Everything you’ve said here applies equally to the Supreme Court, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, the Murdochs, Sinclair…domestic enemies all.
There is no greater example of what the MAGA Party represents than North Carolina’s own Mark Robinson. This is the man that Trump compared to Martin Luther King, Jr. Where do I begin?
1. He has referred to women as “skanks” and said things were better when women could not vote.
2. He has called gay people “filth.”
3. When a woman was brutally assaulted by her football player boyfriend, he said she had it coming.
4. He has questioned The Holocaust and denigrated Jewish people.
5. He believes life starts at conception and wants to jail women seeking abortions.
6. He said some people in this country deserve to be killed.
7. He wants to ban the teaching of science through the 5th Grade.
I could go on, but you get the picture.
This is MAGA. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina by a plurality of 300,000 votes, which says as much about the people here as it does about him.
John I swear when I think of Mark Robinson saying "Some people just "Really need killin" I hope he's talking about himself. And Trump. God help us. I pray for you all there. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
For my entire life I have been hearing that the best defense is a strong offense. It’s time to punch the bully in the face, breaking his nose and knocking out a few teeth. While putting him down on the ground, but permanently. We were attacked by a domestic terrorist with an act of war on Jan 6th. 2021. Enough of the bullshit!
I have been posting, commenting some form of this ever since, posting it to Reps, Senators, Journalists, anyone with a following. But no one ever listens.. Even before Jan 6th. Perhaps you will recognize some. "Desperate times, desperate measures" or "A fish rots from the head, cut of the head the body withers and dies." or the quote from dialog from a popular motion picture.
“If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone”
~Michael Corleone
The Godfather Part II, art imitating life..
All of these things are real and true, but so few give a shit.
If you are very involved in pro choice sm sites, such as Jessica Valenti’s TikTok page & bother to read the comments, that sentiment is almost 100% the barb thrown by male anti abortion advocates. The “You should have kept your legs closed” is their go to accusation almost exclusively. There is rarely a word even suggesting that there is a male involved at all.
It is always about blaming & shaming the female for HER behavior.
Plus the fact that his wife or a previous wife (gf?) has had 1-2 abortions, but now he’s decided it’s a punishable crime? Seems he now has a severe guilt complex so he’s going to take it out on all other women.
Those things are all true, and they should alarm all Americans. Yet when I visited back in the Midwest recently, in a red state, they seem not to know, or care if the do.
And I wondereed, who's fault is that? In part it's our horrible media's obsession with bothsiderism, but I think the Democrats are to blame too. We fail to go on the offensive, to attack and get angry. We are too complacent and fearful.
That's one of the reasons I'd like to see Harris takeover as our candidate. She can use her lawyerly ways to question and probe Trump and bust holes in his delusional thinkng. Plus she provides youthful optimism, and is a strong voice for a woman 's right to choose, a key issue in this election.
Yes!!! She would be fabulous at taking down the orange menace Margo.
You're exactly right about the Midwest Red states. At least the one I live in. They make excuses for all his bad behavior and justify anything and everything. I'll never understand how mostly good people of faith could turn a blind eye to such abhorrent behavior. It is beyond my comprehension any longer. I've tried to figure it out for years. The only thing I have left to conclude is they somehow have become convinced ours is worse. 💔🇺🇸💙🙏🏻
Tim Alberta wrote “The Kingdom, The Power, & The Glory” subtitled American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. He is an Evangelical Christian, his father was an Evangelical minister & Tim wanted to figure that out too. It’s really good, I got the audiobook.
Another good book explaining the phenomena is; “Jesus & John Wayne” by Kristin Kobes du Mez; subtitled How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith & Fractured a Nation. I thought it was an excellent explanation.
Project 2025 has finally become common knowledge and most Americans don’t like it. Trump is finally being called out as unfit for office by major news media.
Instead of directing fire at MAGA, Democrats are taking shots at Biden because he’s not a good speaker and is old. Biden understands government and has been an effective President. He’s not the best messenger for his campaign, so assign others to spread the Democratic message.
What Biden needs and deserves is unity. Let’s stop wringing our hands and give it to him.
I agree completely. Let’s get behind Joe and stop all the hand wringing. And definitely, let’s get other Dems to spread the message; we need unity and fast!!!
If you have to say you are, you aren’t . The louder you say it, the even less you are. Trump and his MAGA cult shout it because they are the least connected to American democracy and justice. It makes them pretend to be patriots while their thoughts and activities as the least American.
How many times has the most destructive force in a country used the slogan Make —-Great Again?
I wouldn’t be surprised if archeologists uncovered a banner reading Make Rome Great Again.
Women and children are invariably the victims of male aggression, but women are also the key to winning this election ........ the most important in our history.
May read as over the top hysteria rather than a cold assessment of what is being presented to us by aberrant male leaders, but women will either vote in their own and their children's interests or watch as these men, whose only desire is to control, pursue their own selfish end of might making right
Women have the potential and if they unite, our society's future and by extension the world's, will turn away from the irrational and destructive path of war to the reasonable and productive road to peace.
The following is a quote by FDR: “The liberty of democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is facism, ownership of government by an individual or by a group.”
This column is an insult -- to fascists. MAGA, not to mention Trump, is not sophisticated enough to qualify as fascist. Fascism, after all, is a coherent, if malignant, ideology. The people who subscribed to it 90 years ago could at least claim a consistent view of the world, however perverse, buttressed by some sort of reading and analysis, however biased. Hitler was unhinged but he wasn’t ignorant. Donald Trump is just ignorant, and one has to assume that the 75 million people likely to vote for him are either just as ignorant or don’t care. Trump has nothing that qualifies as an ideology; subscribing to one requires intellectual effort. He is profoundly unserious and unreflective, something you cannot say about a true fascist, or a serious idealogue of any stripe. He has half-baked, Archie Bunker ideas about the world, which is about all you can manage when you have the attention span of a housefly and no strong views about anything except Donald Trump.
Exactly! He’s got Archie Bunker mentality. However, he also has Stephen Miller and other creepy fascists who are ready to destroy our democracy. We cannot let this happen!
Chris, Trump is only adding what he wants in the way of policy, but the majority of policy has been written by the Heritage foundation and I would say it is really a theocratic policy. People are afraid to say that so fascist is second best term.
Plenty of people are now using the word theocracy to describe the policies contained in P2025, I use it all the time. The people on msnbc beginning with Nicole Wallace & then later have begun to use it frequently.
I can’t tolerate any of the journalists prior to that time except José Diaz-Ballart
That's pretty hilarious Chris. If it weren't so damn scary. I thought It was a great column. Called out Maga with his usual brilliance. But I see what you're saying about being an insult to Fascists. Most Magas aren't true idealogues. Most of them are just aggrieved bigots.
I agree. The driving force behind MAGA is the need of insecure people with feelings of inferiority to elevate themselves by labeling entire groups of people, be they gays, people of color, immigrants or any other as inferior to their special group, be they Christians, whites, wasps, or any other self-designated cohort of "superior" humans. They see themselves as Nazis saw "Aryans." In short, they employ an easy bandage to soothe their troubled egos.
Everything you’ve said here applies equally to the Supreme Court, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, the Murdochs, Sinclair…domestic enemies all.
There is no greater example of what the MAGA Party represents than North Carolina’s own Mark Robinson. This is the man that Trump compared to Martin Luther King, Jr. Where do I begin?
1. He has referred to women as “skanks” and said things were better when women could not vote.
2. He has called gay people “filth.”
3. When a woman was brutally assaulted by her football player boyfriend, he said she had it coming.
4. He has questioned The Holocaust and denigrated Jewish people.
5. He believes life starts at conception and wants to jail women seeking abortions.
6. He said some people in this country deserve to be killed.
7. He wants to ban the teaching of science through the 5th Grade.
I could go on, but you get the picture.
This is MAGA. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina by a plurality of 300,000 votes, which says as much about the people here as it does about him.
John I swear when I think of Mark Robinson saying "Some people just "Really need killin" I hope he's talking about himself. And Trump. God help us. I pray for you all there. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks Lisa. I am laser focused on showing Mark Robinson the door, plus all the other MAGA morons.
I understand your pain. I live in Florida.
I used to have fond memories of Florida. My grandmother lived in Lake Worth.
For my entire life I have been hearing that the best defense is a strong offense. It’s time to punch the bully in the face, breaking his nose and knocking out a few teeth. While putting him down on the ground, but permanently. We were attacked by a domestic terrorist with an act of war on Jan 6th. 2021. Enough of the bullshit!
Why haven t we been screaming about this since jan 7 th!! KEEEK!!!!
Some have, only others are listening now. But never quit screaming.
I have been posting, commenting some form of this ever since, posting it to Reps, Senators, Journalists, anyone with a following. But no one ever listens.. Even before Jan 6th. Perhaps you will recognize some. "Desperate times, desperate measures" or "A fish rots from the head, cut of the head the body withers and dies." or the quote from dialog from a popular motion picture.
“If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone”
~Michael Corleone
The Godfather Part II, art imitating life..
All of these things are real and true, but so few give a shit.
Biden gave a rousing speech in Detroit tonight. https://meidasnews.com/news/biden-brings-the-house-down-with-fiery-speech-in-detroit
Have to distract the SS to do that
Me too!!
A Nuremberg Rally in Wisconsin. Too bad it’s in a domed building, Leni Riefenstahl would have loved an arial view.
Mark Robinson chastised women who could not keep their skirts down…. No mention of men who could not keep their zippers up. Sums him up
If you are very involved in pro choice sm sites, such as Jessica Valenti’s TikTok page & bother to read the comments, that sentiment is almost 100% the barb thrown by male anti abortion advocates. The “You should have kept your legs closed” is their go to accusation almost exclusively. There is rarely a word even suggesting that there is a male involved at all.
It is always about blaming & shaming the female for HER behavior.
Plus the fact that his wife or a previous wife (gf?) has had 1-2 abortions, but now he’s decided it’s a punishable crime? Seems he now has a severe guilt complex so he’s going to take it out on all other women.
Those things are all true, and they should alarm all Americans. Yet when I visited back in the Midwest recently, in a red state, they seem not to know, or care if the do.
And I wondereed, who's fault is that? In part it's our horrible media's obsession with bothsiderism, but I think the Democrats are to blame too. We fail to go on the offensive, to attack and get angry. We are too complacent and fearful.
That's one of the reasons I'd like to see Harris takeover as our candidate. She can use her lawyerly ways to question and probe Trump and bust holes in his delusional thinkng. Plus she provides youthful optimism, and is a strong voice for a woman 's right to choose, a key issue in this election.
Yes!!! She would be fabulous at taking down the orange menace Margo.
You're exactly right about the Midwest Red states. At least the one I live in. They make excuses for all his bad behavior and justify anything and everything. I'll never understand how mostly good people of faith could turn a blind eye to such abhorrent behavior. It is beyond my comprehension any longer. I've tried to figure it out for years. The only thing I have left to conclude is they somehow have become convinced ours is worse. 💔🇺🇸💙🙏🏻
Tim Alberta wrote “The Kingdom, The Power, & The Glory” subtitled American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. He is an Evangelical Christian, his father was an Evangelical minister & Tim wanted to figure that out too. It’s really good, I got the audiobook.
Another good book explaining the phenomena is; “Jesus & John Wayne” by Kristin Kobes du Mez; subtitled How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith & Fractured a Nation. I thought it was an excellent explanation.
Spot on Steve. Thanks for continuing to speak out against the fascist threat to our country. I sincerely appreciate it.
Project 2025 has finally become common knowledge and most Americans don’t like it. Trump is finally being called out as unfit for office by major news media.
Instead of directing fire at MAGA, Democrats are taking shots at Biden because he’s not a good speaker and is old. Biden understands government and has been an effective President. He’s not the best messenger for his campaign, so assign others to spread the Democratic message.
What Biden needs and deserves is unity. Let’s stop wringing our hands and give it to him.
I agree completely. Let’s get behind Joe and stop all the hand wringing. And definitely, let’s get other Dems to spread the message; we need unity and fast!!!
If you have to say you are, you aren’t . The louder you say it, the even less you are. Trump and his MAGA cult shout it because they are the least connected to American democracy and justice. It makes them pretend to be patriots while their thoughts and activities as the least American.
How many times has the most destructive force in a country used the slogan Make —-Great Again?
I wouldn’t be surprised if archeologists uncovered a banner reading Make Rome Great Again.
😆 🤣 😂 That's funny. They probably will!!!
Women and children are invariably the victims of male aggression, but women are also the key to winning this election ........ the most important in our history.
May read as over the top hysteria rather than a cold assessment of what is being presented to us by aberrant male leaders, but women will either vote in their own and their children's interests or watch as these men, whose only desire is to control, pursue their own selfish end of might making right
Women have the potential and if they unite, our society's future and by extension the world's, will turn away from the irrational and destructive path of war to the reasonable and productive road to peace.
Can you please share this message with the Independents in MI, WI and PA before it’s too late?
Thank you, Steve! Keep hitting TFG/MAGA/Fascism hard. They must be exposed and destroyed.
Wonder how Mr Orban liked the chocolate cake😡
The following is a quote by FDR: “The liberty of democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is facism, ownership of government by an individual or by a group.”
From now on until sanity returns: Replace the word "Republican" by the word "MAGA." Also, replace the word "Conservative" by the word "Reactionary."
Mussolini said it first and well: "Fascism is Reactionary". The more things change the more they stay the same.
I’d call it the Retribution Party.
This column is an insult -- to fascists. MAGA, not to mention Trump, is not sophisticated enough to qualify as fascist. Fascism, after all, is a coherent, if malignant, ideology. The people who subscribed to it 90 years ago could at least claim a consistent view of the world, however perverse, buttressed by some sort of reading and analysis, however biased. Hitler was unhinged but he wasn’t ignorant. Donald Trump is just ignorant, and one has to assume that the 75 million people likely to vote for him are either just as ignorant or don’t care. Trump has nothing that qualifies as an ideology; subscribing to one requires intellectual effort. He is profoundly unserious and unreflective, something you cannot say about a true fascist, or a serious idealogue of any stripe. He has half-baked, Archie Bunker ideas about the world, which is about all you can manage when you have the attention span of a housefly and no strong views about anything except Donald Trump.
Exactly! He’s got Archie Bunker mentality. However, he also has Stephen Miller and other creepy fascists who are ready to destroy our democracy. We cannot let this happen!
Chris, Trump is only adding what he wants in the way of policy, but the majority of policy has been written by the Heritage foundation and I would say it is really a theocratic policy. People are afraid to say that so fascist is second best term.
Plenty of people are now using the word theocracy to describe the policies contained in P2025, I use it all the time. The people on msnbc beginning with Nicole Wallace & then later have begun to use it frequently.
I can’t tolerate any of the journalists prior to that time except José Diaz-Ballart
That's pretty hilarious Chris. If it weren't so damn scary. I thought It was a great column. Called out Maga with his usual brilliance. But I see what you're saying about being an insult to Fascists. Most Magas aren't true idealogues. Most of them are just aggrieved bigots.
I agree. The driving force behind MAGA is the need of insecure people with feelings of inferiority to elevate themselves by labeling entire groups of people, be they gays, people of color, immigrants or any other as inferior to their special group, be they Christians, whites, wasps, or any other self-designated cohort of "superior" humans. They see themselves as Nazis saw "Aryans." In short, they employ an easy bandage to soothe their troubled egos.
Well put, Anthony and Lisa.