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Bernardo de La Paz

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Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:22 PM Jul 12

The charade is wearing thin and people are noticing [View all]

This OP is prompted by The Gnome's latest bombast: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220479935 senseandsensibility wrote:

Noem just now at a press conference regarding Democrats

"They aren't just liberals anymore. If you look at the Democrat Party, they're a party of communists and Marxists and socialists."


Their rhetoric is getting more extreme by the hour. It's a sign of some desperation and it WON'T help them.

It won't help them because ordinary citizens, who might be low info and inclined to simply trust "the government", ... ordinary citizens will be exposed to the extremity of it more and more. As time goes on, they will increasingly get the impression that the people running the government are over the top, getting bizarre, not making sense, lying.

The regime is a bit desperate because they know they are dropping in the polls, so they want to keep their base and they think that the more extreme they paint the opposition (i.e. us), the more the citizens will rally to their side thinking the US is under attack from ... us. But it will backfire.

Little things like FEMA weak late response begin to be noticed and remembered more.

The charade is wearing thin and becoming more obvious to the people whose adherence is wavering, the people they most desperately are trying to keep away from ... us.
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Only ten years too late to save the US from destroying itself, entirely avoidably. RockRaven Jul 12 #1
All is not lost. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 12 #2
Yep! What we must NOT do is give up. calimary Jul 12 #3
Here's hoping.... surfered Jul 12 #4
These people are insane on steroids malaise Jul 12 #5
Most nitwit movements eventually implode via their own stupidity. paleotn Jul 12 #6
Noem's statement is hollow from the get-go. Republicans have claimed this about Democrats for decades. Beartracks Jul 12 #7
That doesn't mean it isn't dangerous. summer_in_TX Jul 13 #23
Hey Cuck Miller, if the "Democrat"ic Party were doing those things you would have charged them six months ago. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 13 #24
True, it is very dangerous. Beartracks Jul 13 #26
Wouldn't it be ironic if Epstein finally brings him down malaise Jul 12 #8
Here's another statement that is odorifous of irony Bernardo de La Paz Jul 12 #17
ROFL malaise Jul 12 #20
Please, Elon! Please!! Dave says Jul 12 #18
"They aren't just liberals anymore. If you look at the Democrat Party, they're a party of communists and Marxists and MLWR Jul 12 #9
I Thought They Were Complaining About... ProfessorGAC Jul 12 #10
Self-contradiction is steam-rollered over by their latest outrageous statement or action. And so it repeats. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 12 #15
" Secretary Plastic Garden Noem, why did you fire FEMA workers Hassler Jul 12 #11
ive been called those same tired old ghosts since high school where a rop called me a communist pinko pig . AllaN01Bear Jul 12 #12
It's why we all love you, AllaN01Bear! Dave says Jul 12 #19
Communism is a crappy system, but it's not the crappiest system. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 12 #13
A rose by any other name, as the Bard would say. DFW Jul 12 #16
maga thinks it is all automatically included in the new elite, but they are starting to look around nervously. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 12 #22
There is no such thing as the "Democrat Party." SunSeeker Jul 12 #14
The problem is that way too many Democrats ignored the disrespect re the party name malaise Jul 12 #21
Believe Dems will be smart to not get defensive. MAGAs digging a hole that djt isn't allegorical oracle Jul 13 #25
She has crossed over into MTG territory. Sneederbunk Jul 13 #27
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