KEVIN ROBERTS (HERITAGE FOUNDATION PRESIDENT): In spite of all this nonsense from the left, we are going to win. We’re in the process of taking this country back. No one in the audience should be despairing.
No one should be discouraged. We ought to be really encouraged by what happened yesterday. And in spite of all of the injustice, which, of course, friends and audience of this show, of our friend Steve know, we are going to prevail.
Number two, to the point of the clips and, of course, your preview of the fact that I am an early American historian and love the Constitution. That Supreme Court ruling yesterday on immunity is vital, and it’s vital for a lot of reasons. But I would go to Federalist No. 70.
The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization and an existential threat to the United States that must be destroyed.
I think it’s time we recognized the threat to democracy that think tanks and political non profits pose.
Robert Evans did a two parter of Behind the Bastards on this exact topic. I think they were titled, How Conservatism Won
Yupp, love that pod cast.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4w0lx3QNiuuek1SHmKQ0Tc?si=eB7CG99mQ-i3TUKkcd98Fg
there is a limit at what can be done about their activities until we stop commingling personal rights/freedoms with that of a “legal” person
It would require an act of congress and it won’t happen.
They are people when they shill for their owners but they are legal entity when tax man comes.
Agreed. I wish Biden would announce they are all being arrested and tried for treason. Same for the cons on the “supreme” court.
For context: The Heritage Foundation is responsible for “Project 2025.”
-Good liberals with infinite patience and calm rationality turned me from conservative, and kinda shitty guy, to centrist with empathy for others.
-Maga turned me from centrist to reliably liberal (vote for each person down ballot based on scrutiny of their merits instead of affiliation…but heavily blue leaning, unless the Dem was a knob or had a bad plan)
-P2025 turned me into VoteBlueNoMatterWho for every candidate for every election from local to president.
Brother, I don’t know how your day is going. I don’t know how you feel about your past self. I do know that this comment of yours made me tear up. It’s easy for me to vote blue. It was harder for you to decide, and I appreciate your effort. Thank you for being my neighbor.
I asssume both of us realize ‘vote blue no matter who’ won’t be enough. The DNC doesn’t exist as a bulwark against fascism. It’s only function is to operate as a hand of corporate interest. Currently the DNC is used as a way to corner us to the edge of a cliff so they can clip off the weak ones then drive the rest off the ledge.
If there was a way out, right now, it would be straight through. Except corpo rightly expect that you will cling to your way of life until the very end. Maybe if, when we were younger, they told us, “Some day you will have to make a choice. Chose to cling to your material possessions or to cling to each other. One will directly effect the other. Prepare yourself everyday until that point.”
Even then, we know now 30% for sure aren’t giving up their “stuff” no matter what. The rest. We will see I suppose.
I think most informed people understand that voting for Biden isn’t the cure-all. We are a car without breaks careening down a cliff side, winding, pothole-filled road slick with a fresh spill from a septic truck and we are faced with turning one direction and driving off the cliff or turning the other and staying on the rough road knowing there is at least a chance of it clearing up and hopefully offering some better intersections ahead. At least Joe’s team is trying to hose off the sewage and is willing to hear you out about the asphalt-guy you know that can handle the job. The other guy’s side has Ivan’s Forestry Specialists on speed dial and just needs the cash advance to pay him, then he will totally be here any day to fix the roads cause he totally does that too. Also he is a pilot, so you should totally trust him that he can land the car if you go off the cliff…there sure are some nice roads down there at the bottom. Biden, or even Democrats won’t fix everything. They will be conservative-lite, but the other option in our flawed system is conservative-FOREVER. The problem with your “we must all give up everything and probably go homeless to protest and rebel” is the prisoner’s dilemma. We all go in 100% or we lose… permanently. Those of us not dead set on going all-in, because we know others won’t (not even debatable), want to maintain the status quo as the only good option, so we can at least fix the “we lose… permanently” part.
Or maybe I am an idiot and haven’t eaten today. Those are my 3¢(inflation).
at least we know who’s on the side of the redcoats …
…in the process of taking this country backWARDS.
I despair. Fuck him and all of them.
Are going to, you say?
Already happened, friend.
Or did you forget what a shitshow Trump’s first term was?
People literally died because of him.
This would be more widespread and far worse.
Conservatives have poisoned the soapbox with propaganda and outright lies.
They’ve diluted the ballot box with electoral politics and various tactics of disenfranchisement.
They’ve completely corrupted the jury box with unqualified ideologues.
How does America survive this without resorting to the last box? All because a group of assholes who have more than they could ever need want even more than that.
It’s not as if the right wing goons haven’t been killing the decent people already.
How come the people who say they need automatic weapons to defend themselves from their government at the same time cheer for giving their government absolute power?
