Frankly, I thought we were done with the Republican Racist Theocracy of McCrorystan and its TEAfuhrer, Pat McCrory, after Roy Cooper destined him to unemployment lines and prowling Ladies Rooms in search of transgender women.  Unfortunately, he is taking a parting shot with the help of the state’s fascist legislature.

North Carolina Gov.-elect Roy Cooper on Thursday threatened to file a lawsuit against the state’s GOP-dominated Legislature over Republicans’ push to sharply limit gubernatorial powers before Cooper takes office.

"If I believe these measures are unconstitutional, they will see me in court and they don’t have a good track record there," Cooper, currently the state attorney general and a Democrat, said at a news conference. Cooper said the Legislature was pushing to pass major changes to the state’s laws "in the dark of night with little debate." The new bills are being considered as part of a special session originally convened to consider disaster relief.

"Most people might think this is a partisan power grab, but it’s really more ominous," Cooper said…

From <Politico>

More ominous indeed.  There is no precedent, as Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow confirm.

A ‘legislative coup’ in North Carolina

The GOP-led legislature moves to sharply reduce the power of new Democratic governor Roy Cooper before he even takes office.

NC GOP governor McCrory signs powergrab laws, hands out favors

Colin Campbell, political reporter for The News & Observer, talks with Rachel Maddow about the shocking set of last minute laws passed by North Carolina Republicans and signed by outgoing governor Pat McCrory to strip power from the newly elected Democratic Governor Roy Cooper.

Republicans here and elsewhere are not even trying to be subtle.  I think they fear that they have only four years to rape and pillage our nation before voters regain their sanity.

RESIST!!

Of course we’ve covered how the Reich on the left, Robert Reich is always right, and the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich is always wrong.  However, the Republican Reich is now it’s worst ever, and barring unexpected actions, we are about to descend into a level of tyranny reminiscent of 1930s Germany.  To help us, Robert has detailed "The 4 Syndromes of Passivity in the Face of Pending Tyranny."

As the era of Trump approaches, some of you are succumbing to the follow four syndromes:

1. Normalizer Syndrome…

2. Outrage Numbness Syndrome…

3. Cynical Syndrome…

4. Helpless Syndrome…

…If you find yourself falling into one or more of these syndromes, that’s understandable. Normalizing, numbing, becoming cynical, and feeling powerless are natural human responses to the gross absurdity and genuine peril posed by Trump.

But I urge you to pull yourself out. We need you in the peaceful resistance army, starting January 20.

From <Robert Reich>

I have not shared the detail under any of the headers, so you need to click through for the bulk of what he has to say, and it’s assuredly worth the read.

Although I have not submitted to any of them, I nave to admit that number 4 has been a temptation to me, but I have seen all of them in people that I know, so please take care.

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There is no longer any question that Russia interfered in our election to sway the victory to Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten.  There is no longer any doubt that Republican traitors colluded in that crime by covering it up until after the election.  We already knew these things.  But what is new is this.  We only assumed Vladimir Putin (R-RU) was involved, but now we know it with high confidence.  Putin directed it himself.

U.S. intelligence officials say they believe Russian President Vladimir Putin was directly involved in efforts to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election, NBC News reported Wednesday.

NBC’s bombshell story comes days after The Washington Post reported that the Central Intelligence Agency believes Russia sought to influence the election and help secure President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. Those efforts reportedly included hacking the emails of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, and providing them to WikiLeaks. The New York Times, in an extensive report on the hacks, offered details on how the attacks were carried out and reported that Democratic House candidates were also targeted.

According to NBC, officials believe the meddling went all the way to the very top of Russia’s government…

From <Huffington Post>

Chris Hayes discussed the situation with Former CIA operations officer, Evan McMullin.

Lawrence O’Donnell covers Putin’s presonal involvement in more detail.

If Putin was personally involved in directing how to use the hacked material. Whom in the Trump campaign was he directing, Manafart or the Fuhrer himself?  How much did Putin and his operatives edit the materials?  Did he confer personally with Julian Assange?  Did he personally select the propaganda Jill Stein parroted for him in her many appearances on RT, his propaganda network?

The more answers we get, the more questions we have!

Imagine if you will, giving Breitfart and other Alt-Right Nazis control of a massive broadcasting that they could use to broadcast their white-supremacist hatred hatred throughout the world/  Does that sound too horrid to believe?  Introducing Alt-Right Reich Radio.

The Voice of America is one of the world’s largest broadcasters that you have never heard of.

You probably also have never heard of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty RFE/RL) either.

Yet these two networks combined, reach an audience or more than 150 million people worldwide. That makes them bigger than NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox and pretty much every other broadcaster in the US.

The reason you have never heard of them is that, until recently, they were forbidden from broadcasting in the US by law. But you pay for them. They are taxpayer supported.

Their broadcasts (television, radio and Internet) are designed specfically [sic] to bring honest and truthful news and information to people who live in societies that don’t allow a free press; whose governments control the news and information they have access to. VOA and RFE/RL are not about entertainment. They are vitally important to people who live in repressive socieites [sic] -and there are more and more of them every day….

,,,Earlier this week, in a move that has barely been noticed, the Republican controlled House quietly inserted an amendement [sic] to the Defense National Authorization Act that will gut the VOA and RFE/RL and turn it into a Trump controlled propaganda machine.

Since its founding the VOA, RFE/RL AND Radio and TV Marti have been under the control of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…

…Last week’s legislative action, however, replaces the BBG with one Presidentially appointed Director, who has the power to hire, fire and control editorial content.

In short, Donald Trump and Steve Bannon of Breitbart have effectively just been handed the keys to one of the world’s biggest media companies -and you are paying for it…

…Breitbart on its own is bad enough. Its’ a website. But marry Breitbart to a global broadcasting machine that goes out to more than 100 million people daily and you have a real recipe for a massive disaster. The fact that as taxpayers you will be paying for this only adds insult to injury. This is the world of people like Vladimir Putin, who took control of what had been the free press and liberal media in Russia and crushed them out of existence. Dictators don’t like a free press…. [emphasis added]

From <Huffington Post>

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