Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

[flacaltenn]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Trump dislikes our best of allies and loves the dictators. It is clear as hell.

If any of you haven't voted yet please do not vote for the incumbent when you do.

Really? So what has Trump done to benefit Kim Jong Un? Or the Chinese President Xi? Or Putin? Or Raul Castro? Or the president of Iran, Venezuela, or any other dictatorship?

What has he given them? Money? Weapons? What?

As for Kim Jung Un..he gave him world cred..by flying over there and kissing his ass.

Right now France, and Vietnam and Italy are planning a Kim Jung Un birthday party for him? I think you're imagining the "kissing up" part. It's what leaders do.. They meet and negotiate.. Not pay RANSOM MONEY to a freakin' "god" who lets his people starve to buy nuclear toys.. And THEN does nothing in return for the loot we gave him..

Where do ya get these misconceptions of "giving cred" to Kim Jung Un by negotiating one on one? You ARE AWARE that until Trrump -- the PRNK REFUSED 2 party negotiations from the past 3 or 5 presidents.. Did ya KNOW that???

 

[BrokeLoser]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.

I have a Trump/Pence sticker on my truck, I wear MAGA gear of some kind almost daily...I enjoy agitating the Tards in LA with my ensemble. The look on the faces of a Starbucks full of Tards is priceless.

My friend wears a red CNN hat and you should see the Trumptards faces when we go to the range. Fn priceless.

He doesn’t get his faggot ass kicked?

You should see their faces after thinking it was a MAGAhat? Priceless as hell.

This hat is my favorite, it’s my Sunday hat and it gets a shit-ton of attention.

 

[Hossfly]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.

I have a Trump/Pence sticker on my truck, I wear MAGA gear of some kind almost daily...I enjoy agitating the Tards in LA with my ensemble. The look on the faces of a Starbucks full of Tards is priceless.

I have a new Subaru Forester and I don't want it damaged. I wear a MAGA hat but here in Cowtown and in the county all you see is Trump signs and flags. Now if I had an old truck I would have Trump stuff on it. When I had trucks I always had all kinds of stickers and stuff on them. Maybe I'll go out next week and get myself an old F-150.

 

[BrokeLoser]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.

I have a Trump/Pence sticker on my truck, I wear MAGA gear of some kind almost daily...I enjoy agitating the Tards in LA with my ensemble. The look on the faces of a Starbucks full of Tards is priceless.

I have a new Subaru Forester and I don't want it damaged. I wear a MAGA hat but here in Cowtown and in the county all you see is Trump signs and flags. Now if I had an old truck I would have Trump stuff on it. When I had trucks I always had all kinds of stickers and stuff on them. Maybe I'll go out next week and get myself an old F-150.

Haha...just keep comp & collision coverage on your policy and you’re good.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The Democratic Party is showing all of the signs of being a political cult

 

[okfine]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Trump dislikes our best of allies and loves the dictators. It is clear as hell.

If any of you haven't voted yet please do not vote for the incumbent when you do.

Really? So what has Trump done to benefit Kim Jong Un? Or the Chinese President Xi? Or Putin? Or Raul Castro? Or the president of Iran, Venezuela, or any other dictatorship?

What has he given them? Money? Weapons? What?

As for Kim Jung Un..he gave him world cred..by flying over there and kissing his ass.

Right now France, and Vietnam and Italy are planning a Kim Jung Un birthday party for him? I think you're imaging the "kissing up" part. It's what leaders do.. They meet and negotiate.. Not pay RANSOM MONEY to a freakin' "god" who lets his people starve to buy nuclear toys..

Where do ya get these misconceptions of "giving cred" to Kim Jung Un by negotiating one on one? You ARE AWARE that until Trrump -- the PRNK REFUSED 2 party negotiations from the past 3 or 5 presidents.. Did ya KNOW that???

You do realize the love letters writer to Dear Donald will be on cue near and around the holidays to dazzle us with missiles fired. Does it every year.

 

[JGalt]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Trump dislikes our best of allies and loves the dictators. It is clear as hell.

If any of you haven't voted yet please do not vote for the incumbent when you do.

Really? So what has Trump done to benefit Kim Jong Un? Or the Chinese President Xi? Or Putin? Or Raul Castro? Or the president of Iran, Venezuela, or any other dictatorship?

What has he given them? Money? Weapons? What?

As for Kim Jung Un..he gave him world cred..by flying over there and kissing his ass.

Would it make you happy if he lobbed a couple nukes on North Korea, instead of being diplomatic?

So you're a Neocon now?

 

[okfine]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.

I have a Trump/Pence sticker on my truck, I wear MAGA gear of some kind almost daily...I enjoy agitating the Tards in LA with my ensemble. The look on the faces of a Starbucks full of Tards is priceless.

My friend wears a red CNN hat and you should see the Trumptards faces when we go to the range. Fn priceless.

He doesn’t get his faggot ass kicked?

You should see their faces after thinking it was a MAGAhat? Priceless as hell.

This hat is my favorite, it’s my Sunday hat and it gets a shit-ton of attention.

You must have one big fucking head to fit in that POS.

 

[Missourian]

Republicans think it would be wise to stick with the system that has been working for the last quarter of a millennia...

Democrats won under this system almost exactly half the presidential election since 1976.

Carter/D...one term
Reagan/R...two terms
Bush Sr/R...one term
Bubba Clinton/D...two terms
Bush W/R...two terms
Obama/D... two terms
Trump/R...probable 2 but just one so far.

5 terms D
6 terms R


Now quit your fuckin' bellyachin', you whiny little bitches, and win an election under the same Constitutionally dictated structure the last 45 presidents have over the entire 244 years our country has existed.

...the wife says technically it's 45 presidents but only 232 years of presidential elections under the Constitution...so as not to give the leftist a technicality to gloat over.

A wise women who understands the mechanics and minutae of message boards and comment sections.

1788–89 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[flacaltenn]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Trump dislikes our best of allies and loves the dictators. It is clear as hell.

If any of you haven't voted yet please do not vote for the incumbent when you do.

Really? So what has Trump done to benefit Kim Jong Un? Or the Chinese President Xi? Or Putin? Or Raul Castro? Or the president of Iran, Venezuela, or any other dictatorship?

What has he given them? Money? Weapons? What?

As for Kim Jung Un..he gave him world cred..by flying over there and kissing his ass.

Right now France, and Vietnam and Italy are planning a Kim Jung Un birthday party for him? I think you're imaging the "kissing up" part. It's what leaders do.. They meet and negotiate.. Not pay RANSOM MONEY to a freakin' "god" who lets his people starve to buy nuclear toys..

Where do ya get these misconceptions of "giving cred" to Kim Jung Un by negotiating one on one? You ARE AWARE that until Trrump -- the PRNK REFUSED 2 party negotiations from the past 3 or 5 presidents.. Did ya KNOW that???

You do realize the love letters writer to Dear Donald will be on cue near and around the holidays to dazzle us with missiles fired. Does it every year.

Not really the topic of the thread. We can only fix one or two misconceptions per thread.. Flights to NKorea are REALLY CHEAP right now.. Just sayin'...

 

[KissMy]

Republicans keep consolidating power to the Oligarchy to prevent citizens from having a say over their lives.

 

[martybegan]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

True democracy scares the hell out of right wingers..an authoritarian oligarchy is their idea of a perfect system of government.

True democracy should scare the hell out of anybody, if 51/100 people vote to take your shit from you, they can in that form of government.

True democracies are just mob rule with a nice name to it.

 

[martybegan]

Republicans keep consolidating power to the Oligarchy to prevent citizens from having a say over their lives.

BAKE THAT FUCKING CAKE, peasant!

 

[OKTexas]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Well I certainly wouldn’t expect the mental midgets at The Atlantic to understand that Mike Lee is 100% correct, we are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

A Constitutional Republic that practices democracy..for now anyway.

You fucking idiot, democracy ends at the State line. Perhaps you should go back to your ESL civics class.

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[OKTexas]

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens

You should be lecturing BOTH parties on restructuring democracy.,. Like the party that threatens to "pack the court" or end the fillbuster or hobble Exec powers.. ALL these will backfire on your "revolutionaries" in the same fantastic fireworks as their other evil plans.. Go lecture them on adding puerto rico and DC to statehood..

Or just wait and see how these evil plans to make America a ONE PARTY nation blow up in their faces on election night and the MASS MAIL crap and "Popular Vote Initiative" ends up pissing off their own base...

When CALI, NY, MASS and ILLINOIS TURN RED on the map because these hot-heads signed a pact that DEMANDS their electors to electoral College IGNORE THE WILL OF THEIR OWN VOTERS and bind them by the "popular" vote..

The only thing protecting America from these two power hungry meglomaniac parties is how INEPT AND STUPID they are....

Here they are --

That popular vote crap will never withstand a constitutional challenge, that's why it's so important to confirm ACB before the election.

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[MarathonMike]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Trump dislikes our best of allies and loves the dictators. It is clear as hell.

If any of you haven't voted yet please do not vote for the incumbent when you do.

What a baseless, desperate attempt to persuade undecided voters.

 

[toobfreak]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

The pinwheel can't even think up his own title for himself, has to steal it from his fake new article? Republicans are afraid of democracy? Is that why the Biden campaign already long ago hired 600 lawyers to contest the election? And why Nancy now is trying to put together a commission into place to challenge the competency of the Executive Branch?

Dude, are you for real?

 

[okfine]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

The pinwheel can't even think up his own title for himself, has to steal it from his fake new article? Republicans are afraid of democracy? Is that why the Biden campaign already long ago hired 600 lawyers to contest the election? And why Nancy now is trying to put together a commission into place to challenge the competency of the Executive Branch?

Dude, are you for real?

5150 alert!

 

[OKTexas]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Well I certainly wouldn’t expect the mental midgets at The Atlantic to understand that Mike Lee is 100% correct, we are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

What you say has been thrown around by the right for so long and they still don't get it right. Either do you. What Lee said in his tweet was incorrect. He learned it wrong.
Representative Democracy is correct. You are wrong.

"The Utah Republican's tweets on the matter are linked to a long history of Republicans rejecting the notion that the US political system is a democracy. The GOP's objection to calling the US a democracy is tied to the fact Republicans have reason to fear a system in which a majority of Americans have more say. The Republican party's platform is increasingly at odds with the perspectives of most voters on an array of issues."

A GOP senator said 'rank democracy' is bad for America at a time when Trump is behaving like an authoritarian

The GOP senator is an ally of a president who has rapidly eroded democratic norms during his tenure and is actively working to undermine the election.

www.businessinsider.com

Read the wapo article here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/

Damn, another one that failed 7th grade civics class. The citizens of the States chose representatives, those representatives advocate for those citizens and chose the president and vice president. Don't like it, see Article 5.

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[toobfreak]

If any of you haven't voted yet please do not vote for the incumbent when you do.

Best endorsement for DJT I've heard yet today!