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kpete

(71,985 posts)
Sun Sep 8, 2019, 10:29 AM Sep 2019

This would be how we might get the "Trump Dynasty"

Elections in Russia. Armed men on horseback stopped bus full of observers & journalists in Tyva & shot out the tires. Electoral observers beaten up & inked in Petersburg & arrested in Penza, @golosinfo coordinator arrested in Moscow, students forced to vote for rector in Bryansk.




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Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
3. Damn, I wish I had stayed away from news this weekend.
Sun Sep 8, 2019, 11:03 AM
Sep 2019

This scares and angers me. Who the fuck do they think they are?

Atticus

(15,124 posts)
4. It pains me to say it, but many reading this OP and reviewing the videos linked in support
Sun Sep 8, 2019, 11:09 AM
Sep 2019

will reflexively say "Pffttt! That could never happen here!"

Isn't there a book with a similar title?

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Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
6. Meh. They're trying to make us forget that only 200 people showed up to see Don Jr.,
Sun Sep 8, 2019, 11:19 AM
Sep 2019

at a venue that could seat 7,000, when he was stumping with Matt Bevins in deep red Kentucky.
https://hillreporter.com/turnout-don-jr-s-campaign-event-so-low-organizers-asked-attendees-to-scoot-closer-to-the-stage-44537

...."Still, with a member of the Trump family on the marquee for a political event in a state where Trump has a net approval rating of +19 percent, some have suggested the low-attended event was an embarrassment, particularly for Trump Jr., who may run for office himself someday.

Earlier this year, Trump Jr. suggested he wasn’t opposed to running for office himself, like his father has done.

“I definitely enjoy the fight,” he said, per reporting from The Independent. “I definitely like being out there and I love being able to see the impact and the difference that it makes on these people’s lives that I get to see all over the country.”







Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
8. Less than 24 hours ago, Lawfare Blog posted
Sun Sep 8, 2019, 11:50 AM
Sep 2019

an introduction and hour-long podcast about how the trump cult has taken over and decimated the State Dept:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-turnover-and-turmoil-inside-state-department

Barr is working on wrecking the DoJ, of course.
Purdue is busy wrecking the Dept of Agriculture.
DeVoss on Dept of Education
Etc, ad nauseum.

Democracy is ours for as long as we can keep it.

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