Friends who are into #PoliticalGambling are spending a lot of time gaming out how the #Republican Party could improve its chances by nominating a so-called moderate in 2024.

Here's measureable reality as of now: #Trump is the undisputed leader of the Republican Party, with about as much support as all of his rivals put together. He's got the base and he's got the #RNC. The nominee will be a #fascist.

#Fascism

On PredictIt, a political gambling site, I had a gratifying win last night. And by "gratifying" I mean I was able to take some money off fascists, which is just *chef's kiss*.

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@kathygriffin Fixing the water heater.

Definitely not thinking about how much I bet on John Fetterman. Because that would make me crazy. #PoliticalGambling

Take a moment to step back and marvel: Mehmet Oz is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, endorsed and campaigned for by the leader of the party. He is a fascist who thinks that public health is not a public good. Perfectly normal, mainstream, middle of the road Republican. Republicans who think people shouldn't get sick and die for lack of health care coverage, are fringe.
https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1567830359336800258?s=20&t=anRbRyaQKrwzAsNEL5eALQ
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I am literally seeing Republicans cheering as Mehmet Oz mocks John Fetterman's post-stroke recovery, and calling Fetterman a bully in the same breath.

https://boingboing.net/2022/08/31/new-jerseys-dr-oz-doubles-down-on-mocking-a-stroke-victim.html
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Absolutely undisputed, from the RNC all the way down to the base.
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1564312521078722561?s=20&t=SHPehX1I-T4e_BOGqqUZyA
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Exceeding my expectations
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1563579914116222978?s=20&t=_YPjpwOLEz8fZ5N9LuIu8Q
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So this might be how education looks under #Fascism: a teacher has been fired, literally for encouraging her students to read books.
https://twitter.com/BrynnTannehill/status/1562051953345134597?s=20&t=_VemgHpm1JsTHdAQzyLbKQ
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The fact that anyone would float the idea of a Trump pardon, let alone on an important editorial page, shows how much work we have left to do. And, especially, how little news organizations have learned since 2015.

We can 'heal the country' after we have defeated the fascists who are one election away from ending our democracy.
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1561526456840118272?s=20&t=J2SLvJg5tXS4x_u7FAWj2A
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Is this a big thing? I feel like this is a big thing.
https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1561464957916495873?s=20&t=dSVSqNXeHkrz5V-Y7HWk_g
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The more it looks like Trump was planning to sell U.S. secrets, the more Republicans will insist that he is the victim.
https://twitter.com/StevenBeschloss/status/1561887884931526659?s=20&t=dSVSqNXeHkrz5V-Y7HWk_g
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She's not wrong. It's the new "thug."
https://twitter.com/reneeygraham/status/1561099661762596864?s=20&t=ud6z9cp3yxoIdU2C26xyxg
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I listened to it all the way through. He had a minute 27 seconds to say anything at all about the Republican plan to fix inflation. Said nothing about inflation.
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1561368819737796608?s=20&t=ud6z9cp3yxoIdU2C26xyxg
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Republicans want democracy to lose and dictatorship to win, at home and abroad. https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1561129087057289217?s=20&t=88XO3vTFma9uh8EdsxSTvQ
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Republicans allied themselves with Putin. Now they're literally on the side of genocide in Ukraine. They haven't been hiding their intentions for some time now.

https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1560760437481902085?s=20&t=gUZeBn2BOJ0of9dJKOsBbQ #PoliticalGambling

Another Republican who seems pretty mainstream, threatening to kill FBI agents for executing a lawful search warrant. #Fascism
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1560748749277863936?s=20&t=gUZeBn2BOJ0of9dJKOsBbQ
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He couldn't say it more clearly. If the desired outcome cannot be achieved by voting, he wants to take power by violence. #Fascism
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1560323003845677059?s=20&t=gUZeBn2BOJ0of9dJKOsBbQ #PoliticalGambling

Today's Republicans are unashamedly white supremacist. You can't be Republican but claim to be just in it for the lower taxes. All Republicans, categorically, are morally on the hook for what the party has become.

https://youtu.be/Hk-TLXKlubk
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Another example of what you get when #Fascism is normalized: this bill would forcibly de-transition trans people.
https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1560660360373620737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1560660360373620737%7Ctwgr%5Efa33d8c59e95e44b4c64cc6a29428aa22f8b00cc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2Fblog
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Kari Lake isn't even pretending she doesn't want the support of a guy who wants to create concentration camps and put LGBTQ Americans in them. This is what you get when fascists are normalized.
https://boingboing.net/2022/08/19/kari-lake-fan-says-she-plans-to-put-lgbtq-people-in-concentration-camps-with-him.html
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