The group’s president, Kevin D. Roberts, made the comments in an interview on “The War Room,” the Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon’s show on the network Real America’s Voice.
Mr. Roberts was discussing the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday that presidents have substantial immunity from prosecution for what they do in office, a ruling that upended the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and that removes a potential barrier to the most radical elements of his second-term agenda if he is elected again.
“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,” Mr. Roberts said, alluding to Mr. Bannon’s imprisonment.
He went on to say that “the radical left” was “apoplectic” because “our side is winning” and said, “And so I come full circle in this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
“Don’t fight back politically or we’ll kill you.”
Awesome! Totally reasonable and sane thing to say. I’m just hoping my country (Canada) can stay relatively unaffected by the brainrot that led to Project 2025.
I don’t know how resilient we will be against rising fascism considering the high cost of living and the recent grocery price increases.
Trudeau and the Liberals seem to be laying the red carpet for career whiner Poilievre to walk in to the leader position next year.
I’ve heard he is pretty bad but I don’t know exactly why (maybe he is not insane for all I know).
Anyone got a link handy that will highlight what he stands for?
In Alberta’s case I’m more convinced every day that the very high number of American immigrants (historical and current) has something to do with it. If it stays within the province’s borders, I’m okay with that, but it is something to keep an eye on.
Would be nice if Canada had real leftist politicians and not people like Mulcair, Horwath, and Singh (sorry Jagmeet, I like you but you’re just not good enough). It frustrates me to no end that people in North America think the Liberals and Democrats are “the left.”
ORGANIZE instead of spending all your energy deciding what fascist to vote. before its too late, you are running out of time.
socialism is the only way we ever got rid of fascism and good luck.
Russia would like to have a word, China too. Socialism is great. But not all socialism is created equal.
China and Russia don’t have collective ownership over the means of production. They’re not socialist. It’s like the main thing.
of course its not perfect. the point is stepping up.
china and russia saw the biggest improvements in quality of life in recorded history in their respective socialist eras.
if you keep rejecting the solution, surprise, you won’t get it.
Realize before it’s too late that your existing ‘left’ wing at best does nothing to curb facism and at worst actively enables fascism and y’all may have a chance.
But what will probably happen is: only you and a few others will notice. The media will pull political discourse rightward and believers of said media will tirelessly shout you down. Perhaps you, like i will watch miserably as you and others slide into the sarlac pit of fascism that apparently only you can see.
If you do fall my yankee ass will at least have company.
Good luck
Sure, I know that part. Police are already allowed to interrogate you indefinitely and you’re only legally entitled to speak to a lawyer once (usually at the start, before you know how fucked you are).
I guess I meant something more directly in line with the US, due to the context of my original comment about following in their footsteps. But yeah, authoritarianism comes in many flavours. I suppose we have our own brand, given the rich history there.
This is a seditious threat that justifies preemptively striking in self-defense.
It’s a cold calculus but letting them kill someone first means the army has the moral and narrative high ground when the Army Rangers black bag these guys at 3 in the morning.
Yes I agree. Actions should always weigh more than words. We need them to put those words into action before it’s justified to act back.
So maybe we should be like: “bring it on”? Idk that’s probably not a good idea either.
We’re fast approaching the point at which there are no more bad ideas. But yeah for now, it’s best to try and prevent any major incident while not letting the authoritarians win. Countries do not come out the same way when either of those things happens. And the chance that it’s a change for the better is remote.
When it starts, they’re the ones who will be giving the Army Rangers the orders.
Eh, not exactly. That would be telegraphed literal years in advance as they would have to entirely rebuild the officer corps to be loyalists to them specifically. Right now the military leadership puts a lot of stock in the Constitution, so much so that the last time Trump tried to order them to go after BLM protestors, they not only refused the order, they then sent a memo to the entire force reminding them of the exact wording of their oath.
Textbook thug mentality. “I’m gonna take your shit, if you do anything about it then you’re forcing me to get violent.”
The same way that the Ukraine war could be bloodless if Ukrainians allowed it to be? Absurd 🙄
The goddamnedfascists will kill us all and the democrats only response will be to say “you should have voted harder!”.
Leftists fighting amongst themselves will contribute to the downfall of us all.
Why are you lying? It’s the appeasement-minded liberals that are fucking us all over.
