https://globalextremism.org/post/project-2025-march-27th-update/

Project 2025 is a 920-page plan, spearheaded by the powerful and extreme far-right Heritage Foundation. This blueprint for autocracy is supported by more than 100 organizations.

Their stated goal is to create an “ideal” America that would see women, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, people of color, and others deprived of their hard-won constitutional rights and the erosion of environmental and education protections.

It also advocates for a frightening centralization of power in the executive branch.

Rooted in hate and Christian Nationalism, the plan promises to “rescue the country.”

Driving to the banana farm -

Columnist Amanda Marcotte, in an op-ed published by Salon Thursday, said she believes the announcement was a "not-at-all subtle message" that Trump "doesn't believe any of this faith-in-God crap, but he definitely believes in using Christian identity as a weapon to make money and dominate his foes."

Marcotte argues that Trump supporters who identify as Christian will not find the Trump brand Bible offensive, since it signals that they can have the "Christian" identity without the parts they don't like.

"No boring church services or Bible study. No tedious talk about 'compassion' and 'grace,' which only gets in the way of the gay-bashing and racism," Marcotte wrote. "And definitely no need to worry about that Jesus guy, with all his notions about 'loving thy neighbor' and 'welcoming the stranger.'"

According to Marcotte, Trump-supporting Christians have replaced God with Trump himself — which she says is a lot more fun since Trump's message is "kick thy neighbor" and "build the wall."

Marcotte has such little faith in the Christian bonafides of Trump supporters that she argued the pages of the Trump Bible could be blank and they wouldn't even know it.

"In the right-wing publishing industry, books are not made to be read. They are to be displayed on your shelves, unopened, so you can glance at them and feel that somewhere, a liberal is 'owned.'" she writes.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bible/

Quote by RowanThorn

Because the major election cycles are the only times they get any press.

So, admittedly - when it's done during Presidential election years - it's simply a protest stoked by Republicans who hope to influence undecideds and swing voters - the ultimate flip floppers.

Ego maniacs and imbeciles like RFK Jr don't even qualify as Democrats by the time they decide to pitch a tent on the nomination trail, otherwise - no Democrats would ever cast a vote for Mr or Mrs X - the 3rd party candidate.

I'm good with protests, except when those protests go against intelligence and reason. Those tend to evolve into riots and insurrections and Patriots Saving America while battling the establishment and legally elected government they seek to protest.

How come it is we only hear the calls for establishing a viable 3rd party, during those every 4th year general election cycle for US Presidency.

How come we never see third party candidates make much of a splash during the primaries, during off year congressional elections?

Everything is cool with Rowan. It's either vote for Trumpism and chaos, or more Corporatocracy with Biden/Hillary/Obama/Bill (rinse wash rinse again)...

Just put up with 5 years of the same shit on the other side of the coin. Crysis' coins. Until the multiple personality fuckwad was banned.

I reckon we can put up with 5 years of your lameness, too.

Are Americans better off today (and this entire year) than we were 4 years ago?

https://doggett.house.gov/media/blog-post/timeline-trumps-coronavirus-responses

March 2020 was the month when things went to hell here in the United States. On March 5th there were 129 known cases and only 11 deaths in the US: just 33 days later, hospitals were using refrigerated trucks as morgues and over 10,000 Americans were dead of Covid.

Fear ran through communities and stalked our homes. We were washing our groceries with bleach after picking them up at the store’s parking lot from people wearing masks, goggles, and gloves. We bought up all the air filters in the country. We worked from home when we could. We isolated ourselves from other people as much as was humanly possible.

Within those few weeks in March and early April, serious Covid outbreaks were showing up across the Northeast and Trump — who had two years earlier shut down both of the two federal pandemic task forces Obama had put into place after the Ebola scare — charged his son-in-law, nepo-baby slumlord Jared Kushner, with responding to the crisis.

Trump put medical doctors on TV daily, the media was freaking out about refrigerated trucks carrying bodies away from New York hospitals, and doctors and nurses were our new national heroes.

By March 7th, US deaths had risen from 4 to only 22, but that was enough to spur federal action. Trump’s official emergency declaration came on March 13th, and most of the country shut down during the following week.

The skies and highways fell silent, the Dow collapsed, and millions of Americans were laid off — but saving lives was, after all, the number one consideration.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/gop-commissioners-have-single-handedly-blocked-fec-action-against-trump-29-times/

Trump is batting 1000% - the FEC says he can do whatever he wants, no matter how 'unethical or illegal'. The Republicans in charge at the FEC are protecting their interests and not the public welfare.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/dhs-officials-texts-show-unfiltered-reaction-to-january-6/

Think about how much information (complicit and criminal) was deleted by all the 'official Trump government' agencies when those agencies authorized the deletion of text messages recorded on official government supplied smart phones.

Then tell us all how there was no active conspiracy afoot on January 6, 2021.

Quote by RowanThorn

Ultimately maybe the Democrats need to give voters something to believe in, Instead their only pitch is, ‘not trump.’ Just like Al Gore lost with his, ‘Not Bush’ campaign.

If the president has 30% approval ratings don’t put him up for reelection. You cannot win this way.

Al Gore didn't lose.

The GOP stacked SCOTUS of that particular year - stopped the counting and declared Bush the winner.

And Gore didn't attempt an insurrection to hold onto power.

Come'on Mr Progressive Revisionist...your fibs are transparent.

this will happen, one day...

https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-out-and-out-lie/

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Yeah, Biden’s angry old man rant really drove home the whole point of the matter. The Democrats had spent the primary season quashing and burying any opposition to Biden’s re-election rather than finding a suitable substitute.

Imagine how much better the optics would be politically if he had announced he will step down due to his older age. He could head into the sunset with a decent economic track record (so long as your the small % of wealthy Americans who benefit from things like inflated stock prices or an out of control housing market). The republicans are in chaos looking bad as hell killing their own bills and unable to pass shit with a majority.

It would have been a really nice set up for a new candidate. Instead he’s proving all the rhetoric about his age and mental fitness. He’s heading in with a scandal. He’ll drag the whole ticket and hand Trump an easy victory. It was a self indulgent move for the Dems to push forward with their senile meat puppet and it is going to lead to absolute chaos.

This comment has aged like month old, room temperature, cottage cheese.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/alex-jones-bogus-coronavirus-cures

Since Infowars content is viewable wherever people have Internet, including New York, this state’s consumer-protection laws apply. “Whenever there’s heightened fear and hysteria, we start to see scammers,” Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, said recently.

“We see stores around Brooklyn selling hand sanitizer for eighty dollars a bottle. We see people setting up fake charities—phishing attempts, essentially. We see medical scams—Web sites that have a magic cure. We have a responsibility to take action against anything that is putting New Yorkers in danger.”

James instructed Lisa Landau, the chief of her office’s health-care bureau, to send Jones a cease-and-desist letter. In a footnote, Landau acknowledged that the Infowars site did include some vague verbiage disclaiming liability, but that its “miniscule font size makes it unlikely that potential customers will read or even see the disclaimer.”

Days later, a new disclaimer appeared, this one in a non-minuscule font: “The products sold on this site are not intended for use in the cure, treatment, prevention, or mitigation of any disease, including the novel coronavirus.”

Near the disclaimer, however, was a link to products such as a “Build the Wall, Protect Texas” T-shirt, George Washington socks (“We need to broadcast true Americana everywhere we go to shut down globalist censorship”), and bottles of ABL Nano Silver Gargle (sold out, wait list available).

Joe Biden (aka Brandon) speaks with 5 actors (who portrayed a US President in some series or movie) prior to his State of the Union 2024 speech. More than simply entertaining. Now, imagine Trump ever doing something like this.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1765750702972809621

Where else in the world does this kind of shit occur on a frequent basis? A M E R I C A leads by a fair margin.

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/owners-of-lighthouse-christian-academy

It’s not the first time a Christian boarding school in Missouri has come under fire for alleged bad behavior. In the past several years, there have been investigations into the “Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch and Boarding School” and Agape Boarding School in the same state.

A lot of this happens because religious boarding schools in Missouri are largely unregulated, relying on their religious label to win the trust of unsuspecting families. These facilities assure parents their troublesome teenagers will receive a much-needed, faith-based rehabilitation if they simply hand over custody and pay a hefty fee. Instead of making things better, though, the Christian ranches often become a hotbed of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse that leave the kids far worse off than when they entered.

Quote by Buz

Wendy's should go back to the basics, offer best possible product, with great service, and at a very competitive price.

I ate at a Wendy's in Colorado Springs in...the mid 1970s, out of necessity. Less than 2 hours later, I was vomiting chunks (through my nostrils) of whatever crap it was I ingested earlier (and I was literally starving at that time) - my father was driving, he and I and my two brothers were launching our 1st annual (and only time) Rocky Mountain vacation, in the 1975 Cordoba (with Corinthian leather) while pulling a pop-up PUMA tent camper up to 9500 ft above sea level. Mom had the good sense to stay home, alone (maybe) for the next two weeks.

I've never stopped at or ordered Wendy's slop again. Some places, people just shouldn't eat at. Wendy's is one of those dumps.

https://www.propublica.org/article/republicans-hatched-secret-assault-voting-rights-act-washington-state

* The most likely possibility is that it was inspired by Fred Trump. The second most likely is that the screenwriter is a time traveling witch.

--In this 1958 episode from the western TV series TRACKDOWN, a con man named Trump comes to town and warns the citizens that the world will soon be destroyed and that ONLY HE can save them. By building a wall.

wut the hell...?

Geeze, I missed this when it was occurring. Tucker trying desperately to save masculinity from its teetering existence.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/tucker-carlson-consider-testicle-tanning-end-of-men

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The above entry is usually what it looks like after I've drank 9 or 10 beers and thought it was a good time to post something, somewhere, on the internet. Then I passed out before I clicked on Submit. Saw the mess in the morning and logged off without posting anything at all.

So, thanks for this reminder.

The simple reality is that the future of American democracy is as much on the line in this case as it was in 1866. That was completely lost in yesterday’s arguments: it should have been central to them.

So, why did even the “liberal” wing of the Court go along with this charade? Was it because, like Mitt Romney said of his Republican Senate colleagues who failed to convict Trump in his second impeachment, they were afraid for their own safety?

As Romney’s biographer, Atlantic writer McKay Coppins, wrote:

“One Republican congressman confided to Romney that he wanted to vote for Trump’s second impeachment, but chose not to out of fear for his family’s safety. The congressman reasoned that Trump would be impeached by House Democrats with or without him — why put his wife and children at risk if it wouldn’t change the outcome?

“Later, during the Senate trial, Romney heard the same calculation while talking with a small group of Republican colleagues. When one senator, a member of leadership, said he was leaning toward voting to convict, the others urged him to reconsider. You can’t do that, Romney recalled someone saying. Think of your personal safety, said another. Think of your children. The senator eventually decided they were right.”

Were we watching the consequence of Trump’s thuggish threats? After all, just a few weeks ago Trump attorney Alina Habba said on Fox “News” of Bret Kavanaugh:

“You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the President went through how to get into place, he’ll step up.”

Nice little house and kids you’ve got there, Brett; be a shame if something were to happen to them…

This is how fascists and authoritarians have seized and held power for all the millennia we’ve had what we call civilization: by inducing terror. Just ask Ruby Freeman or Paul Pelosi. Or read Shakespeare or the Bible. Or talk with Alexi Navalny’s wife.

Did they never learn in American History class that there was a time, spanning about a generation, when democracy had been replaced by strongman oligarchy in the South and Trump is merely echoing the values and postures of that time?

That the 14th Amendment was written to prevent or rescue us from exactly today’s situation?

Stevens, Howard, and Conkling went to their graves believing they’d secured America’s future. Tragically, Trump’s lawyers, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence “sugar baby” Thomas (among others) proved they were wrong.

Yesterday’s hearing was a disgrace. Now that the Supreme Court has apparently failed in their responsibility, it’s up to us to prevent this monster or anyone like him from ever again setting foot in the halls of American power.

Make sure everybody you know is registered to vote and understands what’s at stake this November.