Tulsi Gabbard voted “present” 
Hillary Clinton just keeps being proved right about her
Just fuck off to Fox News, Tulsi, you utter weasel
Interesting you’re calling Tulsi Gabbard a fascist for abstaining and not voting to impeach, while giving the benefit of the doubt to the 3 male Democrats who actually voted against impeachment.
Sounds a touch misogynist to me, most likely ground in a deep fear of women. It appears to affect pretend journalists the most.
Did somebody say “distraction”?
Explosive report indicates that Donald Trump’s loans from Deutsche Bank were backed by Russia
Lolz
The Trump-Russia cabal could hardly make it more obvious, but sure that’s what they do, everything is designed to be obvious
This is the source that broke the story in the above post
MSNBC’s Laurence O’Donnell was dead right some months ago when he orginally ran with this story by the way
Same as Jason Leopold and Anthomy Cormier were thoroughly vindicated over their reporting
Democrats really are stupid .
This is a smashing thread which follows on from the original tweet, and feeds perfectly into what I was saying a few days ago about the Republican party being essentially a batshit crazy theocracy
Should be required reading for a few prize tulips on this forum
I’ve been talking about this awhile, but I’ve taken to calling white identity Christianity, particularly the strain that’s given itself in full to Trumpism, as the Cult of the Shining City. They live in a fictional reality where they’re fighting a supernatural war.
The origins of this group’s madness comes from the linking of white nationalism and Christianity, a merging of myth that originated in the concept that America is God’s chosen country and Americans God’s chosen people.
We’re pretty familiar with the idea of American exceptionalism, but we need to remember what it’s led to. The birth of “Manifest Destiny” in the 19th century was an offshoot of Romanticism, which led to wild nationalism and later Nazism.
By believing America was God’s chosen people we’ve enabled unbelievable wrongs because America, as the arbiter of right and wrong, can do anything it needs to advance. This includes the genocide of native people, enslavement, subjugation of other countries, war crimes, etc.
In the 1960’s, as Civil Rights leaders used Christianity as a means of equality, white segregationist preachers changed Christianity’s tenets from kindness to a means of gaining power and wealth. It morphed into a white identity movement meant to maintain white supremacy.
As the cultural wars of the 60s/70s grew in intensity, white identity evangelicals pushed a concept that liberalism was not only wrong but destructive to society and liable to destroy America. Because it was a White supremacist movement in disguise, social justice was included.
During this time white identity evangelicals start adopting apocalyptic appeals to maintain control. Parishioners are told to eschew intellectualism / liberalism for it’s a means for Satan to gain control. At this point, liberals and the devil become interchangeable.
Enter Ronald Reagan, whose occult obsessions blend nationalism and mysticism. His partnership with white evangelicals combined the ideas, leading America into a decade obsessed with satanic threats, apocalyptic culture, and political battles framed as good v. evil.
At this point, the political narrative and religious narrative are intertwined. There are rumors of satanic conspiracies. Liberals aren’t political opponents but evil interlocutors, traitors, some even agents of satanic evil.
Because the Cult of the Shining City views America as God’s chosen country, logic dictates it’s invincible. This is another leftover from Romantic ideals. Like all other rabid nationalistic nations, any losses or struggles are blamed on traitors and evil forces.
You’ll recognize this in Trump’s claims of leaders either being stupid or betraying America. This is the origin of Deep State ideology, which is just an evolution of New World Order conspiracies, which was an evolution of Elders of Zion conspiracies.
The belief is that America, as God’s chosen country, is beset by evil forces and traitors. Because this is a white identity belief, the conspirators are liberals and minority populations in concert to undermine power and white supremacy.
This group, the Trump group, the Cult of the Shining City that views them as saviors, literally believe they’re chosen by God and are at war with evil. Crusaders. Their enemies? Anyone who questions America, be it Iranians or liberals.
If you want to get a headache, go checkout the Qanon narratives. They’re nonsensical because they follow this crazy narrative and strive to connect everyone from Hillary Clinton and Trump critics with worldwide evil movements. It’s a means of continuing the chosen narrative.
At the heart of this is a belief by these people, including Trump, who believe they’re special and ordained by God. Anything they do is righteous as they’re anointed crusaders. Theirs is a holy cause and thus any action is warranted.
Just to reiterate, America’s worst offenses originate from the idea that we are a benevolent, ordained, holy country. It enables horrific behavior. War crimes. Great cruelty. The eradication of whole peoples. This myth is as dangerous as dangerous gets.
Why on earth would you block witnesses if they thought they could exonerate you?
The US is not a democracy, it’s an international laughing stock!
That’s eerily reminiscent of the terrorist who shot 50 innocent people dead in New Zealand last year. He had similar markings on an assault rifle.
Charming.
Watching US China press conference on the trade deal… Trump has spent the first 25 mins just thanking people like he’s won an Oscar for best president ever. This is nuts. Getting people to stand up for rounds of applause
He’s still at it, just naming people and saying 'Where’s John, great company this guys running, stand up John" rambling like the father of the bride at a wedding. Asking JPM to thank him now, haha.
It’s possibly the most surreal thing I have seen, and that’s saying something. He must have taken a double dose of Adderall this morning.
Gary, Boeing, stand up, we gotta get this going, we’ll do it. Come on Gary, lets fix this…ok, thanks Gary
Democrats trying to upstage Trump’s victory speech by launching the transfer of the impeachment charge to the Senate at the same time 
What the fuck???
What?
Don’t tell me that’s real, there’s a trick there somehow?
Never spoil a good story with the truth
The impeachment trial starts in the Senate next week. Trump has hired Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr to join his White House legal team.
This is going to be a repeat of the OJ Simpson trial, men against boys.
Alan Dershowitz
The same fella that got Epstein off on his underage sex charge in Florida?