So Nunes is lying and saying that Obama stole the election for Biden

[malaise]

because among others Obama mentioned voting by mail as an option during the pandemic. Voting by mail has been going on for decades.
White supremacists won't rest until they lynch Obama.
Time for Biden to unveil that Obama portrait than Trump refused to place in the WHITE House.

Any bets Trump attacks Obama at that fathering of racists and fascists.

This is all out race war. Wake up America.

[Alpeduez21]

1. "This is all out race war. Wake up America"

Can't be said enough. There are WAAAAYYYYY too many who dismiss the QOP as a joke or the just crazy talk. In 1923 Hitler was in jail. In 1934 he ran Germany. Damn straight people need to wake up to the danger conservatives are fostering.

[CrispyQ]

3. +1

The 2020 election bought us a tiny bit of breathing room, that is all.

America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent
Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be.

NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Zeynep Tufekci
Contributing writer at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trump-proved-authoritarians-can-get-elected-america/617023/

snip...

Make no mistake: The attempt to harness Trumpism—without Trump, but with calculated, refined, and smarter political talent—is coming. And it won’t be easy to make the next Trumpist a one-term president.

more...

At the moment, the Democratic Party risks celebrating Trump’s loss and moving on—an acute danger, especially because many of its constituencies, the ones that drove Trump’s loss, are understandably tired. A political nap for a few years probably looks appealing to many who opposed Trump, but the real message of this election is not that Trump lost and Democrats triumphed. It’s that a weak and untalented politician lost, while the rest of his party has completely entrenched its power over every other branch of government: the perfect setup for a talented right-wing populist to sweep into office in 2024. And make no mistake: They’re all thinking about it.

[malaise]

4. Great post

[StevieM]

44. I fear that authoritarian's name is Ron DeSantis.

It probably won't be in 2024, when Trump seems likely to run again. But in 2028 the Democrats will have been in power for 8 years, and traditionally people are looking to make change at that point. They are tired of whatever has been going on, and are more easily taken in by the latest swift boating operation.

The courts and state legislatures have already dramatically diminished our democracy. DeSantis could be the man the end it.

[COL Mustard]

30. Yup.

Gotta continue to vote in 2022. Gotta hold the House and the Senate, and preferably expand the margins in each. Of course 2024 will be vital in terms of keeping the WH, whether or not President Biden runs for reelection.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Wait a minute, dear...

Trump refused to hang Obama’s portrait? Are you for real about this?

How come I never knew that?

What a gigantic baby! I know actual babies who are more mature. The six week old I met last night, for just one.

[malaise]

6. It never got the deserved coverage - there should have been outrage

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/white-house-portrait-ceremony-may-be-latest-casualty-political-divide-n1209676

Yet this modern ritual won't be taking place between Obama and President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. And if Trump wins a second term in November, it could be 2025 before Obama returns to the White House to see his portrait displayed among every U.S. president from George Washington to Bush.

Trump is unconcerned about shunning yet another presidential custom, and he has attacked Obama to an extent no other president has done to a predecessor. Most recently he's made unfounded accusations that Obama committed an unspecified crime.

Obama, for his part, has no interest in participating in the post-presidency rite of passage so long as Trump is in office, the people familiar with the matter said.

[Bayard]

7. Can it be hung now?

[malaise]

8. Yes

and it should be ASP

[dianaredwing]

9. Absolutely

And with great pomp and ceremony. Invite Lady Gaga back. Have all the people who have shunned the other guy that he wants so much there and get everyone's sound bytes about how great Obama is.

[malaise]

34. That would be

Perfect with a cherry on top

[DENVERPOPS]

14. Frankly

I am quite surprised that Trump and the NRA didn't auction off the Obama Portrait to some Uber Rich donor and his friends to use for a target practice party.

Not many people knew about him refusing to hang the Obama portrait in the white house along with portraits of other presidents.
AND how Fox News intentionally photo-shopped any and all pictures they showed of Obama to show a darker shade of skin.....
Etc Etc Etc Etc.........

[malaise]

35. Racist to the core

and the shade of his skin should never matter.

[keithbvadu2]

23. Hang a combination portrait of the two of them.

[COL Mustard]

32. Oh, Yeah...TanSuitGate

Right up there with tax returns, sexual assaults and general nastiness to anyone he doesn't like.

[malaise]

36. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[erronis]

40. Obama could be in the pages of GQ magazine. Dump more like QQ.

I know dump wears a size XXXL. Where did he find that suit that is at least 5 sizes too big for him? In the pachyderm section?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

52. It was originally a tarp for the Goodyear Blimp

[DENVERPOPS]

71. And fashioned by:

Omar the Tent Maker. Omar's biggest problem being the oversized butt of the pants, contoured to downplay the size of the Depends that the Lard Ass requires........

[mnmoderatedem]

63. or low IQ

yeah I know, too easy

[nolabear]

5. Of course. They constantly refer to "the Obama-Biden administration"

as though damning Biden by association with...with...that Black guy! They’re bigots, plain and simple.

[ratchiweenie]

17. Several of the QOP have started calling it the Biden-Obama administration.

[DENVERPOPS]

21. QOP is Good.

But I like GOPQ better !!!! I think it is more easily understood by more people.

I have already seen the GOPQ bumper sticker on cars.......

[ratchiweenie]

61. Works for me, QOP just shorter to type but hey, I'm good with either.

[DENVERPOPS]

67. Either is short hand for KKK

The atrocities that have been committed in the past, and now are increasing make me irate and sickened at the same time.
It is like we have gone backwards a hundred years...

This group is creating a nation that the majority doesn't want......

And the worst part? Is that one of the nation's two political parties is 100% behind them..........

My father was a REAL Republican, and he and his fellow Republicans would have been leading the charge against all these insurrectionists.....

[keithbvadu2]

22. Well, we just finished the Putin-Trump administration.

Well, we just finished the Putin-Trump administration.

Putting money into Trump was the best investment Putin ever made.

[ratchiweenie]

62. I will start using the Putin-Trump administration in all my references.

[DENVERPOPS]

20. they continue to use

the Hillary name a great deal also.

They must have a list of one hundred "trigger" words that they use as often as possible in everything they say or do.....

There are tons of them. I liked the one Reagan used: Welfare Queen (shown as a black woman with a cadillac,) etc etc.

There are a lot of subtle, innocuous "psy-ops" dog whistle words that they use.......

I love the most recent NRA ad: "Biden is going to take away your semi-auto....." shown beside a semi-auto pistol.....

[MiHale]

10. White supremacists will never be happy...

Till the only thing darker then them is their tiny little hard hearts.

[malaise]

37. This

[peggysue2]

11. x1000, Malaise

When you strip down the argument, this is all about race, ethnic and gender identity, the fear of being replaced by the Other: black and brown people, Jews, Muslims, women, gays etc., anyone outside the white, straight, pseudo-Christian male paradigm.

The focus right now is on race; black and brown communities are the primary scapegoats. But the tentacles of the movement spread to everyone outside the twisted ideology which, btw, isn't new. Any student of history recognizes the America First screech for what it is: FASCISTS ON PARADE.

Those embracing and/or making apologies for the movement must be denied power. As I've stated in earlier threads, the US dodged a bullet on November 3rd. If there's a second round of Trumpism? These mindless politicians and their supporters will deliver the kill shot.

Wake up America, indeed! We're treading dangerous waters.

[malaise]

13. Well said peggysue2

Wake up or else

[cilla4progress]

33. It can't happen soon enough IMHO...

the browning (and feminizing) of America.

Every time I see a black woman placed in a position of power - I think someone at the Park Service yesterday? - I breathe a little sigh of relief, feel like we are one step closer.

And this is not just some "affirmative action" bs, and it goes beyond representation, although that's a part of it.

I honestly feel we white folks have trashed this country with our sense of entitlement - entitled to waste, discriminate, corrupt, murder, you name it.

I work with different cultures - mostly immmigrants from Mexico, as well as white clients - and in my work I experience much more respect for our rules and laws, and attempts to respond timely, put in the effort, on the whole, from my immigrant clients, than from my white ones. Broad generalization, but my monolingual Spanish-speaking immigrant clients seem to value and respect our system more. Many of them seem brighter too, though they are often only educated through the 8th grade at most. Maybe it's our water here...

Don't they say that immigrants try harder? And of course, many are undocumented, so there's that ...

[erronis]

43. Agree with you so much. Anytime I see an entitled incompetent white male lose his position,

I feel like we are improving.

(Says one white sob who got lucky in the draw of a family but quite incompetent.)

[cilla4progress]

45. I know, right?

My white male husband, 65 yo, also won the white male lottery, but agrees with me: time for us dinosaurs to move over and let the fresh ideas and perspectives take over. I mean, really, based on outcomes, how can the old way be defended?

You know who I love in Congress: REP CORI BUSH!!!

She is NOT afraid to speak truth to power. The more Cori Bush's we have in Congress, the better!

Oh, and don't get me started on AOC!

I was following one of her twitter threads last week. The quality of discourse, the excellent explanation about legislation (COVID relief) and other issues, the just plain civility in dialogue with random others on the thread, coupled with her energy and charisma - she elevates everything she touches!!!

Love the squad, is what I'm saying. They are our future and we would be smart to follow them. Our survival depends on them.

I visualize an America that fully embraces its multiculturalism. THEN we can talk about American exceptionalism. ...

[erronis]

64. That makes my heart sing. Now if we can just get a chorus from 60%++ of Americans!

[marieo1]

12. President Obama great man

I love President Obama........I am a caucasian lady from northern MN. President Obama was great. I saw all the opposition to everything he wanted passed and all the negativity spewed by the reps. President Obama just held his head up and kept on going forward and was a wonderful example of decency for all of us. That is exactly why they can't stand him! President Obama is the smarter, kinder, greater leader and the reps can't stand that he out performed them. The reps think that tearing him down will bring him to their level, it will never happen.

[malaise]

16. It won't happen if people are awake

Welcome to DU

[Pepsidog]

15. What I don't get is all the non-white support for Trump. Not African Americans so much as Latinos

and others I come in contact with who support Rs and Trump. I just don’t get it.

[Jon King]

19. Its always the 'others'....

Trumpism seeks to find the divide in every group and subsets of groups. So whites are better than blacks, certain types of non-whites such as Miami Cubans are better than other non-whites such as Orlando Puerto Ricans and on and on.

They look for any opening to wedge people apart.

[Sur Zobra]

27. Lots of Latinos are evangelicals

and right-wing wacko christianists.

[Pepsidog]

58. True

[mnmoderatedem]

65. therein lies the mystery

trump is so removed from evangelical beliefs.

Access Hollywood, Stormy Daniels, the fact that he rarely ever attended church services his whole life, both pre and and during presidency.

How do they delude themselves into thinking he is some sort of evangelical figurehead?

[malaise]

38. US Immigration policy has been favorable to right wingers from

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across the globe for a very long time - now we're seeing the consequences among several groups. Those who supported US interests over their own were welcomed with open arms.

[GulfCoast66]

57. Most immigrants I know from South America are as white as I am.

They were generally middle or upper class in their native country and are often racist as hell.

[JI7]

59. Non whites are racist , anti gay, anti women. Latin America is very racist towards

black and indigenous communities.

[malaise]

60. THIS

is the truth and it's more prevalent among their right wingers/

[twodogsbarking]

18. He's off his meds again

or taking too many of them.

[Oldem]

24. Devin Nunes lying? Clearly, he opened his mouth.

[malaise]

49. Yah think?

It's all bullshit with him

[DENVERPOPS]

70. Every word said by Any and All RepubliCONs is

1) An outright flagrant LIE

2) A totally HYPOCRITICAL statement

3) A statement that is 180 degrees from the truth or reality.

Seriously folks! Every last thing they spew from their puckered lip mouths......

It wouldn't be as bad, if 70+Million voters didn't swallow their shit, hook, line, and sinker.....
and are willing to go to any length to support it......ie: January 6th, 2021.

THAT is the most frightening and horrific thing imaginable in our country today...................

[Bucky]

25. Sue him for defamation of character

Sue every fucking liar for defamation of character.

[malaise]

42. i have long wondered why Hillary, Obama, Biden and others

have not sued yet. See how fast Dominion dropped a law suit on them - she how fast they shut up. Make them pay.

[marble falls]

26. Wake up, indeed!!!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

28. White light is the mixture of all frequencies. That's what we want.

Republicans want to eliminate and exclude. The end result, of course, will be nothing left.

[cilla4progress]

29. Malaise - I have been saying this EXACT SAME THING

from the beginning (about going after Obama).

I also said here last night, reflecting on the stage at CPUKE, that the Rs may as well just change their name to the American Nazi Party (irony is on them, though, the Z in NAZI stands for Socialist)... Coincidence my ass.

Anyway - I will grossly up you one: drumpf would "pleasure himself" while watching a lynching. Worse than Nero. Far, far worse.

[malaise]

39. You nailed it

That's the truth

[MyOwnPeace]

31. I just do not understand......

if PRESIDENT OBAMA had all of this "power" - why isn't Merrick Garland now a Supreme Court Justice?

[malaise]

41. Never assume logic among ReTHUGs

Look for the attacks on Obama, Hillary C and Biden tonight - expect attacks on Nancy Pelosi as well.

[nvme]

46. Are we still in THIS place still?

Wow

[BobTheSubgenius]

47. Other Obama misdeeds and catastrophes not even mentioned:

Deepwater Horizon, Bay of Pigs, Malmedy, Exxon Valdez...and many more. This man cannot be trusted. Clearly.

[MyOwnPeace]

54. How about the 'biggies!'

You know, the bubonic plague and the Great Flood (Noah was a left-wing pinko, 'ya know....)

[Vinca]

48. You watched Nunes???? How long did you stay in the shower afterward?

[malaise]

51. Haven't watched any of it

Saw a clip during a discussion

[ancianita]

50. Yep.

Nothing like trying to get back Obama voters. Once they believe the Big Lie, trumpcult can believe layer on layer of new ones.

Vote by mail isn't going out, it's growing.

And they won't rest until they lynch everyone else, too, not just Obama.

The best way to fight a race war, imo, is to not let them have it.

[malaise]

53. THIS

The best way to fight a race war, imo, is to not let them have it.

[Evolve Dammit]

55. Agree with your post. We got a civil war/ race war coming. They want to burn it all down. nt

[OMGWTF]

56. This is Germany in the 1930s.

[Blue Owl]

66. Fuck that guy

[GentleAlien]

68. A truly repulsive individual

Nunes is the type of politician who has the opposite of a poker-face, in the sense you can tell that he is being dishonest and doesn't believe his own lies. I would hate for him to take a victory lap in 2022 - I pray that Dems do everything in their power to retain the control of the House (by basically following a populist agenda, that I am sure GOP will try to co-opt in the next 2 years).

[packman]

69. Hey, why not throw Soros and Hillary in that conspiracy mix

They must feel neglected