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Reading social media you would think MAGA is a subsidiary of the Russian Federation (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2022
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ShazamIam
(2,575 posts)1. Yes, that is the best description I have read so far. And, to me, at the very heart of the U.S.
conservative alignment with Putin is the Kochnetwork, also responsible for promoting and supporting the anti-election propaganda.
usonian
(9,851 posts)2. Connect the dots.
This is now getting old, but still makes sense (to me, anyway)
This is all a Russian plan. Started years ago.
https://pastebin.com/raw/evbnN5y7
I'll paste it here for readability. (mine, so no quoting limits)
THE RUSSIAN PLAN
While legislators and DOJ investigate a failed coup attempt at the Capitol, a successful coup has overtaken the USSC, which is dismantling the Constitution in an effort concerted with right-wing domestic terrorists, the GOP, oligarchs, Christian Nationalists and others, a Mitchavillian (!) scheme that follows the Russian strategy to divide and destroy the United States:
Simply put, Normalize hate and violence. Stochastic terrorism. Bring down elected government and democratic processes. This was also seen in 30s Germany,
We are in a state of emergency, and are today divided into slave and free states.
The suspected instigator and supporter, Russia, has proven itself to be a third-rate power, relying on agents within the U.S. who sabotage the U.S. with acts of terrorism, insurrection and sedition, a second civil war.
Pieces of the puzzle fit perfectly. They involve: The RW shift from issues to outright terrorism and Russian messaging, Russias dependence on oil, their State-Adopted Religion and white dominance, long-term plans to annex Ukraine, divisive bot posts on social media, a major news outlet praising Putin, sponsorship of NRA to encourage mob rule, fear and domestic terrorism over constitutional government. (more detail below)
ACTION PLAN.
Russias subversion of the US, and all its domestic assets must be stopped by all means, including emergency powers. We are already this day divided into slave and free states.
This calls for extraordinary measures, some of which are in the expanded executive powers granted since 2001.They may include executive orders, expanding the USSC, ending the filibuster rule or others more potent such as emergency powers. This is Putins Armageddon. It must be his Twilight of the Gods, his Valhalla gone up in flames, not ours.
While patient investigative and legal processes are essential, they might be rendered moot by a rogue court of ideologues and traitors to the constitution. What is the definition of sedition again? So, any beneficial action outside these slow channels is urgent or people and democracy will perish in the mean time.
BACKGROUND:
HOW DO WE KNOW THIS?
When you start with the premise that Russia has instigated a campaign of disruption in the U.S. to bolster its aims, ALL the pieces fit together perfectly.
1. The conservative movement took a hard swing right from its Limbaugh days of conservative issues and hate to pure hate and destruction. This coincides with the breakup of the Soviet Union. Anti-Soviet messaging ceased.
2. Russias economy is extremely oil-dependent. Oil interests control many legislators, and reap massive subsidies and favors.
3. Russia is an Orthodox Christian in name only, mostly white state. The church blesses nuclear warheads and Putin has declared his intention to expand his White Christian Nationalism.
4. Putin wants Ukraine. Arguably, that is the cause of his interference in the 2015 election to install an asset as president and weaken NATO, effectively delivering him Ukraine.
5. Bots spread lies and divisive messages to get Americans to fight one another.
6. A major news outlet repeatedly praises Putin, when theres nothing apparent to gain by doing so. On the surface, anyway.
7. Russia financed and infiltrated the NRA with the goal of replacing constitutional government with mob rule, and domestic terrorism.
8. It is the M.O. of fiends to get people to believe in causes that are against their own best interest.
9. And yet! When a dictator takes power, their beloved freedom fighters become their biggest threat, so AWAY WITH YOUR GUNS. Courts that destroyed constitutional law to put them in place become useless baggage, so SAY GOODBYE.
10. The abortion issue is just the first volley. They have others at the ready, and are working top-down and bottom-up to destroy constitutional rights, the constitution and the country, and hand it over.
While legislators and DOJ investigate a failed coup attempt at the Capitol, a successful coup has overtaken the USSC, which is dismantling the Constitution in an effort concerted with right-wing domestic terrorists, the GOP, oligarchs, Christian Nationalists and others, a Mitchavillian (!) scheme that follows the Russian strategy to divide and destroy the United States:
Simply put, Normalize hate and violence. Stochastic terrorism. Bring down elected government and democratic processes. This was also seen in 30s Germany,
We are in a state of emergency, and are today divided into slave and free states.
The suspected instigator and supporter, Russia, has proven itself to be a third-rate power, relying on agents within the U.S. who sabotage the U.S. with acts of terrorism, insurrection and sedition, a second civil war.
Pieces of the puzzle fit perfectly. They involve: The RW shift from issues to outright terrorism and Russian messaging, Russias dependence on oil, their State-Adopted Religion and white dominance, long-term plans to annex Ukraine, divisive bot posts on social media, a major news outlet praising Putin, sponsorship of NRA to encourage mob rule, fear and domestic terrorism over constitutional government. (more detail below)
ACTION PLAN.
Russias subversion of the US, and all its domestic assets must be stopped by all means, including emergency powers. We are already this day divided into slave and free states.
This calls for extraordinary measures, some of which are in the expanded executive powers granted since 2001.They may include executive orders, expanding the USSC, ending the filibuster rule or others more potent such as emergency powers. This is Putins Armageddon. It must be his Twilight of the Gods, his Valhalla gone up in flames, not ours.
While patient investigative and legal processes are essential, they might be rendered moot by a rogue court of ideologues and traitors to the constitution. What is the definition of sedition again? So, any beneficial action outside these slow channels is urgent or people and democracy will perish in the mean time.
BACKGROUND:
HOW DO WE KNOW THIS?
When you start with the premise that Russia has instigated a campaign of disruption in the U.S. to bolster its aims, ALL the pieces fit together perfectly.
1. The conservative movement took a hard swing right from its Limbaugh days of conservative issues and hate to pure hate and destruction. This coincides with the breakup of the Soviet Union. Anti-Soviet messaging ceased.
2. Russias economy is extremely oil-dependent. Oil interests control many legislators, and reap massive subsidies and favors.
3. Russia is an Orthodox Christian in name only, mostly white state. The church blesses nuclear warheads and Putin has declared his intention to expand his White Christian Nationalism.
4. Putin wants Ukraine. Arguably, that is the cause of his interference in the 2015 election to install an asset as president and weaken NATO, effectively delivering him Ukraine.
5. Bots spread lies and divisive messages to get Americans to fight one another.
6. A major news outlet repeatedly praises Putin, when theres nothing apparent to gain by doing so. On the surface, anyway.
7. Russia financed and infiltrated the NRA with the goal of replacing constitutional government with mob rule, and domestic terrorism.
8. It is the M.O. of fiends to get people to believe in causes that are against their own best interest.
9. And yet! When a dictator takes power, their beloved freedom fighters become their biggest threat, so AWAY WITH YOUR GUNS. Courts that destroyed constitutional law to put them in place become useless baggage, so SAY GOODBYE.
10. The abortion issue is just the first volley. They have others at the ready, and are working top-down and bottom-up to destroy constitutional rights, the constitution and the country, and hand it over.
See also, though with less or no "Russian Content"
Democracy in Crisis: Weve Been Headed Here for Decades. Part 1of 8
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044226/-America-2021-The-Good-the-Bad-the-Ugly
Read all 8 to get the "plan" in detail.