Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy

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and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.

Gen. Charles Flynn, who served as deputy chief of staff for operations on Jan. 6, and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, the director of Army staff — “absolute and unmitigated liars” for their characterization of the events of that day.

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Matthews' memo levels major accusations: that Flynn and Piatt lied to Congress about their response to pleas for the D.C. Guard to quickly be deployed on Jan. 6; that the Pentagon inspector general’s November report on Army leadership’s response to the attack was

@SenateGOP @HouseGOP this isn't the first time #MAGA planted or shipped bombs trying to kill innocent people.
This isn't the first time they've killed someone & injured many others.
This isn't the first time they've built a set of gallows or guillotine.
There is no UNITY w/this. You know this and the constant downplaying of the murders by white supremacists, right-wing radicals by the @GOP only emboldens them to kill more, make more bombs, mix up more homemade napalm.
Why should anyone want to unify w/people who want to murder us?

NO one and I mean NO ONE should ever forget that in 2009 the Department of Homeland Security released a report on the growing right-wing extremist and white supremacist threat in the USA & the @SenateGOP @HouseGOP forced a retraction.

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Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boy leader who toured the White House last month and was arrested Tuesday in Washington on vandalism and weapons charges, appears to have ties to a Republican mega-donor as well as the owner of a landmark Washington nightspot popular among conservatives. Tarrio, the neofascist group's chairman and a convicted felon, also failed to file federally mandated financial disclosures related to his brief, unsuccessful congressional campaign last year, and appears connected to a number of businesses,

I am going to keep posting this photo until we have the guts to have the fucking conversation we need to have. Hello, @CNN @MSNBC The Insurrectionist, the White Supremacist Terrorist built a set of gallows and hung a noose on capitol grounds? Are we just going to ignore it? I'm not going to shut up about it, I don't care if I lose followers or not. There is a history behind this display, there were actions planned with this display and the fact that this isn't leading the news cycle is driving me bat shit insane!
How isn't this a major news story?

The Pentagon placed limits on the D.C. National Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests this week, trying to ensure military force remained constrained, as the Guard carried out a narrow, unarmed mission requested by the city’s mayor to help handle traffic ahead of planned protests.

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In memos issued Monday and Tuesday in response to a request from the D.C. mayor, the Pentagon prohibited the District’s guardsmen from receiving ammunition or riot gear, interacting with protesters unless necessary for self-defense, sharing equipment with local law enforcement,

This was a coordinated effort by a large bloc of the Republican party to install an illegitimate Trump dictatorship. As Rand Paul tweeted, “The vote today is not a protest; the vote today is literally to overturn the election!”

thebulwark.com/trumps-voters-… And with the mob there ain’t no such thing as halfway coups.

Here’s a tip. When you tell tens of millions of people who worship you that you want to overthrow the government, some of them are going to believe you.

@BillKristol Let's compare tax receipts between blue states and red states? Who just pays for all those millions @senatemajldr and his corrupt wife funnel to Kentucky? Oh, yes, it's blue states. I suggest blue states tell red states they aren't sending any tax$ into the Federal Govt. @BillKristol @senatemajldr An Associated Press Fact Check finds it’s actually the other way around. High-tax, traditionally Democratic states (blue), subsidize low-tax, traditionally Republican states (red) — in a big way.

I don't know why anyone is shocked by the behavior and actions of .@realDonaldTrump Manafort picked @VP Pence and the @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @senatemajldr

Nixon, a @GOP interfered with peace talks in Nam to get elected. Reagan used American hostages to get elected, George W Bush used his brother and a corrupt FL Attorney General, the Brooks Brother Riots and other underhanded possibly criminal acts in order to get elected. #MoscowMitch broke over 240+ years of Senate protocol to stop a Democratic president's pick for the SCOTUS. Trump used Russia

.@realDonaldTrump's legacy? Crime, Corruption, Debt, Deficits and Death..............

In 2019, the federal government delivered an extraordinary financial aid package to America's farmers. Farm subsidies jumped to their highest level in 14 years, most of them paid out without action by Congress.
The money flowed to farmers like Robert Henry. When I visited in early July, many of his fields near New Madrid, Mo., had been flooded for months, preventing him from working in them. The soybeans that he did manage to grow had fallen in value; China wasn't

I still can't stop thinking about Bret Stephen's piece in the @nytimes and I keep coming back to the point where white men in particular, sound so much like white men in the 20's, 30's and early 40's. It's like History is repeating itself and hence I started reading once again about the American and Nazi eugenics programs. How they started, who funded them etc. Maybe, we can take Bret's bullshit article and remind ourselves why eugenics is bad, why it's scientifically bullshit, and promise to never let its ugly head pop up again?

Tell me if I miss anyone but in someways we are experiencing the after effects of what happens when Prosecutors consider some people "small fish"

Turd Blossom aka Karl Rove, was involved with Watergate but was considered small fish.
Manafort was involved with Watergate but was considered small fish

Roger Stone was involved with Watergate but was considered small fish.
There are others but these are the top 3 that have gone on to fuck this nation over right and left, and profit the entire time they're doing it.

Then we have William Barr, who the MSM &

Without decency, morals, integrity, empathy and compassion, what is a life really worth.

Imagine living you life like the Trump Crime Family. No compassion for others, regardless of how small and innocent, how fragile and frail. No decency in any regard for anything. Morals, do exist and integrity is just the latest word they can't spell, and then there's empathy,the lack of it, allows 10 children to die in our care, afraid and alone without their parents. It allows you to go to an island where people are suffering minute by minute and toss paper towels

My mom was in her 30's during Watergate and in her words, "This is a hell of a lot worse than Watergate ever thought it could be." There is a huge issue that far too few are speaking about, many, my mom's age are experiencing major cases of depression due to what's happening. She and others in their 70's and 80's have lived through so much. Vietnam, Nixon, Watergate, the murder of JFK, Bobby, MLK, on and on and on, and sure some were upset under the leadership of George W, but I've never seen her this upset, and she's not the only one. So please talk

Am I the only one who read the article in Business Insider concerning "The Russians are screwing with the GPS system to send bogus navigation data to thousands of ships?"

I mean it seems that I must be since this isn't one of the leading stories this a.m and you might want to ask why it isn't a lead story? Trump is always Trump, working tirelessly to stay in the news for good or bad, but this story concerning the GPS system should be more important than Trump's bullshit, which is all that he ever shovels, more and more bullshit.
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