Former President Donald J. Trump over the weekend escalated his vows to prosecute his political opponents, circulating posts on his social media website invoking “televised military tribunals” and calling for the jailing of President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other high-profile politicians. Mr. Trump, using his account on Truth Social on Sunday, promoted two posts from other users of the site that called for the jailing of his perceived political enemies — Chris Cameron #quotes#quote#Trump#Authoritarianism#Retribution#Vengeance#Repression
@wdlindsy Republicans don't care about their children's Earthly lives. They care about their souls. To them, a gay child would be worse than a dead one, because their sin would block them from Heaven.
I remember reading a post mid-2021 from a woman who lost her 8 y/o to COVID. They never masked, never vaxed, etc. She said she was sad her daughter died, but "at least she died free."
This is basic conservative Christianity. Always has been.
@wdlindsy that only looks strange to us. It's perfectly reasonable to people who buy "my first gun" for preschoolers, who happily dress their toddlers in camo and proudly take family portraits with everybody armed.
Not being able to control their kids sexuality is scaring to them. It's truly a twisted mindset
2 fmr snr FBI employees have reached a tentative agreement w/the #DOJ to largely settle their consolidated lawsuits alleging that they were illegally targeted for #retribution by the #Trump admin after the #FBI investigated #Russia’s #ElectionInterference in 2016, acc/to a court filing Tues.
"Bereft of any vision of positive change, this is a man who is only capable of exploiting an aggrieved people’s worst instincts—who has figured out that he can get what he wants by stoking the fear, hatred and anger of others. He uses violence, not imagination. Conflict, not collaboration. Cruelty, never kindness. Retribution, not affirmation."
@wdlindsy TFG is running on a visions that billionaires and others find irresistible: "I will let you do whatever the hell you want if you let me do whatever the hell I want."
It's not what Madison had in mind, but there it is.
Donald Trump represents the absolute worst of us. Yes, it’s important to understand how he came to power and why so many people support him. But make no mistake. He does represent the absolute worst of us. He’s the ugly result of a broken, out of touch media and political system — Joe Walsh #quotes#quote#Trump#Hate#Revenge#Retribution#Vengeance#MAGA
Noting that Republican senator James Lankford has stated that he was threatened by a right-wing media personality if Lankford tried to move a border bill before the election, Heather Cox Richardson says,
"It is not a normal part of our political system to have members of Congress deciding what laws to support on the basis of threats."
@MAD_democracy Thank you. A great cartoon, which I had told myself yesterday I might share when I saw it on David Pepper's blog. I'm glad you've now done so.
"The contrast between the politics of Trump and Biden is not new news! But the contrast in this instance is striking and highlights yet again that what Trump offers to so many of his supporters is the thrill of threatened violence, the frisson of wiping away one’s opponents, the chance for vicarious transgressiveness. It’s a dangerous cocktail of swagger and situational violence."
"It’s understandable to take some pleasure in watching Trump destroy the Republican Party. But don’t lose sight of that the fact that he wants to do to America what he’s doing to the GOP."
"The Republican base actively embraces Trump’s grievances; it emulates his pettiness; it supports his childlike inability to accept responsibility. These voters are not sighing in resignation and voting for the lesser of two or three or four evils. They are getting what they want—because they, too, are set on revenge."
@BubblegumYeti I think Dean Obeidallah is right on target when he says,
"Please do not ever dismiss those in MAGA as being dumb. They are not. They are dangerous. In fact, the MAGA movement is the greatest threat to our freedoms and democracy since World War II when Americans had to fight the same fascist leader that Trump is now quoting."
As Maya Boddie reports, right-wing white Christians and their pastors — notably white evangelicals — are loving Trump's talk of "retribution" against his and their "enemies." Rather than alienating them, the rhetoric of bloodlust and enemies vanquished thrills them.
A powerful iteration of white Christianiity in the US thrives on generating an endless succession of enemies, to prove the righteousness of the chosen.
It’s clear to anyone paying a whit of attention that the House GOP is the forward operating base for Trump’s campaign of retribution. He has set out to avenge all of the perceived slights, attacks, and legal accountability directed at him in part because he’s characterologically incapable of anything else. …
Holding Merrick Garland in contempt is just a small part of that larger revenge agenda."