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If Robert Kagan hoped to generate some conversation with a lengthy Washington Post opinion piece last week, he succeeded. Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an editor at large for the Post, presented a provocative warning to the public, arguing that the United States faces the possibility of a “dictatorship” if Donald Trump is returned to the White House.

Sen. J.D. Vance — a former Trump critic turned sycophant — evidently wasn’t persuaded by Kagan’s case. On the contrary, the Ohio Republican this week sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken seeking some kind of investigation into the published piece. From the senator’s letter:

“I wish to address to your attention a recent opinion piece published in the pages of a widely-circulated American newspaper. Based on my review of public charging documents that the Department of Justice has filed in courts of law, I suspect that one or both of you might characterize this article as an invitation to ‘insurrection,’ a manifestation of criminal ‘conspiracy,’ or an attempt to bring about civil war.”

In other words, Vance, a Yale-educated lawyer, believes the Post op-ed might have crossed a legal line.

Isn't the duty of a newspaper to "comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable?" This senator is way too comfortable - with a dictatorship.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)

he wants the government to investigate the speech of some private entity? because feelings?

in what reality does this guy live??

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One in which opposition is emnity, and when you you can't counter the truth with obfuscation you use any and every means at your disposal to suppress speech.

Vance is one of the people helping pave the way toward dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Exactly. Right out of the authoritarian playbook.

In Hungary, Orban stopped government advertising and big business followed suit.

https://www.eurozine.com/viktor-orbans-war-on-the-media/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

And doing so while being in the party that covers fascist and racist speech with "freedumb of speech".

Protecting a guy that literally repeatedly previously and as recent as LAST WEEK said he wants to be a dictator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I haven't searched for it, but I'm sure someone who wants to can confirm for me that J. D. Vance has complained about someone or other being "cancelled" at least once.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Basic GOP projection. TFG incited an insurrection so they have to accuse someone else of doing that too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

it's literally always projection. every time. every fucking time.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

It is the Republican Party’s number one priority to comfort and shelter trump from any and all criticism. What a sad pathetic sniveling spectacle the Republican Party has become. Pussies.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

I suspect that one or both of you might characterize this article as an invitation to ‘insurrection,’

Hmm...

I'm pretty sure Trump told his people at a rally to fight like hell and then told them to go over to the Capitol and then an insurrection happened.

And yet Vance isn't suing Trump. Weird.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

my god this is so fucking stupid it burns. Kagan's not just some rando conservative, this fuckwit is neocon royalty for helping the Bushes justify Iraq and more. The idea that JD fucking VANCE needs to warn the US Gov about possible insurrection and treason while he's licking the toe fungus from Trump's feet is wildly hilarious in a dark irony kinda manner.

What in the actual fuck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

It's scary that Republicans are committed to overthrowing our government, but if our last few decades of attempted regime change are anything to go by, they'll fail and we'll be left with a brutally divided sectarian state riddled with violence and crumbling infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

"If you don't let Donald Trump do whatever he wants, we're gonna start a civil war!" 😭😭😭

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Another disgusting Republican loser. No wonder women don't want to fuck conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago