Everything else aside, this isn't even historically accurate. German elites believed their leaders had been usurped by Jewish financiers and had betrayed their millions of war dead by suing for peace as they were on the verge of winning. It didn't just "happen."
Also, the "I'm the only one who can fix it" dude wasn't Biden or Fauci or Bill Gates. It was this guy:
The German people, particularly the professional military class, felt betrayed and humiliated by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which assigned them punishing guilt for a war they didn't start. It wasn't mass psychosis, it was the need for revenge and vindication.
The appeal of Nazism was "we're going to punish the traitors and scoundrels you hate because we hate them too, and we're going to work together to set things right."
If that seems familiar, it's because that's also the appeal of MAGA.
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Like MTG and Boebert, Madison Cawthorn is an unstable and unqualified shitposter who won a chaotic GOP primary on the strength of his trolling, and has no business in the House. Where he met his wife is not the most disturbing thing about his political rise.
The guy jumped into a primary 2 days before the filing deadline, and was one of a dozen candidates in a jungle primary. He stood out because he was young and an outspoken troll, and won the general because of massive gerrymandering. The guy isn't Kim Philby, okay?
Sure, his marriage is weird. What about the guy isn't? His biography makes no sense and is riddles with easily disproven lies. And if his primary hadn't been a total mess, he likely wouldn't have won.
I'm going to do a quick "best things I did this year" thread. And I want to start by thanking everyone who supported my work, or who reached out privately with information or questions. Out of dozens articles and over 200 interviews, comments, appearances, etc, here's the best:
Obviously, the big thing I did this year was finish, edit, and publish THE STORM US UPON US - the first book that examined QAnon from its precursor scams and frauds to the conspiracy theories it absorbed to how to get people out of it.
A compelling case for why the National Guard was repeatedly delayed on J6: because Trump would have used their deployment as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act. Delaying might have made J6 worse, and thwarted the Trump crew's plan in the long term.
Trump and his dead enders, Flynn, Powell, etc, had talked openly of invoking martial law or the Insurrection Act and "re-running" the election. Thousands of armed soldiers on the streets of DC is exactly what they needed to do that. Chris Miller and his people knew that.
One theory is that Trump wanted the guard to break up street battles between MAGA loyalists and leftist protestors. While the counter protest never happened, the Capitol breach did - and with it allegations that the rioters were antifa or BLM agents. Perfect martial law fodder.
800,000 dying people is a city the size of Seattle or Denver dying. Either you care about that or you don't. If you care, you got vaccinated and still mask indoors. If you don't care, you aren't doing that. There's nothing else to say.
If you don't care that 800,000 Americans have died of COVID, you wouldn't care if that number was 8 million. You're too special and important to care about what happens to other people. As long as it's not you. Which it won't be. Because you're special and important.
I've already had a verified "bodybuilder/jazz enthusiast" and a former Daily Wire writer get mad at me about this tweet.
A great find by @dappergander - both MTG and Boebert dropped obvious typos in the last line of ridiculous tweets that went viral. It could just be that they're bad spellers. Or they know how to get you to share their shitposts and spread their message.
MTG and Boebert were trolls before they were in Congress. And they're still trolls - good ones. They know that a typo in the last line will generate RTs and replies dunking on it. And they thrive on your mockery and derision, because you spread their message for them.
The points you score on them don't matter. But them getting free viral traction for their hate and conspiracy theories - that matters. And while it could be a coincidence, it could also be two notorious trolls manipulating their haters into getting them free engagement.
Think back to the joy we felt at this moment, now co-opted by antivax cranks, "health freedom" grifters, "concerned moms" living fat off far-right dark money, social media influencers lying through their teeth, and an endless parade of fake horror stories and conspiracy theories.
Margaret Keenan is now 91, and has gotten two shots and a booster. She hasn't puked black blood, become magnetic, dropped dead of a heart attack, gotten eaten by nanobots, or had their brain explode from a clot.
Meanwhile, countless antivax shock jocks and grifters died gasping for air as COVID annihilated their lungs, accompanied only the buzz of machines soon used by someone else, and the exhausted sighs of medical professionals who wish they'd just gotten the vaccine.