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I actually think impeachment hearings against Biden could be good for him, as they will make the Republicans look stupid and Petty.
 
plus, i don't think the "if trump doesn't win 2024 we're going to kill you all" GOP message is very strong
 
dirtywick said:
plus, i don't think the "if trump doesn't win 2024 we're going to kill you all" GOP message is very strong
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For better or worse, periodic episodes of right wing stochastic terrorism are already priced into the political market.

From time to time incels are going to shoot up sorority houses, neo-nazis are going to shoot up synagogues, Christian extremists are going to fire-bomb health clinics or shoot up gay bars. These aren't threats anymore, they are practically guaranteed to happen with somewhat predictable regularity. A ghoulish as this is I don't really see this being a useful threat to cow liberal America into doing whatever the right wants, it's just part of the background noise of life in America.

If anything, having the right wing lose and direct their anger at the state opposed to random communities is an improvement, because at least the state has (or should have) the capacity to deal with this kind of political violence. Generally less concerned about a bunch of mini Jan6 attacks (assuming cops get off their asses and do their jobs, a big ask apparently) than about these CHUDs terrorizing their local synagogue or school librarian.
 
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Hercules56 said:
I actually think impeachment hearings against Biden could be good for him, as they will make the Republicans look stupid and Petty.
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And yet Republicans always seem to be able to demonize Democrats without an impeachment.
Trump can get impeached twice and do Jan 6 and still be the Republican frontrunner in the next election.

And the presstitutes who enable this get away with it.
 
I suspect Biden will never be impeached because the Repubs know they don't have the evidence. It's all accusatory showmanship because they know their idiot audience will believe anything they're told.
 
Stacyhs said:
I suspect Biden will never be impeached because the Repubs know they don't have the evidence. It's all accusatory showmanship because they know their idiot audience will believe anything they're told.
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It won't depend on whether they have evidence. It will depend on whether they want to attack fellow Republicans in the house for not supporting such a measure. If that seems useful the nutbar caucus will bring the impeachment vote, it will fail, and then the attacks begin.
 
TurkeysGhost said:
From time to time incels are going to shoot up sorority houses, neo-nazis are going to shoot up synagogues, Christian extremists are going to fire-bomb health clinics or shoot up gay bars. These aren't threats anymore, they are practically guaranteed to happen with somewhat predictable regularity.
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If only there was a group of relatively young citizens who could protect us from these fascists. We could call them Antifa. Unfortunately they don't exist.
 
Brainster said:
If only there was a group of relatively young citizens who could protect us from these fascists. We could call them Antifa. Unfortunately they don't exist.
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What exactly are you suggesting here? It's the nature of stochastic violence that attacks occur at irregular intervals at a pool of potential targets so large it's practically totally random.

Antifascist elements do tend to show up to counter protest (or more, depending on location) fascist demonstrations/riots, but that's really only practical for events in which there is advance notice.
 
isn't antifa the guys that dress up like trump supporters and then get violent? the guys from jan 6? i don't want them around, they're psychotic
 
dirtywick said:
isn't antifa the guys that dress up like trump supporters and then get violent? the guys from jan 6? i don't want them around, they're psychotic
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They hate capitalism, the US constitution, freedom of speech & press. They are our allies just like how Stalin and the NKVD were our allies against Hitler.
 
Hercules56 said:
They hate capitalism, the US constitution, freedom of speech & press. They are our allies just like how Stalin and the NKVD were our allies against Hitler.
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I don't think you quite understand what being anti-fascist (which is what Antifa stands for) means. Unless you believe the US constitution and capitalism are fascist?
 
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isn't antifa the guys that dress up like trump supporters and then get violent? the guys from jan 6? i don't want them around, they're psychotic
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Well yeah, but the good news is that more than a thousand of those antifa folks who were masquerading as Trump supporters have already been convicted, with more convictions likely to come.

On the other hand, some of the Republican presidential candidates have promised to pardon those antifa folk. I don't understand why they're so pro-antifa, but that's probably because I haven't been paying enough attention to the pro-antifa news outlets that are promoting those Republican candidates.
 
Parsman said:
I don't think you quite understand what being anti-fascist (which is what Antifa stands for) means. Unless you believe the US constitution and capitalism are fascist?
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Ehh, to actually step into this tangent for a moment - at last check, Antifa's diverse in composition. In practice, though, almost all the attention on Antifa focuses on the Black Bloc subset, because the forces with actual power prefer to keep our attention there. Why, you might question? The Black bloc is largely composed of anarchists, which makes them great targets to scream about when the target is political and/or financial gain. Even better, anarchists are somewhat notorious for how little ability they have to either gain or hold any actual power or have their voices heard, especially in the US, which makes them easy targets. Those focusing on them don't actually even need to worry much about serious violence, for that matter. There's been what, 1 murder tied to antifa in the past couple decades and even that's iffy to call murder? Those anarchists are a problem, to be sure, but more of the petty theft and potential low-level violence variety.

Still, this particular tangent is a diversion, and Brainster fairly certainly knew that when he started it. It'd be nice if the right-wing politicians and propagandists stopped actively and knowingly encouraging stochastic terrorism, but since we all know that's not going to happen, diverting focus to the failure of a group with no power or voice to stop the stochastic terrorism takes the heat off of those actually brazenly sabotaging America in ways that matter so they can keep brazenly sabotaging America in ways that matter.

Oh, and naturally, the nature of Brainster and company's aiding and abetting of terrorism and the sabotage of America is sufficiently far removed that he can pretend that his hands are clean.
 
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gnome said:
Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
I suspect Biden will never be impeached because the Repubs know they don't have the evidence. It's all accusatory showmanship because they know their idiot audience will believe anything they're told.
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It won't depend on whether they have evidence. It will depend on whether they want to attack fellow Republicans in the house for not supporting such a measure. If that seems useful the nutbar caucus will bring the impeachment vote, it will fail, and then the attacks begin.
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I agree the idiots like MTG will try to impeach him, but my point was that he won't be impeached because they know they don't have the evidence. I don't think they could get enough GOP votes to actually impeach him for that reason.
 
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I agree the idiots like MTG will try to impeach him, but my point was that he won't be impeached because they know they don't have the evidence. I don't think they could get enough GOP votes to actually impeach him for that reason.
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I want the GOP to try, and then crash and burn and see 10 or more House GOPers vote not to impeach Biden. Would be a good campaign victory for Biden, make him look like the victim of a witch hunt.
 
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