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Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 08:48 AM Jul 2022

The JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY CONTROLS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY.

Last edited Fri Jul 29, 2022, 10:36 AM - Edit history (1)

"LOVE THAT
WE THE PEOPLE CHOOSE FREEDOM ALWAYS.💜
NOT YOUR SLAVERY 🖕🏾

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS THE PRO-SLAVERY PARTY SINCE 1965.🖕🏾
WHEN DEMOCRATS FINALLY GRANTED BLACK WOMAN THE RIGHT TO VOTE💜
AND IN 2020 98% OF BLACK WOMEN VOTED FOR BIDEN. CONVERSELY 92% OF BLACK MEN VOTED FIR BIDEN. WE ARE THE LARGEST VOTED BLOCK IN THE WORLD AND THE COUNTRY
THAT MAKES US THE MAJORITY NOT A MINORITY.
THAT MEANS WE ARE ALWAYS UNIFIED!

LOVE THAT WE THE PEOPLE ALWAYS CHOOSE OUR FREEDOM THATS THE CHOOSE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OFFERS EVERYONE.

WE THE PEOPLE ALWAYS CHOOSE FREEDOM OVER
REPUBLICANS SELF APPOINTED BULLSHYT SO CALLED AUTHORITY. 🖕🏾

YOU WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE TO WEAR YOUR OWN DAMN CHAINS ALL MEMBERS OF THE JBS🖕🏾

LOVE TRUTH AGREEMENT.
💜

WE CHOOSE TO
BEGIN
TO ENJOY WATCHING YOU ALL CRUMBLE AWAY TO NOTHING"


https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/15/john-birch-society-qanon-reagan-republicans-goldwater/

I read the QUOTE above, under one of the JBS recruiting videos recruiting videos from the 1960's
I thought it was amazing so I reposted it here.

I choose not to post the link to the video because it's absolutely horrific.
I only made it about 20 minutes and that was because I stopped the video to scream every 2 minutes
🤣🤣🤣


Have a Lovely Day



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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. Birchers, sovereigns, anti tax protesters, minutemen, neo nazis, dominionists,
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 08:57 AM
Jul 2022

reconstructionists, the Klan, aryan brotherhood, army of god, proud boys, and on and on. All fanatical right wing extremists and terrorist movements. Been around for decades. The Klan, the granddaddy of them all.

Christofascists all, the worst of the racist right wing with a religious wing of fundamentalist christian theocrats.

Mousetoescamper

(3,271 posts)
11. Republicans announced auditions for their mercenary gang and this is who showed up.
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 11:59 AM
Jul 2022

Your list brought to mind Hedley (not Hedy) Lamarr's mercenary auditions in Blazing Saddles. That scene was hilarious, but this is deadly serious.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
12. Was that many so called radical right wing extremists in one party. It sounds like, that's just the
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 12:53 PM
Jul 2022

🤷🏾‍♀️

I wonder what percentage of the Republican party is still considered moderate?
Donald Trump ran most of those people out

JHB

(37,161 posts)
2. Well, it does seem to have been born in a toilet
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 08:57 AM
Jul 2022

I think your subject line was attacked by autocorrect.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
9. I appreciate the gentle Correction. It's funny my phone always wants to refer to them as "birthers".
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 10:37 AM
Jul 2022

Perhaps it makes my smartphone, exceptionally smart🤣🤣🤣
💜

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,600 posts)
3. This is an unusual interpretation of historical events.
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 08:58 AM
Jul 2022
WHEN DEMOCRATS FINALLY GRANTED BLACK WOMAN THE RIGHT TO VOTE💜

Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
5. Koch family patriarch Fred was a founding member
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 09:05 AM
Jul 2022

Charles Koch was also a member.

https://www.unkochmycampus.org/los-ch3-part-2-kochs-roots-the-john-birch-society

"The John Birch Society (JBS) is a free market extremist organization founded in 1958.

A 1961 Time Magazine profile mentions Koch family ties to the John Birch Society, called “the most formidable of the extremist groups”:

Under the umbrella of anti-Communism, many of the ultra-rightists pursue their own special goals and grind their own axes, ranging from respectable conservative politics and economics through segregation, anti-fluoridation, isolationism, higher tariffs and income tax repeal. . . . "The United Nations," says Wichita Oilman Fred Koch, "was conceived by Communists in Moscow during World War II." (Originations: The Ultras, Time Magazine, 1961)

The John Birch Society was founded in 1958. From 1961 to 1968, Charles Koch himself was an active JBS member. His father, Fred Koch, was an early member of their national council. The late Harry Bradley, of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, supported Robert Welch as a charter JBS member.

JBS spread anti-civil rights propaganda and literature through a network of “front groups” and “front businesses.” Charles Koch was active with his local JBS “American Opinion Bookstore” in Wichita, Kansas.

The founder of the John Birch Society, Robert Welch, wrote in 1961 that the Civil Rights Movement was a communist hoax:

The trouble in our southern states has been fomented almost entirely by the Communists for this purpose. It has been their plan, gradually carried out over a long period with meticulous cunning, to stir up such bitterness between whites and blacks in the South that small flames of civil disorder would inevitably result. They could then fan and coalesce these little flames into one great conflagration of civil war, in time, if the need arose. The whole slogan of "civil rights, " as used to make trouble in the South today, is an exact parallel to the slogan of "agrarian reform" which they used in China. (JBS Bluebook 1961, pg 24)

In his 1960 book, “A Businessman Looks at Communism,” Fred Koch observes that “the colored man looms large in the communist plan to take over America.”  ...(more)

 

AntivaxHunters

(3,234 posts)
6. History is awesome!
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 09:11 AM
Jul 2022
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS THE PRO-SLAVERY PARTY SINCE 1965.🖕🏾
WHEN DEMOCRATS FINALLY GRANTED BLACK WOMAN THE RIGHT TO VOTE💜


A little history for those who may not know

At the time, a two-thirds vote, or sixty-seven senators, was required to invoke cloture and cut off debate in the Senate. Since southern Democrats opposed the legislation, votes from a substantial number of senators in the Republican minority would be needed to end the filibuster. Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic whip who managed the bill on the Senate floor, enlisted the aid of Republican Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois. Dirksen, although a longtime supporter of civil rights, had opposed the bill because he objected to certain provisions. Humphrey therefore worked with him to redraft the controversial language and make the bill more acceptable to Republicans. Once the changes were made, Dirksen gained key votes for cloture from his party colleagues with a powerful speech calling racial integration "an idea whose time has come."

On June 10, a coalition of 27 Republicans and 44 Democrats ended the filibuster when the Senate voted 71 to 29 for cloture, thereby limiting further debate. This marked the first time in its history that the Senate voted to end debate on a civil rights bill. Nine days later, the Senate passed the most sweeping civil rights legislation in the nation's history. The House followed by accepting the Senate version on July 2. When President Johnson signed the bill into law that same day in a nationally televised broadcast, he was joined by civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been instrumental in leading the public mobilization efforts in favor of civil rights legislation. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 remains one of the most significant legislative achievements in American history.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilRightsAct1964.htm
 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
8. This is amazing!
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 10:34 AM
Jul 2022

Last edited Fri Jul 29, 2022, 12:51 PM - Edit history (1)

And then all the Dixie crats, ran over to the Republican party

And have been festering there behind the scenes ever since trump lol

czarjak

(11,289 posts)
10. Bircher here. Bircher there. Bircher everywhere. Was raised watching and listening to that crap.
Fri Jul 29, 2022, 11:47 AM
Jul 2022

Mission Accomplished?

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