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Do you still ignore the required dependencies and autoremove packages while installing the new application on Linux?

Initially, you take note of application dependencies and packages going to be wiped out from your system, but with time, we procrastinate due to the ugly interface of the apt command, which shows package names in the monotone format, and for this reason, you need to stare at the screen to know what step is being performed now.

For example, if I install git from the default apt package manager, and the same command is installed from nala package manager, then you can clearly see the difference from the side-by-side comparison.

And if I ask you, which output looks much more concise and unambiguous? You would simply answer, “The nala version of the command is much more concise and unambiguous.”

So, let’s learn how to install nala package manager on Ubuntu and other derivatives of Debian-based Linux distributions, which means you can follow the same steps if you have Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Debian 11 (Buster), etc.

https://trendoceans.com/nala-package-manager/

Yes, it really is faster than other APT frontends. No need to install apt-fast anymore, especially since apt-fast is mostly deprecated. It's prettier. Not just prettier, but easier to read. It's far more informative.

The article suggests 3 methods to install nala, I just did apt install nala. Try your own distro's repositories before you follow the other methods.

Best of all, it looks like there is no real learning curve - if you're familiar with apt, apt-get, or apt-fast, you'll use mostly the same commands and arguments with nala.

Did I say fast? Even with my new 100 meg internet connection, I would expect 900 mb of downloads to take a few minutes with apt. Nala fetch found the fastest repositories for me, saved those repositories to it's configuration, then when I did nala upgrade, it downloaded files in parallel. It was as fast, if not faster than, apt-fast.

I think it's pretty awesome. If anyone thinks otherwise, I'll be watching for comments below!

Tulsi Gabbard Continues to Cause Problems Within the Democrat Party After Leaving It
By Brandon Morse | 3:45 PM on October 13, 2022

Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard haunts the Democrat Party and it would appear that her exit is causing issues to arise within the voter base. Not only does her shadow follow Kamala Harris, but it’s also now starting to threaten AOC who recently was shouted down at her own town hall for not following Gabbard’s example with the Ukraine war.

It would appear that Gabbard’s effect on the party is only growing despite the DNC’s best efforts to unperson her. Let’s talk about it more in my latest video.

Be sure to like the video and subscribe!

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2022/10/13/tulsi-gabbard-continues-to-cause-problems-within-the-democrat-party-after-leaving-it-n642730

Direct link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCQbpU52nvM

Wake, not woke.

EDIT: I should have linked to the story about Tulsi leaving the party. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-10-11/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party-elitist-cabal

Well, we've had bittorrent in our home for - a long, long time. Search for a movie or something, start it downloading, and come back tomorrow to watch the movie. Nothing exciting, just file sharing.

With the upgrade to fiber, we expected to see amazing download and upload speeds. Mehhh - instead speeds were mostly still measured in k per second, sometimes reaching 1 or 2 M/s. Somewhat awesome to most members of the household, but, FFS, we now have fast internet! Where's my 100 meg?

I diddled around with it for awhile yesterday. Yes, of course we run BT on a VPN. Yes, of course I've gone through BT settings, and optimized according to guides available on the internet. Multiple times, actually.

Finally stumbled over the fact that I must REQUEST port forwarding from the VPN. Oh. Well. How do I do that? Check VPN settings, and right there all the time, is a setting, "Request Port Forwarding". Now, why didn't I give any thought to that setting? Click the box, and find that I'm limited to just a few servers. My "favorite" VPN server doesn't offer port forwarding. That's alright though, I don't really have a favorite, I always choose the fastest.

So, reconnect to a server with port forwarding, I'm assigned a port for port forwarding, and I go back into Bittorrent settings. I assign the listening port to match what VPN has assigned me, and BOOM!

Download speed jumped to 15M , and upload speed to 12M.

Speeds fluctuate, of course, depending on a whole lot of things, mostly the health of the torrent, and however the algorithms decide to connect seeds and peers. I've seen speeds dip to zero while I was watching, and I've seen the above mentioned speeds. It's entirely possible that Bittorrent actualy consumes all of my bandwidth from time to time. I suppose I should go back into settings, and cap speeds at 20 or 30 meg - but I'll just leave it at infinite for awhile, and see what happens.

THIS is what I was expecting when I subscribed to fiber internet. It only took me a couple weeks to figure out how to make it work.

EDIT

OK, bittorrent can be made almost unusable, with the use of fake downloaders. I've always seen them. At the bottom of the list of connected clients page, you'll see a bunch of bitstorm clients. They don't actually download or upload anything, they just keep your client busy with pointless connections. That, and bitlord. Both clients are ancient, no one with a lick of sense uses them to actually torrent.

Several searches, and I finally found a link pointing at https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition

Features:
Auto Ban Xunlei, QQ, Baidu, Xfplay, DLBT and Offline downloader

Auto Ban Unknown Peer from China Option (Default: OFF)

Auto Update Public Trackers List (Default: OFF)

Auto Ban BitTorrent Media Player Peer Option (Default: OFF)

Peer whitelist/blacklist

It works as advertised. All those bitstorm clients are gone, and I'm left with lists of clients actually performing the tasks that bittorrent was meant to do.

I highly recommend this client, if you torrent.

I hear it time and again - call 911, wait for the police, the police are trained, the police have skills that you don't have, there is no need to carry a weapon to defend yourself, trust the police. Watch the video, (age restricted, maybe safe for work, no real blood and gore that I can see) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfAHfWr6vvA titled "Denver police body camera footage shows officers shoot gunman, six bystanders in LoDo".

Yeah, that's a killer of a title, right? Six shots fired, seven people wounded, only one of whom was considered a suspect. Awesome, huh?

Story is elaborated here, https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/video-shows-denver-cops-wound-six-bystanders-in-addition-to-the-bad-guy-out-of-six-rounds-fired/

Denver police officers faced an armed bad guy who drew down on them in the midst of a busy bar crowd at 1:35 a.m. The cops engaged, firing their sidearms, scoring seven hits out of six rounds fired. That represents a remarkable 117% hit rate. The only problem is that six of the seven people who were wounded soaked up rounds meant for the bad guy.

They surely don’t appreciate DPD’s marksmanship skilles, or lack thereof.

Yes, there’s that pesky fourth rule of gun safety: Know your target and what’s beyond it. For the record, that even applies to the staple guns you’re using to put up your targets at the range. But for good guys everywhere, firing anything except carefully controlled shots at a bad actor who’s surrounded by innocents could probably be described more as negligence than exigence.

Maybe Denver Police should hire a guy like Elisjsha Dicken to coach them up on their marksmanship skills. He’s the guy without any formal training who took down a rifle-toting lunatic shooting people in a crowded mall in Indiana. Dicken scored eight hits out of ten shots fired, wounding no innocents by mistake, at up to 40 yards away.

Here’s the dirty laundry on the horrific incident from the Denver Post.

Denver police on Tuesday released surveillance video and body camera footage of three officers shooting an armed man and injuring six innocent bystanders outside busy downtown bars on July 17.

The videos for the first time show from start to finish the shooting, which will be investigated by a grand jury. Denver police officials previously made public still images they selected from the videos but denied public records requests by The Denver Post and other news outlets to release the videos in their entirety…

Denver police previously said Waddy was holding the gun by the slide on the top when the officers fired. It’s not clear if Waddy could have fired the gun while holding it that way, Cmdr. Matt Clark said at a July 20 news conference. He said the officers believed the muzzle of the gun pointed at them as Waddy pulled it out.

Two officers shot a combined five rounds while facing Waddy with the front wall of Larimer Beer Hall behind him. A third officer fired one round from Waddy’s right side and a crowd of people is visible behind Waddy in the officer’s body camera footage.

“The Department of Safety and Denver Police Department remain concerned about the health and well-being of those who were injured in this incident and will continue to offer support to aid in their healing,” the departments said in a joint statement Tuesday.

Maybe Denver’s police need to spend more time on the fundamentals of handgun safety and marksmanship and less in “woke” racial/implicit bias training.

Denver post article here https://www.denverpost.com/2022/08/16/denver-police-lodo-shooting-video/

I think this is the exact same video, there may be some minor differences. https://youtu.be/BfAHfWr6vvA

Oh yeah. Definition of a mass shooting varies from one source to another. Here we have 4 or more innocents injured as the result of a single incident. I'll call it a mass shooting, despite the fact that no one died. Well, I'll call it that this time. But I'll call out the lame stream media all the same when they inappropriately designate the next shooting as a mass shooting.

Don't you wish you lived in the city of Denver, where you can trust the highly trained cops to protect you from bad guys?

Oh - one more thing.

Denver police previously said Waddy was holding the gun by the slide on the top when the officers fired. It’s not clear if Waddy could have fired the gun while holding it that way, Cmdr. Matt Clark said at a July 20 news conference. He said the officers believed the muzzle of the gun pointed at them as Waddy pulled it out.

Did Mr. Waddy actually assault anyone, or not? This looks a lot like a "Nigga wid a gun" situation. It does NOT appear that Mr. Waddy pointed, aimed, or otherwise attempted to use his weapon - it appears that he was holding it by the slide, and tossing it away from himself, when he was struck by the first shot. "Nigga wid a gun! BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG" no questions asked.

ARGLE BARGLE RAR! Lefties are BIG MAD about DeSantis flying illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard and HERE are some of the biggest tantrums
Posted at 9:11 am on September 15, 2022 by Sam Janney

For DECADES, Democrats and Lefties have been calling anyone and everyone who wants our southern border secured, ‘racists,’ ‘xenophobes,’ ‘haters,’ ‘white nationalists,’ etc. How dare people who are actually impacted by the MILLIONS of illegal immigrants walking (yes, walking, Karine Jean-Pierre) across the border ask that something be done?!

Welp, if our pals on the Left think our sieve of a border is AOK, or even secure, then it’s about time they put up or shut up.

But this is more like what we’re seeing from them after hearing about DeSantis flying illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard (and Abbott sending them to Kamala’s HOUSE).

But they said they SUPPORT illegal immigrants. What’s the dealio?

It’s deeply deeply sick and dehumanizing to fly illegal immigrants to a gorgeous part of our country? A part of the country they likely want to go to? Really Chris?

Eric Swalwell is also really fussy.

Rep. Eric Swalwell
@RepSwalwell
Does America face a migration issue at our border because of poor economic and security conditions in countries south of us? Of course.

Should we exploit that crisis by using desperate humans as political pawns. Hell no. This is so sick. It takes a soulless man to do this.

Ummm … what? Democrats do nothing BUT use illegal immigrants as political pawns. Remember when a bunch of them went down to a detention center? AOC wept? Funny how that concern all went away once Trump was out of office.

Almost as if they were being used as POLITICAL PAWNS.

Doorknobs.

Oh, and speaking of doorknobs:

Chip Franklin.com
@chipfranklin
I don't get it, maybe because I'm not a Republican: Can someone explain to me how spending money to ship two plane loads of immigrants all the way for Martha's Vineyard on the taxpayer's dime, all so one man can go viral on Twitter for a few hours, is "fiscally conservative"?

Willing to bet two plane rides is a HELLUVA lot cheaper than putting more people on Florida’s welfare services longterm, Chip.

The rest of the article here: https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/09/15/argle-bargle-rar-lefties-are-big-mad-about-desantis-flying-illegal-immigrants-to-marthas-vineyard-and-here-are-some-of-the-biggest-tantrums/

The Kamala's house story: https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/09/15/popcorn-kamala-harris-finds-out-the-hard-way-the-border-is-absolutely-not-secure-as-illegal-immigrants-are-bussed-to-her-home-watch/

Click the links, and follow the links within the links.

These disgusting human beings are all for immigration, right up until they meet an immigrant. While Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are deluged by thousands daily, these privileged white assholes from Martha's Vineyard are SHOCKED that a mere hundred immigrants have been flown to THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD!! NIMBY!!

If we could build an immigrant pipeline straight from the border to all of the contiguous continental state's capitols, along with Washington, D.C, the border would be secured in months. Imagine, 10,000 illegal aliens arriving in front of the White House, EVERY MONTH!! That is what the southern border states are dealing with.

Twitchy RSS feed: http://twitchy.com/feed

EDIT: Found video https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1570503547724394496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1570503547724394496%7Ctwgr%5Ecaa2f85eeab511fea25f21407a5d749529fcd057%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/09/15/watch-viral-video-of-marthas-vineyard-resident-is-a-mask-off-moment-for-the-left-n628044

“At some point, they have to move from here to somewhere else... We don’t have the services to take care of 50 immigrants…we don’t have housing for 50 more people.". Have I already mentioned NIMBY? The woman obviously thinks that the border states have the room, have the housing, have the services to provide for these people. Just dump them all on the border states, and on red states, and hillbilly states, because, we, the elite, won't tolerate a bunch of raggedy illegals on our island!!

Two firearms were stolen from the home of a California congresswoman, she said in a statement.

Rep. Karen Bass said Saturday that Los Angeles police were called after she came home the night before to find there had been a break-in.

The two firearms were safely and securely stored when they were stolen, she said. Cash, electronics and other valuables were left behind.

"It's unnerving and, unfortunately, it's something that far too many Angelenos have faced," she said.

Bass is running for mayor of Los Angeles. Her campaign released her statement.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-bass-guns-stolen-from-los-angeles-home/

Of course, CBS is reporting less than half of the news.

Not only does news of the burglary at her home further illustrate that nobody is safe from the endemic crime in L.A., but it illustrates something much deeper.

Karen Bass — who’s currently running to be the Mayor of Los Angeles — is, of course, a staunch advocate of limiting the rights and taking guns out of the hands of the little people.

The number one job of the mayor is to keep Angelenos safe.

        One of my top priorities will be to get guns off of our streets and out of our communities.

        Gun violence has no place in our city.https://t.co/LrgZgdmQAg

        — Karen Bass (@KarenBassLA) July 22, 2022

Yet despite the public rhetoric, far-left hypocrite Karen Bass knows the truth about guns…that when seconds count, a firearm is the best tool for good to use to stop a bad person with evil in their hearts.

She knows this so deeply and fundamentally that she owns — er, owned — at least two firearms to protect herself and her family, while at the same time advocating that your family go without them. And we can thank the burglar for exposing Karen Bass’ grand hypocrisy.

In the statement, she said she called LAPD for assistance. She says two firearms were stolen, despite them being ‘safely and securely stored.’ She says nothing else was stolen from her home, despite cash, electronics, and other valuables being visible.

“It’s unnerving and, unfortunately, it’s something that far too many Angelenos have faced,” Bass stated.

The guns were registered. Bass said she bought the guns years ago for personal protection.

She remarked in a statement how the guns were purchased for self-defense…just like tens of millions of other Americans have done. Yet she wants to strip the little people of the ability to buy and own guns for the same reason.

If this kind of hypocrisy sounds familiar, it should. Bass has a long history of supporting the kind of far-left political positions that benefit and protect elites while keeping average citizens disarmed and disempowered.

Like many in California’s ruling political elite, Bass comes from the far left. In the 1970s, she travelled to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade, an international group of sympathisers with Cuban communism. In 2016, when Fidel Castro died, she issued a praise-filled obituary to ‘El Comandante’. More recently Bass has distanced herself from this Castroite past and from policies such as defunding the police. But she can certainly be expected to follow the ‘progressive’ policy agenda typically backed by the city’s public-sector unions.

Video here: https://www.foxla.com/news/karen-bass-says-two-guns-stolen-from-her-house-during-break-in

Quite obviously, the guns were NOT safely and securely stored. And, we're to believe, further, that the burglars broke in, and passed by all the other valuables in the house, just to break into a gun safe, or whatever she considers "safe and secure"??? Maybe someone needs to send Bass this link? http://www.dontlie.org/

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/hypocrite-gun-grabbing-california-congresswoman-karen-bass-reveals-two-of-her-guns-were-stolen-in-a-break-in/

As always with the Democrats, "Guns for me, but not for thee!"

Biden’s DOJ Relies on Racist and Anti-Catholic Bigotry to Defend The ATF’s Gun Rights Ban for Marijuana Users

Back in April TTAG told readers about a lawsuit filed by Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner and then-candidate for Governor Nikki Fried. Here office issues concealed carry permits in the Sunshine State and the lawsuit challenges a federal prohibition on firearms possession for people lawfully using marijuana under state laws. Fried herself is a marijuana card holder.

Fried sued the the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms on behalf of three Floridians who held Florida medical marijuana cards and were denied firearms purchases based on their answers to the 4473 form.

In the wake of NYSRPA v Bruen, which holds government gun control schemes to a much higher standard, the federal government now has a much steeper hill to climb in defending limits on Second Amendment rights. So when the ATF justifies the law making medical marijuana users prohibited persons, they now have the burden to prove that similar laws affecting gun rights not only existed, but were common and widespread practice around the time the Second Amendment was ratified.

In a post-Bruen world, we can expect governments responding to challenges to their gun control laws to dig and scrape to unearth whatever rights-denying precedents they can find. If anyone at any level of government has done anything remotely similar with gun laws in the past, those precedents will be cited in their responses, along with a big dose of hope that what they’ve found might be enough to impress a federal judge.

That’s exactly what we’re seeing in the government’s latest response to the Fried lawsuit (for which you can get from recap here).

In their desperate search for any sort of precedent to prop up limits on gun ownership for lawful users of drugs, the DOJ has decided that some very bigoted laws against Catholics, Native Americans, and even the homeless will do to justify today’s prohibition against marijuana users.

As the DOJ writes . . .

In England and in America from the colonial era through the 19th century, governments regularly disarmed a variety of groups deemed dangerous.

If there’s a more terrifying prospect than governments “deeming” certain groups as dangerous and deserving of disarmament, it’s hard to think what that might be.

The DOJ goes on to list these “dangerous” people, a list which includes Catholics, as if those who follow the Pope’s teachings are the equivalent of MS-13. They reference laws that disarmed Native Americans, with no justification for the supposed “danger” they posed. They also listed the mentally ill, panhandlers, and “persons refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the state or the United States” as people that have historically been disarmed.

The obvious — even to a non-lawyer like me — counterargument here is that all of these laws were passed in a time prior to the passage of the 14th Amendment, which further limited governments’ legal ability to discriminate against people like these groups. So even if those policies were widespread, they wouldn’t be remotely unconstitutional today.

The Biden Administration lawyer who got the unenviable job of defending the government’s case here knew that counterargument was coming, so he pointed out that after the 14th amendment, it was still common practice to prohibit intoxicated people from possessing or using firearms. While that’s certainly true, the prohibition on carrying guns while drunk hardly justifies a blanket ban on ownership or possession by cannabis users even while they’re not high.

Never mind the inconsistency of the President’s stated position on marijuana use. As Reason’s Jacob Sullum pointed out . . .

…the Biden administration says, prohibiting medical marijuana users from owning guns is a perfectly rational policy that is consistent with the historical understanding of the right to keep and bear arms. Never mind that the president himself has said the current legal treatment of cannabis makes no sense, or that there is no 19th-century precedent for prohibiting people from owning guns based on the medicine they use.

While the government’s position is ludicrous, it’s still more than a little shocking that they’d cite past discrimination against religious and racial minorities as justification for maintaining the ban on gun ownership.

Not only does such an argument not really help their case, but the optics of looking like you’ve got something against “dangerous” Catholics and “untrustworthy” Indians — not to mention the homeless — doesn’t really play well in the current culture.

This is especially true coming from a compassionate Democrat administration which says it wants to save the nation’s soul and is part of a party that ostensibly opposes discrimination based on religion, race, or the status of someone’s housing (or lack thereof).

What Fried’s lawsuit has done is highlight the administration’s hypocrisy and put them in a difficult position in conflict with some of the Democrats’ supposed core tenets…civilian disarmament versus identitarian politics and group rights.

In the DOJ’s argument, the Biden administration has made it clear what’s more important to them. There’s literally no low to which they won’t go in defense of laws that further limit and eventually remove Americans’ gun rights…no matter how morally repulsive the foundation for their policies and laws may be.

Odd that no one mentions African Americans, or slaves, or black freed men in this little exchange. To be clear, most gun laws in US history were specifically written to prevent black folk from defending themselves against whites.

https://www.sedgwickcounty.org/media/29094/the-racist-roots-of-gun-control.pdf

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/bidens-doj-relies-on-racist-and-anti-catholic-bigotry-to-defend-the-atfs-gun-rights-ban-for-marijuana-users/

How would you recognize Brandon at a KKK rally? He would be the robed figure falling off the bike. Or falling up the stairs.

EDIT: The term "Injuns" is considered a racial slur, so I was asked to edit the term. Nevermind that the terms chosen were meant to highlight the US government's position on various demographics . . .

Latest 'Bombshell' From Trump Raid Delivers Side-Splitting Hilarity

I’ve got an admission to make, and you may want to sit down for this. I’m ashamed to say that I got fooled by a headline today, not because I thought it was real when it wasn’t, but because I thought it was satire when it was real.

I know what you are thinking, but before you call me a moron, take a look for yourself and tell me this doesn’t look like something from The Babylon Bee.

F.B.I. Found 48 Empty Folders That Had Contained Classified Documents at Trump’s Home https://t.co/uJqPfBW58r

— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) September 2, 2022

Yes, you read that right. The FBI supposedly found 48 folders that were empty but once held classified information while raiding Donald Trump’s Florida residence. We literally went from “he stole the nuclear codes” to “he had some empty folders” in the course of a few weeks. If that doesn’t mimic parody, nothing does.

Just as hilarious as the original story, though, is that the lunatics on the anti-Trump right are actually running with this as a major bombshell.

I think the folders had copies of the Steele dossier, the pee tape, and Alfa Bank datahttps://t.co/KsVZhgKXEE

— Julie Kelly ?? (@julie_kelly2) September 2, 2022

Yes Trump packed all the boxes dunce https://t.co/s5Q5XjrBsR

— Julie Kelly ?? (@julie_kelly2) September 2, 2022

The insinuation here is that the bad orange man sold or destroyed the documents that were once inside the folders with classified banners. Yet, there’s no evidence of that, and I’m not even sure that claim is being made by the DOJ. What we are seeing is simply an inventory from the execution of the search warrant. It’s perfectly possible that the folders ended up in the boxes after having their classified contents turned back in by White House officials. More likely is that the folders were empty and just ended up in the jumble of documents taken by Trump.

Does anything encapsulate the deranged hysteria surrounding Trump more than seeing people losing their minds over empty folders? Here we are, though, with another news cycle being driven by another government leak that ultimately adds up to nothing. It’s almost as if the DOJ is purposely trying to harm the Republicans before the mid-terms by keeping this idiocy rolling, right? Nah, couldn’t be.

But hey, maybe we really will see Trump frog-marched from Mar-a-Lago for the grand crime of having empty folders. Would you put anything past the Biden DOJ at this point? I certainly wouldn’t, and the press is going to keep losing their minds at every mention of the former president no matter what happens.

Still, in the end, my money remains right where it’s been, i.e. that this is all politics and that the DOJ doesn’t want the hassle of breaking the Hillary Clinton precedent in order to prosecute a former president over empty folders. Take these “bombshells” for what they are, which are partisan tools to distract voters from Biden’s incompetency.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/09/02/latest-bombshell-from-trump-raid-delivers-side-splitting-hilarity-n621799

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/sen-rubio-biden-democrats-arent-just-attacking-political-leaders-they

(CNSNews.com) - President Biden, some Democrats, and their media allies are not just attacking Republican politicians -- they're going after voters as well, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said on Wednesday, the day before Biden's next political speech, this one to be aired in prime time.

Biden tonight will discuss his version of "the soul of the nation," a phrase of vague meaning that he's been using since before he became president.

"There's two things happening here," Rubio told Fox News:
"The first is, they're criminalizing opposition and dehumanizing their opposition. So this is what they've been doing now for a while.

"If you recall last year when they were doing this fake voter rights thing -- there is no voter crisis in Georgia, for example -- he (Biden) gave a speech basically saying that anyone who didn't support the bill they wanted was a Jim Crow segregationist, which is absolutely outrageous and absurd.

"Then we saw the attacks against the Supreme Court, basically calling them illegitimate -- that these weren't real judges. And we saw a guy come halfway across the country and try to kill a Supreme Court justice in Brett Kavanaugh. We've seen churches vandalized, we've seen pro-life groups being attacked and firebombed.

"The next thing you see is, any criticism -- you know, you criticize the FBI, you get all these news stories about unprecedented threats to the FBI. You criticize the IRS, couple days later, the IRS is saying, oh we're now being threatened.

"In essence, they've now establish this shield where if you criticize them, they will claim that you're putting them in danger. They, on the other hand, do not criticize Republicans. They try to dehumanize, defame and smear Republicans by calling -- not Republican officeholders, Republican voters, everyday people -- by calling them semi-fascists.

"Last week in Florida, Charlie Crist, running for governor once again here, said he didn't want the support of anyone who had voted or supported Ron DeSantis, which is the majority of the state.

"This is the distinction here, they're not attacking political leaders alone, they are attacking voters, which in Florida, is the majority of voters, because Donald Trump won the state by four points."

President Biden has been insulting Republican voters -- anyone who supports President Trump and his policies -- as "MAGA Republicans," and more recently, as semi-fascists.

“It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism,” Biden told an audience in Rockville, Maryland last week.

He told that same audience, "The MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our personal rights and economic security, they’re a threat to our very democracy. They refuse to accept the will of the people. They embrace — embrace — political violence. They don’t believe in democracy."

Let us not forget that Biden got to define what Black means: "If you don't vote for me, you ain't Black!"

Now Joe Burden gets to define "the soul of the nation", which is funny, because he has no soul.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/30/lying-joe-biden-is-unfit-to-save-the-soul-of-the-nation/