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They probably aren’t even counting all the political scams and disinformation. In the past year FB has tried to push right wing extremist propaganda from about 40-50 different sources on me, despite me banning each one, one at a time. What the fuck FB??? Why are you trying super hard to peddle Fascism on Americans? Why are the people running FB such incredible sociopaths? I also got 4 posts from left/liberal sources, and I rejected those too. Why the f*ck would anybody wish to use something as crappy and untrustworthy as Facebook to get political information from? Only if the source was Bernie Sanders himself would I consider “subscribing”.

Zuckerberg deserves the phrase “fascist sociopath” on his tombstone.

At the same time, nobody loves to fold a winning hand more than the Democrats.

That’s what so great about Newsom accomplishing this. After making some early missteps, Newsom is successfully fighting back and it is so refreshing to see that it’s not just progressives anymore who are pushing back hard against Traitorapist Trump.

Is he claiming that there are 3 years he’s got his hands glued together?

Nope. Its not claiming that. The article is pointing out a significant thing just happened. For the very first time in this term, GOP congressmen rejected a major demand of Traitorapist Trump. That is the definition of “lame duck” status. The implication is that now that GOP congressmen have successfully rejected a major Trump demand without any negative consequences at all, its going to be much easier to do this in the future. It doesn’t mean that every Trump request will be denied, just that Trump’s bullying should be much less effective now. Not only does Traitorapist not have unlimited powers, even his own party is rejecting him now.

Lawrence O’Donnell regularly delivers devastating critiques on Trump, his incompetent flunkies, and the embarrassing failure of the media such as the New York Times and white house press corps to cover him competently. He often compares today’s events with how things worked in the past to show just how badly things have become fucked up today. This is my favorite news show and the only one I record so I don’t miss it.

totally just summarized the article apparently few on here bothered to read.

Yes. My opinion of David Brooks is not very high but he did have some actual points here that you summarized well.

I noticed the striking similarities between the US Republican Party and the Russian Communist Party long ago. The lip service about “smaller government” while in reality loving victimless crime laws and big brother government. The love of dishonesty and disinformation. Encouraging followers to suspend all critical thinking skills and embrace shallow dogmas and cult of personality. Trying to rule through bullying and intimidation. Love of authoritarianism. The ultimate emphasis on raw power over ideology.

This stuff is especially ironic given the false claims of right wing kooks that anything they don’t like is “communist”. Republicans are the actual “communist” threat because they use the same tactics and have the same contempt for democracy as the Bolsheviks.