All of us people, who have been paying attention to the GOP…
Quickly followed by a ban on gender affirming care across the board… and trans people in sports… and birth control… and cisgender women having independence… etc.
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When will Democratic Party Big Donors stand up to the electorate?
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The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch [1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933, in the United States, to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator.[2][3] Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans’ organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d’état to overthrow Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified under oath before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the “McCormack–Dickstein Committee”) on these revelations.[4] Although no one was prosecuted, the congressional committee final report said, “there is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient.”
Early in the committee’s gathering of testimony most major news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a “gigantic hoax”.[5] When the committee’s final report was released, the Times said the committee “purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler’s story of a Fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true” and “… also alleged that definite proof had been found that the much publicized Fascist march on Washington, which was to have been led by Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, according to testimony at a hearing, was actually contemplated”.[6] The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot.
While historians have questioned whether a coup was actually close to execution, most agree that some sort of “wild scheme” was contemplated and discussed.[7][8][9][10]
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Historian Robert F. Burk wrote, “At their core, the accusations probably consisted of a mixture of actual attempts at influence peddling by a small core of financiers with ties to veterans organizations and the self-serving accusations of Butler against the enemies of his pacifist and populist causes.”[7]
Historian Hans Schmidt wrote, “Even if Butler was telling the truth, as there seems little reason to doubt, there remains the unfathomable problem of MacGuire’s motives and veracity. He may have been working both ends against the middle, as Butler at one point suspected. In any case, MacGuire emerged from the HUAC hearings as an inconsequential trickster whose base dealings could not possibly be taken alone as verifying such a momentous undertaking. If he was acting as an intermediary in a genuine probe, or as agent provocateur sent to fool Butler, his employers were at least clever enough to keep their distance and see to it that he self-destructed on the witness stand.”[8]
And this little soupçon for those of us who care about such things… (from same wikipedia link):
Prescott Bush
In July 2007, a BBC investigation reported that Prescott Bush, father of U.S. President George H. W. Bush and grandfather of then-president George W. Bush, was to have been a “key liaison” between the 1933 Business Plotters and the newly emerged Nazi regime in Germany,[51] although this has been disputed by Jonathan Katz as a misconception caused by a clerical research error.[52] According to Katz, “Prescott Bush was too involved with the actual Nazis to be involved with something that was so home grown as the business plot.”
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eta: I think it takes at least 15 tries for that to work.
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What is this? We think the Democrats can win without the left, and if we do lose then we can blame them so we don’t upset the Zentrum?
Fucking irresponsible idiots.
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It’s not like I needed a reminder that “The West Wing” was a weird and not very realistic show, but here we are.
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This is the same logic that ends up with a Starbucks across the street from a Peet’s Coffee.
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Peak Sorkin has been achieved!
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Subtext: Romney will give us interviews, as is our due!
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Kudos to Aaron Sorkin for saying out loud what all the “but the liberals/left aren’t doing it properly” people mean but are too cowardly to do more than imply – that the only answer they would accept is to give in.
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Sub in Sorkin (and Clooney, et al) for Schultz in this video:
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we make the news then fit to print
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Aaron Sorkin thinks the Democrats should nominate Mitt Romney.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/biden-west-wing-aaron-sorkin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E0.-l5c.dQMeipdgyjV7&smid=url-share
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