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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJesse Dollemore - Stephen Miller Announces Plan to DESIGNATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!
Jesse talks about the dangerous new idea being floated by Donald Trump through Stephen Miller to designate the Democratic Party as an official domestic extremist organization, which would give Donald Trump the authority under law to freeze assets and make party membership illegal under law. Jesse goes through Executive Order #13224, signed by George W. Bush on September 23, 2001, which allows for criminal penalties for those giving material support to such groups.
spanone
(141,609 posts)mdbl
(8,650 posts)He even looks like him.
Pototan
(3,132 posts)this I find hard to believe. If it's true, we are in 1932 Germany.
jonstl08
(565 posts)History is repeating itself
DFW
(60,182 posts)Twenty-first century Republicans are only following recent tradition.
CPUSSR
NSDAP
plus some smaller versions such as those led by Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha, e.g.
So far, it looks like they are trying to imitate their 21st century soulmates, Hugo Chávez and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela: take a country with immense wealth in natural resources, a reasonably educated population, and have the ruling elite grab everything for themselves. Then let the rest of the population slide downward into a thoroughly preventable misery. Prevent them from rising up in revolt by complete control of police, media, military and political activity. Anyone who wants to flee, let them! One less angry mouth to feed.
But there is hope: the population of the USA will not go quietly. States like California, Oregon, New York, Washington, Massachusetts, will not go quietly into the night. They are not places where a majority of the population has suffered recent near starvation, and is ready to listen to the siren song of Make Germany Great Again. Also, Adolf Hitler was 44 when he became Reichskanzler. He didnt run everything personally, but he was the towering symbol. Trump is 79 and slipping mentally. Their symbol wont last as long.
There is a good reason why Ukrainians fleeing their country to escape the war always head west, never east. I think much of the USA will tell Miller & co. that we refuse to become what you are trying to make of us, and that the Trumpanzees will not be able to assemble the manpower to make it happen. ALL the other countries I named above have, at some point, let themselves be oppressed by a malevolent, selfish regime. I dont (yet) think well be such a pushover. I see our greatest threat as being a downward slide so gradual that we dont notice it. If we notice it, we would do something about it. Miller cant (yet) order a nuclear strike on Los Angeles, although its bad enough that hed probably like to.
Justice matters.
(9,786 posts)Body, after body, after body, like kids in Church? Repukes like him do nothing to stop that terrorism by guns, so he must belong to a terroristic party...
They always accuse their opponents of what they are doing.
BTW, is there a "democrat" party? I know there is a DemocraTIC Party... so we're good here.
DFW
(60,182 posts)As Japanese adjectives change when denoting different times, maybe Republicanese adjectives change when denoting friendly or opposing points of view. I have never seen a trial in Oklahoma, but maybe in trials there, where only Republicans are there, the opposing counsel rises and says, "you honor, I obj" ?? I wouldn't know one way or the other.
I have an abridged guide to Republicanese, if it will help:
EXCERPTS FROM THE OFFICIAL DICTIONARY OF REPUBLICANESE
In Republicanese, many words that sound alike may be spelled differently at random. A few prominent examples:
In Republicanese, the following words may be spelled at random using any of the three ways given:
A.) Two, Too, To
B.) Their, They're, There
c.) Your, Yore, You're
The Republicanese version of Robin Hood therefore starts with "In days of you're...."
The only rule is that the correct use of them as in English is never permitted twice in a row.
Words with single letters that change meaning when that letter is doubled must never be used in correct English context. The classic example is lose vs. loose. In Republicanese, if you do not win an election, then you loose that election. Conversely, if your (Republicanese: youre) belt is too tight, you need it more lose in order to be comfortable. Another example would be the Republicanese, I met Donald Trump, and he was rudder than I imagined, vs. I grabbed the ruder and was able to steer the boat to shore.
In English, the contraction for "it is" is written "it's." To show possession referring to something previously mentioned, one writes "its." In Republicanese, it is the other way around. Example:
English: It's impractical for a building to have its solar panels in the basement.
Republicanese: Its impractical for a building to have it's solar panels in the basement.
In Republicanese, idiomatic expressions that use words that are homonyms with animals in English must use the spelling that denotes the animal.
Three examples:
In English, when someone wins a race by a very small margin, one can say, He won the race by a hair. In Republicanese, one writes, He won the race by a hare.
In English, someone fleeing the law can be said to be on on the lam. In Republicanese, that is spelled on the lamb.
In English, when one starts to lose their voice after shouting for an extended time, one says, he shouted himself hoarse. In Republicanese, one writes, He shouted himself horse.
In Republicanese, an apostrophe is used to form a plural, whereas this is never correct in English. But it must be done at random, never systematically. For example, Bill and Hillary are "the Clinton's," but Bill, Chelsea and Hillary are "the Clintons." The other way around is also correct. In Republicanese, either form is correct as long as it is not spelled the same way twice in a row.
Example:
In English, one writes "The Clintons like dogs."
In Republicanese, this can be written as "The Clinton's like dogs," or "The Clintons like dog's" or "The Clinton's like dog's." The only version that would be incorrect in Republicanese would be to use no apostrophe at all. Only English is written that way.
In Republicanese, pronouns that are direct or indirect objects must never be used as in English when combined with another proper name, proper noun, or pronoun.
Example: in English, one says, e.g., John went to dinner with me, and not John went to dinner with I. Therefore, in English, one also says, John went to dinner with my wife and me, and never "John went to dinner with my wife and I." In Republicanese, while it is also correct to say, John went to dinner with me, it is only correct to say John went to dinner with my wife and I, which a native speaker of English would never say or write.
yorkster
(3,832 posts)Nicolle Wallace last night. Would have been nice to hear a mild correction or comment. But nada.
IA8IT
(6,424 posts)Conjuay
(3,067 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,393 posts)Traitor Stephen Miller can go to hell.
Fiendish Thingy
(23,229 posts)Are any other reputable news sources reporting this?
ihaveaquestion
(4,640 posts)Or are you suggesting it's a faked video?
Fiendish Thingy
(23,229 posts)Contrary to what the clickbait video implies.
ihaveaquestion
(4,640 posts)Since when has something been too outrageous for them? Have they shown any inkling that they have any shame or sense of right or wrong... or that they will be reasonable? Sure, sometimes they get stymied by the courts or by something else, but it's not for lack of trying.
I take them at their word because they have proven that they are evil and mean what they say. Our lack of imagination that something will happen is a weakness we cannot afford right now.
IT'S PAST TIME TO WAKE UP AND BE OUTRAGED!
Fiendish Thingy
(23,229 posts)Just because you, or some clickbait YouTuber, can imagine something and type it or say it on the internet doesnt make that thing plausible, possible or probable.
Alligator Alcatraz soon will be a ghost town/prison, Kilmer Albrego Garcia is still on US soil, the national guard is picking up trash in DC, and California will soon have 5 new democratic house seats.
While undeniably both evil and incompetent, Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless.
Im choosing to resist while existing in the reality based community.
ihaveaquestion
(4,640 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(23,229 posts)ihaveaquestion
(4,640 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(23,229 posts)ihaveaquestion
(4,640 posts)pandr32
(14,272 posts)We need the rage to reach ears and we need resistance as a response.
ihaveaquestion
(4,640 posts)I am so encouraged by the recent actions and comments of Newsom and Pritzker. They are just what the Democrats need.
pandr32
(14,272 posts)ReRe
(12,189 posts)Abstractartist
(446 posts)For example, down here in South Carolina, I never see any elected official in local restaurants, parks, recreational area .why? Because people like Nancy Mace, Lyndsey Graham, Tim Scott, and local government officials are not liked very much . I assume that works for asses like Miller, Bondi, Gabbard, et.al
surfered
(13,463 posts)
Hard to tell the difference, isnt it?
A HERETIC I AM
(24,876 posts)sheshe2
(97,622 posts)I guess that is what hate does to you, it rots you from the inside out.
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ReRe
(12,189 posts)Traildogbob
(13,018 posts)Circumcised all nice and neat. And he takes Viagra and gets taller for 4 hours.
Takket
(23,715 posts)Btw what is that pink thing on the right?
A HERETIC I AM
(24,876 posts)GiqueCee
(4,254 posts)... of Miller's evil can only be measured in astronomical terms. He is a psychopath with zero regard for the consequences of his actions.
I can't wait to read that someone sent him back from whence he came, though I doubt that Satan will be glad to see him again; he gives mindless malice a bad name.
Crowman2009
(3,524 posts)ECL213
(445 posts)FAFO!
Farmer-Rick
(12,667 posts)He sees dead people.
He needs to go back to f*cking in Hitler's tomb and leave the living beings alone. Pedo Trump is so close to death that it really turns Miller on and he came out of his crypt to spout nonsense.
How can someone so pathetic be so arrogant? We know he has no blood and needs to get it from the people tied up in his basement.
Are the people you murdered haunting you Miller? You seem to see a lot dead people no one else sees.
Vinca
(53,992 posts)Norbert
(7,765 posts)He will wish he didn't.
Miller: Why is there a spear going through my chest?
LaRaven
(238 posts)of outrageous accusations. (After all he lies after, lies after lies, after lies)
Maybe we should just SUE him, faux and the administration for DEFAMATION. We would WIN!
ReRe
(12,189 posts)can start trolling Stephen Miller like Gavin Newsome is trolling djt.
It's an idea.