what happens to the republican party

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Trump-loving Alabama judge fired in unanimous ruling after

asking Black clerk if he 'sold drugs' to buy new car

https://www.rawstory.com/judge-randy-jinks-fired

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party of sadist teacher unknown, but no surprise if he votes Repug. typical Repug bull

NJ student left in ‘shock’ after teacher responds to his question with remark about ‘terrorists’

A Muslim Arab American high school student was left "in shock" after a teacher responded to his question about math homework using the term “terrorists."

According to WABC, the teacher from Ridgefield Memorial High School in Bergen County, New Jersey, made the insensitive comment following a question from Mohammed Zubi, a senior student, regarding his math work.

Zubi had asked his teacher if he could finish an assignment at home on Tuesday.

"He responded saying, 'We don't negotiate with terrorists,'"

"So I look around in shock,

there's people laughing,

and there's other people in shock,

and I turn around and ask my friend,

'Did he really just say that?' and she said yes.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...erican-student

We'll see if the teacher keeps his job

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Political violence, political terrorism, the lifeblood of the Repugs

Hacked Oath Keepers Data Reveals Pervasive Violent Extremism In GOP

another ed up Yale man, Stewart Rhodes. WTF is wrong with Yale?


The recent exposure of the Oath Keepers' membership through hacked data revealed a great deal about their spread—

both within the ranks of law enforcement and among elected officials.

But the underlying story contained therein goes beyond the relative handful of examples at hand:

Namely, how deeply right-wing extremist ideology, particularly the far-right patriot movement,

has penetrated mainstream American society at multiple levels.

reflected in the refusal by the large majority of the people exposed as Oath Keepers to acknowledge the organization's violent extremism

dozens of the people applying to join the Oath Keepers over the past year have done so while using government email addresses.

Their review uncovered some 40 memberships associated with public-sector work emails,

including such domains as nasa.gov, dmv.virginia.gov, and city.pittsburgh.pa.us.

Among them were county commissioners in Indiana, Arizona and North Carolina;

10 sitting state lawmakers; sheriffs or constables in Montana, Texas and Kentucky;

and a smorgasbord of other elective officials or Republican Party candidates.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/oath-keepers-infiltrate-government

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First responders threatening public officials in uniform, on the clock

These are hard ass believers. And frankly I don't get it. Giving up plum job like these with that pension IMMINENT the day you're hired is a rare Godsend. To walk away on spec is inexplicable. Sure, it's a true roll of the dice to get shot, but the risk/reward is just too dominant at the reward to do this.

Makes my stomach turn.

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The Repugs have been dirty sons of es at least since Nixon sabotaged the Viet Nam piece talks in 1968,

then did a deal with Iran not to release the hostage until St Ronnie the Diseased Useful Idiot was inaugurated, promised no retaliation

Roger Stone, Ailes, Manifort, A er, Bannon famous dirty tricksters.

the Repugs

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First responders threatening public officials in uniform, on the clock

My Nigro

[baseline bum]

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HW fits right in with the party of suicide

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What’s left of the Republican Party is a death cult.

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Stunning survey gives grim view of flourishing anti-democratic opinions

Those who buy into former President Trump’s lies over the 2020 election and those who watch the far-right channels that amplify his rhetoric are increasingly

embracing anti-democratic opinions and even contemplating political violence

a growing segment of the public that is

increasingly unmoored from reality as it

embraces conspiracy theories about child abduction and stolen elections.

a deep divide between those who trust right-wing media outlets and the rest of the nation — and

even a divide between those who trust Fox News and

those who trust outlets like One America Network and Newsmax.

three in ten Americans, 31 percent, believe the 2020 elections were stolen from Trump,

two-thirds of Republicans and

a whopping 82 percent of those who trust Fox News more than any other media outlet.

those who trust far-right outlets like One America Network and Newsmax, 97 percent say they believe the election ... was stolen.

One in five Americans believe in the core tenet of the QAnon conspiracy that “there is a storm coming soon,” while

one in six believe the United States government is controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex-trafficking ring.

18 percent ... “true American patriots

may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”

30 percent of Republicans agree that violence might be warranted,

Those who buy into the farthest-right media outlets ... contemplate violence; among those people, 40 percent agree.

the growing share of Republicans and arch-conservatives who buy into the false and violent rhetoric are transforming

REPUGs ... into a party of racial and religious grievance,

Just 29 percent of Republicans say life has changed mostly for the better since the 1950s,

before civil rights movements ushered in new protections and more rights for minorities, women and the LGBT community

“There’s a kind of wistfulness and nostalgia, the power of the mythical past,”

The share of white evangelical Protestants and white Catholics who say life was better 70 years ago —

when the average American made far less and lived for a shorter time than they do today —

has also declined precipitously in recent years.

“It is an ethno-religious iden y, it is a white Christian America and specifically a white Protestant America that people are harkening back to.”

a wholesale reinvention of a Republican Party that once aspired to Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

“Back in the 1980s, Republicans aspired to be the party of hope and opportunity. Now it is the party of blood and soil.

“Republicans have a nostalgia for an America that never really existed.”

Republican voters far more likely than Democrats to argue that

religious or nativist traits are important to being an American: Nine in ten Republicans,

but only two-thirds of Democrats,
two-thirds of Republicans said both being born in America and being a Christian are important to being an American;

Eighty percent of Republicans said America is in danger of losing its culture and iden y, and 98 percent of far-right television viewers agreed;

Trump ... is not entirely responsible for the transformation of Reagan’s GOP,

Trump took advantage of an environment of fear and angst that already existed,

The economic anxiety that some point to as the genesis of Trump’s rise certainly exists, CAPITALSM

eight in ten Americans said costs of housing and everyday

expenses are rising faster than their income, CAPITALSM

and

four in ten are concerned about their ability to pay for basic goods. CAPITALSM

Trump, most prominently — are pitting groups against each other, those anxieties manifest in the divides that are widening today,

people are feeling like the pie is too small and it’s a zero-sum game, CAPITALSM

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...ratic-opinions

60%, known so far, of the 1/6 assholes have of history financial problems, precarity

Trash-whisperer Bannon defined the campaigning points for Trash.

The financial state of the county is defined by the CAPITALIST oligarchy, who are also financing the Repugs and the right hate media TV channels and other media. ATT financed OAN

In Jan 2025, when the "transformed" Repug party controls all 3 branches, America will be all out FASCIST

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The death toll of political ambition will be Doug Ducey's legacy

Doug Ducey wants his legacy to be the massive tax cuts that he has given wealthy Arizonans.

It's an issue he campaigned on in his first gubernatorial campaign, and in whatever the next phase of his political career brings, he will surely point to it as a victory.

But his true legacy will be the thousands of Arizonans who have died needlessly on his watch, as he repeatedly and stubbornly and maliciously mismanaged the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.rawstory.com/the-toll-of-political-ambition-will-be-doug-ducey-s-legacy-2655473281

Mostly repeated for all Repug/red state politicians, most of whom have also killed 10Ks of their poor cons uents by refusing to expand Medicaid

For Repugs and the oligarchy, political and financial power are vastly, systemically more important than human health and life, or the environment.

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The death toll of political ambition will be Doug Ducey's legacy

Doug Ducey wants his legacy to be the massive tax cuts that he has given wealthy Arizonans.

It's an issue he campaigned on in his first gubernatorial campaign, and in whatever the next phase of his political career brings, he will surely point to it as a victory.

But his true legacy will be the thousands of Arizonans who have died needlessly on his watch, as he repeatedly and stubbornly and maliciously mismanaged the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.rawstory.com/the-toll-of-political-ambition-will-be-doug-ducey-s-legacy-2655473281

Mostly repeated for all Repug/red state politicians, most of whom have also killed 10Ks of their poor cons uents by refusing to expand Medicaid

For Repugs and the oligarchy, political and financial power are vastly, systemically more important than human health and life, or the environment.

Boiled down:::

President Trump: 400k dead AmericansPERIOD
MF Biden: 356k dead Americans. & counting, son.

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GOP fueling dangerous cycle of extremism by embracing Trump’s ‘lost cause’ myth

conservatives are taking a page out of the fascist playbook

by rallying around Donald Trump's election loss and turning a slain U.S. Capitol rioter into a right-wing martyr.

this tactic's alarming parallels in American and European society.

the 'lost cause' myth is simply a refiguring of the literal aggressors of the Civil War into the valiant victims,"

"In both the lost cause and the contemporary phenomenon, what is striking is that proponents attempt an inversion of power.

Though holding most of the power, victim-makers claim to be victimized by forces beyond their control."

"Nearly the entire Republican Party attempted to scuttle any investigation into the causes of the Jan. 6 insurrection,"

"This is the first step in turning extremists into victims and then into martyrs."

The problem with creating martyrs is

that they are too often born of violence and death and

then used to perpetuate more violence.

The cycle, as history has shown, is very hard to break."

https://www.rawstory.com/lost-cause-myth

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GOP fueling dangerous cycle of extremism by embracing Trump’s ‘lost cause’ myth

conservatives are taking a page out of the fascist playbook

by rallying around Donald Trump's election loss and turning a slain U.S. Capitol rioter into a right-wing martyr.

this tactic's alarming parallels in American and European society.

the 'lost cause' myth is simply a refiguring of the literal aggressors of the Civil War into the valiant victims,"

"In both the lost cause and the contemporary phenomenon, what is striking is that proponents attempt an inversion of power.

Though holding most of the power, victim-makers claim to be victimized by forces beyond their control."

"Nearly the entire Republican Party attempted to scuttle any investigation into the causes of the Jan. 6 insurrection,"

"This is the first step in turning extremists into victims and then into martyrs."

The problem with creating martyrs is

that they are too often born of violence and death and

then used to perpetuate more violence.

The cycle, as history has shown, is very hard to break."

https://www.rawstory.com/lost-cause-myth

Boiled down:::

Trump President.
Not Clinton.

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The death toll of political ambition will be Doug Ducey's legacy

But his true legacy will be the thousands of Arizonans who have died needlessly on his watch, as he repeatedly and stubbornly and maliciously mismanaged the COVID-19 pandemic.

'I cry about every 10 minutes, man.'

Tempe, AZ Man Loses Five Family Members To Covid In 10 Days.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...vid-In-10-Days

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'I cry about every 10 minutes, man.'

Tempe, AZ Man Loses Five Family Members To Covid In 10 Days.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...vid-In-10-Days

Boiled down:::

President Trump: 400k dead AmericansPERIOD
MF Biden: 356k dead Americans. & counting, son.

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"Christian patriots will rule you" is very normal politics in 2021

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Thanks, Ohio

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Andy Borowitz

Ted Cruz Continues Halloween Tradition of Terrifying Kids By Going As Himself

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First responders threatening public officials in uniform, on the clock

26 FDNY firehouses temporarily closed due to sickouts (or anticipated sickouts) over the vaccine mandate

FDNY spokesman Jim Long said the closings are not permanent, describing the companies as “temporarily out of service” and the situation as “fluid” since it was shifting firefighters to units where they were needed.


As of late Saturday afternoon, the FDNY could not provide an exact number of closings that the pols said were in effect as of 7:30 am Saturday.


“The situation remains fluid. We hire manpower to get the company back in service or relocate other units to the area for coverage,” Long said.


In anticipation of a shortage of firefighters, NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit has requested the help of volunteer firefighters from Long Island and upstate to back fill the lost positions, according to an email obtained by The Post.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/30/fdny-f...ing-shortages/

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Republican investigated for child abuse says the Bible commanded him



he was accused of leaving 4-inch bruises on his child and told officers the Bible commanded him to strike his children as punishment

Sortwell reportedly told the police he would hate his child if he didn't strike them.

"Police were made aware of the alleged abuse after a relative discovered the five bruises while giving the child a bath.

The relative took the child to a hospital in Two Rivers,

"Sortwell told police the Bible was 'very specific' about corporal punishment and loosely quoted a verse from Proverbs: 'Whoever spares the rod hates their child,'

"Sortwell, now a member of the Assembly's Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee,

told police he and his wife disciplined the child with an object rather than their hands because 'hands are for loving,'"

"After striking their child, neither parent made a practice of checking for injuries, the police reports said."

police recommended

a felony child abuse charge against Sortwell and

a felony charge of failure to act to prevent bodily harm against his wife.

Both charges carry a maximum penalty of six years in prison,"

"Police also gave Sortwell a heads up about the newspaper's inquiry

and provided him 13 business days — 10 days more than statute allows

https://www.rawstory.com/shae-sortwell-2655479138

Another example of police corruption

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