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critical time during the campaign that somehow is designed to exonerate Putin and the Russians from having helped trump in 2016, and thus boost his 2020 run.

The days of decent Republicans are long gone.

...CrowdStrike to Zelensky, referencing a conspiracy theory about the company that confirmed Russia's attack on the DNC.

I suspect there was, and maybe still is, a plan for Barr to announce - about a year from now - that Ukraine attacked the RNC on Clinton's behalf, rather than Russia attacking the DNC on Trump's behalf. And that our own FBI was involved in a plot against Trump. But I'm not sure their Deep State nonsense is really going to win over any new converts at this point, or even muddy the water enough to have any impact on election turnout. They may just invent a new conspiracy involving the Democratic candidate.

Whatever the specifics, we can be sure the GOP Mafia will pull out all the stops.

sit up and think up schemes like the one Barr is on to cheat and steal elections—perhaps those right wing think tanks we hear about because there are constant streams of new ones that they deploy?

They never seem to run out of dirty tricks whether it be the Cloud Strike/deep state evilness or the purging of voter rolls of like Dem voters that was used in Georgia to steal the Georgia gubernatorial race from Stacey Abrams in 2018.

45 is slippery as a hagfish, and he relies on fixers like Barr to help him obstruct investigation. Disable the fixers, and you thwart the obstruction.

Get rid of his fixer so justice can be done.

Watergate only involved something like a dozen people. Child's play compared to what we're dealing with now.

referring to government---"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

I haven't heard jack from him on tRump!

Paid off?

Isn't it strange that the major voices and architects of this overwhelming twilight zone are suddenly absent?

Not a single word out of them these past three or four years........

Norquist, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc etc etc.......not a word out of them. Are they continuing to direct things from the shadows????

There is no way they are at home, spending more time with their kids and grandkids, that's for sure........

before Congress.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/politics/laura-cooper-pentagon-letter.amp.html

"The No. 2 Pentagon official told Ms. Cooper, the military’s Russia-Ukraine expert, not to talk to Congress. She did anyway.

........

The date stamp shows that the deputy secretary of defense, David L. Norquist, sent this warning letter on Tuesday, the day before Ms. Cooper was scheduled to give voluntary, private testimony. That same day, Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat of California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, signed a subpoena stating that Ms. Cooper was legally required to appear."....(more)

to finally convict him. After all, we are dealing with organized crime. We can do it.

...on going after Trump. Not with an election a little over a year away.

But, yeah, his subordinates need to be held accountable. What Barr is doing, going around the world trying to build a case that undermines our own intelligence agencies, is completely outrageous.

...as their own. They made a deal with the devil.

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This should probably be a thread all by itself, but I digress...

First, what sparked the Tea Party? Rick Santelli of CNBC advocated for a tea party after slamming Obama for wanting to bail out "losers" (i.e., victims of predatory lending and those who lost their jobs due to the recession).

So, one month after the inauguration of the nation's first Black president, the Tea Party movement began. Birtherism played a huge role, and without Birtherism (and his speech about Mexicans being rapists and drug dealers), I don't think Trump would have ever won the Republican Party nomination.

Tea Partiers and Trump have been described, by the media and others, as populists. Then, after the 2016 election, members of the media and people from all across the political spectrum (including both leftists and moderate Democrats, from Bernie Sanders to Tim Ryan) insisted that Trump won due to "economic anxiety" (which, apparently, hardly any persons of color experience). I've been pushing back against that demonstrably false narrative for nearly 3 years and touched on it again in this recent post: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212599797.

Now, let's consider a certain former member of the Tea Party caucus in Congress. This swamp creature vehemently opposes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (and, naturally, was placed in charge of it for a while). You know, the agency that is looking out for the 'little guy' by making sure people are treated fairly by Big Finance. This swamp creature vehemently opposes Medicaid expansion. This swamp creature said he only listened to lobbyists if they had given money to his congressional campaigns. This swamp creature committed campaign finance violations in his run for Congress. This swamp creature has profited off of shady land deals that have harmed South Carolina residents and small businesses. This swamp creature is currently Trump's Acting Chief of Staff.

The Tea Party types who supposedly want to "drain the swamp" absolutely adore the swamp creatures. They aren't populists. If anything, they're anti-populists. They're racist, sexist, xenophobic, conspiracy theorist assholes who despise government by and for the people. They're the people who still "strongly approve" of Trump (the 28% or so who are unreachable). Screw 'em and screw anyone who still pushes the narrative about why they vote the way they do. I have no patience for that shit.

Watching some BBC tonight I heard one MP call it "your billionaire's Brexit." I can't help thinking Brexit may have always been the plan of some Tory liars like Farage who want to get rid of sensible EU labor, social, environmental, etc., regulations that may inhibit their moneygrubbing. You know, like Republicans.

...has gripped so many countries. I've been hoping against hope that Brexit won't happen--not likely.

Well said.

being carried out by right wing subversives. It's been slow moving, and it's been going on for decades.
This has been going on in earnest since at least the Reagan era, but it was happening before then.
JFK was whacked by right wing subversives. So was MLK. To the hard right, those two were "trouble makers".
All GOP presidents in the past 40 years have been mere puppets/front men.
They control nothing. They are controlled and manipulated by right wing subversives.
Characters like Barr are not new to the scene. They've been in on it for decades.
The right wing media is their PR and propaganda operation. It did not come to be "organically".
There are no "grassroots" right wing organizations. They are all created by "think tanks" like the Heritage Foundation.
The evangelicals were conned into playing along.
Along comes Trump, and he's a loose cannon. With Trump being caught in so much illegal BS,
there is an opportunity in this impeachment venture to put a serious hurt on the coup, and those involved.

But the right wingers play the long game and Trumpism will still have life. I worry a smarter, more charismatic version of Trump will come along.

John Mitchell
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF UNITED STATES

Mitchell resigned as head of the Committee for the Reelection of the President in July 1972, shortly after the arrest of several men discovered burglarizing the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. In 1974 he was indicted on charges that he had conspired to plan the break-in and that he had obstructed justice and perjured himself during the subsequent cover-up of the affair. He was convicted in 1975 and sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison; he entered prison in 1977 and was released on parole in 1979.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Mitchell-attorney-general-of-United-States

Some right winger said that on some news show. I think a lot of my non-political democratic friends think that will be the ultimate solution, too. And if our elections were secure, I believe he would lose easily. People are sick of the 24x7 trump drama. Even a lot of repubs. They may say they'll vote for him, but in the privacy of a voting booth I think many repubs will leave the office of the presidency blank. But, we don't have secure elections. So anything goes.

Where the fuck are the Hackers for Democracy?

We're in as dire a situation as we've ever been in.

...but they'll vote for him on what is a secret ballot. That and the prospect of election fraud are enough to keep one up at night.

is that in undermining faith in government, supposedly for individual freedom (to get rich), they'll leave us with more government, and a more intrusive and corrupt government that ever, in the form of autocracy/oligarchy.