Meanwhile Republicans figured out decades ago that alienating your own party (even the “radicals”) doesn’t get you elected, and simply protesting the chosen candidate by just not voting doesn’t actually help you achieve your goals. It’s a hard pill for establishment Democrats and leftists to swallow, but it’s truth.

Republicans weren’t doing Nazi salutes on stage at presidential inaugurations until recently, but they have been pandering to the far right for a very long time. They’ve gradually moved further and further right, while the left has been ignoring their own base in order to welcome aboard the fiscal conservatives (and their donations) slowly jumping ship.

Paul Weyrich created the new right movement. He voted Republican for his entire life, but he also seemed to really hate the establishment Republican party. He was quite vocal about it, and as every election year approached, he would start shit talking Republicans for not focusing enough on conservative social issues.

Before Weyrich and the creation of a moral majority, “fiscal conservatives/Rockefeller Republicans,” who didn’t really care about social issues were the backbone of the Republican party. Abortion was mainly just an issue conservative Catholics and nobody else cared about. Once Weyrich created his movement though, he used public pressure to change the party little by little. It took his whole life, and he didn’t actually live to see the absolute batshit fruits of his labor, but without Paul Weyrich, there would be no Donald Trump and no Project 2025.

There would also be way fewer rich conservatives who have pressured the democratic party to embrace a move towards moderate centrism.

1983:Righting Reagan’s Revolution

The 1980 presidential election rewarded incompetence, and that incompetence moved right into the White House. If you have to find out who makes the decisions over there, you will go insane. I challenge you to go to the White House and find out. You’ll be in St. Elizabeths in short order, and I’ll come visit you."

He thinks Reagan has ignored issues most important to Weyrich: school prayer, an end to abortion, pornography, government “hand-outs”–issues that appeal to what he calls “cultural” conservatives, grass-rooters most concerned about family, God and country. That concern includes free enterprise, a balanced budget and a pre-eminent weapons system for America

1998: Religious Right, Frustrated, Trying New Tactic on G.O.P.

Early in March, Paul Weyrich, the godfather of social conservatives, summoned about 25 prominent leaders from the religious and political right for a secret meeting in his office here overlooking the rail yards behind Union Station.

They fumed that they had been used and abused, like some cheap date. In one election after another, they said, conservative foot soldiers had dutifully worked the phone banks, walked the precincts and turned out masses of voters for Republican candidates who had promised action on issues like abortion, pornography and homosexuality. And the Republicans, they complained, had consistently failed to deliver.

2000: Hard Right Burning for Bush?

Perhaps it was because he was recovering from painful back surgery, but a few weeks before the Republican convention, Paul Weyrich, a founder of the religious right, was awful grumpy about George

He did this kind of shit nonstop until he eventually shaped the right into what it is today. If you didn’t know who he was, and you just heard the way he described his frustration towards the Republican party when he first got involved in politics back in the 70s, you might just as easily think you were listening to a leftist complain about Democrat centrists in 2025.

Weyrich hailed as conservative pioneer

“In the early ‘70s, when most conservatives were reduced to wringing their hands and resigning themselves to life in the political wilderness, Paul just seemed to know what was needed to break the liberal stranglehold,” recalled Feulner.

Paul Weyrich: Father of a New Right

Weyrich waved aloft a monograph from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a right-of-center think tank. The study carefully examined both sides of a controversial issue—the federal funding of a supersonic transport plane (the SST). The Senate had just voted 51-46 to halt government support of the SST, which some conservative hawks favored to maintain U.S. technological superiority over the Soviets. The AEI report arrived in Allott’s office after the Senate debate.

A puzzled Weyrich contacted William Baroody, Sr., AEI president and a member of his church. “Great study,” he said. “But why didn’t we get it sooner so we could use it in the debate?” Baroody explained: “We didn’t want to try to affect the outcome of the vote.” Unspoken was the admission that AEI didn’t want to be too “political” and jeopardize its tax-exempt status. For one of the few times in his life, Weyrich was speechless.

Yeah several others jurisdictions have joined in a lawsuit against Trump. Rather than join that lawsuit, he is choosing to bow down to the king

They are targeting people who are in jail before trial after being arrested for things not related to immigration.

Like if someone was in jail for public intoxication and in the process of getting booked and awaiting trial, they want sheriffs to start just handing people over to them to save them the time/effort of actually detaining the person after they’re released (or eventually having to get a warrant to take them from the sheriff’s custody).

What state?

I mean we do too, but its chump change compared to the kickbacks they get from those who are “too big to fail.”

Talk about entitlement. “I simply can’t be exposed. How would society ever carry on without my generational wealth pulling the strings from the shadows?”

What a weak ass, pedophile protecting, pathetic little man, hiding behind self righteous claims of “family values” and a “strong patriarch.”

You know what Moses would do in this situation? “Lead his people” by protecting kids from the pedophiles Johnson is unwilling to expose.

All after going on with that whole BS about going against Trump on this one. Weyrich was right when he said there was no longer a “moral majority.” But not bc they lost a manufactured culture war. Bc the leaders of the movement were never motivated by morality. They were motivated by their desire for power and control.

This is exactly the outcome you would expect from a bunch of narcissists hell bent on forcing society to “return” to some idealised world that never actually existed, all in the name of “traditional values.”

Those with power demanding everyone conform to their demands and live their lives by the rules they make up, while using their position of power to manipulate the majority with claims of being “chosen by God to lead.” All while protecting the most evil, despicable scum of the earth. Satan himself couldn’t have come up with a better way to cosplay as an angel of light.

I do have to give some credit to the dem governors and mayors of the sanctuary jurisdictions that are being targeted, but have formed a coalition and are actively suing Trump in federal court to block him from doing things like cutting their funding. I really think if the U.S. is actually going to make it without dissolving into sperate state countries, we’re going to have ban together in a similar coalition and unite to go against Trump and those that would prefer to live in a monarchy controlled authoritarian nightmare.

Meanwhile my blue city in a red state with a federal consent decree preventing police from dealing with immigration, is being used like a guinea pig to test out different strategies for Republicans before they get used on a bigger scale.

Our mayor is in the last few months of her final term, and I’m pretty convinced she sold out our city in a deal to save herself from federal charges around 2022. She put up no resistance despite the concerns of civil rights advocates when our insane governor establish a permanent police force in the city last year (which can’t be regulated by any city ordinance bc they’re under state jurisdiction and now they’re officially partnered with ICE, so yeah that’s great), and filed a motion to speed up the removal of the consent decree, which is the only thing standing between the governor forcing all city police and law enforcement agents to work with ICE instead of as he and Trump put it, “refusing to take off the federal handcuffs” that prevent them from carrying out federal immigration orders.

As of August 1st a new state law goes into effect which makes it a felony punishable with up to 10 years in jail for any law enforcement (city police and sheriff) or any state official to hinder, delay, or interfere with federal immigration orders.

Our “progressive sheriff,” who the governor believes was installed by George Soros, has said she plans to stick by the ruling of the consent decree, and a criminal court judge has now found an excuse to hold her in contempt of court on a completely unrelated bullshit matter, with a trial date of August 4th, 3 days after it becomes possible to throw her in prison for 10 years for not blindly following orders.

So, while I’m fine with shitting on Democrats like Chuck Schumer for doing nothing or refusing to support Mamdani, I do feel like it’s important to acknowledge the Dems who are at least trying to fight back or at least stand their ground. Some of them have formed coalitions, and some seem to be left to fend for themselves while Dems like my mayor not only refuse to join in something like protective a coalition, but appear to be are actively helping the administration destroy any shields we have left protecting democracy in the United States

100%

Protecting the pedophiles who pay you for your services (or as he would call or “reputation rehabilitation,”) while pointing your finger at the ones who didn’t pay, shouldn’t make you a “trusted source.”

He’s got about as much credibility as anyone else who’s name is in that file, and it’s ridiculous the media is giving him airtime (and likely paying him for his “information.”)

It’s definitely an intimidation/threat/reminder of we’re watching you, and a publicity stunt to try to make it look like the DOJ is being proactive and forcing local sheriffs to hand over “dangerous” immigrants to avoid “catch and release.”

If the federal government already has a warrant for somebody, they can remove them from the sheriff’s custody. That has always been the case. If a sheriff “suspects” or finds out in the process of booking someone that they are an immigrant, they are not obligated to alert DHS bc immigration status is unrelated to the reason for detainment. (Except now there are local law enforcement agencies who are voluntarily cooperating with ICE).

What the DOJ really wants though, is for the sheriff’s office to stop giving people due process after being detained. Which is really scary as fuck when you combine that with all the real time tracking/surveillance/data collection of the federal government lately.

Say the government already has you on a list for some reason before you’re ever arrested. Maybe your face was caught in a picture of a crowd at a protest, or maybe due to a facial recognition error, you’re misidentified in a scan of drivers license databases and flagged as somebody else who committed a crime. Since you’re already on that pre-existing list of people to hand over, DHS doesn’t want to wait around for you to get a fair trial or go through the normal process.

This is all being presented to the public as pertaining to “immigration,” but thanks to the patriot act, there’s a lot of excuses Homeland security can use to claim somebody is an immediate risk to domestic security. In those “emergency situations,” your rights and individual liberty come second to protecting the country at all costs, no matter your citizenship. The language used in Trump’s EOs released on April 28th targeting sanctuary jurisdictions and giving law enforcement greater power to “protect innocent civilians” repeatedly implies that sanctuary cities have been “invaded” by hostile foreign nations and are a threat to domestic security.

The resulting public safety and national security risks are exacerbated by the presence of, and control of territory by, international cartels and other transnational criminal organizations along the southern border, as well as terrorists and other malign actors who intend to harm the United States and the American people.

The border Czar’s threat is almost identical to state laws that are being created in different red states and set to go into effect soon.

As of August 1st in Louisiana, a state law targets New Orleans sanctuary policy and makes it a felony punishable up to 10 years in prison for any state official to “hinder” federal immigration orders

What are the odds this guy pulls essentially the same language out of his ass to threaten elected officials who “stymie” federal immigration orders?

Edit: So the “border Czar” Tom Homan is part of the America First Policy Institute. No wonder this same propaganda and strategy is being used almost word for word across the entire country to force federal policy onto local jurisdictions.

The Group at the Center of Trump’s Planning for a Second Term Is One You Haven’t Heard of America First Policy Institute didn’t even exist four years ago. But it is poised to be more influential than Project 2025.

They are trying to force local jails and police officers to start detaining people for ice, and citing the off duty customs agent that was shot in an attempted robbery Saturday night as proof that ICE agents are facing violence when trying to detain suspects that have already been caught and released bc of sanctuary policies.

There is no indication the off duty agent was targeted. It seems like a random crime, but they are taking the ball and running with it.

Homan spoke in New York City after an off-duty Border Patrol agent was injured during an attempted robbery that officials say was committed by an undocumented immigrant. Homan and other White House officials argue the agent would never have been hurt if his alleged assailant had previously been blocked from entering the country or deported.

Trump officials have long complained that many cities run by Democrats refuse to honor requests to detain people on behalf of ICE in local jails, and Homan said doing so makes it harder for ICE to arrest “bad guys” in the safety of a detention center. He said making street arrests is more dangerous for everyone, requiring more personnel to operate safely.

Federal officials say there’s been an 800% increase in assaults against immigration agents, although they have declined to release comprehensive data.

Of course, why would they release any comprehensive data? Data collection is only meant to benefit the government, not the people that pay for it with their tax dollars.

Last month, Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles to help protect federal buildings and assist ICE agents in making detentions, a move that temporarily escalated tensions.

ICE has conducted immigration enforcement actions around the country, but it’s yet to focus a sustained effort in any particular sanctuary city outside of the Los Angeles area.

Wait a minute. You mean Steve Bannon is spinning a narrative in order to gain control of the situation in Trump’s favor? And multiple oligarch owned news outlets are lapping it up, and regurgitating it back down the throats of Americans like a mama bird?

Sounds pretty typical.

Somebody did accuse me of being a sinophobe. I really wanted to ask if they were acknowledging Taiwan’s independence, but I had already been banned.

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Why China censors banned Winnie the Pooh

Here the president is Mr Grey. He doesn’t do silly things; he has no quirky elements; he makes no mistakes and that is why he is above the population and unable to be questioned.

“This proves to the world I’m no silly boi!”

“Uhh, sir, do you think that maybe this might just draw attention…”

“DON’T YOU DARE QUESTION ME!”

Sounds like something a silly boy would say, IMO.

The previous Chinese Leader Hu Jintao had a catchphrase of “promoting a harmonious society” or, in Chinese, hexie 和谐.

Bloggers started to refer to being censored as having been “harmonised” - bei hexie le 被和谐了 - but, by changing the tones in Chinese or changing the characters, you can fudge the meaning. So another hexie is river crab 河蟹。In other words, when you see an image of a river crab on the internet in China, it is likely to be a reference to something having been censored.

Hmm didn’t know that.

Right but it’s also a little more nuanced than claiming it’s just western propaganda/not really a thing in China. Seems like it’s been “a thing” for nearly a decade.

This game in Taiwan had a Xinnie reference back in 2019.

Taiwan game ‘Devotion’ upsets China with Winnie the Pooh reference

It’s one of those situations where making a point to try and suppress it has only drawn sooo much more attention to it than it every would have received otherwise. Like if it had just been left alone, it never would have caught on as a “thing.”

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But you’re cool with other STDs being knowingly transmitted?

This stigmatizes people with HIV, and makes it less likely people will be willing to get tested. Combined with the fact that Republicans are cutting funding for medications like Prep, it’s like they are doing everything that evidence based policy has shown actually increases the spread of HIV.

Not to mention, there is no consideration of the actual transmissible status of the individual. Taking medications such as Prep, reduces the viral load to undetectable levels. When the viral load is so low that it can’t be detected, it also can’t be transmitted.

So in the case of this guy, he had been doing everything he was supposed to, taking his meds, getting his levels checked by his doctor, and had been unable to transmit the virus for over 15 years. Yet he had to do jail time and might end up on a sex offender registry.

I think they were unable to locate him