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Title: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: wvit1001 on 01 16, 21, 05:28:56:PM Longtime GOP insider Mike Lofgren on his former party: "Going easy on these people will not work"
Lofgren spent 28 years on Capitol Hill. Now he says Republican zealots should be crushed, banished and ostracized Republican officials at the highest level support insurrection, terrorism and treason. They have presided over a political culture that, for many years, has inculcated seditious desires within millions of expertly programmed citizens. The consequences became manifest on Jan. 6 when a rabid mob of neo-Confederates, fascists and associated psychotics took the Capitol by force, perhaps hoping to murder duly elected members of Congress — not to mention the vice president — and install Donald Trump as dictator. As surreal as that summary of recent events might seem, it was not entirely unpredictable. Mike Lofgren, a former Republican congressional staff member of 28 years, began warning about the danger of the GOP in 2011, even going so far as to condemn his longtime party as a "death cult." Before his retirement, Lofgren worked in both the House and Senate as a specialist staffer for national security affairs, tasked with analyzing Pentagon budget requests and preparing military-related legislation. The unique combination of Lofgren's historical expertise and his long career in the "boiler room" of legislative politics, as he calls it, put him in the perfect position to see the destructive monstrosity that Republicans and their far-right allies have created. He has detailed his analysis and experience in two books, "The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted" and "The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government." With that latter title, by the way, Lofgren was not gesturing toward the conspiracy-theory delusion currently popular among Trump supporters. Rather, he meant "deep state" as an umbrella term for the lobbying firms, corporate donors and military-industrial complex that have a stranglehold on American public policy. https://www.salon.com/2021/01/16/longtime-gop-insider-mike-lofgren-on-his-former-party-going-easy-on-these-people-will-not-work/ Title: Re: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: takncarabizniz on 01 16, 21, 06:33:27:PM I hope he said the same thing about those who burned, looted, and vandalized cities, and monuments before January 6...
Fair is fair right? Complete equity, right? Title: Re: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: wvit1001 on 01 16, 21, 06:36:40:PM that's right. thousands of people were arrested at the BLM protests over the summer and were charged with various crimes.
Title: Re: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: stretch351c on 01 16, 21, 06:47:37:PM Salon, LMAO!
Title: Re: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: dont-blameme on 01 16, 21, 06:49:59:PM If wvit was to turn anY farther left than salon she would suffer a broken neck!
Title: Re: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: justincase on 01 16, 21, 07:06:19:PM I agree...they should be dealt with harshly. Perhaps if the rioters from this past summer had been dealt with more harshly, the riots wouldn't have gone on as long as they did.
Like Barney Fife liked to say...Nit it in the bud. Title: Re: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: wvit1001 on 01 16, 21, 07:09:43:PM the BLM protestors were charged with some serious crimes.
Title: Re: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: stretch351c on 01 16, 21, 07:15:07:PM And Comrade Kamala helped to fund their bail Comrade nit wit.
Title: Re: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: wvit1001 on 01 16, 21, 07:18:17:PM so? bail is guaranteed in our Constitution isn't it?
Title: Re: Going easy on these people will not work" Post by: stretch351c on 01 16, 21, 07:36:23:PM So funding bail for cop killers, simply because they agree with your ideology is ok Comrade?
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