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global1

(25,168 posts)
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 06:38 PM Apr 2021

The Repugs Are Suppressing Their Own Vote.....

When you think about it the Repugs are actually suppressing their own vote with all their crazy conspiracy theories and their cult-like following of Trump.

With respect to the pandemic - most refuse to wear masks and won't get vaccinated. They also are opening up their States well before they should. [Note: Just when it looks like we're gaining ground on Covid - they open up the bars, restaurants, gyms, stadiums/arenas and other businesses and the numbers bad again.]

Many are going to wind up with Covid. Wind up being hospitalized and on a ventilator and dead. They are killing themselves off. Their numbers are dwindling.

And I got to believe that their efforts to pass voting laws in the name of fairer elections (rrrright) - will effect Repug voters as well and further keep their own voter numbers down.

Turning their nose up to new gun legislation isn't going to help them either. Bottom line I got to believe that having a gun puts one on the path to using it and either killing themselves, loved ones or friends and getting themselves in trouble with the law. They actually aren't any safer than any one else when it comes to mass shootings.

Insurrection will be putting a lot of them in jail and I got to believe that more and future attempts will be made to - insurrect - and get more of them in trouble with the law.

Somebody needs to ask both Repugs and Dems to define what it means to them to be 'patriotic'.

I bet that the definitions both sides give - will be 180 degrees opposite of the other.

This is just my opinion. I'm curious if anyone else thinks the same.

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The Repugs Are Suppressing Their Own Vote..... (Original Post) global1 Apr 2021 OP
RSO rso Apr 2021 #1
Nailed it!! PortTack Apr 2021 #2
Right on! Kath2 Apr 2021 #3
I don't think so, if kGQP wins in 22 I don't see how the union of states isn't done. The kGQP, who.. uponit7771 Apr 2021 #5
Chilling words and so true I fear. Pepsidog Apr 2021 #7
It's far worse than people realize and I don't know why. zaj Apr 2021 #8
+1, "Even many Dems don't seem to fully understand what the issue." This was Spain circa ... uponit7771 Apr 2021 #10
Agreed, 100% zaj Apr 2021 #13
If they win the House, Mr.Bill Apr 2021 #9
If they go full fascism vercetti2021 Apr 2021 #11
+1, uponit7771 Apr 2021 #12
The GOP is cancelling its own relevance. Beartracks Apr 2021 #4
We should be alarmed by prominent capitalists and investors relocating overseas bucolic_frolic Apr 2021 #6

rso

(2,262 posts)
1. RSO
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 06:58 PM
Apr 2021

Time is definitely on our side, as the Nation grows more diverse, younger and more secular. Republicans know this and these recent restrictive laws are the last stage efforts of a dying Party to stay alive.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
5. I don't think so, if kGQP wins in 22 I don't see how the union of states isn't done. The kGQP, who..
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 09:11 PM
Apr 2021

... are literally sympathizing with terrorist who wanted to stop democracy are ***NOT*** going to give up power once they get it back.

If they win in 22 its done then, they're going to do everything they can to make the US Belarus.

The kGQP isn't going to EXTEND voting access when the get back into federal power they will further suppress it for PoC and poor whites.

HR1 is that important, we're Spain circa 1933 if the kGQP wins congress again while Putin's Whore is not in jail.

 

zaj

(3,433 posts)
8. It's far worse than people realize and I don't know why.
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 09:41 PM
Apr 2021

We all know the GOP covered up the Russian collusion. We watched the 2020 big lie. We all watched to coup. We are watching them try to cover that up.

Even many Dems don't seem to fully understand what the issue.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
10. +1, "Even many Dems don't seem to fully understand what the issue." This was Spain circa ...
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 10:39 PM
Apr 2021

... 1933 IINM before the NAZIs came in to help the right in that country.

It'll be harder for that to happen here but we're not far from the sentiment of the Spanish right; they weren't interested in democracy they kept getting their asses kicked by the left.

The left in Spain didn't realize the right was fighting for their existence so there was no way they were going without a war ... we're there IMHO and 1/6 was the start

 

zaj

(3,433 posts)
13. Agreed, 100%
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 11:53 PM
Apr 2021

I didn't know about spain. But I think we are only going to avoid a war in the coming decades by balkanization. But I'm not even sure how that might work here.

Mr.Bill

(24,104 posts)
9. If they win the House,
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 09:42 PM
Apr 2021

they can and probably will make Trump the Speaker of the House. Think about that possibility.

(You don't have to be a member of Congress to be Speaker.)

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
11. If they go full fascism
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 10:44 PM
Apr 2021

People won't take it sitting down. It'll begin the second civil war. Which is what Putin wanted. America to tear itself apart from within.

bucolic_frolic

(42,676 posts)
6. We should be alarmed by prominent capitalists and investors relocating overseas
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 09:24 PM
Apr 2021

Capital flight happens for a reason. The wealthy always know what's coming.

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