is 1 percent of the other half. There are limits to how much actual, as opposed to aesthetic, damage a rogue legislator can do to the nation. A governor, however, can do important things on his own, especially if, as in Pennsylvania, he appoints the secretary of state, who administers elections…. Mastriano has raised money on a social media network frequented by anti-Semites, including the one who is accused of murdering 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, but what makes Mastriano more than an especially exotic political exhibit is his vow to appoint a secretary of state ‘who’s delegated from me the power to make the corrections to elections, the voting logs and everything. And I can decertify every (voting) machine in the state.’”
Will continues, “In the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, Pennsylvania was decided by 0.7 and 1.2 percentage points, respectively. In 2024, the state probably will again be closely contested, and its electoral votes could determine the national winner. So, imagine Mastriano, who has neither evidence nor doubts that Trump won the 2020 election, decreeing ‘corrections’ to the election. His motives are frightening because they are pure: He has the scary sincerity of the unhinged whose delusions armor them against evidence.”
The conservative columnist writes that “fortunately,” the Democrat Mastriano is up against is “two-term” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Some of the polls released in September have shown Mastriano trailing Shapiro by 11 percent, including a Muhlenberg College/Morning Call poll released on September 16 and a CBS News/YouGov poll that came out several days earlier.
“From the first census, 1790, until that of 1940, Pennsylvania was the second-most populous state,” Will observes. “In 1960, it had as many electoral votes, 32, as California, which today, has 54 to Pennsylvania’s 19. This fall, however, the state will matter more than any other, as its voters’ choice of governor will either imperil or reassure the nation that began here.”
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Kari Lake’s Dangerous Campaign: Fueled By Vitriol and Conspiracy Theories
https://www.americanbridgepac.org/kari-lake-campaign/
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Republican extremism threatens American democracy
Political extremism in America is not new, but it has taken a dangerous hold of the Republican party. It was not long ago when you would hear the complaint that “it doesn’t matter who you vote for, Republican or Democrat — humpty dumpty or dumpty humpty.” The choice was immaterial to any consequence. Not so anymore, is it? Republican extremism in America has reached the stage of threatening our very lifestyles and our democracy. Oh, you say: “Just leave me alone; our democracy is rock bed solid. More than 200 years of history demonstrates its resilience.” How so very much I wish this rosy view to be true, but it’s not.
Let’s take a close look at Republican extremism, starting with congressional Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). She is unabashedly anti-Muslim; claims Democrats are the party of pedophiles; speaks favorably of white supremacy; proudly claims to be a Christian nationalist who believes the church is supposed to direct the government; is an adherent of the Q Anon ideology, and threatens colleagues with aggressive remarks. On a Facebook post, her campaign showed Greene posing with a military-style rifle juxtaposed with photos of three liberal Democratic congresswomen and the caption “The Squad’s Worst Nightmare.” Her behavior resulted in her removal from her two-House committee assignments with 11 House Republicans voting with all Democrats to remove her.
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert is another Republican extremist that garners much media attention. Her extreme right wing stances range from absolute opposition to gun control to questioning the effectiveness of vaccines and the outcome of the 2020 presidential elections. She speaks loudly about the evils of immigration, critical race theory and gender transitions; and often makes demeaning comments about Joe Biden’s mental capacity. Among other Republican House members, she was proud of her attempt to block the certification of President Biden’s election. She frequently attacks Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota colleague who is Muslim. In one of her more bombastic remarks, she tells a story: “One of my staffers, on his first day with me, got into an elevator in the Capitol, and in that elevator we were joined by Ilhan Omar. It was just us three in there and I looked over and I said, ‘Well, looky there, it’s the Jihad Squad.’ She doesn’t have a backpack, she wasn’t dropping it and running so we’re good.”
Another extremist colleague is Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) who has ties to Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and America First. He has been seen with far-right fringe figures and the white supremacist Nick Fuentes. He promotes conspiracy theories and was censured by the House of Representatives for an anime cartoon that depicts a character killing a character meant to be Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Not to be outdone by his extremists Republicans is Doug Mastriano, the gubernatorial candidate for Pennsylvania governor in 2022. Mr. Mastriano promotes election 2020 fraud theories, embraces QAnon, and supports the idea that America should be a “Christian nation.” He bused supporters to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally that precipitated the Jan. 6 insurrection. He tried to overturn Biden’s victory in the Pennsylvania State Legislature. As a Pennsylvania state senator, he supported legislation to mandate teaching the Bible in public schools and allowing adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples.
There is not space here to identify an endless list of Republican extremists’ intent on disrupting life in America and threatening to trash our democracy. But we are at an unusual historical turning point in which a major political party in the U.S. has been captured by extremists. Alarm bells should be ringing loudly — but are they? President Biden called out the MAGA extremists in his speech in Philadelphia. “MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election.” Perhaps it is time for every Republican and Democrat to take Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney’s admonishment to heart: “I love my party. I love its history. I love its principles, but I love my country more.” Republican extremism must be rooted out of the Grand Old Party.
https://www.reporterherald.com/2022/09/19/donald-menzel-republican-extremism-threatens-american-democracy/
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Once again, here are the 147 Republicans who tried to steal the 2020 election from the American people by voting to overturn election results because they were angry with the outcome.
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MAGA Republicans in Congress are pro insurrectionists and support the MAGA rioters.
So, MAGA does support political violence and are indeed a direct danger to our democracy because they will use political violence as tool when they lose elections.
New video shows brutal beating of D.C. Metropolitan Police officer during Jan. 6 riot
As Officer Michael Fanone screamed in agony, one rioter's voice could be heard over the noise: "I got one!"
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-video-shows-brutal-beating-d-c-metropolitan-police-officer-n1267210
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'Mastriano's motives are frightening because they are pure' Ex GOP veteran sends a warning
In Pennsylvania, the gubernatorial campaign of Republican nominee Doug Mastriano has been a major source of anxiety to Democrats as well as Never Trump conservatives. State Sen. Mastriano, a Christian nationalist and conspiracy theorist who believes the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, is even to the right of Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — and he believes that Pennsylvania Republicans should be able to simply throw out any election results they don’t like.
One of Mastriano’s critics on the right is veteran conservative columnist George Will, an ex-Republican who has no use for former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. In a September 25 column for the Washington Post, Will lays out some reasons why Mastriano is not only dangerous for Pennsylvania, but also, for the United States on the whole. According to Will, Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race is “the 2022 election that poses the most risk to the nation.”
“Suppose voters pick the Republican candidate, Doug Mastriano,” the 81-year-old Will warns. “And suppose that late in the evening of November 5, 2024, Gov. Mastriano thinks Pennsylvanians picked the wrong person to receive the state’s presidential electoral votes. Today, candidate Mastriano promises that, as governor, he will have the executive power, and a mandate, to intervene, thus plunging the nation into chaos.”
One thing that separates Pennsylvania from other states is the fact that its governors, not voters, pick the secretary of state — or as it’s called in the Keystone State, “secretary of the commonwealth.” The Democrat who currently holds that position in Pennsylvania is Leigh M. Chapman, who was chosen by Democratic two-term Gov. Tom Wolf.
“A member of the House of Representatives is 1/435th of one half of one of the federal government’s three branches,” Will explains. “A senator is 1 percent of the other half. There are limits to how much actual, as opposed to aesthetic, damage a rogue legislator can do to the nation. A governor, however, can do important things on his own, especially if, as in Pennsylvania, he appoints the secretary of state, who administers elections…. Mastriano has raised money on a social media network frequented by anti-Semites, including the one who is accused of murdering 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, but what makes Mastriano more than an especially exotic political exhibit is his vow to appoint a secretary of state ‘who’s delegated from me the power to make the corrections to elections, the voting logs and everything. And I can decertify every (voting) machine in the state.’”
Will continues, “In the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, Pennsylvania was decided by 0.7 and 1.2 percentage points, respectively. In 2024, the state probably will again be closely contested, and its electoral votes could determine the national winner. So, imagine Mastriano, who has neither evidence nor doubts that Trump won the 2020 election, decreeing ‘corrections’ to the election. His motives are frightening because they are pure: He has the scary sincerity of the unhinged whose delusions armor them against evidence.”
The conservative columnist writes that “fortunately,” the Democrat Mastriano is up against is “two-term” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Some of the polls released in September have shown Mastriano trailing Shapiro by 11 percent, including a Muhlenberg College/Morning Call poll released on September 16 and a CBS News/YouGov poll that came out several days earlier.
“From the first census, 1790, until that of 1940, Pennsylvania was the second-most populous state,” Will observes. “In 1960, it had as many electoral votes, 32, as California, which today, has 54 to Pennsylvania’s 19. This fall, however, the state will matter more than any other, as its voters’ choice of governor will either imperil or reassure the nation that began here.”
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Excellent information. George Will is someone I have always listened to. Yes, Pennsylvania bears watching. I am confident about next November. But it is a critical election. Trump's candidates must win in November 2022 in order for him to have a chance in November 2024. And make no mistake. I don't expect any trial to accomplish anything. The news about Trump has no impact on his base because they need a criminal to break the law, to negate the votes of the people. The more bad information about Trump that comes out the more they want Trump. And barring any changes in Trump's health, he will be the Republican nominee for President in 2024.
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The rise of "QMaga": Conspiracy theorists, Christian nationalists unite as MAGA movement gets darker
GOP is "now willing to follow Trump further into the depths of fearmongering and madness," columnist writes
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During his 2020 campaign, former President Donald Trump made a point of being vague when discussing the far-right QAnon movement. Trump refrained from overtly promoting QAnon and its conspiracy theories, but he wouldn't say anything critical of them either and claimed that he "didn't know much about" their movement.
Times have changed. Trump is now openly promoting QAnon and is using exact phrases associated with the group, including "the storm" and their slogan "where we go one, we go all." And Trump is hardly the only MAGA Republican who is embracing QAnon.
Mother Jones' David Corn describes the intersection of QAnon, MAGA and "Christian nationalism" as "QMaga," attacking it as an authoritarian threat to U.S. democracy in an article that was originally published in his Our Land newsletter and was republished by Mother Jones on September 23. Extremism in the GOP is a subject that Corn also tackles in his new book, "American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy."
"For years, Trump had played footsie with QAnon, claiming he didn't know much about it but praising its adherents' supposed patriotism, their opposition to pedophilia and, naturally, their cultish love of him," Corn explains in his Mother Jones/Our Land article. "Offered the chance to denounce this perverse craziness, he bobbed and weaved…. No more. He went full QAnon the other day when he posted online a photoshopped image of him wearing a Q pin. To make the message clear, this picture proclaimed, 'The Storm Is Coming' — a QAnon catchphrase referring to that ultimate showdown between Trump and the evildoers. And it contained the abbreviation for the QAnon slogan, 'where we go one, we go all.'"
The fictional "evildoers" that Corn is referring to are, according to QAnon's outlandish conspiracy theory, an international cabal of child sex traffickers, ped*philes, Satanists and cannibals who have hijacked the United States' federal government. Trump, as QAnon sees it, was elected president in 2016 to fight the cabal — and QAnon believes that Trump's battle against the forces of darkness didn't end when he lost the 2020 election. Members of QAnon were among the far-right Trump supporters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.
"The insanity of a former, and possibly future, president bear-hugging QAnon cannot be overstated," Corn warns. "And this was no one-off, late-in-the-night s****posting from the former guy. He zapped out other posts with QAnon references. Then four days later, at a rally in Ohio, he delivered an apocalyptic speech against the backdrop of music resembling the QAnon theme song. It was here that Trump supporters raised their hands and pointed a finger — possibly signaling 'one,' in an allusion to that QAnon slogan."
Corn continues, "The supposed purpose of the event was to whip up support for GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance. But the gathering demonstrated the fusion of MAGA extremism with QAnon and Christian nationalism. The crowd cheered as Trump proclaimed the country had become a hellhole with a crumbling economy, rampant crime, and no freedom of speech. It was all lies, but the fervor of the crowd and the arm waving were reminiscent of a religious revival meeting."
According to Corn, the MAGA movement "has morphed into QMaga."
"The irrationality has spread from the evidence-free belief that sinister players — China, Venezuela, the CIA, the media, Democrats, voting machine companies — conspired to steal the election from Trump to the conviction that American politics has become a clash between patriotic Christians and cannibalistic Satan-worshipping pedophiles," Corn explains. "The Ohio arena was not full, and the empty seats indicated that Trump's mix of conspiracism, cult of personality, end-times ravings, and fundamentalism may not be a bestseller. But many of the GOP election denialists running in state elections this year — including gubernatorial candidates Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania, and Kari Lake, Arizona — have ties to QAnon."
Corn continues, "Both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were QAnoners before they were elected to Congress in the last election. But perhaps of greater concern is that the entire GOP, which has supported Trump's authoritarian Big Lie crusade, is now willing to follow Trump further into the depths of fearmongering and madness."
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/26/the-rise-of-qmaga-conspiracy-theorists-christian-nationalists-unite-as-maga-movement-gets-darker_partner/
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"For years, Trump had played footsie with QAnon, claiming he didn't know much about it but praising its adherents' supposed patriotism, their opposition to pedophilia and, naturally, their cultish love of him," Corn explains in his Mother Jones/Our Land article. "Offered the chance to denounce this perverse craziness, he bobbed and weaved…. No more. He went full QAnon the other day when he posted online a photoshopped image of him wearing a Q pin. To make the message clear, this picture proclaimed, 'The Storm Is Coming' — a QAnon catchphrase referring to that ultimate showdown between Trump and the evildoers. And it contained the abbreviation for the QAnon slogan, 'where we go one, we go all.'"
Where we go one, we go all.
And where the one says we all go, but the one does not go, we all go anyway. And get arrested for breeching the Capitol. Because we are all a bunch of stupid dupes. And when we all go before the judge we all go alone, with no support from the one unless it is to his advantage.
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This woman is truly deranged as she is the face of the violent MAGA Christian Nationalist movement that she wants to take over America. She supports the violent MAGA Trump supporters who beat police officers outside the Capitol on January 6th.
Watch: MTG calls for imprisoning her political enemies in combative speech at Trump's Michigan rally
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Controversial first-term Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene traveled to Michigan to speech at Donald Trump's Saturday rally in Warren.
Speaking for more than twenty minutes, Greene lashed out at her political enemies and painted a dark portrait of a dystopian portrait of a country where Republicans are persecuted and transgender Americans are the "most protected class."
Greene both took the stage to the song "Gladiator" by Zayde Wølf.
"I had to keep on reaching up 'cause it was my time; To tear down the kingdom and call out the liars," Wølf sang. "Spent too much money on a therapist; Couldn't fix me, I accepted it."
Twice the crowd chanted, "lock her up" as Greene attacked Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Greene also called for jailing doctors for gender reassignment surgeries.
She also attacked Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the governor of California, among others.
"Democrats want Republicans dead and they’ve already started the killing," she said.
As Greene left the stage, Zayde Wølf played again.
"Picked a fight with the gods I'm the giant slayer," he sang. "Bone shaker, dominator;Freight train, wrecking ball, I'm the gladiator."
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Rep. Swalwell: MAGA Republicans Are Trying To Erase Violent Reality Of Jan. 6
MSNBC’s Zerlina Maxwell speaks to Congressman Eric Swalwell about a piece of performance art at a conservative conference where a January 6 rioter dressed up as a political prisoner and what’s behind Trump supporters attempts to make themselves out to be the victims of the January 6th Capitol attack.
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