Trump Wants to Use the Military Against His Domestic Enemies. Congress Must Act.

The Insurrection Act – which gives the president unchecked power to deploy the military on American streets – is a threat to democracy.

Per the above article: “Trump Wants to Use the Military Against His Domestic Enemies. The Insurrection Act — which gives the president unchecked power to deploy the military on American streets”.

“As recent reports have revealed, former President Donald Trump and his allies are making plans for how a second Trump administration would use the powers of the federal government to punish Trump’s critics and political opponents. Among other things, Trump would reportedly invoke the Insurrection Act — a law that gives the president nearly unchecked powers to use the military as a domestic police force — on his first day in office, so that he could quash any public protests against him.

Federal military forces are usually barred from enforcing civilian laws by the Posse Comitatus Act. This prohibition reflects a tradition in American law and political thought that views an army turned inward as an inherent threat to democracy and individual liberty. But the Posse Comitatus Act is not an absolute rule. It allows federal troops to participate in law enforcement when doing so has been expressly authorized by Congress. The Insurrection Act provides that authorization”.

Trump’s Promises and Plans for 2025 — in his own words

There’s no mystery about what Donald Trump wants to do in his second term. He’s told us his plans and Project 2025 is how Trump’s rhetoric will become an authoritarian reality for us all. Here’s what he has promised, in his own words.

1 – Pardon power
Trump will use his pardon power to shield himself and his allies from criminal accountability

2 – Directing Investigations Against Critics and Rivals
He’s promised to order the Department of Justice to investigate people who challenge him.

3 – Regulatory Retaliation
Trump has also promised to purge professional staff and experts inside the government and replace them with “Yes” Men and Women.

4 – Federal Law Enforcement Overreach
Trump plans to explode police powers in ways that would make America unrecognizable.

5 – Domestic Deployment of the Military
Trump wants to use the military to police our streets and send troops to our cities over the will of state and local officials.

6 – The Autocrat Won’t Leave
AND, like he showed us in 2020 and on January 6th, that if he is elected to office, he will be unwilling to leave. He’s willing to use every tool at his disposal to remain in power.

These promises are not just words; they are tactics pulled straight from the authoritarian playbook.

The Associated Press details Donald Trump’s repeated “hints” of an “expanded role” for the military and the lack of “guardrails” to restrain him.

Let’s not forget how Trump used National Guard troops to forcefully push back peaceful protesters outside the White House to clear a way for Trump to do a photo-op in front of a church to hold a bible upside down.

Representative Gerry Connolly explains how Trump plans replace 50,000 Federal Employees with Trump loyalists, gut the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, invocation of the Insurrection Act on day one to QUASH protests against him. Termination of all rules, regulations & articles, even those in the Constitution if Trump is elected for a 2nd term as President.

Little-known lawyer pitched Trump on ‘martial law’ plan

Trump in December 2020 was entertaining fringe legal advice from a wider group of outside lawyers than was previously known as he sought to block the 2020 election result. That included hearing directly from a little-known conservative lawyer advising Trump to take steps that effectively could be called declaration of “martial law,” the New York Times reported, in another instance of fringe actors having pushed the President to take extreme steps after the 2020 election.

In a new report, The Associated Press details Trump’s plans to deploy the military to push his MAGA agenda

Trump Plans To Use Military To Attack Liberal Cities

Donald Trump has made it perfectly clear that he intends to invoke The Insurrection Act if he gets back into the White House, and has suggested that he would have the military march into blue cities and states. This would be done, according to Trump, to stop the “crime” that liberal cities are allegedly suffering from, but experts are sounding the alarm that this is just a farce. Trump will crush his political enemies with the full might of the military, and that is something that isn’t being talked about enough.

Republicans OK with Violence to Seize Power

March 28, 2024 Steve Bannon stated: “After we’ve won the Accountability Project’s going to start and it’s going to be thorough this time. It’s going to be they’re going to be in prison”.

Trump posted & stated on 11/11/2023; ”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.

In response to outrage over Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment, his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated about Trump opponents; “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

Democrats are not Socialist, Marxist or Communists. Trump and Republicans are the ones who LIE , cheat and tried to steal the 2020 election.

The above video proves it’s TRUMP who is the liar. The Washington Post reported that Trump made over 30,000 false or misleading statements during his time in office.

Trump and Republicans are the REAL Fascist

Radical Right Winger Mike Davis, who Trump might make his Attorney General has stated he’d pardon all of the January 6 rioters, toss opponents in ‘the gulag’ and caging migrant kids would be glorious.

Below is the post Davis referenced in the above video about putting Professor of History, Ruth Ben-Ghiat in the “Gulag”. Her crime? Being critical of Trump and calling him out for his Autocrat, Authoritarian, Fascist behavior which she claims is similar to Hitler & Mussolini.

Kash Patel, who may be a member of Trump’s administration, stated in the above video; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you.

Steve Bannon Calls on “SHOCK TROOPS” to Take Over Government

Trump says members of Jan. 6 Select Committee should go to jail

Under Republicans “Project 2025” plans, Trump could order his Attorney General to arrest and prosecute anyone for no reason at all. Trump even mentioned this in the above video saying if he had a political rival who was doing well and “beating me very badly I’d say go down and Indict them”. “That means that if I win and somebody wants to run against me, I call my attorney general, I say listen, indict him.

On “The View” (Dec 6, 2023) co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Director of Strategic Communications for Trump, claimed he wanted to have a member of his own staff ‘executed’ for leaking a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests.

Three former Trump White House staffers says a 2nd Trump term would be ‘the end of American democracy as we know it’

Trump behaving like an Authoritarian Fascist Dictator

Trump saying he has “Total Authority” over when to re-open the country and insinuating if States don’t follow his orders it would be Mutiny is yet another example that he is a Wanna-Be King & Dictator.

Throughout his presidency, Trump has, at every turn, advanced extreme legal arguments and made excuses to avoid the traditional oversight that previous presidents have accepted. In the process, he has negated the checks and balances that are at the heart of our constitutional system, and elevated himself to a king-like position.

While campaigning in Iowa, Trump hinted at expanding the use of the military under the Insurrection Act. He specifically named blue cities like New York and Chicago calling them “crime dens.” “The next time, I’m not waiting. One of the things I did was let them run it and we’re going to show how bad a job they do”.

Trump’s admiration of dictators and scorn of our allies is one the most dangerous threat to our democracies our country has ever faced

Title from Youtube: President Trump: My People Should Give Me The Attention Kim Jong Un Gets

During an interview with Fox News’s Steve Doocy Trump stated regarding North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un; “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different,” Trump said “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.

Trump plans to expand executive power if he’s elected

Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, according to NYT reporting.

Trump is ‘making no effort to hide his fundamentally autocratic intentions’

Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes reacts to reporting on plans by Donald Trump to remove any and all obstacles to his power in a potential second term

Trump is ‘more erratic, more unstable’ than when he was in the White House

Jonathan Karl, Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss in Donald Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric and what could happen if the current Republican front-runner returns to the White House

“We are sleepwalking towards authoritarianism,” says scholar who studies democracy

The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky and Professor Brian Klaas discuss former President Trump’s recent remarks at a campaign stop where he pledges to root out ‘vermin’ if given a second term. Tomasky and Klaas discuss the historical parallels for Trump’s language.

Republican Christian Nationalists are Religious Fanatics who want theocratic fascist rule over the United States and are behind strict Anti-Abortion Laws to charge a woman with murder who aborts a pregnancy for any reason.

Why Trump Is Partnering With Christian Nationalists

Republican Christian Nationalists admitting they want Trump to be a Dictator and eliminate Democracy

Trump & The End of Democracy

Ex-evangelical Warning About Religious Fanatic Republicans

Ex-evangelical leaders warning about Radical Right Wing Religious Fanatic Republicans plan to turn the United States into a Christian Taliban style Theocratic Country where LGBT’S are executed

Radical Christian agenda comes into focus as mask slips on Supreme Court bias

As the Supreme Court’s Radical Right Republicans become less bothered with the pretense of impartiality, Christian nationalists can see their interests represented in the court’s business.

Far Right Promises Death Penalty for Non-Christians

The 2024 election could be the last chance to stop the far right from gaining power. Winning this election isn’t just about saving our democracy, if the far right are honest about their aim to kill non-Christians, then this is a matter of life and death.

Trump compared to ‘righteous prophetic heroes’ in prayer at rallies, says reporter

The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins takes a deep dive into the prayers given at the beginning of Trump rallies and why America’s religious right is firmly behind Trump.

Secret Christian Government Takeover Exposed

Video describes a plot to take over the government by a secret men-only right-wing Christian entity called the “Society for American Civic Renewal”.

The Society for American Civic Renewal, or SACR for short, is a group that was uncovered earlier this month by Talking Points Memo, which described them as, “a secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the country who are on a crusade to recruit a Christian government that will form after the right achieves regime change in the United States, potentially via a ‘national divorce.'” Joining Joy Reid is the journalist who wrote this story, Josh Kovensky, investigative reporter for Talking Points Memo.

On December 13, 2023 at a Trump rally in Coralville Iowa, Radical Right Wing MAGA Preacher Joel Tenney declared; “This election is part of a spiritual battle. There are demonic forces at play. But judgment is coming. When Trump becomes the 47th president, there will be retribution against all those who have promoted evil in this country.”

The fact is, it’s TRUMP & his followers who are promoting evil by lying about the 2020 election being stolen, then engaged in riots, violence and an insurrection (which caused 5 deaths) to overturn the election because TRUMP is such a Narcissistic Psychopath that he refused to admit he lost.

Pro-Trump Christian Nationalists Make Insane Threats Against Country

Jesse talks about radical pro-Trump White Christian nationalists who are spelling out the worldview they hope to force upon the rest of us in the country.

Hellish Vision Of a “Christian” America Republicans Pray For…

What would the ‘Christian America” Republicans are praying for look like if those prayers were answered? It’s gotten so absurd that a reporter spoke with a woman at a Trump rally sporting a crucifix & a t-shirt that said “Hang Joe Biden For Treason.” She essentially said Jesus would sanction execution

In the U.S., a rising right-wing Christian Nationalist movement rejects the traditional separation of church and state. Many of these Radical Right Wingers see the 2022 midterm election as a war of good versus evil, and their opponents as literal incarnations of satanic or demonic forces.

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker drew scrutiny after he invoked the threat of “the wrath of a holy God” in his legal opinion that embryos have the legal rights of children. Parker is a believer in the Christian Nationalist ideology known as the Seven Mountains Mandate which commands followers to control the ‘seven mountains’ of society — including government. An alarming number of prominent GOP figures, including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, have embraced Christian Nationalist ideas. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” wrote the Founders in the First Amendment, but today’s GOP seems bent on tearing down the wall between church and state.

Alabama Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist’s Show

Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism.

Per the above article; Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism.

“Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, who wrote the concurring opinion in last week’s explosive Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos have the same rights as living children, recently appeared on a show hosted by self-anointed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist.

Parker was the featured guest on “Someone You Should Know,” hosted by Johnny Enlow, a Christian nationalist influencer and devoted supporter of former President Donald Trump. Over the course of an 11-minute interview, Parker articulated a theocratic worldview at odds with a functioning, pluralistic society.

“God created government,” he told Enlow, adding that it’s “heartbreaking” that “we have let it go into the possession of others.”

Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog group, was the first to report on Parker’s appearance on the program.

That a state’s chief Supreme Court justice would associate himself with Enlow is a cause for alarm. Enlow is a prolific conspiracy theorist, often weaving QAnon apocrypha with prophecies he claims to receive directly from God.

As reported by Right Wing Watch, Enlow has claimed that Trump “is on assignment” from God to work with the angels Michael and Gabriel to take down George Soros and Bill Gates, among others; he has claimed that Russian President Vladamir Putin is fighting “Luciferian pedophiles” in Ukraine, in a battle to stop them from deploying vaccines and 5G that would turn people into transhumanist semi-robots; and he has claimed that the majority of other world leaders are “satanic” pedophiles who “steal blood” and “do sacrifices.”

What to Know About the Alabama Supreme Court’s Embryo Ruling

The Alabama Supreme Court just made a terrifying embryo ruling — and the judge, Chief Justice Tom Parker, who is a proponent of the Seven Mountains Mandate went as far as to quote the Bible in their defense. This is Christian Nationalist Fascism.

Radical Right Wing Republican Christian Nationalists are part of the Christo-fascist movement passing strict anti-abortion laws to charge a woman with murder who aborts a pregnancy for any reason.

Law Giving Fetuses The Rights Of A Born Person Targeted By Abortion Rights Groups

Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, talks about the next step by opponents of abortion, “fetal personhood,” and how poorly thought-out anti-abortion laws are having a chilling effect on women’s health providers who aren’t sure what is newly illegal.

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker ruled that embryos are equal to children, is known to be a religious fanatic who is a proponent of the Seven Mountains Mandate

The Growing Threat Of Christian Nationalism

Republican Accidentally Tells The Truth About Their Plans

Why So Many QAnon Believers Are Evangelical Christians

Christian Nationalism Is On The Rise

The religious right has been around for a long time. But in recent years, a new kind of public, political expression of religion has grown increasingly common: Christian nationalism. But what do Christian nationalists really stand for and where is the movement headed? Amanda Tyler, lead organizer of Christians Against Christian Nationalism, joins Ayman to discuss.

Kenneth Copeland TELLS INSANE LIES to Justify His White Christian Nationalist Worldview

Jesse talks about a bizarre and a historical set of lies that Kenneth Copeland told on a Daystar TV program to a group of women on a panel that served to rely on false information to back up the White Christian nationalist worldview of the grifter near-billionaire.

Peter Montgomery joins Thom Hartmann to discuss project 2025, fascism and America’s future.

MAGA ‘Christian Nationalism’ Documentary by director Rob Reiner

Republicans like Lauren Boebert says there should be “No Separation of Church and State”

Christians Who Supports Trump and Votes Republican are Hypocrites

There is no area where the Republican Party and Christianity intersect, and yet far too many Christians claim that they vote for Republicans on religious grounds. This is pure hypocrisy – you can’t be both a good Christian and a Republican loyalist, as the two truly are mutually exclusive.

Acosta discusses ‘bizarre’ video Trump shared on social media

CNN political commentators Ana Navarro and Karen Finney join Jim Acosta to discuss a new video former President Trump shared on social media declaring that “God made Trump.”

Trump COPIED Ron DeSantis ad in which he tried to claim he was a ‘Fighter who was anointed By God’. This goes to show there’s no limits to the disgusting, deceitful & depraved behavior which Republicans such as DeSantis & Trump will engage in to brainwash gullible people into voting for them.

‘Most un-Christian person ever’: the white evangelical love affair with Donald Trump gets worse

Christian Nationalism Ascendant In GOP Politics

In June 1979, Jerry Falwell Senior, a flamboyant Baptist minister, announced his intentions to build one of the most powerful political coalitions in American history. The “Moral Majority,” as it would later be tagged, was not only instrumental in the election of Ronald Reagan… it also forged a bond between the Republican Party and Christian fundamentalist groups that persists to this day – one that we now see manifesting even on the nation’s highest court.

Today’s Twisted, Upside-Down Republican Party… where supporting a lawless lying, wanna-be dictator traitor who repeatedly LIED about losing the 2020 election and made baseless claims that the election was stolen is “Right”. Voting to Impeach him for violating his Oath of Office, Inciting a Riot & engaging in Insurrection to overturn an election that he lost is “Wrong”.

Christian nationalists have hijacked the GOP and my faith community, says Wyoming Republican

“Christian nationalists have hijacked both my Republican Party and my faith community by blurring the lines between church and government and in the process rebranding our state’s identity,” writes Wyoming Republican Party member, Susan Stubson.

Inside The Pro-QAnon, Pro-Trump, Christian Nationalist Roadshow To ‘Save America’

Trump allies are leading a pro-QAnon Christian Nationalist roadshow where conspiracy theories and shady prophecies come together to fight the left and “save America.”

3 Ways Christianity Was Largely Responsible For The Holocaust

While Christianity wasn’t the sole catalyst for the Holocaust, there is no doubt that Christianity set the stage for the Holocaust to happen.

Per the above article; “Christianity was culturally oppressive to the Jews – In the eyes of the Christian church, Jews were heretics and Jesus-killers. Since they rejected the teachings of salvation, they deserved to go to Hell. Hitler hijacked German Christians’ existing prejudice towards Jews.

Hitler stepped in and said, “I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator by defending myself against the Jew. I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”

Hitler merely played on the prejudices created by Christianity to blame the problems that were largely created by Christianity, on the Jews. Thus, Christianity played a central role in setting the stage for the Holocaust”.

The above Violent Christian-Bigot uses the bible to rationalize and validate Death for LGBTQ people.

Republican Christian Nationalist Oklahoma State Sen. Dusty Deevers explains how he wants to pass a law which aligns with punishment in various Bible verses

Ron DeSantis ‘Anointed By God’ Political Ad and Christian Nationalism discussed

The Dangerous New Movement In Right-Wing America

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other far-right Republicans say plenty of disturbing things. But there’s a new and troubling trend in American right-wing politics: the desire to impose Christianity in the name of politics and nationalism. Professor Samuel Perry joins Mehdi to discuss: Just how dangerous is the rise of this movement in America?

Radical Christian nationalism replaces ‘gospel of love with false idol of political power’

Michael Flynn, convicted of lying to the FBI, is fusing Christian nationalism and conspiracy propaganda in his radical roadshows. Joy Reid and her panel discuss this and other elements of the specter of the radicalized right.

Description from YouTube: “Jesse talks about two Christian pastors who call democracy a disease and Black Lives Matter a Jezebel spirit. Shane Vaughn & Jackson Lahmeyer delivered remarks to their congregants in an effort to radicalize them politically”.

Christian Nationalism’s Racist Past Precludes Revival Except Among GOP’s Trumpiest

Rachel Maddow looks at the racist, antisemitic roots of “Christian nationalism” as advocated by American politician Gerald L.K. Smith in the 1950s, and the renewed embrace of the tenets of that disgraced movement by supporters of Donald Trump like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor Doug Mastriano.

Religious Extremists Mix Trump Worship With Christian Nationalism

Mehdi Hasan looks at how religious extremists in the Christian nationalist movement have cast Donald Trump as a messianic figure and threaten to make democracy secondary to empowering Donald Trump as an expression of divine will.

Iran is a country run by Radical Right Wing Religious Fanatics where women and girls are mandated to wear hijabs, to wear so-called “modest clothing” and to hide their hair in public. This is an example of how oppressive the United States could become unless Radical Right Wing Republican Christian Nationalists are STOPPED.

How Michael Flynn Is Building A Movement Based On Christian Nationalism

Michelle Smith of the Associated Press joins Morning Joe to discuss the new PBS Frontline documentary ‘Michael Flynn’s Holy War’

Right’s Embrace of Authoritarianism

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

The Truth Behind Tucker Carlson’s Disturbing Trip To Hungary

Right-wing FOX News host Tucker Carlson is broadcasting from Hungary and praising that nation’s hardline policies.

How To Dismantle A Democracy

If you’re curious about why Tucker Carlson is doing his show from Budapest, Hungary all week, so is Mehdi. Especially given that country’s recent history of doing away with democracy and rise of autocracy. 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.

Fiona Hill Discusses how Democracy in the United States is Under Assault

The Right’s Fight to Make America a Christian Nation

Freedom of religion is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. But the role that religious beliefs should play in public life has never been more contentious. As part of the Speaking Frankly series, this CBS Reports documentary explores the fusion of faith and politics in a movement that envisions the U.S. as a Christian nation.

How religion turned American politics against science

What is Christian nationalism and why it raises concerns about threats to democracy

White Christian nationalism has been in the headlines quite a lot as of late. Brad Onishi is a former evangelical minister who once identified as a Christian nationalist himself. He left the church in 2005 and began studying religion and extremism.

AOC Flips the Religious Freedom Argument on Its Head

The only time religious freedom is invoked is in the name of bigotry and discrimination.

How religion has marginalized women

Republicans have declared War on Democracy & Freedom of Speech by passing Anti-Protest Laws making protesting a felony & allowing protestors to be run over & killed with no consequences, to silence / intimidate anyone from protesting against Republican’s oppression.

Republican Passing Anti-Protest Laws

Republicans are destroying democracy by passing laws to make protesting a felony offense and immunity to motorist who runs over & kills protestors

Trump Loving Florida Governor Makes It LEGAL To Kill Protestors

Under a proposed piece of legislation from Ron DeSantis, the Trump-loving governor of Florida, it would be legal for citizens to run over protestors without any fear of prosecution, as long as the protestor was in the street. This is a direct attack on the First Amendment of the United States, and DeSantis is merely trying to give voters the impression that things are out of control in the state. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains why DeSantis is doing this.

Similar to Russia and North Korea, Republicans Anti-Protest Laws Violates Freedom of Speech

Similar to how Russia & North Korea stifles Freedom of Speech, Republicans are doing the same in the United States by passing more than 80 Anti-Protest Bills in 34 States they control.

With the passage of an anti-protest law, Joy says, “DeSantis is actually governing like the former Alabama Governor … George Wallace made no secret of what he would do to protesters if they were lying in the street in front of his car.”

Florida passes law to Criminalize Protesting

CBS NEWS: Florida Republicans want take away peoples right to peacefully protest with Anti-Democratic Authoritarian “Rioting Bill” to quash Freedom of Speech.

Saying it is designed to quash the voices of Black and brown people, Florida Democratic lawmakers on Monday excoriated a proposal pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and legislative leaders aimed at cracking down on protests.

WJXT NEWS 4: Florida activists push back against proposed increased punishment for protesters

A day after Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out a legislative package aimed at cracking down on protesters by creating a host of new crimes, a group of Florida civil-rights activists on Tuesday came out strong against the proposed laws.

‘Rally to Save Protesting’: March for our Lives Florida rallies against DeSantis’ ‘anti-riot’ bill

Florida Senate passes controversial ‘anti-riot’ bill pushed in wake of Black Lives Matter protests

The Florida Senate passed a controversial anti-riot bill that was pushed by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests last summer.

Per the above article; “The Florida Senate on Thursday passed, largely along party lines, a controversial anti-riot bill that was pushed by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests last summer.

The bill would increase criminal penalties for assaulting law enforcement officials while engaging in a “riot” and defacing monuments and other public property during riots. It would also penalize local governments that interfere with law enforcement efforts to contain riots and set up a citizen’s appeal process when cities and counties try to reduce police budgets in response to riots.

The final vote in the Senate was 23-17, with one Republican voting with Democrats in opposition. The bill passed the GOP-controlled House in late March. Democratic legislators argue that it would create a chilling effect on First Amendment rights and restrict political dissent”.

“This legislation strikes the appropriate balance of safeguarding every Floridian’s constitutional right to peacefully assemble, while ensuring that those who hide behind peaceful protest to cause violence in our communities will be punished,” DeSantis said in a statement”.

DeSantis statement; “This legislation strikes the appropriate balance of safeguarding every Floridian’s constitutional right to peacefully assemble” is total BS. The criminal penalties in the bill PROVES his statement is BS.

The Right Wants Freedom For Themselves but Not For Others –

Know Your Protest Rights

As more than 80 anti-protest bills move through nearly half of all U.S. states, there’s never been a better time than now to know your first amendment rights. ACLU Staff Attorney Emerson Sykes joins American Voices with Alicia Menendez to walk viewers through the fine-print details of what you can legally do when you take to the streets. And how to behave in the event you are detained by a police officer.

G.O.P. Bills Target Protesters (and Absolve Motorists Who Hit Them) (Published 2021)

As the nation reacts to the guilty verdict a jury handed to Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, Republican-led states are introducing punitive new measures governing protests.

Per the above article: “Republican legislators in Oklahoma and Iowa have passed bills granting immunity to drivers whose vehicles strike and injure protesters in public streets.

A Republican proposal in Indiana would bar anyone convicted of unlawful assembly from holding state employment, including elected office. A Minnesota bill would prohibit those convicted of unlawful protesting from receiving student loans, unemployment benefits or housing assistance.

And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed sweeping legislation this week that toughened existing laws governing public disorder and created a harsh new level of infractions — a bill he’s called “the strongest anti-looting, anti-rioting, pro-law-enforcement piece of legislation in the country.”

The measures are part of a wave of new anti-protest legislation, sponsored and supported by Republicans, in the 11 months since Black Lives Matter protests swept the country following the death of George Floyd.

The Florida law imposes harsher penalties for existing public disorder crimes, turning misdemeanor offenses into felonies, creating new felony offenses and preventing defendants from being released on bail until they have appeared before a judge. A survey conducted in January by Ryan D. Tyson, a Republican pollster, found broad support in the state for harsher penalties against protesters “who damage personal and business property or assault law enforcement.”

Republicans voted 70 times to eliminate Affordable Healthcare (Obama Care) to millions of Americans with Pre-existing conditions, and wasted Millions of tax payers dollars in the process. They constantly used the term “Repeal & Replace” but never offered any replacement for the millions of people who would have become uninsured as a result of their actions.

Republicans core belief is “limited government” so they never had any real intentions of “Repealing & Replacing” the Affordable Care Act. They believe it’s not the governments responsibility to help citizens have healthcare, social security, medicare or similar programs. If they could, they would ELIMINATE all of these programs. They want to privatize everything, including the postal service. Republican Lobbyist Grover Norquist is a well-known proponent of “limited government” and famously said, “My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” [source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast]

GOP Aims to Kill Obamacare After 70 Documented Failures

Newsweek found at least 70 examples of Republican-led efforts to repeal, modify or otherwise curb the Affordable Care Act since its inception as law on March 23, 2010.

GOP Attempts to Obstruct and Mislead on Health Reform

Ironical, it was John McCain who’s single vote which saved the Affordable Care Act and insurance for millions of Americans. This may be one of the reasons why Trump despised John McCain.

Perhaps because Trump knew he may lose the 2020 election, he became more desperate to dismantle Obamacare before he left office to destroy his legacy as his final parting shot.

Multiple news outlets have suggested that President Obama’s mocking of Donald Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner provoked him to run for President. After Trump became President he pursued a relentless campaign to undue everything President Obama accomplished.

Trump’s primary reason to destroy Obamacare was probably due to his jealousy, personal hatred and his obsession to undo ALL of Obama’s Legacy.

This video shows how vindictive Trump is… “Get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.”

Republicans hated “Obamacare” because they hated Obama

President Obama and Democrats passed the Affordable Healthcare Act better known as Obamacare. One of the things the Affordable Healthcare Act addressed is making insurance companies accept people with preexisting conditions.

Like so many other issues, Republicans answer to the millions of people who are uninsured was and is to do nothing. This is another example of Republicans “Just say no” policy to anything President Obama wanted, regardless if it benefited the American people. If President Obama was for it… then Republicans were against it.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to axe Obamacare

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to invalidate Obamacare

Keith Olbermann calls out Republican lies about “Obamacare”

Creepy anti-Obamacare ads stirred controversy over their content as well as who financially backed them.

Fox News and Republicans made outlandish false claims about “Obamacare” such as “Death panels” and claims babies wouldn’t be covered

Many Americans who survive being infected by the coronavirus are likely to have lingering health problems, which will result in growth in the class of Americans with pre-existing conditions who Donald Trump is trying to strip of health care protections through Obamacare

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘Death panels’

Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. “Death panels.”

Republicans has made false statements designed to scare people into being against “Obamacare” which included claiming there would be “Death Panels” According to Wikipedia, ” death panel” was named as PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year”, one of FactCheck’s “whoppers”, and the most outrageous term by the American Dialect Society.

Study shows Republicans lie more than Democrats; Obamacare perfect example

Many people have suspected it for years, but a study finally proved it. Republican politicians are bigger liars than Democrats. And they are not embarrassed about it.

Study shows Republicans lie more than Democrats; Obamacare is a perfect example

“While Republicans see a credibility gap in the Obama administration, PolitiFact rates Republicans as the less credible party” said CMPA President Dr Robert Lichter.

PolitiFact rated 32% of Republican claims as “false” or “pants on fire,” compared to 11% of Democratic claims – a 3 to 1 margin.

How eliminating Obamacare could negatively affect millions of lives

Most Americans support keeping Obamacare

Red states see highest Affordable Care Act enrollment rates

Affordable Care Act health plans are most popular among people in states where the law is least popular among politicians and ACA enrollments have climbed under Biden, according to new charts from Steve Rattner.

Watch this powerful reminder of why so many fought for the Affordable Care Act

Former GOP Congressman David Jolly: 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. – Jun 27, 2017

The Republican Party we once knew is dead. Chaos and corruption have now replaced the values of conservatism it was founded on.

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

The Republican Party Is Over

Once upon a time, the GOP stood for limited government.

Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 on X (formerly Twitter): “REJECT FASCISM: Wow, this is incredibly significant. The Lincoln Project slams Republicans for their endorsement of fascism and affinity towards authoritarian figures. It accurately portrays the Republican Party’s transformation into a movement centered around racism and… pic.twitter.com/8C95SmlwHV / X”

REJECT FASCISM: Wow, this is incredibly significant. The Lincoln Project slams Republicans for their endorsement of fascism and affinity towards authoritarian figures. It accurately portrays the Republican Party’s transformation into a movement centered around racism and… pic.twitter.com/8C95SmlwHV

Today’s Republican party endorses fascism and affinity towards authoritarian figures. It been transformed into a movement centered around racism and the need to actively seek oppression.

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)

Today’s Republicans are EXTREMISTS

The Crazy Ones

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

The GOP has been encouraging ‘loony’ views for years