7:40 Al thinks he is being funny but it is actually exactly how the Russian disinformation tactic known as “The Firehose Of Falsehood” actually works. Truth just dilutes the effect of the tactic. If people actually see some bits of truth it takes away from the completely false reality and the idea there is no such thing as truth.
36:35 “Thereby proving they ARE a bunch of political hacks.” The highest court in the land…is a red flag that a fascist takeover is likely.
55:30 “If you try and misuse the rules, distort the rules, do things for naked political advantage or damage the country because you think it will bring you advantage, then you’re not going to have an institution that works.” And that is exactly what Moscow Mitch has done to the Senate. The result is opposite of Salus populi suprema lex esto.
“Or… if he loses again, he’ll just try to steal it.”
“The country can’t survive torching the constitution.”
This is what is going to happen and nobody will do anything to stop it. We are headed toward a civil war.
7:00– Coded language. She nailed it. “Underlying all this is the party has been afraid for decades that it is essentially going to be cast as the black party-.”
Teaching the young is really the ultimate power base…and why they went after Socrates. The right seems to eternally play the vengeful Plato in this over two thousand year epic.
Masculinity and sociopathy have much in common. These borderline sociopath politicians are after the ultimate next level psychopath fantasy- Fascism.
“Violence has always been at the heart of patriarchy…we’ve got to deal with the fact that men typically don’t have deep friendships with other men.”
The original Ben-Hur had a very different meeting between the two antagonists at the end of the movie- and a half a century later we can now see a different path. The opposite path is being pushed also:
The kill AOC meme has been a constant for several years. It is one of those things that separates the crazy fascists from the rest of us. The storm is coming.
Sadly, the only possible way to provide a western standard of living to 8 billion people is to build the power stations carbon free on the Moon and then place them in Earth orbit to beam down the energy to run civilization.
If the space shuttle had been designed to continue to send payloads to the Moon with the expendable components replaced piece by piece with reusables in new iterations every few years then by now…
If 11 percent of democrats and 30 percent of republicans say violence will be necessary to “save our country”, let’s take a guess at what that means.
The U.S. male population between the ages of 25 and 64 numbers 84.85 million. We can add outliers or subtract those not likely to fight and come up with 80 to 85 million. In my view the lower number is more likely so let’s call it 80 million. Dividing this in half with democrats on one side and republicans on the other, and speculating only one in one hundred is seriously considering engaging in violence, that infers around 400,000 “true believers” on each side. Going by the poll’s eleven and thirty percent, about 44,000 democrats and 120,000 republicans could be expected to show up and fight. Going by the poll is very misleading concerning democrats though, as they are not the aggressors in this and will understate. It may balance out to roughly equal numbers on both sides. Or…the republicans will have a big advantage in numbers and weapons at the beginning but this will rapidly fade.
Concerning the first civil war, “In July 1861, the two armies were nearly equal in strength with less than 200,000 soldiers on each side-”
I will predict a civil conflict will end quickly with either a democracy still in place or a fascist take-over. Creature comforts drive the masses and profit drives the one percent and any protracted civil conflict puts a stop to both those drivers.
In the event of a civil war, before Martial Law is declared and the military restores order, the better armed republicans are likely to inflict some massive blood-letting in any large clashes. However, to engage in those large clashes they are going to have to go to population centers and this is going to lower republican numbers somewhat and greatly increase democrat numbers. It seems a weird replay of the blitzkrieg with everything depending on how much violence the fascists can generate to effect a quick victory.
Being one of those cursed “libs”, I believe it would end with a democracy. But history gives numerous examples of autocrats taking control and nations descending into squalor and eternal decline or self-destructing. We should all be very afraid of what is happening right now. We are living in what will be one of the most important moments in history for humankind- and most of us do not have a clue about what is actually taking place. This could signal the beginning of the end of our species or the beginning of a post-neoliberal age and a profound change in the human condition.
An American civil war between the right and the left looks likely at this point. I state this because of my experience with my coworkers who represent a snapshot of millions of white undereducated blue collar Americans. These millions who have been dumbed down in their Trumpist bubble to the extent that a future coup attempt is now being accepted as almost certain.
“The storm” is a Q camouflage term for what the white power movement know as “the day of the rope.” In Nazi Germany it was called “Kristallnacht” and the movie franchise “the purge” presents a fantasy version of it. It is essentially the day they murder everyone who ever publicly declared against them.
The most bizarre feature is the Black and Hispanic churches that identify as Evangelical and have adopted Trumpism. The absolute amoral greed and racial hatred that is integral to Trumpism would see them exterminated. It is truly strange.
The Trumpist’s are asking each other the question:
“How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?”
The answer they are not saying out loud is: “these people are allowing us to steal the next election and then we are going to kill them.”
5:51 “I think language is very important. White power refers to a revolutionary movement that seeks to threaten the American people and to threaten the nation. White nationalism is a little bit different and includes many of the policies sought by the Trump administration. White Supremacy is bigger than both of those things; it includes all of them and it also includes all of these inequal systems that have been built into our country from the beginning- and that we have to treat if we’d like to deal with either of these other problems.”
Concerning the falling white birth rate: 9:12 “-for white power activists this was a problem because they saw their race as their nation. And this is one of the reasons that white nationalism is sort of a confusing term because the nation in white nationalism after 1983 is not the United States, it is the Aryan nation and that’s thought of by people in this movement as of higher importance than the United States and certainly as outweighing any democratic system.”
The seven conspiracy theories most Trumpist’s believe in: 1. Stop the steal 2. Anti-vax (and anti-mask) 3. Climate change denial 4. Trickle-down economics 5. The great replacement 6. The lost cause 7. Holocaust revisionism (and Qanon)
In George Orwell’s 1984 the masses were brainwashed with the concept of the opposite of the truth being the truth if the state said it was. Since the Trump administration the Russian disinformation tactic called “the firehose of falsehood” has been in full play in America and bears a striking resemblance to Orwell’s dystopian idea of “doublethink.”
Why 1983? Professor Kathleen Belew marks that year as when all the disparate elements came together at the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake Idaho and effectively declared war on the U.S. government.
17:45 Kathleen lists the three key developments in the white power movement after 1983:
Leaderless Resistance
Social Network Activism
The Militia Movement
6:00 “Heil Trump!”
The violence in all of this is the salient feature. The more violence the closer to a state of anarchy that will bring the government down. I am afraid the failed coup was just practice for the next one that is, at this point, almost certain to come.
I keep trying to come up with ways to explain to my brainwashed acquaintances the reality of Neoliberalism. When I tell them the reason billionaires are not millionaires is because all that money that should be going into the pockets of the people who created it is going into their pockets. They look at me with a blank stare because they are immediately confused about who has the money and who does not. It confuses them because they have been programmed from childhood to believe they only deserve what the rich give them and not what they actually have earned. The first question about the economy that everyone needs to understand concerns what is “work” worth? It is actually a question of what a human being is worth. Can a human being be “worth” tens of thousands of times more than another human being? That is the true nature of Neoliberalism, which seeks to make money the god of this world. Human beings are second and wealth is first and above human life. This is the inconvenient truth.
If you have a hundred thousand times more money than another person then you are, according to the Neoliberal belief system, a demi-god and should have absolute power over lesser beings. Those powers to include how much the billionaires pay their employees for their work. The individual that follows the path of absolute greed will support the ideal of paying their employees just enough to put the food on the table that will enable them to work the next day. And in their view the employee should be grateful and even worship them for providing that food. This is wage slavery and just above chattel slavery. Those that threaten your profit margin or do not generate revenue are “useless eaters” and will eventually require a “final solution.” See how that works?
Fascism is a cleverly disguised version of Neoliberalism and worships the same god.
We are so close to reversing aging, yet nobody will say a word about it. So close to saving our species from extinction. As each of us ends so ends humankind. If the conspiracy theorists and Neoliberals do not send us careening into oblivion.
We had a political system with the few rich people wanting more and paying for that and the many poor people wanting more and not being able to pay and a tug of war between the two. It is easy to see who has now won and the chaos the rich have used to win may burn it all to the ground.
Everything….EVERTHING political, traces back to the one percent trying to not pay taxes. They will do anything to distract, disrupt, and influence, and in fact invest vast sums to preserve astronomical wealth. They do this despite all the harm attached because they worship money as the god of this world. Human lives are not a concern…only the profit they generate. This is the 1st cause all progressives (and democrats) need to understand.
Millions of people are not going to let fascism replace democracy and that means a bloody civil war could be coming. Unbelievable and insane yet there it is. These right-wing creatures are the tools of the one percent that worship money as the god of this world: everything traces back to the rich trying to not pay taxes. Why is this not the revealed truth that is discussed every hour of every day by the media?
Trumpists are dreaming about “The Day Of The Rope” from the Turner Diaries. It is one of the anchors of their base. They will never admit it, but it is what it is.
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