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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:34 PM Jan 2017

GOP Setting Up Permanent One Party Rule Over Your Dead Body. It Is Worse Than You Think.

The boldness of the GOP should wake people up. Or maybe not. But this election should show all of us that the GOP will end up being the only party on the ballot. Even an idiot can see that this election was totally rigged and stolen. There is evidence all over the damned place. And with the help of the MSM they have been empowered.

I have little faith in 2018 because by then the GOP will have pretty much had the vote so rigged they cannot lose power. They only continue to gain power and Democrats end up with fewer and fewer seats. We are headed for an effectively one party state where ONLY THEY will pass all the laws.

And if you kick back you will be suppressed and pursued by the GOP and its security allies. We are moving to a nation of one party dictatorship.

I believe that is why the GOP is so bold. They seem themselves as politically bulletproof in that they now have almost full control of the election process and they have almost ALL of the billionaires and millionaires behind them.

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GOP Setting Up Permanent One Party Rule Over Your Dead Body. It Is Worse Than You Think. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jan 2017 OP
Been preaching this for years. Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #1
They Are After More Than Majority. They Want What Hussein Had With Baath Party. They Want NO Dems. TheMastersNemesis Jan 2017 #3
That has Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #4
This is exactly why I have been opposed to this election from the beginning. Initech Jan 2017 #53
And To Think - Just A Short Time Ago We Were Talking The Extinction Of The Repug Party?....nt global1 Jan 2017 #7
The voices who were talking Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #10
They also forgot that the MSM is owned by the same people who own most of the politicians. Dustlawyer Jan 2017 #43
That was always pretty ... ... ... optimistic FiveGoodMen Jan 2017 #23
Me too, but of course, dgibby Jan 2017 #9
The GOP is bringing this country to the brink of a civil war! n/t RKP5637 Jan 2017 #2
They Do Not Care. 2010, 1014, 2016 Were All Rigged. TheMastersNemesis Jan 2017 #8
And we sat on our asses not freaking out. DK504 Jan 2017 #15
1014? Damn that rotten King John! KamaAina Jan 2017 #25
well if its going to happen it will bdamomma Jan 2017 #16
It's what they want... 2naSalit Jan 2017 #18
Civil Wars don't last long when a madman has nukes. His first move would be to bomb LA and NY. briv1016 Jan 2017 #32
I live in LA, that thought scares the fucking shit out of me! Initech Jan 2017 #54
I'm 30 miles down wind from NYC. briv1016 Jan 2017 #56
One good thing MFM008 Jan 2017 #5
The best way to fight...are their pocket books titaniumsalute Jan 2017 #6
amen to this! LaydeeBug Jan 2017 #49
Gerrymandering has made 2018 tough. sarcasmo Jan 2017 #11
The senate looks dismal but that not gerrymandering but just democratic senators in trump states yeoman6987 Jan 2017 #55
I do not even think the Republican party is going to survive. Doreen Jan 2017 #12
The Nazis and Soviets hated each other. moondust Jan 2017 #13
We have lived this shit for 6 years in Wisconsin jodymarie aimee Jan 2017 #14
Except if you live in California!!! WestCoastDem42 Jan 2017 #22
Rush Limbaugh said back in the 90s that "no democrat should demigoddess Jan 2017 #17
Lest we forget Grover Norquist and his 2naSalit Jan 2017 #19
Didn't Thomas Jefferson say Mister Midnight Jan 2017 #20
If that happens, whomever the military sides with will win FiveGoodMen Jan 2017 #24
I Harbor None Mister Midnight Jan 2017 #28
Point is: unless we can get the Army, etc. to side against the government FiveGoodMen Jan 2017 #31
Thanks to Trump Himself..... Mister Midnight Jan 2017 #33
+++ THANK YOU !! THERE WONT BE LESS HACKING UNDER BENEDICT DONALD !!! +++++ uponit7771 Jan 2017 #21
The GOP agenda is: world wide wally Jan 2017 #26
you are reading my mind keepthemhonestO Jan 2017 #27
We are headed into a dark period in US history liberal N proud Jan 2017 #29
Shades of Hitler frogmarch Jan 2017 #30
People are too distracted and self involved to fight flamingdem Jan 2017 #34
Yup. Rampant apathy. NRaleighLiberal Jan 2017 #36
THIS Cosmocat Jan 2017 #45
I've been saying since the 8th that their first order of business is to insure they remain in power. briv1016 Jan 2017 #35
A conspiracy theory ocurred to me today... MontanaMama Jan 2017 #37
That does seem to be the direction we're heading FiveGoodMen Jan 2017 #46
my late mom felt that they owned everything. the w.h. the congress and the state house on down. AllaN01Bear Jan 2017 #38
I disagree with the pessimistic tone. MarvinGardens Jan 2017 #39
Your greytdemocrat Jan 2017 #40
We live in a two party system that is evenly divided in a two curve pattern mythology Jan 2017 #41
+1 nt MarvinGardens Jan 2017 #42
Shush! No common sense is allowed!!! :P Lurks Often Jan 2017 #51
This post is overtly dismissive of reality of gerrymandering and voter suppression..two things .. uponit7771 Jan 2017 #52
They Are Ruthless colsohlibgal Jan 2017 #44
This is just part of the cycle. Vinca Jan 2017 #47
What are you doing to fight back at the local level? crazycatlady Jan 2017 #48
We Have Been Extremely Involved Since 2007. TheMastersNemesis Jan 2017 #50
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Been preaching this for years.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:36 PM
Jan 2017

Did read my History and from that I keep saying,this is their game plan,a Permanent Republican Majority.

Initech

(100,080 posts)
53. This is exactly why I have been opposed to this election from the beginning.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:34 PM
Jan 2017

40 years of the republicans being brainwashed by Reagan, AM hate radio, and Fox News, has created an America that is so one sided that they would rather the other side (us) simply didn't exist. It's frightening what is happening to this country. You can see that happening the way they've been absolutely dismantling and destroying the press since Bush I. These people are absolute monsters, and I am afraid that it will come to a civil war before it gets settled, and unlike the last one, this one won't have a positive outcome.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. The voices who were talking
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:50 PM
Jan 2017

this line,forgot what can happen if a Foriegn Power decided to finance a hostile take over of a Country. Other Nations know how poorly the turn out is for our elections,and in that lies the sweet spot for a well planned Propaganda driven intervention.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
43. They also forgot that the MSM is owned by the same people who own most of the politicians.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 10:21 PM
Jan 2017

They own all of the Republicans outright and may of the Democrats. The Democrats are somewhat held in check by us so they went with the Republicans to make the final push of their 30-40 year plan of having total control over our government.

They (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Kochs and others) have been spending lots of money in every state for many years and took over many statehouses, governorships, as well as most of the elected judiciary. They consolidated the media companies to 6 and control the message we hear to manipulate us into believing what they want and not knowing what they are up to. Under Trump they are taking direct control through the appointments of some of these plutocrats.

This is the end game now, but it is not too late! They will over-reach and hopefully we can get enough off of the couches to stand up for themselves and their country.

dgibby

(9,474 posts)
9. Me too, but of course,
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:48 PM
Jan 2017

I've been ridiculed for my C.T. leanings. Oh, well, time will tell, and I'm very fond of saying I told you so.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
8. They Do Not Care. 2010, 1014, 2016 Were All Rigged.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:48 PM
Jan 2017

They have had time to rig elections due to public complacency. Most voters are just not plugged into the details of the situation. And the MSM is colluding with them at almost every turn. The MSM reports voter fraud like it is real and epidemic or it is just ignored.

Low voter turn out has worked because their loyal base always votes. They won with 25% of the vote which is their rabid base. There were not enough of the total voter population to offet all the rigging.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
15. And we sat on our asses not freaking out.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 06:24 PM
Jan 2017

Where was the media? Oh yeah, they were to afraid of Georgie and Darth Vader. They are truly pathetic.

bdamomma

(63,875 posts)
16. well if its going to happen it will
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 06:29 PM
Jan 2017

people will get to the point they will not take this shit, you don't miss it till it's gone. So are we really the home of the BRAVE????? Sorry I am just really angry.

2naSalit

(86,647 posts)
18. It's what they want...
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:00 PM
Jan 2017

and I suspect that on 1/20 the pogrom will begin in earnest in the streets of DC.

MFM008

(19,816 posts)
5. One good thing
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:40 PM
Jan 2017

He cant DIS one media organization and say the other is credible, by the discrediting he dis's all.
The media is as responsible as maggot voters for foisting this fool on us
and I hope they suffer for it.

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
6. The best way to fight...are their pocket books
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:41 PM
Jan 2017

Most big time Republicans...well they are business owners or funded by big business. They lose enough money...greed...it begins to speak volumes.

We'll see what happens. I ain't going down without a fight. Fuck them.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
55. The senate looks dismal but that not gerrymandering but just democratic senators in trump states
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 09:31 PM
Jan 2017

The house is gerrymandered and we should win seats. How many? Not sure.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
12. I do not even think the Republican party is going to survive.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:54 PM
Jan 2017

I see Trump placing family members in choice places and when he is done one of them ( the boys ) will take over. I think this could possibly been our last election. I think 2012 was our last true election. I truly believe we have a dictator NOT a president.

moondust

(19,993 posts)
13. The Nazis and Soviets hated each other.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:56 PM
Jan 2017

Last edited Fri Jan 13, 2017, 06:52 PM - Edit history (1)

Because totalitarians do not like despise other brands of totalitarianism.

The Republicans hated the Soviets.

Because...

 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
14. We have lived this shit for 6 years in Wisconsin
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 06:02 PM
Jan 2017

this is how it works when one party is in control... they shut the other party up. And they don't care who watches it on tv. We have no power,they have no ethics or morals. I am so sorry, you all get to live in Wisconsin now.

demigoddess

(6,641 posts)
17. Rush Limbaugh said back in the 90s that "no democrat should
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 06:58 PM
Jan 2017

ever be elected to anything, not even dogcatcher." They have been working toward that ever since.

 

Mister Midnight

(50 posts)
20. Didn't Thomas Jefferson say
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:08 PM
Jan 2017

that a revolution was necessary from time to time in order to maintain a healthy Republic?

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
24. If that happens, whomever the military sides with will win
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:25 PM
Jan 2017

Right and wrong won't enter into it.

Bravery won't put a dent in it.

2nd Amendment fans with their private arms collections will kill a few before being blown to pieces, set on fire, whatever.

Don't harbor illusions.

 

Mister Midnight

(50 posts)
28. I Harbor None
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:37 PM
Jan 2017

I didn't think for a second that Jefferson was talking about a peaceful revolution. And with a wannabe Emperor and Russian puppet on the throne, well...

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
31. Point is: unless we can get the Army, etc. to side against the government
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:40 PM
Jan 2017

the revolution you mention will never happen (or will be a staggering loss for our side).

 

Mister Midnight

(50 posts)
33. Thanks to Trump Himself.....
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:47 PM
Jan 2017

...we already have the National Security state opposing him. And the last president who pissed those fuckers off didn't end up very well.

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)
26. The GOP agenda is:
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:34 PM
Jan 2017

Work with a foreign power to steal election
Eliminate ACA
Eliminate SS
Eliminate Medicare
Eliminate Medicaid
Lower taxes on the wealthy
Raise taxes on the middle class
Privatize highways
Privatize education
Crack down on marijuana in spite of state laws

There is nothing FOR the American people (There has been exactly NOTHING they have done for the American people for 40 years!)

QUESTION:
Why the fuck do you idiots for for these assholes? (God told you to vote Republican or something?)

keepthemhonestO

(252 posts)
27. you are reading my mind
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:35 PM
Jan 2017

it's as if you have taken the thoughts straight from my brain. I wonder how many of think this way.

liberal N proud

(60,336 posts)
29. We are headed into a dark period in US history
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:37 PM
Jan 2017

We will need to mount a resistance to stop them, either by law or if it comes to it force.

frogmarch

(12,154 posts)
30. Shades of Hitler
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:40 PM
Jan 2017
http://www.biography.com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144#synopsis

Snip:

Having achieved full control over the legislative and executive branches of government, Hitler and his political allies embarked on a systematic suppression of the remaining political opposition. By the end of June, the other parties had been intimidated into disbanding. On July 14, 1933, Hitler's Nazi Party was declared the only legal political party in Germany.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
34. People are too distracted and self involved to fight
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:49 PM
Jan 2017

so the Rethugs take advantage of this. Intimidation works since people don't even know their ass from a hole in the ground. They aren't paying attention - 60% at least

briv1016

(1,570 posts)
35. I've been saying since the 8th that their first order of business is to insure they remain in power.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 07:50 PM
Jan 2017

50 state voter ID, end all early voting, "modernize" (paperless) voting and finally implementing "Authorized Poll Watchers."

And of course don't forget the expansion of voter purges.

MontanaMama

(23,322 posts)
37. A conspiracy theory ocurred to me today...
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 08:12 PM
Jan 2017

I know it sounds crazy - but then again - look where we are. But, what if, just what if the reason the Urninator in Chief is appointing the worst of the worst to his cabinet at the instruction of Putin to ultimately destroy our government from the inside. To implode and unravel each department so profoundly that they can't be recovered. It seems that each of his appointees stand for the exact opposite of their future department's mission. It will be chaos. They're almost like paid bureaucratic assassins.

Then, when 20-30 million people lose their health insurance, many of them sick and or mentally ill...the powerless herd will get restless and be relatively easy to control with the promise of some sort of false security that will never come.

Again, I know this sounds just nuts. I can't believe the things I think sometimes.

Just venting.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
46. That does seem to be the direction we're heading
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 06:47 PM
Jan 2017

Surely, at least some of it is planned along those lines.

MarvinGardens

(779 posts)
39. I disagree with the pessimistic tone.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 08:59 PM
Jan 2017

But I like the first sentence.

"The boldness of the GOP should wake people up."


This horrible election is a wakeup call that good government does not just happen. Decent leaders are not just automatically elected. We must vote for them and advocate for them. Imagine if everyone on here joined a resistance group and attended protests!

If our side is led to believe that all elections are rigged beyond any ability to overcome, then they will be discouraged from voting, and it will become self-fulfilling prophecy.
 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
41. We live in a two party system that is evenly divided in a two curve pattern
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 09:10 PM
Jan 2017

As badly as Bush and the Republicans screwed up, and as powerful a position Democrats at the federal level had in 2008, there's really no way without a new party forming, for the Republicans to not regain power.

This is especially the case given that we have a geographically divided country. It makes it so that some Senate seats are effectively out of reach and it's easier to create gerrymandered House seats.

The two curve pattern matters because it means that the middle isn't the place with the most number of likely voters which would push the parties to the middle of the entire voting population. Instead we have two groups of partisans, and in general each party nominee is the one closest to the center of the party.

There is no evidence that the actual voting is rigged. Yes there is gerrymandering, but if enough people turn out to vote, then we will win. These claims that the sky is falling and that there will be no more free elections are just silly. Karl Rove was sure he was setting up Republicans to have a decades long grip on power, the media was saying the Republican party was at risk. The system is designed in a way that favors a two party system.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
52. This post is overtly dismissive of reality of gerrymandering and voter suppression..two things ..
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:29 PM
Jan 2017

... there is over whelming evidence of especially in red States.

You also intimate there will be less Russia hacking under Benedict Donald... Some thing else that doesn't make any sense at all.

Why post this here?

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
44. They Are Ruthless
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 02:17 PM
Jan 2017

Democrats have been bringing a butter knife, the right have been bringing nukes.

CrossCheck....how often is that discussed on MSM?. How quickly did the democrats say OK to computer voting?

They may have been playing even more serious hardball....the plane crash that killed Paul Wellstone was fairly suspicious, and at a time where his vote was key.

Hopefully now the democrats will awaken, the hour is late, we have to have iron resolve and be fierce about it.

Vinca

(50,278 posts)
47. This is just part of the cycle.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 06:50 PM
Jan 2017

The GOP is in now, but they'll piss off the people and then it will be Dems again. Then Dems will piss off the people and it will be Reps again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
48. What are you doing to fight back at the local level?
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 06:53 PM
Jan 2017

Are you involved in your local Democratic Party? Are you going to be donating or volunteering for a candidate? Do you plan to run for office yourself?

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
50. We Have Been Extremely Involved Since 2007.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 07:53 PM
Jan 2017

We have donated thousands of dollars to our local candidates including walking precincts, going to fund raisers and participating in caucuses. In fact I often am able to talk to my local Congressman personally very often. We have supported candidates down to the country level and even walked for them. Except for two positions we lost we won all of our state legislative seats in our county except one.

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