Road to Autocracy

were forced to talk about them. Tucker Carlson did his show from Hungary from Budapest, right, And what I find absolutely incredible about this is how Republicans have aligned themselves with tyrants and dictators, and that they are telling us out in the open that they no longer want a democracy, that as a matter of fact, they have complete and

total contempt for democracy. And Jamal Bowie wrote in The New York Times last week about the fact that Tucker Carlson was there and he's interviewing Victor Orban, who the Biden administration calls a tyrant, calls a dictator, says that Hungary's democracy is nothing more than window dressing. And what I find so troubling is that we are in a position where we only have one political party. And I've said this so many times on woke f but I find that the language that mainstream media is using is

not aggressive enough. We don't have a two party system. There is no such thing as bipartisanship, with one party aligning itself with dictators and tyrants. This is the most Unamerican shit that you could possibly ever see, and yet they are calling us traders. It is bizarre to me. So I want to read you this part of Jamal Bowie's op ed because it's stunning to me. He writes this at this moment an American life, He writes, it's

conservatives who have set their sites abroad. Parts of the movement have even adopted a kind of anti Americanism, a contempt for the United States as it exists. These conservatives still call themselves patriots and disdain their opponents as traders, but there is an abstract loyalty to an idealized country when they contemplate the actual United States. And this is from Zach Baucamp, who wrote, who writes for a box?

They are filled with scorn. I was listening to a clip of Tucker Carlson, which, by the way, in and of itself, makes me feel insane and like I need to put listerine in my ears or something like that to wash out the bacteria and the toxicity that comes out of that idiot's mouth. But I'm listening to him, and the way in which he talks about America, about our government is insane. It is like watching opposite day.

He talks about the American government as if we currently the Biden and Harris administration are a bunch of dictators that are trying to destroy the country. Why because they want everyone in the United States to get a vaccine, a life saving vaccine, so that we don't add to our death toll of over six hundred thousand Americans dead under the last administration. You would think that Republicans would be outraged, right, Like, aren't they the party of pro life?

And yet they are advocating fucking death. It's insane. You have ron Da Santis, the Satan as I like to call him, in Florida, who has put in place executive orders and mandates that don't allow school boards to dictate what is right for the kids of Florida, or for the teachers that are there and the administrators they voted to have mass in schools. They are following the CDC's guidelines.

Rhonda Santis and Greg Abbott in Texas, two of the hottest COVID hot zones in the fucking world, not just in the country, but in the fucking world, don't want you to be able to mask your children. So what they are saying then, is that they are pro murder,

right like. And I don't understand why mainstream media keeps using euphemism for these people that are actively creating policy that will kill you, right like, are we waiting to see how many kids are going to die in these states or going to become so severely ill that they're going to need to be hospitalized? And then what is de Satan gonna say? Oops? Right? And I'm wondering again, where the fuck are these massive lawsuits against these governors.

You know, here's a funny story. And by funny, I don't mean like funny, ha ha, I mean funny, like fucking dumb. So listen to this. There is a congressman. I can't make this up. I cannot There's a Congressman Ralph Norman, Republican out of South Carolina. Also, what the fuck is wrong with South Carolina? Like you have Lindsey Graham who got COVID because he was on a boat trip with Joe Manchin, which again and did not get the kind of fucking headlines that it should be getting.

Because I want to know, Joe Mansion is, you know, the man of the hour, the man that says no to everything, no to ending the filibuster, no to stopping voter suppression. Like this man just no to doing anything about climate change as literally the oceans are on fire, right, But he's the cold king of West Virginia. This man, Lindsey Graham gets COVID. Now Ralph Norman, who is suing Nancy Pelosi, suing Nancy Pelosi over her mask mandate for

the floor of the house. This motherfucker got COVID. He's suing Nancy Pelosi for the five hundred dollars fine because she's finding these motherfuckers now they don't want to wear a mask on the floor. Great, we're gonna keep giving you fines. And frankly, I don't think that five hundred dollars is enough. I think that you should be finding them a thousand dollars every single day. Right, these people, you know clearly they got money to burn. So listen

to this. This is from Bloomberg. Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina may have to put his lawsuit against how Speaker Nancy Pelosi over mass mandates on hold. He announced last week that he had contracted a breakthrough COVID nineteen infection. The South Carolina Republican is suing Pelosi for a five hundred dollars fine imposed on him for not wearing a mask.

Representatives the other Idiots, Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas Massey, Republican of Kentucky, were also fined, and they joined him in the lawsuit. I wonder if they joined him, you know, in COVID as well. So here's the thing. This is what their lawyers wrote. The masking requirement was an attempt to prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, medicine, and science, despite a deep divide over these issues of opinion. This

is not a matter of opinion, right. That's like saying, well, you know scientists say that the sky is blue, Well, my opinion is it's orange, Right, So then it must be orange. Right, No, it's not. There are not two sides of this issue, but much in the same way that mainstream media loves to have this both side is m because they like to feel like they can be neutral. And what do we know about neutrality? Right Like, you cannot sit on the fence about this particular issue because

you will die, right Like, you follow the science. This idiot didn't want to wear a mask on the floor of the house, and now he has a breakthrough infection of COVID, right like, which we know is happening and can happen. Why would you put yourself at risk? Right Like? Why are people so fucking stupid? I I literally do not get it. You know. Somebody tweeted the other day and they said, I had this horrible nightmare where there was a life saving vaccine but millions of people wouldn't

take it and so millions died. And then the person said, oh, that actually wasn't a nightmare. That's the reality that we are living right now. Do you know that there are people around the world that are clamoring for this vaccine but their country doesn't have enough. We are overflowing with vaccines. We have enough vaccine for every American to be vaccinated,

that is between twelve and up. But we have breakout COVID cases and hotspots all across the country because people are demanding the right to get sick and make everyone around them sick. I told you last week that we are at delta plus variant right now, delta plus. There is another mutation on top of the delta that we've been talking about. There is also a lambda variant. These viruses are never going away. And it's like Republicans just want us all sick and desperate. And I want you

to think about why. And I go back to Jamal Bowie's article in The New York Times, the Making of a Tyrant, which everyone needs to watch on Netflix, so that you can understand what the fuck is coming our way. When we are sick, when we are desperately out of work, when we cannot have our basic needs met, we are at each other's throats, which is prime ground, fertile ground for autocracy. That's what Republicans ultimately want. They want Americans to be sick, They want us to be desperate. Right,

They actually are actively hoping that the Biden administration fails. Right, Think about that for a moment, because I'll be honest with you, I did not like George Bush right, w I didn't like hw Bush right, But I didn't want them to fail because their failure, right would mean my failure.

Because we live in the same fucking country. But we have moved to a place where in our politics we are totally okay with the right wing advocating for and hoping for the failure of a democratic president because they have already decided they are no longer a part of this country. Right when you are at how do you call yourself a patriot? How do you say that you are an American and you are advocating for the failure of an administration that is doing its best to save

the American public. Rand Paul the other day was on the news talking about the fact, lying, lying about the fact that the Biden administration is picking up migrant children with COVID and spreading them around the United States. What in the fucking world would make that man say those things? Meanwhile, he supported a president who put children in cages that we actually have proof of. Right, What we also know and have been learning is that there were massive cover ups.

And I talked about this too, massive cover ups of the amount of children and people in these concentration camps that got COVID because of the unsanitary conditions. And remember the Trump administration went to court so that they could legally not provide sanitary conditions for migrants, right. Remember that they didn't want to give them soap or toothbrushes, right,

or blankets. And I keep thinking to myself, especially now that we are learning about residential schools, in the way in which this country and others stole Native American children from their tribes, from their families, forced them into these schools where they were forced and beaten into assimilation into white eurocentric culture. And if they weren't, they were beaten

or they were killed, and they were mass graves. And I keep wondering to myself, what are we going to really uncover about what went on during the Trump administration in these detention centers, in these holding cells, not just for kids, but for all of these undocumented people. We were housing folks in Texas in open air prisons like it was the fucking Gaza Strip. And I want an

investigation into that. I want an investigation into so much because I believe that all of these things are connected, and all of it is leading us to an autocracy because that's what Republicans want. And if we don't call these things out, if we don't say the truth out loud with strong language, that we are going to be caught off guard. And I don't want us to be caught off guard because they are literally telling us what they are doing, and we're pretending that we still have

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