Readers going to Daily Agitator has fallen off so I re-post this to hopefully generate some interest in my secondary blog.
AS the way that our political system is functioning is with 2 parties that are basically the same party just with minor differences but I ask why they are needed.
I would be interested in just what you think about the party system as it is today.
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With all the success that the DSA is having in the elections the propaganda wing of MAGA pulls out all the stops to trash what is happening.
I want to say that I do not support this type of bullshit reporting I offer it up as FYI and to show just how far the MAGA machine will go to misinform the public.
Most of this is LIES.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/aug/5/beware-dsa-dirtbag-wing-democratic-party/
This goes to illustrate just how much afraid of the current trend in voting.
Anything you would like to say?
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This post is about capitalism vs socialism….
We Americans seem to be deathly afraid of the term socialism….why?
Well basically because of the 50s Red Scare and it has just kept growing from those days.
Awhile back I wrote a post….
With that firmly in your mind there is a very good piece written by Nick Licata….
While Wikipedia identifies two dozen different kinds of socialism, two primary approaches support its goal of upholding a society’s welfare. One approach is to realistically regulate the marketplace to ensure it provides everyone in society with their basic needs, allowing them to lead a satisfactory life. The other is pursuing the ideal communal society without a marketplace that forces competition for obtaining basic needs.
Capitalism’s active practice is maintaining a marketplace to exchange goods, services, and access to them through a price system. Money has the greatest exchangeability value because it allows for the acquisition of various types of resources, one of the most critical being political power. However, exchanges can be made through a barter system, in which tangible items, including human labor, can be directly exchanged between seller and buyer. This was the dominant system before the advent of written history.
Capitalism’s belief system is limited to preserving the marketplace because it results in greater accumulation of resources that can be used for many purposes. There is no aspiration to create a new society; rather, it is to protect the current market-based one. It is a continuation of Adam Smith’s philosophy, as presented in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which appeared just as the Industrial Age was dawning in the late 1700s. He believed that individuals pursuing their self-interest in the marketplace would benefit society through increased productivity and wealth.
Socialism as a practice can be seen as a popular response to the marketplace system that replaced the barter system. It aimed to regulate the marketplace so that no concentration of material or social advantages occurred to the extent that it disrupted a community’s cohesion.
Socialism, as a pronounced belief system challenging the marketplace, emerged in the 19th century, when the term “socialist” was introduced. It was first used to describe the effort to create cooperative businesses and communities as an alternative to capitalism’s marketplace economy.
If one is afraid of socialism then fix capitalism…..
Everywhere I look, I see people expressing alarm about the popularity of socialism. It polls in the mid-to-high 30s, and considerably higher among younger people. Older people, who have a living memory of the various socialist regimes that once dotted the planet, which at best didn’t deliver prosperity to their people and at worst threw them in jail by the thousands, can’t understand how this could be and seem to want to talk endlessly about it.
I, however, marvel at the other consistent result of all these polls, which these people don’t seem nearly as interested in talking about. I refer to the ratings Americans give to capitalism. They’re terrible. A big Gallup poll from last fall is representative. Socialism won the approval of 39 percent, while capitalism’s positive number was 54 percent.
That is pathetic—barely half the country! In the country that invented modern capitalism and where it is worshipped by the elite class! And you know what? It’s entirely deserved. In fact, it deserves to be a little worse (as it is among Democrats). The kind of capitalism we’ve been practicing in this country over the last 40-plus years is cruel, corrupt, and a perversion of what humane capitalism ought to be. The people who are so freaked out about socialism ought to realize that the only way they’re going to arrest its rise is to change capitalism for the better.
From the founding of the country until the stock market crash of 1929, the general belief was that government should be small and markets should not be regulated. Some people say it worked pretty well until 1929, but in fact, that isn’t true. It worked well enough to perpetuate itself, because if capitalism is anything it’s elastic and dynamic, but that’s about it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/214122/fear-socialism-try-fix-capitalism
Unfortunately to fully understand is to say that critical thinking needs to be foremost in one’s mind….but sadly those days are gone….that is why I try to give my reader as much information as I can without too much thought.
It is a complex subject that needs more study than one can receive here but at least it is a start.
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I know it is early but the trash has started already and the midterms are not final yet….both sides of the aisle are worried about the rise of Progressives.
The corporate Dem candidates illustrate just how impotent they have become…..time for new leadership for the Dems….
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) on Wednesday called for “new leadership” within the Democratic Party, alleging that the caucus never fully recovered from its 2024 elections losses.
“Every day there’s a debate within the party about the path forward,” Slotkin said during an appearance on SiriusXM’s “Straight Shooter” podcast hosted by Stephen A. Smith.
“That’s why I believe we need significant new leadership. The old models are no longer working, and that includes the Democratic Party,” she added.
Slotkin said new leaders are needed in both chambers of Congress, in addition to a new form of messaging that’s singularly focused on a core set of issues.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5941463-slotkin-democrat-leadership-change/
Most Progressives have been calling for this a at least a decade…..
But since the DSA is making such success within the party the media is started its campaign to change the tide…..they are picking who they want to run in 2028….
Democrats are approaching what could be their most wide-open presidential primary in decades, but I’d venture a confident prediction today: one of the two Georgia senators will be on the party’s ticket in 2028.
Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, the two Democrats who delivered their party a majority with their twin victories at the end of the first Trump term, could bookend the outgoing president eight years later.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/15/georgia-democratic-senators-elections-00961080
Sad that the MSM has started their smear campaign earlier than normal.
The DNC needs to sell substance not symbolism…..and the search for the next Obama….
Top party strategists have spent months warning that Democrats can’t win back the White House in 2028 by banking on voters’ dissatisfaction with Trump and MAGA. Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina put it directly in an interview with Axios: “You can’t win a presidential election on opposition alone.” He added that “the midterms are going to be 85-90% driven by voter opposition to Trump and maybe 10-15% based on what Dems stand for.” “We cannot rely on that same calculation to win in 2028.”
The 2028 Democratic nominee will need to do more than beat a Republican. They will need to tell a story about what the party actually stands for – and make it stick with voters who have heard that pitch before and walked away unimpressed.
( who are these ‘frontrunners’?)
Who is the 2028 Democratic Nominee? Democrats Search for the Next Obama
The next Obama is out there right now the problem is the DNC is afraid of the person/s….they are a threat to the money machine they have come accustomed to in their political lives.
Some even want to give Harris another shot….
There are only two lanes to the Democrat presidential nomination two years from now, and one of them is already blocked—by Kamala Harris.
Get ready for the Kamala comeback, followed, in all likelihood, by a replay of her crushing defeat by the Republican nominee.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/26/kamala-harris-in-2028/
That is so much bullshit….she is a proven loser the people do not need to be reminded of her loss. Just let her slip into obscurity.
I say it is time to throw a monkey wrench into that money machine.
We all want a stable government that protects our rights and freedoms…..that is only possible with the destruction of the corrupt money machine.
Onward to 2028
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+++This post ought to get the juices flowing especially from mental midgets.+++
The whole idea of capitalism is losing some of its luster….and some are rethinking socialism….before we go any further most people’s concept of socialism is wrong…..and Dems are definitely NOT socialists. (It is that damn simple)….instead of believe what dimwit tells you and before you commit to believing bullshit maybe do some research (hahahaha…sorry that was just too funny)
This is a post from IST from 5 years ago….
Even back then the capitalistic luster was fading….fast forward to 2025….
Both Democrats and independents view capitalism less positively this year, as well. Less than half of Democrats, 42 percent, have a positive image of capitalism. Just over half of independents feel the same, compared to three-quarters of Republicans (whose views on the economic system haven’t changed since 2010).
What about the alternatives? Socialism still polls positively for 39 percent of respondents, holding steady since 2019.
But if you dig a little deeper, there are two diverging perspectives hidden behind that steady number: Democrats’ view of socialism has been increasing, while Republicans’ view has been decreasing.
While around 50 percent of Democrats had a positive view of socialism in 2010, nearly two-thirds do today. They’re the only partisan group who view socialism more positively than capitalism, at 66 to 44 percent, respectively.
It’s not hard to see why people may be fed up with the economic status quo. The cost of buying a home has skyrocketed, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic, and wages haven’t kept up. And since 2001, rents have risen 10 times faster than income.
Democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani have become more popular recently, as voters look to leaders who acknowledge that the cost of living is unacceptable.
Things have gotten so bad, it seems that even President Donald Trump may have lost his faith in capitalism—just ask Intel or Nippon.
(newrepublic.com)
People are starting to realize that all capitalism is doing is expanding the wealth of the already rich and driving more and more people into poverty.
CNN has covered this subject as well…
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/23/politics/republicans-capitalism-socialism-poll
The House has taken it upon itself to vote on a stupid and worthless issue….
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning socialism Friday morning, with several Democrats crossing the aisle to rebuke “socialist policies” in the U.S. following Zohran Mamdani’s recent election as the mayor-elect of New York City.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure in a 285-98 vote. Two members, Rep. Deborah Ross, D-Pa., and Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Ore., voted present.
Notably, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. — who endorsed Mamdani just days before the mayoral election — also voted in favor of the measure.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/86-dems-republicans-condemn-socialism-wake-mamdanis-mayoral-victory
I say worthless because their idiotic vote does NOT represent the voting public….and if I am not mistaken their job is to vote what the people are wanting….right?
Donny is governing with his brand of ‘state capitalism’
When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) lashed out at last weekend’s “No Kings” rallies soon to arrive on Washington’s National Mall, he reached for an old conservative refrain: “They hate capitalism. They hate our free enterprise system.”
I am sure he’s correct about some of the protesters. But the message rings hollow coming from a party leader that stands by as President Donald Trump does precisely what Johnson rightly decries: substituting political control for market choice and ruling by executive order.
Indeed, what began as a populist revolt against so-called elites has become a program of state ownership, price fixing and top-down industrial control. Take a look.
Recently, the Trump administration quietly converted CHIPS Act subsidies into an $8.9 billion equity purchase in Intel, making Washington a 10 percent owner of one of America’s largest technology companies. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick insists “this is not socialism.” That’s semantics.
Socialism is government control of the means of production. When the government becomes your largest shareholder, that’s a strong first step.
https://reason.com/2025/10/23/the-gops-capitalism-is-central-planning-with-maga-branding/
If you are one of those people that fears socialism even thought you have no idea what it is, then you should be worried about your boy Donny for he is taking a first step.
That should give you something to think about….oh wait….thinking? That is a novel concept for the MAGA loyal.
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Most of us know about the game plan for Donny’s second term., Heritage’s Project 2025, so not to be outdone by the MAGA crowd the Dems have their game plan, at least for now….so far it is known as Project 2029….another attempt to chase down the GOP’s success.
Democrats trying to lay policy groundwork for the 2028 presidential race are rolling out their first major policy proposal: a framework for online child safety.
Known as “Project 2029,” the liberal group was formed as a counterweight to the conservative Project 2025 to write a policy agenda for the next Democratic presidential nominee. The group reckons starting with online internet safety — which has widespread Democratic support — will help galvanize the party to address what it calls this generation’s “tobacco moment.”
The “Kids Over Clicks” proposal calls for narrowing protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that shield platforms from some liability. Among other items, the group wants to clarify that companies aren’t protected from lawsuits stemming from AI-generated content, paid ads, illegal content or activity, and platforms that promote stalking or other nonconsensual behavior.
The group is hoping the plans will pick up traction among what is expected to be a crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates heading into 2028.
“We’re going to see many people running for president … and we want to set the standard in terms of the type of ambition that we want to see when it comes to solving these problems,” said Chad Maisel, a former adviser to President Joe Biden and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker who now serves as Project 2029’s executive director.
The proposal also advocates for banning social media accounts for kids under 16 years old, adopting stronger default privacy protections, designing safer internet platforms, banning cell phones in schools (with exceptions), pushing for a smartphone-free childhood until age 14, banning surveillance advertising, and limiting data collection on children.
Project 2029 wanted to start with kids safety because it’s among the least politically polarizing topics, but plans to release policy agendas centered on issues including healthcare, housing, AI, and the border.
Then there is more……https://www.project2029.me/our-plans
In case you may be interested…..
Click to access ISC-A107-AdministrativeDemocracyToolkit-Document-8.5×11-v10-Final.pdf
All this is the Dems doing what they always do…REACT to the policies of the GOP…..so far I do not see any difference than any other election strategy…..do you?
Does this look like a winning formula to you?
Does not do it for me.
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+++Today is chemo so this may be the only post you see from me today sorry but I usually feel like crap afterwards++++
With the progress that the DSA is making in elections we are hearing the title almost daily….The Right is a fevered pitch trying to ward off any advancement of the progressives by resurrecting the old lame ass “Red Scare”
What bullshit!
As the mid term vote nears and the looming general in 2028 the propaganda machine that hides under the guise of media outlets is staring the lies and misinformation about the danger of those damn Marxists….
Keep in mind that the source of this article is a Far Right propaganda that feeds an unsuspecting public with the lies and misinformation.
America faces a Marxist pincer movement the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the Soviet Union sent tanks rolling across Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the ‘50s and ‘60s. This time, it’s not from a military intent on crushing liberty, but an insidious threat to our way of life nonetheless.
On one side, we have American communists plotting street mayhem in Havana, calling for a mass U.S. uprising from the capital of militant world communism, while Cuban communists provide them backup by meeting with Americans on U.S. soil to instruct them on how to lobby Congress.
The Marxist threat to America has two fronts. Both are advancing
This group and its media propagandists will do and say whatever they can to discourage Americans from learning anything about this group (DSA)….but I can help….
There isn’t one universal definition of democratic socialism. According to the website of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), democratic socialists view capitalism as “a system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit” and want to “replace it with democratic socialism, a system where ordinary people have a real voice in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and society.”
“What we want to do is extend democracy to our workplace and our housing and society at large, sort of deciding the ways our cities run, our jobs run, our housing runs, as opposed to right now, we think we’re in sort of a dictatorship of capital—the big corporations kind of make the decisions about everything, really,” says Megan Romer, the co-chair of the DSA.
Democratic socialism in the U.S., Farinella says, is not the socialism seen in the former Soviet Union, which was an autocratic system that eliminated capitalism by putting all major industries under centralized government control. Democratic socialists don’t want large corporations to be controlled by the government, and don’t want an autocracy; rather, they want to place the power of decision-making in the hands of the people through a democratic process.
Farinella says that democratic socialism also isn’t the kind of social democracy seen in Scandinavian countries, which reject authoritarianism and, in his words, “combine free market capitalism with high taxes” to fund social programs such as health care and education. Democratic socialists, meanwhile, don’t support capitalism (though some self-described democratic socialists have suggested that it is possible for democratic socialism and capitalism to exist together).
Democratic socialism “resides perhaps in the middle of the spectrum,” Farinella says.
“The democratic socialists in the United States want to shift political and economic power away from corporations and ultimately move beyond a capitalistic system, which they view as inherently unfair and exploitive,” he says. “They want to replace capitalism with an economy driven by social need rather than by profit motive, and they want to do this with workers and ordinary citizens making decisions about how to deploy resources—not having government make the decisions about how to deploy resources.”
“They want to do it all through democratic processes and institutions,” he adds.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/democratic-socialist-191131545.html
These people are NOT communists! The key to their electoral strategy is the last line of the quote…..”They want to do it all through democratic processes and institutions”….that means they want the people to have the voice in the elections.
This is what democracy looks like not the warped BS that Donny presents as such.
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A very good and regular reader and commenter here on IST, Judy at https://judyt8630.wordpress.com/, she and I have been having a back and forth about the Republican Party and this is just an extension to that conversation.
When I was young I helped my grandfather with his efforts to get out the vote of Ike and the GOP…..those were the days when the GOP was truly a party of the people.
Their platform for that national election was something to be proud of…..
The individual is of supreme importance.
The spirit of our people is the strength of our nation.
America does not prosper unless all Americans prosper.
Government must have a heart as well as a head.
Courage in principle, cooperation in practice make freedom positive.
To stay free, we must stay strong.
Read what the GOP stood for in that election…..https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1956
Like I said it was a platform that every American could be proud of and vote for.
But then in 1960 everything started changing with in the the party….after 65 years of BS it has become the party of today…..so what the Hell happened?
This video is an interview with an ex-Congressperson on what has happened….
The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and visionaries who are making the world more libertarian—or at least more interesting—by challenging worn-out ideas and orthodoxies.
Today’s guest is Jeff Flake, former Arizona senator and U.S. ambassador to Turkey, and now head of the brand-new Institute of Politics at Arizona State University. Flake made national headlines in 2017 when he delivered a searing Senate floor speech announcing he would not seek reelection and declaring he would not be complicit in the “degradation of our politics” under Donald Trump and MAGA.
This is an article in Mother Jones….
In May, during an Aspen Institute conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the audience, “I want the Republican Party to take back the party, take it back to where you were when you cared about a woman’s right to choose, you cared about the environment…This country needs a strong Republican Party. And we do. Not a cult. But a strong Republican Party.” Her comments echoed a sentiment that Joe Biden had expressed during the 2020 campaign: If Donald Trump were out of the White House, the GOP would return to normal and be amenable to forging deals and legislative compromises.
Both Pelosi and Biden have bolstered the notion that the current GOP, with its cultlike embrace of Trump and his Big Lie, and its acceptance of the fringiest players, is a break from the past. But was the GOP’s complete surrender to Trumpism an aberration? Or was the party long sliding toward this point? About a year ago, I set out to explore the history of the Republican Party, with this question in mind. What I found was not an exception, but a pattern. Since the 1950s, the GOP has repeatedly mined fear, resentment, prejudice, and grievance and played to extremist forces so the party could win elections. Trump assembling white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Christian nationalists, QAnoners, and others who formed a violent terrorist mob on January 6 is only the most flagrant manifestation of the tried-and-true GOP tactic to court kooks and bigots. It’s an ugly and shameful history that has led the Party of Lincoln, founded in 1854 to oppose the extension of slavery, to the Party of Trump, which capitalizes on racism and assaults democracy.
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
Just a few attempts to try and illustrate what has gone wrong with the GOP…..
What we know as traditional republicanism may be dead and gone and we can thank no other than Little Donny D-Nothing and his band of goons.
Any Thoughts?
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Today is the big day….the new mayor of NYC comes to DC to meet with Donny-Do-Little…..if you recall shortly after he was elected Donny demanded that he ‘be nice’ (seriously the most rude and insulting person in government demands others ‘be nice’….he is hilarious)
President Trump said late Wednesday that the long-awaited meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would happen in Washington later this week, setting up an in-person clash between the political polar opposites who for months have antagonized each other from afar, the AP reports. The sit-down, which Trump said on social media would take place Friday in the Oval Office, could possibly represent a detente of sorts between the Republican president and Democratic rising star, as Trump has since Mamdani’s win moved toward acceptance of Mamdani’s central, winning campaign issue of affordability. Calling Mamdani by his full name—and putting the mayor-elect’s middle name of Kwame in quotation marks—Trump posted Wednesday night that Mamdani had asked for the meeting, promising “Further details to follow!”
The day before his visit that idiot press secretary, Leavitt, has stated for the record that Mamdani is a communist and he will come to town…
Geez you people are idiots!
I have explained this numerous times and idiots keep scratching their ass and repeating bullshit….one more time for the morons out there…
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was formed in 1982 as a bridge between capitalism and socialism….it is neither socialism or communism….is that simple enough?
Experts, however, contend that the DSA’s platform is far removed from the socialism seen in the Soviet Union or Cuba, and in fact, they argue it actually aims to build off America’s Democratic principles.
“Communists want to do away with capitalism altogether. They don’t want any private enterprise. They don’t want any private means of production. And they want a whole world run by people like that,” Michael Kazin, a history professor at Georgetown University, told ABC News. “Democratic socialists are willing to have themselves voted out of power. They believe that once you have a democratic socialist society, people will like that society, but if they don’t want to keep it, then they can go back to a more capitalist society.”
(abcnews.com)
Is that clear now?
So after years of LYING to the public who is afraid of those democratic socialists?
Apparently not many any more…..for years now the DSA has been making headway into the government of the cities, states and nationally….so apparently only morons are afraid.
They are reforming the DNC…..which has needed reforming since the 1990s….but will they succeed?
In conclusion these people are NOT communists or even a true socialist….learn what you are talking about or STFU.
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Many of the mindless drones on the Right are spouting lots of crap about all those on the far Left…..especially those dolts in the Donny Praise Society unknown as the Cabinet and especially that idiot number 2, Vance…..
His latest statement is a typical of a mindless regurgitation….
Vice President JD Vance hosted an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show from the White House on Monday, and his guests included White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who said the killing of the show’s namesake will lead to a crackdown on leftist groups that he described as a domestic terror movement. “With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” Miller said. Vance said the White House would “work to dismantle the institutions that promote violence and terrorism in our own country.”
- “The organized doxxing campaigns, the organized riots, the organized street violence, the organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting people’s addresses, combining that with messaging that’s designed to trigger and incite violence and the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence,” Miller said. “It is a vast domestic terror movement.” He said the crackdown would happen “in Charlie’s name.”
- Vance opened the show by saying he was “filling in for somebody who cannot be filled in for, but I’ll do my best,” the AP reports. He said Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, told him the 31-year-old was never “cross or mean-spirited” to her. “I took from that moment that I needed to be a better husband and I needed to be a better father,” Vance said. “That is the way I’m going to honor my friend.”
- Later in the show, Vance said that he was “desperate” for national unity, but that there can be “no unity with the people who celebrate Charlie Kirk’s assassination.” “When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out,” he said, per NBC News. “And, hell, call their employer. We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there is no civility in the celebration of political assassination.”
- “This is not a both-sides problem,” Vance said. “While our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far left.”
- Vance’s other guests included Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Kennedy described Kirk as a “spiritual soulmate” who “orchestrated” his endorsement of Trump last year at an Arizona rally organized by Kirk’s Turning Point USA group, the Guardian reports.
As someone who has been on thee Left most of my adult life would you please tell me who these ‘extremists’ are?
They have no f**king idea who they are it is just red meat for those worthless spineless supporters to keep them in their corner.
It is just like all those they call socialists….in actuality none of them would know a socialist if he walked up and bit them in the ass….it is nothing more than a simple slogan that is easily remembered by the mental midgets.
Now idiot in charge has called for an assault on the Left….
President Donald Trump revealed on Monday that he was considering designating Antifa and other far-left “radical groups” as domestic terror organizations following the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Asked, “Do you plan on designating Antifa finally a domestic terror organization?” the president responded, “Well, it’s something I would do, yeah. If I have support from the people back here– I think we’d start with Pam, I think. But I would– if you give me– I would do that 100%, and others also, by the way. But Antifa is terrible.”
Trump then added that there were “other groups” he would also consider designating as domestic terror organizations, remarking, “They have some pretty radical groups and they got away with murder.”
“Also, I’ve been speaking to the attorney general about bringing RICO against some of the people that you’ve been reading about that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation,” he concluded. “These aren’t protests, these are crimes what they’re doing.”
Trump received renewed calls to go after Antifa – which has a lengthy history of engaging in violence – following the assassination of Kirk at Utah Valley University last week.
This is such bullshit!
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ‘terrorists’ but antifa is…..you morons realize that antifa is NOT an organization there is no ‘leader’, there is no national headquarters it merely stands for anti-fascist.
Can they say that about the others?
They have NO idea what they say or what they want to do other than keep people divided and rabid.
Especially Blondi, DoJ, and her most recent statement….
Attorney General Pam Bondi has doubled down on her attack on free speech after a MAGA backlash, vowing to use the full force of the law to crack down on left-wing people using violent rhetoric to silence conservatives.
“Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. It’s a crime,” she posted on X. (too bad that does not include all the hate speech)
“For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over.”
(thedailybeast.com)
They just cannot help themselves….
Speaking again on Tuesday, days after the killing, Trump said that “most of the violence is on the left.”
But the data tells a different story. In the last five years, 81 people have been killed by political violence in the United States. Right-wing terrorists account for over half of those murders, some 54%, according to research by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Islamists account for 21%, and left-wingers for 22%.
The same study looked at data as far back as 1975 and found that terrorists inspired by Islamist ideology account for some 87% of all deaths (3122) from political violence, due to the mass casualties of the 9/11 attacks.
Excluding the 9/11 attacks, over the same period, terrorists inspired by right-wing ideology are responsible for 63% of deaths from political violence during that time, compared to 10% for left-wing attacks. Since 1975, there have been 391 deaths caused by right-wing terror attacks in the United States, and 65 deaths from left-wing terror attacks.
(time.com)
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