Capitol Hill Blue Forums Thread Like Summary - How to deal with seditionists, election deniers and crooks

When liars, thugs, criminals and sexual predators take control of our government

If polls are correct about how people will vote in Tuesday's midterm elections, America and democracy, they feel, are doomed. They might be.




By DOUG THOMPSON
November 6, 2022

A lot of people in this embattled America feel a sense of doom approaching in next week’s midterm elections, feeling that electing a large number of election deniers and outright fascists will destroy what little is left of the democracy we once enjoyed.

“If on Tuesday Herschel Walker captures Georgia’s Senate seat or forces a December run-off (if neither he nor the incumbent, Raphael G. Warnock, attain 50 percent), we will know 2022 is Year 6 PAHT (Post-“Access Hollywood” Tape). That tape did not derail its vulgarian star, and a Walker victory will indicate that blinkered partisanship now obliterates all other concerns, including character,” writes conservative, but no longer Republican, columnist George Will.

“This is not my party,” Will told the Federalist Society in 2016 when it appeared the real estate fraud and former TV reality show host would win the GOP nomination for president. He changed his longtime registration as a Republican to “unaffiliated” in Maryland, where he votes.

Washington Post columnist Greg Sargeant agrees that what has happened to the GOP and America is a headlong dash to doom:


Many others echo the same concerns. Maureen Dowd, a longtime friend and columnist for The New York Times notes:

Strong stuff, but many of those in the know say the threats are real and the dangers are already here.

She continues:


Maureen is not exaggerating and she is not alone.

Writes Jamelle Bouie:


Yes, this is how bad things have become. No values, no empathy, no morality, no compassion, and no leadership. Historians often point to the framers of our Constitution to show how the threats of demagogues and those of questionable virtue existed in 1776.

Noted John Dickinson, a Delaware delegate to the Constitutional Convention back then:


In his inaugural address, America’s first president, George Washington, said:


Jamelle Bouie adds:

In my 50+ years as a journalist who covers and writes about politics and government, and worked for a short time within our national government as a political operative and a public servant, I agree.

I never thought I would ever write or feel such a strong reaction to a former president like the disgraced, and criminal, Donald Trump or the Republican Party that employed and paid me well for several years. The combination of Trump and his supporters has destroyed the party and is well on its way to killing off America and the democracy that once drove the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If any of you vote for such people, you are helping destroy our nation and our future.

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How long can the fragile pillars and foundations of Democracy withstand the public assaults by so many who once stood by conservative values and convictions??? Has our Democracy decayed in the last 40 years so only a handful of malcontent fascists with bankrupt intellect can push and topple everything into a maelstrom of Darwinian chaos?

Can it happen in America? Those with blinders say it can't. Those with open eyes know it is possible.

The verdicts are starting to come in on the Oath Keepers verdicts. The topline verdict: the jury found Elmer Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs guilty on the seditious conspiracy count. The other three defendants - Ken Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, and Thomas Caldwell - were found not guilty on that charge.

All five defendants were found guilty of some kind of obstruction, though not always as part of a conspiracy.

By the way, another conspirator has found an interesting way to invest his remaining time before sentencing:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/23/brazil-bolsonaro-bannon/

Steve Bannon is advising Bolsonaro on how to overturn the Brazilian election right here, right now, with IMPUNITY.
He's practicing so he can pull it off again next time over here, and I'm sure it would benefit him to have a lot of fascist friends in positions of power in South America.

Mussolini is interesting. I know several people, in Italy, who remember him. They ALL liked him and blame all the bad stuff on Hitler. I always have found that to be interesting. Oh, one of the was the father of my daughter in law. He was a bomber pilot in WWII (now passed).

Politial beliefs should probably be studied as it seems, at least to me, to be VERY strange.

The CLNAI (National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy) is lucky that the townspeople happened to spot Mussolini's entourage trying to make a run for the Swiss border.
The exiled Italian government's court had sentenced Musso to death but he escaped their clutches and made a break for escape but when the townspeople caught him they effectively carried out the sentence of the Italian court in exile by taking matters into their own hands.

That does not diminish the validity of the Italian court sentence but it underlines just how close Musso came to outrunning justice and getting a chance at regrouping and ultimately retaking some slice of his former power.

One tiny group of Italian townspeople spared the world from further evil by the fascist warlord.
It should have been the courts, but in the end they missed the chance.

A simple fluke of fate.

Ahhh yes, Repubs and Dems "Two Wings of the Same Bird" bothsiderisms.
Most commonly observed THESE DAYS by Far Left Shitty White Progressives who want to burn the whole thing down so they can rule over the ashes.

They don't say much about the Republicans but they sure do attack the Dems at every turn, and they even attack liberals.

Ehhhh, sorta not really because in the end Saddam was tried and sentenced by the Iraqi courts and the townspeople didn't carry out the sentence.
But yeah he did get hanged alright.

I think Bolsonaro is playing with fire: He's going to end up with Mussolini's end if he tries for a coup.

Oh by the way, Rick:



THIS IS WHY #BernieSanders never had a chance.
Sorry! It wasn't #HillaryClinton, it wasn't the DNC, it was Bernie's OWN Democratic Socialists dissing him behind his back! I remember seeing the comments:

"Yawn, not a real socialist"
"Too old, too white and too traitorous"

Now here's the receipts, one of many.
Now that I know where to look, you can expect many more.
Justin Rosario was right after all, the "Shitty White Progressives" and the accelerationists want to see it all burn, so they can rule over the ashes. Nothing else has value to them.

Interesting stuff leaking out from the January 6th committee: There is a treasure trove of communications between the wider conspirators and the White House. 34 of them were serving in congress, and MANY of those will be part of the next congress. There have already been convictions for seditious conspiracy to block the official electoral vote count and it's evident Jack Smith has or will have all this evidence. If he follows the law, (and I think he's that kind of prosecutor), there are going to be quite a few members of congress indicted along with The Big Boss.

Garland announced that Smith was hired to go after all the conspirators who were NOT at the Capital that day. And who would that be? It will be very interesting to see what Smith does about Trump and all the members of congress who swore to defend the constitution and then violated the 14th Amendment. There doesn't seem to be any wriggle room the way it was written.