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Führereid

We are in for a hell of ride, boys and girls, a Führereid, if you will.

My German vocabulary is extremely limited. Virtually every phrase I know is an idiosyncratic, specialized term I learned while studying the history of the Nazis. I know words like vernichtungslager (annhiliation camp) sonderbehandlung [1] (“special handling” stamped on the papers of Jews being expedited to the camps) and Lebensunwertes Leben [2] (“lives not worth living”, as deemed by the Nazis). Today I added a highly pertinent phrase, Führereid, the blood oath of personal loyalty to the infallible party leader, Herr Hitler.

We are living at a moment when an eighty-nine year-old psychopath, Charles Koch, is excited to see the culmination of his life’s work, his father’s Hitler-admiring dream come true in the administration of seventy-eight year old psychopath Donald “Jesus” Trump (Donald’s psychopath father was literally named Frederick Christ Trump). This is as serious a moment in history as any evil genius (such as Koch) could create in the lab. Wuhan’s got nothing on this gathering plague.

In order to be an elected (or appointed) Republican in good standing, one must do exactly what the leader demands.  If that demand is to publicly stand behind a thoroughly debunked lie about a stolen election that got several of Trump’s attorneys disbarred, and others to take guilty pleas, if you know what is good for you, you will say, at the very least, that there are legitimate and serious questions about 2020 that were never answered (like, why are numerous Stop the Steal riot conspirators not serving long prison sentences?). 

To be a Republican official in good standing you must state that it is perfectly fine for the leader to violate the Espionage Act by stealing (and most likely selling) secret documents, commit crimes while campaigning and then while in office (34 counts of which he’s been convicted for), have a fraudulent university and charity closed down, incite a deadly riot in a crazed attempt to stay in power, make vile, racist misogynistic threats (as a man convicted of committing a close variant of rape and then repeatedly defaming the victim), proudly echo Hitler in overheated rhetoric about vermin, blood poisoning and the “enemy within”.  

Now, all that’s left for you, if your job is important to you, is to argue why it is necessary to shut down FBI vetting of wildly incompetent, badly compromised cabinet nominees, (as was already done with lifetime appointee Boof Kavanaugh), and the way is clear for Führerswortes haben gesetzeskraft (“the Führer’s word has the force of law”.)

For totalitarianism to take hold of a nation several things must happen.  Language and meaning must be distorted beyond rationality, as in “alternative fact”, so that no reasonable discussion may ever take place.  Fear must be so pervasive that citizens and officials obey pressure to conform in advance (Bezos, Mika and Scarboro, etc.) and are terrorized when they think of organizing to dissent.  Political opponents become sick, evil enemies to be imprisoned, killed or otherwise silenced.  Blackmail becomes the coin of the realm and only powerful insiders are excused for crimes, for all others, justice!

Resisting this oligarch-funded tsunami of blind obedience to their collective will is going to require great creativity, organization, doggedness and, unfortunately, a great deal of collective suffering.   We have to be creative, united, resolute and ready to rumble.  The first thing Biden has to do is order FBI vetting of this drawer full of creepy crawlers Trumpie has nominated as his cabinet.  Then, as Steve Bannon (soon of the long prison sentence for defrauding MAGA nation) says “strap in.”

The Hitler Oath (German: Führereid or Führer Oath) — also referred in English as the Soldier’s Oath[1]—refers to the oaths of allegiance sworn by officers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht and civil servants of Nazi Germany between the years 1934 and 1945. The oath pledged personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler rather than loyalty to the Weimar Constitution of the country. Historians view the personal oath of the Nazi Germany as an important psychological element to obey orders for committing war crimes, atrocities, and genocide.[2] During the Nuremberg trials, many German officers unsuccessfully attempted to use the oath as a defense against charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.[3]

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(check out the punishments at the bottom for those who refused to take the oath)

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[2] source

Doctors were the ones primarily responsible for applying the plan in order to eliminate people labeled as incurably ill, children with hereditary defects, criminals, the mentally ill, the physically disabled, pedophiles, homosexuals, and adults or elderly people considered “unproductive.”

Aktion T4 was implemented through two channels: euthanasia, practiced on people who fit into those categories, and sterilization en masse, so that there would be no new children with what the doctors considered disabilities that would make people unhappy. And we are speaking here of German patients.

Doctors considered that each of those persons was a “life not worth living” (Lebensunwertes Leben), and presented them as such. It is calculated that between 200,000 and 275,000 people were systematically murdered out of “compassion,” while massive sterilization programs reached more than 400,000 people—always, in every case, against the patient’s will and without consent.

Concierge medical care

America is rapidly becoming, if you have the money and you want responsive medical care, the land of concierge doctors and nurses.

The number one hospital for orthopedic surgery, HSS, where I had my left knee replaced almost 600 days ago, boasts on huge banners all over its grounds that it has been the top hospital for orthopedics fourteen years in a row. That doesn’t mean they provide aftercare, and they don’t claim to. If you have a problem, pain, stiffness, difficulty walking, sleeping, whatever, when the x-rays show a perfect mechanical result, it’s not their problem, since the operation was 100% successful, even if you can’t walk more than a block 18 months after surgery.

They don’t claim to be the number one hospital for follow-up care, as you learn when they provide zero aftercare, can’t get you in to see their physical therapists for post-surgical evaluation and offer no solution (other than another operation, a 50/50 coinflip) to a not uncommon, foreseeable but difficult to fix chronic disability they did not help you avoid.

Corporate medicine increasingly works this way in the United States. Health care is an enormously profitable sector and vampire entrepreneurs are increasingly getting in on this lucrative growth industry. More and more doctors work for corporations that take care of all the business aspects of medical care. The bottom line is probably better for all of them and it’s easier to be a doctor in our country if you don’t have to compete with giant medical corporations that have the wealth and infrastructure to put you out of business.

The only casualty is the patient, sometimes. In the event of a good result, there’s no problem. In the event of a problem, complication, need for follow-up, corporate medicine has an answer — concierge follow up, done by telephone, billed as a regular doctor visit, sometimes 100% paid by insurance, or in the case of someone over 65, if you have purchased supplemental insurance for your 20% Medicare copay.

I had a call from my new urologist’s office the other day. These folks are hard to reach or get a return call from on a good day and I’m not optimistic about reaching anyone there if something goes wrong with my upcoming procedure. The caller, a likable guy named Tony, called to offer me a direct number to call and talk to a dedicated nurse any time after my upcoming surgical procedure.

We wound up speaking for a while and it emerged he was not affiliated, nor did he know, the medical practice he was calling from. Somehow, through corporate wizardry, his call appeared to be coming from the difficult to reach office with an offer to give me a direct after care line. Tony worked for a third party selling concierge assurance to rightfully nervous patients.

He agreed it was crazy that he couldn’t tell me the price I’d have to pay for one of these follow up calls billed as a doctor visit. He was with me when I pointed out the madness of healthcare being the only store in America where they can’t tell you the price of anything before you buy it. The standard line is that the doctor has to wait for insurance to bill them before they can tell you the price. My standard reply is to ask if I’m the first patient who ever came to them with this insurance that they take every day. Their standard reply is some kind of smile reflecting an attempt to be civil. None of these folks have any control of anything, and it’s pointless to antagonize them with questions there are no reasonable answers to. Tony and I parted as friends, our call recorded, and by midway through he was no longer trying to sell me a service he could not tell me the price of, but one I’d definitely be on the hook to pay 20% of.

America the beautiful. Exceptional. About to become even more exceptional. I’m keeping my fingers crossed it won’t become too much more exceptional. It’s already much more exceptional than is healthy for almost every American.

Black women were the only ones who understood the stakes

And by the way, what the fuck is wrong with white people and Latinos?

This new “Biden outrage” just in from the folks who brought you “anarchist jurisdictions” who would not receive emergency federal funds during Covid, the last time they held the Executive branch. Of course the bipartisan, willing to cooperate with those who hate him, Biden is the one who, eh, weaponized the government against his enemies… The incoherent but jubilant fascist revenge tour is now officially underway, with lovable Ron DeSanctimonious leading the way, as real leaders do.

The obvious difference in this story is that the rogue FEMA asshole who did this was immediately fired by FEMA, under Biden. In the Trump or DeSanctimonious administrations, this malignantly partisan assclown would be promoted to acting director of FEMA, pronto.

Black women are not to blame for any of what’s about to come, though they will be hit the hardest by it, along with Black and Latino men. And then, of course, attention will be paid to bigmouthed libtard cucks, homosexuals, liberal mass media, trans people, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, labor unionists, humanists, the disabled, intellectuals, liberals, economic justice advocates, Peace Corps volunteers, environmentalists, Gypsies, the depressed, nature lovers, sensitive, unmanly boys, cross-fit tomgirls, raped teenagers, NATO supporters, battered women, OBGYN doctors and nurses, Human Rights activists, historians, social workers, sociologists, democracy fetishists, anti-fascists, socialists, anti-nuclear activists, Voting Rights advocates, non-corporate scientists, Democrats, non-violent protesters, Ukrainians, Gazans, etc.

Let’s face it, MAGA just had better ideas

Don’t listen to freaks from our shameful hippie past like Robert Reich, there is nothing wrong with the best people in our country having 10,000,000 times more than the lowest low lifes in our country and being able to profit handsomely from their greatness. MAGA won because it has better ideas. Here are just a few:

Eliminating pre-existing conditions from health insurance was pure communism designed to cripple the health insurance industry. So, pre-existing conditions are back. If you’re already sick, don’t come whining about “fairness”, pay what you are required or shut up and die. Health care is not a “right” it’s a privilege you get from your boss, if you work hard enough.

The states should decide, according to local beliefs and customs, if raped eleven year-olds are allowed to have abortions. The Supreme Court, and all elected Republicans, stressed this state sovereignty principle at the time Roe was abolished. To that end, a national ban on abortions. That’s why you gave us a proven fighter for president and a robust majority in the Senate.

Sometimes the so-called racists are right. Who is more deserving to run the country, the richest, smartest, most successful man in the world, and the colorful, controversial son of a famous political leader who was assassinated by a colored person, and Donald Trump, or … you get my point.

Joe Biden was the most corrupt, criminal and dumbest president in history. That’s why he lost, he did nothing but stutter and comically try to hide his dementia. Now we have the least corrupt, most honest and smartest president in history.

So-called climate change is a hoax designed to destroy our greatest corporations by crippling them with expensive regulations. Once those regulations are removed super-storms will stop and this nation will take a giant step toward being great again. There is no reason to believe so-called climate scientists more than the Bible, Exxon and faith.

Homosexuality is banned by the Bible. The punishment for it is death by stoning. The same punishment for women who commit adultery, ye scribes and hypocrites. So saith the Lord.

Women are born to be subservient to men. That is simply God’s will and the natural order for mankind. It’s called mankind for a reason, dummy.

Most liberals are pedophiles.

That so-called Black, so-called female presidential candidate was busy, even while campaigning for an office she was unqualified for, cutting the dicks off young boys in schools, putting dresses on them and sending the poor kids home as girls. This was proved to millions of us real men during the World Series! [1]

She was PERSONALLY cutting the dicks off boys in schools all over the country!

They WERE eating the dogs and eating the cats, hamsters, iguanas, rabbits, snakes, fish, etc.

Giving further tax breaks to the most successful Americans means we’ll all have a better chance of becoming wealthy.

It is essential to have the party with the most committed billionaire donors win every election. This ensures that our most important citizens have proportionately loud voices in our democracy.

In order for a president to faithfully carry out his duties, obviously it’s sometimes necessary to do things that are plainly criminal. In these cases, it is important that the president not be locked in the straitjacket of “law”. Nothing he does while officially trying to make American Great Again can be considered by any criminal grand jury ever. No pardon he sells can ever be challenged as “corrupt”. As Jesus Christ Himself intended.

White men are better than everybody else.

God bless these United Shaysssssh.

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Liberal pedophiles will claim that this is an outrageous lie promulgated to the tune of tens of millions in ad buys ($215,000,000 spent on these ads, according to Brian Tyler Cohen) by billionaire-funded super PACs working to elect Trump, but who are you going to believe, a great, highly memorable ad you’ve seen fifty times, including during the World Series (second only to the Superbowl for market impact and credibility), or somebody who dreams of diddling children in a disgustingly unChristian way?

Status quid pro quo

Hard as it is to swallow this much shit at one time, we need to start rousing ourselves for the fight against what is about to come.

The corporatization of society, with a narrow focus on the stock market’s sacred bottom line, means both parties are run by corporate/billionaire interests and the vast majority of us can fuck off and kill each other. Although both parties do very well for the rich and powerful, neither corporate party is really looking out for the tens of millions of powerless, basically screwed citizens of the United States. Hence 70,000,000 votes for MAGA, at least Trump acknowledges screwed people’s right to be mad as hell about being treated like shit.

A little history/context, then.

89 year-old Charles Koch, son of abusive Hitler admiring John Birch Society founding member Fred Koch, has been hard at work with his billionaire cronies brilliantly engineering this nightmare moment for fifty years.   His dad would be so proud of Charlie’s accomplishments.   

Thanks to the efforts of Koch’s network of think tanks and far right fraternal organizations (with a tip of the cap to Rupert Murdoch), corporations are people, minorities and individual humans not so much.  Unlimited dark money in politics is now protected free speech.  Billionaires can give uncounted billions to PACs to elect their chosen candidates to public office. What could go wrong?

Well-regulated militia: regulating guns unconstitutional!  Partisan gerrymandering is fine and perfectly legal, unless overtly racist speeches are made by legislators in full Klan regalia while they draw the districts, and there is video tape of it and fifty or more Republican witnesses present.   Voting Rights schmoting rights, majoritarian tyranny must be stopped, enough with the vicious accusations of white nationalist racism already.   

Quid pro quos are fine, as long as the quid gratuity comes after the quo.  Medieval witch burning theologians are fine to cite as irrefutable authorities in a Supreme Court decision to force raped girls to give birth.  Women only have full bodily autonomy if they are wealthy or the wives of right wing extremist Supreme Court justices. 

President may now commit crimes in office if he uses the Dershowitz/Nixon/Nuremberg defense: he honestly feels he is battling inhuman monsters in his official capacity.  If he orders a murder, or a dozen, he can preemptively pardon the murderers, no questions asked.   

This checklist would have been Hitler’s wet dream.  No need to burn down the German Reichstag and seize emergency powers to be a dictator on day one if you had a series of unappealable legal rulings like that to work with.

I think Rebecca Solnit nails why fervent belief in a lying, predatory, raping, revenge crazed, born wealthy, transactional, bigoted, criminal, slightly demented con artist, fiercely held by tens of millions of Americans, has been able to go mainstream enough to put the man and his best people back in power:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-progressive-election-trump-maga

Words from the demented, unpopular Joe Biden

Popularity polls, the right-wing ecosystem, unregulatable social media and the laser focus of “liberal” corporate mass media, convinced enough Americans that Joe Biden was so diminished by age that, in spite of his many impressive accomplishments as president, he was a failed president unfit for office. Compare his mental acuity and ability to communicate clearly and intelligently — both so disparaged throughout his campaign that he was forced out of the race — to those of the dancing Dictator on Day One we have now.

God bless, and Heaven help, these United Shayssssh.

MAGA nation, a people’s movement

MAKE POLIO GREAT AGAIN

Elon Musk, union-busting beneficiary of billions in US government contracts (and holder of high security clearance/buddy of Putin’s) hired vans full of door-knockers to spread the word about Trump/Vance.   These poor devils had to sign NDAs so none can discuss the harsh quotas they had to fill if they wanted to be paid and have their motel bill handled by the world’s richest humanoid.  In other news, his fake million dollar a day lottery is admittedly not a lottery, winners are carefully vetted and pre-selected.  On the other hand, giving an old woman on line to vote in Georgia a cup of water is a state crime.

Just one more election day dingleberry.   Who will be in charge of advising dictator on day one Trump about medical matters?   The insane son of Robert Kennedy, decapitator of dead animals and vaccine skeptic who will make polio great again.  There’s a good hat for MAGA — Make Polio Great Again.

WTF…

A vote for Trump/Vance/Musk/RFK Jr. is a vote for the BEST PEOPLE, THE BEST PEOPLE, AND DRAINING THE SWAMP AGAIN, IT WAS ALL A WITCH HUNT BY SICK AND DANGEROUS PEOPLE, RAPISTS, DRUG DEALERS, PET EATERS, I NEVER LOST IN 2020, 2024 OR 2028, YOU WILL ALL PAY, WATCH!