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  This is such a bizarre turnaround. 
  Conservatives are literally the entrenched representatives of regression or perpetuating the status quo. They are the rich elite, often privately educated, Ivy League attendees, the landed gentry, a group vested in crushing the common man and keeping their club exclusive…
  And yet they have managed to paint themselves as some kind of radical movement - a group of ‘anti-establishment’, ‘anti-government’, ‘anti-elitism’, ‘pro freedom’, ‘pro worker’ underdogs that elicit fervent devotion from people they would have imprisoned in an instant if they had the audacity to turn up at their country club gates. 
  It is turkeys voting for Christmas, grabbing a chicken and throwing themselves in the oven in a gleeful, frenzied effort to burn themselves to death, so long as the chickens get cooked too. 
  All the while the farmer is sitting back telling the turkeys they’re going to be dinner, but be sure those chickens don’t get away with not being cooked as well.
context: I don’t get it. Even if you buy the fucked up ideology, how are you proud of attempting an attack, screwing it up, and then settling for hitting an 80 year-old man over the head with a hammer? I mean, even as a bottom-feeding fascist, you should be ashamed of yourself. >
  
  Having listened to the 911 call and his interrogation by police… the guy is exceptionally stupid. >
  
  Most of them are.  It's much easier to swindle stupid people.
  They also do pretty much anything you tell them to do if you promise them something they want. >
  
  It's easier to fool people than convince them they've been fooled. >
  
  Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again. >
  
  I can't even remember the correct saying anymore. All I remember is Bush's fukken face and this beautiful nonsense. >
  
  "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."  
  Republicans have ALL forgotten that second part, and live for being fooled over and over again. >
  
  I’m convinced that W’s fub of that adage was intentional. He was speaking unscripted, got halfway in, realized he was about to say “shame on me” on record, and found a way to deny the media that soundbite. He looked foolish doing it, for sure, but it was really quite a savvy ‘mistake’. >
  
  Ever see bush speak before he ran for president? It's like a night and day difference. He was actually very well spoken and articulate.
  Either he quickly became dumber or he was putting on a "average Joe Texas" persona to win over the blue collar crowd. >
  
  Larry the Cable Guy is in Mensa >
  
  Last year at CPAC they had a big ass banner saying "We Are All Domestic Terrorists". Of course the GOP supports him. >
  
  Wait, seriously? >
  
  Yeah it was an attempt to take back the narrative that they are terrorists after January 6 in a tongue and cheek sarcastic kind of way. Conservatives are not all that good at humor. >
  
  My takeaway from that little stunt was less with what the words were and more that they have completely dropped the pretense of pretending there are things off limits anymore. >
  
  I think the main point was to deflect what liberals are pointing out.
  "gee, I guess everyone is a Nazi these days, huh"
  "oh, you think that's racism?  ok buddy everything's racist, huh"
  "sure liberals, we're just domestic terrorists.  Yup, we're aaallll domestic terrorists."
  It's a way to handwave away legitimate criticism by saying that liberals are just mouth-foaming illogical idiots with no nuance, and the conservatives eat it up. >
  
  It also demonstrates how comfortable they feel. They really are talking out both sides of their mouths.
  More like this:
  
  "gee, I guess everyone is a Nazi these days, huh"
  "oh, you think that's racism? ok buddy everything's racist, huh"
  "sure liberals, we're just domestic terrorists. Yup, we're all domestic terrorists."
  
  jk...unless?? >
  
  I just can’t with the stupid anymore. Haven’t been this depressed for so long ever, and it sucks it all comes down to these ass clowns ripping my family apart. It’s been at a personal level for me and my cousins since day 1 and it’s only gotten worse. Feel like we won’t see any significant change in a positive direction for quite some time either. >
  
  I feel you, this week I hit a new level of depressed. Hung out with my parents & sister for the first time since Christmas. Went to church with them, got lunch, it was almost nice, then they starting complaining about the "terrible progressive liberals" with me right there, knowing I'm pretty liberal. The amount of hate & ignorance they displayed was so depressing. Then my dad said he knows his political views are aligned with God because the progressive liberals want all humans to be dead and have the planet free of us, but God told mankind to have "dominion over the earth". It was just a new level of low for them, and sooooooo fucking stupid too. I guess conservative media is telling them all liberals want them dead so the environment can be better, not surprised Fox News is pitching that, but the fact that my family buys into it.... so sad, I think they are fully lost at this point. They were well educated and mild mannered people, were....
  I've just curled up on the couch after work the last 2 days. Any time I've ever tried to have a calm discussion about it, they get enraged
  I just want my family back... >
  
  
  I just want my family back...
  
  Blood relatives are not necessarily family, nor is a family static. Torturing yourself to accept people when you're at fundamental odds because of the past and/or "family is the most important thing no matter what" being drilled into your head is never going to be worth it.
  My advice is to move on and learn to not feel guilt about doing so. If you don't burn bridges on your way out, you can always reconnect later if things change. In the meantime you can choose who or what you'd like to consider family. >
  
  'He was only going to hammer her knees if she lied to him.'
  No matter what she would have told him, he would have called her a liar and hammered her knees...and then her head.  
  He was there to KILL her and the Right is still making jokes about it. >
  
  I like how conservatives think that instead of just admitting he was his gay lover having a spat, his go-to alibi was that he was going to hold Nancy hostage and potentially murder her for her lies instead, as if that makes any sense. >
  
  Think about the people making that claim - for them, being publicly known to be gay is still the more damning of the two options.  In 2023. >
  
  CBS News in Chicago named News radio 780 engaged in the most outrageous and irresponsible reporting by a major outlet I think I've ever heard a couple of days ago regarding this issue
  First they announced with great fanfare that Mr Depape was speaking out from jail. First of all, who "speaks out" from jail? You're in jail. You have to intentionally reach out to a prisoner if you want to hear what they said. The question that needs to be asked is why, when there have been a grand total of zero jailed mass shooters opinions and motives aired on this channel throughout the years, would you want to know what made this particular criminal tick? The only possible answer is to advance political violence
  Next, they went on to announce that we should all be grateful for his actions. Then something about warning others about more like him or something like this. They then went on to happily announce that this guy would be posting his thoughts and motives on social media so, stay tuned to Newsradio 78!!!
  What the absolute fuck. I've opined on propaganda lite before and it's so prevalent these days, we can't even spot it most times. But this, THIS is what they do, in a nutshell. This is the terrifying stuff. This is what will turn good public servants away from public service where they will be replaced with the next fascist. This is what motivates the subset of the most angry kool-aid drinkers sharpening their spears in the darkest corners of our society because they now know, their thoughts and motivations will be amplified by mass media if they take the big step. They don't provide any context to airing these motivations like Salon did in their writing for reporting on the same thing. They just left his words hanging out there in the breeze then moved on to whatever else their sold out writers came up with
  I can't even believe what I'm hearing from our mass media lately. They most obviously have seemed to have picked a side and in this case, it was not the side of an attempted murder victim but rather, the attempted murderer along with the long and growing list of GOP political violence apologists >
  
  Conservative violence has always been there the open support of it is new. >
  
  Which is a sign of future transgressions like Jan 6. No one learned anything other than you can sack the capitol and walk away. The 900 no names they have currently prosecuted are not the leaders, organizers or even a high percentage of those involved. A joke really, and you best believe our enemies abroad were and still are taking many notes. >
  
  Seriously, r/capitolconsequences has become a sad joke at this point, you get reprimanded for pointing out that none of the people responsible have faced any consequences and that the clock is running out for the DOJ to do anything. “The wheels of Justice turn slowly!” Yeah, well that doesn’t matter if they move so slowly that the offending party is able to reclaim power and effectively wipe the slate clean, does it? >
  
  Yup. I used to give them the benefit of the doubt but this is beyond reproach, since the top orchestrators are still in positions of power and seemingly emboldened since. Add in what happened in Brazil, and how swiftly they acted, and we are truly a joke when it comes to accountability and protecting our democracy. >
  
  Or look at what just happened in Germany: they had a right wing coup attempt and they didn’t waste a minute rounding up everyone involved. It’s almost like they know what happens if you let these things fester! >
  
  "Live in fear and do what we tell you or we will kill you". That's the World the Republicans want you to live in. That's their only policy in Washington. That's their vision of 'America'. The Bullies have taken over. >
  
  The bullies have always been in control, except for a few brief periods of progress over the years. Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt are revered for a reason, they each presided over a period where we beat the darkness back a bit. But the darkness is always waiting, always ready to do harm. And this is not a new thing in human societies, it is the norm. We could be better, but broadly speaking, we aren't. The people with the most will seem to be the ones most willing to do harm to others for personal gain. The gentle souls who want the world to be a better place are generally too easily distracted, too easily discouraged. >
  
  Roosevelt was great for the american working class...not so great for native americans though. >
  
  Or Japanese Americans. >
  
  Now? >
  
  They dropped all pretense of civility 7 years ago. >
  
  Nixon's pardon fifty years ago is a straight line to the Republican party today. >
  
  
  Not even Gerald Ford, the unhappy ex-president who pardoned Nixon and kept him out of prison, was immune to the evil fallout. Ford, who believes strongly in Heaven and Hell, has told more than one of his celebrity golf partners that "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon." >
  
  Fun reminder that Ford is the only President never elected since he was appointed his VP role and wasn’t elected as VP in an election. 
  The only President not picked by the electoral college pardoned the person who gave him the presidency >
  
  Also the president who had backdoor meetings with the DeVos family to stymie FTC proceedings against Amway, opening the door for MLMs in our economy, just a fun little fact from podcast The Dream. >
  
  Stochastic terrorism, they paint society as being over run by a bunch of random psychos and then work up, enable, and unleash the psychos on the public