Republicans newest treason: a 200+ page platform which, among other things, repeats the Big Lie,…

Yes, because the truth is too painful for the primitive republican mind, with thinking as primitive as that of the Taliban.

The Republican party is becoming ever more divorced from reality, and Trump’s attempted coup continues unabated.

The first four hearings of the committee have demolished the myths of voter fraud repeated incessantly by Trump.

Yet the Republican response to those hearings has ranged from indifference to hostility. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader of the House, tweeted that the members of the committee “will not stop lying about their political opponents,” and called the committee “despicable.”

On Friday, speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Nashville, Trump repeated his big lie – as if the hearings never happened.

The lie is now so deeply entrenched in the Republican party that it has become a central tenet of Republican dogma.

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Republican voters have chosen eight big liers for the US Senate, 86 for the House, five for governor, four for state attorney general and one for secretary of state.

These big lie candidates feel no pressure to respond to the findings of the committee because their districts or states already lean Republican, and most voters in them have dismissed or aren’t paying attention to the committee hearings.

When it comes to January 6, Republicans are entirely divorced from reality

Being divorced from reality is what these clownshoes are across many important topics.

Re: Tyvor Winn “It’s becoming all too apparent that the lessons of the 1930s have faded over time . . .”

When I wrote this I had not yet heard about the Texas state Republicans newest treason: a 200+ page platform which, among other things, repeats the Big Lie, asserts that 2nd Amendment rights can not be curtailed in any way, wants the federal income tax abolished, the Confederate monuments protected (and those removed returned), and asserts the right to leave the Union. I’ve heard or read nothing yet about slavery made legal again or concentration camps for those who register as Democrats but both would seem to be a good fit for this ultra ultra conservative party. Heil Abbot.

It’s becoming all too apparent that the lessons of the 1930s have faded over time and many in the western world are once again flirting with autocracy. Between the bell-shaped curve of intelligence and the Dunning-Kruger effect, the 21st century is not likely to end well.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/19/opinions/texas-gop-convention-obeidallah/index.html?

https://hillreporter.com/texas-gop-convention-passes-resolution-declaring-joe-biden-not-legitimately-elected-133774

Well, according to the news media, here are two examples:

1) To wait inside a school in which a teen-aged killer has opened fire on children and teachers while some of the victims bled out on the floor because the nitwit who was supposedly in charge was phoneless and useless. (He has now clammed up until the inept and/or heartless TX governor wins re-election.)

2) To shoot unarmed black men who have their backs turned or are handcuffed (but steering clear of white men parading about in military gear and brandishing long guns).

Strewth dean, there is no dealing with that scale of delusion.

I mean:

“And I asked them if they’d like to tell Maite Rodriguez’s parents that,” said Gonzalez.

Maite Rodriguez was one of 19 kids killed by 18-year-old Uvalde shooter Salvador Ramos. Maite was only identifiable by her green Converse sneakers due to the severe mutilation of her body caused by the shooter’s AR-15 rifle.

Sickening. Protzman needs urgent psychiatric treatment.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/JFK-QAnon-cult-harassed-gun-violence-protestors-17238529.php?

“The last time the United States failed to properly punish insurrectionists, they went on to form the Ku Klux Klan, unleash a reign of murderous domestic terrorism, and re-establish formal white supremacy in much of the country for more than 100 years. As the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack begins televised hearings this week, the lessons from the post-civil war period offer an ominous warning for this moment and where we go from here.

It is often difficult to sustain the requisite sense of urgency about past events, however dramatic and shocking they may have been at the time. Memories fade, new challenges arise and the temptation to put it all behind us and move on is strong. On top of all that, Republicans quickly and disingenuously called for “unity”, mere days after failing to block the peaceful transfer of power. If we want to preserve our fragile democracy, however, Congress and the president must learn from history and not make the same mistakes their predecessors did in the years after the 1860s war for white supremacy that we call the civil war.

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Despite the rampant treason and extraordinary carnage of the war, the country’s political leaders had little appetite for punishing their white counterparts who had done their level best to destroy the United States of America. After Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth successfully assassinated Lincoln in 1865, Andrew Johnson ascended to the highest office in the land. Johnson, a southerner who “openly espoused white supremacy”, “handed out pardons indiscriminately” to Confederate leaders and removed from the south the federal troops protecting newly freed African Americans.

As we see daily, bigotry and prejudice against those of a different skin colour are still too prevalent if not always overt. This must be dealt with.

If America fails to punish its insurrectionists, it could see a wave of domestic terror

Hence the mention of Nathan Bedford Forrest in the previous post.

No wonder Faux News didn’t carry any of the hearing and spent their time (without com-mercials) telling their deluded audience one lie after the next.

By the way, don’t expect much from the Trump, Republicans, or Faux News on any form of useful gun control. They have now embraced sociopathy as the way to act.