The Lincoln Project: We made this pre-election, thinking that we'd never have to release it.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[KS Toronado]

58. Here's the link for those who want to share...

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bloodlines?src=hashtag_click

[olegramps]

77. We have been warned thousands of times of the impending threat and most just ignored it.

This is the end result of over forty years of the deployment of fascist tactics, such as those I have posted a number of times on this board of Dr. Lawrence Britt's Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism. He as well as many others such as former secretary of state Albright who last year published a detail warning of what was taking place in our nation. It has been the determined effort of the leadership of the Republican Party to transform the presidency into a virtual dictatorship in with conjunction with the extreme wealthy to establish a plutocracy. Their tactics have followed the Hitler's blue print letter for letter. The demagoguery is the same hatred and division.

The misguided fools that sought to overthrow the our constitutional government are nothing more than ignoramuses who are the easy prey. They have been easily convinced that they are the real patriots but in reality they are nothing more than useful fools that will be easily disposed of when they have served their purpose.

[stillcool]

2. that was great.

[C_U_L8R]

3. That fade-in. Bone chilling.

[BSdetect]

4. Should have been released before now.

[SergeStorms]

21. Few would have believed it until now.

Astute political junkies would, but not Joe and Marge Sixpack. Until now.

[Chemisse]

36. It resonates today. It strikes a raw nerve today. n/t

[zonemaster]

5. Only thing that would improve it is Morgan Freeman as the narrator

.

[Poiuyt]

49. I thought this narrator had a great voice!

The quintessential voice of God.

[lunatica]

75. The narrator's voice was great!

It was perfect.

[gopiscrap]

6. wow

[Sedona]

7. K&R

[mdelaguna]

8. Holy crap.

[Biophilic]

9. After today that was more than bone chilling.

[uponit7771]

10. K&R,

[volstork]

11. Chilling.

[misanthrope]

12. All of that was apparent in 2015

when Trump was still early in his campaign. I explicitly remember it and telling others.

[IsItJustMe]

52. Absolutely. I became physically ill when he won, because I knew it was going to be terrible.

But it seems like a plurality of Americans want to burn it all down.

[PatSeg]

13. Wow, that's incredible!

[Squidly]

14. Thank goodness

that the military wont go along with him. they know he is insane.

[Alpeduez21]

32. Won't go along.....

yet.

[Neema]

68. The Capitol police sure seem to be on his side. At least the ones in charge. MAGAs have

been talking about yesterday's coup attempt for weeks. I saw it and I'm nobody. Surely the Capitol police were made aware in order to prepare.

[Squidly]

76. maybe some

but there is plenty of footage showing they really put up a fight on the capital steps but were just overwhelmed by the sheer numbers

[Neema]

80. I think his friends are higher up. Most of the officers on the scene were putting up a fight

(though not all of them), but why were there so few? The guys on the ground don't have any control over how many of them are assigned to a particular spot. But their superiors do. And I would think, with the MAGAs publicly planning this coup on social media for weeks, that it would have been a good idea for security to be all hands on deck.

[Vivienne235729]

15. That is, again, just incredible work. TTLP is absolutely brilliant.

[Butterflylady]

16. WOW!!!!!

[lunasun]

17. Nevilledog thank you for posting.

[Nevilledog]

18. ...

[anamnua]

19. Brilliant.

[Hekate]

20. Jesus. This should be required viewing in every classroom from age 12 up...

Chilling, chilling

[iluvtennis]

22. + agree. Never forget. nt

[Dem2theMax]

23. Nevilledog, thank you for posting this.

I've saved it. If any Trumper says a word to me, this is what they're getting in return.

[Nevilledog]

26. ...

[GETPLANING]

24. I grew up in Franco's Spain

It seemed normal to me at the time. Looking back, I realize how repressive and corrupt the government was, and how easily it can happen, even here in America.

[agincourt]

25. Some should not be in it

Some not in it should be in it.

[My Pet Orangutan]

53. All were dictators,

and just about all, unlike Trump, military, before they became commander in chief.

[Wounded Bear]

55. K&R...nt

[agincourt]

81. I just don't think

Castro and Chavez as much they sucked, quite compare to Hitler, Mussolini, or Pinochet. I think Pol Pot, Sukarno, and Kubuga were worse.

[ShazzieB]

27. That was incredibly powerful, and chilling.

[larwdem]

28. wow

[BigmanPigman]

29. Putin is having "huge" parties tonight....thanks to the fucking moron.

[mwmisses4289]

30. Scary, and sad

So many of us could see this happening. We said it could happen here. Now we are on the brink. Will we be able to save ourselves?

[superpatriotman]

31. This is just 100 years of history!

The people get the leaders they deserve

[Karadeniz]

33. Not too late to put a scene from today at the very end...thugs taking down US flag to replace it

With Trump flag.

[KS Toronado]

57. That's a great idea!

[SunSeeker]

34. K & R & Retweeted!

[Lock him up.]

35. Those who ignore the lessons of History are doomed

to repeat it.

[cheezmaka]

37. Bone chilling

a prelude to the "meltdown" of a Democracy... (we should have NEVER gotten to this point in our Nation's history)

[mrsadm]

38. Yikes!

[BobTheSubgenius]

39. Pretty bombastic, and not difficult to dismiss.

But anyone dismissing it would be the one that already fell for it, and is completely wedded to it.

[love_katz]

40. Kick!

[Lucinda]

41. KNR

[peggysue2]

42. Positively chilling

The man must be removed immediately. Today was a day like no other.

[orangecrush]

43. Powerful

Shared.

[flying rabbit]

44. Holy fuck.

:fuckthatguy:

[Handler]

45. On point

These guys are masters at getting a message out.

[cp]

46. Fuck

Thank you for posting this..

[BarbD]

47. Watching events unfold today, scared the crap out of me.

Yesterday I emailed my congressmen asking they impeach Trump. Tonight I believe we narrowly avoided a coup and have to call the Republican Representatives and Senators who enabled this be labeled seditionists and dealt with accordingly.

Plus this mob of domestic terrorists must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[Dawson Leery]

48. kick

[dchill]

50. K&R.

[kwolf68]

51. DING!!

That's the mic drop.

[IsItJustMe]

54. Well, I guess it is great to see this here, but if this is as far as it gets, then it's pretty damn

useless.

This should be shown over and over again on every medium that is possible.

[Stuart G]

56. Thanks for posting...Brilliant Ad..

[Tom Rinaldo]

59. Wow, they fucking have been clear eyed about this all along

I hate that they are right because I hate what it means, but the Lincoln Project IS right.

[nam78_two]

63. I know

This is why I am pained by the refusal of conservatives to evolve. Because at the end of the day, they have a gun to our heads. We have to accept the Lincoln Project, Romney (and by extension globally for instance Saudi Arabia, the Muslim brotherhood etc. and whatever eventually becomes the "moderate" wing of the RSS, Xi Ping, Putin and so on..) because the alternative is neo-nazis, ISIS, Hindu extremists, Putin's mafia, Xi Ping's mafia and all the corporate creeps feathering their nests and hoping only poor Bangladeshis and poor people generally will be affected by the climate crisis. I am deliberately leaving Judaism out of it because I am not in the mood for left or right semitism.

I do think I am going to keep an eye out for ecoterrorism, animal activist extremism, atheist extremism etc., as a committed animal activist, environmentalist and atheist. You can be sure that if someone used violence, manipulation or sleaziness to promote a cause I sincerely back, it would not take me 20 fucking years to condemn them for it. That is left right asymmetry.

We -serious left wing activists do not manipulate people, have a finger to the wind, wait till the very last moment to jump ship and expect cookies for it.


These people are unevolved and we have to endure them because there are far scarier people on the right. I don't like it but it has to be done in the interests of the greater good *gloomily* . Nobody gains by the US goinf crazy and if that means vomiting over tolerance of Romney and the Lincoln Project it has to be done...ugh..
Strangely enough-insane, misinformed etc as they are, I do feel sympathy for the least malicious, least racist, sexist Trump supporters and wish they could be deradicalized. Ridiculing them as uncool and stupid will only radicalize them further. The reachable ones have to be appealed to and deradicalized, or we all lose. They to go the Derek Black, Katie (forget the surname) route.

But wealthy movement conservatives who knew all along I find hard to forgive but we have to as these are scary volatile times. Poverty, ignorance etc.are unlikely to make people broad minded, compassionate.

A creature like Romney who has had every advantage possible has no excuse for being like this. And yet we have to suffer him because he is better at theatre than Bannon, Trump and Stephen Miller.
I despise Mitt Romney. But I am reluctantly forced to back his kind of Republican as they are at least not qanon.

I will delete this i dislike talking about anything dully non controversial...but I do despise Romney..while recognizing that in such scary times even he is needed. But I don't have to like it.

[Tom Rinaldo]

65. Let me just note, for all the reasons that you state and as painful as it may be...

that you have your priorities right.

[nam78_two]

66. Thanks

I sometimes wonder if I am crazy. Appreciate your comment. I guess I won't delete the post.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

60. I only wish this could break through the cult shell that surrounds his followers minds.

But it won't.

[BSdetect]

61. k&r

[spanone]

62. K&R

[UCmeNdc]

64. K&R

[Roc2020]

67. Chilling.

[AmericanCanuck]

69. This should be played in the impeachment hearings

[BigOleDummy]

70. DAMN!

That was good! NO, that was GREAT! Thank you LP and to the OP for sharing

[Tommymac]

71. Thank God for TLP. Truth to Power.

[Barbara2423]

72. Wow!!

[colorado_ufo]

73. Truth by the barrel-full.

Wake up, America!

[cayugafalls]

74. If a picture is a thousand words, they just wrote the freaking book.

[COL Mustard]

78. That Is Brutal

And scary.

We are on our way out of the woods, but we aren't there yet.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

79. KnR...nt

[dixiechiken1]

82. Jesus. Fucking. Christ. 😰

I'm sorry if I offend by saying it "out loud" (vs "JFC&quot . I can't believe we're here.