Whigs and Tories
the old game
money versus wealth
#whigs
#tories
#liberals
#conservatives
#overlings
#conservatives
Eisenhower Republicans aren't having it and I'll wager neither is Abe Lincoln's ghost.
♲ Today's Top Quotes ✅ - 2024-11-04 01:47:23 GMT
Your dad's Republican party is dead. Trump and his cronies are dragging its corpse along the campaign trail in hopes the American people won't know the difference, but we do. These aren't real Republicans, they are #fascist thugs. Vote for sanity. Vote for Kamala #Harris — @ProjectLincoln #quotes #quote #RepublicansForHarris #Conservatives #CorruptedRepublicanParty #MAGA #VoteHarris #USPolitics #USPol #Politics
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October 14, 2024
Trump Threatens to Deploy Troops on U.S. Soil to Target "Radical Left"
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called on Sunday for the
National Guard or U.S. military to be deployed on U.S. soil to target
what he called "radical left lunatics." Trump made the call during an
interview on Fox News.
Donald Trump: "I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We
have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left
lunatics. And I think they're the - and it should be very easily handled
by - if necessary, by National Guard or, if really necessary, by the
military, because they can't let that happen."
#trump #martial-law #election #fox-news #radical-left #national-guard #military-rule #republican-party #republicans #conservatives
Meanwhile in the #UK, #Tory #MPs have rejected the most left (of the #Conservatives) in the leadership race (i.e. centre right), and have got two loonies left for the leadership of the #ToryParty to choose from. Sucksession, rather than succession.
The religious define themselves in terms of the lies they believe. This makes them marks for other liars.
I'm sorry to break it to y'all, but this a'int the first time you've been taken for suckers.
The important question is whether this'll wake any of you up. I'm not holding my breath.
Christian conservatives deal with 'whiplash' amid sense of Trump betrayal: report
No analysis of the predicates for today's GOP is adequate without the context of the NeoConfederates who have passed on their forefathers' grudge about losing the Civil War, and the prominent place that Arizona plays in that. See also AZ Governor Ev Mecham.
♲ Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 - 2024-08-20 17:45:50 GMT
🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ History professor examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift“When Ronald Reagan left office, people like Newt Gingrich were more antagonistic and had a more ideological approach to conservatism. They kept pushing the party further and further to the right. What we see now in the Republican party is part of this long tradition during the 20th century,” Barrett said. “It will continue down this path as long as enough voters find this version of conservatism attractive.”
🔗 https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1960461744
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Rightwing #Republicans #Conservatives #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Elections @histodon @histodons
Pluralistic: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025 (14 Jul 2024)
Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
Many people I like and trust have pointed out that they don't like Biden and think he will be a bad president, but they think Trump will be much worse. To limit Biden's harms, leftists have to take over the Democratic Party and the progressive movement, so that he's hemmed in by his power base. To limit Trump's harms, leftists have to identify the fracture lines in the right coalition and drive deep wedges into them, shattering his power base.
#cory #cory-doctorow #trump #project-2025 #conservatives #democratic-party #republican-party #heritage-foundation #conservatism #biden
Top #ToryMP defects to #Labour in fury at #NHS crisis | #Conservatives | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/27/top-tory-mp-defects-to-labour-in-fury-at-nhs-crisis
Many #American #Conservatives might like to critique the #UK as being too #Socialist, many of those critiques may be valid, however, the #USA is not a #Capitalist economic system any more than the UK is, with the #GDP of both nations being comprised of around 40% #government spending.
The USA has been for decades a mixed Capitalist/Socialist economic system. What's most sad about both the UK and #US is that the kind of #Socialism being deployed is actually #corporate Socialism, wherein #taxes are forcibly redistributed to #corporations and the most wealthy. The worst aspects of both systems.
#corporatesocialism #redistribution #angloamerican #economics
#Tories choose #PeterBone’s partner as candidate to replace him | #Conservatives | The Guardian
So, no #Cronyism there then. [Sarc.]
..."If #conservatives put all of our #political eggs in the coming months, blaming most of our country’s problems on Joe #Biden, including #inflation, out-of-control spending, an invasion of illegal aliens through our southern border, war on police leading to more crime and murder in big cities, war on fossil fuel, war on Catholics, war on Evangelicals, etc., etc.— we’ll be at a loss on August 19th when the #Democrat National Convention opens in Chicago and President Biden goes to the camera and microphones and announces he is not running again.
However, he’s going to endorse his dear friend #MichelleObama to be the Democrat #nominee for #President of the United States. The convention hall will go wild applauding, screaming, and yelling for Michelle, and all of our attacks against President Biden will be worth little in the next 77 days."...
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/maybe-women-wont-date-you-because-youre-awful
Maybe #Women Won’t Date You Because You’re Awful
The #Federalist says Trump is president because women won’t date #conservatives. But I thought we were all fat, lesbian, abortion-loving sluts?
Erin Gloria Ryan
..."The Federalist piece also presents a confusing portrait of the sort of woman these conservative men are angry will not date them. As a left-leaning woman, I’ve read a lot about how my type are fat unattractive lesbian sluts who are, despite their lesbianism and unattractiveness to men, frequently getting pregnant via having sex with men, and then having abortions. I’ve even seen articles to this published on The Federalist! We’re allegedly terrible. Why would any respectable real tough American-style guy want to date us? Why would our not dating the people who think we are fat unattractive lesbian abortion sluts make any difference to those people? I thought we were disgusting?
The entire piece is tiresome, for the reasons that other iterations of the same idea are tiresome. But it merits comment today because I’d like to offer a helpful theoretical answer for the question its headline poses:
Maybe women won’t date you because you’re awful.
Women refusing to date Trump-supporting men isn’t what caused those men to react and turn to Trump for solace. That women won’t date them is a symptom of their awfulness, like voting for Trump is, among certain populations, a symptom of a specific sort of awfulness.
Heterosexual women might be turned off by a man’s politics, by their philosophy, by their musical taste, by their affinity for talking about gadgets, the most boring thing in the world to talk about. But if the man in question is a nice enough person, if he takes care of himself and treats others with genuine respect, somebody will probably date him. The world is full of lonely people who will let things slide in the name of companionship.
If nobody likes you, the problem is you."
Beware: Florida officials will make misleding statements.
♲ Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈 - 2023-09-21 16:25:52 GMT
#Republican #Official claims the Fascist State of Florida “does not #ban #books” after releasing #list of 300 #books that have been #banned.One #district removed a whopping 177 #books from #SchoolLibrary shelves during the 2022-2023 school year.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Pro--life people!
I guess the exposure was too much!
Wisconsin school-board president who backtracked on canceling free school lunch says it opened his eyes: 'I eat every meal every day. I cannot relate to being hungry.'
https://www.businessinsider.com/waukesha-wisconsin-school-district-opts-back-in-to-free-lunch-2021-9
- Waukesha was the only school district in Wisconsin to opt out of Biden's free-lunch program.
- This week it opted back in, as board members said they were unaware of the hunger in their district.
- But it was a 5-4 vote, and some members likened free lunch to mask mandates.