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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 17m

I'm sure it will discourage interest when they bring it up on TV repeatedly

Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 18m

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19m

How fascism messages
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

We can also see it in cratering support for the Democratic Party. Some perceive it as too extreme, & so should 'moderate' on hot button issues, others hate it because it's not 'extreme' enough (eg they don't fight; aren't left enough). Incompletely theorized agreement that the Democratic Party sucks

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

This isn't to deny that democracy *is* in crisis. I'm highlighting that the crisis is in part manufactured by the populist right as a weapon of power. Per @polphilpod.bsky.social, there's agency here. So, no, democracy did not have it coming due to insufficient leftism; it's being killed by fascists

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

The party of free enterprise

Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

I think we should encourage guys like this in their "we want to be ruled by a king" strategy

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2h

"No kings equals no paychecks" is big march on Versailles territory and if any of these fartwaltruses read books they'd be more worried about saying shit like this.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently, the official GOP response to the leaked Young Republican chats is “come on, it’s not a big deal that these guys are using racial slurs and praising Hitler, that’s totally normal” and, uh, that sorta raises more questions?

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

Car dealerships and golf courses

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

Proud of NC being the only Southern state with some sense

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

Affirmative action for the suburbs? Really?

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

A reckless paramilitary force that Trump has unleashed to terrorize the American people

Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

How long must we tolerate this bullshit? These people are handling all of our national security!

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

How long will the American people continue to tolerate this daily condescension by the stupidest fucking giggleshits imaginable? Have we no dignity?

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

So they were literally holding him indefinitely for no reason. The definition of tyranny!

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 1h

He had his talking points written on his hand, see, so when he got sweaty they were kind of blurry

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 2h

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants"

Quote unrelated

Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 2h

Daddy will hurt you until you obey

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 2h

Yeah even Royalists think that's a bad slogan

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 2h

Once again, the Trump administration trying to run 5 different foreign policy positions at the same time

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 4h

Under normal circumstances, it would be inappropriate to pull out a knife and threaten to stab someone. But when the other guy has already pulled a knife on you, it is entirely appropriate to respond in kind.

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 4h

They are afraid of democracy

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 4h

Perhaps Democrats should stop apologizing just because people who hate us demand it

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Randy Herman, but a ghost @randyhermanlaw.com · 4h

Hope it makes the degenerate majority in the GA nervous

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