Rob Reiner: THIS is where we are.

[kpete]

When Nixon, like Boris Johnson, committed fraud and lied about it, his party pushed him to resign. When Donald Trump led an armed Insurrection to overthrow the United States Government, his party said keep it up. That’s where we are.

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[Evolve Dammit]

1. We are in a civil war. 30% or so are totally good with any violence coming our way.

[HuskyOffset]

4. Democratic parade float (NT)

[niyad]

6. You beat me to it.

[calimary]

14. Might seem like a small thing, but there's a HUGE difference.

[niyad]

15. Exactly. Repeating reichwing memes is unacceptable always.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. It has to be dealt with head on. We cannot let that shit continue. Criminal threatening where I live

[KS Toronado]

3. I'm afraid you're correct

Us Democrats need to reel in the MAGAstanians before they destroy this country.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Assault weapons ban codified, enforced and violators prosecuted. We did it in the 1930's.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. It has to be dealt with head on. We cannot let that shit continue. Aiming a gun at someone is

Criminal threatening where I live

[hay rick]

8. Violence? I'm ordering my pillow right now.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Hope you get a comfortable, well-supported night's sleep with only pleasant dreams! But

understand, it's only a dream....

[DENVERPOPS]

9. I honestly think

that there are far more than 30%, and that in preparation for what Manson called "Helter Skelter" they are "standing back" instead of standing down as Trump has told them to do.

Far more worrisome are the number (%age) of them that have infiltrated the Military, Guard, and local Police Departments, The DOJ, the Secret Service, Border Patrol, DEA, ICE, USSC and Judges at every level across the courts of our nation......

I believe that these are far more frightening times than we have ever faced before in the entirety of American History....

I again state: I think the perfect title for a book covering the past 40+ years would be:

"WHILE THE NATION SLEPT"..................

The entire House and Senate are dominated by Repubs and Dems alike who are only worried about keeping their jobs as long as they can, and will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING needed to keep their political position.................

I think it was Abraham Lincoln who once said: "A Statesman is concerned with the future generations, a politician only with the next election....."

[Evolve Dammit]

10. You may be totally right. The book title sure is. Have co-workers who are "just fine" with

seemingly everything. Quite scary IMHO. Sleep-walking through it all. Not sure how they do that. I guess it is expected and joked about by the pols. Owning the rubes came before the libs. It's easy when only half of us vote.

[DENVERPOPS]

17. Thanks for your comment ED

I started screaming from the roof tops about two months before HW and Cheney corruptly stole the election for Reagan.
Their covert actions screamed of Treason, and they succeeded in "installing" Regan...........

The people I talked to back then and all the way through until now, were oblivious to what was going on in the shadows by these "New Republicans".......And most interesting to me, was the people's indifference to anything but their own little microcosms. Many blew me off for being a fanatic. In the past five years, several have called me up and apologized for not listening.

We are bumping up against the threshold of the point of no return. The so called Republicans have orchestrated and instituted a "Scorched Earth" attitude towards the U.S. economy, Democracy, and everyone below the top 1/10th of 1 Percent. They are a millimeter away from installing their wet dream: A Corporate Fascist Tyranny.

If anyone thinks the Repubs are on a roll now with the Supreme Court trashing everything, just wait until they are all totally un-impeded when they steal the majority in the House and Senate in a few months by hook and/or by crook. If that happens, it's all over folks, the 2024 presidential election will be a moot point, it will not be an election, it will be an installation of some master race asshole forever more......I suspect DeSantis, he is a poster boy for their cause.

This is nothing new. They corruptly installed Reagan, HW, and W (twice)..........Our party stood by doing almost nothing and watched them literally and corruptly destroy Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Kerrey. Everyone should have definitely taken notice when the USSC "usurped control" of the Presidential election in the State of Florida with no legal precedent for their actions, or legal authority in the U.S. Constitution.

WASF

[Evolve Dammit]

23. I could not agree more. The lack of meaningful accountability has crippled us.

"...several have called me up and apologized for not listening." Intelligent people eventually "get it." There is zero hope for the 75 million plus who supported and installed something of an aberration of the human race. They are totally gone.
Appreciate your steadfast efforts and conviction!

[DENVERPOPS]

32. Thanks

We can always continue to hope.............

[area51]

26. Agreed. n/t

[hadEnuf]

28. You are right. The river is flash flooding now and we are still talking about swimming lessons.

We need to start hitting them with everything we have, such as eliminating the filibuster, packing the SCOTUS and anything else we can think of.

It's gone so far at this point we either start inflicting meaningful damage on the fascist right wing now or they are going to walk right over us. The 1/6 committee is doing a great job but if the right takes the House and then the POTUS, along with the current SCOTUS, we are done for the foreseeable future. And any justice dispensed for 1/6 will be pardoned away. And it will literally be open season on Democrats and any one else who opposes them, to include violence in many cases.

This is not the old Republican Party we are up against. What's left of the old Republican Party has either willingly brainwashed themselves, have their heads in the sand in denial or are scared shitless and are jockeying for a position in the "new America".

We are literally up against fascism. For real.

[calimary]

29. Time for "HARDBALL."

And I'm NOT talking a Chris Matthews revival!

I wish our Democrats did it. Time for "being nice" is OVER!!!

WWRD? What Would Republicans Do?

Whatever that is, we need to start doing THAT. They laugh at us because they think we're pushovers. Unfortunately, they've got enough evidence to back that up.

STOP BEING NICE, DEMOCRATS!!!

Taste of their own medicine. See how they like it!

Besides, they aren't expecting it. THAT ALONE is why our side should start doing it. They'll be knocked off their game for at least a little bit.

[AdamGG]

33. I'm all for doing everything possible, but eliminating the filibuster could quickly flip

if the Rethugs take the Senate. McConnell would LOVE to say that it was the Democrats that did it first, just like he did when they eliminated the filibuster for Trump's SCOTUS picks. I'm not sure if it's worth the cost to do it now, when Manchin & Sinema would block a lot of things anyway. If we pick up seats in November, it might be more worth it.

[RockCreek]

12. I agree

This 40 year period is most of my life.

[callous taoboy]

20. Someone waved a gun at the DEMOCRATIC July 4th parade float

in the little town where I live.

[Cha]

13. Yes, their"party" is now a Horde of Brainwashed Jackboot

Magats .. not a brain between them.

Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

16. Are they beholden pussies? Or dedicated traitors?

That is the question.

[BlueJac]

18. Spot on!

[The King of Prussia]

19. Difference is

Nixon really did resign. Johnson hasn't.

[Rhiannon12866]

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. Wish I could extract those images and put 'em on billboards. And 'rec' your post 50 times.

[Rhiannon12866]

31. Oh, I agree! These were exceptional!

[GB_RN]

22. Britain's Conservative Party Haven't Gone Full-on Fascist...

Like our GOPQ. That's the difference.

[lpbk2713]

25. So true.

Many still say Trump did nothing wrong. And many say he won
the election in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I'm sure they know better.

[ultralite001]

27. Nixon and Johnson resigned...

The RTumpster attempted a coup...

[StevieM]

34. I think you meant to say Agnew.

Johnson didn't resign. He didn't run for re-election, but that wasn't over a scandal.

Also, Nixon wasn't going to resign until he counted votes and realized he had no choice. He was going to be leaving office, one way or another.