Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "'It's crazy': GOP governor responds to polls of GOP voters" video.

  1. Let's just call January 6 what it actually was -- a Republican smash and grab, an act of violent larceny against democracy and sedition employing domestic terrorism right out in open sight. "Without accountability, an attempted autogolpe and insurrection is just practice." "What happened on January 6 is the very definition of sedition." ― Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson So, why has Traitor Trump not been charged yet by the DOJ? That's what a lot of people are wondering! Not just prosecution of Trump, but all his accomplices, too! Obstruction charges outlined in the Mueller Report, the Ukraine extortion racket, inciting an insurrection, sedition, and federal election interference. The evidence is all in plain sight, where are the indictments, the arrests? Our democracy hangs in the balance; this is no time to play nice, there is no time to waste! The DOJ shouldn't be worried about appearances, either, because it's a matter of impartially enforcing the law and not setting bad precedent that encourages future lawlessness and authoritarianism by the Executive Branch. And because justice matters.
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  2. "Until Republicans return to reality and become responsible, they should not be trusted with power again." ― Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney More Americans need to understand this. The constant lies, denials, deceits, delusions, gaslighting, dog-whistles, crackpot conspiracy theories, projectionism, Whataboutism, jingoism, bogus victimhood, and hypocrisy of Republicans is disgusting and alarming. Republicans have been programmed into a mindless fascist partisan cult that is unhinged, delusional and evil. The Republican cult has poisoned itself with its own propaganda, choosing to live in a dystopian fascist Orwellian fantasy world. The Republican cult has been radicalized to such extent that it poses a clear and present danger to our society, our democracy, our country, and the world. Trump and Republicans are like Jack and his band of boys in 'Lord of the Flies.' Ralph, Simon, Piggy and the other group of boys represent the rest of us. Just as Jack and his band turned savage, killing and cannibalizing their fellow students on the deserted island they landed upon, Trump and Republicans have also turned savage, rejecting responsibility, reason, civility, morality, and science, killing their fellow Americans and cannibalizing our government. Except there will be no adults arriving to save those of us trying to do the right thing, like in the classic tale. We are the adults, and it is strictly up to us to save ourselves and this country from the fascistic, nihilistic impulses of Trump and Republicans. "Call this civic barbarism. Instead of promoting the values of responsible citizenship, Trump, Republican leadership, and their media enablers have elevated and blessed the very worst among us. They are making many Americans less suited for self-government and more dangerous to their neighbors. And they are doing so for the reason some of the Founders most feared: To lead the mob against true democracy." ― Michael Gerson, from 'Trumpism is American Fascism' (NOTE: Gerson is a staunch life-long conservative, who served as former President George W. Bush's chief speech writer.)
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  3. Toxic Trump and Republicans are traitors to America. They've been gaslighting Trump's Russian collusion. obstruction of justice, and election fraud for years, and continue doing so. Trump should have been impeached and convicted after the Mueller Report, which didn't happen only because of A.G. Barr and Republicans, who were ultimately responsible for that failure. Then Congressional Republicans refused to impeach despite overwhelming evidence of Trump's Ukraine shakedown. The worst was the third time Republicans refused to impeach Trump after he incited a terrorist insurrection against his own government on the nation's Capitol. Republicans refused to even have a BIPARTISAN commission to investigate January 6. Moreover, throughout Trump's term and even after, Republicans have been KNOWINGLY spreading Russian propaganda designed to weaken America, kill Americans. So, when is Merrick Garland and the DOJ going to step up and hold Trump and his Republican accomplices accountable for their many FEDERAL crimes, or is Garland going to set the terrible, horrific precedent that a former President is a King and above the law? Just when America most needed a strong and courageous AG at the DOJ, we instead got a cowardly enabler in Merrick Garland.
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  4. What we are witnessing from so-called Republican "leaders" is just pure evil. They are either actively or silently complicit in fomenting Reich-wing domestic terrorist violence, Reich-wing insurrection, and Reich-wing undermining of our democracy and Constitution. It's crystal clear that Trump, Boebert, Greene, Gosar and other Republicans like them are fomenting Reich-wing domestic terrorism. The GOP has become radicalized to such an extent that it has essentially become a fascist terrorist organization, with members that fantasize and promote violence against their fellow Americans. While those Republican elected officials must be condemned and sanctioned, they are only a symptom of the disease poisoning a third of America, the most visible part of the cancer infecting our nation. The GOP has been mainstreaming radicalization of their voter base for decades, ALLOWING Reich-wing media and Reich-wing demagogues to take over the party, to the point it has become a fascist, nihilistic cult. Because just as now, Republican politicians and their plutocratic masters have always seen it as the ends justifying whatever means to win power. Remember the Republican Tea Party? This catastrophe with the GOP didn't start with Trump, who just exploited what Republicans had already built. Republican politicians are only interested in helping themselves, sadly. It's not even really placing party before country, because they don't really care about the GOP, either, which is evidenced by their destruction of it; they only use that as a convenient vehicle for graft and to grift their voters and us taxpayers. You don't get denialism without nihilism, and Sen. Hirono hits the nail on the head when she said that "Republicans don't give a shit." GOP = fascism + nihilism The few patriots left in the Republican party are rejected by the vast majority of Republicans. Hard as it may be for some to believe or accept, it is to our own and our nation's peril to ignore, diminish, or dismiss that the GOP has become a fascist cult. Their fascism, nihilism and cultdom needs to be recognized, acknowledged, called out, condemned, and strongly opposed if we are to keep our democracy. A third of America has been successfully Talibinized, thanks to Reich-wing plutocrats, Reich-wing media, Reich-wing demagogues, and Reich-wing politicians. Republican cult is the new ISIS. Call them Talibangelicals, ISIS-KKK, Y'all Qaeda, Vanilla ISIS, Reich-whingers (the original English word for whiners), or QaBomb----they're all part and parcel of the current lunatic Reich-wing GOP. Republican politicians are appeasing fascist, seditious terrorists...because that's their voter base, radicalization and extremism is what they have cultivated, nourished, nurtured, exploited, and profited from for four decades. Reich-wing politicians, plutocrats, demagogues, media, white nationalist, Christian nationalist religious, sovereign citizens and Qanon leaders thought they could ride the tiger, too arrogant, greedy, and stupid to foresee that master would become slave, and the beast they created would soon come to consume them.
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