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fascistamerica https://www.dailykos.com/news/fascistamerica News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:30:44 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:30:44 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Secretary Kelly confirms that Trump's Administration is Full of Monsters https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/7/1640952/-Kelly-confirms-that-Trump-s-Administration-is-Full-of-Monsters Yesterday, retired marine general <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/13/vowing_to_stop_political_correctness_gen" target="_blank" title="">John "Colombia-Showed-Us-The-Way" Kelly</a>, who is currently the Secretary of Homeland Security, told Wolf Blitzer on <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/03/06/john-kelly-dhs-trump-travel-ban-wiretap-tsr-intv-full.cnn" target="_blank">CNN’s the Situation Room</a> that he is quite open to the idea of separating children from their parents as soon as they step foot on US soil, because nothing says “Make America Great Again” like terrorizing children. <a href="http://time.com/4692899/homeland-security-john-kelly-separate-children-parents-immigration/" target="_blank" title="">Time.com reports:</a> <blockquote> When pressed by Blitzer about whether DHS personnel would separate undocumented immigrant children from their parents, Kelly confirmed he was considering such protocol. </blockquote> Kelly, lamely pretending that he is driven by compassion rather than xenophobic power lust, suggested that he is really concerned about the safety of children whose parents are trying to escape violence, poverty, and chaos in their home countries. Because of that concern, he thinks it’s a great idea to traumatize them further by removing them from the only source of security they have. But don’t worry. Kelly says we’ll take care of the children while we “deal with their parents”. <blockquote> "Yes, I am considering, in order to deter more movement along this terribly dangerous network, I am considering exactly that," he said. "They will be well cared for as we deal with their parents." </blockquote> The truly horrible words of a truly horrible person in a truly horrible administration. #resist ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/03/06/john-kelly-dhs-trump-travel-ban-wiretap-tsr-intv-full.cnn" target="_blank" title="">Here’s the video of the full interview</a>. The pertinent part begins about 6:25. rss@dailykos.com (nancyjones) fascistamerica Recommended _1640952 Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:58:54 +0000 Welcome to 1933 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/9/1594199/-Welcome-to-1933 Trump was right about one thing, the system WAS rigged. Not in the way he claimed it was but since the last election the republican majority in congress has been setting up this little coup d'etat and it worked. In 1933 Adolf Hitler went out in a nation ravaged by dissent and anger over the failing German state elected Hitler based on his words about restoring Germany to it’s rightful place in the world. He wanted to make Germany great again. the German people were suffering from the hardships of a global economic depression. They felt disenfranchised and ignored by their government. They longed for a time when Germany was a major world power and for the status that implied. They chose Hitler without really looking beyond his speeches as well. He laid out his plans for the world and for his desire for domination and for change from the failed Weimar Republic. He promised them that he and he alone could fix the problems, he promised them that he and he alone could restore Germany and they loved him. In the beginning he was infallible he could do no wrong and he began to rearm and renegotiate treaties and trade agreements. When diplomacy failed to satisfy him and his cult of blind followers he threatened military consequences to his trading partners. For the most part he cowed a world unwilling to see a shooting war over trade or after a time even territory. What happened next is a matter of history. Last night I watched as the American Reich was born, born out of the same fears and desires as Germany’s. Won by a man who used NAZI tactics and speeches and political dirty tricks to get there. Will Trump now make good on his threats? Will he start to jail his opponents? Will he get his wish to remove the plague of moochers and looters and people who are not adherents of his peculiar type of “religion”? How long before he and Putin become allies? How long before the bloodbath begins? rss@dailykos.com (bobbot) fascistamerica _1594199 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:09:49 +0000 A Word of Warning https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/13/1581854/-A-Word-of-Warning <h2></h2> Donald Trump is indeed a fascist, plain and simple. His supporters can post a million images of Hillary with a NAZI uniform and a moustache but, the fact is he has embraced the ideas he has assimilated from his hero Adolf Hitler to the point of plagiarizing lines from his speeches. My father fought in WWII, he was in both theaters. He fought a war to stop fascism and now? Donald Trump and his followers have decided that fascism is what America needs. The ignorance of the right is appalling as evidenced by their their simple minded acceptance of their fuehrer’s belief that socialism, communism and fascism are interchangeable. They are not. I started out as a Sanders supporter, when he was unable to take the nomination I considered other points of view and candidates. I settled on Hillary based on what she has done and wanted to do for the country (yes, and her ability to win). Trump is not an acceptable alternative for me. He has never in his life done anything that was not to his benefit. He claims to have changed but the facts show he is a spoiled two year old who wants to be a tyrant. Why? because Donald Trump ALWAYS wins and gets his way, like that same two year old throwing a tantrum in a toy store. He cannot face defeat and anyone who attempts to stop him will feel his wrath. We come to this then don’t we? Hillary is an example of the status quo ante, she expands on programs but is beholden enough to the powerful to not step far out of line. This is repugnant to me but Trump IS the elite embodied. His campaign is straight out of Mein Kampf. The constant repetition of lies, the jingoistic and xenophobic declarations to elicit a response to engage them in some kind of pseudo religious experience, the establishment of a theory that makes others the enemy and removes their rights as Americans to dissent. Personally I don’t want to end up as a “good German” I want to live in a land where all are free not just those who kiss the rich mans ass and believe me that is Trumps dream. To take away your right to be presumed innocent, to make you pass litmus tests of loyalty to him, not your country and if he wins we end up having wasted the lives lost in WWII. rss@dailykos.com (bobbot) fascistamerica _1581854 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:34:47 +0000 Corresponding to an article about the Fascist corporate State https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/9/12/1329413/-Corresponding-to-an-article-about-the-Fascist-corporate-State I don't know if they even have a word made up correctly for what america is Fascist...,?  Agreed! ... but the government doesn't blatantly exclaim that they own you. Like the Romans, they just collect their tribute from the giants, and created many different levels in the way of owning and projecting the countries future in any manner they seem fit. Using the military sect, they're able to hide future technologies for a multitude of purposes. They know every upgrade of technology for the next 10 years. Their focus is to generally limit and forceably control the release of that information; thus making money for the insiders that know where the money is going to flow, so they can cash in on the "surprise". They use terms like "national security" to its absolute limit, abusing anything integral about it; such that they can manipulate the data industry; increase the "security" of the country by upping systems of the government like the FCC, so that anything that is considered borderline tyrannical is watered down over time to be perceived to be a mild inconvenience of privacy. Ways in which this helps them? They can spy in on wealthy avenues and receive secret financial information on any occasion. At the same time they use their power to limit interesting information to the mainstream press, tactically keeping major economic interest in their ball court, always ready to be taken advantage by their friends in the private sector. (which they all shadily are retreating to after their years of "good public work") There is no shame in becoming a traitor to the people in today's practice of political office. It's actually what their club is expected of, like a wholesale takeover of power. The thing is, the "American People" are so misinformed with the news they receive, with quarter lies, half lies, three quarter lies, that finding a genuine article of truth that holds no bias is like striking gold. They spend their time turning hypothetical right wing opinionators into full time news worthy leading edition reporters so that we're supposed to forget to ground ourselves with suppositions leading to valid standpoints. They trained themselves in the art of bullying tactics to speak over and illogically refute the interviewee insensitively, and often without any truth, often trying to prove their arguments, plucking from the trees of nonexistence in their art of winning a conversation. And because all this has become the standard in mainstream news, any chance for the common person to be led into what's really going on has been hopeless for most. These people show up on TV with their suits and ties, with smiles and titles. Men and women who are often corrupted by money, and certainly corrupted by the atmosphere of nonsense and trickery. One of your commentators said "It's easy for a man not to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it." That's because most people only have the time and patience to hear a fraction of what is reported. A good portion of these people are magnetic to alpha-male political jargon.. make it a point in their life to stand on the side of anti-immigration, pro-war, right wing christianity, pro-death penalty, anti-abortion. All things relative to Nazi type positions. Their brains are hard wired that way, even if they don't gain anything in life for supporting it. It is sad that so often the time all these harsh positions are all bundled and well packaged by a political party that stamps their approval on these stances... meanwhile the majority of them get fucked over on every social level under the sun, because it usually takes a violent bully that is also a trickster, with a fake smile and a few low blows as their ammunition in their left pocket to become a millionare seeking power. The party is eating itself away, because half of them are crooks, and the other half are being ripped off.. but they hang on by a thread because they hate the liberal agenda so much that they'd commit suicide before passing their chance to vote against them. I doubt the common man that calls himself a republican really loves the guy in a suit ripping them off. Problem with the liberals, The country in its foundation is weaved with vice, as there would be absolutely no way it would be here if it didn't do so with slavery and sophisticated ways of maneuvering people off their land, year after year, murdering people in the millions, so they can steal land and build up their countries treasury with slave money. Liberals give the appearance of being sympathetic, and have been doing it for centuries. They're often cool in their calculations of what is wrong with the government, but they will not talk about what the country really needs. To be rebuilt from scratch, and for the new government that replaces it to disown the government it used to be. There's a reason why Hypothetical Government isn't something any school in the United States isn't teaching now, or never were... and that's because they know that if people started building newer, sharper, hyper-modern and more evolved and improved theories for government; the United States, and other worldly governments would be viewed as the violent criminal states they actually are. Their glory would be overshadowed by their shame, and nobody would buy it, because the truth would be out there. Metaphorically, nobody is going to continue to buy food that is going to make them sick, when there is food that taste even better, and even contributes to a better health. We are living in the world of yesterday... under the threat of violence, there will never be a revolution, not with the kind of advanced weaponry they could use to maul their citizens. There was a time when they had to look over their shoulder and keep the people happy, or else be worried by the fear of a mob. No longer the truth, now they can kill you and everyone you know with precision, from space.. with a few strikes from a keyboard. We might might as well fall to our knees... If there is at least a good god, one thing is clear... we aren't being helped by them. About the only hope we have left is for a miracle, because doing anything in today's world is absolutely hopeless. I'm just enjoying the last days of freedom... I expect things to get much worse. It won't be too long before freedom of speech is that old law that provided us to use the internet to talk about what our problems are...   I think when the atmosphere changes, we'll all have to go underground and talk about a mass exodus to the nearest free civilization. Maybe at that time enough of us can concentrate on a new world and get actual things done. I can't say that I trust any government. There are places, like in Africa, where government is almost nonexistent, it might be the only place for the minds of tomorrow to join and plan for a better world. Everywhere else requires you to live in a neverending maze of poverty and to accept the states control over people ... Since African nations are lesser sophisticated, and they haven't been practicing oppression for so long, perhaps that could be the new base for the people to score some points over the machine that is our system. rss@dailykos.com (dunngar) AmericaisFascist fascistamerica FascistCorporateState _1329413 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:53:35 +0000 Puppets of the Gangster Oligarchs (POGOs) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/25/949029/-Puppets-of-the-Gangster-Oligarchs-POGOs We have met the enemy and he is pretending to be us. On issue after issue, polls show American voters want one thing by a large majority; but their political system delivers the opposite. People didn't want the Wall St bailout (over 80% polled). They wanted, and continue to want, an end to the pointless wars and a reduction in bloated, wasteful military spending. They wanted real healthcare reform instead of the corporate-controlled fraud they were given after a year of political theater. And now, by a greater than 60% majority in a Gallup/USA Today poll, they do not want collective bargaining removed. Isn't it clear by now that the current political system does not care what the electorate wants? The GOP have nakedly gunning for the middle class for thirty years, while the Democrats have been walking away from defending that class since Clinton. For the middle class, our political system is nothing more than good cop/bad cop. rss@dailykos.com (arendt) fascistamerica Oligarchs Union Busting UnionBusting _949029 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:11:42 +0000