Saudi Arabia, medieval Sharia Law monarchy, home of almost every 9/11 hijacker and almost certainly the biggest beneficiary of the late night Sept. 10, 2001 stock sales that netted some still anonymous parties many, many billions, was shipping through the Red Sea. A proxy for Iran just closed that shit down. Here’s the map.World economic crash, here we come!
Not to worry, we have a strategic and very stable genius, Putin’s confidant, and the most honest man ever to hold a nation hostage, in charge of everything. In our names. He’ll be fine.And God bless these United Shayyysh.
If you missed it, it’s worth checking out the Führer-oath that Trump had his followers repeat at his recent Trumpapalooza. Note that nobody saw him sleeping at that historic event, though he was dozy at the 9/11 ceremony he attended at the Pentagon. Check this mad shit out:
Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can’t even breathe. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way — I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do. There’s never been bigger cheaters. They don’t care. I am going to go out and I’m going to get my friends, my family. And we are going to vote on Nov. 3, or we are going to vote before that.
Get your vomit bucket ready, patriots
Quick flashback to the Day of Love, January 6. 2021
And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.
Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country.
If you can’t win an election based on the popularity of your policies, and you must maintain power because of the many crimes your administration has committed, including many war crimes and massive public corruption, there are many ways to make sure people who dislike the job you’re doing don’t vote you out of the majority. Most of the ways are illegal , but, as Trump told his angry crowd on the Patriotic Day of Peace and Love, January 6, 2021 (note his bashing of tech billionaires, now his fondest ass lickers), [1]
The Republicans have to get tougher. You’re not going to have a Republican Party if you don’t get tougher. They want to play so straight. They want to play so, sir, yes, the United States. The Constitution doesn’t allow me to send them back to the States. Well, I say, yes it does, because the Constitution says you have to protect our country and you have to protect our Constitution, and you can’t vote on fraud. And fraud breaks up everything, doesn’t it?
“When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules.“
So you invent fraud that allows you to go by very different rules. You have Putin’s agents call in 2,000 Election Day urban polling place bomb threats instead of the mere 200 they phoned in to Democratic majority districts, in 2024. You post armed masked Klansmen and wife-beaters at all majority Black and Hispanic polling places, to protect The Homeland (die Heimat- in the original German) from communist election fraud.
You, the federal government, continue to illegally seek voter rolls from the states, who are in charge of all elections in their borders, so Trump’s people know exactly who to disenfranchise, whose legally cast ballots not to count, no matter how many courts rule against you on this illegal request. The Supreme Court Six will help out in a pinch to do whatever is needed. Your 0-23 record in these voter roll release demand cases, in the 23 states who have fought back so far, is no impediment to the unappealable Supreme Court, who now routinely rules for Trump without even hearing arguments on the merits, or being encumbered by their own precedents, before issuing an anonymous, per curiam, thumbs up for their favorite grifting dotard.
You plant violent criminals in peaceful crowds and have them cause riots that require the National Guard, ICE, CBP, The Bureau of Prisons, the National Parks Service, the Secret Service and other federal officers to put down. Deputize the KKK. In a pinch, you stage a dramatic, 9/11 style mass-death terror event two days before Election Day, burn down Congress, kill a number of elected officials, declare a state of national emergency, the Insurrection Act.
Blame communists, transexuals, environmentalists, Muslims, Immigrants, Haitians, Syrians, college students, woke communist professors, Palestinians, anti-Semites, Jews, Black Lives Matter, experts, scientists, DEI, CRT, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Dumocrat freedom-hating terrorists, The Southern Poverty Law Center, the fake news, gays, naturalized citizens, vaccine supporters, RINOs etc. It really doesn’t matter who you blame, as long as you can put boots on the ground to enforce the election results you desperately need.
There is also AI, the main weapon of Trump’s former enemies in the tech sector. Now that Trump has all these psychopaths lining up to kiss his “ring” AI, which appears to be uncontrollable and accelerating rapidly in its ability to destroy, is in the service of MAGA. As is nationwide surveillance, Palantir, every advanced data mining and data undermining tool of the fascist billionaire vanguard.
All of these stratagems, and more, are on the table for Trump in the midterms. January 6th was just a dress rehearsal. If only he’d let the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers ferry that weapons arsenal across the water from Virginia to arm the love army at the Capitol and had had the courage not to call in the National Guard… I’m sure many of his people who smashed their way into the Capitol still feel cheated that they didn’t get to hang Mike Pence, especially after what they suffered at the hands of Biden’s weaponized DOJ for merely breaking into a joint session of Congress to prevent Biden’s certification.
The Heritage Foundation, founded to limit mass participation in democracy and foster autocracy as the surest way for the best and most important citizens to rule everybody else, while moving all wealth upwards to themselves, laid out a detailed blueprint of what they would immediately do if their candidate got back into power. President Project 2025, not known for keeping his word, or being faithful to any person or principle, has followed that blueprint faithfully– as he kept his 2016 promises to The Federalist Society, the wealthiest Americans and Evangelical Christian leaders.
The effect on most of us, not among the best and most deserving, has been pretty bad so far, deadly for some, precarious for millions. The rich have become richer, which nobody can deny — or explain the necessity for. 1/4 of our record $40,000,000,000,000 national debt was stacked on by business genius and serial bankrupt Donald Trump, working tirelessly for his masters — and, of course, for himself.
The Nazis could not have come to power in Germany without widespread economic desperation, worldwide misery, terror and violence. When people lose their homes, their livelihood, healthcare, their right to vote, their neighbors to masked men in unmarked vans and assault weapons, who take them to private concentration camps whose stock prices are going through the roof and people have to choose between food and gasoline, while your leaders lie and openly ignore the needs of the everyone but themselves, you have the basic foundation for civil unrest. Wealthy political appointees ostentatiously use private government jets as American farmers are literally losing their farms because of Trump’s billionaires only policies and his childish, vindictive tariffs. What you really need, if you are an aspiring fascist movement, is a devastating worldwide Depression like the 1929 one that brought us Mr. Hitler and his crew.
Trump is doing everything in his power, and beyond it, to crash the world economy (see, for example, Strait of Hormuz, trade war with Canada, weasel-dicked support for Putin and other war criminals), as he concerns himself exclusively with insider trading, lucrative quid pro quos with eager billionaires seeking government contracts, fleecing his most loyal supporters (he made over a billion on his cryptocurrency, up front, his suckers lost almost five billion on their investment) and building massive, gilded monuments to his flailing ego. He sends government lawyers to court every day to argue that he gets to violate all laws, ignore any rulings he doesn’t like and build golden tributes to himself, no matter what the law might say about building permits, unauthorized demolitions, states being in charge of elections, etc. He doesn’t care how any of it looks.
And Trump says so out loud, that’s his genius, the reason millions still admire his honest, open, unrepentant lies — he looks into the camera and honestly announces that he doesn’t care about the American public, he claims to care only about preventing the terrorist state of Iran from getting nuclear weapons. His followers are infected by what psychiatrist, and expert on violent psychopaths, Bandy Lee calls Trump Contagion. His psychopathy has been embraced by his most ardent followers.
His endless self-serving lies have given his base’s worst instincts permission to express themselves, freed lynch mobs to lynch again, and his angry, frightened, violence-prone supporters love him unconditionally for the exhilaration expressing their hatred provides them, whether or not they can see the nooses he has ready for them (ask any non-billionaire American farmer).
Project 2025’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” which shifted hundreds of billions to the billionaires and their corporate alter egos, is set to take full effect right after the 2026 midterms. Expect things to immediately get much worse for the average American once all the delayed budget cuts kick in.
To call ICE and CBP detention centers privatized concentration camps is not an exaggeration. With the backing of Trump’s administration (including an FBI documented $50,000 bribe to “border czar”Tom Homan, right before the 2024 election), and the assistance of armed, violence-prone, fully immunized masked federal agents, the owners of these lucrative hellholes have fought allowing members of Congress to conduct inspections. The death toll in our American concentration camps is unknown, though conditions are known to be horrible. We can assume the death toll is rising as detentions increase. These deaths don’t count the more than 200 South American fishermen pulverized on the high seas by toxic masculinity poster boy, and pirate, Pete Hegseth, killer of 160 girls in an Iranian school mistakenly targeted by AI. Hegseth is almost certainly getting regularly shitfaced again.
Once you disenfranchise (literally) and immiserate millions of working class Americans, you can rule unimpeded by so-called democracy and do whatever you like to these hateful losers. Why not put a couple of million of them into GEO and Core Civic detention facilities, concentration camps, actually, if only to teach the rest a nice, tart lesson? Cah-ching! One dirty hand washes the other. Blame the poor for being helpless, feckless, shiftless, greedy, thieving, endlessly grasping. If they complain, or try to organize, it’s class warfare! The only class entitled to defend itself in war is the victorious class, the best of the best…
To ensure that wars, so good for business, investment, and economic devastation here and abroad continue unimpeded, and our allies shift as needed to justify hundreds of billions more for “the Department of War” we send completely unqualified idiots to negotiate peace in various forever wars. What is the arrogant, mediocre real estate grifter Jared Kushner’s credential to be a peace envoy? He got to do what Trump only fantasized about, have sex with Ivanka.
Plus, his criminal father, who committed felonies and was pardoned by Trump, the US ambassador to France, is a real estate billionaire. You only need to hear Jared Kushner speak for a moment to get a sense of the depth of his skill and experience. We did the unthinkable, says the billionaire imbecile. including weaponizing a worldwide plague with a war against mask mandates (masks are for the American Gestapo only!) to unnecessarily kill a half a million Americans in the name of reactionary MAGA and dividing our country to the brink of civil war. Plus Jared got literally billions from Muhammad bin Bonesaw, the Palestinians are irrational and impossible to negotiate with (nice beachfront real estate, though) and libtards are all just deranged, enraged, jealous cucks who want our federal stuff when it belongs to the federal! Here’s the boy genius in his own words.
[1] My favorite stream of consciousness digression during Trump’s mad incitement speech on J6:
And I had Brian Kemp, who weighs 130 pounds. He said he played offensive line in football. I’m trying to figure that out. I’m still trying to figure that out. He said that the other night, “I was an offensive lineman.” I’m saying: “Really? That must have been a very small team.” But I look at that and I look at what’s happened and he turned out to be a disaster. This stuff happens.
The same Trump loyalist, Joseph Caffari, who oversaw, and covered up, the innocent, totally inadvertent deletion of all Secret Service and DHS texts and tweets as the U.S. Capitol was being sacked on January 6, 2021, appears to have allowed the release of a whistleblower complaint regarding the random, rushed hirings of unqualified, unvetted, violent goons for Trump’s licensed to kill Gestapo, ICE. You can read all about it in the New York Times.Click on the image below.
Biden made a tremendous mistake not firing Caffari, for cause. Trump, on the other hand, following the plan laid out by the determined fascists at the Heritage Foundation who authored Project 2025, immediately, summarily, fired 18 federal agency watch dogs, Inspectors General like Caffari. Removing these ethics supervisors allowed Trump, acting through one of his most unstable, and generous, campaign donors, Elon Musk, to slash and destroy dozens of agencies, for “waste, fraud and abuse” (the domain of IGs), laws and ethics be damned.The same goes for Trump’s new postmaster, appointed by his new Postal Board of Governors, after swing vote Kirsten Synema kept Biden’s three nominees locked up in committee until Trump was back in power.
Here’s the USPS Whistelblower complaint, reported on by Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!
We are concerned, those of us who follow current events, that a criminally insane man famous for vindictiveness and frivolous litigation, using the courts to vex and cow anyone who has a claim against him, and now perversely using the DOJ to persecute his enemies, who is now exhibiting sleepiness and impulsiveness characteristic of dementia, is running our democracy, and the world, into worldwide economic misery and possibly World War Three (en route to global fascism, the corporatist dream).
Trump is only the savage figurehead for the elitist psychopaths who kicked in hundreds of millions, tax deductible, to put him back in power. Trump being Trump is good for their bottom line, as long as he does what’s best for billionaires like himself and his sons, Uday and Koosay, and his son-in-law, self-made billionaire mediocrity Jared “Son of A Convicted Felon Billionaire” Kushner. In respect to Jared’s father Charles, he is the US ambassador to France under Trump.
It’s not necessary for these insatiably greedy psychopath assholes to get together in a room and figure out what is best for them, in order to hatch an effective conspiracy. Their interests — being as obscenely rich as possible by any means necessary — align perfectly. Trump will always serve them, as long as the individual billionaires line up to lick his crusty ring. Google immediately changed its maps to show that the majority Canadian Lake Ontario is now called, by Trump’s infantile decree, Lake America. If you have fuck you money, and still line up to lick a dotard’s unwashed posterior, what does that say about your integrity and mental health?
It says, even if you have ten thousand million dollars, a hundred thousand million dollars, a million million, it’s still worthwhile to service an insane, demented man with the power to reward your services with even more money. Speaking of billionaires, here’s an actual photo of Donald with the mastermind he speaks to for at least an hour every week.
Trump gave Argentina’s dictatorial regime $40,000,000,000 in US taxpayer money for expenses related to staying in power. In Brazil and South Korea, would-be dictators who did exactly what Trump did to stay in office after he was voted out in 2020 are serving long prison sentences. That’s why Trump is punishing both of those countries. You reward friends and punish enemies, even a dozy dotard knows that.
And look, fellow geniuses, we are kicking the literal shit out of Evil Iran!Don’t believe their dirty LIES.
Notice we are also raining fiery death on the water of the Strait of Hormuz itself!
Turns out she was a gutless COMMIE!
Mr. Trump ordered the regularly held joint military exercise between US and South Korean troops halted, one day after North Korea sent 50,000 troops to help Mr. Putin’s war against Ukraine. The Art of the Deal in action.
By the way, Truth Social lost $405,900,000 in the first quarter of 2026. Just sayin’. source
I’ll deal with soul-dead, ambition-drunk Todd Blanche some other time. A real peach, but at least he had that robust 50-49 mandate as Attorney General working at the pleasure of a man who would never ask him to do anything unethical (“I love you, sir…”).
Here’s another short with a guy making the point that these private “detention centers” for immigrants who have committed no crimes are concentration camps. More people are dying in them than died in many concentration camps (which are not ‘extermination camps’ vernichtungslagers [1]) — and we will never know the true number murdered in those lucrative, private hellholes. Many who die of medical neglect are shipped out to die in hospitals, so they don’t count as dead in concentration camp custody. Relatively few of the Japanese-Americans interned in concentration camps during World War II died, though the situation and conditions were appalling enough — they were far better than those provided by our greatest private, for-profit detention corporations.
People locked up in these Stephen Miller/CoreCivic/GEO Group camps are required to work long hours for $1 a day. Coincidentally that was the same amount the SS charged to rent out slave laborers from Auschwitz. Once again, some wealthy gate keeper/corporate “person” (psychopath) is not allowing me to embed this “political” short.
So let’s just say privatized detention centers for the worst of the worst, no need to mention the 40 to 100 people packed into a single cage in these best of the best facilities for the worst of the worst.Why make people feel bad by releasing the numbers of peaceful immigrants actually murdered by our masked, heavily armed, unvetted, poorly trained, violence-prone best of the best?
Hannah Arendt’s statements always ring true in our current situation. She escaped Nazi Germany, barely made it out of a concentration camp for women in France (thanks to wealthy American friends) and had an intimate understanding of the fascist project. Stop critical thinking, stop history, stop cause and effect, focus violent hatred on enemies, in 2026 use AI to accelerate all these things.She, as often, puts our current pre-fascist situation into stark relief:
And just for giggles, let’s try another short, at random, and see if WordPress is “unable to embed” it.
Nice work, beautifully done. So it is simple to embed a youtube video short, as long as it doesn’t offend the delicate sensibilities of the Nazi-adjacent superwealthy. Fuck the stinking tech and privatized concentration camp oligarchs, may they all be replaced by AI sexbots programmed to Epstein themselves under shady circumstances.
[1] First you get the population used to the random murder of citizens, called “terrorists” after they’re shot point blank, and the need to violently round up and abuse, hundreds of thousands of innocent people and, sometimes, inadvertently (or even intentionally) kill a bunch of them. Once the populace is inured to those atrocities, for which no federal agent may be held accountable, you can move on to the real work of these fascist fucks:
The Nazis made no secret of the existence of concentration camps as early as 1933, as these served as a deterrent. The extermination camps, on the other hand, were subject to strict secrecy. To conceal their existence, the mass murder was even described in internal correspondence only as ” special treatment ,” “cleansing,” “resettlement,” or “evacuation.” The SS referred to the extermination camps as concentration camps, and they were also subject to the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps . The designation “extermination camp” only came later in historical scholarship and in court proceedings and serves for more precise categorization. . .
. . .Unlike other concentration camps , where inmates died primarily from systematically induced disease and malnutrition as well as excessive work, known as “extermination through labor “, in addition to individual murders, the extermination camps served the immediate purpose of murdering those deported there, who were brought to the camps by special railway trains. source
I’ve been distracted by tubes of beautiful gouache and all the colors, shades and nuances that can be drawn out of them with a brush and water. I’ll post a couple of the paintings soon. Meanwhile, I wrote this a few days back, before I found out that Todd Blanche was sworn in by fellow criminally inclined Trump lawyer lifetime federal judge (voted in on an overwhelming 50-49 majority, like his buddy Blanche) Emil Bove IV, in a secret ceremony, as you do in these situations if you are the most transparent — and TOTALLY HONEST AND UNCORRUPT!!– administration in human history…
Check out this shockingly emotional hostage video of successfully primaried out of a job Louisiana senator Dr. Bill Caasidy, casting a 4 a.m. deciding vote to make a criminally inclined criminal attorney for criminally insane serial offender Donald John Trump the nation’s top law enforcement official. He’s clearly upset, can’t look in the camera, gives no reason for his decision, other than saying he’s worked hard to understand the issue and to make the right decision. What right decision? Casting a deciding yes vote or having the gunmen with laser targets on his family open fire?
I tried to embed this video, with the cringing, eye contact avoiding, under duress Cassidy, as you do with most YouTube videos, including shorts, and was not able to, for whatever reason. WordPress let me know it could not be embedded.
Whenever this happens, as it has been recently with political shorts I try to post, I always think how easy it would be, and it’s already happening, for Trump to start pressuring the morally pliable billionaires who own all of these public social media spaces to throttle content Trump doesn’t want seen.
What a dream it would be to American Nazis to completely shut down critical voices, truth tellers and organizers on the internet, the folks on Trump’s openly published enemies list, a list that was a scandal when Nixon maintained a secret one, but which Trump shares openly now, because that’s how Nazis do it in 2026. In 2026, if you tell them exactly what illegal shit you’re going to do, then you’re being honest and owning the “critically thinking” commie libtard cucks…
As a test, here’s another short, two kind men saving a trapped coyote pup, let’s see if WordPress lets me post this one:
I started to call this “Fascist Weasels on Parade”, then decided it was an insult to actual weasels. Changed it to worms, invertebrates, true, but also heroes in their own right. Without worms, no food supply for life on the planet. My humble apologies to worms for the constant, necessary, life-sustaining work that you do. There really isn’t a proper pejorative to describe these fascist ass-lickers who cringingly cleave to the unwashed butt crack of their Leader. There is no depth they won’t stoop to in service to their violently insane, supremely vindictive master.
Shamefully, and predictably, enough, Trump’s spineless lickspittles in the Senate, at 4:00 a.m., right before they left for a well-earned five week vacation, voted to narrowly confirm Trump’s criminal lawyer, and dead-eyed criminal in his own right, Todd Blanche, as the Attorney General of the United States. Heather Cox Richardson lays it out beautifully.
She contrasts this cringefest to how principled Republican senators reacted in 1974 when Nixon (a paranoid, bold-faced, lawyerly liar who insisted he never did anything wrong — see below [1]) faced impeachment for abusing his power and obstructing justice by covering up crimes far less serious than countless crimes Trump has committed in his second term, and being in contempt of Congress (the government branch Trump has contemptuously neutered).
American fascists (Roger Stone, Manafort and associates among them) have put the lessons learned from Nixon’s downfall to good use — making charges against Republicans for abuse of power and contempt of Congress, neither crime nor misdemeanor and the same with obstruction of whatever you want to call it. As for any non-MAGA official doing anything that can be cast as similar — call out the DOJ, National Guard, ICE, CBP, Proud Boys, Klan, the National Park Service, FEMA and the Department of Prisons!!
Blanche wrote fraudulent “settlement” “agreements” in the days after “dismissing” a fake lawsuit that was basically Trump v. Trump’s Lackeys, (Trump’s lackeys never even submitted a “defense”), in a case the judge called out as a fraud on the court. The judicial investigation into that fraud is ongoing. Blanche, in the fake settlement contracts (signed only by him, talk about invalid contracts — no meeting of the mind between two parties, no exchange of consideration) preemptively covered up a host of likely, almost certain, Trump tax crimes, for Donald J. and Uday and Kusay Trump and their heirs. Blanche was the author of Trump’s self-pardon (though he tap danced for the Senate Judiciary Committee about who actually typed it up for him).
Blanche has so far successfully, and brazenly, covered up Trump’s long involvement with suicided sex criminal and blackmailer Jeffery Epstein, withholding over 3,000,000 documents, heavily redacting all others (except for nude photos and names of teenaged victims of Epstein) and declaring there is nothing further to investigate.
Emmet Sullivan, the federal judge in the case Katie “Though she be but little, she is fierce” Phang brought against Blanche for his multiple, ongoing violations of the Epstein Files Transparency Act has ordered Blanche to testify in open court next week, August 13th, about his evidence, not his bullshit rationales for why he lied over and over about his redactions, wrote insulting dismissals of Phang’s motives rather than legal answers to her motions and ignored direct court orders from Judge Sullivan.
This is the fully weaponized Trump DOJ under a criminal maniac who hires his criminally-inclined criminal lawyer as Attorney General to get perpetual, no cost, unlimited prosecutorial revenge on enemies real and imagined and blanket legal protections for himself and his fabulously corrupt offspring as well as loyal billionaire ass-lickers like Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent and Doug Burgham.
Unless the fascist brains behind Trump stage a massive terrorist attack right before the upcoming midterms (and why wouldn’t they?) and station heavily armed masked ICE/CBP militias, and paid freelancers in full KKK regalia, including pointy white hoods, in front of every minority voting district polling place (Trump would love to) and starts having his gestapo openly assassinate election officials, judges, non-corporate journalists, snide citizens and anyone else who doesn’t stay silent or parrot his incoherent lies (the only “rigged election” he lost was the one when he was president and the federal officials who declared the election valid worked for him) there will likely be a “blue wave” that will turn Congress Democratic. When that happens, all of these nefarious characters will be investigated. Blanche will be impeached on multiple counts, along with Hegseth, Patel, Lutnick, Bessent, Robert F. “Dr. Brainworm” Kennedy Jr. and the rest of them.
All the more reason for Trump to make a secret deal to have “Iran,” “antifa,” humanists, hamas, tren de aragua, commies, Jews, Puerto Ricans, etc. — in other words TERRORISTS — nuke an anarchist jurisdiction two days before Election Day, possibly with one of their many Patriot missiles, since even adorable MAGA Mike Johnson’s declaration that he runs the protection racket for corrupt MAGA Congressmen who committed crimes for the Boss won’t be of much use when they are once again in their blessed minority.
The Republican party now openly represent the 1%. Why not have Congressional representation reflect that, as Trump’s billionaire donors build obedient, undefeatable, merciless AI robot armies and fill cyber-brothels with irresistible, endlessly compliant sex slave robots, while raping and pillaging what’s left of the biosphere?
USA! USA!!!!
[1] In his resignation speech, Nixon refused to acknowledge that he had done anything wrong. Instead, he told the American people he had to step down because he no longer had the support he needed in Congress to advance the national interest. He blamed the press, whose “leaks and accusations and innuendo” had been designed to destroy him. His disappointed supporters embraced the idea that there was a “liberal” conspiracy, spearheaded by the press, to bring down any Republican president. source
Below is an irrefutable op-ed by Anthony Conwright, about the renaming of the Slaveholder Rebellion of 1861 to The War Between the States and finally The Civil War. This metamorphosis happened over the course of decades as the result of political lobbying by Confederate sympathizers. Conwright draws the straight line to Trump doing the same thing at warp speed with his January 6th Day of Love when peaceful, victim patriots went to the Capitol where they were met by violent libtard cuck traitor cops… Those who refuse to learn the lessons of the past, as they say, are continually fucked the same way.
We are living, as the curse goes, in interesting fucking times.
If you can’t open the op-ed by clicking the image above, use this “gift” link.
This full description of fascism was provided to US Army personnel in the European theater toward the end of World War Two, when democracy had finally, and at tremendous cost, was about to defeat fascism and reach a cautious stand-off with communism that would turn into the Cold War. This is from the great Heather Cox Richardson:
The political ideology called fascism grew out of World War I, when former socialist Benito Mussolini rejected the equality that defined democracy and came to believe that a few leaders must take a nation toward progress by directing the actions of the rest. These men must organize the people as they had been organized during wartime, ruthlessly suppressing all opposition and directing the economy so that businessmen and politicians worked together. And, logically, that select group of leaders would elevate a single man, who would become an all-powerful dictator. To weld their followers into an efficient machine, they demonized opponents into an “other” that their followers could hate.
This theory drove the Axis powers during World War II, and in 1945, the United States War Department explained to U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II what fascism was. The government focused less on the ideology of fascism than on its practical outcome.
Fascism, the pamphlet Army Talks explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”
“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said.
Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.”source
And here’s how it’s done in a modern corporate society:
The sickening smiles at the end, between the journalist who asked a tough question and the tough guy who repeatedly danced away from answering it, are all about access. If you want someone like Jordan on your network, you have to smile and thank him at the end for stonewalling and essentially lying to your audience. Note that none of these guys are ever familiar with anything a journalist asks them about.
Then there is this tough guy presidential hopeful Nazi wannabe, bullying a retired public servant who gave the best available advice about preventing the spread of Covid, as his president lied about and weaponized the pandemic, killing hundreds of thousands Americans (including Herman Caine, who contracted the disease at a Trump rally), while countries that followed the practices Fauci advocated prevented countless deaths.
And finally, the State Department’s loyal lapdog to the Leader, presidential aspirant Little Marco, Viceroy of Venezuela, scourge of Cuba. He announces that the US wants to abolish the The International Criminal Court, take it down brick by brick because it weaponizes “statute” and “so-called international law”. The ICC was set up after decades of advocacy by idealists and humanists to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. It was created in response to the atrocities of the Nazis and the Japanese, and others, including the Soviet Union, during World War Two, and, horrifically, through the present day.
The US has never been bound by the ICC, Reagan explicitly repudiated its jurisdiction over the US when the ICC tried to hold him accountable for his illegal mining of Nicaragua’s harbor to aid the far-right Contras — who he also illegally gave millions to through the sales of munitions to Iran (Iran-Contra “scandal” — see Bill Barr, Act I) something explicitly barred by American law.
Trump hates the ICC because, theoretically, or even just symbolically, it could still move to hold him accountable for various war crimes, including the ongoing killing of over 200 fishermen at sea (accused, without evidence, of drug dealing — not a capital offense except in Duterte’s Philippines something he’s facing trial for at the ICC) and the reckless, pitiless murder of 165, mostly girls, at a girls’ school in Iran, not to mention war crime attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Getting rid of the International Criminal Court is the dream of every war criminal and mass murderer.If you think these people aren’t Nazis, think again.
Sorry, WordPress won’t allow me to embed this short video highlighting this last point. Here’s the link:
While Trump’s personal criminal lawyer Todd Blanche bobs and weaves, assuring senators with practiced lawyerly weasel words that he is no longer Trump’s personal criminal lawyer… “uh, excuse me, senator, I have to take this call from Mr. Trump…” MAGA is spraying its high-powered firehouse of cyclosporiasis full force.
Put that fucking liar and self-aggrandizing fraud Anthony Fauci on the stand, let him plead the Fifth over and over so we can’t get him for perjury as we let the country see how clearly guilty he is of being a lying, self-aggrandizing fraud. Look what he wrote in his personal diary! Like we couldn’t get our hands on it! Fauci had testified to Congress literally hundreds of times during his long term as head of the infectious disease unit at NIH. His opening remarks went into detail about why this session he was subpoenaed to attend, years after his retirement, was different.
This time it was purely political, a distracting partisan hate-fest as Trump implodes, to give FOX and the MAGAsphere endless talking points about what a lying, weaponizing dickhead Fauci was while he was nonchalantly killing a million Americans by ignoring Trump’s wise advice about not testing for Covid in order for the numbers not to keep going up and up.
To watch Josh “Fistpump/flee in terror” Hawley aggressively interrogate Fauci over what color his tie was, what color the carpet was, whether Fauci had a dick, was to see a Nazi go after a Jew in a German courtroom from the mid-thirties until the day Hitler blew his own brains out in a bunker. It brought to mind debate champ Lyin’ Ted Cruz’s Jew-baiting of mild-mannered nebbish AG Merrick Garland when he confronted Garland over the Nazi salute (directed at Jewish members of school boards) being protected First Amendment expression.Check out Rand! Paul bullying Fauci’s lawyer.
Not to be outdone by his senate colleagues Hawley and Paul, pugnacious, unpinnable college wrestling champ and law school graduate Jim Jordan made a criminal referral to Blanche accusing Jack Smith of perjury on an extremely weak theory. Let us not forget that Jordan defied a subpoena from his Congressional colleagues and awkwardly dodged questions live on FOX about his conversations with Trump as his Day of Love riot was going on at the Capitol. MAGA knows better than to take oaths.
Jordan (who never actually became a lawyer) made a perfectly-timed fanciful criminal referral for Jack Smith while Todd was on the ropes for his unflinching service to every corrupt Trump whim, his refusal to answer questions honestly, his participation in, and defense of, Trump’s fraudulent Trump v. IRS “settlements”, his refusal to put in writing what he stated under oath, his grudging, insulting, pro forma meeting with Epstein survivors, his incoherent, contemptuous two page court filing response to Katie Phang’s lawsuit against him for the release of Epstein files and redaction logs (both required under the EFTA), and all the rest. Jordan wrote his beautifully timed, if idiotic, criminal referral asking Blanche to investigate and prosecute Jack Smith for not answering a question Jordan and his colleagues never asked him. In other words: perjury by a man, a scumbag, actually, who simply hated and persecuted Trump for no reason! That will play well on FOX, OANN, Newsmax, Der Stürmer, et al.
Former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman fully demolishes law school graduate Jim Jordan’s incoherent criminal referral here. This is what Republicans, running interference for the most corrupt president in world history, are saying about Jack Smith, who, unlike the rest of them, testified candidly under oath for hours.I turn this over to Harry:
Moreover, Trump and Judiciary Committee Republicans have undertaken a vicious defamatory campaign against Smith, part of the overall elaborate effort to whitewash Trump’s crimes. Trump called Smith a “deranged lunatic,” a “deranged animal,” a “criminal” who should be “thrown out of the country.” Grassley called his investigation “a runaway train that had no brakes” and declared in an official Senate Judiciary Committee press release that Smith and his “merry band of DOJ partisans weaponized the justice system” and that “it’s no surprise Smith didn’t play by the rules.” Kennedy, speaking to reporters outside the Blanche confirmation hearing, said: “I think he hates Republicans. He exercises power emotionally and immaturely. And I think he ought to have his head in a bag.” Cruz called the prosecutions “the worst political lawfare this country has ever seen.”
A defense against spurious false statement charges would serve as a public relitigation of Smith’s prosecutions and the mountains of evidence they were built on. It would remind the country—and re-establish for the historical record—who played their hand straight and who palmed the cards.
The hearing contained false and misleading statements, but they weren’t Jack Smith’s. In every public appearance, Smith has been scrupulous and by-the-book, which only makes sense since he knows the administration has him in its crosshairs.
The misconduct and false witness are on the other side: Trump, still lying about his crimes; Blanche, still straddling the untenable position of representing DOJ and his former client; Senate Republicans, still hiding under Trump’s coattails and hypocritically assailing Smith; and Jordan, in the self-appointed role of Torquemada, arrogantly leveling nonsensical charges against the one man in this farcical episode who actually followed the law.
Trump loves “acting” officials, and they love you, sir!
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