R's are coming for the Civil Rights Act. They've always despised it.

[Budi]

Republicans: If we take power we will use the government to shutown private businesses because they promote vaccines, anti-racism, and tolerance toward the LGBTQ+ community.
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@Acyn
Ingraham: When Republicans get back into power, Apple and Disney have to understand one thing: Everything will be on the table, your copyright/trademark protection, your special status in certain states, and even your corporate structure itself…

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Key context to Republican laws banning any education or even acknowledgement of LGBTQ, race/racism, women’s health in public schools: about half of public school students not white, obviously about half girls, and non-negligible LGBTQ …

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[2naSalit]

1. The party of vengence...

Against imagined slights.

[Budi]

2. The white male theocratic patriarchy

They will dismantle everything that stands in their way.

"Burn it all down" they shouted.

[applegrove]

3. This is how it works in poor countries. When you are not in power and where your supporters

had businesses and jobs before, they no longer do. Leads to an impoverished more corrupt country.

[Dan]

12. Maybe that explains why cars go boom in the night.

[applegrove]

14. ? I don't understand. We are talking about the loss of civil rights.

That is corruption.

[Dan]

23. When you decide to take away a "right", that been assumed for a long time,

Sometimes, people react, things go boom in the night.

[CrackityJones75]

4. Have they ever not been?

[Budi]

5. They have finally positioned themselves to be closer to it, than ever before

~2016 Donald J Trump.

7 months from now will be the make or break moment.
Seven Months.

[roamer65]

6. ...

[2naSalit]

7. +1

[mahina]

9. Oh!

Wow.

[BeyondGeography]

8. She's drunk

But we are in a bar fight with these people.

“Build Back Better” or “Democrats Deliver” is not how you counter this shit.

John Edwards had something good with Two Americas. Shelve the economic part. The fight is about our respective visions of freedom and democracy. And patriotism.

Go at them where think they’re least vulnerable. Freedom? They’re subtracting individual rights across the board. The Constitution? January 6 anybody? Patriotism? We’re supposed to be lectured on that by the Party of Putin? People who worship a guy who would never put the country’s interests before his own.

These are the fights. Let’s get it on.

[appalachiablue]

19. ++

[Baitball Blogger]

10. They have shown no regard for personal rights since the nineties.

They act like mobs, send in their shock troops, pilfer property and take off like land pirates. Meanwhile, the lawyers help them get away.

Florida has been in slow disintegration since before the nineties.

[ificandream]

11. I think at least some of the motivation for this crap is downright meanness.

They want to wield power as much as they're able. Which is why we must not let them have it.

[AverageOldGuy]

17. BINGO!!!

There really are people in this world who are monsters, who delight in being mean and it's clear they have congregated in the republican Party.

[BadgerMom]

13. That crawler on Ingraham's screen!

It says: “Choosing where your dollars go isn’t retaliation, it’s common sense.”

Isn’t that the sentiment they label “cancel culture?” Are they being woke? Funny how it’s always okay if Republicans say it, but when Dems have a similar response to them, they clutch their pearls.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. they have been nibblelig at things peice by peice for years . if they do

look out.meaning dismantle the civil rights act. me thinks they even despise the constitution , the very framework of this country. then they shouldnt be in office . we have the right to vote . etc. e

[Lonestarblue]

16. Republicans are finally getting closer to claiming that only white males should have any rights.

Girls won’t need to go to school because they won’t need an education to stay at home and have baby after baby. Minorities won’t need an education because they will be allowed only the menial jobs serving the white families. And LGBTQ will either be locked up or forced to go through so many conversion therapies that they commit suicide. The Guardian ran an article today about conversion therapies, and one I had never heard of—corrective rape. My brain refuses to contemplate the kind of people who advocate this! They are perverted beyond belief, yet many of they claim to be upstanding Christians. They are evil, and I detest them.

[alwaysinasnit]

18. FWIW, I think the corporatists on the SC might have a different view if such a case came before it.

[Evolve Dammit]

20. You guys are not wrong. They are rabid and will burn this country down if "allowed".

They have zero morals, scruples, or any plan for anything remotely constructive. They are hell-bent on vengeance and violence. 45 amplifies this. Quite the phenomena. Hope the FBI can deal with it, cause it's coming. Bat shit crazy has been stoked. We may actually have to install a truly "well regulated militia" instead of the gun-humpers and seditionists that currently think they qualify. Hope it doesn't come to it, but not going to let them destroy this country.

[70sEraVet]

21. It just sounds like Ingraham is convincing corporations to donate to Democratic candidates

Disney, along with most other corporations, doesn't want to lose portions of their customer base just because Republicans don't think they're REAL Americans.

[kacekwl]

22. What are they going to do, shut down Disney ?

Between the millions who spend billions of dollars there and everywhere around and the thousands of people employed there and around Disneyworld who just might be pissed off and vote for sane candidates. And Apple ? No more IPhones. Are they crazy ?

[appalachiablue]

24. "FOX NEWS FASCISM: Laura Ingraham Advocates Government Punishing Corporations They Disagree With"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/2/2089699/-FOX-NEWS-FASCISM-Laura-Ingraham-Advocates-Government-Punishing-Corporations-They-Disagree-With?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

[betsuni]

25. K&R