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Cooperation with Nazi types never goes well for anybody

third in a series of consecutive daily texts to Chuck Chuck BoBuck

Senator Schumer:

Some still find it hyperbolic to compare MAGA to the Nazi party.  This critique is made by people unfamiliar with the Nazi seizure of power, the cast of characters involved and Germany’s lawless, violent lurch to Nazism.  A longtime student of the history of the Nazi rise to power (Mr. Hitler and company killed almost my entire family back in Europe) I can point to a number of reasons the comparison of the Trump administration to Hitler’s is directly on point.  

Understanding what we are facing in “MAGA” (aka GOP, John Birch Society, Kochtopus, Project 2025) demonstrates the abject futility of trying to negotiate with this type.  Only organized, unified resistance, without fractures, or compromises by ‘moderates’, the ruptures that made Weimar liberal opposition fail, can overcome the plans these hyper-motivated American fascists have been carrying out for decades.

“The Leader’s word has the force of law” (Fuhrerworte haben Gesetzenkraft) — Trump claims Article II as the complete justification for virtually all of his unlawful actions including his usurpation of Congressional powers delegated by Article I.   He has a doctrinaire 6-3 “Unitary Executive” Supreme Court that agrees with him, on an emergency basis, almost every time one of his unconstitutional, abusive assertions of power is challenged.

Trump has purged the government and civil service, replacing qualified long serving officials and experts with those who publicly profess complete loyalty to his every lie.  The Nazis made membership in the party, and proof of “Aryan blood”, requirements for practicing all professions in Germany.   A personal oath of loyalty to Hitler replaced the standard military oath.

Trump had a volume of Hitler’s collected speeches at his bedside when he was married to Ivana.  He refers to enemies as illegals, vermin, dangerously sick people, blood poisoners.   He is a racist demagogue with a thirst for killing.   Recall the lame duck rash of executions of federal death row inmates he ordered before he was dragged out of the White House kicking, screaming and stealing classified documents, after fomenting a violent attack on the Capitol to overturn the certification of an election he lost.  Consider his ongoing war crimes in the Caribbean and Pacific, extrajudicially executing “drug dealers” to provoke a war with Venezuela, his bombing of Iran, his willingness to starve millions of Americans to advance his “agenda”.  

There is also Trump’s Sprachregelung (“rules for how to properly refer to unpopular things”).   Hitler’s government prescribed what words could be used, always anodyne terms for things like “killing” “liquidation” and so on.  Here we have “efficiency”, “anti-corruption”,  “patriotism,” “drain the swamp.” “transparency,” “Democrat traitors” and so on.  These framings cover the deliberate destruction of careers, further immiserating the already challenged, increasing homelessness, desperation, violence, allowing starvation and increasing preventable medical deaths.  All desirable and useful outcomes for President Project 2025 and his dream of a rebellion by poor people and the imposition of a police state.

Project 2025 has unleashed a massive force of heavily armed ICE agents, masked, out of uniform, executing SA (Brown Shirt) street tactics against non-violent civilians.  He is spoiling for forceful reactions from protesters of these abuses, and the general precarity he has raised to almost unbearable levels, to justify a police state he controls completely.  Your vote, and a few other Democratic votes, allowed him the obscenely massive budget for this unaccountable paramilitary arm of MAGA, in the name of keeping the government open.

He is building an immense bunker under the Epstein/Marie Antoinette Ballroom after illegally demolishing the East Wing.  It’s hard not to imagine what will take place down there if democracy, we all hope, prevails over American fascism — a remake of the final scenes of that great German movie Downfall.   Hopefully he won’t set off a nuclear holocaust before he exits the scene, an option Hitler didn’t have but surely would have taken.

Joseph Goebbels (1943):   “We will go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all times or as their greatest criminals”    (Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem, p. 22)

You seem to believe that Democrats can find common ground, and bipartisanship, with American Nazis, their Congressional allies, and a dictatorial president who will not condemn praise of Hitler and “jokes” about gassing those who need killing.   As the kids used to say: WTF?

You’re in a supremely difficult no-win situation.   It is time for you to step aside as Senate minority leader and let new, bold, leadership take the reins to give us the best shot at defeating this “movement” before you and I meet in a cattle car, newly stateless and off for “resettlement” somewhere, treated with the most solicitous of sonderbehandlung in our final days.

Your constituent,

Eliot Widaen

The NY Times protects Trump, because… both sides

And, by the way, if Bill Clinton, or anyone else, got a “happy ending” massage from a fourteen year-old girl at Jeffery Epstein’s blackmail emporium, he should face the consequences. That Bubba was the greatest Republican president of the twentieth century doesn’t give him a pass for being a pervert.

But check out the NY Times, not reporting on a story that would have opened an ugly can of worms, a can recently reopened, as Trump was coming down that golden escalator or at any other time. First, a nice illustration of the Grey Lady in action.

Heather Cox Richardson:

In a 2015 email, Epstein gave tips on stories about Trump and girls to then–New York Times financial reporter Landon Thomas Jr. When others asked Thomas for stories, Epstein wrote: “Have them ask my houseman about donad [sic] almost walking through the door leaving his nose print on the glass as young women were swimming in the pool and he was so focused he walked straight into the door.” In another email, Epstein offered “photso [sic] of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen,” and Thomas urged: “I am serious man—for the good of the nation why not try to get some of this out there.”

But a story revealing this information did not appear in the New York Times before the 2016 presidential election or afterward. . .

. . . Despite how explosive these documents [a trove of creepy email] were, they do not appear to be the end of the story. They came from the Epstein estate, but the files from the FBI investigation into Trump have not yet been released. Whatever is still outstanding appears to be even worse than what we have seen, as evidenced by Trump’s frantic attempts to stop the discharge petition.

With the House back at work, Johnson had little choice but to swear in Grijalva. The ceremony was scheduled for 4:00.

In the hours before that deadline, the president tried to get one of the four Republican representatives who had signed the discharge petition to remove their signature. He appeared to focus on Nancy Mace (R-SC), with whom he tried to connect by phone, and Lauren Boebert (R-CO), whom he invited to meet with him in the White House Situation Room, which is equipped to prevent recording.

“CNN reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI director Kash Patel joined Trump and Boebert at the meeting.”

When asked about the meeting, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters: “Doesn’t that show the level of transparency when we are willing to sit down with members of Congress and address their concerns?” For his part, Trump took to social media to call the released documents an attempt by Democrats to bring up the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” to deflect from “how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects.” He urged “any Republicans involved” to be “focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!”

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Since then, of course, the criminally insane Dementor-in-Chief ordered his former lawyer and lobbyist for Qatar, Attorney General Pam Bondi, to open an investigation into DEMOCRATS who had connections to pedophile / sex trafficker/ blackmailer/ criminal mastermind Jefferey Epstein, who was found dead in federal detention during Trump’s first term. The loyal AG promptly obliged, appointing another Trump toady to head the investigation.

Now she can self-righteously claim that all the files that she decided didn’t sustain any further criminal investigation, according to her and FBI director Kashyap Patel, must now remain under seal because they are part of an ongoing criminal investigation of any Epstein associate not named Trump. That Trump’s name appears 2,000 times in the 20,000 pages of recently released emails? Hoax. The “Epstein hoax”, “created by Democrats”, according to MAGA-man, apparently was built around a kernel of truth that his DOJ is now determined to get to as they prepare to indict and prosecute the guilty parties.

This is transparent obstruction of justice by Trump, who had his DOJ comb through files that contained his name thousands of times and then close the investigation into Epstein that Biden’s DOJ had initiated. Obstruction of justice is a crime. Trump, as the Unitary Executive, may legally commit crimes as long as he does them in concert with other government officials — exercising his core duties as POTUS (see Trump v. US). As Trump himself famously said: God Bless these United Shayssssssh.

What is your vision for the future of democracy, Chuck?

Senator Schumer:

The immutable vision of the far right goes back to the “Planters” and their genteel slave society, but its current enactment has more recent roots.  Seventy years ago the far-right was outraged by “judicial activists” on the Supreme Court who threatened to overturn centuries of social tradition when they found, 9-0, that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional.  Several wealthy reactionaries soon founded a political movement that eventually morphed into MAGA, funded by “Libertarian” billionaire money, today as it was then.  

These reactionaries have the same vision and aim today as when the then-fringe John Birch Society was launched by Charles Koch’s father and a few wealthy comrades in 1958 —  a return to a mythical golden age of society-wide freedom, unregulated oligarchy with a robust police state to deal with malcontents. 

They have always had the same set of self-serving, destructive policies they’re intent on enacting no matter what the vast majority of Americans need or want.   After polling 1% in the 1980 presidential election, they’ve doggedly connived through nonelectoral means to get their grimly unpopular vision for America enacted as law.  They’ve done this by any means necessary.   They created countless influential “think tanks” (like the prestigious Heritage Foundation, creator of Project 2025), networks of nefarious nonprofits, a vast public influence operation (aided by fellow travelers like Rupert Murdoch), as well as the doctrinaire far-right judicial fraternity and career ladder that trained and promoted most of their 6-3 Supreme Court majority.  

The law and Constitution have been swallowed time and again by 6-3 rulings, increasingly on the fast-tracked (for POTUS) shadow docket — no record, no debate, no signatures, no reasoning or explanation, except Article II and “The Unitary Executive”.   Issues the majority doesn’t want to touch are deemed “political questions” and the Supreme Court may not hear arguments about those.   We know very clearly what the values and vision of this group of six people is.  It perfectly reflects the values of their political party and its wealthiest donors.

The right has never made their vision for America clearer than under the current president, a vile man who brings out the worst in everyone and licenses his allies’ and followers’ lowest impulses.  As much as he might personally disgust many of our over 800 billionaires, nobody has been more useful to them than this crass, greedy, corrupt, criminal, violence loving, easily manipulable fellow billionaire.

What is your vision of America’s future, Charles Schumer?   

What is the democratic vision of the eight who fell on their swords for that bipartisan vision of what democracy requires?   Is there any common vision of our democratic future among corporate Democrats, outside of somehow retaining power?  

You don’t win elections by pointing to a party acting like actual Nazis — deliberately and defiantly starving your own citizens, children and other poor people, and rushing to the nation’s highest court to enforce the leader’s right to starve children —  and saying “we’re the good guys”.   You especially don’t cooperate with the party acting like actual Nazis.  Bipartisanship is a relic of a bygone age, by design of the party acting like actual Nazis.  There is no such thing as cooperation with Nazis, it never ends well for anybody involved.   In this regard I’ll mention only two names:  Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence. 

What is your vision for the future of our democracy?  I ask this seriously.

Should you and I find ourselves in the same cattle car, I’ll make sure to introduce myself to you.

Meantime, my question remains:  what is your “moderate” vision for American democracy going forward, and how do you square it with this recent Democratic betrayal of tens of millions of our fellow citizens, all of the most vulnerable among us?    I ask this sincerely and hope one of your staffers will write me a thoughtful answer.

Your constituent,

Eliot Widaen

Meryl Streep states a profound truth

Wow. This short of Meryl Streep was available to view the other day on YouTube. Accepting Golden Globe Award in 2017 she expresses her moment of horror seeing Donald Trump mock a disabled reporter and describes how this instinct to humiliate is nurtured in the general population when a powerful person does it. Trump’s cruelty gives permission to others to act in the same abusive way. It was a beautiful, powerful statement of humanity. Since I posted this the other day, the clip has become unavailable “removed by uploader”. Hmmmm.

These insightful remarks were made early in the first term of the deceitful, corrupt, bullying, petty, vengeful, psychopathic, demented Orange Plague. Here you go, from another “uploader”, the Oregonian, in slightly longer form (under 3:00). Worth every second:

The behavior of a bully, someone who by definition always attacks those weaker than him, is quickly adopted by every angry, violent coward who dreams of taking out his frustrations on someone who can’t fight back. A $50,000 cash incentive to, under cover of law, wear a disguise, bullet proof vest, carry an assault rifle, taser, baton, etc. travel in packs and bully anyone brown, or with a Spanish accent, or dressed a certain way, or anyone trying to protect such people? A golden ticket for enraged bullies everywhere in the USA.

Fuck those putos.

Two visions of the Future

A word to my bold and beholden senator, Chuck Chuck Bobuck, a living case study of what went wrong with a two party system where virtually all old school politicians are bought and paid for by the same corporate interests (Schumer is also the poster child for cringing surrender, for those partisans out there):

Keep in mind, no matter what horrors they inflict on others, people like Trump (narcissistic psychopaths, demented or not) are ALWAYS the only victim. If 42,000,000 Americans legitimately fear hunger as their SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance, averaging under $200 a month) money is taken from them, in the weeks before Thanksgiving, there is only one victim here — the poor Leader. What about the Leader’s feelings? He’s very, very sensitive! Much more sensitive than a crying baby who has to go without formula, with her parents’ rightfully freaking out, so the Big Guy can “win” a war to the death with his enemies. You see how this works? You see how this works, Chuck?

Autocracy 101 — why these folks are Nazis

“We have the right to disregard the Constitution because we act according to what we think the law, and reality itself, should be.”

This is rule number one if you want to overthrow the constitutional order — no court case that we lose, no court order from any court, binds us to anything but more agitated grievance and the threat of inflicting more mass desperation (right on time for Thanksgiving, you ungrateful, “entitled”, poor people!) and state violence. These things are done to turn up the heat on the population until they are provoked to riot and then, voila!, the desired police state.

You’ll have to pardon me for calling these folks Nazis, but there is literally no daylight between these murderous zealots [1] and the original and extra crispy German versions from the 1930s. Many young Republicans (and every old fascist) can’t even denounce Hitler, they feel he got a bad rap just because he didn’t get to finish his work properly. Some joke about how much they love Hitler. Arguably as sick a joke as the one about playfully gassing people who don’t vote for them, equally fucking hitlerious. It’s just, you know, 35 year-old kids being kids…

How many brown kids under age five did you murder today, JD?

[1] Project 2025 used the richest man in the world, unelected (and generally despised) Trump/MAGA world record megadonor humanoid Elon Musk, to kill so far over 600,000 poor people (and counting, at over 2,000 a day) in foreign countries by illegally ending USAID. The world’s richest psychopath said he was cutting waste, fraud, abuse and corruption (his areas of greatest expertise) with his crack hit squad of Big Balls and company. What did USAID do? Wikipedia:

In the twenty years from 2001 to 2021, USAID saved a yearly estimated range of between 4.1 and 4.7 million lives, with a yearly estimated subset of between 1.2 and 1.7 million children under five saved.[17]

Right Answer to a Clown Question

Just as you can say a quick dash to the Emergency Room is “inconvenient” rather than a frightening, often terrifying, medical ordeal, it’s possible to state everything in a way that advances your argument.  This is known as framing, it’s a common technique in sales and bullying.  At its most extreme, it is The Big Lie, a cynical tactic that was perfected during Hitler’s audacious and influential experiment in shaping mass opinion.

A reporter asks a House Democrat how much more pain it will take for the American people before Democrats stop shutting the government down and simply sign on to a “clean continuing resolution” to pass Project 2025’s agenda, with the unreliable promise that Republicans will finally negotiate,  after all the Heritage Foundations demands are met and all leverage surrendered.  

Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO), with a real-time masterclass on how to, literally, flip the script.   Excellent answer, sir!

Corporate mass media is, tragically for an informed citizenry, run by corporations and their human alter egos.  Virtually every one of these super powerful “persons” is a psychopath.  They have no empathy, they demand their right to own everything, are reckless with the well-being of others and they lack all capacity for remorse.  In a word, monsters, destructive creatures without souls. 

Shari Redstone, intent on selling what she inherited for $8,000,000,000, and scrupulous about not alienating an insane, vengeful president’s bullying FCC chair, sold her father’s once highly respected news channel to Trump megadonors,  billionaire father and son team.  They, in turn, paid a provocative right-wing influencer, Bari Weiss, $150,000,000 for her web-based news/opinion service and placed her in charge of editing the news for CBS/the new owners of CBS.   Prior to Shari Redstone finalizing her multi-billion dollar deal, with the blessing of Trump’s loyal FCC, CBS agreed to pay Trump $16,000,000  for editing a 60 Minutes segment featuring his 2024 opponent Kamala Harris (as every outlet always edits every interview).   Here’s part of what ran on Bari Weiss’s 60 Minutes the other night.   Talk about living in the Age of Incoherence.

Why did Trump pardon the richest man in cryptocurrency, the guy who paid $2 billion dollars to Trump’s sons? Because he didn’t know anything about the guy, except that he got only a 4-month sentence. Apparently he didn’t know anything about the 50 million fine he was ordered to pay. Apparently all Trump knows is he has every right under Article Two to pardon whoever he wants, including the most depraved criminals in the world, as long as he has something to gain from pardoning them.

Führerworte haben Gesetzeskraft

“The Leader’s words have the force of law,” is a legal maxim of The Third Reich, embraced by the entire German legal profession, all Nazi party members.

If the Leader says there are violent riots in places where the only violence is caused by his heavily armed shock troops in traffic-blocking unmarked vans, rappelling from helicopters, deploying tear gas, pepper spray, batons and rubber bullets against nonviolent protesters, then there are violent riots that must be dealt with  accordingly. 

If you want to use disgusting hate speech, like calling the Leader a Nazi, we will tase you, beat you, cuff you, throw you into an unmarked van, take you to a private detention center 1,000 miles away and ship you off to a war torn African shithole country so you can  make your nasty comments over there.   Eventually, we will round up everyone who calls us Nazis and kill you all, don’t even worry about it.

Here’s the newly promoted head of the Leader’s SS, Gregory Bovino, hurler of tear gas at people cursing him and his shock troops during a protest.   He claimed a rioter threw something that hit him in the head, the videos show otherwise.  He was good and goddamned righteously mad to be met by so many people defiantly opposing the Leader’s will, and that crowd was lucky it was just tear gas and not a hail of bullets.

Don’t call me a Nazi, you all are the fucking Nazis! I defy you to find the totenkopf [1] on my SS cosplay costume!

The face of a concerned patriot, every bit as loyal as the thousands of meek citizens who peacefully overran police and rightfully sacked the Capitol on the Day of Love.

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Nazis relish inflicting mass misery

When they get the power to do it, Nazis don’t hesitate to terrorize and torture. It is essential to their power to keep people frightened and enraged. Their followers get a thrill out of watching weak people squirm and beg. Here in America, if there’s a law saying you can’t do some callous, evil thing, just point to Trump v. United States, which says, 6-3, if it’s a crime, but the president does it — relax! Alternatively, you can say what the notices firing federal workers, including top DOJ attorneys said in their entirety, “Article II”. This means, “suck it, I have the power, you don’t.”

Dan Rather reports on Project 2025’s plan to torture 45 million people with forced hunger (while killing hundreds of thousands in poor countries, so far, by defunding USAID) so that powerful pedophiles can remain protected and billionaires and their corporate alter-egos can attain permanent, unlimited power in our experiment in democracy:


Nearly 42 million Americans receive food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Originally called food stamps, it’s a program that’s been around for decades. I was covering the White House in 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the measure into law as part of the War on Poverty.

Last week, the Department of Agriculture said it will withhold money earmarked by Congress to pay for SNAP during the shutdown, the first time emergency funds have not been released in such a case.

Even though the USDA is legally required to fund the program, the president is holding the money hostage. You are reading that correctly. He is withholding food assistance from some of the most vulnerable Americans, more than 16 million of whom are children, in a political ploy to push the Democrats to fold.

One of those Democrats, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, called him out. “This is perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars out the door to Argentina and into his ballroom,” she said.

Democratic Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow did not hold back when encouraging her fellow senators to vote to temporarily fund SNAP. “The Trump administration and the Republicans supporting him are using food as a political weapon. This is a choice… They are choosing to let children go hungry. We will not stand for that choice,” she said. . .

. . . What should not get lost in all the scare tactics and the political paralysis in Washington is that tens of millions of people go hungry every day in America, the richest country in the world. And that is before the shutdown and callous political maneuvering. The small help some of them get, an average of $190 a month, is being weaponized by a billionaire.

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Demented malignant narcissist psychopath explains everything

Another corrupt, unquestionable pardon of a convicted criminal, this one a billionaire benefactor of the Trump boys, by President Project 2025. Heather gives his ultra-lucid response to a reporter asking about the pardon.

This afternoon, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about the pardon and whether it had anything to do with Zhao’s involvement in the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture.

“Which one? Who is that?…. The recent one? Yes, the? I believe we’re talking about the same person because I do pardon a lot of people. I don’t know, he was recommended by a lot of people. A lot of people say that—are you talking about the crypto person?—A lot of people say that he wasn’t guilty of anything. He served four months in jail, and they say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did, well, you don’t know much about crypto. You know nothing about, you know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news. But let me just tell you that he was somebody that, as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. But I’ve been told a lot of support. He had a lot of support, and they said that what he did is not even a crime. It wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration, uh, and so, I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people.”

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Very fine Nazis, on both sides, on both sides…

Last night, apparently furious at the implied criticism of his tariffs with the words of a Republican icon, as well as the fact that Canadians bypassed him by appealing directly to the American people, Trump announced on social media that “TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A.” He continued: “ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.” Today he continued to post pro-tariff messages, saying, for example: “THE UNITED STATES IS WEALTHY, POWERFUL, AND NATIONALLY SECURE AGAIN, ALL BECAUSE OF TARIFFS!” and “THE STOCK MARKET IS STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE BECAUSE OF TARIFFS!” . . .

. . . Trump appears to want the world to conform to his ideology in foreign affairs as well as in the domestic sphere, claiming the ultimate power over life and death without regard to the rule of law. When a reporter asked him yesterday why he didn’t ask Congress for a declaration of war against those South American drug cartels he claims are at war with the United States, Trump answered: “Well, I don’t think we’re gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war, I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. OK? We’re going to kill them. You know? They’re going to be, like dead. OK?” . . .

. . . And yet, for all the administration’s insistence that it can shape the world as it wants, it seems worried about the American people. Yesterday Trump dismissed the No Kings protests of last Saturday, saying the “crowds were not big at all” and claiming the signs were “all made professionally in a printing shop. Looks like on Madison Avenue someplace.” He said: “Some guy is paying for all that stuff…. These people are going crazy, they’re going crazy ‘cause they’re getting paid. ‘Cause there’s no reason for them to be going crazy, but you watch some of them, and they’re professional agitators, and we are finding out who’s paying them. Yeah. We have a lot of information about who they are. You’re gonna be very surprised when you find out.”

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New theory of the case from one of our favorite Nazi front groups.

Very fine Nazis, on both sides, on both sides…