If working people were a bit more desperate about their economic situations, the wealthy believe, they’d be less likely to organize, protest, or even vote.

 

What Aristotle Knew About Oligarchy That We Forgot

In this video, we explore Aristotle’s book “Politics,” where he breaks down different types of government, including oligarchy – when the rich call the shots. Aristotle didn’t just theorize; he studied 158 constitutions from Greek city-states and beyond, giving us deep insights into how governments really work.

 

Robert Reich connects the dots to expose Republicans War on the Poor and Working Families including their opposition to minimum wage, unemployment insurance, food stamps and more.

 

Study Finds The United States Is An Oligarchy

 

The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite. So concludes a recent study by Princeton University.

If you don’t know what Oligarchy means, here’s wiki’s definition;

Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía); from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning “few”, and ἄρχω (arkho), meaning “to rule or to command”) is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, religious or military control. Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who typically pass their influence from one generation to the next, but inheritance is not a necessary condition for the application of this term.

 

Proof The US Is An Oligarchy, Not A Democracy

“A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S. is no democracy, but instead an oligarchy… The authors of this historically important study are Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, and their article is titled “Testing Theories of American Politics.” The authors clarify that the data available are probably under-representing the actual extent of control of the U.S. by the super-rich”

Throughout history, oligarchies have often been tyrannical (relying on public obedience and/or oppression to exist). Aristotle pioneered the use of the term as a synonym for rule by the rich, for which the exact term is plutocracy. However, oligarchy is not always rule by the wealthy, as oligarchs can simply be a privileged group, and do not have to be connected by either wealth or by bloodlines – as in a monarchy.

 

Thomas Hartmann explains how Reagan Republicans tuned the United States into a Oligarchy

 

MSNBC Panel Discusses U.S. Oligarchy (Pt. 1)

 

MSNBC Panel Discusses U.S. Oligarchy (Pt. 2)

The two professors have conducted exhaustive research to try to present data-driven support for this conclusion. Here’s how they explain it: the wealthy few move policy, while the average American has little power

Eric Zuess, writing in Counterpunch, isn’t surprised by the survey’s results.

American democracy is a sham, no matter how much it’s pumped by the oligarchs who run the country (and who control the nation’s “news” media),” he writes. “The US, in other words, is basically similar to Russia or most other dubious ‘electoral’ ‘democratic’ countries. We weren’t formerly, but we clearly are now.”

 

Corporate Boot-licker Sean Hannity Whines About The Rich Paying Taxes

 

Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

Government serves special interests, not people.

Per the above article: “The U.S. government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country’s citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern universities has concluded.

The report, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens” (PDF), used extensive policy data collected between 1981 and 2002 to empirically determine the state of the U.S. political system.

After sifting through nearly 1,800 U.S. policies enacted in that period and comparing them to the expressed preferences of average Americans (50th percentile of income), affluent Americans (90th percentile), and large special interests groups, researchers concluded that the U.S. is dominated by its economic elite.

The peer-reviewed study, which will be taught at these universities in September, says: “The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.”

Researchers concluded that U.S. government policies rarely align with the preferences of the majority of Americans, but do favour special interests and lobbying organizations: “When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it.”

 

Republicans must lie to survive: They have no other choice

From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the path to Republican political success is rooted in profound deception

Per the above article; “The GOP exists to serve the interests of the wealthy and big business that comprise the richest 1%. No party, however, can ever win an election with only 1% of the vote. So to win elections, the GOP must necessarily reach beyond its own wealthy core and attempt to convince a large segment of working people in the 99% to vote for Republicans.

Normally, a political party wins elections by offering policies that benefit the voters. These policies attract the voters who then cast their votes for the political party.

But for the Republican Party, this is not an option. A candidate could not possibly campaign on the policies favored by the 1%. Just imagine the stump speech. “Vote for me and I will slash your health care! In fact, I’ll do even better — I’ll fight like mad to completely eliminate your health care!”

“Vote for me and I will get rid of your pensions! This would save corporations a bundle and boost profits to the shareholders! Screw the workers!”

“Vote for me and I promise to ship your jobs overseas under globalization! The exact same labor can be hired in Asia for only pennies! Hurray!”

The Republican Party is left with only one option. It cannot possibly be honest about its true intentions and actual policies. The working class would never vote for them. Instead, the only option is to lie”.

Proof of how Republican’s policies are bad for working class people is how California Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Larry Elder ran on a platform of eliminating the minimum wage.

 

The definition of Propaganda is;  “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view”.

If you’ve been watching nothing but Right Wing Media, you’d be shocked by the information they haven’t been reporting which the majority of people see on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, etc. Right Wing Media outlets spins news so it’s always favorable towards Republicans.

FOX News pundits (and other Right Wing Media outlets) are helping destroy the United States & Democracy by promoting lies, hate, conspiracy theories, omission of the facts, etc to keep their viewers in the dark about the damage Republicans has been doing to the United States, it’s citizens and outright lies such as the 2020 election being “Stolen” and Trump “Won in a landslide”.  Example shown on this page.

 

Strategist for GOP 2008 McCain / Palin Presidential campaign Steve Schmidt explains how Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have destroyed America

 

The “Fox-Can-Lie Lawsuit” established that they’re not required to be truthful by law. Since Fox has established that they have the legal right not to be truthful, Fox Opinion Hosts are free to tell their Right Wing viewers that Democrats are “Radical Leftist Socialists” who want to take away your guns & freedom, that Republican policies are good for this country, that Trump’s a rational person and the MSM (Main Stream Media) such as ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post etc is “Fake News”. ALL the exact opposite of the TRUTH.

 

Right Wing media outlets brainwash their viewers into believing the Mainstream Media is “Fake News” so they only watch Right Wing Media sources. This helps them make more money because MORE VIEWERS = MORE PROFITS in advertising. And it helps Republicans get re-elected, against the best interests of middle class and poor Americans. Right-Wing outlets want to KEEP their viewers brainwashed so they never watch legitimate news and learn the truth about the damage Trump and Republicans have been doing to our country while screwing over “the little guy”.

 

 

How Fox News and Right-Wing Media Brainwashed This Dad and Destroyed a Family

‘It was like some alien took over his body.’ Right-wing media brainwashed Jen Senko’s once open-minded father, but the story didn’t end there.

 

 

Fox News staffers agree: Fox is not a news organization

Multiple Fox News employees told media reporters that newly released filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the right-wing network show that Fox prioritizes its prime-time opinion programming over its news division. They echo what past staffers who have left say: Fox is a propaganda network for Republicans.

Per the above article: “Multiple Fox News employees told media reporters that newly released filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the right-wing network show that Fox prioritizes its prime-time opinion programming over its news division. They echo what past staffers who have left say: Fox is a propaganda network for Republicans”.

Anonymous quotes from Fox staffers show Fox is not a news organization

In response to incendiary revelations in two recent filings released as part of Dominion’s defamation case against Fox News, as well as a host of supplemental exhibits also provided by Dominion, the rift between the façade of Fox’s “news side” and its actual core business as a Republican propaganda outlet has grown into public view.

• A Fox News journalist told CNN that “the opinion folks are probably right in that there really isn’t a lot of love lost between us and them.”
• According to The Daily Beast, a Fox reporter “wondered how [Fox primetime host Tucker] Carlson could continue to work for the company after it was revealed that he was demanding at least one journalist be fired for doing their job.”
• A Fox producer told The Daily Beast: Carlson “acts like the king of Fox. Entitlement. Extremely unprofessional.”
• One Fox correspondent told The Daily Beast: “Honestly, Tucker is a joke, and I don’t know many in the news division that likes or respects him. He makes our jobs harder and way more dangerous.”
• A senior Fox staffer told CNN media correspondent Oliver Darcy that he was correct and “should keep saying” that the Dominion filings made it clear that Fox isn’t a news network.
• A news production staffer at Fox told The Daily Beast that it’s always been “opinion first, news secondary” there: “The news side has always been kind of used as a bit of a shield, a bit of a legitimacy play. And I think that in and of itself is, it’s kind of falling apart now.”
• A Fox producer referenced the criticism of Fox’s reporters revealed in the filings, telling The Daily Beast: “If journalists are being criticized for being hard on the Trump admin or truthfully talking about the election, it’s a form of censorship. The news division is being given less importance.”
• A Fox reporter called out Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott in The Daily Beast’s report for “clearly not looking out for the news side,” adding: “How can we all continue to work for her?! How can anyone watching Fox for news believe that they’re gonna get news if she’s in charge? We are not happy.”
• A veteran Fox journalist told The Daily Beast that “Tucker has publicly attacked and humiliated journalists here at Fox before,” so “it shouldn’t be a surprise that he was trashing us behind the scenes.”
• One Fox correspondent told Brian Stelter, writing for Vanity Fair of the released text messages from Fox’s prime-time opinion hosts: “We thought they hated us, but now we know it in their own words.”
• A Fox staffer told CNN that “people are really shocked and disgusted” by what was revealed in the filings, adding: “Even longtime staffers. You would think after all we’ve been through nothing could surprise us. But this is unprecedented.”
• A Fox reporter told The Daily Beast that the fallout from the filings is “demoralizing, deflating and soul-crushing” to a journalist.
• More than one Fox employee told Stelter “we’re all embarrassed” by the filings’ contents.

Fox staffers in the past have also explained how the network operates like a propaganda outfit rather than a news organization

“This reaction to the contents of the Dominion filings is not the first time current or former Fox staffers have called out the network for being little more than a GOP propaganda shop; Fox veterans Chris Wallace, Carl Cameron, Shepard Smith, and Chris Stirewalt all agreed that Fox’s core business is not news once they left the network. Wallace called it “unsustainable” that Fox questioned the 2020 election results and downplayed the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Cameron said that “over the years, the right-wing hosts drowned out straight journalism with partisan misinformation.” According to CNN, Smith believed “that his presence on Fox became untenable as opinion shows on the network spread falsehoods that hosts knew were lies.” Stirewalt admitted that Fox became “an arm of a political party” during the Trump years. And there was even more on-the-record criticism of the network from former employees who said they were “increasingly embarrassed by the channel,” which had become “a destructive propaganda machine” during the Trump era”.

Additionally, a September 2019 report from The Daily Beast attributed the following anonymous quotes criticizing the network to then-current Fox staffers:

• “Fox has acted like state media for a long time. This is just one small element to it.”
• “As an employee, I have had concerns about how close Fox has become with the White House and the administration. I don’t think I’m the only person there who has these concerns. …
• With these layoffs in multiple news departments coming just a few weeks before the election, it looks like Fox is more like an extension of this administration, instead of a news network.”
• “The opinion team appears to have won the internal battle” with the news side.
• The leaders of the Fox News website “are not interested in facts. They are obsessed with pitching ‘on-brand’ stories that include Blue Lives Matter, anything antifa-related, anyone who has suffered during BLM protests that can put the protestors in a negative light, anything that threatens Christianity, and anyone who is a Trump supporter who has somehow been wronged.”
• “The Brain Room, in their research, came up with facts that were not used in Fox reports or were in contradiction to what Fox aired. I have to imagine that kind of tension has always existed there, between the fact-checkers and what is often reported.”
• Top Fox executives have “long been unsupportive of real, unbiased reporting. They do not see themselves as a real news operation in the sense that people are doing original work, trying to break stories and get to the bottom of things, wherever the chips fall.”

 

As shown in the above screen shot from FOX’s Jessee Watters show, the chyron makes the outrageously false claim that “Biden Convicts Trump”, a lie Trump and other Radical Right Wingers has been using to SMEAR, DEMONIZE and make their brainwashed viewers hate President Biden so they’ll vote Republican, against their own best interests.

 

Trump has been spreading the ridiculous lie that Joe Biden is responsible for Trump being indicted in New York, Georgia, Washington & Miami and has weaponized the government to go after him and engage in “Election Interference”.

There’s not a shred of evidence that Biden has encouraged State or Federal Prosecutors to “go after” Trump.

 

Why Fox is ‘the most destructive institution in all of American politics’

 

FOX SUED FOR SPREADING 2020 ELECTION LIES

FOX News SUED for spreading 2020 election lies. Court documents show hosts Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and others knew Trump’s voter fraud claims were false, but continued peddling them to maintaining ratings.

For years Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham & the rest of Fox News were enraging viewers on air, while laughing at them off-air. Their lies lead followers to mount a deadly attack on our Capitol.

 

FOX LIED to their viewers about “Stolen” and “Rigged” Election claims… putting PROFITS above the TRUTH and PATRIOTISM

 

2 Weeks after the Election was called for Joe Biden, Fox Pundits cast doubt on the results nearly 800 times

Fox pundits repeatedly aided Trump’s efforts to undermine election results, laying the groundwork to cry foul if Trump lost, echoing debunked theories of fraud, pushing the idea that Democrats are trying to “steal” this from him, and arguing that Trump is justified in pursuing his claims of a rigged election. This pattern of coverage continued in the lead-up to the day of the riots.

 

Explosive findings showing that top Fox News hosts did not believe the 2020 election was stolen.

 

Tucker Carlson And Sean Hannity Forced To Sit For Depositions In Defamation Case

Some of Fox News’ biggest stars have been forced to sit depositions in the ongoing defamation lawsuit against the network. Both Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson have reportedly been deposed, among others, and this looks to be the one time that Fox can’t get out of serious trouble for what their hosts and guests said on the network.

 

One of the key lessons we have learned from these filings in Dominion’s case against Fox is there’s nothing too low, nothing too extreme and nothing too dangerous. If the base likes it, the base gets it—because Fox knows where their bread is buttered.”

 

Docs show Fox hosts didn’t believe election lie

Lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News show that the network’s primetime hosts didn’t believe election lies being spread by Donald Trump and his allies and even found them to be “unbelievably offensive” and the real harm to democracy that persists today.

 

Text messages between FOX hosts show they knew Trump’s voter fraud claims were lies but continued to peddle those same lies on TV.

 

 

Fox News Exposed for Peddling Trump’s Big Lie

 

Judge in Fox News case tears into the network

The judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems’ massive defamation case against Fox News has sanctioned the right-wing network and said that he plans to appoint an outside attorney to investigate whether they lied to the court and withheld key evidence

 

BS,’ ‘Insane,’ ‘Crazy,’ ‘Nuts,’ ‘Reckless,’: Fox News legal bomb goes off

Bombshell new evidence in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit amps up pressure on Fox News. A new filing reveals star Fox News hosts knew Trump’s election claims were “BS” and “insane” but peddled them and promoted them on air anyway. The text and email evidence shows even Fox News titan Rupert Murdoch called the conspiracies “really crazy stuff.”

 

Hear what Tucker Carlson privately said about Trump’s lies

 

Lawsuit filing shows Fox hosts didn’t believe election fraud lies they pushed on TV

A new court filing shows top executives at Fox News and leading network personalities privately dismissed former President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud after the election even as they peddled those same lies on TV. The filing is part of an ongoing defamation lawsuit filed against the network by Dominion Voting Systems.

 

Tucker Carlson Warned Staff Trump Would Destroy Fox If They Didn’t Back His Lies

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is apparently living in constant fear of Donald Trump, according to court documents that were released this week. Following the 2020 election and Fox’s decision to call Arizona for President Biden, Carlson texted one of his producers and said that Trump was the “king” and that he could destroy Fox News if they didn’t continue to peddle his election lies.

 

Fox News host Tucker Carlson texts exposed calling Donald Trump satanic after the Fox News lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems surfaces the truth and proves how much Tucker Carlson lies to his viewers.

 

 

Trump tries to make his own criminal indictment about Joe Biden

Biden allies, legal experts and strategists say silence may be the best option even in the face of a torrent of Trump attacks.

Per the above article; “When Donald Trump announced to the world Thursday night that he had been indicted on a raft of federal charges, his message was consistent and singularly focused: Joe Biden is using the government to crush his political comeback. That the attorney general appointed by Biden had named a special counsel to helm the investigation — a move intended to insulate the president from a decision to prosecute — was omitted by Trump and the battery of Republican allies who quickly rushed to his defense. And it’s likely to be a nuance lost on voters, as the indictment stokes Republican fears about political bias inside the Justice Department.

Trump’s announcement that he had been indicted began, “The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys,” going on to call it a “boxes hoax” and “election interference.” Nearly every statement after that continued to invoke the president for his predecessor’s problems. A centerpiece of Trump’s defense is: ‘This is a political prosecution brought against me by the Biden government.

Asked during a news conference Thursday what he could tell Americans to convince them they should trust the Justice Department’s independence, Biden responded that his record in office belies the accusations he now faces.

“You’ll notice, I have never once — not one single time — suggested to the Justice Department what they should do or not do on whether to bring any charges or not bring any charges,” he said. “I’m honest.”

 

BUSTED! The Dishonest Methods FOX Uses to Make Their Viewers Disrespect and Hate Joe Biden

Fox News was caught red-handed deceptively editing a sound bite to Joe Biden say something he didn’t say. This was another “scandal” they invented to make their viewers hate Joe Biden & Democrats, the very party which stands up for the Middle Class and the Poor.

 

Fox News laying the groundwork for the next big lie about non-existent fraud

Fox News lies about poll numbers in the above video, claiming Trump is so far ahead that the only way Biden can win is if Democrats rig the election.

Pretty rich when TRUMP paid Hush Money to silence a porn star keep the American people from finding out about his adulterous affairs to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, engaged in a corrupt & illegal smear tactic to destroy Joe Biden as a potential 2020 Democrat candidate by demanding the Government of Ukraine publicly announce investigations of Biden before Military Aid would be released. After learning that he lost the 2020 election, Trump REFUSED to admit defeat and LIED claiming without any proof that the election was ‘stolen’ and he ‘won in a landslide’. Trump demanded Georgia Election Officials “find votes” to help him STEAL the 2020 election. Trump used legal tactics to challenge the election results in 50 lawsuits and when those challenges didn’t work he resorted to inciting his followers to engage in a violent COUP to overturn the 2020 election to stay in power against the will of the people. This violent coup was the final act committed by the most Lawless and Corrupt administration in American History. In addition, lawless congressional Republicans behaved like spoiled brats, voting to overturn the election results in Congress, because they didn’t want to accept the fact they they LOST.

After all of the lawless, rotten behavior Trump and Republicans engaged in, Fox “News” propaganda peddlers have a lot of nerve insinuating ‘Democrats’ might ‘steal’ the 2024 election. These people are ROTTEN to the CORE and have no decency or shame.

Angelo Carusone, President of Media Matters and Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor under President Obama join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with a look at how right wing media, and Fox News specifically are setting the expectation for their audience that it is not possible for President Biden to win a second term without some type of nefarious activity, stoking the same lies that fueled the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

 

See Fox News hosts humiliated as FBI Biden ‘informant’ gets arrested for lying

For months, the right-wing media promoted claims from an “informant” to make their case against the Bidens. But after the informant was arrested for lying to the FBI, the Fox News primetime hosts were oddly silent.

 

Fox News fearmongering backfires on live TV

When Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels attacked a “migrant shoplifter” live on Fox News, it fit perfectly with the right’s narrative about “illegals” and “rampant crime.” Except after the cameras turned off, a little more reporting and digging revealed the truth.

 

FOX, Republicans and Right Wing Media caught LYING about veterans kicked out of a New York hotel to make room for Migrants

 

Fox News runs with fake story about migrants displacing homeless veterans

Fox News went all in on a story about migrants displacing veterans from a New York hotel, featuring it on no less than 15 different shows. The network even claimed to have substantiated the reporting themselves. But then the whole thing unraveled.

 

Laura Ingraham gets fact-checked by Juliet Jeske of Decoding Fox News for misrepresenting the conviction of anti-choice protestors.

 

CNN rolls tape on Fox hosts’ public spin vs. private pleas

As Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade were frantically texting Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows on the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, CNN’s John Berman shows how the Fox News anchors were reporting the event publicly.

 

Inside the unprecedented partnership between Fox News and the Trump White House

 

Hear the Giuliani off-air audio Fox News withheld from Dominion lawyers

Alex Wagner shares exclusive audio recordings made by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg while she was a producer for Maria Bartiromo that show members of Donald Trump’s team being less confident in private about evidence against Dominion Voting Systems than was being expressed on Fox and by Trump himself.

 

The most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives at Fox News privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite the right-wing channel allowing lies about the presidential contest to be promoted on its air, damning messages contained in a court filing revealed.

 

Fox suit: Carlson pushed Trump team to denounce Powell—to save himself

When the Trump campaign announced they had cut ties with Sidney Powell, we assumed she had finally gone too far, even for Trump. “But now we know in fact Tucker Carlson pushed them to say all of that because he questioned Powell—and his viewers hated him for it,” says Chris Hayes.

 

Busted: Fox News caught on secret recording amid billion dollar lawsuit for peddling lies

MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on a bombshell leak in the billion dollar legal earthquake rocking Fox News and its Chief Rupert Murdoch. The New York Times obtaining a recording of a Zoom meeting with Fox’s CEO and the network’s top anchors, which reveals an internal panic over losing viewers for reporting accurate facts. CEO Suzanne Scott saying “if we hadn’t called Arizona… our ratings would have been even bigger.”

 

Dominion suit has proven that Fox sells lies

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes the latest filing in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox where Chairman Rupert Murdoch admits that his network’s hosts “endorsed” lies, and explains why Tucker Carlson and other Fox hosts live in fear of their audience finding out about those lies.

 

Fox News chief admits it in bombshell: We went from numbers to ‘endorsing’ lies

MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on the fallout at Fox News following Rupert Murdoch’s shocking confession under oath that is rocking his media empire. Murdoch confessing that some Fox hosts “endorsed” Trump’s election lies, admitting he did nothing to stop it. Murdoch adding he “seriously doubted” Trump’s claims from the very beginning. Melber breaks down Murdoch’s testimony, saying Dominion’s evidence against the network is “damning.”

 

Hannity admits the lie as ‘time travel’ scandal hits Fox News empire

Fox News is on defense and facing over a billion dollars in potential punishment for fueling Donald Trump’s election lies. The CEO of Fox News Suzanne Scott admitting President Biden was legitimately elected despite the network’s coverage. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on explosive legal filings that show top Fox hosts didn’t believe the 2020 election was stolen, as more evidence is expected to be released.

 

Fox News host admits to cheering for US division in order to boost ratings

As the US traverses division, CNN’s SE Cupp reacts to Fox News host Jesse Watters saying on-air that he wants to see disarray on the left and that it is good for their network’s ratings.

 

Rupert Murdoch told Fox News CEO to boost Republicans in “any way we can.”

 

Tucker Carlson Is The Biggest Hypocrite At Fox News

The Dominion lawsuit against Fox News has revealed that Tucker Carlson publicly supported the former president while privately despising him. Elsewhere, Oklahomans rejected an effort to legalize recreational use of marijuana.

 

Fox News host Sean Hannity admitted under oath that he never believed Trump was cheated of victory in the 2020 presidential election. David Shuster breaks it down on Rebel HQ.

 

TEXTS REVEAL Sean Hannity TOOK ORDERS From Trump White House

Jesse talks about what newly public text messages reveal about the relationship between Fox New’s Sean Hannity and Donald Trump’s White House in the aftermath of Trump’s 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. In text messages between Sean Hannity and WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Hannity replied with “Yes sir. On it” when ordered by Meadows on how to talk about the election.

 

Texts show Sean Hannity behaving like a member of Trump’s Whitehouse team

 

Bombshell Text Evidence Ties Trump Allies to Coup Plot

Explosive new stats evidence in the January 6th committee probe was revealed. CNN obtaining more than 2,000 leaked text messages with Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows revealing communications before the riot and in the moments after it. From Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asking Trump to declare martial law to Donald Trump Jr. asking to “condemn” the riot to Sean Hannity taking orders from Meadows. Ari Melber reports on the new evidence and is joined by Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal who calls on Attorney General Garland to act immediately.

 

Jan 6th Committee EXPOSES Fox News & Laura Ingraham’s COLLUSION with Trump

 

 

 

What Fox News hosts said privately vs. publicly on Jan. 6

In private text messages on Jan. 6, Fox News hosts condemned President Trump’s response to the attack. In public, those same hosts deflected blame from Trump.

 

Fox News Hosts, Trump Jr. Texts Reveal Everyone Was Horrified By Riot—Except Trump

“Here is the raw truth that is exposed in just those few text messages. Everyone—except for the actual mob and Donald Trump—was on the same page as they watched the horrifying insurrection transpire,” says Chris Hayes. “Everyone else immediately recognized that it was wrong, that it was horribly dangerous and destructive, and that the president alone was controlling it and could stop it.”

 

Jan. 6 Committee Releases ‘Explosive’ Texts From Sean Hannity

Private text messages shed light on how Fox News host Sean Hannity acted more like a member of Trump’s team and advisor rather than an independent “journalist” who just reports the news

 

‘Foxitis’: MAGA Rioters Use Fox News Defense To Fight Criminal Charges

One of the alleged rioters who stormed the Capitol is claiming Fox made them do it, his lawyer coining the phrase “Foxitis” for his defense. This defendant is not the first rioter to blame the conservative outlet for their actions on January 6. MSNBC’s Ari Melber discusses how the network’s misinformation affects Americans and how a “Foxitis” defense may play out in court.

 

Hannity confession: See smoking gun evidence as Fox chief Murdoch forced under oath

Fox Chief Rupert Murdoch is testifying in a billion-dollar lawsuit defamation suit, accusing Murdoch and the network’s anchors of “repeatedly and knowingly” pushing false claims. Fox denies wrongdoing and argues It was reporting on newsworthy claims. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the legal implications of Murdoch’s testimony, and what it could mean for the future of his media empire.

 

On January 6, Right-Wing Media Is Living In Another Universe

Most major news networks aired last night’s 1/6 hearing in full — and then there’s right-wing media, which seems to live in an alternate universe. In spite of facts and a 10-month-long investigation, Ayman says, “a whole separate reality has been manufactured by the right.”

 

FOX Refused to Air Jan. 6 Hearings to Keep Their Viewers In The Dark

While all major TV Networks committed to Air the Jan. 6 Hearings FOX Refused to Air them apparently to prevent their viewers from learning the truth about the extent of Republicans attempted coup to overthrow the U.S. Government and STEAL the 2020 Election.

 

25 years of dangerous lies from Fox News: “There is a direct pipeline from what appears on Fox News to the absolute worst manifestations, worst behavior, worst elements of our politics and society.”

 

Former Fox News Host Says They Lie by Omission.

 

Former Extremist Nails Fox News For Marketing Hate

A former extremist named Frank Meeink now spends his time educating others about hate and working against the crowds he once ran with. And recently, he called out Fox News for doing little more than “re-marketing hate” to the American public. His assessment is spot on, as Fox News has always peddled in hate bordering on extremism, but they have brought plenty of the most extreme ideas from the hate crowd into the mainstream.

 

Lies and Disinformation from Right Wing Media and Republicans are destroying the United States

 

Radicalization is infesting airwaves of pro-Trump media

CNN’s Brian Stelter explains how the country faces radicalization as some right-wing media outlets flood the airwaves with conspiracy theories and disinformation.

 

Former Fox News analyst says Fox has become ‘destructive propaganda machine’

 

Ex-Fox News analyst: Trump is a danger to the US

 

Republicans must lie to survive: They have no other choice

From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the path to Republican political success is rooted in profound deception

Per the above article; “The GOP exists to serve the interests of the wealthy and big business that comprise the richest 1%. No party, however, can ever win an election with only 1% of the vote. So to win elections, the GOP must necessarily reach beyond its own wealthy core and attempt to convince a large segment of working people in the 99% to vote for Republicans.

Normally, a political party wins elections by offering policies that benefit the voters. These policies attract the voters who then cast their votes for the political party.

But for the Republican Party, this is not an option. A candidate could not possibly campaign on the policies favored by the 1%. Just imagine the stump speech. “Vote for me and I will slash your health care! In fact, I’ll do even better — I’ll fight like mad to completely eliminate your health care!”

“Vote for me and I will get rid of your pensions! This would save corporations a bundle and boost profits to the shareholders! Screw the workers!”

“Vote for me and I promise to ship your jobs overseas under globalization! The exact same labor can be hired in Asia for only pennies! Hurray!”

The Republican Party is left with only one option. It cannot possibly be honest about its true intentions and actual policies. The working class would never vote for them. Instead, the only option is to lie”.

Right Wing Media has been extremely effective in propagating and reinforcing Republican’s lies to brainwashed viewers.

Proof of how Republican’s policies are bad for working class people is how California Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Larry Elder ran on a platform of eliminating the minimum wage.

 

Fox News C.E.O.’s Strategy at Center of $1.6 Billion Lawsuit (Published 2022)

Suzanne Scott remade Fox News Media into a lucrative consumer brand. But a defamation suit against the company is a test of her strategy and leadership.

Per the above article from the New York Times; “Since Scott took over the top job at Fox News in 2018, her colleagues said, she has managed from behind the scenes with a simple mantra: Respect Fox’s audience. Often that involves sparing conservative viewers what they don’t want to hear — even when that means ignoring one of the biggest stories of the year.

That strategy has helped Fox News succeed not just as the most-watched cable news network in the country but also as a multibillion-dollar consumer brand with a suite of businesses that, according to a recent company promo for one product, offers fans “The World According to Fox.”

But Scott’s Fox News — a sanctuary for conservatives where few unpleasant facts intrude and political misinformation has spread — also looms large in a case that threatens Fox’s business and possibly Scott herself. She has emerged as one of the central figures in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems, in which the voting company accuses Fox executives of juicing ratings and profits by repeatedly airing false information about Dominion machines siphoning votes away from former President Donald Trump”.

The FOX News Network has put PROFITS & PARTISANSHIP above PATRIOTISM and telling the TRUTH

 

Fox News complains about legitimate news outlets not reporting their fake news ‘bombshell’ stories

 

“Morning Joe” Joe Scarborough calls out Fox News and other conservative media outlets for hyping and lying about Hillary Clinton Spying claims saying; ”They know that they’re lying to their audience, that they’re liars, and they’re deliberately lying about that”.

 

BOMBSHELL SCANDAL: Fox News Hosts Texted Meadows Amid Riot, Urged Intervention

The January 6th committee revealed text messages in which Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and Brian Kilmeade begged Mark Meadows to get Trump to call off the riot while falsely claiming to their viewers that the rioters weren’t Trump supporters.

 

Fox News Pundits Partisan Double Standards & Hypocrisy EXPOSED

After getting busted for text messages to Mark Meadows Fox News Pundits Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson whines about their “private” texts being exposed to the public.

 

Tucker Carlson acts like a Spoiled Brat Psychotic Punk in the above video cutting off an ex-cop, abruptly ending the interview when confronted with information which didn’t fit his narrative.

 

 

You Literally Can’t Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox’s Lawyers

Fox News viewers don’t expect facts from Tucker Carlson, according to network lawyers who defended their star in a slander lawsuit filed by a woman who said she had an affair with President Trump.

Per the above article; “You can’t expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson’s mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson’s critics. It’s being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News’s own lawyers. U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil’s opinion, leaning heavily on the arguments of Fox’s lawyers: The “‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary. ”

 

 

Title from Youtube; “Why Tucker Carlson pretends to hate elites”

Description from Youtube; “Tucker Carlson has branded himself as a populist, condemning the “liberal elite” that he argues makes up the American “ruling class.” It’s a good shtick, and it’s helped him stand out from other Fox News hosts. But while Tucker decries the “elite” on his show, he regularly ignores major stories of Republican economic policies that harm the working class, choosing instead to focus on bogus culture war stories.

That isn’t an accident. Carlson’s show is meant to distract Fox News viewers from Republican economics, channeling their frustration and anger at groups that don’t deserve it. That kind of misdirection produces what Marxist theorists call “false consciousness”: when workers are tricked into accepting their own exploitation”.

 

When spoiled kids whine

Saying the White House “can’t not give us a pass,” Tucker Carlson shows why we need a better class of rich people

Per the above article; “Nothing says “spoiled child” like Tucker Carlson. The son of wealthy Republican William Carlson, a former Los Angeles television anchor who became the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and a U.S. ambassador, Carlson used his family connections to sail into journalism. Except for a brief moment when he seemed willing to ruffle the powers that be – his first George W. Bush profile for Talk magazine comes to mind – he has done nothing but afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable in his career. Examples of his partisan ethics abound, but my favorite was his shrill defense of Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame case while never acknowledging that his father headed Libby’s defense fund. Wealthy Republican family values at work”.

 

 

Why Tax Breaks For the Rich Don’t Create Jobs

Republicans tax cuts which benefit the RICH show how Republicans are bought and paid for by the RICH and only care about the RICH

 

 

Trump’s leaked speech about making the rich even richer. Behind closed doors, he tells his billionaire friends he’ll make them even richer.

 

 

Trump Promises to Keep Billionaires Taxes Low

 

Mitch McConnell Makes Shocking Admission That Wealthy Donors Own Republican Senators

Republican Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a piece of legislation that would ban publicly-traded companies from spending money on politics, and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is absolutely furious. According to reports, McConnell snapped at Hawley during a Republican lunch meeting this week, and McConnell reminded Hawley that without big money donors they wouldn’t have seats in the Senate. This is a clear admission that wealthy donors are buying seats for Republicans.

 

 

Trump will cut taxes for billionaires and stick you with the bill.

 

 

Larry Elder Thinks California’s Minimum Wage Should Be $0 an Hour

The gubernatorial recall candidate said in an interview that the state’s workers guaranteed a base pay of zilch

REPUBLICAN Candidate for Governor of California, Larry Elder thinks California’s Minimum Wage should be $0 an Hour

 

President Harry Truman explains the difference between Republicans & Democrats at the 1948 Democratic Convention

 

 

REPUBLICAN Senator Ron Johnson caught Protecting the RICH

 

KEVIN MCCARTHY & REPUBLICANS ARE FOR THE RICH!

 

How Tax Breaks Helps the RICH

 

 

Republicans are Corporate Boot-lickers who are bought & paid for by the RICH

The above video exposes how Republicans are hypocrites who engage in, and condone Socialism for the Rich in the form of corporate bails-outs, tax payer funded sports stadiums, farm subsidies (22 billion in 2019 when Trump was President), but harsh “pull yourself by up by your own bootstraps” Capitalism for everyone else.

 

Secrets the Rich don’t Want You to Know

Video shows how Reaganomics and tax breaks for the rich don’t work. Paul Ryan and Republicans are Bought and Paid for by the Rich.

 

Republicans Plan To EXPLODE The Deficit With New Tax Cuts For Rich

The new Republican tax cut plan, written by Vern Buchanan, would add $3.5 TRILLION to the deficit and would be a historic wealth transfer from the working class. May 25, 2023

 

Republicans Tax Cut Is a Scam which only benefits the Rich, doesn’t help create jobs and is the worst domestic policy legislation in a lifetime

 

Who gains and who loses under the GOP’s tax bill

 

GOP Tax Bill Is Biggest Transfer To The Wealthy In U.S. History

President Trump doesn’t want his voters to know what’s in the GOP Tax bill because it is exactly the opposite of what he campaigned for and is the biggest transfer of wealth to the richest Americans in U.S. history.

 

Trump’s claims that he would not benefit under the GOP Tax plan is a lie as shown in the above video.

 

GOP Like ‘Pigs At The Trough’ Of Donald Trump’s Tax Bill

Lawrence O’Donnell compares the behavior of Republican Senators who will be enriched by the Trump-GOP tax bill to Senators he worked with who would have been “embarrassed” by serving special interests.

 

Americans brace for fallout from GOP tax bill: corporations happy

The concerns that Americans are facing now that Republicans have passed their tax bill, and the new windfall banks and telecoms are eager to enjoy.

 

Mitch McConnell: Bought and paid for by Special Interest Lobbyists

 

Sherrod Brown Exposes GOP Tax Bill Dirty Secrets

 

Sherrod Brown blasts the GOP Tax Cuts

 

Ohio Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown calls out Republicans “War on Workers”

 

Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law

That’s peanuts compared with what the Koch brothers will save.

Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions

 

Republican tax proposal steals from the poor to give to the rich

Ten years ago Vicki Lozano and her husband Ted lived in a lakeside home and owned a string of retail stores in the Sacramento area. Then came 2008 and the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression.They lost their home and businesses. The stress soon took its toll on their health, too.

 

 

Ben & Jerry explains in simple terms who benefits from Trump / GOP Tax Bill and how those cuts effect much needed programs which benefit the poor and middle class

 

Corporate BOOTLICKER Sean Hannity Whines About The Rich Paying Taxes

 

Fox Anchor STUNNED When She Suddenly Realizes The GOP Lies For Greed

 

ADDING ANOTHER 1.5 TRILLION TO THE DEBT IS IRRESPONSIBLE OF REPUBLICANS

An Anti-Growth Tax Cut | National Review

Republicans’ proposed $1.5 trillion tax cut is irresponsible and anti-growth.

The National Review and other Conservative publications confirm… adding another 1.5 TRILLION to the debt is IRRESPONSIBLE, especially at a time when tax cuts aren’t needed. We currently have record low UN-employment and a booming economy.

 

HERE’S THE REAL REASON WHY REPUBLICANS WANT TO THROW THE MIDDLE CLASS, POOR AND SENIORS UNDER THE BUS

Koch network ‘piggy banks’ closed until Republicans pass health and tax reform

Koch officials said that the network’s midterm budget for policy and politics is between $300m and $400m, but donors are demanding legislative progress

 

Why doesn’t Republicans Care that the Majority of Americans Oppose their Tax Bill?

Thanks to a combination of gerrymandering, voter-suppression techniques, and a seemingly endless amount of campaign contributions, which can be used to tell voters the GOP’s tax bill is the opposite of what it actually is, Republicans may have convinced themselves they can win elections, en masse, whether voters approve of their records or not. They can do as they please because, in their minds, the consent of the governed is now little more than an annoying, irrelevant detail.

 

Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown Slams Tax Cuts For Wealthy

 

Sen. Chuck Schumer Explains the GOP Tax Scam

 

A new Institute for Policy Studies analysis of major US corporations paying less than 20 percent of earnings in federal corporate income taxes shows that more than half cut jobs since 2008 and increased CEO pay to more than $13 million. Among the companies that slashed jobs? Well their CEOs made more – $15 million.

 

Video explains how Republicans exploded the debt, starting with Ronald Reagan to give tax breaks to the rich.

 

 

 

Per the above article; The fossil fuel industry is a poster child for corporate welfare.

“Federal subsidies and tax breaks prop up fossil fuel development, even when drilling projects should be too expensive to turn a profit. Below-market leasing rates, royalties and fees subsidize oil and gas companies, encouraging them to exploit our public lands and leaving taxpayers on the hook for the environmental damage.

In the “Build Back Better” Act, Congress has an opportunity to make oil and gas corporations play by the same rules as everyone else. The House has included common-sense oil and gas reforms in its version of the bill, and the Senate should follow suit.

Taxpayers should get a fair return from oil and gas companies that drill on publicly owned lands and waters. The House bill would make this change. Right now, these polluters pay below-market rates to extract resources that belong to all Americans.

The federal government’s current 12.5% royalty rate for onshore drilling was established by the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. It has not been updated for more than a century, even where technological advances have reduced the financial risk of drilling. By contrast, states are far more aggressive in ensuring their taxpayers are not ripped off — even states that tend to be friendly to fossil fuel companies — with Wyoming and Utah collecting about 17% in royalties and Texas going as high as 25%.

Modernizing the federal royalty rate would provide huge benefits to Americans. Taxpayers lost out on more than $12 billion over the past decade because polluters weren’t paying fair market rates for drilling on public lands and waters, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense. Recovering these dollars would enable Congress to allocate more money to other programs in the bill, including those that protect the environment and make it easier for families to afford the rising costs of childcare, pre-K and higher education.

The House’s Build Back Better Act also closes a legal loophole that leaves taxpayers, instead of oil and gas companies, on the hook for cleaning up shut-down wells. Under the current requirements, the bonding coverage that polluters purchase up front to make sure environmental remediation costs are paid doesn’t come close to covering the actual cleanup costs. In effect, that means that oil and gas companies can profit off pollution, then leave taxpayers to deal with the mess they leave behind”.

Republicans have declared War on Voting, using Voter Obstruction tactics, Voter Purges, making it illegal to give water to people waiting in long lines, decreasing Drop Boxes, decreasing the days and hours people can vote and more.

 

To Republicans, winning at all costs is a “Zero Sum Game”. They know the only way they can win, is if you lose.

 

RNC unveils ‘radical’ plan to upend voting in America

The RNC’s Lara Trump unveiled a new plan that would radically reshape voting in The United States. It includes pushing for stricter voter ID laws and ending early voting and mail in voting.

 

Republicans Attempting To Make Voting More Difficult With 165 Restriction

From voter ID laws to limiting mail-in ballots, Republican lawmakers in 33 states are considering 165 different laws that would make it harder to vote.

 

Republican-Backed Wisconsin Mayor PERSONALLY INTERFERES IN ELECTION by Removing Ballot Drop Box

 

GOP states turning Trump’s Big Lie into legislation

CNN’s Brianna Keilar discusses how many Republicans are trying to change voting laws after losing the House, Senate and presidency in 2020.

 

Georgia Republicans try to remove Thousands of Voters to Rig the 2024 Election for Trump

 

The GOP knows it can’t win without passing laws to make Voting more difficult.

 

The Party Of Voter Suppression

The Republican effort to make it harder to vote continues unabated, with hundreds of thousands purged from voter rolls in two key states. Aired on 12/17/19.

 

 

Election Violence Escalates: Right-Wing Extremists Opt for Bullets Over Ballot

Will the 2024 election be marked by voter purges and violence rather than democratic participation? Trump’s far-right supporters are running cars off the road, red states are enacting draconian voter purges that leave millions unable to vote, and those who speak out are ending up in jail

 

Republican Judge Orders 234,000 Voters Kicked Off Wisconsin Voting Rolls

 

Wisconsin Republicans Force Vote During Pandemic

 

‘They saw an opportunity to suppress the vote:’ Lt. Gov. on Wisconsin GOP forcing voters to polls amid pandemic

Mandela Barnes, the Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, on the state holding an election amid a global pandemic: “We got to this point because of a long trend of voter suppression that’s been going on across the state and across the country.”

 

Election deniers train GOP poll workers to be ‘undercover spies

A CNN exclusive report examines how some GOP leaders in Wayne County, Michigan, could be interfering in the election process.

 

Republican Robocalls Try to Stop Minorities From Voting in Detroit, MI

 

Aug 25, 2021 UPDATE: FCC Brings The Hammer Down on Trump-Supporting Activists Over Racist Robocalls

Description from YouTube: “Two Trump-supporting conservative activists, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were charged with targeting tens of thousands of Black voters with robocalls meant to discourage them from voting by mail, and who were also flagged to the FCC, which responded with a recommendation of a fine of over five million dollars”.

This another example of how LAWLESS & RUTHLESS Republicans are. In this case, they got caught and will have to face the consequences for their actions.

 

Republican Senator from Mississippi, Cindy Hyde-Smith caught on video saying “it’s a great idea’ to make it harder for liberal folks to vote”.

 

“Republican Caught On Tape Explaining How She’ll Redistrict Black Democratic Colleague Out Of Office”

Unable to win elections fair-and-square, Republicans have increasingly relied on “redistricting” areas that they would have no chance of winning into more favorable seats. And while the practice should be considered an affront to the very idea of an open democracy, it has apparently become so commonplace for lawmakers that one was just caught on tape explaining how she planned to use the technique to defeat her African-American Democratic colleague.

Rep. Janet Adkins was at a private gathering during a meeting of the Republican Party of Florida. Rather than focus on things like plugging the numerous holes in the Republican sinking ship, Adkins was hatching a plan to steal the election instead. According to tapes secretly recorded and leaked to POLITICO, Adkins wanted to kick long-time liberal congresswoman Corrine Brown out of office by carefully redrawing her district to include as many prisons as possible. Prisoners, you may recall, cannot vote. But first, she made everyone swear that there were no reporters in the room that would rat on her.

More proof Republicans engage in and condones Voter Obstruction.

How can anyone vote for and support a Political party which engages in such hateful, anti-democracy activities.

 

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer reports on the unprecedented wave of state election laws aimed at restricting voting rights after many states loosened restrictions in 2020 amid the pandemic.

 

National Security Officials Pen Open Letter On Voting Rights

 

 

Leaked Video: Right-Wing Group Brags About Drafting GOP Anti-Voter Bills

 

Fox News Host Calls Out Texas Governor’s Racist Voter Suppression Bill

Fox News host Chris Wallace finally said what no one else on his network have ever had the courage to say, and he asked Texas Governor Greg Abbott point blank if the point of his voting bills was to suppress people of color. The governor clumsily danced around the issue, but the facts pointed out by Wallace are clear: Texas has absolutely no reason to try to scale back availability of voting resources unless the overall intent is to suppress the vote.

 

GOP Is Actively Working to Restrict Voting in Key States

Republicans are using false claims of voter fraud as fuel to limit voting. In Georgia, Republicans are trying to end Souls to the Polls and make it illegal to hand out water and food to voters in line.

 

Ali Velshi reports on a variety of measures state-level Republicans are promoting to make voting more difficult, absent any governing ideas to earn more votes and win elections honorably. Aired on 02/27/2021.

 

Civil Rights Group Sues To Block New Iowa Voting Restrictions

The League of United Latin American Citizens in Iowa sued the state’s leadership Tuesday over a restrictive voting law passed the day before, the first in a wave of legal clashes expected to take place as Republican-led state legislatures ready an onslaught of voting bills that critics say will result in widespread voter suppression. Iowa’s law is part of a broader wave of GOP-backed voting legislation that aims to curb access to the ballot box.

 

Long voting lines in the US is one of the many ways Republicans make it harder to vote

 

CNN’s Don Lemon discusses the new voting law in Georgia that restricts ballot access and gives state officials more power over local elections.

 

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock talks with Rachel Maddow about the new Georgia voting law and the broader fight to secure voting rights and democracy itself as Republicans across the United States use every means at their disposal to preserve their power. Aired on 03/27/2021.

 

GOP Repeats Voter Suppression History

“They are digging in the archives for methods of voter suppression and targeted attacks on enfranchisement of Black and brown folks—while also attacking the teaching of the history that would illuminate to people why that effort is so dangerous,” says Chris Hayes.

 

Texas Republican Governor Decreases Drop Boxes

An abrupt order by Republican Texas governor Greg Abbott to reduce the number of ballot drop boxes to one per county causes outrage.

 

Voters sue Texas governor over ballot drop box limit

Voters are suing Texas Governor Greg Abbott after he restricted voting drop boxes in the state to one per county.

 

Texas GOP Unveils Over Two Dozen Bills Targeting Early Voting Laws

 

TRUMP FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT VOTER FRAUD

Trump Pushes Voter Fraud Claim Without Evidence

 

Trump continues to add false and exaggerated statements to his already lengthy list of bogus voter fraud claims.

There is no evidence to back up Trump’s blanket claim that “mailed ballots are corrupt.” Voting experts say the president is exaggerating when he says mail ballots are “fraudulent in many cases.” While the instances of voter fraud via mail-in or absentee ballots are more common than in-person voting fraud, the number of known cases is relatively rare.

Trump also falsely claimed that California reached a settlement with Judicial Watch in which the state “agree[d] that a million people should not have voted.” California and Los Angeles County agreed to remove inactive voters from their voter rolls per federal law. But there’s no evidence any of them voted, fraudulently or otherwise.

And as he has in the past, Trump claimed there’s “a lot of fraudulent voting going on in this country.” Experts say voter fraud is rare.

Trump’s latest round of voter fraud claims came as Wisconsin struggled with an election at a time when residents were wary of going to polls during the coronavirus pandemic.

Some Wisconsin Democrats, including Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, urged to hold the election by mail and suspend in-person voting. Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers tried to move the state’s April 7, but after a Republican challenge, the state Supreme Court ruled the governor’s decision was unconstitutional and the election went off as scheduled on April 7 with long lines and fewer polling places.

 

The real reason Donald Trump hates mail-in ballots

Trump is continuously attacking — saying it will lead to a fraudulent and rigged election. Chris Cillizza explains why the widespread election fraud Trump claims will happen is, well, unlikely.

 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proved how much he hates our Democratic process, and his Democratic colleagues, in a speech on the Senate floor this week when he accused Democrats of a “political power grab” by trying to make election day a national holiday. Nothing scares Republicans more than the thought of people actually being allowed to vote.

 

REPUBLICANS COMMITTING VOTER FRAUD

“In those few cases where voter fraud actually occurs – it tends to be Republicans committing it. Meet John Enright, Republican candidate for supervisor in Pinal County, Arizona. Enright just dropped out of the race after accusations surfaced that his companion – whom he lived with until her death in 2007 – has been voting from the grave for five years since her death. Enright claims he’s dropping out of the race for other reasons – and denies any role in illegally voting on behalf of his former companion. Seems fishy, though. And then there’s Ann Coulter – one of the most shrill, hateful Conservative voices on television. As reported by the BradBlog – in both 2002 and 2004 – Coulter illegally cast absentee ballots in Connecticut – despite her ACTUALLY being a resident of – and living in – New York. That’s voter fraud.

Just like it was voter fraud when former Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman voted in 2010 – claiming his Governor’s mansion in Utah as his official address – even though he no longer was Governor – and no longer lived in the mansion. Just like it was voter fraud when Indiana’s Republican Secretary of State – Charlie White – the top election official in the state – was found guilty of several felony charges like lying on voter registration forms, voting in the wrong precincts, and submitting false ballots”.

 

Five Republicans Kicked Off Michigan Ballot For Election Fraud

Five Republican gubernatorial candidates in Michigan – including the two frontrunners – have been kicked off the ballot for using fraudulent names on their petitions to be on the ballot in the first place. One Republican already voluntarily dropped out after being implicated in the scandal, which means that the majority of the candidates in the race likely committed election fraud.

 

Trump supporter charged with voting twice in Iowa

 

3 Residents of Trump-Loving Florida Retirement Community Arrested for Voting Twice

Three members of The Villages, two of which are registered Republicans (according to a Rolling Stone report), were nabbed for allegedly casting two ballots during the 2020 election.

 

Another Trump Supporter Has Been Arrested For Voter Fraud

 

Trump Supporter Gets Busted For Voter Fraud, Then Charged With Murder

 

Man Who Pushed ‘Dead Voter’ Fraud Claims Turned Out To Be Fraudster Himself

 

Election fraud scandal brings new election in North Carolina

 

Republican’s Election Rigging and Fraud In North Carolina

 

PA Republican reveals there was fraud in state’s election … by GOP

GOP Pennsylvania state Representative Seth Grove said that the state did see small-scale election fraud in the 2020 election, but that it was done by Republicans. CNN’s John Berman speaks to Philadelphia’s election commissioner Al Schmidt about Rep. Grove’s comments.

 

Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook, a new film from American Issues Initiative, reveals for the first time and in frightening detail the dark, partisan genius behind the decades-long strategy to disenfranchise nonwhite voters.

 

Suppressed 2021: The War On Democracy • Voter Suppression Documentary

We are witnessing the biggest attack on voting rights since Jim Crow. Hundreds of voter suppression bills have been introduced in 43 states. These bills include measures to end voting by mail, enact racist voter-ID laws, cut early voting hours, and eliminate automatic voter registration.

 

Voter Intimidation Billboards

Voter Intimidation Billboards like the ones above appeared in during the 2012 election in Cleveland, Columbus and Milwaukee. They popped up just as early voting began in Ohio. Civil rights groups charged these intimidating billboards were meant to frighten lawful and confused voters away from the polls.

Reports of similar scare tactics, such as robo-calls and threatening flyers, designed to deter voters in black and Latino neighborhoods recur each election year as polls begin to open. As Brentin Mock has reported for Colorlines, early voting has been a crucial part of increasing black turnout and tea party groups in states like Ohio and Florida have worked to limit it, under the guise of combating voter fraud.

 

Historian Carol Anderson traces the evolution of voter suppression tactics, from poll taxes and literacy tests instituted after the passage of the 15th Amendment to the rise of strict voter ID laws and poll closures after the election of America’s first Black president. Anderson argues voter suppression is rooted in white supremacy and White rage.

 

Anonymous Funder Pulls ‘Voter Fraud’ Billboards Rather Than Reveal Itself – Colorlines

After widespread outrage, Clear Channel finally invoked its policy against anonymous political ads.

Civil rights groups charged these intimidating billboards were meant to frighten lawful and confused voters away from the polls. Color of Change launched a petition demanding Clear Channel remove the ads, as the company has done previously with campaigns it deemed too controversial.

According to Reuters, Clear Channel belatedly invoked its policy against anonymous political advertising. When offered the choice between identifying itself and removing the ads, the “private family foundation” behind them chose to take them down, Clear Channel said.

 

Ohio voter fraud billboards to come down, sponsor stays unnamed

More than 140 billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin warning of the criminal consequences of voter fraud will be taken down starting on Monday after the sponsor chose to remove them rather than reveal its identity, the billboard owner said.

Funder Of Billboards Exposed

The anonymous funder of more than 140 threatening billboards in black and Latino neighborhoods across Ohio and Wisconsin has chosen to take down the ads rather than identify itself, according to Reuters. The billboards played on the myth of “voter fraud,” invoking law and order images like a judge’s gavel over the words “Voter Fraud Is a Felony!” and listing jail time as punishment.

Revealed: Joint Investigation by One Wisconsin Now & theGrio Uncovers Anonymous Funder of Voter Suppression Billboards

Milwaukee’s Einhorn Family Foundation, Recipient of Bradley Foundation Money, Confirmed As ‘Private Family Foundation’ Behind Billboards Madison — A joint investigation by theGrio news service and One Wisconsin Now has uncovered that Milwaukee’s Einhorn Family Foundation is the “private family foundation” that anonymously funded voter suppression billboards in Wisconsin in September 2010 and again this year.

According to this article, Private Family Foundation is responsible for these billboards; onewisconsinnow.org/press/revealed-joint-investigation-by-one-wisconsin-now-thegrio-uncovers-anonymous-funder-of-voter-suppres.html

 

Texas governor limits election drop boxes to one per county in sprawling state | CNN Politics

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation Thursday limiting the amount of drop-off locations for mail-in ballots to one site per county.

Per the above article; The move significantly affects the Democratic stronghold of Harris County, which is the state’s largest county by population — one of the most populous in the country — and covers a massive area. It must now reduce its 12 drop-off locations down to one starting on Friday, according to Elizabeth Lewis, spokeswoman for the Harris County Clerk’s Office. Travis County, which includes the reliably Democratic city of Austin, must limit its four drop-off locations to one.

Other large counties — like Tarrant, Dallas and El Paso County — only had one drop-off location already in place.

Judge Lina Hidalgo, the top elected official in Harris County, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “PrimeTime” Thursday evening, “There is no reason for this decision to limit us to one drop-off location other than voter suppression.”

Calling the drop-off sites “secure” and “safe,” Hidalgo urged Texas residents to consider, “If these leaders truly are doing right by you, why are they so afraid of you voting?”

“I’m reminding our residents here in Harris County, our citizens, that we are not to be intimidated. That this is a time to participate, and, yes, it’s going to be harder and, yes, they’re trying to confuse and they’re trying to suppress the vote, but for that very reason, we need to show everyone who’s watching that we’re going to participate because it’s about democracy.”

The state’s Democratic party chair, Gilberto Hinojosa, labeled the step a “blatant voter suppression tactic” in a press release.

“The governor is making it harder for people to vote in the middle of a global pandemic that has claimed the lives of over 16,000 Texans,” the group said in a statement. “It is a shameful, blatant act of voter suppression that will disproportionately impact the large number of Black and Latinx voters in Texas’ biggest counties.”

 

 

 

 

Former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich explains the longtime Republican plan to slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

 

Republicans Creating Commission To Figure Out How To Cut Social Security And Medicare

Social Security and Medicare are still on the chopping block with Republicans, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced this week that a new “budget commission” being created will look at potentially cutting the programs. This is political self-destruction for Republicans, but millions of people may end up suffering before political retribution could be dealt at the ballot box. Jun 4, 2023

 

Republicans Release Plan to GUT Social Security

Jun 15, 2023 A panel of Republican lawmakers have just released their newest plan to strip you of your social security and Medicare benefits.

 

Trump’s proposed tax cuts on Social Security & tips are a scam which would provide tax cuts for the wealthy & pennies for low- and middle-income families

 

 

Per the above article: “Raising the Retirement Age for Social Security Would Cut Benefits by Thousands of Dollars Each Year

Far-right Radical Republicans plans, endorsed by Project 2025’s authors, to increase the full retirement age would cut benefits for nearly three-quarters of Americans and threaten low- and moderate-income workers with economic insecurity once they leave the workforce

 

REPUBLICAN Trump adviser Stephen Moore Says the AARP is one of the Most Evil Organization in America

Trump adviser Stephen Moore stated at the 2024 CPAC: “The AARP is one of the most evil organizations in America. They have got to go”. Reminder that Trump introduced a budget to cut Social Security and Medicare every single year he was in office.

Per an article at theguardian.com, “Stephen Moore, who withdrew from Fed consideration after sexist remarks were uncovered, is also the co-author of the Radical Project 2025 effort” to turn the Presidency into a Dictatorship if Trump is elected in 2024

“Project 2025 is all about forcing a far-right agenda on to everyday Americans,” said Tony Carrk, the executive director of the progressive watchdog Accountable.US, which produced an extensive report on Moore’s views and positions. “So it’s no wonder they tapped a notorious social security opponent like Stephen Moore to help write their policy schemes.”

Moore, Carrk said, had “dedicated his career to slashing social security benefits and taxes for billionaires”. Like other welfare programs such as Medicare, social security is a longstanding target of the US right but also something of a third rail for politicians of either party, given public support.

Joe Biden has said he “will not cut a single social security or Medicare benefit”.

 

 

Ronald Reagan telling the Truth about Social Security Versus Mitch McConnell LYING

 

Republicans are Debt Ceiling Hypocrites who spend more & raise the debt when a REPUBLICAN is President then demand cuts in spending when a Democrat is President

 

 

Republican Senator: Social Security Is UNFAIR To The Rich!

Republican Senator Ron Johnson seems to think his constituents don’t understand the concept of social security, calling it a “nanny state” program at the Senate Budget Committee hearing called “Protecting Social Security for All: Making the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share.”

 

VIDEO PROOF: Republicans Want to Cut Social Security

Republicans has been wanting to cut Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare for YEARS. In the above video Republican Senator Mike Lee stated: “It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up from the roots and get rid of it”. Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott is called out by FOX NEWS John Roberts for wanting to Tax the Poor plus eliminate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Republicans like Johnson make false claims of Social Security counting towards the national debt.

 

Mike Pence: It’s Time to CUT Social Security

Mike Pence went on TV and said the quiet part out loud when he talked about the Republican’s plan to privatize social security.

 

The GOP is Sacrificing Americans so Billionaires Can Profit Even More

Right wing billionaires (who pay an average income tax of 3.4 percent) think the world is made up of “makers” and “takers.” 45,000 Americans die every year because they lack health insurance, including those who can’t access Medicaid.

 

Nikki Haley says she’s fine with “reforming entitlements” because it’s what her billionaire friends want.

 

 

‘Damaging cuts’ to Medicare and Social Security are looking more likely with McCarthy as House speaker. Here’s what it will mean for retirees.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made concessions to far-right GOP members to win his seat, which likely include cuts to Medicare and Social Security.

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS

Hard to understand why so many seniors vote for Republicans when their TOP priority is cutting Medicare and Social Security.

 

 

 

Republican Leaders Plot Forcing Choice Between Economic Ruin Or Social Security And Medicare Cuts

New reporting and interviews with Republican leaders have clarified House Republicans’ intent to use threats to block an increase to the debt limit – which could lead to a default and a major economic crisis – subject to demands for policy concessions.

Per the above article: “New reporting and interviews with Republican leaders have clarified House Republicans’ intent to use threats to block an increase to the debt limit – which could lead to a default and a major economic crisis – subject to demands for policy concessions”.

The Bipartisan Policy Center projects that the debt limit will need to be raised in the third quarter of 2023. Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) published a report last year titled: “Breaching the Debt Ceiling Could Harm Millions of Americans and Produce Economic Devastation.”

Debt limit fights were a hallmark of Republican congressional majorities during the Obama presidency, at the time Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell likened the tactic to hostage-taking. House Republicans now say one of their “top priorities” for a ransom in any future debt limit standoff would be demands for cuts to Social Security and Medicare:

Punchbowl: McCarthy On Debt Limit, Immigration And Ukraine

McCarthy signaled that Republicans would again hold the debt limit up for policy changes.
As we all remember, the debt limit was one of the bruising battles of the Obama presidency under then Speaker John Boehner. The U.S. government’s credit rating was downgraded for the first time ever following that 2011 debacle, but GOP lawmakers apparently are ready to try again in order to force “structural changes” to popular entitlement programs including Social Security and Medicare.

Here’s McCarthy on the debt limit:

“You can’t just continue down the path to keep spending and adding to the debt. And if people want to make a debt ceiling [for a longer period of time], just like anything else, there comes a point in time where, okay, we’ll provide you more money, but you got to change your current behavior. We’re not just going to keep lifting your credit card limit, right? And we should seriously sit together and [figure out] where can we eliminate some waste? Where can we make the economy grow stronger?”

We reminded McCarthy that he didn’t pitch these debt limit battles during the Trump era, during which the GOP ran up $7 trillion in new debt in only four years, including pandemic relief funding. Congress raised the debt ceiling three times during Trump’s presidency. Republicans only hold the borrowing cap hostage when Democrats are in the White House. McCarthy countered that President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have spent too much money, in his view.

We asked McCarthy if he intended to try to reform entitlements as part of the debt ceiling debate. McCarthy said he wouldn’t “predetermine” anything.

Bloomberg Government: Entitlement, Spending Cap Plans Linked by GOP to Debt-Limit Deal

“Social Security and Medicare eligibility changes, spending caps, and safety-net work requirements are among the top priorities for key House Republicans who want to use next year’s debt-limit deadline to extract concessions from Democrats.

The four Republicans interested in serving as House Budget Committee chairman in the next Congress said in interviews that next year’s deadline to raise or suspend the debt ceiling is a point of leverage if their party can win control of the House in the November midterm elections.

The Republican position — which members are still formulating — could set the stage for an explosive standoff next year, reminiscent of the 2011 negotiations when the Tea Party wave of Republicans took on the Obama administration over spending.”

It’s also possible Republicans will demand process-focused legislation — such as requiring a reduction in the debt-to-GDP ratio — that could subsequently put major entitlement programs in play.

If Congress doesn’t raise or suspend the debt limit by the deadline, the federal government would default on payments officials had already agreed to make. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned during 2021 negotiations that a default would be “a catastrophe” and could cause a financial crisis.

“The debt limit is clearly one of those tools that Republicans — that a Republican-controlled Congress — will use to make sure that we do everything we can to make this economy strong,” said Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) , the ranking member of the House Budget Committee. He’s seeking the top GOP spot on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee but said if he doesn’t get it, he’ll remain in his Budget Committee position.

Reps. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), and Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) are seeking the top spot on the Budget Committee if Smith gets the Ways and Means role. Those three agreed Republicans must use the debt-limit deadline to enact fiscally conservative legislation. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), head of the Republican Study Committee’s Budget and Spending Task Force, also said the upcoming debt-limit deadline is “obviously a leverage point.”

 

Washington Post: GOP To Use Debt Limit To Force Spending Cuts, With Medicare, Social Security In Mix, McCarthy Says

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that if Republicans win control of the House the GOP will use raising the debt limit as leverage to force spending cuts — which could include cuts to Medicare and Social Security — and limit additional funding to Ukraine.

“You can’t just continue down the path to keep spending and adding to the debt,” the California Republican told Punchbowl News in a recent interview. “And if people want to make a debt ceiling [for a longer period of time], just like anything else, there comes a point in time where, okay, we’ll provide you more money, but you got to change your current behavior.”
“We’re not just going to keep lifting your credit card limit, right,” he added. “And we should seriously sit together and [figure out] where can we eliminate some waste? Where can we make the economy grow stronger?”

Pressed on whether changes to the entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security were part of the debt ceiling discussions, McCarthy said he would not “predetermine” anything.
The debt limit — the country’s borrowing cap — will need to be lifted next year to protect the country’s credit score and to prevent the United States from defaulting on its debt. But McCarthy suggested that his party would be willing to hold the debt limit up for policy changes.

 

Axios: GOP Leaders Prepare For 2023 Debt Limit “Nightmare”

GOP leaders, congressional aides and business groups are preparing for a potential “nightmare scenario” next year if House Republicans take back the majority: a debt limit showdown reminiscent of the near-crisis in 2011.

Why it matters: There are serious question marks — and underlying anxiety — surrounding what type of leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will be if elected as House speaker. How he handles a debt limit showdown will be a crucial test of his leadership abilities for which key stakeholders are already privately planning.

 

The Hill: McConnell, McCarthy Public Splits Raise Questions About Ability To Govern

McConnell helped fashion a compromise in December that allowed Democrats to raise the debt limit through the Senate with a simple majority vote.
McCarthy and other House GOP leaders, by comparison, made raising the limit harder by saying they would not vote for such a measure even if it were attached to popular defense legislation.

This is already fueling anxiety that Congress is heading for another debt-limit standoff next year, with Republicans potentially in control of the House this time.
In 2011, the nation came perilously close to defaulting on its obligations with a Democrat in the White House and a GOP House. It prompted Standard and Poor’s to downgrade the nation’s credit rating.

 

Newsweek: Fox News Host Confronts GOP’s Scalise on Proposed Medicare Cuts: ‘Betrayal’

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, on Sunday was confronted over potential voter discontent with the GOP’s plans for Medicare.

Representative Scalise appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss the upcoming midterm elections. As the minority whip, he is considered to be the second-highest-ranking Republican in the House.

As soon as his interview began, host Shannon Bream pressed Scalise over the party’s plans for Medicare and Social Security should they regain the House majority in this year’s midterms. Bream presented the lawmaker with a message from a concerned Fox News viewer, who characterized the GOP’s plan for Medicare as a potential “betrayal.”
“He’s a Republican, he’s very worried about you cutting his Medicare,” Bream said as she relayed the message she purported to have received on Twitter. “He says it’s a dealbreaker and a betrayal by the GOP.”

In June, the Republican Study Committee, of which Scalise is a member, released a budget plan that included numerous suggested reforms for Medicare and Social Security, including raising the eligibility ages for each program to 67 and 70, respectively. The proposal further called for withholding payments for individuals who retire early or had a certain level of income, and also suggested using private funding sources for Social Security to lower income taxes.

 

President Biden oversaw an 8.7% increase in Social Security benefits while Republicans want to CUT Social Security

 

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is a typical Republican who wants to cut Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.

 

Marco Rubio Makes It Clear: Republicans Will Cut Social Security And Medicare After Tax Cuts Pass

In an interview with Politico this past week, Republican Senator Marco Rubio made it painfully clear that his Party intends to cut Social Security and Medicare funding in the months to come, after they end up passing their corporate tax cuts, of course. The goal of the Republican Party is perfectly clear: They want to give everything they can to corporations while taking everything away from the rest of us.

 

 

Republicans Have Proposed To Cut Social Security Across The Board By More Than 21%’

 

 

Republicans want to roll back Medicaid, a program that insures nearly one in five Americans.

 

Republican Healthcare Bill Gives Tax Cuts to the Rich by Gutting Safety Net for Poor & Middle Class

 

Jul 23, 2021 – After Missouri Voters overwhelmingly voted for Medicaid Expansion, Republicans REFUSED to implement the Medicaid Expansion which was passed by voter referendum. The Missouri State Supreme Court ruled that Republicans cannot simply overrule the outcome of an election in which the state’s voters decided to amend the state constitution to expand Medicaid.

This is another example of how Republicans are adamantly against providing Medical Care for people, how they don’t gave a damn about Democracy or people’s votes and how at their core, they are anti-democratic fascist authoritarians.

 

Despite Trump’s promises NOT to cut Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security, that is exactly what he intends to do IF he is re-elected in 2020.

Trump has broken his promises to American seniors. His 2020 budget proposes cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Our seniors deserve better, and that is why we are fighting today and every day to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.

Trump’s just-released 2021 proposed budget calls for $292 billion in cuts to safety net programs (including Medicaid and food stamps), $170 billion in cuts to student loan forgiveness, a $3.3 billion cut to the National Institutes of Health, and a $6.2 billion cut to the Education Dept. Funding would rise for ICE, Customs & Border Protection, the border wall, NASA, and Veterans Affairs.

 

 

Republicans want to Cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, VA Healthcare, Minimum Wage, Obamacare, Food Stamps, Child Health Care and more.

Republicans want to repeal every piece of legislation passed in the last 80 years which protects working people, children, the elderly or sick.

 

Fmr. GOP congressman: Why I changed my mind on Obamacare

Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Ezra Klein about the “catastrophic” CBO report – which estimates 22 million people would lose health care coverage – and GOP Rep. David Jolly shares his personal story of what happened when he found himself unemployed and uninsured. (June 26, 2017)

 

Senate GOP drafted a secret, partisan health care bill behind closed doors, refusing any meaningful bipartisan input on the bill and refusing to hold any hearings on this legislation that would impact one sixth of our economy. Senate Democrats today urged the GOP to reverse course on this tactic and release to the public the legislation that would impact the health and bottom lines of millions of Americans. (Jun 13, 2017)

 

Chris Hayes Explains The ‘Shameless’ Mitch McConnell Doctrine

‘In an era of extreme polarization and weak institutions, you can get away with whatever you’re shameless enough to pursue,’ says Chris Hayes (Jun 12, 2017)

 

Republicans in Congress wanted to hold the debt ceiling hostage to force benefit cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and even Social Security. If they can’t get these cuts by threatening the solvency of our nation, their next opportunity will come as Congress attempts to craft a deficit reduction plan to avoid the $110 billion in automatic cuts delayed in the fiscal cliff legislation. Once again, many legislators have made it clear they expect seniors, retirees, the disabled, and the poor to pay down our deficit. They will demand drastic changes such as raising the retirement age, means testing, or changing the cost of living allowance (COLA) formula to cut benefits to millions of middle class and poor beneficiaries in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security who are still struggling in this economy.

Democrats in Congress succeeded in keeping these devastating benefit cuts out of the short-term “fiscal cliff” deal. Unfortunately, important leverage was also lost. Washington’s well-financed anti-entitlement lobby continues to pretend that “shared sacrifice” means that if a millionaire loses a tax break (which he or she doesn’t need and America can’t afford) then the middle-class and poor must also pay more for or risk losing their health care benefits in Medicare and Medicaid. [Source: http://ncpssm.org/EntitledtoKnow/entryid/1962/Cutting-Medicare-Medicaid-Social-Security-in-the-113th-Congress]

 

Republicans accuse Democrats of being fiscally irresponsible. But as the video above shows, it’s Republicans who are responsible for running up the Debt & Deficits due to their tax Breaks for the Rich

National Debt exploded under REPUBLICANS Ronald Reagan & George H.W. Bush due to excessive military spending and tax breaks for the RICH.

This was all part of the “Two Santa Clauses” plan whereby they run up the debt & cut taxes when a Republican is President so they are viewed as a good “Santa Clause”. Then when a Democrat is President, Republicans scream about the National Debt, refuse to increase the debt ceiling, shut down the government if necessary to stop Democrats from spending any money on social programs which could help working Americans. Be sure to watch the SHOCKING video below about this.

 

REPUBLICANS increase the National Debt with excessive military spending and tax breaks to the RICH so there’s no money for Social Programs which benefit the middle class & the poor

 

The above video explains how for the past 40 years since Ronald Reagan was President, Republicans have been victimizing Americans using a tactic called the “Two Santa Clauses”, whereby they run up the debt & cut taxes when a Republican is President so they are viewed as the good “Santa Clause”. Then when a Democrat is President, Republicans scream about the National Debt, refuse to increase the debt ceiling, shut down the government if necessary to stop Democrats from spending any money on social programs which could help working Americans.

In this way, Republicans are literately punishing Americans for voting for Democrats who are dedicated to helping the middle class and the poor while doing everything possible to make sure Democrats can’t help the middle class and the poor, to make them look like the “Bad Santa Clause”.

This is another example of how Republicans are RUTHLESS… ONLY caring about seizing, maintaining power, being subservient to Corporate Interests and the RICH.

 

The above video explains how George W. Bush took Democrat’s and Bill Clinton’s budget surplus and exploded the debt by almost 10 Trillion, doing what Republicans always do…. giving Tax Breaks to the Rich (as shown in the graphs below) and then tanked the economy.

The national debt was increased by a projected 8 Trillion by Trump and Republicans due to military spending and tax breaks for the RICH

 

Inventor Of Trickle Down Economics Says Trump’s Tax Plan Is “Dead on Arrival”

David Stockman, the economist who developed the theory of trickle down economics during the Reagan administration, says that Trump’s tax plan is a giveaway to the wealthy elite and that it will result in an economic downturn. Stockman has admitted that his theory of trickle down economics is implausible, and he regrets the damage that his policy has caused this country.

 

Trump Tax Cuts Add WAY More Debt Than Advertised

“Experts” low-balled the amount of debt the Republican tax plan would entail.

 

Democrats balanced the budget when Clinton was president. Republicans and George W. Bush exploded the debt with unpaid for wars and tax breaks for the RICH.

 

Obama calls out Republicans for Causing Deficits and Debts

 

The Grover Norquist Tax Pledge which says Republicans shall never raise taxes helped skyrocket the Debt.

 

In an original broadcast essay, Bill says there’s more to Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge than ideology or principle — it’s also about Norquist’s efforts keep taxes low for his donor base of billionaires.

 

 

 

Videos on this page show how Republican’s has been supporting murderous Dictator of Russia Putin for years and how they share similar radical right-wing, anti-democratic, fascist, authoritarian ideologies

 

Trump was told that Putin had put bounties on American soldiers to be killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan and he did NOTHING. Any yet, most Republicans are continuing to support and defend this TRAITOR

 

Trump praises brutal, murderous dictators like Kim Jong Un and Putin.

 

Russian State TV Praising Marjorie Taylor Greene

 

 

Former Australian PM on Trump’s admiration for Putin

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Australian television weighed in on former President Trump’s admiration of Russian President Putin, saying Trump is in awe of Putin

 

Trump has proven to be a Traitor against the United States and NATO by inviting an attack by Putin & Russia against NATO, while Republicans do and say NOTHING

 

GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville says ‘Putin is on top of his game’ while saying U.S. forced Russia into Ukraine War

 

GOP lawmakers, Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Thune (S.D.), John Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.) and John Hoeven (N.D.), and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), spent July 4 in Moscow’s U.S. Embassy, NPR reported.

 

Trump and Republicans has been praising Murderous Dictator of Russia Putin for years, which at this very moment is MURDERING innocent people in Ukraine and bombing their cities into rubble… a peaceful country which did nothing to deserve being invaded and attacked by Russia.

Putin has proven himself to be a barbaric war criminal, which Right-Wing Conservative Republicans… Trump, Mike Pompeo, FOX, Tucker Carlson and Right Wing Media recently praised while disparaging President Joe Biden.

 

Long-time Republican host Chris Wallace absolutely tears into Tucker Carlson on his show today over visiting and interviewing Putin in Russia

 

 

Tucker Carlson CODDLES Vladimir Putin In Interview

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson coddled Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview that lasted over two hours.

 

Tucker Carlson could be hit with SANCTIONS over Putin interview

Tucker Carlson could potentially be hit with sanctions for his forthcoming interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin

 

Russian TV Promotes Cawthorn & Carlson

Videos featuring Representative Madison Cawthorn, a Republican from North Carolina, blasting Ukrainian President Volydymr Zelensky has joined clips of Fox News host Tucker Carlson in regular rotation on Russian state-run television.

Is this TREASON… giving “Aid and Comfort” to an Enemy? Proof Russia is our enemy is the fact that they have nuclear weapons aimed at the United States.

 

Tucker Carlson Repeating Putin’s Propaganda

 

See Russian state TV’s reaction to this Tucker Carlson banner

 

Putin and Russia LOVE how Tucker Carlson has been Repeating PRO-Russia Propaganda

 

Russia Praises Fox Propaganda

 

Why is Fox / Tucker Carlson airing ‘anti-democratic BS’?

Brianna Keilar speaks to Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), who claims Tucker Carlson’s fans repeatedly call his office imploring the lawmaker to side with Russia.

 

CNN’s Nic Robertson looks at Fox host Tucker Carlson’s popularity on Russian state run television.

 

War And Lies: Trump Republicans Confronted With Past Putin Praise On TV

Many Republican leaders praised Vladimir Putin and misled Americans about the facts of his record as a dictator. This MSNBC report documents some of those claims, featuring them in contrast to recent reporting and footage about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

 

Republicans admitting they want a dictatorship and want to eliminate Democracy

 

Putin jailed, poisoned & murdered political opponents, seized oil companies for his own personal monitory gain and interfered in elections around the world. Putin’s atrocities has been well know for years yet Right-Wing “Conservative” Republicans praised and supported him.

 

This video gives insight into the oppressive laws Republicans has been passing in recent years such as anti-voting laws to rig elections in their favor, anti-abortion, anti-LGBT laws and how Russia shares many of the same anti-democratic ideals and values held by Republicans.

The United States will become as oppressive as Putin’s Russia unless Republicans are STOPPED by Voting them Out of Office.

 

The Right’s Embrace of Fascism and Authoritarianism

 

The above video shows the history of how Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort helped Putin Puppet Viktor Yanukovych get elected President of Ukraine, how Republicans changed their Party Platform in 2016 to favor Russia and hurt Ukraine, how Trump helped Putin by destabilizing NATO and why Putin likely didn’t invade Ukraine while Trump was President.

 

Russian conspiracy about the US is spreading in America

A new conspiracy theory has become popular among some of the online communities that formed around QAnon — one simultaneously being promoted by the Kremlin as a justification for its invasion of Ukraine. The false claim: the United States is developing bioweapons in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin has stepped in to save the day and destroy the weapons. March 10, 2022

 

Claims Trump was tough on Russia and Putin wouldn’t invade Ukraine if Trump were President are Absurd. Trump kissed Putin’s ass during the entire time his was President.

During a interview with a Newsmax host who tried claiming Trump was tough on Putin, Former National Security Advisor John Bolton pushed back, stating ‘Trump complained sanctions on Russia were too tough” and he “barely knew where Ukraine was”.

 

Federal Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner: ‘Vladimir Putin Owns Trump’

 

Right-wingers turned Hungary into a anti-democratic fascist one-party-rule dictatorship. Trump & Republicans have followed the same playbook so it could happen here unless they are STOPPED.

Republicans have passed laws to overturn / override election results in states they control and put partisans in control of counting the votes, allowing them to make sure only Republicans are declared the winner.

Hungary Is a Version of What Republicans Wants For The U.S.

Chief national correspondent at the New York Times, Mark Leibovich, and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, react to Fox News’ anchor Tucker Carlson’s bizarre choice to host his show from Hungary, a country with an authoritarian regime.

 

Trump Endorses Right-Wing Autocrat In Hungary

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and former FBI special agent Clint Watts discuss with Nicolle Wallace the former president’s endorsement of Viktor Orban ahead of the Parliamentary elections in Hungary.

 

Thom Hartmann explains how Victor Orbán and his Radical Right-Wing Party took over the once Democratic government in Hungary and turned it into a anti-democratic authoritarian fascist one-party-rule dictatorship where elections & the courts are rigged, all of the media is state controlled and praise for Victor Orbán Propaganda is seen everywhere.

 

POLL: Only 36% Of Republicans Support Freedom Of The Press

43% of Republicans think President Trump “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior,” while only 36% disagreed with the statement, according to an Ipsos poll

 

Trump Supporters Are Excited By The Idea Of Him Being A Dictator

Donald Trump did exactly what most of us expected, and he actually convinced his base that he SHOULD be a dictator if he gets back into office, and that it is somehow a good thing to trample on the Constitution. Ever since Trump first made his dictator comments, his supporters have been quick to defend and ultimately offer their praise of the comments, and that part isn’t dying down, either. A new poll also shows that a strong number of Iowa voters say that his rhetoric makes it MORE likely that they will support him.

 

Expert Compares Trump’s Politics to Fascism

Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains why he claims President Donald Trump’s politics are akin to fascism, a political movement based around a leader. 80+% of Republicans approve of Trump, even after he has LIED more than any other Politician in history (fact checkers claim over 30,000 false or misleading statements since becoming president).

 

GOP senator appears to be aligning with pro-Russian movement

 

Republicans used to distrust Russia but after Trump took office, many Republicans shifted their position.

How To Dismantle A Democracy

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has become a favorite among Trump-loving ethno-nationalists. Yale’s Jason Stanley and authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat break down why Orbán — and the fascination with Orbán — is so dangerous.

 

Similar to Florida Employees being threatened if they criticize Republican Ron DeSantis or tell the truth about Climate Change when Republican Rick Scott was Governor, during the invasion of Ukraine, Russia passed a law which would put people in prison for up to 15 years for criticizing Putin and Russia’s policies.

Democrats has never engaged in these type of restrictions or violations of Freedom of Speech. This commonality is found in oppressive RIGHT WING governments. It’s easy to see that Republicans are headed in this direction and would not hesitate to be just as extreme if given the opportunity.

 

New Russian law criminalizes legitimate reporting

 

Marina Ovsyannikova, an employee at one of Russia’s major state television networks who interrupted a live broadcast to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was arrested and interrogated for more than 14 hours and charged with organizing an unauthorized public event.

 

Radicalization is infesting airwaves of pro-Trump media

CNN’s Brian Stelter explains how the country faces radicalization as some right-wing media outlets flood the airwaves with conspiracy theories and disinformation.

 

Similar to how Right Wing Media Lied about the 2020 Election, Russian TV Is Lying about the War

 

Former Fox anchor Reacts to Recent Tucker Carlson’s Rhetoric

CNN’s Jim Acosta speaks to former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson about the network’s take on tensions between Ukraine and Russia.

 

Two Fox News contributors resign after Tucker Carlson special

Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg announced Sunday night that they have resigned from Fox News, saying that Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” propaganda film was the last straw.

 

 

Calmes: Russia’s crackdown on liberty sounds all too familiar to Americans

Red states like Texas, Missouri and Florida are waging their own culture war in parallel to Putin’s, targeting the rights of women and minorities.

Per the above article; “Russia’s crackdown on liberty sounds all too familiar to Americans We see the ravages of Russia’s war on Ukraine, where it’s as if the black-and-white scenes of carnage and fleeing refugees in World War II Europe — scenes consigned to history books, we thought — have been updated in horrific, real-time color. Vladimir Putin’s heinous war has united the Ukrainian people”.

“Then there’s the coverage of the figurative war here in America, a culture war waged by Republicans against women, minority groups, LGBTQ people, educators, public health officials and just about anyone not of a right-wing mindset. This needless conflict divides us, for Republicans’ political gain”.

“Such domestic battles are a luxury of peace and prosperity. I’m reminded of conservatives’ culture wars amid the good times at the turn of the century, before 9/11 made a mockery of the invented threats and brought Americans together against a real one”.

“Even as Ukrainians suffer bombings of hospitals, a maternity center, apartments and schools, our bloodless war proceeds on its several fronts: Against women’s constitutional right to abortion before a fetus’ viability. Against teachers’ rights to speak freely about race and gender. Against transgender youth and their parents. Against public health officials dealing with a once-a-century pandemic that’s killed nearly a million Americans”.

“On abortion rights, Republican-led states aren’t even waiting for the conservative U.S. Supreme Court to turn back the clock a half-century. They’re rushing either to ban abortions at 15 weeks’ gestation, significantly before a fetus is viable (the latest bill just went to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign), or to go further and copy Texas’ plainly unconstitutional law that ended nearly all abortions in that state, home to 7 million women of reproductive age”.

“Texas devilishly wrote its law to avert federal court review, dangling cash bounties to spur citizens to sue anyone who even unknowingly helps a woman who’s more than six weeks pregnant get an abortion. Under the legal threat, clinics ceased most services”.

“Predictably, Texans are traveling elsewhere. At least 5,500 women sought help in six neighboring states in just the first three months after the law took effect in September. Now comes a Republican lawmaker in Missouri, inspired by Texas’ law, who’s concocted a way to stop women in her state from going to Illinois or Kansas to exercise their reproductive rights: Attack women’s freedom to travel, too!”

“The bill, the brainchild of state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, is now before the Missouri House. It would invite anyone to sue a person who helps a Missourian get an abortion out of state, whether that’s a hotline operator making appointments or a doctor providing the service. It’s another patently unconstitutional gambit, but one that could have a chilling effect if clinics in the neighboring states want to avoid legal battles”.

“Texas Republicans, meanwhile, continued their pioneering ways in the culture war by opening a new offensive, against transgender kids and their families”.

“Gov. Greg Abbott, acting late last month on a nonbinding legal opinion from Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton, directed state officials to investigate parents for abuse if they help a child medically transition to the gender with which the youth identifies. The Texans sprung this plan just as the Journal of the American Medical Assn. reported that gender-affirming medical care made teenagers 60% less likely to suffer depression and 73% less likely to be suicidal”.

“By this week, Texas had opened investigations of at least five families. What a blatant invasion of personal liberty from the state that unironically advertises “Don’t mess with Texas.” As if transgender kids and their parents don’t deal with enough stigma, bullying and even the threat of violence”.

“Yet copy-cat Idaho aims to one-up Texas: Its state House voted Tuesday to make it a felony for a doctor to help transgender children. A record 147 bills against transgender people were introduced in 34 states last year, according to the pro-LGBTQ Human Rights Campaign, including successful measures to bar transgender girls from women’s sports”.

“LGBTQ issues more broadly are the target — along with racial justice and history – of a raft of so-called “parental rights” bills to restrict what teachers can say or assign in classrooms from pre-K through college”.

“Florida’s legislature sent its “Don’t Say Gay” bill to DeSantis, as well as a separate measure limiting what teachers and employers can say about race and diversity. Georgia’s Republican lawmakers are moving to ban the teaching of what they vaguely call “divisive concepts” about race”.

“PEN America, which keeps a monthly roundup, says there’s “no recent parallel” to the number of book bans and “educational gag orders.” The organization laments “a willingness, and even eagerness, to bring the weight and power of government to bear on controlling classroom speech.”

“In Russia, Putin is cracking down further on speech, too, just as he’s moved against gay rights and abortion. If Republicans in this country truly stood for freedom, their domestic agenda wouldn’t have so much in common with his”.

 

Far-Right Extremism: Why We Should Be Concerned

 

I’m a Former RT Anchor. Fox News Mimics Russian State TV.

Liz Wahl, who quit a Kremlin-funded network in disgust in 2014, writes that right-wing media stars like Tucker Carlson are at times indistinguishable from Russia’s own propaganda.

Per the above article; “Liz Wahl, who quit a Kremlin-funded network in disgust in 2014, writes that right-wing media stars like Tucker Carlson are at times indistinguishable from Russia’s own propaganda.

Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson, along with other right-wing media figures, are at times indistinguishable from the propaganda on my former network, RT, a Kremlin-funded cable news channel that eagerly uses American voices to push a pro-Russia agenda.

American voices frequently amplified on RT include former Democratic congresswoman-turned-CPAC speaker Tulsi Gabbard, libertarian politician Ron Paul, and his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)—all of whom share foreign policy positions that Russia now finds beneficial to amplify.

What these figures don’t seem to understand or ignore is that RT uses their stateside fame and clout to drive eyeballs to its YouTube channel and legitimacy to its brand.

During the Trump years, the channel routinely featured videos and friendly headlines of Trump himself and his radical supporters. Popular themes on the channel were Trump’s denigration of NATO and the European Union. One video on RT’s YouTube channel features Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn at an RT event, being interviewed by the channel’s Russia-based host, wearing an RT lanyard”.

 

Republicans don’t believe in Democracy… to them it’s about seizing and maintaining power at all costs. This is why Putin helped Trump and Republicans get elected in 2016… because Republicans Anti-Democratic Fascist Authoritarian policies and tactics aligns well with Ruthless, Murderous Dictators like Putin.

 

Videos on this page shows how Trump & Republicans are a Threat to Democracy, Women’s Rights, Truth & Freedom… they LIE, attempted to STEAL the 2020 election, have taken away women’s rights and are destroying Democracy in the United States

 

 

Republicans are a threat to Democracy, Women’s Rights, Truth & Freedom for committing the following…

Rigging Elections by Gerrymandering, Decreasing the number of Days and Hours people can Vote, Purging Minorities off Voters Rolls, Decreasing Drop-boxes, Decreasing Voting Machines in Urban areas, Limiting Polling locations / hours, Making it harder to Vote by Mail, Making it a Crime to give Food or Water to people having the wait in long lines they’re responsible for causing to discourage people from voting, Passing laws to overturn election results they don’t like, voting to cut Healthcare, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Republicans ran up the debt with “Tax Breaks for the Rich” while refusing to make the rich pay their fair share, attempted to steal the 2020 election while LYING & FALSELY claiming “Trump Won” while accusing Democrats of stealing the election with no proof, MASS SHOOTINGS of Children in Schools where Military Grade Assault Weapons were used such as AR-15’s because they REFUSE to pass legislation which would make such weapons illegal.

RIDICULOUS Culture War & CRT nonsense, laws dictating what can be discussed in classrooms with huge fines of $10,000 against teachers for violations, their war on LGB & Transgenders, punishing Disney for exercising their freedom of speech, passing laws which Criminalize Assembly & Protests, Laws Legalizing Running over & Killing Protestors, Passing Anti-Choice Legislation Against Women, Turning the U.S. into a Gestapo Secret Police State by Placing $10,000 Bounties on anyone who helps a Women get an Abortion, Conspiracy Theories, LIES and refusing to eliminate the Electoral College which made two (2) unpopular & unqualified Republicans Presidents, who the majority didn’t vote for.

Republicans are now full-bore Anti-Democratic Fascist, Authoritarians dedicated to seizing power by any means necessary

 

 

Trump & Republican’s Multi-step plan to overturn the 2020 election EXPOSED

 

After learning that he lost the 2020 election, Trump refused to admit defeat and claimed without any proof that the election was stolen. 5 deaths were attributed to his inciting violence to overturn the 2020 election on January 6, 2021.

 

 

 

Republicans Suffering from Partisan Derangement Syndrome

 

 

 

Donald Trump and 18 others were indicted on allegations that they schemed to illegally overturn the 2020 presidential election. In this video, we’re explaining Trump’s charges

 

MUGSHOTS OF REPUBLICANS INDICTED, ARRESTED AND BOOKED
IN GEORGIA FOR 2020 ELECTION INTERFERENCE

 

Trump Attorneys Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis Pleads GUILTY to attempting to overturn the 2020 election and making false statements

 

100+ Republican Representatives voted to Overturn the 2020 Election Results and subvert the Will of the People, proving themselves to be LAWLESS, Partisan, Anti-Democratic and Unfit to hold Public Office.

 

18 Republican Attorney Generals and 126 Republican House members signed onto a baseless, treasonous, ANTI-Democratic lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election in the Supreme Court and over-ride the will of the American people.

 

147 Republicans Voted Against Democracy

 

147 Republicans violated their Oath of Office and proved to be lawless traitors by voting to overturn the 2020 election results in 6 states.

 

Lawrence O’Donnell says just hours after the Capitol was attacked on Wednesday, 147 Republican members of Congress continued to attack the Constitution. By objecting to the legitimate results of the presidential election, he says those members of Congress violated their oath to defend the Constitution with “true faith and allegiance.

We are only one election away from losing what little Democracy we have left unless Republicans are VOTED OUT.

 

The Republican MAGA mandate has been about democracy denying, undermining our elections and institutions, sowing division and chaos.

 

GOP Party of the Insane

 

 

Republicans know the only way they can win, is if you lose.

 

Republicans have declared WAR on the Truth and Democracy

 

Washington State GOP wants to Eliminate Democracy

 

Republican commentators and politicians at 2024 CPAC conference admitting they want a dictatorship and want to end Democracy

 

Why Republicans Don’t Want A Democracy

 

Only One Political Party Is Fighting To Defend American Democracy

 

Trump believes he has Presidential Immunity which gives him a right to do anything he wants and not be held accountable

 

Right Wingers around the world are systematically destroying Democracy, implementing One Party Rule with rigged elections, take-over of the News Media, Judiciary and take-over of Education, similar to what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary.

 

Video shows how Right-wingers turned Hungary into a anti-democratic fascist one-party-rule dictatorship. Trump & Republicans have followed the same playbook so it could happen here unless they are STOPPED.

 

How To Dismantle A Democracy

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has become a favorite among Trump-loving ethno-nationalists. Yale’s Jason Stanley and authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat break down why Orbán — and the fascination with Orbán — is so dangerous.

 

Kurt Bardella who used to be a Republican and media consultant for Right Wing Breitbart News is now sounding the alarm about Republican extremism stating; “Democracy is dying at the hands of the GOP”.

 

Republicans Not Willing To Risk 2024 Outcome With A Fair Election

Reporting by Barton Gellman in The Atlantic lays out the ways in which Donald Trump and his supporters have infiltrated the election apparatus in the United States to ensure a Trump victory, and primed Trump’s base for violence to take victory by force.

 

Republicans Plans to Overturn Future Elections

Jesse talks about a new special report from Reuters which lays out the several candidates who are running for state Secretary of State positions in swing states all over the country in an effort to more easily overturn election results that don’t go their way.

 

Republican Candidates in Swing States Committed to Control and Overthrow Next Election

 

Republicans Push To Give Trump Allies Power Over Elections

More than a dozen Republican state legislatures have passed new restrictive voting laws that would give allies of former President Donald Trump more power over election results.

 

Republicans Organizing To Disrupt Elections With Poll Watchers, Poll Workers

Jocelyn Benson, Michigan secretary of state, talks about how election officials are maintaining election transparency and ensuring elections are properly staffed, while guarding against nefarious actors like those reportedly being recruited by Republicans to disrupt the integrity of elections in Democratic voting districts.

 

 

 

Ex-Bush Speechwriter: A ‘Loyal’ Republican Is Now Either A Sucker Or A Liar

Michael Gerson also named the group of Republicans who have “the most to atone for.”

Former Bush Speechwriter Says Loyal Republicans Are Either “Liars Or Suckers”

Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, said in order for someone to call themselves a “loyal Republican” they would either have to be a liar or a sucker… because it takes both Liars and Suckers to keep the Republican Party alive today.

 

Republicans must lie to survive: They have no other choice

From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the path to Republican political success is rooted in profound deception

Per the above article; “The GOP exists to serve the interests of the wealthy and big business that comprise the richest 1%. No party, however, can ever win an election with only 1% of the vote. So to win elections, the GOP must necessarily reach beyond its own wealthy core and attempt to convince a large segment of working people in the 99% to vote for Republicans.

Normally, a political party wins elections by offering policies that benefit the voters. These policies attract the voters who then cast their votes for the political party.

But for the Republican Party, this is not an option. A candidate could not possibly campaign on the policies favored by the 1%. Just imagine the stump speech. “Vote for me and I will slash your health care! In fact, I’ll do even better — I’ll fight like mad to completely eliminate your health care!”

“Vote for me and I will get rid of your pensions! This would save corporations a bundle and boost profits to the shareholders! Screw the workers!”

“Vote for me and I promise to ship your jobs overseas under globalization! The exact same labor can be hired in Asia for only pennies! Hurray!”

The Republican Party is left with only one option. It cannot possibly be honest about its true intentions and actual policies. The working class would never vote for them. Instead, the only option is to lie”.

 

Republican Candidates such as George Santos, Hershel Walker and J.R. Majewski all got caught Lying to get elected

 

Republican Appointed Right Wing Judges / Justices Lied Under Oath

 

Republicans lied about crime, inflation and taxes to get elected in the 2022 midterms, falsely blaming Democrats & President Biden.

 

These 6 Republican Representatives attended a key meeting to plan to overturn the results of a free and fair election. Then, they begged for pardons.

 

Today’s Republicans are EXTREMISTS. LAWLESS, LIARS, VIOLENT, UNHINGED and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

The Rules of the Demagogue

 

Republicans are Anti-Democratic Fascists who want to seize power by any means necessary and DESTROY Democracy in the United States

 

Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial nominee Tim Michels saying he’d ensure “Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor” PROVE Republicans are Anti-Democratic Fascist who are determined to SEIZE and maintain POWER by any means necessary.

 

The New McCarthyism

 

Republicans Exposed as Traitors

 

Reagan knew evil when he saw it and stood against it. Today’s Republicans…not so much.

 

Republicans have proposed and passed legislation to disregard the will of the people and overturn election results they don’t like. Election officials like Rusty Bowers, who upheld his oath of office after the 2020 election, have been removed from office at an alarming rate.

 

GOP Has Become A ‘Cult Of Personality’

RNC calling Jan. 6 “legitimate political discourse” arguing that the GOP is “sanctioning fascistic violence.”

 

The GOP’s Turn To Extremism Began Long Before Trump

It’s easy to think of Trump as the reason for his party’s embrace of extremism. But as Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank points out in his new book, that pivot toward extremism is decades in the making.

 

TODAY’S GOP: ROTTEN TO THE CORE!

Former Republican David Jolly unleashes on the ‘rotten to the core’ politicians of the GOP

These are, in today’s Republican party, spineless politicians rotten to the core without virtue, without any level of human integrity, devoid of self respect, self reflection…Without courage and without the moral compass to recognize their own malevolence.’

“There is no greater example of selling your soul to a charlatan than what Republicans are doing right now in the House and the Senate,” he added. “And their legacies are on the line just as much as Donald Trump’s.”

Jolly was a lifelong Republican until he jumped ship in 2018. Before then, he served in Congress from 2014 to 2017 following the death of his boss. He ran for Senate in 2016 but dropped out when Marco Rubio opted to seek a second term. (Source: marketwatch.com/story/former-republican-unleashes-on-the-rotten-to-the-core-politicians-of-the-gop-2019-11-05)

 

Evan McMullin: The Republican Party Is ‘Rotten To The Core’

Evan McMullin, Executive Director of Stand Up Republic, and more than 120 former Republican officials have discussed forming an Anti-Trump third party. He tells Lawrence O’Donnell that the Republican response to the events of January 6 was the impetus for that meeting. Aired on 02/12/2021.

 

Today’s Republicans have no principles or policies. The more insane & disruptive GOP politicians behave, the more they are liked & supported by GOP voters.

 

The GOP has been encouraging ‘loony’ views for years

 

 

Brendan Duke, Senior Director of Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to explain why Trump’s proposed tax cuts on Social Security & tips are a scam which would provide tax cuts for the wealthy & pennies for low- and middle-income families