In 2008 America elected it’s first black president of the United States. This was not only a victory for democracy versus the same GOP you’re witnessing today. it was a positive step for a democracy with a troubled and torn heritage to the majority of Americans and people in all western democracies at the time. Those opposed to this were and are the *minority of westerners, mostly in favor of homogeny and to varying degrees (from sheltered bigotry to pronounced violent extreme hate groups) prejudice. It is the loud minority that want things like exit campaigns from NATO and our other unions. It also was and is the minority that was able to lodge their votes in over ours through suppression and gerrymandering for so many years and now they knew they were shrinking.
They knew it, we knew it, large houseplants knew it. Their barely clinging minority was getting smaller. The people who were willing to associate patriotism with bigotry for classical bigots like Gingrich and perverts like Hastert, or those who wrote letters to get his molestation charges reduced in sentencing like DeLay were getting less and less.
Ron Paul and Reform Partiers like Lindsey (Trump was their candidate at one point) and all sorts of far-right based groups had noticed and had won seats by primarying the “Grand Old Party” as “independent” or “radical” but the optics of any “Alex P Keaton” republicans had long given way to the behaviors of an “Archie Bunker” who had been bitten by a rabid groundhog.
Still when faced with a vote versus their sworn enemy (literally everyone who is different in some way and votes liberal left) they all stick together. They do not run exit campaigns, they just keep funneling people further and further into fascist delusions that the church running the state might be good or that somehow, somewhere, there is an example of trickle-down economy that isn’t just a guy FOX news put up to doing it by himself for years and claiming it worked.
In 2008 James O’keefe of Project Veritas inserted agents to propose that low level volunteers help do something wrong for the ACORN group, which helped poor people, the volunteers just listened to them and nodded or whatever, and the right-wing media turned it into a stolen election conspiracy.
“the conservative echo chamber orchestrated an anti-ACORN campaign in 2008, the Republican presidential campaign repeated the allegations with a more prominent platform, and the mainstream media reported the allegations without investigating their veracity. As a result, the little-known community organization became the subject of great controversy in the 2008 US presidential campaign, and was recognizable by 82 percent of respondents in a national survey
In Factcheck dot org at the time there were nitpicks and ambiguities because of organizations connected with or linked to ACORN activity group that the Obama campaign had invested in. Those ambiguities were used to blow the story out of proportion. Sarah Palin and the pr and influencers she would work with pointed at the implications the low-level staffers had faked documents to get paid for work they never did and framed it instead as documents that affected the election.
“The McCain-Palin campaign accuses ACORN, a community activist group that operates nationwide, of perpetrating "massive voter fraud." It says Obama has “long and deep” ties to the group. We find both claims to be exaggerated. But we also find Obama has understated the extent of his work with the group.
In 2010 people were asking themselves who the “Tea Party” was and that was by no accident
Sarah had evolved from 2006 until 2010 through the same waste pipeline that brought you things like Rick Santorum. people who couldn’t win an argument because George W’s tyrannical and intrusive presidency had existed and was too fresh in everyone’s minds so they had to feign like they weren’t for “that guy” (spoiler: it’s the same ball of mud):
Stories such as this following pap were coming out in publications like the Atlantic (which would later, as early as 2012, note that nearly half of Republicans believe stolen election lies) in an article about how babyfaced these two “conservative” “libertarians” were next to each other.
Such press was a disservice to our democracy considering the people who passed out Ron Paul’s flyers previously were also reported by the Atlantic to have been delusional racists.
The article titled something about these two being separated at birth reads as follows:
In the course of putting together this compilation of high school yearbook photos for 2012 Republican presidential primary candidates, an indisputable fact revealed itself to me: As a high school senior in 1953, Ron Paul looked eerily like conservative videographer James O'Keefe does now.
There's nothing really more to say about it than that. Both are conservatives. One is way more interested in bringing down ACORN. It's possible that Paul was formerly inhabited some kind of libertarian cosmic spirit that now inhabits O'Keefe, and which has made them both look so preppy and babyfaced. But that is just speculation.
It had been a short time since Ron Paul had refused to divest from white supremacists:
Josh Harkinson wrote:
“When I read this very well-documented story in the Lone Star Times about the $500 donation to Ron Paul from well-known white supremacist Don Black, I didn’t really blame Paul for taking the money. After all, it’s hard to screen out every kook in advance. I assumed Paul would immediately return the money (or donate it to a group like the Holocaust Museum), prevent a link on Black’s Neo-Nazi website, Stormfront, from connecting to the campaign’s donation page, and announce these moves on the official Ron Paul website. I assumed wrong.
Five days after the Lone Star Times story appeared, Paul spokesman Jesse Benton told the paper he was still unsure whether the campaign would return Black’s money. “At this time, I cannot say that we will be rejecting Mr. Black’s contribution,” he said, “but I will bring the matter to the attention of our campaign director again, and expect some sort of decision to be made in coming days.” Would the campaign at least block fundraising links from Stormfront’s IP address? Again, Benton said, he’d have to bring up the idea with the campaign director.”
Notice this is a story featuring another character some only know because of his contributions to the Trump campaign, Jesse Benton
In September 2011…Mike Pence plugs the Tea Party and "great awakening" rhetoric which in my opinion was a nod to the miseducation of their base by earlier antigovernmental conspiracy blogs such as the “patriot blog” on Steve Quayle’s (a pseudopsience and flimflam author) website which had been operated since 2002 and continues to churn out pure shit.
So… Pence writes this in September 2011 and it gets published by Amitab Pal, in "The Progressive" out of Wisconsin
The “establishment” rhetoric begins to become more mainstream across the so called independent and 3rd party groups that appear to make up those excited to form unlikely coalitions with other groups at the time, those who appear to want polar opposition to what the extreme right stands for grouping up with the far right because both of them wish to disrupt our democracy rather than participate within it.
Justin Amash began to speak the same happy best case scenario fantasy about how Boehner was running his caucus top down and how Amash alliance with Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows and the rest of the seditionist leadership would be the voice of the people on their side of the aisle. He was the first chair of the “Freedom Caucus” which had formed of the tea party, which had reformed of the reform caucus, which had formed from the ron paul presidential forums… which were Libertarian Party forums…
2015
Who is the "Freedom Caucus"?
(Meadows, Nunes, Gaetz, Jordan, Doug Collins, others)
"The group, which includes many veterans of the TEA PARTY movement, was formed in January with the declared aim of pushing the House GOP leadership rightward on certain fiscal and social issues."
Over the years they have had several members but I found this one’s Twitter account to be immediately useful for illustrating how actually connected all these separate groups and their donor funnels and orgs are. They are just, after all, voting R.
This is Dave Brat. Dave was the dean at Jerry Falwell Jr's Liberty University. And he was there from the transition from Tea Party to Freedom Caucus
Family Research council is vile as westboro Baptist... the original thread I wrote contained a link at this point. It is still posted.. that was Mike Pence giving giving speech there in 2017. It was started by conversion therapy pioneer George Rekers, who's first subject killed himself when the Miami times reported Rekkers admitting to receiving gay erotic massage.
Though the group is a homophobic hate group as rated by the SPLC most of the RNC, the NRA, Libertarian, and Evangelicos come together in an event as robot orgy horrific as the other annual rightist convention, CPAC, where they sell Qanon merchandise and entertain dictators. Not to be confused with Unite the Right, where David Duke of the KKK is a keynote speaker but they go anyway
On CSPAN you could, if you were so inclined, actually view this horrendous ovation to the old testament:
"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and former Representative Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) were among the featured speakers at the annual Values Voter Summit hosted by the Family Research Council and its FRC Action legislative arm" To speak about Kavanaugh:
Pence, the Vice President at the time and second in Republican party leadership, who totally was onboard the Tea Party love boat, that Paul Manafort (Reagan’s 1981 OPIC trustee and convicted criminal who passed polling data to a Russian agent in 2016) handpicked, was giving speeches at FRC regularly.
In 2018 he went back and spoke again.
Mercedes Schlapp (who worked in Trump's admin and for NRA before, Matt Schlapp's pr partner and spouse) Dana Loesch and Sebastian Gorka are regulars also:
And again, I will remind you that this group that all of these organizations and like-minded individuals, no matter how many group aliases, find harbor at is a hate group
A bonafide hate group and it’s never on the radar where it should be.
It is a hate group that was reported for lobbying against sanctions on Russia... for whatever reason.
This is what they lobbied against
You may have heard of this organization because of recent more widespread news such as this:
Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, where Duggar was a lobbyist, confirmed the resignation in a statement: “Josh believes that the situation will make it difficult to be effective in his current work.” Perkins described the revelations as “previously unknown information.”
Let’s not discount the source of the wellrise of nationalism and the role of religion in use for establishment of borders and commonality in places around the globe to this day. The Robertson/Trump shared staffers like Kellyanne and Sekulow. Sekulow who brought the Citizens United decision to supreme court for the Koch brothers who’s own AFP was said to be used. In which case they have funded both sides of the “war” within their own party.
They’ve even funded much of the infighting within ours. These aren’t transformers. There is no more than meets the eye. Nothing is fiscal or social about a bloody coup. The “party of your parents” isn’t in there waiting to pop out like some jack-in-the-box. And much like trickle down reaganomics still doesn’t work even when Dan Price does it alone for a decade the Republicans won’t stop voting for the same thing as the Libertarians or David Duke or Josh Duggar and George Rekkers no matter how long Steve Schmidt admits they are bad by himself.
Currently, under tax exemption, this one organization is still running these political events.
LET THAT SINK IN!!!!!
https://boomersof.substack.com/p/this-belongs-in-a-museum
Give it up bro, we know what this is really about.