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This Republican Party Is Not Worth Saving
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underpants
(182,761 posts)634-5789
(4,175 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)to rush in and claim his throne.
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)Unless someone can prove otherwise, I'm going to think it was Photoshopped. Take a look at the "This is fine" sign up center. The cardboard is curved but the lettering is straight.
I totally believe some of its supporters would do this, but come on, don't expect me to buy something so obvious.
EarlG
(21,945 posts)I'd say there's a good chance it was Photoshopped.
demmiblue
(36,838 posts)AZ8theist
(5,453 posts)It's really good, though. Not at all far from the truth.
raccoon
(31,110 posts)But great picture.
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Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Kudo's to whomever created it. You rock.
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)but there's enough bullshit propaganda put out by the other side already. I'd like to think we don't have to resort to that.
niyad
(113,253 posts)of the orange kool-ade drinkers mental processes.
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)And yeah, I fell for the photo.
ananda
(28,856 posts)???
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)mountain grammy
(26,614 posts)JDC
(10,125 posts)"Kill me next"
Perfect
eppur_se_muova
(36,258 posts)Even 'homicide' is properly spelled !
EarlG
(21,945 posts)If I'd made the sign say "HOMACIDE," too many people would have thought the photo was real.
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)LOL.
hibbing
(10,096 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Little American Fascists, earning their membership cards.
bluewater
(5,376 posts)niyad
(113,253 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)Youre brilliant!
Duppers
(28,117 posts)grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)onetexan
(13,036 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Mersky
(4,980 posts)I cant get enough of this one. Is so true.
Dukkha
(7,341 posts)Seeing these comments echoed across social media. How can people be so stupid to blindly support one person above all common sense.
ffr
(22,669 posts)Turn them into the stupid laughingstock that they are.
catbyte
(34,367 posts)Reconstructing the GOPor any center-right party that might one day replace itwill take a long time, and the process will be painful. The remaining opportunists in the GOP will try to avert any kind of reform by making a last-ditch lunge to the right to fill the vacuum left by Trumps culture warring and race-baiting. In the short term, the party might become smaller and more extreme, even as it loses seats. So be it. The hardening of the GOP into a toxic conglomeration of hucksters, quislings, racists, theocrats, and cultists is already happening. The party gladly accepted support from white supremacists and the Russian secret services, and now welcomes QAnon kooks into its caucus. Conservatives must learn that the only way out of the wilderness is first to vanquish those who led them there.
I'm so impressed with The Atlantic that I bought a digital subscription. We have to keep real journalism alive.
FakeNoose
(32,628 posts)The Golden Girls approve
Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)n/t
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)is missing.
questionseverything
(9,648 posts)His supporters line was, He didnt want to cause a panic!
love_katz
(2,578 posts)This describes the tRump boys to a t.
idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)Cha
(297,127 posts)malaise
(268,910 posts)ancianita
(36,019 posts)Which Trump knows. He knows this has happened before. This is a cultural review of people's receptivity to fascist messaging.
In National Socialism, writes Knausgaard, philosophy and politics come together at a point outside the language, and beyond the rational, where all complexity ceases, though not all depth. Riefenstahls film [Triumph of the Will]communicates the pleasure the people experiencedhow good it felt to themat having escaped the quotidian chaos of their shabby republic and their trivial private lives, at being liberated from the restrictions of rationality and deliberation, at being on the brink of achieving something large and lasting, deep and simple.
Understood in relation to that debate, Malicks and Knausgaards artistic treatments of Nazism may persuade us not of the inaccuracy or inappropriateness of such analogies, but of their utter and complete futilityat least insofar as it is claimed such comparisons can inoculate us against repetition. In their focus on the emotional pull of Nazismits promise to liberate citizens from the frustrations and banalities of an alienated, lonely existence, to connect them with a mass of like-minded souls in unconditional joythe works of Malick and Knausgaard expose us to aspects of how fascism works that it would be laughable to think could yield to academic analysis, no matter how accessibly arranged.
Establish a private life, warns Snyder. Listen for dangerous words. Do we really imagine it was advice such as this that interwar Germans lacked?
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/08/14/the-unbearable-toward-an-antifascist-aesthetic/?fbclid=IwAR0JbfH134TAdSyZhKQgtp7vgFZgM8QFQ7jqwYMg_yt_YAopymHHNL4zIyo