The GOP has gone full 1984 style fascism

[RAB910]

[gab13by13]

1. It's worse than 1984

Closer to A Brave New World. Hope they start passing out the "soma" if TSF wins, but I'll probably be sent to some far off place.😂

[Walleye]

2. Take a gram instead of a damn?

[rambler_american]

30. At least

you'll have plenty of company.

[617Blue]

3. The constant lies are really unbelievable. Nonstop, about everything.

[GiqueCee]

4. Republicans HAVE to lie...

... because only lies can support and defend their diseased belief system.

[RAB910]

5. There was a time such a vile lie would disqualify a person from office. Now thanks to the right-wing propaganda machine

and a pro-MAGA MSM, they can attack our nation with their lies with impunity

[617Blue]

7. All of them. There are no good ones. It's discouraging. nt

[CrispyQ]

32. I don't know if it's pro-maga as much as it's profit driven & when the nation is in a mess everyone tunes into the news.

I watched a ton of news during Bush & hardly any during Obama & then on again during Trump. I was looking forward to a quiet Biden term, but unfortunately the orange stain wouldn't step off the national stage so I found myself still watching the damned news. The MSM doesn't care if they turn America into a stinking reality TV show if it gets them ratings because they think it can't happen that he will shut them down.

We need a landslide next month & court-proof margins in swing states. We need to quash the maga movement & send them & their hate back under their rocks.

[paleotn]

13. It's all they've got.

Their so far out of step that fear and lies are all they have. Their views of social matters and morality are 15th century. Their economic ideas have failed as many times as we can count. Sometimes spectacularly.

[underpants]

27. Everything is a lie. Everything

To them if it in anyway is counter to the teachings of the cult.

[dalton99a]

6. It is the Trump Party. Lying is mandatory

[erronis]

8. All that KGB/FSB training has worked very well.

Too bad the suckers don't even know they've been conned - including the big sucker himself.

[Joinfortmill]

9. Rubio is a relentless liar.

[czarjak]

10. Can't Fake That Stupidity

[Wounded Bear]

22. Willful ignorance is indistinguishable from stupidity...nt

[czarjak]

38. On steriods though?

[LiberalArkie]

11. They just repeat lies that they themselves did because they believe everyone is like them and

behaves like them. Why do I believe that the 2000 and 2004 elections was stolen - One of the early things the Bush admin did was mandate the changing of voting machines.

They always think that they are "So Cute" in doings things that are wrong that they have to broadcast by saying that the others are doing it also. But it is always the conservatives doing it.

[Wounded Bear]

23. Every accusation is a confession...nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. Rubio is so inconsequential I forget he is one of my Senators.

[BattleRow]

14. Where are Harris national ads..

pushing back on these lies?

[LymphocyteLover]

16. I don't think they have the resources to rebut every lie from every POS GOPer in an ad

frankly I don't think there's enough money in the world for that

[BattleRow]

21. Agree..but I want to see pushback

on a national scale..some below the beltway ,so to speak,nose bloodying ads.

Civility is considered a weakness to Magatmaniacs.

[LymphocyteLover]

26. Twitter always has good rebuttals if you can find the tweet

[BattleRow]

29. Yes,there are many great rebuttals online,BUT

I'm talking network ads.

Not everyone who votes is into X,YouTube,tik tok,etc.

Would love to see some hard hitting spots on Fox,for sure!

[LymphocyteLover]

39. I'd love that too...

[bluestarone]

25. I trust the Harris team to decide

What and where to spend their money! THEY got this!!!

[LymphocyteLover]

15. He loves to quote the Bible-- isn't it against his religion to lie?

[paleotn]

19. The lying for Jebus caveat.

Since they figure everything they do is at least tangentially in support of the one true religion, they have a stay out of hell fire free card.

[paleotn]

17. Use to be a stale joke...how do you tell a Republican is lying?

Are their lips moving? In 2024, it's simply true. Instead of wondering if something a Republican says is false, i.e., normal fact checking, it's the inverse. Is anything they say actually true? Since nearly everything they say is complete bullshit.

If and when we have another debate, the moderators should do truth checking on the Republican. Just tell me what's true in what they said. It's quicker and simpler that way. I can safely assume everything else is a total lie.

[Emile]

18. Republicans are all filthy liars.

[Swede]

20. Mouthful of scripture, heart full of hate.

Little Marco posts bible quotes constantly.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Great post

[andym]

28. The sad thing is that there is an enthusiastic audience lapping up the lies

Read about America's low information voters
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016386696

[BattleRow]

31. Their capacity for hate is bigger than

their capacity for truth.

[andym]

33. It's not just hate. Some of these folks are nice people

they have been literally hypnotized by misinformation. They really believe the "alternative facts" lies that they have been fed. Of the emotions being manipulated, fear is far more often employed.

[BattleRow]

34. Yes,the Nazis were masters of

fear mongering.

The continuous drumbeat of fear has reduced many into volunteer victims of their radical MAGA cult.

They fear hope.

[Skittles]

36. they have access to the same information we all do

they CHOOSE to follow the hate

[andym]

37. Should we ascribe full free will to the indoctrinated who have fallen down the rabbit hole of mis/disinformation?

I am not entirely sure. The GOP and it's media allies have set in motion over many years the machinery to create and maintain a literal cult. It's not easy to "deprogram" cult members or true believers. It's almost as if they have minimal free will, if any at all when it comes to their programming.

[Skittles]

35. they know it works on really stupid people

yes indeed

[Noodleboy13]

40. Been around for awhile now

Older than I should be. I pulled a pretty hard core Rip van winkle. Woke up on this planet 5 years ago, but I remember the Reagan 80's and went to college during the Beginning of PC'ism. So a lot of this is " been there, done that" However ,Punk Rock, Grunge and Goth all came out of this time period. Some cool iconic Cinema as well. There's something about shitty government(remember Nirvana came out around the same time as Rush Limbaugh and the rise of talk radio) so let hope that today's partisan bullcrap yields some good new fresh cinematic and musical artistry rather than the rehashed cultural wasteland it is currently. Like, nobody really gives a shit about Ariel's skin tone, from the waist down she's a freaking fish. I ain't going down on that yo. Besides they're all Aqua-Americans to me.

Peace, Noodleboy