You can literally watch the fascism as it tries to take control

[Ohioboy]

This latest censure of Adam Schiff is just one example, wherein members of a political party go after a person they deem a political enemy for daring to speak out against their corrupt leader.

Does it get any more unAmerican than that?

[senseandsensibility]

1. Subtle they are not

Like tfg, they telegraph their intentions.

[Ohioboy]

2. Is that what numbs the rubes and makes them go along with giving up their freedom

They telegraph their intentions so much that it normalizes the takeover?

I'm still shocked at how many people in this country can't see what is happening right in front of them.

[senseandsensibility]

3. I would have to say yes,

but of course, trying to understand them is like trying to understand another species. They are completely unable to judge what is in their own best interest.

[anciano]

5. "like trying to understand another species"....

Spot on!

[rurallib]

8. they see what is happening and approve of it

The constitution means little to them except when it gets in heir way.

Most love it when "leaders" dish out pain to those they hate. That's all they care about.

[wnylib]

17. They believe that THEY are the ones who are

the "true" defenders of freedom and the constitution and that WE are the destroyers of it. And they are as fanatical in their beliefs as the Spanish Inquisition was in theirs.

Racism is the core of their belief in what "true Americans" are. POC and immigrants of any color are "tolerable" only if they are willing to accept the superiority of white, RW Christian culture and imitate it.

[rurallib]

19. Yep - racism is at the core of damn near everything that

sucks in the US

[Chi67]

39. This

It’s not that they don’t see it, they want it. It’s time to stop giving them the benefit of doubt. The GQP has to go!

[mucifer]

4. And the President Biden hate is just getting worse.

I wish he didn't say "G-d save the queen" at the end of his speech. They won't let that one go.

[whathehell]

9. After all the dumb and crazy shit Trump said?!?

That should be thrown in their faces!

[Initech]

15. Yeah remember when he said that airports existed in the Revolutionary War?

[whathehell]

18. I had actually forgotten that one, believe it or not..

Thanks for the reminder.

[czarjak]

30. Soaring! Soaring, I tell ya!

[johnnyfins]

6. It aint coming. It's here

I hate to say it. But its full on here. Fascism has come to America. What are you prepared to do about it?

[orangecrush]

20. I'm skeered

[Skittles]

23. CORRECT

and it is what are WE prepared to do about it

[Traildogbob]

7. Yep

It is here. Ending elections will be the last straw. After the NC Moore case gets taken by SC that allows Legislators to throw out electors, it will be our end. That with all other suppression and restrictions our vote will mean nothing. That MUST be a priority. Save the vote!!!!

[Model35mech]

10. When fascism comes to America it will be ESTABLISHED before most folks notice it

Right now, IMO, we are in the last chapter of the pre-fascist takeover

At the moment takeover looks an awful lot like Republicans looking like tough guys for God and Country.

The truly unfortunate part is, it's on the curve of escalation and the only way up is truly terrible for the nation.

Ours will be a fascism that puts christian myths and twisted interpretations of belief in front of the rule of law.

In a nation that swears there is a separation of Church and State!!!!

[DENVERPOPS]

35. Yes

They have been chewing away, in bites for 40+ years, and they are a millimeter away from accomplishing their goal.......
they have been using any corrupt method they can, to destroy the reputations of good people who were getting in their way.
Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Kerrey, Obama, Hillary, the list is endless...............

Who said, "when Fascism arrives, it will come wrapped in the flag, and carrying a bible".......sound familiar????????????

[GenXer47]

11. they need a taste of their own medicine

I firmly believe that these neanderthals never think about the moment when the dictatorship they are trying to build turns its hungry maw toward THEM.
Are we taking such a "high road" that the lesson is lost?

[Artcatt]

14. They're too dumb to realize that they're the brown shirts

[KPN]

12. No, it doesn't, and can't be said any better than you

put it.

[Artcatt]

13. Give them time

[twodogsbarking]

16. It is Adam's birthday. Should have had a big party.

[Warpy]

21. Been watching it since 1969

when Nixon took over and the liberals went out of power. Watched the buyup of the media starting in the 70s, watched megamerger fever give us the near monopolies from the 80s forward, watched the policy of wage suppression beggaring and disempowering the people, the televangelists all primed to give them an overabundance of false hope while telling them whom to hate.

We observant types issued plenty of warnings, but were dismissed as left wing kooks, which we were not.

[markodochartaigh]

25. Well said

[DENVERPOPS]

36. Agree

Don't forget the attack on any and all regulations, and outright targeting of Unions.......

[C Moon]

22. This was so clumsily obvious, it made me cringe at her stupidity.

[Escurumbele]

24. There are signs everywhere, but people refuse to believe that it can happen here.

I have told many of my friends who do not see it that watching republican actions and seeing the symptoms is synonymous to a doctor seeing a patient and just be looking at the patient and listening to the symptoms he/she will know what the patient has, that they go an have the patient get lab reports to assure themselves to avoid suits is one thing, but they know. And so we should all know what republicans are after.

Also, if republican idiots who follow the criminals were to understand what happens when dictatorships take over, they would also understand that when dictators get in power, they also kill, imprison, misappropriate businesses of those who helped them get there. Once in power, those the dictator used but are no longer needed will also suffer. Dictators by nature are narcissistic and paranoid, they have to slim down the government they will rule upon because the less people around them they easier they are to control, and the less people who can turn against them. It doesn't matter how hard they worked to get the dictator in power, if they are no longer needed, they will suffer, there is only loyalty to the dictator, but zero from the dictator.

[Ohioboy]

33. One sure sign that Trump wants to be a dictator is the way he flaunts the pardon power

It's no secret that Trump has said he would give out pardons to Jan 6ers. What a ready made little Gregorian Guard they'd make him.

[keithbvadu2]

26. A fascist theocracy.

Religion and politics use each other to gain power and wealth.

Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites actually in charge.

Those millions are useful tools for those who will actually be in charge.

One poster called it a 'new social feudalism age'.
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When a theocracy takes over America, which church (Christian of course) will be in charge?
Will the others accept their rule?
Many Catholics/Protestants consider the other to be false Christians.
Would they accept Mormons as the rulers?
The new rulers will be political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

Consider CBR – Cash Based Religion.
.

[Martin Eden]

27. Yes, it does get more unAmerican than that

Gym Jordan is using the power of the House Judiciary Committee to go after universities and other private entities doing research on the surge of misinformation on the 2020 presidential election and other contentious issues dividing the American people.

Jordan claims such research is an assault on conservative speech while using government power to harrass and intimidate speech he doesn't like.

It should be noted that the pernicious disinformation being studied is synonymous with conservative speech these days.

[Ohioboy]

34. OMG, I heard about this the other day, but didn't have time to read about it!!!!!!!!!!!

It's like the book "1984"!

[diva77]

38. Here's the link to Propublica's article about this

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan Issues Sweeping Information Requests to Universities Researching Disinformation
In the letters, Jordan asserted that the schools may have contributed to the Biden administration’s “censorship regime by advising on so-called misinformation.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/jim-jordan-information-requests-universities-disinformation



Correction, March 22, 2023: This story’s headline has been corrected to remove an inaccurate description of Rep. Jim Jordan’s requests for information, which were not subpoenas.

House Republicans have sent letters to at least three universities and a think tank requesting a broad range of documents related to what it says are the institutions' contributions to the Biden administration’s “censorship regime.”

The letters are the latest effort by a House subcommittee set up in January to investigate how the federal government, working with social media companies, has allegedly been “weaponized” to silence conservative and right-wing voices. So far, the committee’s investigations have amplified a variety of dubious, outright false and highly misleading Republican grievances with law enforcement, many of them espoused by former President Donald Trump. Committee members have cited supposed abuses that include the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, its investigations of Jan. 6 rioters and the Biden administration’s purported use of executive powers to shut down conservative viewpoints on social media.

Now, universities and their researchers are coming under the spotlight of the committee, which the Republicans have labeled the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The letters, signed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who is chair of both the House Judiciary Committee and the subcommittee, were sent in early March.

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The letters have prompted a wave of alarm among those in the field that the congressional inquiry itself, no matter what it finds, will lead universities to pull back on this research just as the 2024 election gets underway. “Recent efforts definitely have a chilling effect on the community of experts across academia, civil society and government built up to understand broader online harms like harassment, foreign influence and — yes — disinformation,” Graham Brookie, who leads studies in this area at the Atlantic Council, told ProPublica.

SNIP

[Efilroft Sul]

28. America's forces of fascism and democracy are going for the kill shot against each other.

The fascists are going scorched earth to reshape our nation as we know it. They will take out those among them deemed insufficiently loyal to their dear leader, key elements of the opposition, and democracy itself. Make no mistake, if their Tree of Liberty must be watered by anyone to the left of them blah blah blah, so be it. The only statistic that will matter to them is the opposition body count, buried or incarcerated.

The forces of democracy, in contrast, are going for precision convictions in court, and the fascists' fates are tied to Trump's. They will go all-out to punish Schiff, impeach Biden, and besmirch our legal and intelligence agencies. The fascists know the clock is ticking against them and are desperate to do unto us before we do unto them.

Meanwhile, Putin smiles upon his useful idiots.

[Ligyron]

32. Well their recent attack on Democracy didn't go so well for them.

The insurrectionists are being thrown in jail left and right, especially their grunt leaders, maybe not long enough for a lot of people's liking but still won't be any fun and a lot are shitting their pants wondering if they're next.

When their dear leader summoned his troops from across the nation to Miami, not a lot showed and there was no repeat of violence whatsoever cause they saw what happened to the last bunch.

Must not have had the courage of their convictions or a lot of the bad one's are in jail or charged and off the field for the foreseeable future.

So there is that anyway...

[Efilroft Sul]

41. Your points are encouraging, and I hope that cowardice prevails among the Orc regulars.

Conservative Twitter, I think, senses unease among the regulars, too. MAGA's top "influencers" (gad, I hate that term) are doing their utmost to keep everybody outraged about everything. My guess is that they hope their followers' anger will overcome their fear and/or what's left of their sensibilities for "when the time comes." If and when we reach that tipping point, all these top Orcs have to do is give their grunts a little push.

[Alice Kramden]

40. This is exactly it

This pivotal and terrible time is actually, as you say, "America's forces of fascism and democracy going for the kill shot against each other." Well said.

[SouthernDem4ever]

29. The GOP in Congress is just bizarre

They would be more suited to be in government in Russia.

[Dirty Socialist]

31. Fucking Faschists

And they voted on an initial run of impeaching Biden. I am surprised they don’t goose step to their seats in the Capitol building

[Hekate]

37. They are not subtle. Hubby & I watched it from before Day One of Trump's time in office...

It was one of the most jaw-dropping things ever and just went on and on and on. And is still going on.

[Snackshack]

42. You are right and it should not be this way.

There are rules / laws that deal with almost all of crimes the gop has done. Application of the law would have put a huge roadblock maybe even stopped the creep of said fascism.

[colsohlibgal]

43. We Are In Jeopardy

We are so close to sliding into fascism mode, so close. Hopefully we avoid that slide.

I am amazed that wackos like MTG and Lauren B attract enough losers to win. I remain glad that I am a short drive to get to Canada if it totally unravels here.

The 2024 election will be huge, get out and vote like your way of life depends on it!