And when we write that history part of why we can is essays like this one from JoJo. Each of us may just be a brick in the wall, but if we stand together, nothing can knock us apart.
Rosemary I'm not so sure we are in a "so close" situation. There is the distinct possibility we are standing on the shore watching what was our country sail over the horizon.
Jo, thank you for doing what you do. I share the rage that fills every one of your posts. I usually also get a few healthy laughs also (anger and humor often coexist, no?).
But this time there were no laughs to be had. This shit is serious, but so is our resistance.
I tried to find something inside that wanted a joke, but I couldnāt summon it this time. I made a lot of jokes on socials, but then I sat with it all a bit.
I get it Jo..there is no humor in what is happening. The firing of a statistician for reporting data not acceptable to the regime is the essence of fascism and another step towards the dystopian society similar to 1984. I'm fighting mad and terrified for my kids. We have to stop this! Non-violently or forcibly. Whatever if fucking takes but this shit has got to STOP!
Now is our momentātomorrow take action against this harmful government. They are:
Covering up a pedophile ring.
Ignoring court orders.
Spreading corruption.
The poor, the needy, and children are being abusedāby our government. Healthcare, already a broken system, was canceled for 13 million. Take to the streets!
We must protest outright crooks and the pedophiles. They will start shooting us. Untrained ICE agents will shoot us. Protest until we go down or we oust these tyrants.
I made 54 protest signs to aid protest groups. I will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this second batch, and share them as far as you can.
Oh God yes Bove. We should forget about the fact that he looks like a character from a 1950ās monster movie š± and defied the ruling of a federal judge, heās scary anyway and could be our next Supreme Court Justice and sit on the bench for another 40 years. His Friday Night Massacre of SDNY in the Eric Adams pardon was unforgivable. Jesus what a jerk!
I did attempt to tread carefully on that one. But indeed, a vampire or zombie movie like Night of the Living Dead. Saw a JoJo post on the Twit a couple of days ago, where she said [paraphrase] "Evil ages a person fast" It's true, the dude looks 60 and at a minimum and he's 44. And "evil" is probably an understatement.
A few years ago my book club chose 1984. When asked did I see parallels, my answer not really. 2+2 most decidedly equaled four. One could use vulgarity or criticism of a President, by example, with impunity. Sure, they may never be invited back for dinner. Nothing more. In Jonathan Turleyās book from last year on the First Amendment, he typically kvetched about students on campus. But one message loud and clear, the government cannot put constraint on speech. The notion criticizing the government or President constitutes seditious libel is baloney. But here we are as JoJo so disturbingly recounts for us. The latest, firing the BLS Director is part of a larger and dangerous pattern.
Resist? I can in word and vote. I hope every day the GOP men and women will regain their honor and dispatch Trump and his MAGA cronies to the hinterlands. Maybe, between the Epstein brouhaha and the dangerous unnecessary dismissal of the BLS Director they will find their spine. Maybeā¦
I hope youāre right but respectfully I doubt the republican congress finds their spine and their moral compass. Both have been sinking in the MAGA mud they are probably out of reach. Frankly, the leadership in the Democratic Party are asleep at the wheel.
I donāt how we, the people who care about democracy turn this around but weād better come up with a solution soon.
The republicans are out ahead of us in that regard. Legislative districts are being redrawn. The DOJ is gearing up for a full-on assault of our election systems. Dis information has reached the point where even the deranged confused Q Annon movement is confused about why it is deranged and confused.
My book group read 1984 a couple months ago. My instant reaction was I like Fahrenheit 451 MUCH better, and it allows a wee bit of hope in the end. I just felt depressed and angry at the end of 1984.
I read that this morning and have been composing letters in my head the entire day. Too much is happening too fast. Destroying part (all?) of the East wing for his ugly, gigantic building to his ego and bad taste. The woman who was fired for telling the truth (and his insistence the real number was 30 MILLION!) He is giving demented interviews, has taken all our money and used it to enrich himself and his "friends". I read in Daily Beast today the DOGE cost us 21.7 BILLION! COST us. Not saved anyone. They raided the treasury and no one stopped them. Ghislaine being transferred to a "nicer" facility is just a blatant fuck you to any survivor of sexual assault, especially all the women who are already on the record complaining about his unwanted "attentions" to be kind.
I'm glad I'm going away. I will still read this and scan my email, but my mom will not tolerate a focus on donald and his crimes.
I agree we are in terrible trouble. I worry for you Jo. Please, be careful and make sure your house is always locked and the cops are on speed dial.
Cute puppygirl! She looks quite comfy. She made me smile. As for you know who, yes, we have to never let our guard down, never forget the truth, or forget how sordid and vengeful this asshole is, but we must also realize how incredibly stupid, petty and frankly, just downright uneducated and maniacal he is. So he fires a Bureau of Labor Statistics person who simply read the current job stats. Well, that's real bright. A 5 year old could do better than that. And he thinks she's partisan and made them up. That shows that he has NO fucking idea how the labor statistics are accumulated and analyzed. As I said, stupid. Frankly, once Erika may calm down from her firing, she will hopefully realize how better off she is in the long run, to NOT be employed by the Federal govt at this time. Get away from it, as far as you can. She certainly may consider sueing; I would think she's got a helluva good case, but we will see how that progresses. As far as the Smithsonian information re impeachments, that is simply laughable. Everyone in the friggin' universe, even the idiot magas, know how many times this criminal was impeached. The museum can post any shit it wants, beginning with George Washington was a traitor, to Neal Armstrong being a simple farmer in Wapakoneta OH, growing corn and soybeans, and wishing he could fly airplanes. Yes, all of his machinations are of the devil, and dangerous, absolutely no doubt, but they are so ridiculous as well. He never deals in serious shit, because he doesn't have the cognitive abilities to do so. And currently, he's trying to run so fast and hard away from the redacted Epstein files, that his pants are coming down and his fake hair is coming off, so hell, he'll do anything, even sell Melania, to avoid that ever so increasing scandal. To wit, he has pointed 2 nuclear subs at Russia due to some crap one of their loonies said about us. I'm sure Putin is shaking in his boots. Does this idiot have any idea that if he really thinks he can go nuclear with Putin, the ex KGB man who has ordered the murder of 100s of people, and has been in office longer than Trump can even consider, that Putin will not try his level best to destroy our entire coastlines? You have to ask yourself: how did this fucking stupid, inept, narcissistic, maniac ever get anywhere near the WH? Many stupid, gullible, needy Americans made that happen. For what's it worth, I'm old enough to know that everything changes in time, and this will too. He will die or become medical compromised, his Cabinet will quit, or be canned, and JD will be wringing his hands, trying to figure out how to find the bathroom in the Oval. This asshole is not forever.....at all. It's just very difficult to accept his horseshit currently. Pardon my profanities, who may be offended by them, but they are the most descriptive of words during these times.
Amen to everything youāve said JoJo. Of everything my biggest fear is that not enough Americans will wake up from their sleep walking until itās too late. This has been the case in other societies and it could be us too. Ordinary Jewish citizens lived right outside of Auschwitz. Surely they smelled what came from the death chambers yet turned the other way and ignored it because it was easier to do. If we turn the other way, throw up our hands, and obey in advance weāre lost. Reality often isnāt pleasant, but not facing what is happening head on and fighting it with everything in us is far worse.
Not everyone is old enough to have seen us, the USA, help overthrow a tin pot dictatorship or an authoritarian takeover. And most importantly why we did it. Peace, meaning war and things nuclear, were now in the balance. Allowing that kind of dictatorial government would create an unstable world. We need to go reflect on our place in those heroic efforts and successes. Every time MSNBC does a loading scroll of doom, Iām terrified theyāve been pulled off the air. There is no longer a bottom to finally reach, this is a leak getting bigger and bigger.
"Who controls the present, controls the past; who controls the past controls the future." - "1984"
As to how it happens, Joseph Heller described that 64 years ago in "Catch-22":
āIt was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.ā
Jo, this is definitely a scary time; all the bullshit everywhere all at once. Itās their tactics to bring us down. We really need to stand together and fight and I appreciate your posts so much because you donāt sugarcoat anything and tell if like it is. I feel a bit like Ruby sometimes; I just want to bury myself and hide, but since thatās what they want, theyāll never get it from me. Sending love and strength right back to you and yours ā¤ļø
It's Stalin all over again. Terrifying? Fuck yes it is! This is pure evil! You can't reason with it, can't negotiate with it. You have to destroy it. At one time, nonviolence worked because oppressors had shame. These don't. Civil war is the last thing I want, but I won't be led to slaughter like so much livestock. We have difficult decisions to make. Whatever happens, we need to hang together. Be strong, be safe, and hug the kids for me. š¢ā¤ļø
E. Jean Carroll, the woman who sued Trump for defamation (TWICE) winning an 88 million award (Trump, no surprise, is appealing), has an idea for how to express a symbolic vote of no confidence in Trump (ejeancarroll@substack.com). It is a staged national co-coordinate social media attack beginning on September 16th at high noon (ET) and continuing every day at noon, each day thereafter with a different message. She says Conflab and Substack will be the āwhite-hot centerā of this. The symbolic vote does not yet have a name, but she is working on it, she says ālots to do, more to followā. Check in with Jean.
If this gets under Trumpās skin, as many hope, I have no doubt he will reflexively sue and/or terrorize Jean and co-organizers. If that comes to pass, I hope Jean et al will counter sue from several states to form a class action lawsuit that lands at the Supreme Court. If done right, the resulting class action suit could be titled, The People v. President Donald J. Trump. That would be a big, beautiful No Confidence Vote! And potentially more.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a reality that can investigate ācreative legal frameworks that can channel public disapproval into indirect consequencesā. If you havenāt already had a conversation with an AI, I suggest you open a conversation by asking, āHow do people express political will outside of elections or legislation?
On April 26, 1942, Hitler had the following law enacted. "In the present war, in which the German people are faced with a struggle for their existence or their annihilation, the Fuehrer must have all the rights postulated by him which serve to further or achieve victory. Therefore, without being bound by existing legal regulations -- in his capacity as Leader of the nation, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Head of Government and supreme executive chief, as Suprieme Justice and Leader of the Party -- The Fuehrer must be in a position to force with all means at his disposal every German, if necessary, whether he be common soldier or officer, low or high official or judge, leading or subordinate official of the party, worker or employer -- to fulfill his duties. In case of violation of these duties, the Fuerher is entitled, under conscientious examination, regardless of so-called well-deserved rights, to mete out due punishment and to remove the offender from his post, rank, and position without introducing prescribed procedures."
Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960 edition, Page 867
He was losing badly in Russia and faced America's entry into the war and support of Great Britain. He was at this point losing the war, but used all means of propaganda to continue to paint the rosiest of futures. Our current Fuehrer seems intent on being, and keeping the rest of us, equally oblivious of the reality confronting us. This time it's not the Western and Eastern Fronts, but the fate of the whole world hanging in the balance.
As I believe I said yesterday, every day brings us a new horror, an even greater outrage, and Iāll be the first to admit that this collective pile of outrages is scaring the crap out of me. And then I think that just maybe THIS will be the one that broke the elephantās back. That just maybe, Republicans will DO something to stop the crazy.
And then? They donāt. Even though I know that they know that this aināt normal and itās wicked dangerous. These actions and these policies are unpopular AF, and damn if these congressional Rs arenāt hearing it from their constituents, like the Rep in SW Wisconsin did at his town hall yesterday.
But he stands there and defends everything, all the bullshit, all the gaslighting, all the revisionism, all the cruelty, all the corruption. Despite the booing, despite the catcalls. Because thatās what his cult leader āDaddyā wants. Itās galling, itās frightening, and it shows absolutely no sign of letting up. Tomorrow is Rage Against the Regime Day. Please let them hear you. All of you. Thanks for setting off the alarm Jo. Always.
On top of everything else, they transfer Ghislaine to a country club prison in Texas where you can actually get permission to leave š¤¬ Donnie, Blondi & Toad Blanche are priming the pump for a pardon. I feel it in my bones.
But I actually think they are scared of us. They know the midterms are likely to be (as Obama once said) a āshellackingā. But they are inexplicably more scared of a mean Tweet from the Orange Anus than they are of losing power or their jobs.
Canāt explain that Charles. Itās just weird. Cult.
When the history is written, it will serve as a record of how close we came to losing our country because people are gullible and lazy, among other things. š©š will die some day and Iām praying for the flying monkeys to pick up the broom and apologize. The Republicans own this.
And when we write that history part of why we can is essays like this one from JoJo. Each of us may just be a brick in the wall, but if we stand together, nothing can knock us apart.
Rosemary I'm not so sure we are in a "so close" situation. There is the distinct possibility we are standing on the shore watching what was our country sail over the horizon.
Thanks for helping us cling to truth.
And for the dog photo - it's been a shit-tacular week (both in the news and personally), and I'll take all the pet and baby photos I can get.
Jo, thank you for doing what you do. I share the rage that fills every one of your posts. I usually also get a few healthy laughs also (anger and humor often coexist, no?).
But this time there were no laughs to be had. This shit is serious, but so is our resistance.
Keep it up, and never back down.
I tried to find something inside that wanted a joke, but I couldnāt summon it this time. I made a lot of jokes on socials, but then I sat with it all a bit.
We love your metaphors and humor, but todayās BS was serious. So it was pitch perfect š
This for me is a line in the sand.
I get it Jo..there is no humor in what is happening. The firing of a statistician for reporting data not acceptable to the regime is the essence of fascism and another step towards the dystopian society similar to 1984. I'm fighting mad and terrified for my kids. We have to stop this! Non-violently or forcibly. Whatever if fucking takes but this shit has got to STOP!
Now is our momentātomorrow take action against this harmful government. They are:
Covering up a pedophile ring.
Ignoring court orders.
Spreading corruption.
The poor, the needy, and children are being abusedāby our government. Healthcare, already a broken system, was canceled for 13 million. Take to the streets!
We must protest outright crooks and the pedophiles. They will start shooting us. Untrained ICE agents will shoot us. Protest until we go down or we oust these tyrants.
I made 54 protest signs to aid protest groups. I will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this second batch, and share them as far as you can.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/more-free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs
And they have confirmed Trump's lawyer who defied court orders to a lifetime position on the court.
Oh God yes Bove. We should forget about the fact that he looks like a character from a 1950ās monster movie š± and defied the ruling of a federal judge, heās scary anyway and could be our next Supreme Court Justice and sit on the bench for another 40 years. His Friday Night Massacre of SDNY in the Eric Adams pardon was unforgivable. Jesus what a jerk!
Usually, I wouldn't touch a person's appearance, but the pic of the toothy smile would work on a gothic movie poster.
I did attempt to tread carefully on that one. But indeed, a vampire or zombie movie like Night of the Living Dead. Saw a JoJo post on the Twit a couple of days ago, where she said [paraphrase] "Evil ages a person fast" It's true, the dude looks 60 and at a minimum and he's 44. And "evil" is probably an understatement.
I fear that protest won't be enough. I don't intend to be shot down like a dog. Let THEM be martyrs.
We have lived a full life. Iāll sacrifice.
A few years ago my book club chose 1984. When asked did I see parallels, my answer not really. 2+2 most decidedly equaled four. One could use vulgarity or criticism of a President, by example, with impunity. Sure, they may never be invited back for dinner. Nothing more. In Jonathan Turleyās book from last year on the First Amendment, he typically kvetched about students on campus. But one message loud and clear, the government cannot put constraint on speech. The notion criticizing the government or President constitutes seditious libel is baloney. But here we are as JoJo so disturbingly recounts for us. The latest, firing the BLS Director is part of a larger and dangerous pattern.
Resist? I can in word and vote. I hope every day the GOP men and women will regain their honor and dispatch Trump and his MAGA cronies to the hinterlands. Maybe, between the Epstein brouhaha and the dangerous unnecessary dismissal of the BLS Director they will find their spine. Maybeā¦
I hope youāre right but respectfully I doubt the republican congress finds their spine and their moral compass. Both have been sinking in the MAGA mud they are probably out of reach. Frankly, the leadership in the Democratic Party are asleep at the wheel.
I donāt how we, the people who care about democracy turn this around but weād better come up with a solution soon.
My only hope is that we take every step possible to ensure a fair election in 2026. And that the repugs are squashedš¤¬
The republicans are out ahead of us in that regard. Legislative districts are being redrawn. The DOJ is gearing up for a full-on assault of our election systems. Dis information has reached the point where even the deranged confused Q Annon movement is confused about why it is deranged and confused.
My book group read 1984 a couple months ago. My instant reaction was I like Fahrenheit 451 MUCH better, and it allows a wee bit of hope in the end. I just felt depressed and angry at the end of 1984.
I read that this morning and have been composing letters in my head the entire day. Too much is happening too fast. Destroying part (all?) of the East wing for his ugly, gigantic building to his ego and bad taste. The woman who was fired for telling the truth (and his insistence the real number was 30 MILLION!) He is giving demented interviews, has taken all our money and used it to enrich himself and his "friends". I read in Daily Beast today the DOGE cost us 21.7 BILLION! COST us. Not saved anyone. They raided the treasury and no one stopped them. Ghislaine being transferred to a "nicer" facility is just a blatant fuck you to any survivor of sexual assault, especially all the women who are already on the record complaining about his unwanted "attentions" to be kind.
I'm glad I'm going away. I will still read this and scan my email, but my mom will not tolerate a focus on donald and his crimes.
I agree we are in terrible trouble. I worry for you Jo. Please, be careful and make sure your house is always locked and the cops are on speed dial.
Terrified in New York,
Cute puppygirl! She looks quite comfy. She made me smile. As for you know who, yes, we have to never let our guard down, never forget the truth, or forget how sordid and vengeful this asshole is, but we must also realize how incredibly stupid, petty and frankly, just downright uneducated and maniacal he is. So he fires a Bureau of Labor Statistics person who simply read the current job stats. Well, that's real bright. A 5 year old could do better than that. And he thinks she's partisan and made them up. That shows that he has NO fucking idea how the labor statistics are accumulated and analyzed. As I said, stupid. Frankly, once Erika may calm down from her firing, she will hopefully realize how better off she is in the long run, to NOT be employed by the Federal govt at this time. Get away from it, as far as you can. She certainly may consider sueing; I would think she's got a helluva good case, but we will see how that progresses. As far as the Smithsonian information re impeachments, that is simply laughable. Everyone in the friggin' universe, even the idiot magas, know how many times this criminal was impeached. The museum can post any shit it wants, beginning with George Washington was a traitor, to Neal Armstrong being a simple farmer in Wapakoneta OH, growing corn and soybeans, and wishing he could fly airplanes. Yes, all of his machinations are of the devil, and dangerous, absolutely no doubt, but they are so ridiculous as well. He never deals in serious shit, because he doesn't have the cognitive abilities to do so. And currently, he's trying to run so fast and hard away from the redacted Epstein files, that his pants are coming down and his fake hair is coming off, so hell, he'll do anything, even sell Melania, to avoid that ever so increasing scandal. To wit, he has pointed 2 nuclear subs at Russia due to some crap one of their loonies said about us. I'm sure Putin is shaking in his boots. Does this idiot have any idea that if he really thinks he can go nuclear with Putin, the ex KGB man who has ordered the murder of 100s of people, and has been in office longer than Trump can even consider, that Putin will not try his level best to destroy our entire coastlines? You have to ask yourself: how did this fucking stupid, inept, narcissistic, maniac ever get anywhere near the WH? Many stupid, gullible, needy Americans made that happen. For what's it worth, I'm old enough to know that everything changes in time, and this will too. He will die or become medical compromised, his Cabinet will quit, or be canned, and JD will be wringing his hands, trying to figure out how to find the bathroom in the Oval. This asshole is not forever.....at all. It's just very difficult to accept his horseshit currently. Pardon my profanities, who may be offended by them, but they are the most descriptive of words during these times.
Thanks for the message!
If you want to see what can happen..this book is a must read.
Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemƶller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis
https://g.co/kgs/7gxUyT9
Amen to everything youāve said JoJo. Of everything my biggest fear is that not enough Americans will wake up from their sleep walking until itās too late. This has been the case in other societies and it could be us too. Ordinary Jewish citizens lived right outside of Auschwitz. Surely they smelled what came from the death chambers yet turned the other way and ignored it because it was easier to do. If we turn the other way, throw up our hands, and obey in advance weāre lost. Reality often isnāt pleasant, but not facing what is happening head on and fighting it with everything in us is far worse.
For the first time, Iām genuinely afraid that we could lose our country.
I have since 2016. I expected a lot of this to happen back then. At the time, I didn't understand how the adults in the room were holding him back.
I've been watching this slowly unfold since the 90s. Reagan was the start of the actual attack on our republic, but I didn't pick up on it then.
Not everyone is old enough to have seen us, the USA, help overthrow a tin pot dictatorship or an authoritarian takeover. And most importantly why we did it. Peace, meaning war and things nuclear, were now in the balance. Allowing that kind of dictatorial government would create an unstable world. We need to go reflect on our place in those heroic efforts and successes. Every time MSNBC does a loading scroll of doom, Iām terrified theyāve been pulled off the air. There is no longer a bottom to finally reach, this is a leak getting bigger and bigger.
"Who controls the present, controls the past; who controls the past controls the future." - "1984"
As to how it happens, Joseph Heller described that 64 years ago in "Catch-22":
āIt was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.ā
Jo, this is definitely a scary time; all the bullshit everywhere all at once. Itās their tactics to bring us down. We really need to stand together and fight and I appreciate your posts so much because you donāt sugarcoat anything and tell if like it is. I feel a bit like Ruby sometimes; I just want to bury myself and hide, but since thatās what they want, theyāll never get it from me. Sending love and strength right back to you and yours ā¤ļø
It's Stalin all over again. Terrifying? Fuck yes it is! This is pure evil! You can't reason with it, can't negotiate with it. You have to destroy it. At one time, nonviolence worked because oppressors had shame. These don't. Civil war is the last thing I want, but I won't be led to slaughter like so much livestock. We have difficult decisions to make. Whatever happens, we need to hang together. Be strong, be safe, and hug the kids for me. š¢ā¤ļø
Ruby is adorable. Tom is undoubtedly planning an attack strategy.(My cats definitely would be.šš)
Iād be happy to babysit Ruby anytime. She radiates sweetness š¶ and Josie my little Yorkie would fall in love!
E. Jean Carroll, the woman who sued Trump for defamation (TWICE) winning an 88 million award (Trump, no surprise, is appealing), has an idea for how to express a symbolic vote of no confidence in Trump (ejeancarroll@substack.com). It is a staged national co-coordinate social media attack beginning on September 16th at high noon (ET) and continuing every day at noon, each day thereafter with a different message. She says Conflab and Substack will be the āwhite-hot centerā of this. The symbolic vote does not yet have a name, but she is working on it, she says ālots to do, more to followā. Check in with Jean.
If this gets under Trumpās skin, as many hope, I have no doubt he will reflexively sue and/or terrorize Jean and co-organizers. If that comes to pass, I hope Jean et al will counter sue from several states to form a class action lawsuit that lands at the Supreme Court. If done right, the resulting class action suit could be titled, The People v. President Donald J. Trump. That would be a big, beautiful No Confidence Vote! And potentially more.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a reality that can investigate ācreative legal frameworks that can channel public disapproval into indirect consequencesā. If you havenāt already had a conversation with an AI, I suggest you open a conversation by asking, āHow do people express political will outside of elections or legislation?
E. Jean is an American hero.
Thanks Roland!
On April 26, 1942, Hitler had the following law enacted. "In the present war, in which the German people are faced with a struggle for their existence or their annihilation, the Fuehrer must have all the rights postulated by him which serve to further or achieve victory. Therefore, without being bound by existing legal regulations -- in his capacity as Leader of the nation, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Head of Government and supreme executive chief, as Suprieme Justice and Leader of the Party -- The Fuehrer must be in a position to force with all means at his disposal every German, if necessary, whether he be common soldier or officer, low or high official or judge, leading or subordinate official of the party, worker or employer -- to fulfill his duties. In case of violation of these duties, the Fuerher is entitled, under conscientious examination, regardless of so-called well-deserved rights, to mete out due punishment and to remove the offender from his post, rank, and position without introducing prescribed procedures."
Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960 edition, Page 867
He was losing badly in Russia and faced America's entry into the war and support of Great Britain. He was at this point losing the war, but used all means of propaganda to continue to paint the rosiest of futures. Our current Fuehrer seems intent on being, and keeping the rest of us, equally oblivious of the reality confronting us. This time it's not the Western and Eastern Fronts, but the fate of the whole world hanging in the balance.
As I believe I said yesterday, every day brings us a new horror, an even greater outrage, and Iāll be the first to admit that this collective pile of outrages is scaring the crap out of me. And then I think that just maybe THIS will be the one that broke the elephantās back. That just maybe, Republicans will DO something to stop the crazy.
And then? They donāt. Even though I know that they know that this aināt normal and itās wicked dangerous. These actions and these policies are unpopular AF, and damn if these congressional Rs arenāt hearing it from their constituents, like the Rep in SW Wisconsin did at his town hall yesterday.
But he stands there and defends everything, all the bullshit, all the gaslighting, all the revisionism, all the cruelty, all the corruption. Despite the booing, despite the catcalls. Because thatās what his cult leader āDaddyā wants. Itās galling, itās frightening, and it shows absolutely no sign of letting up. Tomorrow is Rage Against the Regime Day. Please let them hear you. All of you. Thanks for setting off the alarm Jo. Always.
I've been depressed all day. Now I'm lvidly pissed off!! Rob, they're not scared of us. That needs to change.
On top of everything else, they transfer Ghislaine to a country club prison in Texas where you can actually get permission to leave š¤¬ Donnie, Blondi & Toad Blanche are priming the pump for a pardon. I feel it in my bones.
But I actually think they are scared of us. They know the midterms are likely to be (as Obama once said) a āshellackingā. But they are inexplicably more scared of a mean Tweet from the Orange Anus than they are of losing power or their jobs.
Canāt explain that Charles. Itās just weird. Cult.
It is. Jim Jones and Scientology have nothing on Chetolini.
We have to do everything in our power to ensure a fair election.