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    This election nonsense by Trump may end up splitting up the Republican Party. I just don’t see how the one third (?) who are principled conservatives can stay in the same party with Trump sycophants who are willing to sign onto the TX Supreme Court case.

    We also saw the alt right types chanting “destroy the GOP” in Washington today because they didn’t keep Trump in power. I think the Q types will also hold the same ill will toward the traditional Republican Party. In fact its quite possible that all the voters who are really in a Trump personality cult will also blame the GOP for his loss. It’s only a matter of time IMO before Trump himself gets around to blaming the GOP.

    There is some discussion of this on Twitter. What do you all think?



     
    Does it even occur to her what this says about the conservatives of today? She’s telling on herself.

     
    Very interesting thread - Sohrab Ahmari hits the nail on the head about the American right being “unserious”. And he’s not a liberal - he’s an intellectual with conservative tendencies trying to find a way with a modern worldview. And struggling with what little the GOP has to offer.

    And if you consider how the electoral college works and the GOP’s election control efforts, this is a problem for all of us.

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    It’s been a while since Tubby stepped in it. His latest dog whistle - inner city school teachers are lazy and uneducated. 🤦‍♀️

    Oh, and it wouldn’t take a week, like this lady suggests. He wouldn’t last the day:

     
    MT15 said:
    It’s been a while since Tubby stepped in it. His latest dog whistle - inner city school teachers are lazy and uneducated. 🤦‍♀️

    Oh, and it wouldn’t take a week, like this lady suggests. He wouldn’t last the day:

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    I don't know that Tommy can read and write.
     
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    So Jim Jordan’s “weaponization” hearing isn’t going so well today. He subpoenaed Pomerantz, who quit the Manhattan DA’s office when they declined to prosecute Trump earlier and he must have thought he would be able to poke around in an active case against Trump. Pomerantz’s opening statement is great, lol.

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    However this was perfectly fine with Republican extremist:
    President Donald J. Trump and his allies tried to cast the Clinton Foundation as corrupt. But the yearslong investigation sputtered to its conclusion without charges.
    The Justice Department kept open the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s family foundation for nearly all of President Donald J. Trump’s administration, with prosecutors closing the case without charges just days before he left office.

    Newly released documents and interviews with former department officials show that the investigation stretched long past when F.B.I. agents and prosecutors knew it was a dead end. The conclusion of the case, which centered on the Clinton Foundation’s dealings with foreign donors when Mrs. Clinton served as secretary of state under President Barack Obama, has not previously been reported.
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    www.nytimes.com

    Justice Dept. Investigated Clinton Foundation Until Trump’s Final Days (Published 2023)

    President Donald J. Trump and his allies tried to cast the Clinton Foundation as corrupt. But the yearslong investigation sputtered to its conclusion without charges.
    www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

    Maybe Gym Jordan should be subpoenaing and questioning Sessions & Barr.
     
    Far-right groups are complaining about being included in a Department of Homeland Security chart called the "Pathways toward terrorism" which includes research on terrorism and political violence and was written in 2008 by Sophia Moskalenko and Clark McCauley.

    The researchers show how radicalization generally increases from benign political involvement, "increasing extremity of beliefs, feelings, and behaviors in support of intergroup conflict and violence," the study's abstract explains. "Across individuals, groups, and mass publics, twelve mechanisms of radicalization are distinguished."

    So, political activism on the right can begin at the party level and slowly increase to anti-government militias, it says.

    The Heritage Foundation was quickly triggered by being included in the bottom rung of the pyramid among the right entry-level groups. One piece they were miffed about was a researcher's comments that fringe extremists can infiltrate groups or rallies. For example, anti-government activists saw the COVID lockdowns as a unique opportunity for recruitment. The same happened on the left when the 1999 Seattle anti-WTO and Occupy Wall Street protesters were opportunities for anarchists.

    The argument from the right is that President Joe Biden's administration is weaponizing the government against Republicans. Still, the administration explains that domestic terrorists come from far-right groups like those at the Jan. 6 attacks. Militia groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were working with Republican Party leaders and lawmakers.

    Speaking to Fox Business on Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), behind the so-called "weaponization" committee investigation, expressed outrage.

    "This is really scary too," Jordan said. "But this is consistent, frankly, with what President Biden said last fall at Independence Hall with that eery background he had where he called half of the country fascists."


    Jordan's reference was the Biden speech about "MAGA extremists," generally considered as the people who attacked the U.S. capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

    Jordan says that this belief exists in far too many U.S. Leaders.............

     

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