Everyday I get emails telling me I need to "fight" - usually by donating or subscribing. But those with real power - Democrats, billionaires, media - have all bent the knee. Disney/ABC was a real gut punch. Trump loves weakness. Look how he's treating Trudeau. And now ABC is just another paper tiger. I spent years warning people about Trump and comparing him and his agenda to Hitler and the Third Reich. Friendships ended over it. Didn't matter. Trump threaded the needle and won because too many people couldn't be bothered to vote. It's amazing that so many people listened to billionaires telling them to vote against their best interests.
My MAGA neighbor came by last night with his girlfriend, and a lifelong friend from his childhood in Peru. Had the pleasure of calling him a moron to his lady friends.
Thanks, Tom. Although I was too young to remember first hand the Reichtag fire, I was certainly well aware of it during WW2. Unlike Germany, with only 30 days to fight back, we have 180 days, whether consecutive or business is immaterial. We must fight back - at least those of us who read and love the Constitution. Those who don't give a shit are condemned to whatever fate awaits them. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather die than face abject fascist authoritarianism.
I keep clicking on the few news sites I still read, refreshing the front page, hoping for the headline that TFG has had a massive stroke and is intubated and in a coma. Then I laugh to myself thinking about what all the MAGATs would do trying to steal the leadership and power while simultaneously being afraid he might recover.
Over the years reporting case law case, reading court orders to viewers & adroitly defending a civil suit against herself while producing a film & streaming pod casts, Rachel Maddow knows how to turn a legal defense into an aggressive offense. Regardless, Rachel & others will need assistance of all kinds.
Staying out of the meadow is likely a decent plan to begin. That and learning ways to resist surreptitiously as many did during Hitler's reign. If anyone needed to not certify the electoral college count in January, now's the time to be putting that plan together. Wouldn't that be something unexpexted?
A longer range legal plan was set in motion today by a Tennessee House Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) launched a Joint Resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution to elect the U.S. President by popular vote, One person & one vote period.
Recommending William Sheridan Allen, “The Nazi Seizure of Power,” Quadrangle Books, 1965, a study of how the Nazis subdued the town of Northeim (although he uses pseudonyms for the town and the people he interviewed ).
Comcast is a bill-collection company pretending to be a multi-media company. Disney is an over bloated Entertainment company that puts families in debt, took on more than it could chew when they brought some of Rupert's toys and have no way out of the mess they're in. Olbermann said on his podcast that Iger should sell ABC. Yeah, but to whom and at what cost? Sinclair still owes them $7 billion from the RSN's and that'll be reduced in the final bankruptcy settlement.
What a disaster…sewing chaos by threatening retribution has already put the miscreants on the path to victory. I’m not sure however how much real power Bannon will have. He’s good at speaking at large functions where he can rile up the base, but will he have an official position in the new administration?
Also Bannon and his ego made sure that everyone knew he was the man with the ideas and knowledge of how to do things and Trump very definitely doesn't appreciate sharing center stage or being made to look stupid (even though he is a very stupid man in so many ways). I'm just wondering when Muck will get shooed away from the tent.
The only thing to slow the nazi train is domestic and/or foreign crises, and I can see some on the horizon. Perhaps those flying items over Jersey and the East will deliver viruses, a reverse War of the Worlds, or they will queue up into a weird sign over DC. Perhaps a tsunami takes out MAL. Canada and Mexico could unite to put the squeeze on the US in both trade and immigration. Maybe Putin, Xi, the ayotollah, and Kim join forces and take out a few of our bases overseas. So many things could and may emerge that the plan to steal the freedoms of Americans will have to wait until it's too late to implement it because Americans will once again see that our national strength depends on our unity and will eliminate the agents of chaos, especially Bannon who's an assailant of both the eyes and the mind. He reminds me of our ongoing need for Drano.
Putin doesn't have the strength to do anything outside Russia other than his digital terrorism. His army has been decimated in Ukraine with a million casualties, and he just lost his position in Syria. In the meantime, Israel has kicked Iran's ass - they destroyed the anti-aircraft missile system for the country, then destroyed the drone factories; the Iranians also lost Hezbollah after the Israeli air force clobbered them and lost their position in Syria. The Ayatollah is now afraid the next raid will target his palace. If Biden had supported Ukraine like he did Israel, the war there would be over.
The speed with which democracies can fall is indeed well illustrated by Hitler’s Chancellorship in 1933. A little know fact is how many of those in his political bandwagon learned just how best to expidite such a takeover by the actions of British Unionism in pre Partition Northern Ireland.
What would become Northern Ireland offers what is a frequently unnoticed model for the interwar dictators. The political militias of fascism drew upon the conspicuous success of the UVF of 1912, and the new Unionist administrations response to the Belfast Pogroms of 1920/22 demonstrated the contempt for rule of law that would become a commonplace for Hitler and those he influenced. In the early 1930s Lord Northcliffe attempted to bring Sir Oswald Mosley together with Sir James Craig, the new PM in NI. Craig demurred. “The reason why such politics fail here is because we already fully cater for their audience”, was Craig’s answer.
Northern Ireland demonstrates chillingly just how easy it is for democratic norms to be simply set aside even in what appears to be a mature democracy.
Add to this structural historical social injustice, a too often overlooked poisonous political philosophical tenet, still quietly held by many British Nationalist in high places in N.I., of racial superiority (see today’s Irish News Opinion piece:https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-collins-spotlight-on-race-science-professor-long-overdue-IN7T2U3U7NHDLHU5KEXXCAQSAQ/), and the central role played by Northern Ireland’s political British Unionists in delivering the hardest kind of separation from the EU Brexit makes white supremacist sense 🐈⬛
Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" -- came from the name of a REAL PLACE?! I never read that book because the title repelled me. I had no idea that it was a place where he had actually, horrifically been! Back in high school, when the guys in the class would talk about the characters, I thought it sounded like crazy fantasy stuff -- no interest. Now (I looked it up), it turns out that PTSD was the source of the "crazy" stuff. Whew...
Everyday I get emails telling me I need to "fight" - usually by donating or subscribing. But those with real power - Democrats, billionaires, media - have all bent the knee. Disney/ABC was a real gut punch. Trump loves weakness. Look how he's treating Trudeau. And now ABC is just another paper tiger. I spent years warning people about Trump and comparing him and his agenda to Hitler and the Third Reich. Friendships ended over it. Didn't matter. Trump threaded the needle and won because too many people couldn't be bothered to vote. It's amazing that so many people listened to billionaires telling them to vote against their best interests.
I did as well, idiots stlll don’t get it
One a minute.
Trying to enjoy this last month of freedom, but it’s pretty darned hard.
Enjoy? I'm just trying to Endure.
My MAGA neighbor came by last night with his girlfriend, and a lifelong friend from his childhood in Peru. Had the pleasure of calling him a moron to his lady friends.
Thanks, Tom. Although I was too young to remember first hand the Reichtag fire, I was certainly well aware of it during WW2. Unlike Germany, with only 30 days to fight back, we have 180 days, whether consecutive or business is immaterial. We must fight back - at least those of us who read and love the Constitution. Those who don't give a shit are condemned to whatever fate awaits them. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather die than face abject fascist authoritarianism.
Fay Reid:"We must fight back". 🎯
Thank you, yes to cave in would be unforgivable.
Yes, please see my post above.
I keep clicking on the few news sites I still read, refreshing the front page, hoping for the headline that TFG has had a massive stroke and is intubated and in a coma. Then I laugh to myself thinking about what all the MAGATs would do trying to steal the leadership and power while simultaneously being afraid he might recover.
But alas, my dream is unfulfilled again today.
I have the same dream. Every night. The American version of "The Death of Stalin."
🎶 I keep having that same dream ... You can be in my dream if I can be in yours.🎶
Dylan "said that" in his 115th Dream.
A movie that can be funny only decades after the event.
But damn, that’s such a hilarious movie!
Over the years reporting case law case, reading court orders to viewers & adroitly defending a civil suit against herself while producing a film & streaming pod casts, Rachel Maddow knows how to turn a legal defense into an aggressive offense. Regardless, Rachel & others will need assistance of all kinds.
Who will have her back, no spines in sight
Staying out of the meadow is likely a decent plan to begin. That and learning ways to resist surreptitiously as many did during Hitler's reign. If anyone needed to not certify the electoral college count in January, now's the time to be putting that plan together. Wouldn't that be something unexpexted?
A longer range legal plan was set in motion today by a Tennessee House Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) launched a Joint Resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution to elect the U.S. President by popular vote, One person & one vote period.
Will the Roberts Court rule that every registered corporation be entitled to one vote as well? Perhaps the slogan should be “one breathing person”
Yes, but. None of this is in the least bit surprising. Frankly, it has been coming since Herbert Hoover was undermining FDR.
Yep, and the coup of 1933. But FDR had a lot on his plate back then…
Plan 1933
:-(
Now is the time to read about Hitler and how fast he was able to implement the unthinkable.
History class was a long time ago and it's easy to forget details.
The oligarchs in Russia and how Putin came to tame them is also worth a review.
Recommending William Sheridan Allen, “The Nazi Seizure of Power,” Quadrangle Books, 1965, a study of how the Nazis subdued the town of Northeim (although he uses pseudonyms for the town and the people he interviewed ).
Thanks GarySanDiego.
GarySanDiego, can you comment on BBC Select's "Rise of the Nazis". Quality historical footage & interviews.
Available in Canada & the United States.
Putin pulled a coup. With the money, just like chump
That's what I was going for.
Comcast is a bill-collection company pretending to be a multi-media company. Disney is an over bloated Entertainment company that puts families in debt, took on more than it could chew when they brought some of Rupert's toys and have no way out of the mess they're in. Olbermann said on his podcast that Iger should sell ABC. Yeah, but to whom and at what cost? Sinclair still owes them $7 billion from the RSN's and that'll be reduced in the final bankruptcy settlement.
What a disaster…sewing chaos by threatening retribution has already put the miscreants on the path to victory. I’m not sure however how much real power Bannon will have. He’s good at speaking at large functions where he can rile up the base, but will he have an official position in the new administration?
Probably not. Trump figured out he was a better bomb thrower outside the tent the first time.
Also Bannon and his ego made sure that everyone knew he was the man with the ideas and knowledge of how to do things and Trump very definitely doesn't appreciate sharing center stage or being made to look stupid (even though he is a very stupid man in so many ways). I'm just wondering when Muck will get shooed away from the tent.
But he uses people and throws them away. Is his time up?
Which one? They all are users who tend to place blame elsewhere and casually toss people under buses--Trump is merely first in line in that group.
Yep, out of range and busy as a bee
He has been busy overseas and a rabble rouser all over planet Earth. Still waiting to see where Rudy and Kevin Mc wind up
The only thing to slow the nazi train is domestic and/or foreign crises, and I can see some on the horizon. Perhaps those flying items over Jersey and the East will deliver viruses, a reverse War of the Worlds, or they will queue up into a weird sign over DC. Perhaps a tsunami takes out MAL. Canada and Mexico could unite to put the squeeze on the US in both trade and immigration. Maybe Putin, Xi, the ayotollah, and Kim join forces and take out a few of our bases overseas. So many things could and may emerge that the plan to steal the freedoms of Americans will have to wait until it's too late to implement it because Americans will once again see that our national strength depends on our unity and will eliminate the agents of chaos, especially Bannon who's an assailant of both the eyes and the mind. He reminds me of our ongoing need for Drano.
Putin doesn't have the strength to do anything outside Russia other than his digital terrorism. His army has been decimated in Ukraine with a million casualties, and he just lost his position in Syria. In the meantime, Israel has kicked Iran's ass - they destroyed the anti-aircraft missile system for the country, then destroyed the drone factories; the Iranians also lost Hezbollah after the Israeli air force clobbered them and lost their position in Syria. The Ayatollah is now afraid the next raid will target his palace. If Biden had supported Ukraine like he did Israel, the war there would be over.
https://theaviationist.com/2024/12/10/russia-will-send-su-27-mig-29-north-korea/
My hope is Musk gets thrown
under the bus due to his ego.
Trump's not going to be
outshined by anyone, no
matter how rich they are.
We can't give up! Am reading
a really good book "A woman
of No Importance" by Sonia
Purnell. It's about an
American spy and the French
Underground, true story. There's also a grassroots
organization taking on the
DNC. The link is on Robert
Hubell's Substack
today. They are going to mix
it up! Not one step back!
The speed with which democracies can fall is indeed well illustrated by Hitler’s Chancellorship in 1933. A little know fact is how many of those in his political bandwagon learned just how best to expidite such a takeover by the actions of British Unionism in pre Partition Northern Ireland.
What would become Northern Ireland offers what is a frequently unnoticed model for the interwar dictators. The political militias of fascism drew upon the conspicuous success of the UVF of 1912, and the new Unionist administrations response to the Belfast Pogroms of 1920/22 demonstrated the contempt for rule of law that would become a commonplace for Hitler and those he influenced. In the early 1930s Lord Northcliffe attempted to bring Sir Oswald Mosley together with Sir James Craig, the new PM in NI. Craig demurred. “The reason why such politics fail here is because we already fully cater for their audience”, was Craig’s answer.
Northern Ireland demonstrates chillingly just how easy it is for democratic norms to be simply set aside even in what appears to be a mature democracy.
Add to this structural historical social injustice, a too often overlooked poisonous political philosophical tenet, still quietly held by many British Nationalist in high places in N.I., of racial superiority (see today’s Irish News Opinion piece:https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-collins-spotlight-on-race-science-professor-long-overdue-IN7T2U3U7NHDLHU5KEXXCAQSAQ/), and the central role played by Northern Ireland’s political British Unionists in delivering the hardest kind of separation from the EU Brexit makes white supremacist sense 🐈⬛
Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" -- came from the name of a REAL PLACE?! I never read that book because the title repelled me. I had no idea that it was a place where he had actually, horrifically been! Back in high school, when the guys in the class would talk about the characters, I thought it sounded like crazy fantasy stuff -- no interest. Now (I looked it up), it turns out that PTSD was the source of the "crazy" stuff. Whew...