Howard Dean: I'm beginning to think Barr is not only a Trump flunky but mentally unbalanced.

[highplainsdem]

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I’m beginning to think Barr is not only a trump flunky but he might be mentally unbalanced.

Dean's commenting on this quote from Barr, in a tweet (with video) from The Hill:

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Attorney General Bill Barr: "This is not decay. This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion & traditional values."

[Thomas Hurt]

1. That crap he is saying is Taliban-level fundie fanaticism.

[sharedvalues]

17. Standard American Christofascism from evangelicals

You hear this stuff all the time in the rightwing Christian grifter press


Which is why evangelicals are such a threat to America that we must fight with every avenue we can.

[dchill]

30. Stop! You're BOTH right!

(Certs is a candy mint! Certs is a breath mint!)

[sharedvalues]

32. :)

[sellitman]

40. And.....

New Shimmer is a floor wax and a desert topping!

[elleng]

2. Quite a statement from Dean,

and rather appropriate considering barr's b.s.

[Cha]

3. Doncha kinda have to be to

be a member of CultIQ45?

Thanks for Dean, highpliainsdem!

[dchill]

31. Yes. Or just terminally craven.

[dewsgirl]

4. I'm beginning to wonder, when the violent portion of the coup

will take place. They have the state media all set up.

[Hortensis]

5. He sounds afraid, as if he thinks he needs

a “fundie” mob to save him.

Dean’s book, Conservatives Without Conscience” about authoritarian followers and leaders and is fascinating and as relevant or even more so than when he wrote it.

[salin]

13. Agree per tone. Quick correction, though. This was from Howard Dean (frmr Gov Vt, dem pres primary

candidate and former dnc chai.) John Dean wrote the book (and it is a really good book) who was a former WH lawyer for the Nixon Admin who played a pivotal role in his testimony before congress in the Watergate Hearings.

[Hortensis]

26. Oh, yes, quite a correction needed.

John Dean, and quite a book.

[salin]

36. Well worth the read/listen (the book)

and I admire both of the Deans.

[Pepsidog]

33. Great read.

[Garrett78]

6. Barr, Bannon and the rest aren't mentally unbalanced--at least not in a clinical sense.

They're propagandists promoting a self-beneficial ideology.

[Aussie105]

7. What Barr said is nothing new.

He is just appealing to his audience, which I assume is largely religious fundamentalists.

Was he speaking as a private citizen or as AG?

If it is not appropriate for an Attorney General to speak on this topic (as his job description doesn't cover any expertise in this field), or if he misread the mindset of his audience, then maybe his marbles are lost?

But it's the standard line, people aren't following Jesus, and the following are to blame . . .

[salin]

15. Audience was Notre Dame law school forum.

Fairly conservative to moderate (with some liberals), and certainly not religious fundamentalists. I imagine there were many stifled gasps in the audience.

[sprinkleeninow]

34. Ain it a shame he was chosen to address them and not a validly ethical

LE spokesperson.

[salin]

37. yep. But - though not intentional, I am guessing, from the inviter (I think it was a student grou)

nor Barr - a very up close view to an "excuse" for behavior in this historic episode in the US. That may make up for the waste of time in terms of sitting through a painful lecture without getting new insights into the law.

And - Barr's reasonings go back decades and decades - at least back to the origins of the John Birch Society. An argument could be made that the theme goes back centuries.

[sprinkleeninow]

39. A way to look at it. They apparently got a first hand, up close and personal

'discourse' by him. The more prevalent 'they' expose themselves in the public eye, well...you know....

[rickyhall]

8. Fucking the poor & abandoning our allies are traditions? Not in my reality!

[LudwigPastorius]

9. Hey, Billy...

Go fuck yourself with a barrel cactus, you hypocritical shitheel.

[irisblue]

10. Gee Dr Ya think?

[Mr.Bill]

11. Anyone who would work for Trump

is mentally unbalanced.

[B Stieg]

12. Effing Dominionist

Great. One more holy roller.

[DownFromTheMountain]

14. Barr was picked Precisely

Because of his fundamental Imperial Presidency writings and his ass kissing display proved he would be all in until the trumpet sounds.
What pisses me off is he's a bagpiper, and I love bagpiping. Him playing with a massed band was a cowardly act and I bet he sucks.

[paleotn]

16. Yea, well?

Your religion is bullshit and "traditional values" is code for patriarchal oppression and white privilege. It deserves to be destroyed. It's given us nothing but superstition, oppression and death. Let it die.

[Aussie105]

23. It may well be

what MAGA looks like to some, like Barr?

[Jarqui]

18. I think Barr is more dangerous than Trump

Trump's wick is getting short. He's not going to get through a general election with all this garbage coming out.

Barr's job is that of an enabler for the GOP. The DoJ works for the Republicans now. It is corrupt as we saw with the Mueller report.

Barr's efforts will be to prop up the GOP and it's candidates and tear down the Democrats and their candidates.

[UTUSN]

19. Carries more weight coming from a doctor.

[They_Live]

20. Beginning to?

He's been a sociopath for a long time now.

[lonely bird]

21. I have had it with these religionists.

Anyone who seeks to be treated with equity before the law meaning wanting their rights runs headlong into the calcified belief structures of these Republicans and is shrieked at as “assaulting” religion and “traditional values” (read: white power structures).

[dalton99a]

22. They are just goddamn evil people in the service of their evil leader

[Aussie105]

24. Like attracts like.

You are known by the company you keep.

[GoCubsGo]

25. Anyone who is willing to carry water for that bloated, syphilitc asshole has got to be unbalanced.

And, those who sell themselves for the job of carrying water for him are beyond mentally unbalanced. They're flat-out batshit crazy.

[roamer65]

27. These stupid fascist fakes xtians are a big problem.

They are dragging down the progression of the human race.

[jberryhill]

28. Freaks. They are all freaks

[democratisphere]

29. Most rethuglicons are unbalanced; those associated and supporting drumpf

are even more so.

[VOX]

38. "Secularists and their allies" -- meaning the "Jewish globalists" bogeymen of white nationalism.

Which is right smack in the alt-right, neo-nazi delusion zone.

[MineralMan]

41. Violation of the First Amendment

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...."

Barr is our chief law officer. He should not be.

[edhopper]

42. There are a lot of "true Christian believers"

who are delusional. Unfortunately, the current AG is one of them.