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SoWal Insider
"I've known Mike Pence forever, I've never seen Pence as angry as he was today. I had a long conversation with him. He said, 'After all the things I've done for (Trump).'"
James Imhofe
I will forever find it amusing when people act shocked they have been thrown under the bus by trump. They all believed they were somehow special or immune to his vindictiveness. Loyalty has always been a one way street for that ahole.
James Imhofe
I will forever find it amusing when people act shocked they have been thrown under the bus by trump. They all believed they were somehow special or immune to his vindictiveness. Loyalty has always been a one way street for that ahole.
SoWal Insider
"I've known Mike Pence forever, I've never seen Pence as angry as he was today. I had a long conversation with him. He said, 'After all the things I've done for (Trump).'"But, Poppaj, it's so early in the courtship. How could they have known he was such a bad person?
James Imhofe
I will forever find it amusing when people act shocked they have been thrown under the bus by trump. They all believed they were somehow special or immune to his vindictiveness. Loyalty has always been a one way street for that ahole.
SoWal Insider
trump is so mentally unstable his own people want to resign but won’t because they fear the damage he may cause.
"I called [Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo last night to let him know I was resigning from that. I can't do it, I can't stay."
"Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they're worried the president might put someone worse in.”
Mick Mulvaney
"I called [Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo last night to let him know I was resigning from that. I can't do it, I can't stay."
"Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they're worried the president might put someone worse in.”
Mick Mulvaney
SoWal Insider
SoWal Insider
Spineless trump ass kissing liar and national embarrassment from Florida Matt Gaetz has a sister who thinks he’s full of it and doesn’t minded saying it.
Even Matt Gaetz's Sister Disagrees With Him on Trump's Election "Fraud" Claims
Even Matt Gaetz's Sister Disagrees With Him on Trump's Election "Fraud" Claims
SoWal Insider
Just for your information, one of our county commissioners was on Facebook declaring how unconstitutional our recent elections were, etc. etc. Most of the comments about his post were "sometimes violence is necessary". I sure wish maybe they would stop with the incendiary rhetoric, and start working on getting enough vaccine to help us fight the pandemic. There is exactly one ICU bed available in all of Walton County right now.
SoWal Insider
In trump’s America we now have walls around the White House and the Capital.
DC Guard to erect 7-foot 'non-scalable fence' around Capitol following violent riots
DC Guard to erect 7-foot 'non-scalable fence' around Capitol following violent riots
SoWal Insider
Expect mass pardons for trump’s terrorist army.
SoWal Insider
trump says Antifa will pay for it
DC Guard to erect 7-foot 'non-scalable fence' around Capitol following violent riots
DC Guard to erect 7-foot 'non-scalable fence' around Capitol following violent riots
Beach Fanatic
Just for your information, one of our county commissioners was on Facebook declaring how unconstitutional our recent elections were, etc. etc. Most of the comments about his post were "sometimes violence is necessary". I sure wish maybe they would stop with the incendiary rhetoric, and start working on getting enough vaccine to help us fight the pandemic. There is exactly one ICU bed available in all of Walton County right now.They're all around you.
SWGB
Just for your information, one of our county commissioners was on Facebook declaring how unconstitutional our recent elections were, etc. etc. Most of the comments about his post were "sometimes violence is necessary". I sure wish maybe they would stop with the incendiary rhetoric, and start working on getting enough vaccine to help us fight the pandemic. There is exactly one ICU bed available in all of Walton County right now.
Danny? He's lost my faith, support and vote. He's dangerous and I hope someone more qualified runs against him.
SoWal Insider
Lindsey Graham is so angry with trump he says he will use only one hand and no lube at their weekly run-n-tug session.
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Beach FanaticAuthor
Just for your information, one of our county commissioners was on Facebook declaring how unconstitutional our recent elections were, etc. etc. Most of the comments about his post were "sometimes violence is necessary". I sure wish maybe they would stop with the incendiary rhetoric, and start working on getting enough vaccine to help us fight the pandemic. There is exactly one ICU bed available in all of Walton County right now.If he posted publicly instead of on his own personal page I would tell him GFY,
SoWal Insider
I posted his statement below
“In October 2016 I publicly voiced my opposition to Donald Trump in the NY Times saying ‘At some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you cannot possibly justify support for Trump to your children…’
“I need to say the same about Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, who has shown his true colors as an anti-democracy populist by supporting Trump’s false claim of a ‘stolen election.’ Hawley’s irresponsible, inflammatory, and dangerous tactics have incited violence and further discord across America. And he has now revealed himself as a political opportunist willing to subvert the Constitution and the ideals of the nation he swore to uphold.
“Hawley should be censured by his Senate colleagues for his actions which have undermined a peaceful transition of power and for provoking yesterday’s riots in our nation’s capital. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to protect our country and its Constitutional underpinnings.”
“In October 2016 I publicly voiced my opposition to Donald Trump in the NY Times saying ‘At some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you cannot possibly justify support for Trump to your children…’
“I need to say the same about Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, who has shown his true colors as an anti-democracy populist by supporting Trump’s false claim of a ‘stolen election.’ Hawley’s irresponsible, inflammatory, and dangerous tactics have incited violence and further discord across America. And he has now revealed himself as a political opportunist willing to subvert the Constitution and the ideals of the nation he swore to uphold.
“Hawley should be censured by his Senate colleagues for his actions which have undermined a peaceful transition of power and for provoking yesterday’s riots in our nation’s capital. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to protect our country and its Constitutional underpinnings.”
SoWal Insider
As a German, I say this: Do not repeat Germany's De-Nazification mistakes.
Once the Third Reich fell, magically all the Nazis in Germany disappeared. The big ones were put to trial, but all the little ones disappeared.
The law-bending Nazi-judges of the Third Reich magically stopped being Nazis.
The bootlicking NSDAP-members in every town-hall and administration magically stopped being fans of Hitler.
SS-soldiers magically became good people over night.
Germany as a whole simply decided to forget that the 12 years of Hitler's rule had ever happened.
Germany as a whole simply decided to forget that there were people in their midst who had commited horrible atrocities.
Then came the 1960s. A new generation, with fresh eyes, and they were horrified by how closely post-WWII Germany resembled the Third Reich.
The shameless support for the war in Vietnam and for murderous tyrants like the Shah of Iran.
The same shameless over-the-top propaganda, except this time it was driven by sensationalist media like the "Bild"-newspaper.
The same police-brutality, with some police-officers even being former SS-members.
The same Nazi-judges meting out harsh sentences against left-wing protesters like they did during the Third Reich.
The same societal retreat into conservatism that declared new ideas to be bad.
What followed was a cultural backlash from the left that was especially bad in 1968. A radicalization of the left that even birthed bona-fide domestic left-wing terrorists. The political climate became bad in Germany. Really, really bad. Because the majority of Germans prefered to forget, prefered to pretend that these young people didn't have a point when calling out all these similarities with Nazi-Germany.
The beginning of the end of the crisis came with Chancellor Willy Brandt, a social-democrat, admitting in a landmark-speech that these left-wing protesters had a point. In the following years he step by step defused the situation, by making political reforms that made Germany more liberal, thus showing to the radical left that there is a point in non-violent political activism.
The US must NOT EVER forget what Trump and his supporters have done.
The US must NOT EVER move on.
The US must NOT EVER in any way think that this was normal.
You don't heal a country by forgetting. You heal a country by facing the problem and talking about it every single day.
If you pretend that this crisis, this hatred, ended with Trump leaving office, if you decide to forget, then this hatred will fester and be reborn in a few decades.
Maybe it will return as right-wing violence. Maybe it will return as left-wing violence.
Please mark my words: If US-society decides to forgive and forget, if it decides to move on and to go back to business as usual, if it doesn't deal thoroughly with this hatred, with this divide and its perpetrators, then there will be dark consequences down the road.
https://democraticunderground.com/100214846050
Once the Third Reich fell, magically all the Nazis in Germany disappeared. The big ones were put to trial, but all the little ones disappeared.
The law-bending Nazi-judges of the Third Reich magically stopped being Nazis.
The bootlicking NSDAP-members in every town-hall and administration magically stopped being fans of Hitler.
SS-soldiers magically became good people over night.
Germany as a whole simply decided to forget that the 12 years of Hitler's rule had ever happened.
Germany as a whole simply decided to forget that there were people in their midst who had commited horrible atrocities.
Then came the 1960s. A new generation, with fresh eyes, and they were horrified by how closely post-WWII Germany resembled the Third Reich.
The shameless support for the war in Vietnam and for murderous tyrants like the Shah of Iran.
The same shameless over-the-top propaganda, except this time it was driven by sensationalist media like the "Bild"-newspaper.
The same police-brutality, with some police-officers even being former SS-members.
The same Nazi-judges meting out harsh sentences against left-wing protesters like they did during the Third Reich.
The same societal retreat into conservatism that declared new ideas to be bad.
What followed was a cultural backlash from the left that was especially bad in 1968. A radicalization of the left that even birthed bona-fide domestic left-wing terrorists. The political climate became bad in Germany. Really, really bad. Because the majority of Germans prefered to forget, prefered to pretend that these young people didn't have a point when calling out all these similarities with Nazi-Germany.
The beginning of the end of the crisis came with Chancellor Willy Brandt, a social-democrat, admitting in a landmark-speech that these left-wing protesters had a point. In the following years he step by step defused the situation, by making political reforms that made Germany more liberal, thus showing to the radical left that there is a point in non-violent political activism.
The US must NOT EVER forget what Trump and his supporters have done.
The US must NOT EVER move on.
The US must NOT EVER in any way think that this was normal.
You don't heal a country by forgetting. You heal a country by facing the problem and talking about it every single day.
If you pretend that this crisis, this hatred, ended with Trump leaving office, if you decide to forget, then this hatred will fester and be reborn in a few decades.
Maybe it will return as right-wing violence. Maybe it will return as left-wing violence.
Please mark my words: If US-society decides to forgive and forget, if it decides to move on and to go back to business as usual, if it doesn't deal thoroughly with this hatred, with this divide and its perpetrators, then there will be dark consequences down the road.
https://democraticunderground.com/100214846050
Beach Fanatic
As a German, I say this: Do not repeat Germany's De-Nazification mistakes.This piece doesn't live in the current world of internet and right wing media. The Trump machine won't let the radicals rest. Too much profit to let them go back to normal life.
Once the Third Reich fell, magically all the Nazis in Germany disappeared. The big ones were put to trial, but all the little ones disappeared.
The law-bending Nazi-judges of the Third Reich magically stopped being Nazis.
The bootlicking NSDAP-members in every town-hall and administration magically stopped being fans of Hitler.
SS-soldiers magically became good people over night.
Germany as a whole simply decided to forget that the 12 years of Hitler's rule had ever happened.
Germany as a whole simply decided to forget that there were people in their midst who had commited horrible atrocities.
Then came the 1960s. A new generation, with fresh eyes, and they were horrified by how closely post-WWII Germany resembled the Third Reich.
The shameless support for the war in Vietnam and for murderous tyrants like the Shah of Iran.
The same shameless over-the-top propaganda, except this time it was driven by sensationalist media like the "Bild"-newspaper.
The same police-brutality, with some police-officers even being former SS-members.
The same Nazi-judges meting out harsh sentences against left-wing protesters like they did during the Third Reich.
The same societal retreat into conservatism that declared new ideas to be bad.
What followed was a cultural backlash from the left that was especially bad in 1968. A radicalization of the left that even birthed bona-fide domestic left-wing terrorists. The political climate became bad in Germany. Really, really bad. Because the majority of Germans prefered to forget, prefered to pretend that these young people didn't have a point when calling out all these similarities with Nazi-Germany.
The beginning of the end of the crisis came with Chancellor Willy Brandt, a social-democrat, admitting in a landmark-speech that these left-wing protesters had a point. In the following years he step by step defused the situation, by making political reforms that made Germany more liberal, thus showing to the radical left that there is a point in non-violent political activism.
The US must NOT EVER forget what Trump and his supporters have done.
The US must NOT EVER move on.
The US must NOT EVER in any way think that this was normal.
You don't heal a country by forgetting. You heal a country by facing the problem and talking about it every single day.
If you pretend that this crisis, this hatred, ended with Trump leaving office, if you decide to forget, then this hatred will fester and be reborn in a few decades.
Maybe it will return as right-wing violence. Maybe it will return as left-wing violence.
Please mark my words: If US-society decides to forgive and forget, if it decides to move on and to go back to business as usual, if it doesn't deal thoroughly with this hatred, with this divide and its perpetrators, then there will be dark consequences down the road.
https://democraticunderground.com/100214846050
SoWal Insider
SoWal Insider
SoWal Insider
View attachment 87783When will the UN Peace keeping forces arrive in DC?
SoWal Insider
Interesting images here. These trumpnazis came prepared for violence.
Trump Supporters Flaunt Racist Symbols At US Capitol Coup Attempt
Trump Supporters Flaunt Racist Symbols At US Capitol Coup Attempt
SoWal Insider
The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
1/07/2021
Random Observations on an Insurrection
1. This was inevitable. Anyone even casually observing the last five years knew that the Trump reign was going to end in violence. Unless you willfully put blinders on and truly believe the bullshit fairy tale of "This is not who we are." This is very much who we are. We have always been a nation filled with racist, incoherent yahoos who are on the verge of violence and whose white privilege protects them in ways that no Black or Muslim person would ever be. Those yahoos just needed a leader to tell them to go and they were gonna go, and, in Donald Trump, they found their leader, someone who is as devolved and cretinous as they are, with the illusion of strength and courage and success, all lies, all fantasy.
So when Trump asked his MAGA drones to show up in Washington, DC for a rally on the day that Congress would certify that Trump lost and Joe Biden won the presidency, what the f**k else would you expect to happen? And then he implored them to march to the Capitol, where Congress was meeting. Oh, sure, he dropped in the word "peacefully," but he also told them, "You have to show strength, and you have to be strong." Whether he intended violence or not (and I think he was desperately hoping for violence because that's the kind of b**ch he is), the idiots who think Joe Biden is a pedophile and hundreds of thousands of votes just disappeared heard exactly what they wanted to hear: It was finally, at long last, go time.
2. It could have been much, much worse. The motherfuckers built a gallows in front of the Capitol building. They talked about hanging members of Congress. And if you want to blindly dismiss that as hyperbolic bluster, go f**k yourself. These f****ng animals had zip ties with them. There were f****ng pipe bombs found, as well as a cooler filled with Molotov cocktails. They f****ng vandalized the joint, wrecking s**t and scrawling "Murder the media" on a door. The intention was to harm people. They killed a member of the Capitol police with a fire extinguisher. Do not have a single iota of doubt: If they could have gotten their hands on a Democratic member of Congress or Mitt Romney or another Republican they see as disloyal to their Orange King, they would murdered them. Christ, imagine if they got to Ilhan Omar or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, representatives who they have been told are enemy agents. And if you think that's paranoid nonsense, then you put yourself in the shoes of the Senators and Representatives in that building, hearing the doors and windows break while a hooting mob of dullards who have been told that you hate them and their America come streaming down the hallway towards where you are. You'd have s**t yourself in fear. They wanted to take over by force. They wanted a coup. This was an insurrection by people who believe a gigantic lie that is being cynically propagated by Republicans. You don't bring a Confederate flag into the Capitol unless you're making a pretty clear point about what you think of the United States government.
snip//
5a. Honestly, is there a single goddamn reason to leave Trump in office other than you don't want to bother with removing him? It's not like he's been doing the job.
6. And, in the future, listen to us on the left when we say that someone is a goddamned danger. We were right about George W. Bush. We were right about Trump. We knew the former was a vile dunderhead; we knew the latter was a maniac who couldn't handle the job and couldn't give a s**t about learning it and whose followers were going to turn violent. We were right. Everyone who said not to worry was wrong. Everyone who said that there's no difference between Democratic and Republican candidates was wrong. Everyone who told us that Trump didn't mean what he said was wrong. Every media outlet that thought Trump was a joke was wrong. We were right, all of us sad Cassandras. And we'll be right in the future.
7. By the way, Democrats won the f****ng Senate. That happened yesterday with two Senate runoff victories in Georgia. And Trump's and the Republicans' failures continue as we had the highest number of COVID deaths on a single day yesterday. We have so f****ng much work to do.
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
1/07/2021
Random Observations on an Insurrection
1. This was inevitable. Anyone even casually observing the last five years knew that the Trump reign was going to end in violence. Unless you willfully put blinders on and truly believe the bullshit fairy tale of "This is not who we are." This is very much who we are. We have always been a nation filled with racist, incoherent yahoos who are on the verge of violence and whose white privilege protects them in ways that no Black or Muslim person would ever be. Those yahoos just needed a leader to tell them to go and they were gonna go, and, in Donald Trump, they found their leader, someone who is as devolved and cretinous as they are, with the illusion of strength and courage and success, all lies, all fantasy.
So when Trump asked his MAGA drones to show up in Washington, DC for a rally on the day that Congress would certify that Trump lost and Joe Biden won the presidency, what the f**k else would you expect to happen? And then he implored them to march to the Capitol, where Congress was meeting. Oh, sure, he dropped in the word "peacefully," but he also told them, "You have to show strength, and you have to be strong." Whether he intended violence or not (and I think he was desperately hoping for violence because that's the kind of b**ch he is), the idiots who think Joe Biden is a pedophile and hundreds of thousands of votes just disappeared heard exactly what they wanted to hear: It was finally, at long last, go time.
2. It could have been much, much worse. The motherfuckers built a gallows in front of the Capitol building. They talked about hanging members of Congress. And if you want to blindly dismiss that as hyperbolic bluster, go f**k yourself. These f****ng animals had zip ties with them. There were f****ng pipe bombs found, as well as a cooler filled with Molotov cocktails. They f****ng vandalized the joint, wrecking s**t and scrawling "Murder the media" on a door. The intention was to harm people. They killed a member of the Capitol police with a fire extinguisher. Do not have a single iota of doubt: If they could have gotten their hands on a Democratic member of Congress or Mitt Romney or another Republican they see as disloyal to their Orange King, they would murdered them. Christ, imagine if they got to Ilhan Omar or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, representatives who they have been told are enemy agents. And if you think that's paranoid nonsense, then you put yourself in the shoes of the Senators and Representatives in that building, hearing the doors and windows break while a hooting mob of dullards who have been told that you hate them and their America come streaming down the hallway towards where you are. You'd have s**t yourself in fear. They wanted to take over by force. They wanted a coup. This was an insurrection by people who believe a gigantic lie that is being cynically propagated by Republicans. You don't bring a Confederate flag into the Capitol unless you're making a pretty clear point about what you think of the United States government.
snip//
5a. Honestly, is there a single goddamn reason to leave Trump in office other than you don't want to bother with removing him? It's not like he's been doing the job.
6. And, in the future, listen to us on the left when we say that someone is a goddamned danger. We were right about George W. Bush. We were right about Trump. We knew the former was a vile dunderhead; we knew the latter was a maniac who couldn't handle the job and couldn't give a s**t about learning it and whose followers were going to turn violent. We were right. Everyone who said not to worry was wrong. Everyone who said that there's no difference between Democratic and Republican candidates was wrong. Everyone who told us that Trump didn't mean what he said was wrong. Every media outlet that thought Trump was a joke was wrong. We were right, all of us sad Cassandras. And we'll be right in the future.
7. By the way, Democrats won the f****ng Senate. That happened yesterday with two Senate runoff victories in Georgia. And Trump's and the Republicans' failures continue as we had the highest number of COVID deaths on a single day yesterday. We have so f****ng much work to do.
SoWal Insider
A Karen whining. She seems surprised to be treated as a threat. She clearly says “it’s a revolution.” This was a planned attack by MAGA’s.
SoWal Insider
HOLY SHT! These trump animals literally took a sht in our capital building.
Pro-Trump rioters smeared poop in U.S. Capitol hallways during belligerent attack
Pro-Trump rioters smeared poop in U.S. Capitol hallways during belligerent attack
SoWal Insider
This is getting worse and worse. When Hillary lost her supporters knitted pink hats and donated to Planned Parenthood and BLM is just asking for equality not seeking revenge.
Beach Fanatic
And people are still mystified how Nazi Germany happened.
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