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White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

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Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Charlie Kirk’s podcast, guest-hosted by Vice President JD Vance, to lay out their plans.

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White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

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3w ago

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

www.nytimes.com /2025/09/15/us/politics/jd-vance-charlie-kirk-show.html

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They did not give a fuck 3 months ago
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/melissa-hortman-minnesota-assassination
- It says a lot that I hadn't even heard of her murder.
  I mean, I'm Canadian, so I really struggle to keep track of every time one of you lot shoots another, but still, point stands.
  
  I don't think I heard about it until this event either, and I'm American. I may have heard a mention of it, but there wasn't significant conversation.
Guess they were never going to let a good crisis go to waste. Doesn't matter if the shooter was far right or not, they were always gonna blame the left.
- The shooter didn't hate transgender people, according to the right, that makes him a far left radical
Have grocery prices come down yet? Where's that $2/gal gas I keep hearing about?
- The racism and dictatorship were the important promises. The rest was just for suckers
They're hoping to use the same play book that was used against the KKK. Sue their funding out of existence.
The problem being the groups they're going to target have far broader protections than the klan did back in the day. And also they know the plan, and several methods to counter it.
The only way they can win is if they cheat.
That's what this is.
If they want to burn down the country and turn it into a big fucking monster truck rally I don't fucking care anymore.
- This is very very different from anything the US has had since McCarthy
  
  When they went after the left again. Odd. And before that, it was communists just after WWII. I'm beginning to think this country doesn't like the left.
- This is what victimization fantasy looks like.
  Also, please notice the incredibly steep increase in this kind of misuse of language in the previous ~200 hours.
- Should be noted that both parties going after the other side isn't true. That just seems to be a Republican thing these last few decades. Even more so in the last few months. The people living in luxury are the most responsible, so that statement is true
  
  I think this disingenuine argument is founded on the fact that Democrats will lock up Republicans who have broken the law and they want to call that Democrats going after republicans. Where Republicans will lock up anybody who disagrees with whatever illegal bullshit they're trying to accomplish
- No....just, no...
- The difference is that when democrats go after the right ... it's because far right extremists literally tried to lead a coup to take over government
  When republicans go after the left ... it's usually because of something the right did to themselves
- No, when Republicans are in power, they go after the other side. Don't try that 'both sides' weasel angle
- While true to a small degree, it is very obvious how lopsided one side is in comparison to the other. But I wholeheartedly agree that us citizens are the ones left in the lurch and usually fighting with each other (class warfare).
  
  I don't know if that is true to any degree. The Democrats were chosen by the donors to be weak. They will not enforce the law against the rich and connected, they would not enforce the law against Republicans that tried to end the Republic in all but name and set themselves up as a one-party State rigging elections promising to persecute the other side they fall falsely claimed were doing that.
  Which is the president's raison de etre, Biden and the Democrats abdicated their duty to defend the republic after the most egregious in your face attempt to kill it.
  If that would not spur them to action nothing will. The party is broken. Not a single Challenger for president with four months to go with a candidate that never broke 30% approval rating and was roundly hated by all sides, that offered no substantive reform against a candidate running as reform in a time of anger and upheaval.
  Pelosi handpicked her replacement as house Speaker without challenge, Schumer has not faced a single fucking challenge.
  What the fuck is wrong with this party?

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