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Nicole Parsons

@Catvalente
Everything Republicans support is about:
1. Getting & keeping cheap labor
2. Preserving unfair & unsustainable social hierarchies
3. Maintaining white supremacy
4. Making the already rich, even richer
5. Imposing religious dogma on non-evangelicals
6. Bolstering the fossil fuel industry that's frying a planet & undermining democracies
7. Tax evasion
8. Converting government into a grift where taxpayers pay, without taxpayers benefiting or having a say in policy
9. Donor maintenance

23 March at 22:57 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.social
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Gatekeeper....Harris BLUE WAVE

@Npars01 @Catvalente
Don't forget dropping safeguards and laws protecting workers and public welfare...ie water pollution.

23 March at 23:31 | Open on mastodon.social
Nicole Parsons
Gatekeeper....Harris BLUE WAVE

@Npars01 @Catvalente
That's because we don't have an Attorney General..3 1/2 years missing in action.

24 March at 0:01 | Open on mastodon.social
Nicole Parsons

@GatekeepKen @Catvalente

Garland hired Jack Smith, an expert in mobs, despots, and their finances.

That's pretty astute.

Until the money behind Trump's fascist movement is investigated, prosecuted, and finally legislated, American democracy isn't safe from the billionaires frying the planet & democracy.

24 March at 0:04 | Open on mstdn.social
Gatekeeper....Harris BLUE WAVE

@Npars01 @Catvalente
Garland is incompetent. Period
He was well aware of the time factor. Every expert I've heard agrees, he dropped the ball while claiming time wasn't his guide, but getting all the facts. We don't need all the facts. Smith has overwhelming evidence, in triplets.

24 March at 0:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Nicole Parsons

@GatekeepKen @Catvalente

Garland began the denazification of the DOJ with the prosecution of Charles McGonigal & Jeffrey Clark.

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

politico.com/news/2022/06/23/l

He hasn't been able to oust Chris Wray to do the same with the FBI.

washingtonpost.com/investigati

Reminder: GOP still had control of the DOJ's budget when he was appointed & Garland's requests for funding was thwarted by Republican controlled congress & government shutdowns
cnn.com/2023/05/04/politics/ho

time.com/6336404/government-sh

@GatekeepKen @Catvalente

Garland began the denazification of the DOJ with the prosecution of Charles McGonigal & Jeffrey Clark.

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

politico.com/news/2022/06/23/l

He hasn't been able to oust Chris Wray to do the same with the FBI.

24 March at 0:31 | Open on mstdn.social
Gatekeeper....Harris BLUE WAVE

@Npars01 @Catvalente

Yes, but hasn't been able too, is not an excuse. The FBI is rotten to the core.
Nicole, pardon the language ,but he's a pussy. He's so afraid of Looking political , when the other side does it and could give af.

24 March at 21:51 | Open on mastodon.social
P J Evans
P J Evans

@GatekeepKen @Npars01 @Catvalente
Stuff it. He has a lot to do. Would you rather have the ones from Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes, the former guy?

24 March at 23:21 | Open on mastodon.social
Philip Cardella

@Npars01 @Catvalente add in replacing political discourse with violence and a lust to expand and you've got textbook fascism.*

Good thing the GOP isn't about violence in place of political debate and hasn't talked about invading Mexico and Canada.

Oh wait.

*If there was such a thing as a textbook definition of fascism. Most scholars agree there isn't. It's too amorphous.

23 March at 23:39 | Open on historians.social
unusual zone of infecundity
@philip_cardella @Npars01 @Catvalente it all makes so much sense when you look at the history and frame it in terms of a society that's fed itself by maintaining one of the most brutal and massive slave-holding institutions the world had ever seen, and has had its laws and culture and understanding of right and wrong shaped by being in that position for multiple centuries, suddenly losing the *de jure* element of that structure and spending the next 150+ years scrambling with everything they've got, by any deception or stochastic violence or blasphemous heresy necessary, to put the *substance* of everything back into the only social, economic and moral order that they can conceive of for organizing a society
@philip_cardella @Npars01 @Catvalente it all makes so much sense when you look at the history and frame it in terms of a society that's fed itself by maintaining one of the most brutal and massive slave-holding institutions the world had ever seen, and has had its laws and culture and understanding of right and wrong shaped by being in that position for multiple centuries, suddenly losing the *de jure* element of that structure and spending the next 150+ years scrambling with everything they've got,...
24 March at 1:19 | Open on brain.worm.pink
⚡️ axeshun ⚡️ :toad:

@Npars01 @Catvalente
10. Anything that bolsters the image of vladamir putin

24 March at 0:08 | Open on toad.social
P J Evans

@Npars01 @Catvalente
The short version:
Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

24 March at 23:20 | Open on mastodon.social
CassandraVert

@Npars01 @Catvalente
You peeked at their platform, didn't you? 😉

25 March at 2:16 | Open on indieweb.social
dingodog

@Npars01 @Catvalente
I would argue that 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are all subservient to 2, 3, and 4. The former are just there to achieve the latter

25 March at 2:26 | Open on sfba.social
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