If @anon7035031 was pro-democracy, he’d have objected to this fascist rhetoric
He didn’t
He wanted it to not be mentioned, because we all know he supports it
He more than likely had a wank in a sock when he heard about it
Informed by who?
Your version of democracy is as long as the public are informed by leftists loons like yourself 
It’s a classsic pro Soviet mindset.
The left is morally bankrupt and always has been.
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We don’t hear @anon7035031 mention this
In fact we’ve never heard @anon7035031 mention anything of the sort over the last three years
He needs to explain why the Republican party are so pro-foreign interference in elections
He needs to explain why the Republican party are so anti-anything that would hack the actual voting infrastructure
He needs to explain why hand certified paper ballots are such a no no for Republicans
This is the guy who so laughably claims to be pro-democracy, yet we haven’t heard a peep out of him about the total shitshow that US “democracy” (inverted commas deliberately used) is
That’s because he isn’t pro-democracy at all, he’s anti-real democracy
Why would I defend Republicans?, I’m a Democrat. Your biggest logical error (of many) is not recognizing that many if not most Democrats in the US are conservatives. Your hatred for conservatives regardless of party informs all your world view.
However, what is clear is you very much favor a one party state. It’s actually quite scary, but thankfully not many share your warped views.
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This question should be easy to answer
Why did Tulsi Gabbard hire a smear campaigner employed by Russia?
Real easy
You’re nuts and living in a total fantasy world
Why on earth would I engage with fantasist gibberish written by somebody who has been relentlessly and willingly groomed by the far right bullshit industry
The only reason I engage with you is to push back on your leftist insanity.
About 70% of Americans are conservatives, people you hate. You are consumed with hatred, it oozes out of every post.
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Bill Taylor’s testimony absolutely destroyed Trump and his corrupt crony Sondland the other day
At the start of this year I said that Republicans would be openly defending outright criminality
They have gone a lot further
The Republican party is nothing more than a criminal cabal, a mob modelled on the mafia
This was obvious a long time ago, but it is completely out in the open now
It really is a tragedy for America and for democracy in general that it has come to this
K m8
Good article here
Trumpworld is a never ending stream of wacko conspiracy theories, purging and bogus “investigations” against those who stand up to the insanity of the Republican party
That is what fascist politics is
The Republicans genuinely do believe that Trump should be an all-powerful emperor
Bill Barr’s alternate universe “investigation” has a goal: Right-wing authoritarian rule
Barr’s “criminal investigation” of the Russia probe is the fruit of a long-running far-right plan to kill democracy
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
OCTOBER 25, 2019 12:56PM (UTC)
Students of the modern conservative movement often date the recent supercharged radicalization of the Republican Party to the rise of Newt Gingrich and the Republican Revolution in the early 1990s. It’s true that the GOP went seriously off the rails during that period and the craziness has been picking up speed ever since. But in reality, the conservative movement has been radical from its beginnings, starting with the anti-communist crusade after World War II all the way through Goldwater to Reagan, Gingrich and now Trump. Now it has finally shed all trappings of a sophisticated political ideology, culminating in this surreal parody of a presidency in 2019. The conservative “three legged stool” of small government, traditional values and global military leadership has completely disintegrated.
But one aspect of that earlier conservative movement has continued to chug along with its long-term project to transform the U.S. into an undemocratic, quasi-authoritarian plutocracy. That would be the group of far-right lawyers who started the Federalist Society, with the goal of packing the judiciary with true believers, along with a certain group of Reagan-era legal wunderkinds who came to believe that the GOP could dominate the presidency for decades to come. They developed the theory of the “unitary executive,” originally advanced by Reagan’s odious attorney general Ed Meese ( recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom) which holds that massive, unaccountable power is vested in the president of the United States.
Attorney General William Barr was one of those lawyers, along with White House counsel Pat Cipollone, former appeals court judge Michael Luttig and others who encouraged Barr to take the job, particularly after his famous memo declaring that what any normal person would see as obstruction of justice doesn’t apply to the president. (In a nutshell, Barr agrees with former President Richard Nixon, who said, “If the president does it, it’s not illegal.”)
Barr is described as supremely confident in his beliefs, which is to say that his overweening arrogance is not an act put on someone who is overcompensating to hide insecurity. He believes in this theory and when it became obvious that former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was not long for the job, Barr and his legal cabal appear to have seen the clueless and corrupt Donald Trump as a perfect instrument to test their theory, and perhaps set legal precedents that would enable future right-wing presidents to use the full power of the presidency to dominate American politics without regard to democratic norms or congressional checks and balances. Indeed, they had been setting the stage for such a man for decades.
It’s also obviously the case that Barr, and perhaps his Reaganite cronies as well, are suffering from the malady known as Fox News Brain Rot, the symptoms of which are an extreme susceptibility to absurd right-wing conspiracy theories and an inability to believe anything that contradicts them. (Barr once said that there was more evidence for the bogus Uranium One charges than the Russian interference in the 2016 election, which confirms the diagnosis.)
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That is the toxic combination of views has the Attorney General of the United States running all over the world seeking evidence to back up a ridiculous conspiracy theory in which Ukraine, the “deep state,” the Intelligence agencies of Italy, the U.K. and Australia, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee all conspired to frame Russia and Donald Trump in the 2016 election. They call this an investigation into the “origins” of the Russia investigation, which is also being handled by the Department of Justice’s inspector general and special counsel John Durham, appointed by Barr.
Barr’s personal intervention is outside the boundaries of the normal procedures, but that is yet another example of his “unitary executive” theory: He works for the president and the president has the power to assign him to any task, including being an international man of mystery. So far, Barr appears to be coming up goose eggs with the foreign intelligence services. The Wall Street Journal reported that he is “sparking discord in several foreign capitals, going outside usual channels to seek help from allies in reviewing the origins of a U.S. counterintelligence investigation begun during the 2016 presidential campaign.”
On Thursday night the Times set the political world aflame with a report that Durham has officially opened a criminal investigation into the matter. No one is sure what basis there is for this, but reports over the past week or so suggest Durham’s team is focusing intently on the people Donald Trump often rails against in his public statements, including former FBI agent Peter Strzok and possibly high-level intelligence community personnel such as former CIA chief John Brennan and former director of national intelligence James Clapper.
The timing of the story is obviously designed to counter the very bad news coming out of the House impeachment investigation in the House on a daily basis. This isn’t surprising. We’ve been expecting that Senate Judiciary Committee chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., would hold parallel hearings into the origins of the Russia investigation, as promised. Graham is now balking because the Senate rules would require that he allow Democratic participation. (The fact that the Senate Intelligence Committee has released two substantial reports on the 2016 election, making clear that they came to the same conclusions as the FBI and the intelligence community regarding Russian interference on Trump’s behalf, also complicates matters for him.)
So Graham has been reduced to introducing a meaningless resolution saying that the House is being unfair, obviously hoping to appease Trump and keep his homegrown followers happy. According to the Daily Beast, it’s not working. In fact, TrumpWorld wants Graham to call House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff to testify before Graham’s Senate committee, which would be a serious violation of congressional norms. He seems reluctant for the moment, but who knows what he’ll be willing to do as time goes on?
So for the moment the task of bringing the Fox News alternate-universe conspiracy theory to the mainstream falls to Barr and Durham. They have both reportedly been to Ukraine in recent weeks, presumably searching for that elusive “DNC server” that Trump constantly babbles about. Maybe they will manage to delight the Trump base by trying to prosecute some FBI and CIA personnel. Barr seems willing to push the boundaries beyond anything we could have imagined, so that’s not as outrageous as it sounds.
The only remedy for this is for Congress to reassert its own prerogatives and impeach the president and, if necessary, his henchmen. If they fail to hold him accountable for the vast abuse of power and corruption of his office, the precedents will be set and the “unitary executive” will become the working model for all Republican presidents, just as Barr intends. The next one will no doubt be more efficient at using it than Donald Trump.
Lindsey Graham is mentioned in that article
Jaysus, he must have some amount of kompromat hanging over his head
Could he not just come out as gay and be done with it
It’s tragic to see somebody turn into a raving fascist patsy for fear of having their sexuality exposed
Leftists are still seething that US conservatives brought down the USSR. They pine for the days of communist expansion, and the promise of utopia.
Ask eastern Europeans how great communist utopia was.
You’re completely nuts
I’d say you’re a raving alcoholic like your hero Joe McCarthy
Trump is sending US troops in to guard the Syrian oil fields
Oil was always more important than people to him
You’re probably the last poster I expected would be into lesbian soft porn
Predictably, the only person confused is yourself
The ADL do not consider an iron cross as a hate symbol, it’s used by a wide variety of people
Maybe if you’d read the article you’d have been spared the embarrassment
I’m not sure why you’d have a problem with a white supremacist symbol, you are a white supremacist, after all
Be honest and at least start owning it
As you said earlier, the only reason to read that Daily Mail article is if you are into lesbian soft porn.
Quote where I said that
Nothing wrong with lesbian soft porn by the way, don’t be such a prude, the weird, repressed sexual undertones of fascism seem to be badly messing with your head