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What a joke. You keep ignoring the numbers that would be needed to actually change the outcome of a national election.
It would take millions of people. If there were millions of fraudulent votes it would be caught.
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@Callatoroy
Should we require some type of testing to ensure that our public officials are not flat earthers or believe in other fairy tales and myths?
That would seem to be to be much more important than fighting the fake fraud that is never going to make a difference in a national election.
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You know, trump looks thinner standing beside that short fat round troll. I guess it's all relative.
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So @Callatoroy would repealing the 19th amendment reduce fraud? Maybe that's what the pubs should do?
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If he truly gave a fuck it would be nice. It's all marketing because he can't be outdone by a black man named Hussein.
I am genuinely glad Trump values peace.
But I am also struck that whoever put this meme together has Trump’s signature over the crotch of the Prime Minister of Armenia. Seems poorly conceived, all things considered.
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That's just his pubic hair.
I am genuinely glad Trump values peace.
But I am also struck that whoever put this meme together has Trump’s signature over the crotch of the Prime Minister of Armenia. Seems poorly conceived, all things considered.
No one should be required to vote.
In this era, MAGA and QAnon are creating and grading the tests.
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Statue unveiled. Looks like they were running out of bronze and had to do the best they could with his head.
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Haha. But it is amazing how hard it apparently is to get these sorts of sport statues right.
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We will just have to disagree.
Voting is too important to our society to not participate.
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American Nazis: The Aryan Freedom Network is riding high in Trump era
A neo-Nazi group buoyed by Trump's rhetoric is expanding its reach and changing the face of white extremism in America.
“… From a modest ranch house in Texas, the couple oversee a network they say has been turbocharged by President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. They point to Trump’s rhetoric – his attacks on diversity initiatives, his hardline stance on immigration and his invocation of “Western values” – as driving a surge in interest and recruitment.
Trump “awakened a lot of people to the issues we’ve been raising for years,” Stout told Reuters. “He’s the best thing that’s happened to us.”
While the Aryan Freedom Network and other neo-Nazi groups remain on the outermost edges of American politics, broadly regarded as toxic by conservatives and mainstream America, they are increasingly at the center of far-right public demonstrations and acts of violence, according to interviews with a dozen members of extremist groups, nine experts on political extremism and a review of data on far-right violence.
Several trends have converged since Trump’s re-election, Reuters found.
Trump’s rhetoric has galvanized a new wave of far-right activists, fueling growth in white supremacist ranks.
Trump’s pardons of January 6 rioters and a shift in federal law enforcement’s focus toward immigration have also led many on the far right to believe that federal investigations into white nationalists are no longer a priority.
And the boundaries of the far right itself are shifting. Ideas once confined to fringe groups like the Proud Boys – who helped lead the January 6 siege – are now more visible in Republican politics, from election denialism to rhetoric portraying immigrants as “invaders.”
Trump’s public support and pardons for far-right figures helped normalize those views, the researchers said. As the Make America Great Again movement has come to define the party’s identity, the line separating the far right from mainstream conservatism has grown increasingly difficult to draw, they added….”
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American Nazis: The Aryan Freedom Network is riding high in Trump era
A neo-Nazi group buoyed by Trump's rhetoric is expanding its reach and changing the face of white extremism in America.www.reuters.com
“… From a modest ranch house in Texas, the couple oversee a network they say has been turbocharged by President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. They point to Trump’s rhetoric – his attacks on diversity initiatives, his hardline stance on immigration and his invocation of “Western values” – as driving a surge in interest and recruitment.
Trump “awakened a lot of people to the issues we’ve been raising for years,” Stout told Reuters. “He’s the best thing that’s happened to us.”
While the Aryan Freedom Network and other neo-Nazi groups remain on the outermost edges of American politics, broadly regarded as toxic by conservatives and mainstream America, they are increasingly at the center of far-right public demonstrations and acts of violence, according to interviews with a dozen members of extremist groups, nine experts on political extremism and a review of data on far-right violence.
Several trends have converged since Trump’s re-election, Reuters found.
Trump’s rhetoric has galvanized a new wave of far-right activists, fueling growth in white supremacist ranks.
Trump’s pardons of January 6 rioters and a shift in federal law enforcement’s focus toward immigration have also led many on the far right to believe that federal investigations into white nationalists are no longer a priority.
And the boundaries of the far right itself are shifting. Ideas once confined to fringe groups like the Proud Boys – who helped lead the January 6 siege – are now more visible in Republican politics, from election denialism to rhetoric portraying immigrants as “invaders.”
Trump’s public support and pardons for far-right figures helped normalize those views, the researchers said. As the Make America Great Again movement has come to define the party’s identity, the line separating the far right from mainstream conservatism has grown increasingly difficult to draw, they added….”
“… Stout said his group opposes violence. Yet the Aryan Freedom Network openly advocates preparing for a “Racial Holy War.” It promotes white superiority ideology, seeks to unify elements of the broader white nationalist movement and actively recruits former members of other extremist groups.
… Stout says AFN is focused on staying within the law. “We got to watch our Ps and Qs,” he said. Then his tone turned apocalyptic: “And when the day comes, that will be the day – that’s when violence will solve everything.” While he offered no timeline, researchers who study domestic extremism say the comment reflects a strategy among some far-right groups: operate within the law while openly predicting a moment of upheaval.
… AFN also began staging protests, often targeting drag events and LGBTQ+ gatherings. Stout says the demonstrations were designed to attract recruits. Its conferences and annual “Aryan Fests” have become networking hubs for the far right, drawing attendees from groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalist organizations, according to two individuals affiliated with those movements. Reuters was unable to independently verify the claim.
… Stout’s beliefs are rooted in the Christian Identity movement, which claims that white Europeans, not Jews, are the true Israelites of biblical scripture and therefore God’s chosen people. Stout and Barr also claim that Black Americans, under Jewish influence, are leading a Communist revolution – an ideology that fuses racial supremacy with far-right conspiracy theories.
Stout, 34, and Barr, 48, were born into self-avowed white supremacist families with deep ties to the Ku Klux Klan … Though they now identify as American Nazis, their ideology is anchored in the KKK and other white extremist groups.
Their families are well known to historians of the movement. Stout’s father, George Stout, was a “grand dragon” in the White Knights of Texas, a KKK offshoot. He declined to comment for this story.
Barr’s late father was a KKK “grand wizard” from Indiana who was sentenced to seven years in prison for holding two journalists at gunpoint. AFN requires members to use aliases; she chose “Daisy Barr” after the name of a female Klan leader of the 1920s who sold Klan robes and died in a car crash.
… Stout said his group has benefited from the decline of the Proud Boys following the Capitol attack. …
Stout described groups like the Proud Boys as “civic nationalists” – movements that draw in followers with patriotic rhetoric, then serve as stepping stones toward more overtly racist organizations like AFN or the Klan.
“A lot of newbies, new people to the movement, join that type of movement before they join us,” Stout said.
… In an interview, Bader [a Kentucky KKK leader] said Trump has energized the white nationalist movement. “White people,” he said, “are finally seeing something going their way for once.” Bader said he had previously attended an AFN event without elaborating.
Steve Bowers, another Klan official at the ceremony, which didn’t involve AFN, said he isn’t a fan of Trump because of his administration’s close ties with Israel.
But he said many white nationalists are fully behind the president. “People think he’s going to save the white race in America,” said Bowers, dressed in a white KKK robe and hood, decorated with two blood crosses on the chest….”
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These folks are mostly lifers … raised to be KKK / Nazis. Their kind has always been there. And their numbers remain relatively tiny, especially compared to 60-100 years ago. But they are recruiting and Trump and many of his Administration (Stephen Miller, Tom Homan and Pete Hegseth in particular and their trolling memes) seem to go beyond just dog whistle outreach to these sorts of extremists.