Remember when Republicans had integrity?

[BrightShinyGirl]

Then there is the 1953 Iranian Coup, and the 1954 Guatemalan Coup. The Watergate scandal, the secret bombing of Cambodia, the enemies list, and the political sabotage.

But wait — something’s off here … oh yeah!

There was that decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, killing some 200,000 civilians. Operation Paperclip, loyalty programs, civil rights abuses, the Korean bombing campaign, the Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam escalation, the Gulf of Tonkin, the secret bombing of Laos and Cambodia, Johnson’s domestic surveillance, the My Lai massacre, Agent Orange, support of various authoritarian regimes, etc.

Not all of these [as My Lai] resulted from specific orders, although their occurrence is of a piece with systemic wrongdoing. But a shared history of malfeasance does allow each party convenient excuse by pointing to the deeds of the other. It’s a bit too easy.

Capitalism’s economic diktats and political imperatives can always find their needed rationalization. This isn’t a partisan issue, and admit it or not, we know this. We also know that if we’re going to find integrity, we’ll be traveling further back than ‘74. Or ‘45.

Integrity happens when both parties are dissolved, and their assets, membership lists and leaders are seized. The assets go to repair what they destroyed together. The membership lists will be used to ensure that those responsible never participate in civic life. The leaders will be put on trial to answer for their crimes.

That, I call, integrity.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

…

This censors principled opposition to civic malfeasance, and it is a form of gaslighting.

 

[UltraChad]

That, I call, integrity.

TEGRIDY!!
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[Qky75]

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Id love to agree with you and I even understand this logic but


While I consider myself fiscally conservative and generally align myself with the traditional Republican smaller government involvement role, I cannot support the current model. Wide sweeping executive orders are not in line with what used to be thought of as conservatism. Aligning a personal agenda with those of supremacists and all manner of bigots is unconscionable. The religious establishment in this country has allowed themselves to be hijacked by thugs and fascists. This does not mean I agree with the liberal social agenda either but the current situation should not be allowed to stand.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Really, didn’t Joe Biden give a eulogy at democrat senator Robert Bird (KKK member) Funeral?
How quickly people forget.
Any example of a republican politician doing this?

Donald Trump took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for 5 innocent black teenagers to executed for a crime they didn't commit.

 

[Bray123]

Really, didn’t Joe Biden give a eulogy at democrat senator Robert Bird (KKK member) Funeral?
How quickly people forget.
Any example of a republican politician doing this?

The Klan support Trump.

 

[RoryN]

Trump was a democrat at that time and was defended by them.

Cite evidence plz. Kthx.

 

[RoryN]

Every democrat loved him.

1. Obvious lie.

2. Your evidence is...a clip from The View which doesn't even support your premise. That's a monumental fail by anyone's criteria.

 

[RoryN]

According to you they supported and loved a known racist

Which Dems supported him?

Barbara Walters - a decidedly-non-Dem woman who openly claimed lifelong allegiance to Roy Cohn, Trump's vehemently-racist mentor (among a great many other things)?

Just how dumb are you?

 

[RoryN]

Oprah loved him too.

So, you're backing off your first bit of bullshit View "evidence". Noted.

Last I checked she is African American.

...and? Are you saying African Americans never support racist people? Kanye and Diddy pray at Trump's altar, so...

They were hiding his racism because he was a democrat at the time?

...is this a question? Who was "hiding his racism"? Cite specifics.

I'll cite some: legendary political cartoonist Garry Trudeau was famously skewering Trump in the 80s for his political aspirations, along with a slew of other Republican leaders. He wasn't hiding shit.

Try picking up a history book, Deplorable simp.

 

[Politruk]

Really, didn’t Joe Biden give a eulogy at democrat senator Robert Bird (KKK member) Funeral?
How quickly people forget.
Any example of a republican politician doing this?

Byrd moved past all that early in his career.

Truman was in the Klan once, and he desegregated the Armed Forces.

 

[Politruk]

Paid for by the (see eye eh) with USAID ?

No, the CIA never supported the Klan.

 

[RoryN]

...and another one bites the dust.

 

[YDB95]

Byrd moved past all that early in his career.

He also spent the last three decades or so of his life apologizing constantly for his racist past.
But it's no surprise your average deplorable can't grasp the concept of an apology.

 

[MasterAnimus]

That's a really low bar.

Actually, no bar.

 

[Politruk]

If the CIA had ever supported the Klan, the Southern Poverty Law Center would have made a big deal of it. It keeps a very close watch on all things Klan-related.

 

[LLCox]

McConnel showed a little integrity when he vote against confirming Hegseth

And zero integrity when he failed to indite trump after Jan. 6th.

 

[Politruk]

I’m still taking notes…. I didn’t know the (see eye eh) divulges classified operations to the SPLC. “If” they did have this sort of operation how would the SPLC know?

You are like an online encyclopedia of obscure knowledge. Thanks

If anybody outside the CIA knew, the SPLC would know.

And when you think about it, the only conceivable reason for the CIA to support the Klan would be to fuck with the FBI.

 

[Politruk]

I can think of another reason. To lead people to believe the klan is a “right wing organization” instead the truth. It’s a nasty organization founded by the democrats.

That was a completely different Democratic Party than now exists. The Klan was always right-wing and remains so. The Dems shed their
(white Southern racist) right wing in the 1960s-70s, and picked up the disaffected liberal Republicans -- there was a general exchange of party constituencies.

And why would the CIA want people to believe that anyway? It is certainly not a pro-Dem agency, it never was.

 

[Politruk]

Y

To make POC forget the facts surrounding the democrat organization and push it as republican.

Psychological Operations can be very effective .

What psychological operation? It is simply the truth, as I have laid it out above. This is not even revisionist history, it is just what everybody who pays attention knows happened. And, again, the CIA has never been a pro-Dem agency; it has no reason to create propaganda on the party's behalf.

 

[YDB95]

I can think of another reason. To lead people to believe the klan is a “right wing organization” instead the truth. It’s a nasty organization founded by the democrats.

No, it was founded by six former Confederate officers. Since they were from the South in the nineteenth century, they probably were Democrats, but that is very different from the organization being "founded by the Democrats".

Thank god POC are finally seeing right through this. They are joining the Trump train in droves.

No, they aren't. The very small share of POC who always vote Republican to begin with turned out for Trump, while a lot of others did not vote at all, hence a slightly larger percentage than usual going Republican. The way things are going now, that will probably be Trump's high water mark with Black and white voters alike.

 

[Politruk]

That was a completely different Democratic Party than now exists. The Klan was always right-wing and remains so. The Dems shed their
(white Southern racist) right wing in the 1960s-70s, and picked up the disaffected liberal Republicans -- there was a general exchange of party constituencies.

And why would the CIA want people to believe that anyway? It is certainly not a pro-Dem agency, it never was.

It is important to keep this in mind.