The Insurrection Is the Message. And Republicans Are All Still Onboard.

[Nevilledog]

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✔️The RNC’s pro-insurrection gathering in Florida.
✔️ Ron DeSantis’ full throated support of overturning the election
✔️The hopeless California recall
✔️ Build Kati Kariko a statue.

The Insurrection Is the Message. And Republicans Are All Still Onboard.
Inside the Republican donor retreat.
morningshots.thebulwark.com
6:25 AM · Apr 12, 2021

https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-insurrection-is-the-message-and?1


A peaked-looking former president spent the weekend traipsing about one of his various clubs in a flabby white polo taking selfies with creepy imitators, hitting the links with his most eager submissive, and avoiding Newt Gingrich. The panoply of GOP elites once again made the pilgrimage to one of God-King Trump’s holy sites, choosing Trump International Palm Beach to host their spring donor confab rather than retreating to literally any other high-end club which would’ve brought the dual benefits of (1) not being owned by a failed insurrectionist and (2) serving rock-hard steaks with a side of ketchup.

Look, I don’t want to torment you with gratuitous reading about the details of the RumpRoast Master of Palm Beach’s unemployment routine, but here’s the deal: When the party’s entire leadership reaffirms their captivity to a man who attempted to overturn our democracy, it merits being called out with specificity. And that’s what happened Saturday night in South Florida.

The Republican party wants all of us to forget what happened in the lead-up to January 6. Kevin McCarthy said recently that his vote to overturn the election “wasn’t to overturn an election” because it wasn’t really going to happen . . . or something.

Well on Saturday, at an event that also featured such top Republicans as Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, Kristi Noem, Tom Cotton, and McCarthy, Trump once again clarified—for anyone who had lingering doubts—that he did, in fact, want the election to be overturned.

According to Josh Dawsey of the Washington Post, Trump told a cheering crowd that the election was “rigged” and “bullshit” and he lamented Stacey Abrams getting help from Oprah Winfrey and Barack “Hussein” Obama. Some really subtle racist airhorning there.

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[malaise]

1. Consequences or else! n/t

[RKP5637]

3. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[bdamomma]

9. is this

on the front burner???? No justice no peace. All these criminals walking around freely.

malaise.

[malaise]

10. You are 100% correct

Hi there

[RKP5637]

2. GOP, the party for Domestic Terrorists!!! GOP, Bad for Business, and Bad for the Nation! n/t

[malaise]

4. Precisely

ReTHUGs are the party of domestic terrorists - it's that simple.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Glad you mentioned insurrection. I'd name this book 'the insurrection playbook'

It's a classic from the only western journalist eyewitness to the November 1917 revolution, which was actually an insurrection. He was a sympathizer to the Bolsehviks, but it was a classic in college history courses for many decades. It is amazing how disparate political powers dissolved, froze, retreated, resisted -- but those with a plan to seize power and the policies to suppress resistance won. I dusted it off after not reading it in college. I see you can download it online free:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3076

Ten Days that Shook the World

And after you read it, was it used as a concept for Jan 6? Politically at least?

[FakeNoose]

6. Or watch the movie "Reds" that Warren Beatty made 40 years ago

It's based on "Ten Days that Shook the World."

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Thanks, I did not know that

ya learn something new every day

[uponit7771]

8. K&R, People ... 1/6 was the start it was not the ending IE Voter suppression laws etc. They're done

... with this whole democracy thing and they can't be screaming louder via their actions.