Tony BarkFeb 4

Murdoch Paper Warns Trump That Stephen Miller’s Plot Is Backfiring After Humiliating GOP Defeat

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Murdoch Paper Warns Trump That Stephen Miller’s Plot Is Backfiring After Humiliating GOP Defeat - Pawb.Social

> A newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch delivered a sharp warning to President Donald Trump after a high-profile Republican loss. > > In a new editorial, The Wall Street Journal warned Trump that a hardline immigration strategy promoted by top aide Stephen Miller is fueling voter backlash. > > It comes after a Trump-endorsed candidate for the Texas state senate lost to a Democrat over the weekend. Archive: http://archive.today/wvOA0 [http://archive.today/wvOA0]

Show threadgivesomefucksFeb 4

“How does a Republican lose by 14 points in a safe conservative Texas state Senate seat that President Trump carried by 17 points in 2024? Answer: When there’s a voter backlash against the Trump Administration, notably its mass deportation debacles,” the Journal wrote, describing the special election in Tarrant County.

It could also be the raping of children…

Show threadHeadfullofSoupFeb 4
Doubt it seem like most maga are pro rape
Show threadgivesomefucksFeb 4

What bends eventually snaps…

One of these days it’ll be like GW Bush and everyone is going to claim they never supported him and didn’t really understand why the rest of the party did.

And it’s going to happen in an instant.

Show threadHeadfullofSoupFeb 4

Without the cult part of maga i would agree but the republican fear the monster they created and is private army of cultist too much to do or say anything.

As for maga themselves he could rape their own child in front of them and they will smile and clap hand to encourage him

Show threadgivesomefucksFeb 4

…

Some of us remember what it was like after 9/11…

If you think this is a cult that’s never happened before, you just don’t remember what it was like back then. They didn’t just have Republicans, they had 99% of the country.

If we can bounce back from that, we can bounce back from this.

Like, not saying shit isn’t terrible right now, it is.

But c’mon, be realistic. Even the racism and bigotry was worse after 9/11

Show threadthe_crotch
We didn’t bounce back from that. Obama renewed or expanded on the worst of bush’s policies for another 8 years. We ratcheted hard to the right. Trump is a symptom of the illness we caught in 2001.
Feb 4 at 8:34pmWeb
Show threadAutistoMephistoFeb 5
I don’t know if I fully agree. After 9/11, the conservative movement was attempting to change the consensus(Evil brown foreigners are coming to kill you and your family). The fact that a black man won the Presidency not once, but twice speaks to a failure to meaningfully change it.
Show threadbearboiblakeFeb 5

A black man who authorized more drone strikes on black and brown people than any other. Obama did a lot of fascist shit. Liberals really struggle to accept that fact because of dumb tribalism.

The other commenter had it right, I’m afraid.

Show threadphutatoriusFeb 8

who authorized more drone strikes

Being killed by a drone isn’t any worse than being killed by a bullet, an artillery shell or a bomb from a plane. If anything, it’s more likely to hit its intended target, and less likely to incur noncombatant casualties. Dead is dead.

Instead of fixating on a particular lethal technology (which has become a thought-terminating cliche), it makes better sense to look at the bigger picture. GW Bush’s second Gulf war was responsible for the deaths of approximately half a million civilians. Obama never came within two orders of magnitude of that level of senseless state violence. Probably even more orders of magnitude. And the civilian death toll that did occur under Obama (largely from the continuation of the Afghan war) was almost entirely attributable to tactics other than drone strikes.

The underlying point here that, as long as the US is prone to foreign military intervention, innocent people are going to die. But the both-sides argument is bullshit. The civilian body count has been overwhelmingly the result of Republican presidents’ actions since the end of the Vietnam war. Differences in degree matter. Binary thinking is barely thinking at all.

Show threadbearboiblakeFeb 8

No, this argument IS NOT bullshit.

What will it take for you to realize both Republicans and Democrats serve the ruling elite, just in a different way?

Democrats ALWAYS HAVE ENABLED THE REPUBLICANS.

They’ve NEVER challenged the ruling elite.

They’ve NEVER walked back from authoritarianism.

They’ve NEVER pushed the needle back towards the left, they just push it right or let the republicans push it right.

You need to WAKE THE FUCK UP. Both Republicans and Democrats are the enemy and need to be removed. I know that sounds hard, so it’s tempting to want to deny reality and hope the democrats will save us BUT THEY WON’T.

Show threadbearboiblakeFeb 5
The illness predates 2001. 9/11 was a result of Post WW2 foreign policy, remember! The US is an imperialist nation, fascism is imperialism turned inwards. This was inevitable all the way back to the nation’s founding. The destiny was truly manifested.