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December 11, 2019

A plea from across the pond

Elections are on my mind, as we have one tomorrow. My election is important of course, but not nearly as important as yours next year, with reference to the stability of the world. The democratic deficit in both our countries is a very real thing and the right wing are playing fast and hard with our safety and security, alongside our mental wellbeing, and our structures of governance, for power and control. So, as the Democratic Primary is really heating up can I please implore you all that when the dust finally settles, everyone gets behind the chosen candidate, with a vigour of intent to unseat that awful man in the White House. However passionate you may be about your chosen preference, sitting 2020 out or going third party, would I think, be pretty unforgivable this time round?

Oh, and while we are at it could you please create such a blue wave across the land that this incarnation of the GOP ends up irrelevant for a at least a generation.

Cheers in advance xx

December 11, 2019

Trump Campaign Shares Video Mocking Dems With POTUS as Thanos -- in Scene Right Before Thanos' Defeat

Team Trump shared a video today mocking Democrats on impeachment depicting President Donald Trump as Marvel supervillain Thanos.

[link:https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-war-room-twitter-account-shares-video-of-potus-as-thanos-to-mock-dems/|

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1204503645607333888

They know Thanos failed, right? Fucking idiots.
December 10, 2019

...we could end up in the end scene of Carrie

The GOP have been digging their own grave for a while now and here's hoping a blue wave tsunami of sense and democracy demolishes the GOP in 2020. Takes them out, buries them. Yay!! And then…


*Shudder*. They must get so severely spanked, over their awful undemocratic behaviour, that the current form of the GOP - the Russian State proxy that they are - can never ever be resurrected... and we all know that they will try their damnedest because they really do not like democracy. They will keep having a go until the consequences of continuing to do so are so severe that it is not longer in their own best interests. Having to continue to fight these battles is so exhausting for democracy, after all. We need a plan.

December 10, 2019

The far right is getting far too comfortable...



I think the author is being rather generous to the far right and their ‘genuine eschewing’ of Nazism, fascism and explicitly racial politics… I think they know that they had to move to a different strategy if they wanted greater success but that does not mean that underneath the ‘respectability’ veneer they are still not racist fuckers.

Other than that level of generosity to their current ‘belief system’ the premise behind this analysis makes sense… After all Farage is literally all over the airwaves with the election coming up. Mainstreaming far right nasty day after day. As Tommy Robison said in 2018 while addressing a crowd of thousands in London… ‘We couldn’t have done this 3 years ago. We couldn’t have done this 4 years ago. We’re now mainstream. The public support us’

If we get Boris on Thursday they are going to be further emboldened. Oh goody!!
December 10, 2019

"We stand here today because the president's continuing abuse of his power has left us no choice...

https://twitter.com/CAPAction/status/1204405027479142405

"We stand here today because the president’s continuing abuse of his power has left us no choice. To do nothing would make ourselves complicit in the president’s abuse of his high office, the public trust, and our national security." —@RepAdamSchiff


“President Trump’s persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security,”

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT BE LIKE: Abuse Of Power, Obstruction Of Congress

BOOM!!!!
December 10, 2019

Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies aged 61



She has died after a 16 year battle with brain cancer.
She was amazing. So talented. This song was part of the soundtrack of my youth.
RIP
December 10, 2019

Backed into a corner Nazi still be Nazi...after all, the Nazis never abandoned Hitler...



He is right that history will not be kind...but only if we get through the present in one piece... otherwise they will be the ones to write history.

These cowardly wankers have backed themselves into a far right corner of nasty. Thing is I think they rather enjoy living there and even if they were given a get out, I doubt they would take it. Power is all, afterall.



Far right wankers still be far right wankers, through time and space.

Heh
December 10, 2019

#BREAKING: Man Who Doesn't Understand How Toilets Work Doesn't Understand How Impeachment Works

https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1204381502093611009

TRUMP: To Impeach a President who has proven through results, including producing perhaps the strongest economy in our country’s history, to have one of the most successful presidencies ever, and most importantly, who has done NOTHING wrong, is sheer Political Madness! #2020Election


Ain't he special...
December 10, 2019

Zombies are not just fictional creatures...



Exactly! Heh.
December 10, 2019

And then there is this... an excellent example of how the right hate democracy and love tyranny...



Part of me wants to say this is just an interwebs hard man talking bollocks... the other part of me knows that in this febrile atmosphere there may be something to this because now they have their 'guy' in the WH - they in no way want to give that up. Nazi's everywhere cannot believe their luck having Trump in charge and mainstreaming their far right hatred. They will do anything they can to keep the current status quo. At this point an examination of how quickly Hitler destroyed democratic norms in Germany is probably not a bad plan, with the violent reinforcement of power with the very specially evil brownshirts to give him the back up on the ground to ensure total obedience...

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About Soph0571

I am a Brit. I am a working class child of the troubles in Belfast who now lives a life of privilege. I am an anti-racist, progressive monster for truth. If I fail in being that monster, call me out....
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