Republicans: continued

[Joe]

Aren't they neocons now?

[Seabass]

Case in point:

The special counsel says a woman was offered money to fabricate sexual-harassment claims.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... bi/574411/
A company that appears to be run by a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist offered to pay women to make false claims against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the days leading up to the midterm elections—and the special counsel's office has asked the FBI to weigh in. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” Mueller spokesman Peter Carr told me in an email on Tuesday.

The special-counsel office’s attention to this scheme and its decision to release a rare statement about it indicates the seriousness with which the team is taking the purported plot to discredit Mueller in the middle of an ongoing investigation. Carr confirmed that the allegations were brought to the office’s attention by several journalists, who were contacted by a woman who identified herself as Lorraine Parsons. Another woman, Jennifer Taub, contacted Mueller's office earlier this month with similar information.

Mueller refers sex assault scheme targeting him to FBI for investigation
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justic ... on-n926301
Special counsel Robert Mueller last week asked the FBI to investigate a possible scam in which a woman would make false claims that he had sexually assaulted her, after several political reporters were contacted about doing a story on the alleged assault.

Multiple reporters were contacted over the past few weeks by a woman who said she had been offered money to say she was sexually assaulted by Mueller, the special counsel who is probing possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. After investigating, according to the political website Hill Reporter, the reporters each independently determined the assault allegation was likely a hoax and that it was unclear if the woman had been offered money to make the claim. The reporters then contacted the special counsel's office to report that they had been approached about the scheme.

Wtf.

Gateway Pundit is one of 42's preferred "news" sources...

[Tero]

absolutely. All but the 60 million that voted Trump are socialists.

[pErvinalia]

It seems there's some corruption of the database going on. This is the third comment in as many days that has wound up in the wrong thread. Can someone contact Rachel?

[Sean Hayden]

The walls of this forum have many secrets.

[Brian Peacock]

The Republican party has gone beyond conservative and into fascist territory. At this point, there appears to be no low to which they will not sink.

If you insist that your political opponents are fascist, you don't have to address their humanity!

There is no need to over-generalise, and say that all Republicans are fascists, but if they are allowing a fringe group of neo-nazis and white supremacists to shelter under their political umbrella, they have not learned the lesson that I showed via the post about a conservative Australian political party drawing a line in the sand...

Are Democrats allowing any fringe groups to shelter under their political umbrellas?

I think those lines MUST be drawn. We need both groups to do so. There are bullies everywhere, and blaming only one side for their existence is itself another kind of bullying.

I wish I could have an hour or two of your time, JimC. I would direct you to a movie about a black guy, who made an effort to go befriend members of his local KKK.

He now has a collection of discarded robes, as trophies for the difference he has made.

I bet he didn't do it by calling them fascists.

Aren't you just making excuses for placing racist and fascist groups under the umbrella of the political mainstream? It's noticeable that you don't seem to extend the pleas to not disavow or dismiss the raggedy-right to even the moderately-left, and that in your efforts to oppose left-leaning politics it very much looks like you're concocting apologetics for hate groups and authoritarians.

[Svartalf]

The Republican party has gone beyond conservative and into fascist territory. At this point, there appears to be no low to which they will not sink.

[Animavore]

An honest Republican!

Commenting on his support of Austria’s Freedom Party, a group founded by a former Nazi SS officer and whose current leader was active in neo-Nazi circles, King said:

"If they (European Nazis) were in America pushing the platform that they push, they would be Republicans."

King’s support for Nazis and white supremacists is nothing new. Last year the White Nationalist raised eyebrows when he retweeteda message endorsing white supremacist Geert Wilders, a far-right candidate for Dutch prime minister:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressi ... n3WO5VsY9M

[pErvinalia]

A Dutch far-right politician? Surely some mistake.

[Animavore]

In Holland Bernie Sanders is far right.

[Svartalf]

A Dutch far-right politician? Surely some mistake.

there was that guy who got murdered, Pim Fortuyn IIRC, he certainly has successors, and since the Dutch have the best of everything, they also have the best fascists

[pErvinalia]

[Seabass]

Steve King has been spewing racist shit for years and he keeps getting reelected.

[Scot Dutchy]

A Dutch far-right politician? Surely some mistake.

there was that guy who got murdered, Pim Fortuyn IIRC, he certainly has successors, and since the Dutch have the best of everything, they also have the best fascists

Dont get confused here. Wilders is not a successor to Fortuyn. Fortuyn was not right wing in the normal sense. He was an extreme popularist. His party was made up of chancers and fellow travellers. Pim was more worried about his clothes than anything else. He was a comedian. The government he in coalition crashed in months. His party suffered from in fighting on a big scale. It was a Mayfly. Nothing remains. The reason for his death is still a mystery and even his killer has never said why.

Wilders is right wing only on one policy and that is immigration for the rest he is as left as the Socialist Party. He appears in public with right wingers as Le Pen because they are the only ones willing to speak to him. In the Dutch parliament is totally shunned by every other party. His party does not have members in the classical sense as he is the only member of his party. The rest are supporters. His hatred of islam comes from his youth and upbringing in Israel.

[Svartalf]

well, immigration is only a start, if he gets to power, he'll soon have the whole country in a regimental regime, totalitarism is not far when the population is too well integrated and not ready to complain enough...

and he was raised in Israel? is he a Jew? of course, Israeli Jews are the new Nazis... he may have taken more bad habits than one suspects when he was there.