Put Down the Not My President Protesters

It was heartening to see the spontaneous resistance spring up from Americans across the Nation against the election of Donald Trump. Never forget Trump lost the popular vote but won the election.

But, a message to all the protesters; Never forget that while right-wing domestic terrorism and violence is coddled and encouraged in this country (See the Two Bundy Insurrections and the repeated threats of assassination during all Trump rallies) agitation perceived to be coming from the left is never, ever tolerated. It won't be long before Faux News and conservatives begin calling on their allies in the FBI to put you down violently.

Sure enough beloved Right-Wing Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee County, who just last month was encouraging conservatives to take to the streets with torches and pitchforks if Trump lost, is declaring these protests must be "quelled".

Expect more, louder, and increasingly angry calls from conservatives for the use of Violence by the State against the protesters.

If only Republicans vote, then the only votes will be for Republicans

I have Healthcare Coverage from Goldman Sachs.
Don't bother me with your Poverty.
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Republicans across the United States are super mad because a Republican official in North Carolina, revealed what they are doing.

Aasif Mandvi of The Daily Show conducted an interview with state GOP executive committee member Don Yelton, who has since been fired, where Yelton claimed there are "one or two" cases of individuals double voting but the new North Carolina voting law, which mandates voter identifications, the curtailing of early voting operations and does not allow college students to vote using their school ID, "is going to kick the Democrats in the butt." He also off-handedly dismissed concerns that the law will particularly affect communities of color by saying because his "best friend is black" and "If it hurts a bunch of lazy Blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it."

"Are you fuckin' kiddin' me? You don't ever admit the existence of this thing. Ever!" ~ Frank Vincent, The Sopranos

Republicans have long given up making cogent, reasoned arguments for their positions. "Let'em Die!" They've given up trying to justify the crushing income inequality, massive transfer of wealth upwards, oppression and subjugation of the Working Class from the economic policies the Right uses to create a Neo-Feudalist State.

Over the summer Republican Rob Gleason of Pennsylvannia positively gushed over the Right-Wing efforts to disenfranchise Americans who vote imcorrectly, "We probably had a better election. Think about this, we cut Obama by 5 percent, which was big. ... He beat McCain by 10 percent, he only beat Romney by 5 percent. I think that probably photo ID helped a bit in that."

Republicans can no longer win elections honestly. They know it. For years, simply relying on low voter turnout meant victories for Republicans. But, now they've lost 5 of the last 6 Presidential elections. In 2012 Republican Congressional Candidates received 1.5 million fewer votes than Democratic ones. And their strategy of appealing to Angry White Bigots for votes is facing demise because of demographics.

"We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term." - Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

Their efforts are now turned towards disenfranchising voters in order for them retain power.

Voter Supression is now the norm of Republicans because for too long the wrong people have been voting. By, whitling dow the voting base Republicans can ensure they remain in power long enough to destroy Democracy and enforce the Will of the Plutocrats upon the Nation.

It's one of the reasons the Plutocracy has tasked their Republican goon squads destroy the Middle Class. A stable, financially secure middle class can not be counted on to vote the way the Corporate Oligarchs desire. And to Republican Guard Dogs, conservative "thinkers" and their Rich Masters the mere act of Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American.

Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American...

The Poor and Working Class shouldn't vote. Voter ID is nothing more than the newest and slickest tool Republicans have adopted to ensure the Right People Vote and the Right wins the Vote.

Career Politican and Rape Expert Todd Akin and the Republicans are the Party of Legitimate Rape

Republican Sente Candidate Todd Akin made the inexcuseable mistake of actually telling the truth about what right-wingers think when it comes to Rape and Women's Bodies.

"If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Only Bad Girls who wanted it and dressed like sluts, asking for it get pregnant.

Sadly, the Right-Wing War on Women continues. Akin is stating mainstream conservative thought. In 2011 Tea Party and House Republicans vote en masse to change the definition of Rape to only be "legitimate" when it was "forcible". Because every conservative knows if the woman didn't die trying to fight off her attacker she wanted it.

But, Congressman Todd Akin has nothing to worry about in Missouri. Akin recently made the right-wing pilgrimmage to Chick-fil-A to demonstrate his worthiness to right-wing bigots. In fact, Todd Akin is staying in the Mo Senate Race and has a legitimate chance of winning unless Missouri female bodies have ways of shutting that whole thing down!

Todd Akin is a career Republican bureaucrat. He's been a US Congressman since 2001 and served in the Mo House from 1988-2000. So, it's been 25 years since Akin had to worry about his healthcare coverage or next paycheck.

Despite Akin's recent "some people say" Only Bad Girls who Wanted It Get Pregnant. He's also espoused other standard pillars of Right-Wing ideology:

"I have a very serious concern about erosion of states rights. Very serious concern of that, and this, reversing this decision might pull that balance back. I am, as I’ve mentioned, a strong conservative, I don’t think the federal government should be doing a whole lot of things that it’s doing and it may well be that a repeal of the 17th Amendment might tend to pull that back but I haven’t written any thesis on it or anything like that." State's Rights! Of course, Akin wants to disenfranchise voters. Todd Akin also thinks it's time "to take a second look" at "the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act". State's Rights! Without taking the vote away from legitimate voters Republicans can't win elections!

Todd Akin told reporters in Sedalia today that he isn't sure the federal government should be involved in the school lunch program. “Is it something the federal government should do? I answer it no. I think the federal government should be out of the education business.”

Akin made the statement outside the 60th annual Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair on the week many students are heading back to the classroom.

Because as Akin noted, "the right to food is a communist ideal." Just remember Akin doesn't have to worry about where his next meal is coming from as he's wined and dined by lobbyists, paid an enormous salary by Government and provided FREE Government Healthcare.

The Republican Party stands for nothing more than Oppression, Subjugation and Slavery. As Vice President Joe Biden correctly pointed out, the Republican Party wants to put "Y'all back in Chains..." It's just that "Y'all" the Republicans want to enslave includes more than just black people but every woman, poor and middle class person in America who doesn't kow-tow and genuflect to them and Plutocracy.

On Right-Wing Voter Fraud and "Real" Racism

"I don't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's an Arab..."

"No ma'am, no ma'am. He's a decent family man..." - John McCain, 2008 Campaign Trail. With that exhange John McCain lost the 2008 election. Senator McCain still possessed a sense of honor and wouldn't stoop to race-baiting attacks. Mitt Romney and the Republicans of 2012, however, have no problem and are firmly engaged in Dog Whistle Race based attacks on the President.

The Push for Voter ID has become the cause célèbre of right-wingers around the country. With all manner of know-nothing wingnut welfare writers turning out libraries of fainting couch material.

Only as Steve Benen of the Rachel Maddow Show notes it's a solution in search of a problem. In person voting fraud is non-existent. The analysis of 2,068 reported fraud cases by News21, a Carnegie-Knight investigative reporting project, found 10 cases of alleged in-person voter impersonation since 2000.

So it happens as often as NASA lands a rover on Mars.

But, it's not really about the faux outrage of conservatives over the phantom problem of Voter Fraud. Voter ID is fraud. But, the fraud is that it serves as a useful vehicle to accomplish the true goal of conservatives; To literally steal the vote away from millions of voters.

It's about disenfranchising millions of voters because the heavy perponderance of those whose legal voting rights are being stolen from them by Right-Wingers don't vote for Republicans.

"Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done." - Pennsylvannia House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, Republican.

But, oddly when millions of legal voters having their rights stripped away is pointed out, the conservative reaction is, 'Oh the real bigots are leftists who think blacks are too dumb to know how to get an ID'.

While this is, of course, an insulting Straw Man Argument is does illustrate several things about the right-wing lizard brain. 1) everything must come back to race and 2) they hate that black people will not vote for Republicans.

Never would conservatives argue that "Mormons" are biased unless they vote 50/50 for Romney and President Obama but because blargh people vote for Obama it's wrong.

The constant conservative refrain, 'liberals are the true racists and blacks just don't realize it because of the creation of the dependence welfare state has ensnared them and if they only listen to conservative ideas they'll self-actualize freedom' is really only to convince the lizard-brains of righties that they aren't racist. But, what it actually is, is a more insidious level of bigotry.

However, Phony Voter Fraud isn't just about minorities having their votes stolen from them; although the genesis of this push does stem from histroical efforts to disenfranchise freed Slaves.

As Vice President Joe Biden pointed out, the Republican Party wants to put "Y'all back in Chains..." It's just that "Y'all" the Republicans want to enslave includes more than just black people but every poor and middle class person in America who doesn't kow-tow and genuflect to them and their Moneyed Masters. You won't bow down to the Plutocracy? Fine, Republicans declare, we will simply remove your vote from you.

"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." - Paul Weyrich