tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1343722087983876062024-03-18T17:42:24.337-04:00Dave Dubya's Freedom RantsWelcome to Dave Dubya's Free Speech Zone. Let us draw our inspiration from a true American icon.
“Irreverence is the champion of liberty, and its only sure defense.” – Mark Twain - 1888Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comBlogger611125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-65612582425785693252024-03-14T12:53:00.002-04:002024-03-14T12:53:42.457-04:00Democracy Or Republic?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE-uZHYXoAAszQw?format=jpg&name=large" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="654" height="511" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GE-uZHYXoAAszQw?format=jpg&name=large" width="417" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The
US isn’t a democracy. It’s a republic.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">How
many times have we heard this from election-denying insurrectionist liars?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of
course, like ALL authoritarians, they claim the right to unilaterally define
terms and their own delusional views of reality. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Orwell noted that the
destruction of language is a totalitarian propaganda tactic. In “1984”, the
Party’s Thought Police inquisitor O’Brien explains to Winston Smith between
torture sessions, “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words...Don't you
see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Orthodoxy
means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Fake
news”, “enemy of the people” and “Arbeit macht Frei” (Work sets you free.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The
Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their
final, most essential command.” – The Party (1984)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Just
remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's
happening.” – Trump</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Historian
and author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present” Ruth Ben-Ghiat <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/02/25/trump-2024-election-campaign-authoritarian-playbook/72711355007/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">writes</a> in “What
Happens to Language When Authoritarianism Takes Hold: Resist the Perversion of
Language and the Destruction of Meaning”,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">So,
authoritarians turn language into a weapon, as well as emptying key words in
the political life of a nation such as patriotism, honor, and freedom of
meaning. We are well on our way in America to what I call the "upside-down
world of authoritarianism", where the rule of law gives way to rule by the
lawless; where those who take our rights away and jail us pose as protectors of
freedom; where the thugs who assaulted the Capitol on Jan. 6 are turned into
patriots; and where "leadership means killing people," as Tucker
Carlson put it recently, justifying Vladimir Putin's killing of Alexei Navalny.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">This
is why authoritarians like Trumpists, neo-Nazis, autocrats and tyrants HATE the
very word “democracy”. That implies acceptance of election results, even when
their Dear Leader loses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Let’s
go back to the “US isn’t a democracy. It’s a republic”, lie spewed by the Trump
Cult. Why is it a lie? The definitions of those terms tell us it’s a lie.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">American
fascists need to REJECT established definitions and replace them with THEIR false
meanings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Any
time a Trumpist tries to gaslight us we need to immediately call them out.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Democracy”
comes from Greek for “rule of the people”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Republic” comes from Latin for “rule of the people”. They are synonyms.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Here
are the accepted Merriam-Webster definitions that fascists don’t want you to
know:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Democracy:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1a:
government by the people especially: rule of the majority<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">b:
<b>a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and
exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation
usually involving periodically held free elections</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">2:
a political unit that has a democratic government<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">3
capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the U.S. from
emancipation Republicanism to New Deal Democracy— C. M. Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">4:
the common people especially when constituting the source of political
authority<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">5:
the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Republic:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1a(1):
a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern
times is usually a president<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">(2):
a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">b(1):
<b>a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled
to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to
them and governing according to law<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">(2):
a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">While
we’re at it, here are a few other handy definitions to counter the radical Right
lies and gaslighting:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Merriam-Webster-
<b>Coup d'état: a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics, especially the
violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Merriam
Webster- <b>Terrorism: the unlawful use or threat of violence especially
against the state or the public as a politically motivated means of attack or
coercion</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">(FBI)
Domestic terrorism<b>: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or
groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as
those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Definitions matter. The essential meanings of words are on the front line in our resistance to tyranny. Don't let them weaponize language by destroying it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-46522685352654166982024-03-09T12:39:00.004-05:002024-03-10T08:46:26.212-04:00Why No Answers?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtxBHBFXsAAmGaF?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="680" height="281" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtxBHBFXsAAmGaF?format=jpg&name=small" width="397" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My experiment in eliciting honest answers from
the Trump Cult has shown us what we’ve known all along.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I fully understood no Trumpist would answer
any questions or fill in my convenient forms to show their evidence that would
“<a href="http://www.davedubya.com/2024/02/set-me-straight.html">set me straight</a>”. Hell, none of them could let me know when America was great
before 2016!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">This confirms they cannot answer
questions...unless their cult tells them the answer. An anonymous Trumpist sent
a link to the radical Right Federalist expressing their OPINION that Biden lied
30 times in his State of the Union Speech.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">So, I checked it out. I’m never going to say
Biden, or any politician, always tells the truth or gets his facts straight.
But the propagandists at the Federalist go to absurd extremes, AKA their
opinions and deceit, to falsely spin Biden as a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">One “lie” is Biden’s mispronunciation of a
woman named Laken Riley as “Lincoln”. It wasn’t part of his speech, but a
response to the disrespectful heckler Margie Greene. Biden offered his
condolences to her family as any decent person would.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">This is their “standard”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And: <i>Biden ludicrously contended that
America has “never fully lived up to” the idea that “we are all created equal.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Tell that to Geoge Floyd’s family or any of
the MILLIONS of drivers stopped by police for “driving while black”, and
thousands of others beaten while in custody. Tell that to Black Americans who live in
GOP gerrymandered districts that deprive them of a fair vote for
representation. Tell that to Ruby Freeman and niece, bullied by Trump and
Giuliani’s hateful racist LIES about them interfering in the election. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">More examples:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">1. Sending Money To Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Biden claimed that Republicans who oppose
sending additional U.S. taxpayer dollars to Ukraine are doing so because they
want America to “walk away from our leadership in the world.” That is false.
Opponents of endlessly funding Ukraine’s war with Russia have regularly stated
that American interests must come before those of other nations.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Only Trump and his MAGAts would think Putin
and his war promotes American interests. Trump envies and reveres Putin. This is their ONLY
reason for many Republicans to reverse their support for Ukraine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2. Trump’s NATO Remarks<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Biden claimed former President Trump told
Vladimir Putin, “Do whatever the hell you want,” regarding Russia’s invasion of
Eastern Europe. But that’s not accurate.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The former president’s remarks came during a
recent South Carolina rally, during which Trump recounted a story from when he
was president and speaking with a NATO member. Trump purportedly told this
state that he would withhold U.S. support if they didn’t pay their minimum
defense spending obligations.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’” Trump
recalled telling the unidentified NATO member. “‘No, I would not protect you.
In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta
pay. You gotta pay your bills.’”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">In other words, Trump SAID IT. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">3. World Security And Ukraine<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Biden claimed “the free world is at risk” if
the U.S. doesn’t ship more American taxpayer dollars to Ukraine. There is
literally no evidence to support this assertion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ukraine’s fledging democracy is at the front
line of the free world. Putin is a war criminal and tyrant who has THREATENED to use nuclear weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">4. Jan. 6 Demonstrations<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The president claimed that the Jan.6, 2021,
demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol and concerns and lawsuits regarding the
integrity of the 2020 election “posed the gravest threat to [American]
democracy since the Civil War.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How the hell is lying about winning and
attempting to criminally STEAL the election by mob FORCE, in addition to
orchestrating FRAUDULENT electors and bullying the DOJ and state officials to
interfere on his behalf NOT a threat to democracy?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">6. Kate Cox<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Biden claimed the life of Kate Cox, a Texas
woman who left the Lonestar State to obtain an abortion, was “at risk” during
her pregnancy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">As Susan Bane wrote in these pages, Cox’s
now-deceased unborn baby was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, “a condition associated
with severe developmental delays.” These children “can sometimes thrive into
their early twenties.” Cox was not at risk of dying from the diagnosis,
however.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Bane is a “pro-life” activist who wants a
young human to suffer a short life with terrible financial and emotional
burdens on parents. She LIED about the child’s ability to “thrive into their
early twenties”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">From the Cleveland Clinic:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22172-edwards-syndrome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What can I expect if I have a child with
trisomy 18?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">There’s no cure for Edwards syndrome (trisomy
18). Almost all pregnancies end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Of those
pregnancies surviving into the third trimester, nearly 40% of babies diagnosed
with Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18) don’t survive during labor, and nearly
one-third of the surviving babies deliver preterm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The survival rate varies for babies born with
Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Between 60% and 75% survive to their first
week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Between 20% and 40% survive to their first
month.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">No more than 10% survive past their first
year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Children born with Edwards syndrome (trisomy
18) will need specialized care to address their unique symptoms immediately
after they are born. The survival rate is low, especially if your child has
delayed organ development or a congenital heart condition. Out of the 10% who
survive past their first birthday, children go on to live fulfilling lives with
significant support from their family and caretakers, as most never learn to
walk or talk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">7. Covid Shots And Cancer<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Biden falsely claimed the Covid jabs are “now
being used to help beat cancer.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">From the National Cancer Institute:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2022/mrna-vaccines-to-treat-cancer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">In fact, scientists at both Pfizer-BioNTech
and Moderna drew on their experience developing mRNA cancer vaccines to create
their coronavirus vaccines. Now, some investigators believe the success of the
mRNA COVID-19 vaccines could help accelerate clinical research on mRNA vaccines
to treat cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">And on and on…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">There are a number of more objective and far
less partisan sources for fact-checking: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/mar/08/biden-2024-state-of-the-union-address/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/08/fact-check-state-of-the-union/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">https://www.factcheck.org/2024/03/factchecking-bidens-state-of-the-union/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The point is what they are TOLD and BELIEVE
matter far more than facts. The FACTS are Trump lost and lied in 2020. And when
facts are too complicated or unwelcome, they are not accepted. Myths,
fantasies, conspiracies and lies are what offer them BELIEFS, meaning, comfort,
and security. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Our radical right Trumpist commenters and all
their fellow authoritarian-following personalities will always believe their
authoritarian leaders. Their authoritarian nature allows, and welcomes, their
brain circuits to be re-routed by the constant barrage of lies their leaders
feed them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">All that matters to their Leader and his
sycophantic media and mouthpieces is to inculcate a willingness in their
targeted dupes to BELIEVE only what THEY and their propagandists tell them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">They tell them who to blame and hate, because
they have been threatened by or deeply wronged by those others. And it FEELS
good be identified with a group that is like-minded in paranoid beliefs of
"persecution" and "victimhood". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">They are bound in identity and purpose, in a
struggle against those who they BELIEVE are a threat or danger to their Leader,
themselves, and the BELIEFS they embrace as absolute truth. Their BELIEFS do
not require facts or examination. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It FEELS like truth because they emotionally
FEEL it. If a lie from the Leader makes them FEEL angry, they will BELIEVE it.
No facts or reasoning are required. Emotional reactions from their
authoritarian, over-active, and enlarged amygdala are easily triggered, and a
vast industry exists to trigger these FEELINGS to deeply implant BELIEFS their
leaders use as leverage for power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The BELEIFS reinforced by FEELINGS have taken
hold. Every word from their Leader is gospel, never to be questioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Trump becomes their quasi-religious leader in
their sacred cause to eliminate the "evil that threatens them" (the
political opposition and anyone with religious/social/racial/cultural
differences) and their leader, who they actually see as ONE of them. For that
they love and practically worship him. HE alone stands between them and the
darkness and evil that surrounds them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The authoritarian-following personalities who
have had their brain circuits re-routed by the constant barrage of lies their
leaders feed them will not be able to process what I'm saying. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">ONLY Trump and Republicans tell the truth.
They FEEL it. They BELIEVE it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">They will regularly regurgitate their BELIEFS,
but NEVER show verifiable information to support them. So, all they can do is
lie, accuse, demean, deflect and project. "YOU'RE the liars!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">They FEEL they don’t owe us any answers. And
why should they be answerable to “communist Trump-hating vermin”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be like the Inquisition being
obliged to answer Galileo , or an SS Officer being obligated to answer a Jew.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-10352588953791684142024-02-29T00:21:00.002-05:002024-02-29T08:16:51.098-05:00Supreme Obstruction And Interference<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6RfvpFawAAPcDa?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="455" height="449" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6RfvpFawAAPcDa?format=jpg&name=small" width="333" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">So,
my <a href="http://www.davedubya.com/2024/02/imaginary-immunity.html">prediction</a> on February 6 didn’t come true. I admit it was unrealistically
optimistic, which is why I called it a bold prediction.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">A
federal appeals court decided Trump’s immunity claims would reject "the
most fundamental check on executive power."</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
rationality, wisdom and common sense of this decision are as valid and sound as
any judgement could be.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Therefore,
I'm going to make a bold prediction that reflects this temporary surge of
optimism.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Supreme Court will NOT take up this inane case. It has been decided rationally,
thoroughly, and UNANIMOUSLY by the Appeals Court</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Even
Chief Justice Roberts should have the sense that taking up this nonsense would
be tantamount to open defiance of our rule of law and interference on behalf of
Trump in the upcoming election.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Court is already trying to shake off the stain of corruption and bribery. If he
wants the Court to regain any semblance of integrity, Roberts will deny Trump's
absurd assertion any further dignity in front of the Supreme Court. I think he
would make this clear to Trump's appointed justices and the corrupt Clarence
Thomas, whose wife may yet see criminal charges for HER ELECTION INTERFERENCE.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">There
may be a good chance even these partisan cronies would think twice about
saying, "Wait a minute. I think Trump SHOULD be above the law for the rest
of his life".</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">After
all, if that deranged notion is sound, then President Biden is free to legally
order Seal Team 6 to just take Trump out. And maybe a Justice or two as well.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvXnjN6XgAgS5g1?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="638" height="298" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvXnjN6XgAgS5g1?format=jpg&name=small" width="316" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">And
so, the stolen and stacked Trump Supreme Court of the United States wasted
valuable time to finally take up the absurd question of “presidential immunity”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">As
if it had planned it all along, the stolen and stacked Trump Supreme Court conveniently
timed and scheduled this case for the benefit of the criminal defendant Donald
Trump.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">As
if it had planned it all along, the stolen and stacked Trump Supreme Court imposed
a delay on Trump’s criminal trials that would also delay any verdict until
after the election.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">As
if it had planned it all along, the stolen and stacked Trump Supreme Court
decided to delay, hold up, hold back, make late, slow down, set back, bog down,
hinder, hamper, impede, and OBSTRUCT JUSTICE!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">If
the Roberts court had planned all along to aid and abet Trump’s election
interference crimes and attempted coup it would do EXACTLY what it is doing
now.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Roberts court essentially gave Trump a “stay out of jail free” card until after
the election, or if he wins, a “stay out of jail free” card for eternity. The
latter scenario would be a virtual coronation of Trump as king, or proclamation
of dictator for life, free to do whatever he wants to stay in power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
stolen and stacked Trump Supreme Court could have decided the issue BEFORE they
bumped the inane question of Trump’s immunity from criminal prosecution back to
the Court of Appeals. This alone indicated the Robert’s Court’s willingness to
aid and abet Trump’s gaming of the justice system by forcing continuous delays.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">They
didn’t need to accept this tactic from Trump’s sleazy lawyers. There was no rational justification to re-open Trump's can of worms that was INTENDED to delay justice and allow him a chance to elevate himself ABOVE THE LAW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">But they did. And it’s pretty damn hard to not
suspect that this is partisan political OBSTRUCTION of justice by delay, and therefore INTERFERENCE in the upcoming election.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
court is effectively DENYING the public’s RIGHT to hear and see the evidence of
Trump’s crimes BEFORE the election. The court is effectively DENYING the
public’s RIGHT to hear the verdicts of the juries BEFORE the election.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Justice
delayed for the American people is justice denied to the American people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-6931926191244043532024-02-26T12:23:00.003-05:002024-02-26T22:58:28.717-05:00Set Me Straight<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGGGep1XgAADjEi?format=jpg&name=900x900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="750" height="277" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGGGep1XgAADjEi?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="425" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Trump fans often leave comments that express their deeply emotional
reactions to events and topics I discuss, or don’t discuss. That’s fine. It
surely makes them FEEL better to vent. However, it would be more helpful towards civil and good faith discussion and debate if they could form their thoughts around information
and reasoning. We can all learn from shared knowledge if we allow it to pass
through our emotional filters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Therefore:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I WELCOME any information that would indicate I am
mistaken, misinformed or flawed in my reasoning. <b>Please set me straight</b>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Here
are some handy and simple forms to make it easier for Trump’s true believers
and supporters: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Dave, I have to say you are stating falsehoods by claiming
(_____) and (_______). These verifiable facts and evidence (_____) and (____)
suggest you are quite mistaken.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Also, this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><b style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump really won the 2020 election and here is the proof
of massive voter fraud that "senile" Joe Biden </b><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>brilliantly</b></span><b style="font-size: 14pt;"> orchestrated to steal it: ___________.</b><o:p style="font-size: 14pt;"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">And this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Trump WILL make America great again, like it used to be before 2016, from the
years_____ to ____.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally, this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Trump is being persecuted by the "deep state', "racist" Black
judges and prosecutors, and "communist" democrats by indicting him on "phony" charges. </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Here are the verifiable facts and evidence that exonerate him. 1. ____2. ____3. ____4. ___.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><br /></b></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-43127340213417213822024-02-20T19:37:00.013-05:002024-02-26T11:43:39.291-05:00Kremlin Agents<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGerNLpXcAAGTDm?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="680" height="294" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGerNLpXcAAGTDm?format=jpg&name=small" width="386" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Just in:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The former FBI informant charged with
lying about the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine told investigators after his arrest
that Russian intelligence officials were involved in passing information to him
about Hunter Biden, prosecutors said Tuesday in a new court filing, noting that
the information was false.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Prosecutors also said Alexander Smirnov
has been “actively peddling new lies that could impact US elections” after
meeting with Russian spies late last year and that the fallout from his
previous false bribery accusations about the Bidens “continue[s] to be felt to
this day.”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Smirnov claims to have “extensive and
extremely recent” contacts with foreign intelligence officials, prosecutors
said in the filing.~ CNN<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Imagine that.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As a follow up to my "<a href="http://www.davedubya.com/2024/02/russian-threat.html">Russian Threat</a>" post I'll share this telling exchange I had after </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">figuratively</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> wading into a MAGA fever swamp blog. Note how "Joe Conservative" reacted to the <a href="https://twitter.com/denvercunning/status/1757627424894845292">Cunningham tweet</a> from that post. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">~~~</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Joe
Conservative:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Since
Putin is FOR the de-NAZIFICATION of Ukraine. Does THAT mean that as an
anti-Russia/ anti-Putinist that the you're for Ukraine's NAZIFICATION?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">You're
pro-Navalny, right? The guy who marches with the far-right and refers to
Muslim's as cockroaches requiring extermination?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">~</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Dave Dubya:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Well,
well, our Kremlin agent -FJ/Joe Con seems animated in his work today. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Maybe
he's inspired by Tucker Carlson's shameless humiliation in front of Putin. But
that's OK. Tucker went out of his way to praise Russia anyway...like a useful
idiot.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Kremlin
agent -FJ/Joe Con doesn’t have to bother pretending to be a journalist to serve
Putin. He blurts it right out. If you’re against Putin, you’re pro-Nazi.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Who
the hell is stupid enough to BUY that? (Present company excepted)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">In
the same slimy spirit of praising a tyrant who seeks to dominate Europe, Asia,
and the Republican Party, Joe Con loyally promotes Putin's absurd
"De-Nazification" cover for his war crimes</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>"Since
Putin is FOR the de-NAZIFICATION of Ukraine."</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This
is LITERALLY Putin’s war propaganda. </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">And
you wonder why I call him a Kremlin agent?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">~~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This dangerous </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">"De-Nazification"</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">bullshit IS PUTIN'S INFO WAR on Ukraine, the United States and Europe. It is very real and very pervasive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Everyone who spreads this is wittingly or </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">unwittingly</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> a Kremlin agent.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Putin's tightening grip on Trump and the Republican Party is an immediate and lethal threat to our constitutional democratic republic. He is a threat to Europe and all democracies. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We need to call out, challenge, and CONDEMN the propaganda and disinformation from Putin's Kremlin agents. All of them. Everywhere. In the House. In the Senate. In the media. In every community. In every family. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We can do this without insulting them or calling them liars. We just let them know what they are saying is promoting Putin and his war.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Exhibit B:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">While in Russia where he humiliated himself in a Putin interview, Kremlin agent Tucker Carlson gushed from a supermarket, “Seeing how much things cost and how people live will radicalize you against our leaders, that’s how I feel radicalized. We’re not making this up by the way, at all.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According
to Russia's state-run propaganda agency, over 60% of Russians spend half their
salary on food. In the U.S., that number is roughly 11%, the highest it’s been
since the 1980s but still much smaller than most poorer nations.</span></span></span></span></p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
average wage in Russia is the equivalent of $14,771.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yeah, like he's only recently been radicalized. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">~~~~~~~~~~</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Note to my readers:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
WELCOME any information that would indicate I am mistaken, misinformed or
flawed in my reasoning. Please set me straight. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I understand this may be difficult for our fellow Americans and readers who believe and support Trump.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Here are some handy and simple
forms to make it easier for them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Dave,
I have to say you are stating falsehoods by claiming (_____) and (_______).
These verifiable facts and evidence (_____) and (____) suggest you are quite
mistaken.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Also,
this:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Trump
really won the 2020 election and here is the proof that Biden stole it:
___________.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
this:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Trump
will make America great again like it was in the years between_____ and ____.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><br /></span></span><p></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-45568637412627997362024-02-14T18:26:00.009-05:002024-02-15T12:28:50.696-05:00Russian Threat<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGZPdWKXEAAK0Ar?format=png&name=900x900" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="667" height="436" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGZPdWKXEAAK0Ar?format=png&name=900x900" width="407" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">CNN’s
Jim Sciutto <a href="https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1757830891504582847">tweeted</a>:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">House
Intel Committee Chair Mike Turner has made intelligence around a “serious
national security threat” available to all members of Congress to review. Two
sources familiar and a US official tell CNN the threat is related to Russia. -
Multiple sources familiar with the intelligence characterized the intelligence
as “very sensitive.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Earlier
Wednesday, Turner sent his Congressional colleagues a letter saying the urgent
matter is “with regard to a destabilizing foreign military capability.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Speaker
Johnson appears to be urging some calm: “We are going to work together to
address this matter, as we do all sensitive matters that are classified.…. But
we just want to assure everyone steady hands are at the wheel. We're working on
it — and there's no need for alarm.”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">~~~</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Um,
no matter what Putin’s puppet’s House Puppet says, I would suspect the opposite
to be true. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
suspect the current threat is about Russian missile/submarine capabilities, or
perhaps it’s cyber-security or other espionage. </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">(Update: It's an anti-satellite weapon.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">But there is a far more
immediate cause for alarm. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The ongoing threat by Trump and his minions in his
Party of Putin is still a clear and present danger to the republic and to
global peace and democracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump
and Republican Party of Putin ARE the greatest domestic threat within the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">This
<a href="https://twitter.com/denvercunning/status/1757627424894845292">tweet</a> by Bryan Cunningham, Executive Director of the Cybersecurity Policy &
Research Institute makes it chillingly clear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> ~~~</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">MEGA
MAGA DON'T BE GASLIT! (Bear With Me to the end). As a career, non-partisan,
intelligence professional, I actually don't know whether Trump, Speaker
Johnson, and some of the MAGA bootlicking Senators are ACTUALLY recruited
assets of Putin's Intelligence Services, b</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">ut
what I know FOR CERTAIN is that they could no more be doing Putin's bidding if
they WERE directly under Russian intelligence control. Ask ANY serious
intelligence professional what KGB Putin would want of high-ranking USG spies
and they would say...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">1.
Get the US out of NATO. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">2.
Invite Russia to invade Western Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">3.
Stoke and amplify all divisions in America, along racial, ethnic, &
religious fissures (i.e., make us hate each other). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">4.
Undermine Americans' trust in all of our institutions: FBI, CIA, DOJ, the
Courts and our heroic Military.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">CHECK,
CHECK, CHECK and CHECK.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Are
you starting to get it yet New Putin Simps? The "Art of the
Deal"-maker and his bootlickers are GIVING EVERYTHING TO PUTIN FOR FREE.
Great deal, eh? We ARE being invaded-not by immigrants but by Putin's
propaganda, fueled by MAGA. And REMEMBER: As bad as illegal immigration is,
they don't have nukes. Putin does.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">WAKE.
THE. FU@K UP!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">~~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Thank you, Brian. I couldn't have said it better.</span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-57572490131371677342024-02-06T12:13:00.004-05:002024-02-06T13:12:16.645-05:00Imaginary Immunity<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBA5nT5WcAAsAtA?format=png&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="600" height="440" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBA5nT5WcAAsAtA?format=png&name=small" width="413" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">A
federal appeals court decided Trump’s immunity claims would reject "the
most fundamental check on executive power."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>"We
cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded
authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on
executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor
can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to
violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes
count." <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>In
addition, they said that Trump's stance "would collapse our system of
separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three
Branches."</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>"Presidential
immunity against federal indictment would mean that, as to the President, the
Congress could not legislate, the Executive could not prosecute and the
Judiciary could not review.”</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>“Former
President Trump’s alleged efforts to remain in power despite losing the 2020
election were, if proven, an unprecedented assault on the structure of our
government. He allegedly injected himself into a process in which the President
has no role — the counting and certifying of the Electoral College votes —
thereby undermining constitutionally established procedures and the will of the
Congress.”</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
rationality, wisdom and common sense of this decision are as valid and sound as
any judgement could be.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Therefore,
I'm going to make a bold prediction that reflects this temporary surge of optimism.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Supreme Court will NOT take up this inane case. It has been decided rationally,
thoroughly, and UNANIMOUSLY by the Appeals Court</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Even
Chief Justice Roberts should have the sense that taking up this nonsense would
be tantamount to open defiance of our rule of law and interference on behalf of
Trump in the upcoming election.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Court is already trying to shake off the stain of corruption and bribery. If he
wants the Court to regain any semblance of integrity, Roberts will deny Trump's
absurd assertion any further dignity in front of the Supreme Court. I think he
would make this clear to Trump's appointed justices and the corrupt Clarence
Thomas, whose wife may yet see criminal charges for HER ELECTION INTERFERENCE.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">There may be a good chance even these partisan cronies would think twice about saying, "Wait a
minute. I think Trump SHOULD be above the law for the rest of his life".</span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">After
all, if that deranged notion is sound, then President Biden is free to legally
order Seal Team 6 to just take Trump out. And maybe a Justice or two as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-45582522115744594652024-01-22T13:58:00.009-05:002024-01-22T17:02:26.116-05:00"Fear And Loathing"<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_OKHCLXQAAAEHX?format=jpg&name=medium" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="363" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_OKHCLXQAAAEHX?format=jpg&name=medium" width="363" /></a></div><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And the Hypocrisy Award for projection and lies goes
to Nikki Haley’s, "I will not demonize this issue. (Reproductive rights
she would ban.) It's too personal. We have to start doing that. Democrats use
fear and Republicans use judgment".<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yes, Nikki. Your judgement deems a pardon for Trump's
dozens of crimes will heal the country. "This is no longer about
whether he's innocent or guilty. This is about the fact: How do we bring the
country back together?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Never mind the long history and deep catalogue of their
mendacious and malevolent hate and fearmongering. Stoking fear and loathing
through outrageous lies has been the essential means to power for tyrants
throughout history and it works for today's American radical Right white nationalists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some of us may recall these examples:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Obama the Marxist was born in Kenya!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"STOLLEN Election!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Witch hunt!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“CORRUPT AND WEAPONIZED COMMUNISTS DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED
DOJ.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Weaponized lawfare!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Cultural Marxism!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Fake News!"</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The press is the enemy of the people!"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“If the communists get away with this, it won’t stop with
me. They will not hesitate to ramp up their persecution of Christians, pro-life
activists, parents attending school board meetings, and even future Republican
candidates.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"They're coming after you and I'm just standing in
their way."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We pledge to you that we will root out the communists,
Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the
confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections. They’ll do
anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the
American Dream.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"They're poisoning the blood of our country!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Open border!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Invaders!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Replacement!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"MS-13!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Urban (Black) Crime!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"They're coming for your guns!!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Ban books, not AR-15s!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Critical Race Theory is racist hate!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Whites are the REAL victims of racism!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Drag queens are molesting our children!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"WOKISM!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just to mention a few...</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-48583282927860909302024-01-08T00:22:00.002-05:002024-01-08T00:23:51.861-05:00Trump Is Evil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E38U6luUUAYLvk5?format=jpg&name=large" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="728" height="480" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E38U6luUUAYLvk5?format=jpg&name=large" width="437" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Trump is evil. Period. Those who can't see that will need
to find their conscience first His supporters run the gamut from a neo-Nazi
level of evil to simple ignorance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We've all seen and heard from the worst of them. They
delight in cruelty and in the suffering of people they hate, calling them
"vermin" and "communists" or random racist slurs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This is why I use the term evil for such sociopaths. They
chose that path and refuse to consider any fact that Trump doesn't want them to
know.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">1/6 proved that many of them would KILL and DIE for Trump
and his lies. These are the evil ones.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It truly is a cult of evil, and they ARE the greatest
domestic threat to our democratic republic. They scorn empathy and compassion
as "woke" and "weakness". They hate and fear any educator
who teaches the history of slavery and racism. They despise their fellow
Americans in the LGBTQ community. We’ve seen their unrestrained rabid hate and
mockery for progressives and democrats. We need to look no further than to the
racists and bigots at Trump rallies, blogs like WYD, and in our comment
threads.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Nazis are evil. Fascists are evil. MAGA extremists are
evil. They are all deluded, deranged, and hostile to democracy, decency, and
equality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Yes, many Trump supporters are just dupes, too stupid or
gullible to know better, but they still MADE their choice to close their hearts
and minds to the truth. And they vote.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I have no doubt that many Trump VOTERS are not like the
cruel thugs we saw on 1/6/21.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Like most of us, they are usually kind to their family,
even if they might not vote like they do. They may even like them if they share
their religious beliefs. They might show courtesy to strangers or people who
don’t look like them. They may grudgingly respect veterans who don't vote like
they do. They haven’t surrendered their sense of basic human decency, but might
have listened to too much FOX® in lieu of more credible news sources.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But look how far too many of them act towards the rest of
us. The fanatics essentially worship Trump and embrace all his hate rhetoric
and lies as gospel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, this is NOT all Trump voters. Some hold their nose
as they mark their ballot. They don’t go as far as the others in their hate and
aggression. They are misguided, but not evil.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But a Nazi is a Nazi, no matter the IQ. The same goes for
Q-Anon sub-level of the cult, along with the other MAGA extremists who ARE
ignorant bigots, racists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis. The evil ones are
either sociopaths from the start or have simply surrendered what was left of
their conscience and mind to Trump.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Trump is evil. Trumpism is evil. Millions of his followers
are evil. Together they are poisoning the minds of Americans with hate and lies while ripping out the heart of our democratic republic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-34406728402288580672024-01-06T11:34:00.004-05:002024-01-06T12:01:49.665-05:00Insurrection: Year Three<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtxBHBFXsAAmGaF?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="680" height="324" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtxBHBFXsAAmGaF?format=jpg&name=small" width="457" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It's been three years.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump's Big Lie continues to inflame American fascism. His seditious lies have now captured most of the Republican Party. They have abandoned truth and decency, goose-stepping in lockstep loyalty to their Fuhrer and his violent Putsch. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He has yet to face justice for his crimes against America and our elections. It SHOULDN'T have to come down to the voters again. The critical mass that decides our future will be settled in the court cases of "the United States v Donald Trump" and "Georgia v Donald Trump". And it also seems likely to be in "Michigan v Donald Trump". The rule of law MUST prevail, or the republic is dead. Until then, the</span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> darkness of lies and fascism still looms over our democracy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We will also soon see just how corrupt and deep in Trump's pocket the Supreme Court will prove to be. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here is what I wrote three years ago today.</span></p><p>~~~~~~~</p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">"What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States." The truth was spoken by Mitt Romney, the only Republican senator with a conscience during the impeachment trial. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">January 6, 2021 will live in infamy. Like the burning ships at Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the falling towers on 9-11, we have the searing images of Trump's America. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The stunning pictures for this page in history will show Trump's mob committing open insurrection at the Capitol Building. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">This Insurrection Day, Trump and the Republican radical Right brought their war on American democracy to its inevitable endgame. The brainwashed herd mentality of the Trump Cult was activated into a raging mob mentality.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The president’s invitation to insurrection went out on twitter<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: “Be there, will be wild!”The BIG Protest Rally in Washington, D.C., will take place at 11.00 A.M. on January 6th. Locational details to follow. StopTheSteal! “<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">One of Trump’s loyal patriots responded, “I’m thinking it will be literal war on that day. Where we’ll storm offices and physically remove and even kill all the D.C. traitors and reclaim the country.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">How could anyone have predicted what would happen?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">What possible harm could be inspired by Toadie Rudy suggesting, “Let's have trial by combat” at the rally?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The BIG Protest Rally speech concluded with marching orders. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Ave ... and we're going to try and give our Republicans -- the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help -- we're to try and give them kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country...so let’s walk down Pennsylvania Ave.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">So they walked down Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Well, not including their brave leader, of course.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The objective of their mission was the US Capital Building, to give the “weak Republicans the pride and boldness that they need to take back our country”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">In their indoctrinated cult delusions, this was a righteous crusade for freedom and justice for Trump. He was cheated out of power and glory by a stolen election. He was cheated by “far left radical democrats” and “weak Republicans”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">And they were all his fellow victims. Because he TOLD them so.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Onward they marched down Pennsylvania Ave to Capitol Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Security for the constitutional certification of election results was a small fraction of what was deemed suitable for a BLM protest. Trump’s “patriots”, easily swarmed past the capitol police.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">I mean, it’s not like there was a large angry mob in the neighborhood that could somehow be a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Barricades were torn down, and the mob stormed the entrances.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">As mayhem brewed outside, treachery brewed inside.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">In the House chamber, a dozen Republican Senators and other House Republican insurrectionists moved to silence the voice of the American people and overturn a fair and open election.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Their objection over the Arizona votes required the Senate to return to their chamber to debate the objection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">It was time for Mitch McConnell’s speech on the “most important” vote of his career. It was beautiful. Too bad about the late timing thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">“We’re debating a step that has never been taken in American history, whether Congress should overrule the voters and overturn a presidential election...<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Self-government, my colleagues, requires a shared commitment to the truth, and a shared respect for the ground rules of our system.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a separate set of facts and separate reality, with nothing in common except our hostility towards each other and mistrust for the few national institutions that we all still share.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">...The United States Senate has a higher calling than an endless spiral of partisan vengeance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">It would be unfair and wrong to disenfranchise the voters and overrule courts and the states in this extraordinarily thin basis.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Finally I agree with him. How long until he forgets that part about “a separate set of facts and separate reality”? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">And when did he care about, "shared commitment to the truth, and a shared respect for the ground rules of our system"? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Bygones, I'm sure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Only about half the insurrectionist Senators dropped their objections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Of course Moscow Mitch had to blame Democrats for being just as bad. He wanted to show he was more decent than they were, what with all their non-seditious and constitutional efforts to hold Trump accountable. You know, as in “attacking the president’s legitimacy”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Same thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Meanwhile windows were smashed and Trump’s Traitors streamed into the Capitol. Some capitol police tried to delay the mob, as another posed for a selfie with a criminal rioter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The fascist insurrectionists were headed for the Senate Chamber. It was time to evacuate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The Trump Mob surged through the Capitol, vandalizing and breaking into offices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Some of them proved their depth of stupidity matched their hate and ignorance. After breaking into the office of the Speaker of the House, one posted pictures of his crime on social media. And he wasn't the only "law and order patriot" to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Then the coup went from bloodless to bloody. Someone was shot and killed at the United States Capitol.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Trump’s America has ended the long tradition of peaceful transition of power. He sent a horde of domestic terrorists into the heart of our democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Enough. It was time to consider the REAL victims.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The compassionate and loving Leader of the insurrection consoled his mob with a pre-recorded televised message.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"><i>"I know you're in pain. I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen. It was a landslide. But you have to go home now...we love you, you're very special."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">And good little goose-steppers obediently stand back and stand by. Well, mostly. Curfews are for BLM and their anti-police brutality and anti-racism protests.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Have we finally settled the debate on "Worst US President Ever"?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">During the maelstrom of madness that was raging through our nation’s Capitol Building, public servants honorably served our country. It was during the scramble to evacuate the Senate Chamber.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The Electoral College ballots were rescued from the Senate floor by real patriots. In denying Trump’s insurrectionists their prize, two women scored a very real, and symbolic, victory for American democracy over American fascism.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">It's time for the rest of us to do what we can to stand with them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The MAGAt "Beer Belly Putsch" will fail, but it tells us it isn’t just words and threats anymore. The country needs to see this open coup condemned and shut down, with consequences suffered, top to bottom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The world watches, horrified along with the rest of us. Trumpism and the radical Right MUST be rejected and repudiated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The election will stand and justice must be done.</span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-70267641478813683512023-12-22T14:07:00.009-05:002023-12-24T19:26:06.516-05:00Democratic Socialism<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsXGjO9WcAIehKQ?format=jpg&name=900x900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="392" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsXGjO9WcAIehKQ?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="392" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">We
hear it all the time from Trump and his fanatical cult followers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Democrats
and any others who oppose him or seek to hold him accountable to the rule of
law are smeared as “Communist/socialist/fascist/racists”. The racist accusation
is for any Black prosecutor or Attorney General who would apply just punishment
for his crimes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Clearly,
all these derogatory terms are cast without regard to their actual definitions.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">They are simply words meant to convey their
rabid indoctrinated hate for anyone who dares oppose their cult leader.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">One
phrase we NEVER hear from them is Democratic Socialism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">This
is the term Bernie Sanders uses to identify his political positions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Democratic
Socialism is the idea of a government of, by and for the people in service to
the public interests and general welfare of its population. It is defined by the
ideal and application of a democratic republic based on fair elections and fair
representation for its citizens.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">It
is NOT “Marxism, communism or fascism”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">We
hear the radical Right howl, “Hitler was a socialist! The Nazi party has socialist
in it name!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">That
is how they will dismiss any further discussion of the matter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
joined a small party that used "socialism" in its name. Hitler was a
fascist, and nothing like a democratic socialist. Nazis didn't gain power by promoting ideals of representative democracy, and public services like healthcare and
education. They HATED labor unions. It was about power, retribution,
antisemitism, racism, militarism and a police state.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">They
outlawed reproductive freedom for women and homosexuality. Then their Holocaust
proved to be the OPPOSITE of socialism. It's called GENOCIDE.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Communists
call themselves socialists because it sounds less dictatorial. Dictatorship is
not social democracy.</span> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Is
dictatorial communist North Korea a Democratic Republic because they say it is?
No.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">And
that is key.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Dictators
run dictatorships, NOT democratic socialistic societies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Democracy
is what defines democratic socialism. Public healthcare and public education
and public utilities along with other public services that support what we
believe should be RIGHTS of the people to fair elections and representation, to
the public good, to the general welfare.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">In
fact, the US Constitution is democratic socialist in nature. It calls for
democratic elections of leaders and peaceful transfer of power, with limits
placed on govt. power in our Bill of Rights.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
US Constitution calls for taxes, regulation of commerce, and provision for the
general welfare. ALL of this is called socialism or even communism by the
American radical Right. They don't want to admit what is in our foundation of
law.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Sweden,
Denmark, Finland and other western European countries have such elements of
democratic socialism. The right will try to deny this or say they are “failing”
despite the level of happiness in those countries are far above what is in the
US. They are healthier and better educated. Having the RIGHT to healthcare and education helps assure this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">When
Americans speak of democratic socialism, we mean the ideals in our Declaration of
Independence and foundation of law in the Constitution. The right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", (including healthcare and education), equality under law, and
a "more perfect union" were, and are, the goals. A path toward those ideals was made
by allowing a process to amend the Constitution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">So
the Right will evade any discussion of the actual meaning of democratic
socialism. They need to redefine or completely fabricate the meanings of words.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">A refusal to agree on definitions of words is a large part of the problem. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Communication and compromise break down when one side demonizes and defines the
other to its propaganda message. It is always the authoritarian side that
benefits from the twisting of terms.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Orwell
covered this in "1984" with "newspeak" and the destruction
of language. It was a warning, not a guidebook.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">But
the American radical Right seems to regard the book more as an operating manual for their
political agenda.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">And Orwell was a socialist. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">If you want to annoy a pontificating white Trumpist who tries to show he's "not racist" by quoting Martin Luther King's words, tell him what he doesn't want to know.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">He was a democratic socialist.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>“Call
it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better
distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">–
Speech to the Negro American Labor Council, 1961</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>“Capitalism
forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in
the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher
synthesis.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">–Speech
to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">~~~~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">It would seem "democratic socialism" is too complex and scary as a concept
for Americans.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Maybe
it should be called "Liberalism", or "progressivism". Oh,
but those terms have been demonized out of political discourse by the
radical Right too.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
got it! "Universal Socially Applied Capitalism" or "</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">USA
Capitalism". How does that sound?</span></p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"></span></span><p></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com124tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-24129938758669854992023-11-12T12:27:00.003-05:002023-11-12T13:58:25.158-05:00MAGA "Mein Kampf"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-vVtp-bEAA1duP?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="542" height="451" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-vVtp-bEAA1duP?format=jpg&name=small" width="409" /></a></div><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I don't care if someone thinks I'm overreacting. I don't care if anyone says I'm redundant or obsessed. Anyone who doesn't recognize the rising existential threat to our republic has their own issues of burying their heads in the sand, or up Trump's ass.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">With every passing day our indicted </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">racketeering</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> serial criminal and former president goes farther down the path towards white nationalist fascism.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump
turned a national holiday greeting into a virtual neo-Nazi assault against fellow
Americans who don’t support him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">He
marked Veterans Day with a screed that echoes Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Replace "fascists" with "Jews" and "America" with "Germany", and we see the disturbingly identical rhetoric of Hitler's Nuremberg rally.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">In
honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day, we pledge to you that we will
root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live
like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal, and cheat on
Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to
destroy America, and the American Dream. The threat from outside forces is far
less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within. Despite the
hatred and anger of the Radical Left Lunatics who want to destroy our Country,
we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
draft dodging coward desecrates the honor and sacrifices made by real American patriots.
He called them “losers” and “suckers” as he refused to go to a military cemetery
on a rainy day because it would get his hair wet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">He
didn’t want any wounded veterans near him because it didn’t “look good” for him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Instead,
he praises his insurrectionist thugs and admires cruel dictators like Putin, Kim,
Xi and Orban.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump
is a tyrant.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Like
every autocrat before him, he promises, <b>"If I happen to be president, and
I see somebody who is doing well and beating me very badly, I'll say, 'go down
and indict them.'"</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Indict
them for what? The “crime” of being supported by more voters? By falsely
claiming that Biden is abusing his powers to weaponize the Justice Department,
Trump is laying the groundwork to weaponize it himself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">As
revealed in the nefarious “Project 2025”, he intends to purge the US Government
of everyone who won’t swear loyalty to HIM. He wants the Justice Department to
be his political enforcement police. His own private Gestapo.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">He
echoes Hiter in more ways than most Americans will comprehend.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">In
"Mein Kampf" Chapter 11 titled, "Nations and Race," Hitler
wrote the following:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">"All
great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race
died out from blood poisoning."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">And
"Adolf" Trump </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">echoes the Fuhrer's racist white nationalism all the
way with:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">“Nobody
has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from
prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know
they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right
now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our
country.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">He sounds like someone with a "final solution" for people he hates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump both HATED a free press. Journalism has always been seen as a threat
by tyrants.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
German Nazis used the term “Lügenpresse”, or lying press, in their campaign to
destroy journalism. Now American fascists cry “liberal media”, “fake news” and
“enemy of the people” when their lies are exposed, and the truth threatens
their agenda.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
said, “What good fortune for those in power that people do not think”.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump
said, "I love the poorly educated".</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump were/are both ultra-nationalist white supremacists.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler and Trump used these ultra-nationalist slogans:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler: "Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!" (One people. One Realm. One Leader.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump: "One people. One family. One glorious nation."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump pretended to be victimized by minorities and stoked racist hate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump gained support by demonizing and scapegoating minorities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump loved large rallies of racist loyal fanatics to lie, demonize, blame,
and falsely accuse those they hated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Every
German Nazi pledged loyalty to the Fuhrer. Every American neo-Nazi is a Trump
supporter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
imprisoned all political opponents. If not for our Constitutional rule of law,
Trump would imprison his political opponents. He openly threatened to jail
Hillary Clinton</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump would accuse anyone standing in his way of being a communist or
Marxist, Jews in Hitler’s case, and Democrats, Black prosecutors, and judges in
Trump’s. He calls every Black DA and prosecutor who holds him accountable for
crimes “racists”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump were/are insurrectionist criminals. They</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> each incited a violent political insurrection to seize power. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler's Putsch was in 1923 and Trump's Putsch was January 2021.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
had brown shirts and his SS thugs. Trump has his Proud Boys and Oath Keepers
thugs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
had Goebbels. Trump has OAN, FOX(R), Newsmax, etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
hated democracy. Trump tried to overturn our election.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler and Trump encouraged police brutality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump admired Russian tyrants.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump demanded loyalty over competence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump smeared educators and liberals who disagreed with them as
“Communists”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump were/are anti-union.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">On
May 2, 1933, just three months after Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor
of Germany, the SA and police occupied the offices of German Trade Unions,
seizing control of them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
NLRB members Trump appointed made it more difficult for unions to win
representation at nonunion workplaces. He issued three Executive Orders aimed
at degrading the rights of federal sector employees.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">On
the day Biden stood with the UAW union strikers, Trump held a rally at an
anti-union company with FAKE union supporters. One individual in the crowd who
held a sign that said "union members for Trump," acknowledged that
she wasn't a union member when approached by a Detroit News reporter after the
event. Another person with a sign that read "auto workers for Trump"
said he wasn't an auto worker when asked for an interview. Both people didn't
provide their names.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump pandered to Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">"The
National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in
the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend
those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards
Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the
basis of national life."</span></i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> - Adolf Hitler "My New World Order"
- Proclamation to the German Nation, Berlin, February 1, 1933</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump
brandished a Bible for a photo op after GASSING non-violent protesters
objecting to police brutality. After lying about the Bible being his “favorite
book”, he couldn’t even cite a single passage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hitler
and Trump were/are bigots who demonized homosexuals and denied women reproductive
freedom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">On
October 10, 1936 Heinrich Himmler created the Reich Central Office for
Combating Homosexuality and Abortion, or Special Office (II S), a
sub-department of Executive Department II of the Gestapo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump
appointed unqualified theocrats to the Supreme Court to appease anti-abortion
right-wing Christians.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">When
neo-Nazi fascists tell you who they are, believe them the first time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Trump
declared: “Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination
of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">When
enemies of the Constitution tell you what they are, believe them the first
time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com182tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-37907473804852088382023-11-09T12:07:00.010-05:002023-11-10T13:09:20.577-05:00Political Purity <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-09/4/16/asset/00741fdf07c6/sub-buzz-14570-1599236210-11.png?crop=628%3A789%3B57%2C26&downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="628" height="527" src="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-09/4/16/asset/00741fdf07c6/sub-buzz-14570-1599236210-11.png?crop=628%3A789%3B57%2C26&downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto" width="420" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We
recall when Senator Al Franken was forced to resign over a gag photo, a far less transgression of decency than what every damn insurrectionist Republican has said and done.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And here they go again. Twenty-two “Political Purity Police” Democratic House representatives
have emulated their Senate counterparts in joining Republicans in censuring their fellow party members.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif">First
let’s examine the “politically correct” rhetoric Democrats didn’t censure.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Republican
Marjorie Taylor Greene:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"I
am not going to mince words with you all. Democrats want Republicans dead and
they have already started the killings."</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On
Trump’s January 6, 2021 coup:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>“You
can’t allow it to just transfer power ‘peacefully’ like Joe Biden wants and
allow him to become our president.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"I
want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would
have won. Not to mention, we would've been armed."</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All
politically correct with no censure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Republican
Lauren Boebert:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>“No
more diversity, equity, or inclusion! We must stand up America, and end
equality now!!”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>“The
church is supposed to direct the government…I’m tired of this separation of
church and state junk.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Boebert on
Trump’s January 6, 2021 coup:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>“Today
is 1776!”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"The
Speaker has been removed from the chambers."</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All
politically correct with no censure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Republican
Rep. Brian Mast:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>“I
think when we look at this, as a whole, I would encourage the other side to not
so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians. I don't
think we would so lightly throw around the term innocent Nazi civilians.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This
was also deemed politically correct when Democrats pulled their own censure
resolution against this bigot. Instead twenty-two of them chose to censure the innocent
Palestinian civilian in congress the Republican bigot equated with being a Nazi.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The outrage is in reaction to Democrat
Rep. Rashida Tlaib saying, </span><i>“From
the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and
peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate. My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people
no matter faith or ethnicity.”</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Outraged
politically correct Democrats joined fellow politically correct Republicans
like Boebert and Greene to censure Tlaib’s politically incorrect words.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tlaib’s
sin was she failed to utter the politically correct version.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Netanyahu's
far Right political party Likud declared in its original party platform. <b><i>"Between
the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty,"</i></b> reads the
document, which also argued that a Palestinian state "endangers the
existence of the State of Israel."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So
Tlaib was censured by the “Political Purity Police” Democratic House
representatives for far less than what every damn insurrectionist, pardon-seeking
House Republican has said and done.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To
those Trumpists howling and accusing others of being antisemitic, why can’t you see the
beam in YOUR eye?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Trump
welcomed outspoken antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes to dinner at
Mar-a-Lago.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Turning
Point USA founder Charlie Kirk accuses Jews of supporting Marxism. He wants to end teaching Holocaust history as well
as the history of American slavery and racism:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Jews
have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters
of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years. Stop supporting causes that hate
you. Now, you might say, well, how is one thing applied to the other? If you
train a generation, if you do everything through an oppressor, oppressed lens,
they will apply that lens to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The same way that they
apply it to the police issue, the gender issue, good guy, bad guy, somebody on
top, somebody on bottom.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Until
you cleanse that ideology from the hierarchy in the academic elite of the west,
there will not be a safe future. I'm not going to say Israel won't exist, but
Israel will be in jeopardy as long as the western children, children of the
west, are being taught, with primarily Jewish dollars, subsidizing it, to view
everything through oppressor oppressed dynamic. Until you shed that ideology,
you will not be able to build the case for Israel, because they view Israel as
an oppressor.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The One Rule of American politics stands. It’s OK if you are a Republican. Even antisemitism. </span></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-62277419405628276272023-10-29T13:35:00.004-04:002023-10-29T13:36:08.096-04:00 Not Neo-Nazis<p><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5_WDpTXwAApU4M?format=jpg&name=large" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="412" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5_WDpTXwAApU4M?format=jpg&name=large" width="412" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">After
venting my frustration and anger over our American radical Right’s war on
truth, decency, and democracy, I’ve decided on a kinder gentler term for
addressing this authoritarian, insurrectionist, Trumpist, white nationalist
Christian movement. I want to clarify my position. They are NOT all neo-Nazis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I’ve
elaborated for several years on their similarities to the original Nazis of
Hitler’s Third Reich. Their shared extremist sentiments are easily found in any
list of the characteristics of fascism. Intolerance of diversity, blatant racism,
authoritarian nationalism, amplified anger, and resentment towards those they
need to scapegoat to frame their manufactured sense of victimhood, white Christian
identity, a blind loyalty to strongman leader who appeals to their bigotry and tells
them who to blame and hate, etc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
distinguished them from Hitler’s National Socialist fascism by referring to them
as American neo-Nazis, since they share the same type of bigotry and authoritarian
personality. These are the Americans who would have been ardent Nazis had they
lived in 1930’s Germany.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Holocaust
survivors have expressed their disturbing realization, witnessing the growth of
this same kind of white nationalism festering under Trump as it’s beloved
Fuhrer. A friend’s elderly mother who was a German war bride reacted to Trump
with exasperation, “I should have STAYED in Germany”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
have reconsidered how much I have used the term “neo-Nazi” for Trump’s loyal
supporters. Some truly are. It’s not for lack of similarities, but technically
speaking, most are not neo-Nazis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">In
2017 we all saw the real tiki torch neo-Nazis at Charlottesville chanting, “Jews
will not replace us!” They are Trump supporters. So were all the others who
attended the deadly “Unite the Right” rally. Marchers included members of the
alt-right, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis,
Klansmen, and far-right militias. All of them are Trump supporters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Notable
attendees were neo-Nazi Daily Stormer writers Robert "Azzmador" Ray
and Gabriel "Zeiger" Sohier-Chaput, white supremacists Richard
Spencer and David Duke, and Daily Caller contributor and rally organizer Jason
Kessler.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Again,
not all Trump voters are white nationalists or bigots. Many are mis-uninformed,
incurious, or just gullible. And while not
all of the bigoted Trump loyalists are neo-Nazis, they ARE radical right American
white nationalist “Christians”. And they will insist they are conservatives and
Christians.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Just
ask them. It’s not the first time fascists presented themselves as such.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">“It
regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family
as the basis of national life."</span></i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> - Adolf Hitler, Proclamation to the German
Nation, Berlin, February 1, 1933</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">By
their fruits we will know them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Henceforth
in consideration of their delicate sensitivities I’ll refer to Nationalist
Conservatives as “Nat-Cs”. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Urban Dictionary even defines Nat-C: “A Nationalist Conservative who doesn't
believe they are racist, xenophobic, homophobic, religious zealots, in a cult
even though they are.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Close
enough.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">And
I’ll add a note to any white Nationalist Conservative who might take umbrage and
strongly disagree with my words. I get it. They have strong opinions, albeit
usually groundless. My opinion on opinions is <a href="http://www.davedubya.com/2023/08/opinions-belief-v-fact.html">here</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
sincerely welcome their corrective facts, evidence, and information if I am in
error.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Usually,
their dissenting opinions are limited to “But the Biden Crime Family™” and
name-calling.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">To
assist our fellow Americans in forming a cogent rebuttal to my points, I offer
this easy-to-use template.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">“Dave,
I have to say you are stating falsehoods by claiming (_____) and (_______).
These facts and evidence (_____) and (____) suggest you are quite mistaken.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Sounds
simple, right?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Alas,
not as simple as regurgitating indoctrination and flinging personal insults.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Perhaps
the "F" and "E" words derail them?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-66511239023775768212023-10-25T15:16:00.008-04:002023-10-25T17:54:15.291-04:00Trump's Traitors<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9S4fDXaoAAGr1Q?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="680" height="322" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9S4fDXaoAAGr1Q?format=jpg&name=small" width="420" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">MAGAt
slimeball loyalist Mike Johnson has been elevated to Speaker of the House under
direct orders from their criminal party leader. This is how democracy falls to
fascism. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Here are his "qualifications":</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Johnson
was one of the organizers behind an amicus brief signed by more than 100
Republican members of Congress urging the Supreme Court to consider
invalidating the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, Georgia,
Michigan, and Wisconsin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">His betrayal of our democracy was clearly echoing Trump:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>“In
every election in American history, there’s some small element of fraud,
irregularity, error. We just know that. You just accept that that’s the case.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>But
when you have it on a broad scale, when you have, you know a software system
that is used all around the country that is suspect because it came from Hugo
Chavez’s Venezuela. When you have, you know, testimonials of people like this
but in large numbers, it begs to be litigated and investigated. And the problem
is, it’s exceedingly difficult to do that in a 45-day time window. You know,
and that’s the problem that we’re up against. And that’s why the president is
so frustrated and that’s why so many, so many 71, 73 million Americans around
the country feel like the election was stolen from them.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ligatures: standardcontextual;"><i>The allegations about these voting machines, some of
them being rigged with this software by Dominion. Look, there’s a lot of merit
to that. And when the president says the election is rigged, that’s what he’s
talking about.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Johnson
<a href="https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1717190984499425785">revealed</a> that he believes Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are
“absolutely” a threat to our American way of life and “our whole form of
government.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">It
isn't enough for the fascist traitors to gut our Constitutional provision for
the general welfare. They are actively working to overturn the next election
for their Malevolent Mendacious Messiah. House Republicans are in locked
goosestep following their Furious Fuhrer’s demand for an insurrectionist Speaker
of the House. (Watch Mike Johnson attempt to steal the 2024 presidential
election, as he tried in 2020.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">America’s
neo-fascist party of Trump share the same fanatic loyalty to their Fuhrer as Hitler’s Nazis had for theirs in the last century.
American authoritarians are no different from German authoritarians. They
just haven’t faced the destruction their ideology can wreak. The gaggle of
House Republicans supporting Johnson booed and told a reporter to “Shut up”
after asking about his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">"Shut up" is the universal fascist message to journalism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Like
Hitler and his Nazis, American neo-Nazis demonize and scapegoat the press,
educators, liberals, unions, equal justice under law, elections, and every
defender of democracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">They
are a party of racists and bigots who relentlessly attack minorities and LGBTQ people.
This is MAGA. This is hate. This is evil.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">They
delight in lying about, and punishing, people they detest. Look no further than
how Georgia election workers who happened to be Black were treated. Trump and
Giuliani viciously smeared and slandered Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, accusing
them of cheating for Biden. Their lives were threatened by a number of
Republican thugs, emulating the tactics of Nazi Brown Shirts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
same kind of threats were leveled against FELLOW REPUBLICANS who wouldn’t support
Jim Jordan for House Speaker.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">But
they spew their most vile bile and blame towards President Biden. Remember the “Biden
did this” stickers on gas pumps, as if HE personally jacked up the prices?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">It
should come as no surprise that these as well as all their accusations are really
confessions. It’s always projection from the fascist party of Trump.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">On
4-2-2020 Trump tweeted: <i>“Just spoke to my friend MBS (Crown Prince) of Saudi
Arabia, who spoke with President Putin of Russia, & I expect & hope
that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels, and maybe
substantially more which, if it happens, will be GREAT for the oil and gas
industry!”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Shell
raked in $9.45 billion in profits last quarter of 2022 and has announced $4
billion in stock buybacks, but American consumers are supposed to blame
government spending for inflation?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">ExxonMobil
currently benefits from very generous federal tax subsidies, ranging from the
tax exemption on Foreign Oil & Gas Extraction Income (FOGEI) & Last-In
First-Out (LIFO) accounting method. Every year these tax subsidies cost the
American taxpayers an average of $19billion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Sen.
Sheldon Whitehouse adds:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">“While
you were robbed blind at the pump this year (and GOP blamed Biden), Exxon made
$55,700,000,000 in profits.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Over
$1 billion per week.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">$152,600,000
per day.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">$1,766.24
per *second.*</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Congress
should heed POTUS’s call and pass my bill to claw back Big Oil’s excess
profits.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
real reason for high gas prices is Big Oil greed and price gouging…and Trump.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Surprise!
It isn't Biden.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Remember
“Biden’s supply chain” crisis and “Biden’s inflation”?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Guess
what. That’s right, none of it was Biden’s fault.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">There
WAS radical Right obstruction of supply during rising demand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">On
November 21, 2021 the Wall St. Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/supply-chain-problems-show-signs-of-easing-11637496002">reported</a>:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>“Supply-Chain
Problems Show Signs of Easing. Asian output is coming back and some bottlenecks
are clearing.”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Well,
that wouldn’t fit the radical Right narrative of lies, would it? So they did
something about it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Reporter
Ron Filipkowski <a href="https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1616828578792103936">tweeted</a>:</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>At
Michael Flynn & Eric Trump’s event today, (1-21-23) Leigh Dundas says she
coordinated behind the scenes with Flynn & others to secretly organize a
mass sick-out of supply chain & transportation workers before the Christmas
season in 2021 to create havoc & try to shut down the country.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
MAGA QAnon Scientologist and lawyer gloated, <i>“We were running a back-channel
to the judges, AND THEIR WIVES”. </i>(She’s in THREE CULTS! Count ‘em.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Thank
Flynn and his fellow Q-anon MAGAt traitors for the “Biden Supply Chain Crisis.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Washington Press, January
21, 2023:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">“<a href="https://washingtonpress.com/2023/01/21/supply-chain-sabotage-far-right-conspiracy-theorist-confesses-to-blocking-flow-of-goods/">SUPPLYCHAIN SABOTAGE</a>: Far-right conspiracy theorist confesses to blocking flow of
goods”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Far-right
conspiracy theorist Leigh Dundas admitted to organizing major supply chain
disruptions nationwide in 2021 during a speech at Eric Trump and Michael
Flynn’s Re-Awaken American event on Saturday…</span> </i><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Dundas bragged to the
crowd about staging a “sick out” by transportation workers unhappy with vaccine
mandates.</span> </i><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Dundas
went on to say that she talked with General Flynn, former Trump attorney Lin
Wood and convicted insurrectionist, Dr. Simone Gold, about her plans to
organize a coast-to-coast walkout, which the QAnon associate claims spread
worldwide.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">“How
much of a backlog is created when you guys are sick for a day?” Dundas
allegedly asked a worker, who reportedly told the anti-vaccination activist
that one day causes a month-long backup.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">“You’re
not gonna get the Fauci Flu for 24 hours,” Dundas said. “You’re not gonna get
it for 48 hours – you’re gonna have it for a week. You’re gonna have it
November 8, 9, 10, and 11th – two weeks before Black Friday and the start of
the Christmas season.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">And
catch the flu they did…Leigh Dundas says she coordinated behind the scenes with
Flynn & others to secretly organize a mass sick-out of supply chain &
transportation workers before the Christmas season in 2021 to create havoc
& try to shut down the country.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">They
are traitors. Every last one of them. Republicans are domestic enemies of our
Constitution and democracy. Not even Nazi Germany posed such a grave threat to
our republic. Hitler would have been proud of these American neo-Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-24433305213777665842023-10-19T22:03:00.006-04:002023-10-20T12:28:41.783-04:00One More Wish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/k95los/picture262977823/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/jo220629cONLINE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="283" src="https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/k95los/picture262977823/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/jo220629cONLINE.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><br /> </div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Wouldn't you know after all the wishes I wished last week, I have one more to add.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As the Mar-a-Lago kitchen orders more table linen, porcelain plates, and cases of ketchup, I'd love to see someone ask, "Mr. Trump, what about that crazy Sidney Powell and snitch Ken Chesebro flipping on you?"</span></p><p><br /></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-743341206735441802023-10-10T17:13:00.008-04:002023-10-11T08:16:44.416-04:00I Wish...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwLC_c0WwAUO8ho?format=jpg&name=medium" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="800" height="357" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwLC_c0WwAUO8ho?format=jpg&name=medium" width="359" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
hate terrorism and condemn Hamas. I also hate fascism and condemn the Netanyahu
regime.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish there were no Hitlers, Putins, Kims, Ayatollahs, Mohammed bin Salmans, Dick Cheneys, or Trumps.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish there was no such thing as radical Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or Muslim
fundamentalism and nationalism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish there were no such terror organizations like Hamas, al-Qaeda, the Taliban,
and ISIS. I wish there were no such thing as Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, the KKK,
and other American neo-Nazi groups. But they are emboldened by the party of
Trump, as we witness open insurrection against our democracy, and Blacks,
American Jews and Mexican Americans gunned down.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish it were true that Palestinians are not being forced from their homes, and
there were no illegal Israeli settlements. I wish it were true that Palestinian
citizens who have the right to vote are free from discriminatory <a href="https://www.adalah.org/uploads/2009-2012_Discriminatory_laws_and_bills_English.pdf">policies</a> and
actions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
fact is not all Palestinians ARE Israeli <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/hblocked?returnTo=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fisrael-news%2F2022-05-29%2Fty-article%2Fwhy-so-few-palestinians-from-jerusalem-have-israeli-citizenship%2F00000181-0c46-d090-abe1-ed7fefc20000">citizens</a>.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish people would try to understand why Jimmy Carter sees apartheid policies in
Israel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish there was no systemic racism in the US. I wish we didn't have the party of
Trump that sees CRT and "anti-white racism" as the real threat,
instead of poverty and racism against minorities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
also wish it were true that African Americans, who have the right to vote, are
never subjected to "driving while Black" police stops and harassment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish having "equal rights" means equal treatment and equal justice
under law.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish it were true that Native Americans were not slaughtered and forced onto
reservations only to see their homelands stolen and children taken from them
and forced into white indoctrination schools.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">By
today's standards Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were the "terrorists"
of their time, weren't they?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish I knew how to tell Native Americans why Israeli Jews have the right to
evict others to reclaim ancestral lands but they do not.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish the human race would stop blaming victims instead of the authoritarian
rulers who abuse their power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish the human species would evolve beyond authoritarianism into expanding and into developing education, tolerance, understanding, consciousness and conscience instead of regressing into ignorance, fear
and bigotry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">I
wish I had more answers than wishes...<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com91tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-15571236685847366272023-09-24T11:49:00.012-04:002023-09-24T12:05:18.619-04:00Why I Do It<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyrgiXnaAAASasu?format=jpg&name=large" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="800" height="355" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyrgiXnaAAASasu?format=jpg&name=large" width="390" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Our friend Les made this remark that set me off on this
rather rambling rant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>“It's comical for a while but spending too much time
reading and responding to the sheer idiocy of these fascist loving tRump
worshippers can be dangerous for one’s sanity.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I understand how trying to reason with people trapped in a
cult is almost always utterly futile. I engage with them out of curiosity and
to express MY thoughts and reasoning. I do it to examine and refresh all the
facts and evidence needed to support my thoughts and reasoning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My sanity has survived far worse dangers than the mere
words of the deluded or insane. I learned long ago my best tools for
maintaining sanity are to have a moderately sick sense of humor, and to NEVER
take personally anything anyone says.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Humans are often moody creatures operating on emotional
reactions to unpleasant or unfamiliar events, or to other people's behavior or
opinions, and to circumstances or information they don't want to accept.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">All humans experience a degree of emotional response to the
world around them. It's natural and good. And like everything natural and good,
too much can be harmful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The emotional fight/flight signals from the amygdala can be
more dominant in conservatives and authoritarian personalities. MRI scans have
confirmed the amygdala is more active and larger in people who identify
themselves as conservative than in those who identify as liberal. They tend to
be more distrustful of the unfamiliar. They are generally suspicious of
something new rather than curious about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This fight/flight response was important for early humans
to survive the dangers of the prehistoric tropical savannah. We all still have
this survival mechanism to various degrees, and it can override our other
mental faculties. Today it can be largely manifested in conservative people who
feel threatened by change or by others they don’t understand. It is manifested
in the police officers who are quick to shoot an unarmed person because they
“felt threatened”. The overactive amygdala is found in bigots and racists, in
hate groups, in cults, and all the way up to dictators who start wars.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Right-wing Political propaganda has always been about
stirring resentment and anger wrapped in an appeal to patriotism. The subject's
amygdala gets activated. FOX(R) and hate radio like Limbaugh have been working
this gold mine of emotional reaction for decades.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We know our fellow Americans have long been conditioned by
right-wing propaganda. And, yes, it IS a vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. It's a
media empire, supported by the most ruthless and greedy ultra rich and angry
white nationalists. See the wealthy "sponsors" of Clarence Thomas and
the enraged people at a Trump rally for who they are. So, it's obvious Trump is
a master at triggering the amygdalas in his cult. He's skilled in ramping up
resentments, anger, fear, and hate. He wants them to fear and hate the people
HE fears and hates. And they swarm to him because he fears and hates who THEY
fear and hate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He twists their sense of patriotism into blind loyalty for
him. Their emotional response fuels his drive to power. ‘Twas ever thus with
tyrants and autocrats. Such authoritarian leaders are sociopaths. We have to
accept the fact there will always be irredeemable authoritarian sociopath
followers behind those leaders. It truly is pointless and futile to try to
appeal to their conscience because they never had one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But most Trump followers are not sociopaths. They are
simple people or conservatives who really don’t put much thought into public
policy, politics, or the nature of politicians. They are easily duped and
malleable once they fall under the charm and charisma that sociopaths can wield
over them. Sociopaths and con artists can be very charming and are skilled at
manipulating emotions in their targets and marks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I dearly love my niece and nephew who have fallen into
Trumpism. I will be as kind and loving to them as to my other nieces and
nephews. I don’t want to hate anyone for their religion or political beliefs,
but I strongly dislike the arrogant hypocrites and authoritarians who want to
impose their beliefs on others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hate is both self-destructive and destructive to friends,
family, community, and country. I choose not to hate. But that doesn’t stop me
from getting quite pissed off at times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When I see these sad souls raging and frothing their hearts
out, I hope they have someone like me who can still love them. If they can
emerge from under Trump’s spell, they'll need support from family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It can happen. A friend of mine finally saw Trump for what
he is after voting for him both times. He's conservative but told me he hates
religious hypocrites. The other ray of light came to him when Trump's pal Putin
invaded Ukraine and started killing his relatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">So why do I allow the Trump Cult to comment here?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I confess my sick sense of humor finds these exchanges
entertaining. I can even learn something when I gather information to convey or
support my points. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I also acknowledge my tolerance and patience for hate and
willful ignorance has its limits. We all have defense mechanisms that
eventually arise. I’m no saint and might resort to mockery and insult in
retaliation. At that point it just becomes a sport of verbal jousting, and a
sick sense of humor is my armor. And yes, it does come across as tilting against
windmills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Still, I believe discourse is better than discord and
reason is better than fear. An open mind is better than a closed mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And appealing to the humanity in others is
better than demonizing them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I keep in mind that discourse, reason and appeals to
humanity will not reach some people. Those authoritarian personalities do not
want to learn what they don’t want to know. The best we can hope is an idea or
fact might slip into a closed mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But I also do this out of love. I believe love grows and
hate destroys.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love learning, and I love seeking and sharing truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love the fact we can all learn from people who are
different from us.I love the world of nature and the bounty of life on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love living on Earth, breathing clean air, and drinking
clean water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love my country and homeland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love our founders’ ideal of consent of the governed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love the Constitution, despite its seriously antiquated
flaws on militias, presidential elections, and the Senate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love the Constitution's clear language on separation of
powers, taxes, regulation of commerce, and provision for the general welfare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love equal justice under law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love freedom OF and freedom FROM religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love our remaining vestiges of democracy and
representation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love a nation with a government of, by, and for the
people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I love my teachers and elders for their knowledge and wisdom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And I love children, and want a safer, kinder, and more
peaceful society for their future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-85468342884136957602023-08-24T13:04:00.011-04:002023-08-26T12:03:47.542-04:00Pleading The 14th<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjGzlTfUYAAzyzb?format=jpg&name=large" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="800" height="275" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjGzlTfUYAAzyzb?format=jpg&name=large" width="401" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">14th Amendment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Section 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress,
or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or
military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously
taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States,
or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer
of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have
engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort
to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House,
remove such disability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">====<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember when Republicans would praise the Constitution?
Well, mostly the Militia Amendment and the parts that gave them an edge over
democracy in the Electoral College and undemocratic Senate. All those
Constitutional powers for taxes, regulation of commerce and providing for the
general welfare are just “Marxism”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember when pompous Republicans would self-righteously
boast they were the “Law and order Party”? Apparently, law and order to them is
allowing police to pin Black men with a knee to the neck, or shooting them in
the back because they “felt threatened”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Gone are the days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Now the radical Right Party of Trump are good with their
Dear Leader’s desire to eliminate the Constitution and any law enforcement
agencies that get in the way of their messiah’s megalomania. When the law seeks
accountability for attempted theft of an election and the theft of nuclear and
military secrets, then it’s “weaponization of the justice system”. Yes, the
patented neo-Nazi/white nationalist “victim card”. After years of “cruel
oppression” under Blacks, “Globalists” (Jews), Muslims, Mexicans, journalists
and educators, the delicate white snowflakes are melting down over the rule of
law itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course, they have no problem with Trump telling his
Department of Justice to interfere with an election on his behalf ordering them
to, “Just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen”.
Former Assistant Attorney General and criminal defendant Jeffry Clark proceeded
to do just that before several true law and order DOJ officials said they would
resign en mass if that happened.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And of course, these “Constitutional conservatives” have no
problem with their Tangerine Tyrant insisting his Big Lie claim of a stolen
election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles,
even those found in the Constitution”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As we’ve suspected all along, Republicans want “law and
order for me and not for thee”. Yeah, that’s exactly how we get a dictatorship
and police state. And that is what they really want. This is why they follow
the fascist playbook to seize minority rule, even by force. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Many of them stormed our Capitol to overturn our democracy
by violent insurrection for Trump’s Big Lie. (Historic parallels: Both Hitler
and Trump are famous for scapegoating minorities, a Big Lie, AND an
insurrectionist Putsch.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Another favorite lie from the American radical Right is,
“Hitler was a socialist! It’s in the party name!” Right…and North Korea is a
“democratic republic”. Every honest and sane person knows Nazis are fascists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ll submit Hitler’s own words for the historical record. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">After the allied invasion of Italy, Mussolini was deposed
and jailed. Hitler needed to send in his SS “fire brigade” to Italy. There were
no socialists or Marxists among them. They were loyal Nazis sworn by oath to
the Fuhrer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">From Hitler Directs His War” by Felix Gilbert (1950, New
York) pp.55ff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“I have to take politically reliable units. I
can only accomplish something with elite formations that are politically close
to fascism.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">To quote the beloved anti-Nazi American patriot Stan Lee,
“‘Nuff said”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">There are more of Hitler's slogans and polices that would draw cheers from the MAGA crowd, including their classic “Commie card” for the
opposition and demonization of journalism, the arts and education by “culture
war”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We want to fill our culture again with
the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in
literature, in the theatre, and in the press-in short, we want to burn out the
poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a
result of liberal excess during recent years."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hitler (a Radio Broadcast July 22, 1933; from My New Order,
cited in The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1. pp. 871-872, Oxford
University Press,London, 1942)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“The German state is gravely attacked by
Marxism."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Marxists will march with democracy
until they succeed in indirectly obtaining for their criminal aims the support
of even the national intellectual world, destined by them for extinction."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Note the conflation of Marxism and democracy and contempt
for intellectuals. Today’s neo-Nazis howl about “Marxist CRT” as they dictate
or shut down studies of African American history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Republicans and Nazis share the same disdain for women’s
reproductive freedom and desire to keep women in their place as unwilling
breeders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On October 10, 1936, Heinrich Himmler created
the Reich Central Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion, or Special
Office (II S), a sub-department of Executive Department II of the Gestapo.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s quite clear neither Hitler nor Trump would respect the
law when it stood between them and power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Following the footsteps of Hitler’s 1923 Putsch, Trump
launched his violent insurrection on January 6, 2021. We all saw it. We all saw
how he waited for hours in hopes they would succeed in overturning the
election. Then we saw him PRAISE his mob of thugs saying, “We love you. You’re
very special”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On January 6, 2021, Republican Senator Mitt Romney said, <i>"What
happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United
States." <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Also on January 6, 2021, Mitch McConnell said<i>, “We’re
debating a step that has never been taken in American history, whether Congress
should overrule the voters and overturn a presidential election...<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Self-government, my colleagues, requires a
shared commitment to the truth, and a shared respect for the ground rules of
our system. We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a
separate set of facts and separate reality, with nothing in common except our
hostility towards each other and mistrust for the few national institutions
that we all still share....The United States Senate has a higher calling than
an endless spiral of partisan vengeance. It would be unfair and wrong to
disenfranchise the voters and overrule courts and the states in this
extraordinarily thin basis.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(How long until he forgets that part about “a separate set
of facts and separate reality”?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On January 12, 2021, ten Republicans join all House
Democrats to impeach Trump for "incitement of insurrection" by a vote
of 232 to 197.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Trump’s boot-licker Kevin McCarthy was moved to admit the
facts on January 13, 2021. <i>"President Trump bears responsibility for
Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters. He should have IMMEDIATELY
denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate
action by President Trump to accept his share of responsibility, quell the
brewing unrest and ensure President-elect Biden is able to successfully begin
his term.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On February 13, 2021 the Senate voted 57–43 with 7 Republicans
to convict Trump of inciting insurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On June 23, 2023, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
said that he supported an effort to hold a vote "expunging" both
impeachments of Trump. This is not a thing, but they really do try to expunge
facts and history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">During the first Republican presidential debate on August
23, 2023, all but Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson raised their hands in
support of reelecting Donald Trump,<b> even if he is convicted of crimes. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Here a Putsch, there a Putsch. “Law and order”, Republican
style. “Law and order”, Nazi style.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Our Constitution is all that stands between freedom and
tyranny, and between democracy and dictatorship. Trump IS an enemy of
democracy and domestic enemy of our Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s recall Section 3 of the 14th Amendment: “<b>No person
shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and
Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States,
or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of
Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state
legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support
the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The consensus of Congress and the country is Trump “engaged
in insurrection”. He gave “aid or comfort” to his thugs by praising them after
they terrorized Congress and beat police officers bloody in their violent
attempt to overturn the 2020 election. He defended them and said he would
pardon them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Professor Laurance Tribe and former conservative judge Michael Luttig wrote in the Atlantic: </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">"</span><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The disqualification clause operates independently of any such criminal proceedings, also indeed, independently of any impeachment proceedings and of congressional legislation".</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Two members of the very conservative Federalist Society
released a law review article making the argument that this section
disqualifies Trump from all federal offices.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Law professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen
wrote for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“In our view, on the basis of the public
record, former President Donald J. Trump is constitutionally disqualified from
again being President (or holding any other covered office) because of his role
in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and the events leading to the
January 6 attack. The case for disqualification is strong.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751">Abstract</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment
forbids holding office by former office holders who then participate in
insurrection or rebellion. Because of a range of misperceptions and mistaken
assumptions, Section Three’s full legal consequences have not been appreciated
or enforced. This article corrects those mistakes by setting forth the full
sweep and force of Section Three.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">First, Section Three remains an enforceable
part of the Constitution, not limited to the Civil War, and not effectively
repealed by nineteenth century amnesty legislation. Second, Section Three is
self-executing, operating as an immediate disqualification from office, without
the need for additional action by Congress. It can and should be enforced by
every official, state or federal, who judges qualifications. Third, to the
extent of any conflict with prior constitutional rules, Section Three repeals,
supersedes, or simply satisfies them. This includes the rules against bills of
attainder or ex post facto laws, the Due Process Clause, and even the free
speech principles of the First Amendment. Fourth, Section Three covers a broad
range of conduct against the authority of the constitutional order, including
many instances of indirect participation or support as “aid or comfort.” It
covers a broad range of former offices, including the Presidency. And in
particular, it disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and potentially many
others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020
presidential election.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><br /><p></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com132tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-71236917717831174442023-08-04T18:04:00.005-04:002023-08-05T14:56:40.167-04:00Opinions: Belief v Fact<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0aE038aQAAknAu?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="309" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0aE038aQAAknAu?format=jpg&name=small" width="412" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Opinions. Everyone has them, from religion and politics to
sports and the weather.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Some opinions impact society more than others. These would
be the former type of opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Terms like Left/Right, Liberal/Conservative,
progressive/regressive, etc. denote the framing, spectrum, and dynamics of
politics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Opinions within these frames can be based on experience,
ideas, parental/cultural conditioning, peers, prejudice, judgement of what is
just and fair, and which is better for the poor, rich, or general population.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Some extreme opinions say, “Taxes, welfare, and
regulations are theft of my hard-earned money”. Other opinions say, “Eat the
rich”. These are examples of opinions based on emotion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A reasoned, evidence-based opinion would be, “Taxes,
regulation of commerce and provision for the general welfare are in our Constitutional
foundation of law”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A reasoned, evidence-based opinion would be, “Eating the
rich is cannibalistic and absurd”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone’s opinion is susceptible to being influenced by
emotions. Not all of us can, or care to, examine how our opinions are influenced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">People engulfed in emotion-based opinions don’t want to
hear, let alone understand, other opinions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Generally, those who base opinions on reason and evidence are open to
hearing other opinions. They also understand once an individual’s opinion is
based solely on emotional reaction and disregard of evidence, there’s no more
basis for rational discourse. Then it’s simply a clash between reason and
emotion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Some of us can notice this clash within.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I understand my opinion of Trump and his fanatic supporters
is partially formed by my revulsion to their hate, lies, and racism. I know
they hate me. They say so, and it’s difficult to not have an emotional response
to that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But I also have a rational, fact-based response that tells
me not to reciprocate their hate. I understand hate is double edged and can
consume the hater. I cling to a mostly futile hope that some of them will
eventually see how they are manipulated. I have a friend who voted for Trump
twice, but now says he will do whatever he can to keep him out of the White
House.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A majority of those who base opinions largely on emotional
responses also hold opinions that conform to the words of religious and
political leaders they revere and trust. Their opinions will echo the religious
dogma or the propagandists who work for their leader. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Now we enter the closed mentality where rigid conformity of
opinion is mandatory in the bubble. No one dares question the Leader. This
results in a cult when the words and actions of the Leader are infallibly honest
and good, and all who disagree are malevolent forces of evil.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As evidence by Trump’s 1/6/21 coup, the fanatic true
believer can be willing to kill and die in devotion to their Leader.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s admit that opinions founded simply on one’s faith and
fealty to the infallible words of the Leader is fanatic political
indoctrination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s define these terms before further discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Merriam-Webster:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Fanatic</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">: <i>a person exhibiting
excessive enthusiasm and intense uncritical devotion toward some controversial
matter (as in religion or politics), marked by excessive enthusiasm and often
intense uncritical devotion</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Merriam-Webster:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Indoctrinate</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">: <i>to imbue with a
usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Cambridge Dictionary:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Indoctrination</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">: <i>the
process of repeating an idea or belief to someone until they accept it without
criticism or question: As religious/political/ideological indoctrination<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Chances are, those whose opinions are emotion-based will
object to these definitions. They don’t FEEL they are indoctrinated fanatics.
After all they hold a sense of moral certainty because they see themselves as
good people who cannot do bad or think falsely. They could never be duped by a
greedy church leader or narcissistic political conman. This is the nature of
emotionally grounded religious beliefs and political ideology throughout the
spectrums. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Emotionally grounded belief systems often tend to reject
scientific consensus, evidence of facts, dissent, and reason itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Look at Florida. The authoritarian governor wants to
whitewash slavery, ban references to LGBTQ issues, and even “slit throats” of
people who disagree if allowed to gain more power. All of this is authoritarian
emotional manipulation. We can’t have history lessons that make children
“uncomfortable” or “feel guilty.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Authoritarian leaders must appeal to the fight/flight
emotional response center of the brain. They will always tell their followers
who to blame and who to hate. The authoritarian former president will tell his
fanatic followers he “made America great”, but now it is in ruins because he
lost an election that was “stolen”. He will instill anger and rage as responses
to the people the leader declares as threats to them. The Holocaust is
history’s lesson on how this can result in the most cruelty and brutality
humans can inflict.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">These emotionally manipulative tactics are projected at
their targets of political indoctrination. Fanatic true believers cannot
imagine for a moment that their Leader is dishonest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Let’s compare the difference between rational and
belief-based opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Religious beliefs can be built on negative emotional
responses. Muslim fanatics believe in killing infidels. Christian fanatics
believe they should have power to dictate our education, and deny all women the
right to reproductive freedom, even contraception.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Reason-based religious beliefs are formed from the idea
that a creation must have a creator, that hatred, cruelty, and greed are
destructive, that love is better than hate, kindness is better than cruelty,
and sharing is better than greed. And loving your neighbor, even your enemies,
feeding the poor, and caring for the sick is the rational, productive, and
humane way to live in a society. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Political opinions track along the same emotion v. reason
continuum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My opinion tells me to vote for Biden again, because he’s
not a threat to our elections, judiciary, and rule of law. I can disagree with
him. I understand the guy doesn’t always tell the truth. Nobody does. I also
have the intellectual curiosity to examine evidence regarding his statements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One example is Hunter Biden and money from China.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">During the 2020 presidential debates Biden told moderator
Kristen Welker his son had earned no money through business dealings in China.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Biden’s assertions have been rebutted by Hunter himself,
acknowledging in court testimony that he had been paid substantial sums related
to his business in China. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hunter is not in the administration, so this is irrelevant
to my vote. We must ask when Trump’s own family members Jared and Ivanka will
be under equal scrutiny, as they were part of his administration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Just as it doesn’t occur to them that they depend on double
standards, they can’t admit Trump defines reality itself for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Loyal Trump supporters will always hold their Leader’s
words as gospel truth. He is the epitome of what makes America great. He’s
defending and protecting them from all the fabricated threats from demons,
monsters, and commies woven into their indoctrination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">They cannot imagine Trump can lie to them. They don’t care
that every count, recount, court case, Republican governors and secretaries of
state tell us Trump lost a fair election. They FEEL they are right, and the
vast conspiracy of all Trump’s White House counsel, Homeland Security, Cabinet,
Attorney General, DOJ, and state electors are in conspiracy against him. The
“deep state” is out to get Dear Leader, and by extension, them as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This fearful state of delusion and paranoia is exactly what
benefits Trump. They cannot imagine he commits crimes, or if so, he’s above the
vast “conspiratorial, crooked, democrat/communist legal system” and “corrupt
elections”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">They will never examine their beliefs because they have
been imbued with the FEELING of their moral certainty and righteous anger.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And this readily feeds into a mob mentality when they are
assembled by the narcissistic, hateful, and pathological liar they practically
worship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">After all, a cult isn’t a cult to the cult. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And of course, this is all just my opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-83460262688344674252023-08-02T13:15:00.009-04:002023-08-02T16:50:49.514-04:00Better Call Saul, Don<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyrgiXnaAAASasu?format=jpg&name=large" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="800" height="377" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyrgiXnaAAASasu?format=jpg&name=large" width="415" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Donald Trump has been INDICTED on FOUR CRIMINAL COUNTS for
his 2020 election interference. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Besides the terrorized legislators and their staff, the victims of his crimes are the police officers, the United States of America
and the 81,283,361 American voters whose right to their majority vote was conspired
against by Trump’s attempt to “oppress, threaten, or intimidate” their right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are the laws Trump violated in his attempt to overturn our election:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> *</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Count 1: 18 U.S.C. § 371 (Conspiracy to Defraud
the United States)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">If two or more persons conspire either to commit any
offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any
agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such
persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, <b>each shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The general conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371, creates an
offense "[i]f two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense
against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency
thereof in any manner or for any purpose. (emphasis added). See Project, Tenth
Annual Survey of White Collar Crime, 32 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 137, 379-406
(1995)(generally discussing § 371).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The operative language is the so-called "defraud
clause," that prohibits conspiracies to defraud the United States. This
clause creates a separate offense from the "offense clause" in
Section 371. Both offenses require the traditional elements of Section 371
conspiracy, including an illegal agreement, criminal intent, and proof of an
overt act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hass, 216 U.S. at 479-480. In Hammerschmidt, Chief Justice
Taft, defined "defraud" as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">To conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to
cheat the Government out of property or money, but it also means to interfere
with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or
trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest. It is not necessary that the
Government shall be subjected to property or pecuniary loss by the fraud, but
only that its legitimate official action and purpose shall be defeated by
misrepresentation, chicane or the overreaching of those charged with carrying
out the governmental intention.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">*</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Count 2: 18 U.S. C. § 1512(k) (Conspiracy to
Obstruct an Official Proceeding)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(k)Whoever conspires to commit any offense under this
section <b>shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the
offense the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Count 3: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512(c)(2), 2
(Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(c)Whoever corruptly—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(1)alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record,
document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the
object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(2)otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official
proceeding, or attempts to do so, <b>shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Count 4: 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Conspiracy Against
Rights)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">If two or more persons conspire to injure, <a name="_Hlk141874172">oppress, threaten, or intimidate </a>any person in any
State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or
enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws
of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on
the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or
enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than ten years, or both; <b>and if death results from the acts committed in
violation of this section</b> or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to
kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual
abuse, or an attempt to kill, <b>they shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to
death</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2h_WRKWIAEGVHW?format=jpg&name=medium" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2h_WRKWIAEGVHW?format=jpg&name=medium" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2h_WRLXMAEtnDt?format=jpg&name=medium" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="325" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2h_WRLXMAEtnDt?format=jpg&name=medium" width="325" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><p></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-82005075906854052642023-07-24T16:34:00.004-04:002023-07-24T16:47:13.538-04:00Florida Whitewash<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FybTYXhWcAQ6lNh?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="640" height="297" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FybTYXhWcAQ6lNh?format=jpg&name=small" width="397" /></a></div><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Under Ron DeSantis Florida has gone through a long process
of white conservatives dictating what can or cannot be read, discussed, or
allowed in schools. This includes the very racist gaslighting that CRT is a
“Marxist” attack on our country, and therefore must be banned. </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">This is what
happens when graduate level people of color dare to address the history and
effects of slavery and racism. This of course also feeds into the fascist
screed that universities are indoctrinating our kids into communism. </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Yeah,
Hitler had the same idea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Enter Florida’s white conservatives. They alone believe
they are entitled to define racism and they alone must dictate the teaching of
African American history. Mighty white of them to let us know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One of my observations of the far white right is, “Racism
isn’t racism to racists”. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Nowhere is this demonstrated so absurdly as when they
play their ever-present “victim card”. It turns out most of them believe THEY
are the “real victims” of racism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><a href="https://www.socialworktoday.com/news/dn_060311.shtml">Whites</a> Believe They Are Victims of Racism More Often Than
Blacks</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the
primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to
a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences
and Harvard Business School…"These data are the first to demonstrate that
not only do whites think more progress has been made toward equality than do
blacks, but whites also now believe that this progress is linked to a new
inequality, at their expense," note researchers. Whites see racial
equality as a zero-sum game, in which gains for one group mean losses for the
other</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It should come as no surprise what happens when white
conservatives in Florida decide what African American History Standards can be
taught in public schools. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Two of those white conservative workgroup members,
Dr. William Allen and Dr. Frances Presley Rice, provided a statement to TV10
Tampa Bay, saying in part, <i>“The intent of this particular benchmark
clarification is to show that some slaves developed highly specialized trades
from which they benefitted. This is factual and well documented…Any attempt to
reduce slaves to just victims of oppression fails to recognize their strength,
courage and resiliency during a difficult time in American history. Florida
students deserve to learn how slaves took advantage of whatever circumstances
they were in to benefit themselves and the community of African
descendants."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Slavery wasn’t all bad” seems to be their heartwarming
message in the latest version of Florida’s State Academic Standards. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">No doubt you’ve heard about the latest hoopla around them
promoting, “Florida students deserve to learn how slaves developed skills
which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">After reading their “standards” I found that’s not even the
most insidious thought control device in their program. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">SS.912.AA.4.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Examine organizational approaches to resisting equality in
America. Benchmark Clarifications: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>1: Instruction includes the immediate and lasting effects
of organizations that sought to resist achieving American equality (e.g., state
legislatures, Ku Klux Klan [KKK], White Citizens’ Councils [WCC], law
enforcement agencies, elected officials such as the “Pork Chop Gang,” private
school consortiums, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission [MSSC]). <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>2: Instruction includes different methods used by
coalitions (e.g., white primaries, acts of violence, unjust laws such as poll
taxes, literacy tests, sundown laws, anti-miscegenation laws).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Any history student will notice a common feature of the
“organizational approaches to resisting equality”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Did you see it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything they mentioned was from the 19th Century and
first half of the 20th Century. Nothing new to see here, amirite? It as if
those delicate “victims of racism” want everyone to think racists were ALL
Democrats. Of course, this includes their “Black tormenters”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Noticeably absent are the facts that racists abandoned the
Democratic Party and are all Trump supporters now. Not a peep about the Proud Boys,
the Oath Keepers, and the “Unite the Right” racists who held the lethal
tiki-torch rally in Charlottesville in 2017. It’s as if they don’t exist,
aren’t relevant, or just don’t matter. See no evil, see no racism…except
against white conservatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">20th and 21st Century Republican race-based gerrymandering
is also missing. Nothing to see here either, amirite?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Never happened. Nope. Don’t want the kids or their parents
to feel “uncomfortable”, do we?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Most recently Alabama Republicans defied federal courts in
passing their new congressional map. Arrogantly violating the Voting Rights Act
the new Alabama congressional map allows Black voters to elect a candidate of
their choice in only 1 of 7 districts despite being 1 of 4 Alabamians.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Since racism isn't racism to racists, whitewashing isn't
whitewashing to white whitewashers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Leave it to conservative white men to do their damnedest to
whitewash slavery and racism as they amplify their fantasies of racist
“victimization”. Yes, apparently, they deserve to learn how white conservatives
“took advantage of whatever circumstances they were in to benefit themselves
and the community of White American descendants”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-67084792548644585762023-06-19T12:42:00.006-04:002023-06-19T13:23:58.696-04:00Pillars of Con-servatism<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs_Fr4wWcAEgm8t?format=jpg&name=900x900" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="750" height="368" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs_Fr4wWcAEgm8t?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="496" /></a></div><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Let's take a moment to lift the veil of virtue and values shrouding the core of American con-servatism found in the Republican Party. </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Trumpism
thrives in the fertile ground of the reactionary/authoritarian/greed mindset of
the Republican Party. The trajectory of this ideology is seen through the arc
spanning Hoover, McCarthyism, Nixon, Reagan, the Bush/Cheney Cartel and ultimately
Trump. Maximizing personal power and wealth for the economic elites has been their real
goal all along.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">FDR
was called a "traitor to his class" for his concern for the welfare
of the common folk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything that
doesn't support a trickle-up economy is demonized as socialism/communism. Not that they care to know the difference. Never mind our Constitution is loaded with socialistic principles like taxes,
regulation of commerce, and the dreaded "provision for the general welfare”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Taxes,
regulation, and welfare! Oh, my! The founders were communists!</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Everything
the Right hates most is in our founding document, except the electoral college,
of course. Where would they be without racism, resentment, bigotry, ignorance, and
indifference? These have become their tools to seize the levers of power. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">This is why Trump said, "I love the poorly educated". This
is why voter rights, fair representation, and education are always their
primary targets. As the saying goes, they need to fuel a culture war to ward
off a class war.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Divide and conquer, with a sprinkling of deep reverence for wealth and the wealthy,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">By stoking fear, anger and resentments, they've been successful at building conformity, loyalty and groupthink into a neo-fascist agenda.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">And
so, we have the three primary pillars of con-servatism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">1. Racism/bigotry for the most ignorant bottom feeders wallowing in the white
fright and resentments of white nationalism..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">2.
Authoritarianism for the fascists, paranoid militia gun nuts, and religious fanatics who are not fully
embedded in, but tolerant, or dismissive, of racism and bigotry. This is all presented in the guise of "liberty and faith". Yes, American fascism comes carrying a Bible and wrapped in the flag.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">3.
Insatiable greed and lust for power by rigging government, law, and the economy
to favor the economic elites.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">And
there it is, the unwritten and unspoken platform of the radical Right.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Bigotry,
authoritarianism, and greed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-60598802213844409092023-06-09T16:49:00.008-04:002023-06-11T12:01:34.112-04:00Mar-a-Lago Indictment<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyM_OgIWYAAAHEd?format=jpg&name=large" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="800" height="382" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyM_OgIWYAAAHEd?format=jpg&name=large" width="459" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">At last Trump has been indicted in the Mar-a-Lago documents
case.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">This is good. Not charging him would tell the world Trump
is above the law, and shatter any pretense we are a nation of laws, not men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">There are 38 <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-indictment-document/967835b8a14a6b03/full.pdf">counts</a> against him and his co-conspirator,
personal aide Walt Nauta. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">COUNTS 1-31<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Willful Retention of National Defense
Information <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S.C. 793(e)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Destruction, alteration, or falsification of
records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S.C. § 1519<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">COUNT 32 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18U.S.C. § 1512(k)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S.C. § 1512 (b)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">COUNT 37 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">False Statements and Representations <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S.C. §§ 1001(a)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">COUNT 38 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">False Statements and Representations <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S.C.§ 1001(a)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m disappointed by the one charge not included in the
indictment. It was the one crime that would have mandated Trump could never
hold office again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S. Code § 2071 - Concealment, removal, or
mutilation generally<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(a)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes,
mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to
do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper,
document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any
court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or
public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than three years, or both.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(b)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding,
map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals,
removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same,<b> shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and
shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the
United States. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">My theory on why this charge isn’t included is the penalty
would apply to an election. Supposedly the FBI is loath to “interfere” in
elections, right, James Comey?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Merrick Garland’s Memo on “Election Year Sensitivities” may
have had an influence on the decision. I don’t think it should have, but maybe
that was part of the reasoning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">STATEMENTS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND CHARGING NEAR
AN ELECTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The Department of Justice has a strong interest
in the prosecution of election-related crimes, such as those involving federal
and state campaign finance laws, federal patronage laws, and corruption of the
election process. As Department employees, however, we must be particularly
sensitive to safeguarding the Department's reputation for fairness, neutrality,
and non-partisanship.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Simply put, partisan politics must play no role
in the decisions of federal investigators or prosecutors regarding any
investigations or criminal charges. Law enforcement officers and prosecutors
may never select the timing of public statements (attributed or not),
investigative steps, criminal charges, or any other action in any matter or case
for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an
advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party. Such a purpose,
or the appearance of such a purpose, is inconsistent with the Department's
mission and with the Principles of Federal Prosecution.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">We know Trump and the radical Right will howl about
“election interference” no matter what, anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">But that’s not the worst response in their radical
reactionary hysteria. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">We already have Republican insurrectionist traitors beating the
drums for civil war. They are emulating Trump, when he told his white nationalist "Proud Boys" thugs to "stand back and stand by".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>“President Trump said he has "been summoned to appear
at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM." This is a
perimeter probe from the oppressors. Hold. rPOTUS has this. Buckle up. 1/50K
know your bridges. Rock steady calm. That is all.”</i> ~ Rep. Clay Higgins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>“We have now reached a war phase. Eye for an eye.”</i> - Rep.
Andy Biggs <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">The DOJ should take these threats seriously.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Mary Trump recently warned us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">There is nothing he won’t do to get away with
his crimes. He will turn his followers against the rest of us, he will threaten
to destroy the Republican Party if it doesn’t do his bidding (and it will do
his bidding). If none of that works, he will burn it all down.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">It will get worse before it gets better. It
will be frightening, it will be frustrating, and it will be dangerous. But it
will get better eventually. If we stick together and refuse to give up hope, it
will get better.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The time to take a stand for our Constitution, rule of law,
and our democracy is at hand. All Americans of conscience need to unite against
the enemies within. We can, and must, vote them all out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-81776868541846260032023-06-06T16:13:00.008-04:002023-06-06T16:25:48.264-04:00Another D-Day<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxVLoM-XwAEv8bz?format=jpg&name=small" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="626" height="439" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxVLoM-XwAEv8bz?format=jpg&name=small" width="404" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Trump’s lawyers’ meeting with Special Prosecutor Jack Smith
didn’t pan out as he’d hoped. After complaining about an unfair process and
mistreatment of Trump, they were advised by Smith’s team to file a complaint
with the Inspector General’s office next door. Obviously, they had nothing
legally improper to complain about, so they just left the building.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Trump’s panicked reaction was what a criminal authoritarian
narcissist right out of “Central Casting” would say, to borrow one of his
favorite phrases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Reports are the Marxist Special Prosecutor,
DOJ, & FBI, want to Indict me on the BOXES HOAX, despite all of the
wrongdoing that they have done for SEVEN YEARS, including SPYING ON MY
CAMPAIGN. Biden Crimes go unpunished, including that he had Boxes in Chinatown,
in his garage by the 'Corvette,' & 1,850 Boxes in Delaware that he won't
allow anyone to see. That is real OBSTRUCTION! They seek retribution for
Republicans looking into Biden's CRIMES! I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. ELECTION
INTERFERENCE!"<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Trump whined on his absurdly named “Truth Social” about a
“Marxist Special Prosecutor, DOJ & FBI” wanting to indict him on the “BOXES
HOAX”, and that the FBI spied on his campaign, repeating another old debunked
claim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">True to the old Nazi playbook, he played all the usual
cards, including the “commie card”, the “victim card”, and the wildly false
“accusation card”. This is just his latest in a long string of lies that also
adhere to the Nazi line he projected on July 3, 2021,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>“If you say it enough and keep saying it,
just keep saying it, they’ll start to believe you.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Right, except when you say it to federal law enforcement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">His crazed wild-eyed tirade about “Biden Crimes” going
unpunished is also pure projection, of course. He couldn’t cite any crime that
he hadn’t already committed. So he piled on more projection about
”OBSTRUCTION”, “retribution” and lastly, “ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Hmm. I dare say the Tangerine Tyrant is “going through some
things”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">And no matter what he says, Biden isn’t going through those
things. Trump will howl about Biden and Pence being as guilty as he is, but
there’s a wee difference in their cases concerning government documents. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">They
complied with the law and returned them without being asked. Trump refused to
return them after being asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
proceeded to obstruct efforts to have them returned by having them moved just
before the FBI came to get them. He was reported to have waved secret war plans
on Iran at his country club. That’s a big no-no.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Trump remains the “only one” to have done this, despite his
desperate lie, “I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Now he’s about to face real felony charges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Here’s a partial list of the crimes Trump committed that
Biden and Pence did NOT commit:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S. Code § 2071</span></i></b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> -
Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(a)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals,
removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with
intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book,
paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer
of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any
judicial or public officer of the United States, <b>shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(b)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Whoever, having the custody of any such record,
proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and
unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys
the same, <b>shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three
years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding
any office under the United States</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 USC 793</span></i></b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> —
Gathering, transmitting or losing defence information <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(f)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful
possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch,
photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument,
appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through
gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of
custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost,
stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has
been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone
in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and
fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to
his superior officer—<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
not more than ten years, or both.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S. Code § 1519</span></i></b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> -
Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations
and bankruptcy<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates,
conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document,
or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the
investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of
any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11,
or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, <b>shall be
fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S. Code § 1924</span></i></b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">
Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material<b>... shall
be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">18 U.S. Code § 1001</span></i></b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> -
Statements or entries generally<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(a)Except as otherwise provided in this
section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive,
legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States,
knowingly and willfully—<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(1)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick,
scheme, or device a material fact;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">makes any materially false, fictitious, or
fraudulent statement or representation; or<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">(3)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">makes or uses any false writing or document
knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent
statement or entry;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not
more than 5 years</span></i></b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> or, if the offense involves international
or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8
years, or both. If the matter relates to an offense under chapter 109A, 109B,
110, or 117, or section 1591, then the term of imprisonment imposed under this
section shall be not more than 8 years.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">So here we are, on the 79th anniversary of the D-Day
invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. Within a year, Hitler would be dead, and his Third
Reich destroyed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">But tragically, fascism, racism, and Nazis would survive.
We are now in a strikingly similar time of criminal authoritarian leaders, with
the rising racism and white nationalism that infected 1930’s Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">We survived Trump’s Putsch of January sixth, but his threat
remains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The lesson we must learn should be clear by now. The
struggle against fascism never ends. It is time for democracy’s 21st Century
D-Day, as the Orange Fuhrer glowers in a seething rage from his bunker.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com2