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Johnson Says Pentagon Needs More Money for ‘Fighting Communism on Our Own Shores’
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If you can’t beat ‘em, rig the elections.
If that doesn’t work, throw ‘em in jail.
Straight out of the autocrats’ playbook.
In the weeks following a series of Democratic primary victories by progressive and democratic socialist candidates in New York, Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, and elsewhere, Trump and his allies in the GOP have relentlessly hammered on the idea that the nation was under siege by “godless Communists” who want to “completely destroy the traditional American way of life,” rhetoric that echoed McCarthy era red-baiting to many critics.
These “Godless Communists” who are looking to “destroy the traditional American way of life” are doing it by winning elections. So, what Trump and Johnson are saying is that we should send the military after these office holders because he doesn’t like their politics.
Yep. If you think shit is dark now, it’s gonna get way darker before it starts to get better. I’m the most worried I’ve ever been about the few months of October through January. They’ve come way too far and committed way too many crimes to simply let themselves be democratically and constitutionally removed from office.
CharlesDarwinLittle Mikey Johnson has said he’s running a protection racket.
TrackinDaKrakenBringing back the Red Scare to make America Great Again?
Fuck.
Yeah, for SOME reason, communism is becoming incredibly popular in the United States.
Could it be the fascists running everything?
Oh, I’m sorry, ruining everything.
BottleBoardBakon
LillyPipYeah, because the real threat today isn’t fascism having taken over government, or christian nationalism, or billionaires bleeding us dry and stripping our rights. Nope. It’s the *red menace*. All those communists who we all know in real life, who *[checks notes]*… oh wait… do not actually exist meaningfully in government.
Also, Bigfoot is coming for your children. Better watch out! 🙄
e: don’t get me wrong, I wish leftism was a real threat to fascism in the US, but it’s just not yet.
do not actually exist meaningfully in government.
Yeah, that’s what they want you to think!
It’s also true, but are you really gonna let facts get in the way?
/s
How about fighting fascism in the government instead?
I’ll take goodness communism over fascism wielding a cross and wearing a flag.
They’re talking about democratic socialism of course though, which is expressly not communism, but bring ignorant of the difference is also a feature of the American education system.
So when they say they want to go back to the 50s they mean everything, even the random Red Scare witch hunts.
BliblyThreatening to use the military to attack American citizens? Seems like a good reason to say NO! to your request.
GutterRat42Yeah, I heard communism is spreading like wildfire. The Federal Government wants to take over elections, there are subsidized gas stations, the President is telling private companies that the federal government needs stakes in their companies, and the president has told groceries to lower their prices or else, secret police on the street shooting at people at traffic stops… Communism!
Or are we talking about the fake communism Republicans point to to scare constituents into voting Republican against their best interest?
Let me guess: the little Keebler Elf defines anything that is not conservative, not pro-pedo-in-chief, and not pro-Seven Mountain Mandate as “Communism”.
Lexam
Flying_LynxCommunism….hmm right Looking at Russia: Things Like the existence of oligarchy, nepotism, plundering of the poor, being against free press, having police raids, ….? Looking back at the US.
Russia post Soviet collapse is 100% what they are trying to achieve here. Balkanization, genocide, profiteering, and mask off oligarchy. Seems to be working.
You wouldn’t be using the government to punish political speech and expression, would you, Mikey-boy? Wouldn’t want that pendulum to swing back the other way to you and your fascist pals, would you bud?
Time is a flat circle baby and every inch of it is fighting communism!!!! What the fuck is happening? It’s like no one in this country went to school.
What a fantastic way to inspire a socialist revolt as a reaction to oppression.
These people are so thirsty for a civil war. Personally, I’d rather just see the union fracture apart. Let these buttwads have their backwards-ass fascist states, while leaving the rest of us out of it.
bigbangdanglerWhat is Joseph McCarthy up to lately, anyway? Been so long since I’ve seen him.
GoofSchmooferA well funded socialist organization is now going to be used to fight socialism.
Mike, it’s OK if you like touching peen. Be yourself, it’s awesome. You might quit being a fucking cunt once you’ve felt what actual freedom is like.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
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TRILLIONS in Guns will do MORE to HELP stop Crime then TRILLIONS in Healthcare Education Employment and Freedom!
switcherooNeeds more money to oppress The People and keep us from protesting and voting you fuckers out! Take that crusty mushroom dick out of your mouth and say what you mean.
DarkFutureThe most blatantly grifting administration in U.S. history and conservatives/regressives will STILL vote for them across the board. Best we can get is them souring on Trump now that it doesn’t matter anymore.
They will absolutely keep doing this to America unless we do something about it.
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Is the communism in the room with us right now?
There are some good orgs like the Party for Socialism and Liberation that are gaining in popularity, and thus have begun being targeted by the state.
Trying to deploy the U.S. military “on our own shores” against lawful speech and activity is blatantly illegal.
The U.S. Posse Comitatus Act:
You’d expect a sitting congressman to know the law (or at least research it) before spouting this kind of BS. But who am I kidding? Johnson is a Republican who is not subject to the Constitution or the laws that the rest of us must follow.
A fine and a maximum of two years in jail for what has to be one of the most egregiously tyrannical actions one could take. Assuming the law is ever actually applied.
What a joke this country is.
Its doesn’t matter if you site it for them. They cant/won’t read it. They are too far gone at this point to realize they are wrong
They don’t care about wrong or right, just what they can get away with
Calling out blatant illegality and corruption like this is still important. Not because the MAGA cult is reachable, it’s for everyone else. History has shown us they won’t always be in power and it’s vital to document this shit…
Emil Bove is the guy that suggested they simply not follow the courts and judges. Remember his name.
Someone slept for a years.
You think deploying troops because you don’t like someone’s political beliefs is the same thing, do you?
Did you read the article?
You don’t seem to understand what plausible deniability is. This is the from second paragraph:
Sending troops because there are “commies among us” is not the same thing.
Yikes. And he asked Congress & Cali’s Governor’s permission, right?
And yet your every comment is absolutely brimming with snark and condescension. I prefer adult engagement too and that means not wasting any more time on you.
Cmon cowards, nuke the communism
.ml got them shook
Red Scare… Again… For the third time.
4th time.
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact:
Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.
It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.
Where in the hell is this communism in my neighborhood?? I haven’t even seen one thing about communism, the closest I’ve seen are these stupid bus and train stops and sub safe bike lanes (paint)..
Some orgs like The Party for Socialism and Liberation have been doing great work, like sending a flotilla of aid to Cuba, and as such have begun being targeted by the state.
Public transportation is communism.
Bike lanes are woke, and wokeness is communism!
And anything serving the public general interest should be investigated for possible sympathy for communism.
Anything that doesn’t support perverted capitalism is now communism, by their definitions.
Oh, cute.
You know who else liked to use “enemy within” phrase?
That little Nazi Bottom just admitted he wants to use the military against our own citizens.
I hope his constituents tie him to the goalposts and leave him there all weekend.
hes lucky where hes at because KEVIN was so flip floppy in the house.
doing anything to convince boomers, and CUBANS, and other south americans to keep voting for them.
You misspelled Guasanos.
Just one more term bro!
Two words he seems to have missed in his education: Posse Commitatus.
Are you hoping the military itself enforces that? Or the cops who already let ice murder people in the streets? Or what? McDonald’s employees?
That is the bis American problem. You’ve got mostly good laws, but nobody seems to follow them anymore. A kind of anarchy, but from the top instead from the bottom.
No. No we do not. I mean for Hell’s sake we incarcerate way now individuals per capita than any other nation in the planet.
Or so called justice system is fucking horseshit.
I’m not talking about application. But the ideas behind them are OK. And I’m amazed that democracy is still not totally broken, despite the efforts of your current government and the spinelessness of the opposition.
No.
The ideas behind them involved slavery and genocide. Otherwise known as “colonial settler” behavior.
We have always been the baddies.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A lot of it has to do with the corrupt ass supreme court shitting on the constitution so they can enrich the guys buying them RVs.
Yes, SCOTUS is a problem here. Having executive, legislation and jurisdiction trying to burn the state down is a real issue. I’m amazed that the US still has some recognizable democratic elements, despite all those attacks on it.
Laws anywhere apply only as far as they benefit the ruling class, be that class the capitalists or the workers. That’s the function of a state.
this country is the constitution. the internal enemies that need to be dealt with are the ones violating and subverting the constitution. period.
reads the Constitution
I would fucking hope not. We can do better.
Something something tankies bad
This is to get more money to fight Iran right
$5 it’s either forever war or trans people
to distract from epstein files. at the same time jean e caroll been in the news.
Mike McCarthy showing his true stripes. And stars.
The american citizens need communism. They are dying and need help. Regardless of what the giant capitalists think, communism is good. Democratic socialism is better. They are both mostly the same with regard to helping citizens and not businesses, even though words like “ideology” get in the way so everyone can keep debating while those giant capitalists continue to scrape away at your own bottom line.
sadly its been largely qaushed during the red scare, by right wing propaganda for decades.
Fight me.
“Mostly the ‘democratic’ part must be criminalized”
Bring on the revolution
Wonder how few democrats will vote against.
Political lesson for the day:
Naziism is an establishment philosophy that is primarily/near exclusively devoted to anti-communism as a path to maximizing Oligarchist/Corporatist supremacism. Ethnic supremacist hate is just a populist veil to provide oligarchist power maximization. Nazis won ww2. Reagan shifted the US to open devotion to voodoo nazi economic theory. Trickle down economic theory as a “pro labour” facade to naziism, because giving everything to oligarchs will incentivize them to buy a blowjob from you plebs.
The Nazi extremism of current GOP is far higher than 1930s Germany. It mixes Zionazi supremacist rule over Americans, and instead of targetting non-existant Marxism (labour supremacism) political force, they demonize any restraint to their fascism.
Democracy permits the power to seize tratorous zionazi supremacist supporters assets (media, military, energy). Not under the pretext of marxism, but on the pretext of treasonous theft of prosperity and safety, in addition to national sustainability.