Thread of What Is Fascism And Is Donald Trump A Fascist

but he's too dumb to be effective at it so no worries!

but he's too dumb to be effective at it so no worries!

yeah, absolutely. it drives me insane

Donald Trump is not a Fascist, a truth so obvious as to be worth the clusterfuck that's about to ensue

― Coombesbat 18 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, December 23, 2015 6:42 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

are we ready to walk this one back yet

It's all about whether he's a fascist in his heart.

dude I fuckin hate to bring this up but I feel like there's a connection between Trump speaking with Putin and declaring martial law on the same day

and by the way bringing up the 2nd Amendment during his speech today really felt like "you can shoot anyone you think is ANTIFA, wink wink"

“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”

At the same meeting, Xi also defended China’s construction of camps housing as many as 1 million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang — and Trump signaled his approval. “According to our interpreter,” Bolton writes, “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”

What Is Fascism And Is Donald Trump A Fascist

https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/

Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off.

Official White House response to @Fahrenthold’s excellent reporting about the president getting public money spent at his private business: https://t.co/uhD9V8PrDi pic.twitter.com/CkXmD6eogq

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 27, 2020

“‘dossier’”

false David Fahrenthold and others stories

Did False David Fahrenthold pee on anyone or ask to be peed on? If not, I'm not interested.

lol I am reminded of carter page and his attempts to make “dodge dossier” happen

“Dodgy dossier”

pass the cur's dossier

this tom cotton speech is something else. this is the kind of thing that trump enabled. cotton's speech, his language, the entire concept of his speech ( would have been a seismic oddity just 4 years ago

"...his disciplined work ethic" (Guiliani).

this is the first time i've tuned in for more than 5 minutes straight. i'm sure they're ramping it up for the final night, but this is creepy as fuck. the "almighty god" references, god left and right, from multiple speakers in a row, paired with nods to loyalty, to faith, to fighting against those who would destroy it...with god on their side. the speaker just now just yelled "Hallelujah!" while raising her voice and her arms in the air. she is apparently someone who was freed from prison under trump's incarceration reforms, or something. holy shit

and at the same time, the inbetween-speech video they're playing just went out of its way to promote

OPERATION WARP SPEED

looooool? who falls for this? jeeeeezus

I tuned in for like two minutes and dude can barely read. And then he has to do this dramatic swing to get his body to face the other direction to struggle to read from the other prompter.

He looks like shit, too.

He's gripping that podium like he's afraid a gust of wind will blow him over.

looooool? who falls for this? jeeeeezus

― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Thursday, August 27, 2020 9:03 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think you know

if I still drank I’d totally watch this shit

He's still going! It's 11:30 in DC!

maybe he'll catch pneumonia

It is far too warm here for that to happen tonight.

I accidentally heard the end of this on the radio and his delivery was so fkn flat, he sounded exhausted and barely able to speak, let alone rouse rabble - at least ad*lf h*tl*r had a way with insane oration - how can people fall for this limp dick fascism?

reflecting on this, I suppose like many things it would be worse if he/they were good at it

My wife and I had a chat the other morning about what if we had real state-run media in this country and determined that Bush/Cheney would have used such an instrument to much more terrible effect; Trump would have just wrecked it. He’s bad at everything.

but really, how different is fox news from state-run media? that's not just a slogan, i think that's true. even state-run media occasionally runs quasi-critical coverage, and fox barely even bothers to do that, unless forced to do so

Fox complained about the administration for eight straight years iirc

while also running a 2-3 hour segment personally dedicated to trump (fucker>hannity) every evening

I mean I get your point. And obviously multiple admins have all had the entire media playing their tunes re: the GWOT for many years

& “real” state media usually includes explicit collusion between the state media organization(s) the broadcaster, newspaper, etc) and the regulator(s) who control access to bandwidth. Another thing that a more competent admin could really use for evil but this one would probably just fuck up.

My whole point being to emphasize that the Trump/Pence inability to even execute rousing authoritarian oratory effectively is just another symptom of how incompetent this entire shitshow has been from the get-go.

I've said it a few times, but having just read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" the conclusion I came to pretty early on is that for all their uncanny similarities, Adolph was just so much better at it than Asshole. To borrow a joke I saw online yesterday, Hitler was pretty bad, but in the end he *did* kill Hitler. That's how good he was.

Apparently even Jim Gaffigan went ham after last night? And he's as MOR as it gets.

You know Trump just creates enemies. You know you can't trust him. You know he been incompetent during this crisis. You know all those people didn't need to die. Trump talks about the Space Program and you can't safely go to a movie. Wake up

— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020

to those of you who think Im destroying my career wake up. if trump gets elected, the economy will never come back.

— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 28, 2020

Etc.

Truth Hot Pocket

Gaffigan goes off...never seen him like this. pic.twitter.com/gdurze0b32

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 28, 2020

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgfeXifU8Acnli3?format=jpg&name=large

Wow!

no need to curse tho.

— Jeannie Gaffigan (@jeanniegaffigan) August 28, 2020

hahaha

lol

his wife is very funny.
gaffigan has excellent timing, as proven here.

Make America Gaffigan

— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) August 28, 2020

I had trouble sleeping last night thinking of all these armed militia groups and the like. Namely, what can be done about them? There seem to be enough numbers across the states that they can't and more to the point won't all be arrested, and if anyone actually had the resolve and will and tried (which they don't), the results seem pretty predictable. And yet the alternative seems to be to let them go about their gun-toting business, give or take a murder or hate crime, which doesn't seem like a solution. Truly have no idea. When one side is literally and figuratively gearing up for war, and the other side doesn't give it to them, then there's no explicit pretense for punishment, and everyone is left in this tense and seemingly untenable holding pattern.

all i can hope for is a democratic administration that recognizes domestic rightwing terrorism and does something about it. that's not this administration, that's for fucking sure, and the obama administration always treated "domestic rightwing terrorism" as a bad word (for understandable but sad political reasons - i suppose they didn't want to a black president who had mentioned "clinging to religion and guns" during his campaign to be associated with the country's first real reckoning with the most dangerous elements of extreme rightwing groups, which are almost entirely white dudes with guns, justifying their racist actions on their religion). maybe biden will be able to name the ugly evil thing and do something about it.