We've brought a congressional rule book to a blitzkrieg

[Cyrano]

I've been writing long rants about the Republican (permanent) takeover of America.

But I think I finally got it summed up in the headline of this OP.

Can someone please tell me that I'm wrong and that the thugs of the Republican Party can't end up being our owners within the next couple of years.

[cilla4progress]

1. I don't believe

you are wrong.

We are hearing the alarms from learned and intuitive people, Steve Schmidt, Malcolm Nance, Laurence Tribe, among them.

Seems to me this is EXACTLY what happened in 2015-16 when those of reasonable mind and demeanor said, "oh no, it can't happen here."

What will be the price?

[Cyrano]

4. The price will be our freedoms

I keep wondering why our Democratic leaders are incapable of fighting Republican barbarians. (There is very little we Dem voters can do to carry this fight forward. -- We're not about to go into the streets with Tiki torches.)

There are plenty of tough Democrats out there who are willing to go head to head with the barbarians of the Republican Party. Congresswoman OAL, and others, have what it takes. Now, if the leaders of our Party would accept them and turn them loose, we may stand a chance.

[Cyrano]

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[Ray Bruns]

2. I think you are wrong.

I think the word you are looking for is "Putsch", not blitzkrieg.

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. You're not wrong.

This is the culmination of a sixty year long game that they’ve played perfectly and kicked our asses at every turn.

By continuing to “play by the rules” while the other side has none has been the dumbest thing the Democrats could ever do. All this high and mighty bullshit about “being better” and not “wanting to be like them” has brought us to this point. The point where we become a fascist autocracy with an evil idiot at the head.

The Constitution is a gentleman’s agreement. There are no gentlemen on the other side. No honor, no integrity, no ethics and no morals. In other words, the Constitution is meaningless if no one will enforce it. They know it, we seem not to.

This has always been about raw power. And they have been willing to do anything to achieve it. There’s no lie too low, no hypocrisy too embarrassing, no law they won’t break and no advantage they won’t take. And “our” guys have sat there and let it happen without fighting fire with fire. Without responding in kind. That’s why they think we’re soft and weak and gutless. Quite frankly, it’s hard not to say they’re right.

If I keep taking your lunch money every day and you just give it to me, there’s nothing to make me think I can’t keep on doing it. I already have the money you bring with you tomorrow spent.

You know?

I’m in a dark place.

[doc03]

10. Our legal system is a joke if I refuse to

comply with a supeana the Sheriff will knock on my door with handcuffs the next day. People like Bannon or Trump can drag it out in court for years. If they are finally arrested they don't go to a prison and share a cell with a psychopath. They go to one with a golf course.

[onenote]

12. I don't think you know the rules governing subpoenas

In every jurisdiction that I know of, a person who receives a subpoena can object to it, and at that point, the party that requested the issuance of the subpoena has to go to the court to get an order compelling compliance.

Do you have an example where the day after someone, having objected (in writing) to a subpoena, has had a sheriff take them away in handcuffs the next day?

[doc03]

13. Sure if you have the money to pay for lawyers

you can fight in court, most people don't.

[Mr.Bill]

15. True, but to be fair,

it's usually a pretty shitty golf course.

[doc03]

6. I believe we are finished as a democracy in 2024. Maybe if

the Senate would have investigated months ago it could be saved. Americans have a short memory except for a few of us it is forgotten. Remember a large percentage of Americans now think Obama was president on 9- 11. Ask them when we fought WW2 they would say 1865. Some even think we fought Canada in WW2.

[unblock]

7. They have already won the fight. Suprise, they rigged it.

They own the microphone. With it, they shape opinion and select topics for discussion.

Why are we hearing about inflation and port bottlenecks and how businesses can't find workers the threat such things pose to the economy?

Why doesn't the media instead celebrate and marvel at 6.3% gdp growth in 2021q1 and 6.7% gdp growth in 2021q2? Why doesn't the media just tell us that the economy is booming at a massive rate?

These other things are simply obvious consequences of a rapidly growing economy and all those other things "threaten" to do is dial back the growth a bit, or take a bit of shine off it.

But no, the media can't do things that might promote a democrat! And they'll give the spotlight to the next right-wing crazy that comes along.

Even if we win in 2022, we'll lose the 2024 or soon thereafter.

Until we somehow get a more reasonable media, our doom is merely a matter of timing.

[Kaleva]

9. They say the same thing. That we Commies have already won the fight.

We stole the 2020 election and we'll steal the 2022 and 2024 election. All they can do is hunker down and wait for the Great Reset.

[unblock]

14. Yes they just make crap up and it gets headlines

[Kaleva]

8. I wouldn't be posting here or anywhere if I thought there was a chance

I'd already be the gray man. Not noticed or engaging in activities or saying things that might attract unwanted attention.

[ProfessorPlum]

11. the answer is money in politics

It turns the GOP into barbarians and the "people's party" into kittens.


But we won't change it, or talk about the blatant corruption it causes. And so into the dumpster we go.

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Absolutely.

While We the People follow and work to uphold the Constitution, the GQP act to undermine and destroy the Constitution.

So. Why aren’t the Mass Media making clear we’re dealing with TREASON?!!!!

[Caliman73]

19. The Mass media is owned by people who align with Republicans.

Wealthy people, the ones who own things like Comcast, Viacom, Disney, etc... don't want their taxes to go up. They donate to both parties but they donate much more, and share much more in common with Republicans.

Do you think that the Mass Media is going to actively go against the people who sign their paychecks?

[LiberalArkie]

17. There are a lot of very wealthy Republicans and Democrats in both the house and senate.

Republican policies benefits both sides. Republicans have no problem sending McDougal to jail for not answering questions before congress. Our party doesn't seem to want to hurt anyones feelings.

[Jakes Progress]

18. Bringing a copy of Proust to a knife fight.

That is how Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project put it.

He said most Democrats in congress were student council presidents and the leading republicans are just killers.

[HUAJIAO]

20. You are 100% right.

SOMEBODY please tell our representatives, governors, and other elected and appointed officials !! STAT !!