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Cyrano

(15,388 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 05:55 PM Oct 2020

Why are we the ones living in fear?

We fear that Trump will steal it. We fear the Republicans will hold the senate. We fear that they will go on to destroy our country.

They are the ones that should be living in fear. They have been fucking us for over half a century. And, looking at early voting, they are the ones who should be living in terror.

We are going to take the presidency this year. Trump's appointed judges, at all levels, can't stop us. And we just may take the senate also. But if we don't do it now, it will be a 2022 landslide.

Their reign of terror is over. And when we control the executive and congressional branches of government, we will repair the damage they've done to the judiciary branch.

They're done and they know it. Their fascism has gone as far as it's going to go. America has had it with their fucking minority of crazies.

And as for you Republicans who may be reading this, time for you to be frightened. Justice is about to return to America. Time to recognize that we know who and what you are. Time for you to just go the fuck away.

You don't need a pollster to tell you that democracy is on the verge of returning.

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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
1. True! Some of them will be going to jail prolly
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 05:59 PM
Oct 2020

They should be very afraid of what’s going to be revealed

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
2. We need to do a lot better when it comes to defense, because people have been saying for
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 06:03 PM
Oct 2020

decades that Christian Nationalism was "going away", that racists were going away and being deplatformed. They are building and building, and collaborating with foreign actors. So our work is not done.

What happened yesterday with the SCOTUS was four decades in the making. My niece in college will be an old lady when these judges work their way out of the system.

We need to win in November, and we need to keep fighting like hell, and fight smarter.

Cyrano

(15,388 posts)
5. Take a look at early voter turnout
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 06:18 PM
Oct 2020

Take a look at tens of thousands, nationwide, standing in the streets for hours waiting to vote.

Take a look at which districts those votes are coming from.

The blue wave is happening big time. And it's about to drown the orange beast.

The senate? We'll take it this year, or for sure in 2022.

America has had it with being fucked over. The Republican Party is on it's death bed. And they know it. It's why they rushed through the last SCOTUS member they'll ever appoint for decades to come.

dustyscamp

(2,705 posts)
13. 1++++++++++
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 07:11 PM
Oct 2020

People are fooling themselves if they think the cons are going away anytime soon

regnaD kciN

(27,639 posts)
3. Because they hold all the power at the moment...?
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 06:04 PM
Oct 2020

They have the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, plus the military and security forces.

The fact is, they only lose if they back down from using the full force of their power to keep control. Are they willing to perpetuate their power in exchange for turning America into an authoritarian pseudo-dictatorship a la Putin’s Russia? Because, if they were determined to do that, the only way to stop them would be by outright revolution – and the outcome of such a move would be very much in doubt.

Bettie

(19,704 posts)
4. I am at the point where the more Agent Orange talks about
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 06:08 PM
Oct 2020

the "Big Red Wave", the more sure I am that it will be an Enormous Blue Wave.

My fear comes from knowing that the Supreme Court is filled with ideologues who would willingly hand him our nation without a second thought regardless of the vote totals.

My only hope that they won't is that the second they override the will of the people and install him in office when he has clearly lost is that they become irrelevant, because a dictator has no need of a court, his word is law.

moonscape

(5,722 posts)
12. But they fear they will become irrelevant when the Court is
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 06:55 PM
Oct 2020

reformed/balanced under a Dem administration. There is only one good outcome for the country, but short-term not necessarily the same one from the SC POV.

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
6. It is not the votes that count
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 06:25 PM
Oct 2020

It is those who count the votes that count. That is why I am afraid. Our system has been so deeply corrupted that we can not afford to be feeling safe or confident. I am afraid that he votes won't matter. I hope that by this time next week you can all be busting on me for being so damn negative. I will take it like a man.

Cyrano

(15,388 posts)
9. America, at it's best, destroyed fascism in WWII
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 06:35 PM
Oct 2020

Do you really believe that we, the vast majority of us, can't crush these piss ants here at home?

They've always been here and a corrupt, criminal Republican Party has been conning them for decades. They're time is up.

Take a deep breath, vote if you haven't already done so, and rest easy. We are going to crush our homegrown fascists starting next Tuesday.

And also, have a bit of faith in human history. The pricks always lose in the long run.

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,526 posts)
11. To me, that's like asking why a home builder fears...
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 06:53 PM
Oct 2020

... an arsonist, but the arsonist doesn't fear the home builder.

Democrats are the builders and Republicans are the destroyers. It's easier to destroy.

Cyrano

(15,388 posts)
14. Yep. Until we've had enough of their destruction
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 08:24 PM
Oct 2020

The orange beast, and this last stolen SCOTUS seat have pushed us over the edge. There is some shit we will not eat. (With thanks to the poet, E. E. Cummings, for that last sentence.)

They are done. They're over. They're through. Their reign of terror is coming to an end. Why do you think so many of them are running from dear leader?

This is just a guess, but I think it may be another 20 or 30 years before the thugs ever regain both the presidency and the senate. When you've spent almost half a century fucking Americans, the majority of people tend to "get it."

bdamomma

(69,532 posts)
15. FEAR
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 08:28 PM
Oct 2020

and fascism goes together, all the more reason we have to KICK their asses out.

They fear us why do you think they are suppressing us voting THERE ARE MORE OF US.

Let's get em!!!!!!

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