This is what they call an Anne Frank moment. This is not what America is. It is, however, what MAGA is all about 👿

Been reading a lot of this kind of content lately. It seems so relevant to the times.

Remember this, people: the cruelty was the point. Trump has never, ever cared to hide his cruel streak, which in his personality is a broad river reaching to the horizons. Trump has never cared to hide his disdain for the law. Somehow these things made him seem like a living god to Republicans :(

"What's the market value of Trump being 'very appreciative'? Like mayflies, Trumpian appreciation is a rare and beautiful thing, but rarely lives for longer than a few hours, unlike Trump remembering people not having done what he demands .." 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAh5...

This is the sort of unwelcome news I have been trying to explain to Americans (USians, I mean) ever since the racist child rapist got into politics. Unlike most normal people, his ugliness goes clear down to the bone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOUy...

Relax, people, it's perfectly normal for criminals to want to cover their faces. Old school bank robbers did the same during heists. Jesse James did it when he robbed stagecoaches and gunned down the people he was stealing from. Nothing to see here, just move along. [sarcasm tag]

".. the only question that will matter is this: did you recognize this moment when it was yours? Did you choose dignity over despair, and solidarity over silence, courage over comfort?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnta...

What in the fresh hell is this?

A quote: "The damage [he] has wrought will not evaporate the day he leaves office. Allies will remember the threats and the cheap sale of America’s loyalty to the long enemies of freedom in the world .. the corrosion of truth will outlive the liar." www.againstallenemies.net/p/a-declarat...

Mike Johnson is practicing that "Once we've rescued our German-speaking cousins in Austria, the Third Reich won't do any more attacking" tone that Hitler used.

Trump has only two emotions: 1) Rage towards the world for not giving him all the golden thingies, all the money and land, all the glory, all the virgins that just turned 14. 2) The desire to punish the world for failing to deliver on the above. Folks need to learn this ASAP.

He ought to know, his team has spent the last 5 years planning how to launch it.

Miller knows only enough history to re-create the very worst parts of it.

Of course, first you measure the tracks and the trains to make sure there's room for you to get by, just in case that light around the corner isn't daylight.

A fine analysis of the letter to Norway. Ends with these chilling words: "This is doing enormous damage to the minimal degree of shared trust that a democracy depends on for survival .. and profoundly disinhibiting for US political institutions and trust in them." www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_CE...

Who can forget this classic 2017 article by Bella DePaulo? "By telling so many lies, and so many that are mean-spirited, Trump is violating some of the most fundamental norms of human social interaction and human decency." www.commondreams.org/views/2017/1...

"Trust exists only if people believe state power is being exercised on their behalf rather than against them." 6:08 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wh_...

For a long time, the US has been the 4% of the world glomming onto 25% of the world's GDP and accounting for 37% of the world's military spending, all propped up by profit via selling our debt. This arrangement "ripped off" the US so badly that Trump is ending it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CEh...

This echoes something I heard personally from a commenter in Germany. The big regret was that they failed to fight this thing tooth and nail, even at their own extreme peril, so now instead they are saddled with a lasting shame. That type of moral stain will be our fate too if we don't stop this.

Happy MLK day, everyone.

A fantastic analysis for anyone disgusted and horrified at the slide into fascism. Multiple scenarios discussed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZU...

Minnesota is home to the world's largest diaspora of the Somali people. And they are here at the invitation of the US government. That invitation does not magically disappear just because some elderly pedo / pedo protector racist gets elected.

A message to ICE -

[political sarcasm tag] But they were just following orders. It's so "woke" to claim this was anything but law enforcement.

The single most true thing Trump has ever said in public: "You knew I was a snake when you let me in!"

Been trying to explain that replacing Trump in the next election will not unfuck all the things he's done, the people he's offended, the lives he's taken, the laws he's broken, the former allies he's mistreated, the treaties he's broken, etc, with nary a hint of a whiff of reproach from Congress.

People should be familiar with this material. This is about how Trump and people like him perceive most people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtCH...

Nobody needs untrustworthy, unreliable partners (of any kind) whose word on a treaty isn't worth a bowl of festering dog snot. No one needs to deal with a national leader so dumb that getting him up to speed on how the world works is like explaining Norway to a dog. (h/t Slow Horses)

Thin-skinned, easily-offended Reich wingers are famously unable to distinguish between narcissistic injury and actual physical injury. They falsely equate them. While Jonathon Ross was allegedly "bleeding internally" (thanks, CBS, you Quislings) he was actually at home packing in extreme haste.

A warning from someone who has experienced this before in person in his own country: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSNi...

This is where the big hand of Mr. Market does a Jedi wave over anyone thinking about doing business in the former USA .. "These aren't the business opportunities you're looking for .. you can just move along"

I must say, watching Pedo Protector do all this is like watching that other famous Nazi gasbag, the Hindenburg, come in for a landing at Lakehurst NJ.

As they say .. the road to fascism has signposts thoughtfully put in place by the Schumercrats of the world :(

What she says. We do not want to be explaining to the kids and grands that we gave away our freedoms just because some piece of shit Pedo Protector threatened us with martial law if we didn't comply. America's colors stand. Shit runs. He and his collaborators are #2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHn1...

Oh, my sweet summer American children, you have to fix this shit or the stain of it will cling to you for a very long time.

Save the messages. Our own Nuremburg courts are going to have a field day with that conspiracy to violate First Amendment protections. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Former allies, maybe. They're getting the picture these days. Pedo Protector has trouble hearing anything that doesn't rhyme with "Please, sir, may I have another. You're so awesome. You have so many gold trophies."

OK, humor post, but still .. The person who claimed that men shouldn't steal trophies from women just extorted a Nobel prize from a woman.

"The right wing thinks they're winning. They've got judges, cops, lawmakers, billionaires, propaganda networks. But it's just power doing what power does." "A revolution is what happens when people outside the castle decide the castle isn't legitimate anymore." www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ8K...

Pedo Protector also said that the Epstein files mustn't be released because they would spell the end of his abortion of a shit show of an abomination of a regime.

It would appear that Ms Machado, besides being easy to manipulate, also is unfamiliar with history. Anyone who's been through "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" would recognize Pedo Protector's type from a couple hundred miles away.

You can make a wall out of the Epstein Files the same way you can make a wall out of Hillary's emails .. Republicans cannot get over either of them.

That's about par for fascist-takeover horse shit. "The law doesn't apply to us" BS. Bondi will be lucky to get life imprisonment when the reckoning happens afterwards - and it will happen. This regime is oxygen-starved and already loopy.

Well, it's been an experiment alright. Being able to see Renee Good's murder for what it is has become one of the latest of a great many political litmus tests handy for discovering which among us are fascists (or at least fash-friendly) and knowing you should never trust those people.

Deepest apologies to our allies to the north. Free Americans still hold you in the highest and warmest regard. Trump commands Vichy America, not us.

That's Pedo Protector's favorite entertainment: - It was a burn on Ms Machado, he misled her into giving him something. - It was a burn on the Nobel committee, who now sees their prize bandied about like some Trump sneakers. - It was a burn on Venezuela, where he has been killing and stealing.

Someone needs to rewrite that song "let it go" to use the phrase "stand your ground" in its stead.

Unfortunately, a joke with [apparently] the compliant US military machine at his beck and call, a violent sect of irregulars within his own country, and a heavily-funded political police force (answerable only to him) currently committing ethnic- and political-cleansing operations domestically.