After witnessing the YR chat scandal from the inside, former Secretary Kayla Saunders exposes how cruelty and cowardice have replaced principle in Republican politics.
I appreciate Your Article, Every day that goes by, today is Oct 21st 2025, appears to get Worse, I Received the Email from Representative MIKE SIMPSON= Dear Mr. Bunt,
Last week, I hosted a telephone town hall with Idahoans from across the district. One point stood out:
“Don’t cave to the Left's unreasonable shutdown demands.”
One of these demands? Repealing provisions in the Working Families Tax Cuts that could restore nearly $200 billion on health care subsidies for illegal aliens**.
Idahoans, like Americans nationwide, do not want their hard-earned taxpayer dollars funding illegal aliens' health care benefits. The Democrats’ proposal would repeal common-sense reforms to Medicaid that protect taxpayer dollars from funding healthcare benefits for illegals. I certainly don't support this.
Do You Support Giving Free Healthcare to Illegal Aliens?
This is our 1 of 2 Federal Elected, House Representatives, that is Spreading , CRAP, BULL -HIT, MISINFORMATION at the Least. Idaho is the First state to see the INCREASE in HEALTHCARE COST due to HIS VOTE for the this "BBBA" Monstrosity, That Gives the New Police State $171.7 Billion in FUNDS, For ICE, Detention Centers , Border walls. Anyone that SLIGHTLY Follows knows the Only Health care ANYONE GETS ( Legal or Undocumented) is to STABILIZE a person on "DEATH'S DOOR" ! That's Just the HUMAN thing to DO, then they are told to follow up "WITH THEIR PRIMARY PHYSICIAN". . IDAHO and the WHOLE COUNTRY is in GRAVE PERIL. This Propaganda IS EXACTLY like the RUSSIAN "USSR" that I Heard in the 1970s-1980s, While doing my Job. DO your HOMEWORK, Before WE FLUNK and "FAIL" with this HATRED, MISINFORMATION, Bigoted, Biased, It's OUR WAY or NO WAY makes the UNITED STATES an OLIGARCHIC NIGHTMARE of HATRED BETWEEN the haves and HAVE NOTS, PLUS WHITES against NON WHITES. Stand up for DECENCY, INTEGRITY, HUMANITY, and not just IDAHO, THE UNITED STATES. Lincoln, US GRANT, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, TRUMAN, D Eisenhower, JFK, Jimmy Carter, STOOD "AGAINST THIS ACTION" "WE the PEOPLE" Should also BE AGAINST THIS.
Listening to Radio BSU/NPR about China and the Communist "ONE PARTY" system, that is what Russia has, North Korea, The ARAB States. Isn't this Exactly what TRUMP, Trumplicans or MAGA is Forcing upon the USA, a ONE PARTY, ONE MAN CONTROLLED STATE?
I have to wonder how much longer these far right kooks can keep this aggression up before they burn out. Not soon enough, if you ask decent Idahoans!
With the alienation of moderate Republicans, Independents and the Democrats, people are getting really disgusted with these people and sick of the constant verbal diarrhea spewing from their mouths. These clowns are only in it for the money. We know it and we’re sick to death of it.
It’s time to make a clean sweep of the whole pack and show them the door.
Somewhere, sometime, we have to push the notion that extremism - on both sides of the political spectrum - is simply nuts. I believe social media is largely responsible for its growth, and obviously, if we are reading this, we use social media too. But it has too great an effect on some, and we all pay for it in this loss of sanity and reasonableness.
As I stated in an earlier post, I had read Rules for Radicals, long ago. I do recall thinking that it was a "do it yourself" book on political organizing and its content rather anodyne apart the leftist tilt. But I must deal with your statement: "Their [Groypers] digital strategy follows the logic of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: accuse your opponent of the behavior you are guilty of, repeat the accusation until the public accepts it, and use conflict to exhaust truth." What do Alinsky's 13 rules say that justifies this analysis? Rule 4 says the opposite: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." Rule 11 might apply in a very general way: "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its countryside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative." Maybe Rule 13 is what you are looking for, if you can just supply evidence of bad facts and intent: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." The answer is, if it exists, somewhere in the text explaining the rules, but I do not have that before me. Perhaps, however, the answer is that Alinsky is assumed, as a starting point, to be a very bad person.
Can you provide us with a direct quotation supporting your contention about Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as a source of the rhetoric used by “Groypers”? My last read of Alinski was in the mid-70s. I’ve heard of what you are describing called “DARVO,” but without the Alinsky attribution.
I appreciate Your Article, Every day that goes by, today is Oct 21st 2025, appears to get Worse, I Received the Email from Representative MIKE SIMPSON= Dear Mr. Bunt,
Last week, I hosted a telephone town hall with Idahoans from across the district. One point stood out:
“Don’t cave to the Left's unreasonable shutdown demands.”
One of these demands? Repealing provisions in the Working Families Tax Cuts that could restore nearly $200 billion on health care subsidies for illegal aliens**.
Idahoans, like Americans nationwide, do not want their hard-earned taxpayer dollars funding illegal aliens' health care benefits. The Democrats’ proposal would repeal common-sense reforms to Medicaid that protect taxpayer dollars from funding healthcare benefits for illegals. I certainly don't support this.
Do You Support Giving Free Healthcare to Illegal Aliens?
Yes
No
Unsure
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This is our 1 of 2 Federal Elected, House Representatives, that is Spreading , CRAP, BULL -HIT, MISINFORMATION at the Least. Idaho is the First state to see the INCREASE in HEALTHCARE COST due to HIS VOTE for the this "BBBA" Monstrosity, That Gives the New Police State $171.7 Billion in FUNDS, For ICE, Detention Centers , Border walls. Anyone that SLIGHTLY Follows knows the Only Health care ANYONE GETS ( Legal or Undocumented) is to STABILIZE a person on "DEATH'S DOOR" ! That's Just the HUMAN thing to DO, then they are told to follow up "WITH THEIR PRIMARY PHYSICIAN". . IDAHO and the WHOLE COUNTRY is in GRAVE PERIL. This Propaganda IS EXACTLY like the RUSSIAN "USSR" that I Heard in the 1970s-1980s, While doing my Job. DO your HOMEWORK, Before WE FLUNK and "FAIL" with this HATRED, MISINFORMATION, Bigoted, Biased, It's OUR WAY or NO WAY makes the UNITED STATES an OLIGARCHIC NIGHTMARE of HATRED BETWEEN the haves and HAVE NOTS, PLUS WHITES against NON WHITES. Stand up for DECENCY, INTEGRITY, HUMANITY, and not just IDAHO, THE UNITED STATES. Lincoln, US GRANT, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, TRUMAN, D Eisenhower, JFK, Jimmy Carter, STOOD "AGAINST THIS ACTION" "WE the PEOPLE" Should also BE AGAINST THIS.
It’s the fascist tactic of repeating a lie until fools believe it as the truth. It’s a pity that there are still too many fools out there.
Listening to Radio BSU/NPR about China and the Communist "ONE PARTY" system, that is what Russia has, North Korea, The ARAB States. Isn't this Exactly what TRUMP, Trumplicans or MAGA is Forcing upon the USA, a ONE PARTY, ONE MAN CONTROLLED STATE?
I have to wonder how much longer these far right kooks can keep this aggression up before they burn out. Not soon enough, if you ask decent Idahoans!
With the alienation of moderate Republicans, Independents and the Democrats, people are getting really disgusted with these people and sick of the constant verbal diarrhea spewing from their mouths. These clowns are only in it for the money. We know it and we’re sick to death of it.
It’s time to make a clean sweep of the whole pack and show them the door.
Somewhere, sometime, we have to push the notion that extremism - on both sides of the political spectrum - is simply nuts. I believe social media is largely responsible for its growth, and obviously, if we are reading this, we use social media too. But it has too great an effect on some, and we all pay for it in this loss of sanity and reasonableness.
I really enjoyed your post! It’s really important to remind people the consequences of social media/print media facilitating far right extremism.
As I stated in an earlier post, I had read Rules for Radicals, long ago. I do recall thinking that it was a "do it yourself" book on political organizing and its content rather anodyne apart the leftist tilt. But I must deal with your statement: "Their [Groypers] digital strategy follows the logic of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: accuse your opponent of the behavior you are guilty of, repeat the accusation until the public accepts it, and use conflict to exhaust truth." What do Alinsky's 13 rules say that justifies this analysis? Rule 4 says the opposite: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." Rule 11 might apply in a very general way: "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its countryside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative." Maybe Rule 13 is what you are looking for, if you can just supply evidence of bad facts and intent: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." The answer is, if it exists, somewhere in the text explaining the rules, but I do not have that before me. Perhaps, however, the answer is that Alinsky is assumed, as a starting point, to be a very bad person.
Can you provide us with a direct quotation supporting your contention about Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as a source of the rhetoric used by “Groypers”? My last read of Alinski was in the mid-70s. I’ve heard of what you are describing called “DARVO,” but without the Alinsky attribution.