50 Years Ago Today

[Noogies]

Originally Posted by whell

Show me evidence of Republicans rounding up and killing dissenters and I'll consider your opinion on this.

They're just waiting until the time is right ...

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by whell

Show me evidence of Republicans rounding up and killing dissenters and I'll consider your opinion on this.

Don't you think we should try to avoid getting to that point, rather than ignoring the warnings until the death squads are active?

One warning that's pretty close to your specification is the execution of Michael Reinoehl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killin...chael_Reinoehl

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

Show me evidence of Republicans rounding up and killing dissenters and I'll consider your opinion on this.

When did you move to Missoura, Mike?

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Don't you think we should try to avoid getting to that point, rather than ignoring the warnings until the death squads are active?

One warning that's pretty close to your specification is the execution of Michael Reinoehl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killin...chael_Reinoehl

or that new darling of the Republicans, Kyle Rittenhouse.

[whell]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

They seem rather equivalent when stated that way, don't they? One might throw up one's hands and just figure all politicians are equally bad. But there is a heck of a lot of evidence that the GOP of late has been plotting to subvert democracy here. I have heard many Republicans testify under oath about how they tried to do it.

On the other hand, actual evidence of Democratic Party vote fraud seems really thin on the ground. So, equal accusations do NOT mean equivalence. Not at all.

Please be more careful about repeating easy but false accusations.

Thanks for telling me to be careful about something I didn't do. But, while we're at it, allegations of voter fraud are nothing new. Having a presidential candidate openly question the results of a national election are also nothing new.

If evidence of election fraud seems thin to you, maybe its because you're not looking for it. It happens every election cycle, and members of both parties do it. While I don't believe the 2020 election was stolen, there were plenty of cases of election hi-jinks.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr...election-fraud


https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud-print/search

https://www.courierpress.com/story/n...ny/7799375002/

https://www.wuft.org/news/2022/04/02...registrations/

Back to my original point, claims that members of one party "subverting democracy" by another party is nothing new, and didn't start in 2020. Here's a Slate article going back to 2003 where it was suggested that the Repubs were subverting democracy when they, for example, impeached Clinton for lying. Funny how Slate never thought that the Dems efforts to derail the Trump presidency with never ending false accusations, investigations and impeachments were subverting democracy. But its not hard to find examples of Repubs accusing Democrats of the same thing.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by whell

But its not hard to find examples of Repubs accusing Democrats of the same thing.

That was my point! Accusations are cheap! To use them to say the two side are equal is tantamount to saying the two sides are GUILTY of similar accused conduct.

And FALSE accusations against Trump? I see you are now past fairly considering my comments, and are in full partisan mode. So engagement over!

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by whell

Show me evidence of Republicans rounding up and killing dissenters and I'll consider your opinion on this.

I guess White supremacists mass killing folks of color and gays doesn't count.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Show me evidence of Republicans rounding up and killing dissenters and I'll consider your opinion on this.

Hell, they run on a platform of murdering dissenters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZZ2Y6fAq8o

[RickeyM]

Speaking of Ronnie the Snitch playing footsie with Iranians. I found this gen from the past in my files.

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[RickeyM]

Speaking of Ronnie the Snitch playing footsie with Iranians and such. I found this gen from the past in my files.

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