The Nazification of the Republican Party
POSTED BY: reaverfan
UPDATED: Saturday, September 13, 2025 07:14
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I see dickhead dumb dumb is still ranting about phantom Nazis.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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Quote:You literally parrot everything actual Nazis believe. All of it.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I see dickhead dumb dumb is still ranting about phantom Nazis.
Not all fascists know they're fascists. You're dumb enough, and you've already proven you don't know what words mean.
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Far-right activists converge on home of Idaho judge overseeing Ammon Bundy anti-mask case: report
https://www.rawstory.com/ammon-bundy-idaho/
On Monday, The Daily Beast reported that a group of far-right extremists with a history of violent brawling converged on the home of a judge in Boise, Idaho who is overseeing the case against infamous anti-government demonstrator Ammon Bundy.
"Many in the crowd on Saturday were not locals," reported Kelly Weill. "[Joey] Gibson, the leader of the far-right streetfighting group Patriot Prayer, had traveled interstate from western Washington. He and others were there to protest outside the home of a judge involved in the case of Ammon Bundy, the leader of a different far-right group. The protest, which Gibson helped promote by sharing the judge's address on the Internet, was a melting pot of fringe activists deeply invested in Bundy's already-contentious court case."
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Nazis. They're just Nazis. They want fascism, and they want to kill anyone who doesn't.
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lol
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Quote:In what fantasy world is that happening?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
lol
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The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/05/the-plague-of-historical-amnes
ia-in-the-age-of-fascist-politics/
Bolstered by a former president and a slew of Vichy-type politicians, right-wing ideologues, intellectuals, and media pundits deny and erase events from a fascist past that shed light on emerging right-wing, neo-Nazi, and extremist policies, ideas, and symbols. As Coco Das points out given that 73 million people voted to re-elect Trump, it is clear that Americans “have a Nazi problem.”[7] This was also evident in the words and actions of former president Trump who defended Confederate monuments and their noxious past, the waving of Confederate flags and the display of Nazi images during the attempted coup on the Capital on January 6th, and ongoing attempts by the Republican Party legislators to engage in expansive efforts at enabling a minority government. America’s Nazi problem is also visible in the growing acts of domestic terrorism aimed at Asians, undocumented immigrants, and people of color.
Historical amnesia also finds expression in the right-wing press and among media pundits such as Fox News commentators Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, whose addiction to lying exceeds the boundaries of reason and creates an echo chamber of misinformation that normalizes the unspeakable, if not the unthinkable. Rational responses now give way to emotional reactions fueled by lies whose power is expanded through their endless repetition. How else to explain the baseless claim made by them, along with a number of Republican lawmakers, right-wing pundits, and Trump’s supporters who baselessly lay the blame for the storming of the US Capitol on “Antifa.” These lies were circulated despite of the fact that “subsequent arrests and investigations have found no evidence that people who identify with Antifa, a loose collective of antifascist activists, were involved in the insurrection.”[8]
In this case, I think it is fair to re-examine Theodor W. Adorno’s claim that “Propaganda actually constitutes the substance of politics” and that the right-wing embrace of and production of an endless stream of lies and denigration of the truth are not merely delusional but are endemic to a fascist cult that does not answer to reason, but only to power while legitimizing a past in which white nationalism and racial cleansing become the organizing principles of social order and governance.[9]
In the era of post-truth, right-wing disimagination machines are not only hostile to those who assert facts and evidence, but also supportive of a mix of lethal ignorance and the scourge of civic illiteracy. The latter requires no effort to assess the truth and erases everything necessary for the life of a robust democracy. The pedagogical workstations of depoliticization have reached new and dangerous levels amid emerging right-wing populisms.[10] It is not surprising that we live at a time when politics is largely disconnected from echoes of the past and justified on the grounds that direct comparisons are not viable, as if only direct comparisons can offer insights into the lessons to be learned from the past. We have entered an age in which thoughtful reasoning, informed judgments, and critical thought are under attack. This is a historical moment that resembles a dictatorship of ignorance, which Joshua Sperling rightly argues entails:
The blunting of the senses; the hollowing out of language; the erasure of connection with the past, the dead, place, the land, the soil; possibly, too, the erasure even of certain emotions, whether pity, compassion, consoling, mourning or hoping.[11]
It is clear is that we live in a historical period in which the conditions that produced white supremacist politics are intensifying once again. How else to explain former President Trump’s use of the term “America First,” his labeling immigrants as vermin, his call to “Make America Great Again” — signaling his white nationalist ideology–his labeling of the press as “enemies of the people,” a
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Fox News takes a big step toward painting Capitol insurrectionists as heroes and patriots
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/7/2024806/-Tucker-Carlson-sarc
astically-downplayed-Jan-6-Capitol-attack-Let-s-review-what-happened?detail=emaildkre
On April 6, Fox News personality Tucker Carlson observed the three-month anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol—in order to mock the idea that it was noteworthy at all, and in a clear escalation of the effort not just to downplay what happened but to reframe it as almost heroic. Let’s review the reality.
On Jan. 6, a mob of violent Trump supporters threw aside police barriers and used poles and police shields to bash in windows and enter the U.S. Capitol. Hundreds of attackers massed outside a door and pushed en masse, shouting “heave ho” as police struggled to defend the door and keep them out. At least one officer was crushed in a door and had his helmet torn off. One Capitol Police officer was killed. Two more died by suicide not long after. A Washington, D.C. Metropolitan police officer was Tased until he had a minor heart attack, and heard his attackers yelling, “Kill him with his own gun.” Another was attacked by members of the mob who tore off his helmet and tried to gouge his eyes out. Many officers were sprayed with mace and bear spray. A Trump supporter in the crowd was trampled to death by her own people. Another Trump supporter was shot by law enforcement as she tried to climb through a recently smashed-in window very close to where members of Congress were under protection. There’s so much evidence of what happened that federal prosecutors call it “likely the most complex investigation ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.”
This isn’t rumor. We have video—watch a small taste of it below.
Tucker described it, with over-the-top sarcasm, as the “white supremacist QAnon insurrection, that came so very close to toppling our government and ending this democracy forever.”
As if only the actual toppling of the government would have made it problematic to have people bashing in the windows of the seat of government, stealing things from government offices, and roaming the halls chanting their desire to hang the vice president—all as part of an effort to block the final certification of an election that had been affirmed and reaffirmed by local and state election boards, courts, and the Electoral College. As though only if all those flex-cuffs had been used on members of Congress would it have been a problem that men were stalking around carrying them.
“You saw what happened. It was carried live on television, every gruesome moment,” Carlson continued in the vocal equivalent of an eye roll. “A mob of older people from unfashionable zip codes somehow made it all the way to Washington, D.C., probably by bus. They wandered freely through the Capitol, like it was their building or something. They didn’t have guns, but a lot of them had extremely dangerous ideas.”
Police officers on the scene have been very clear that some of the insurrectionists did have guns. One rioter was arrested with multiple guns, including an AR-15, and Molotov cocktails in his truck parked nearby. Bombs were planted nearby. They also had stun guns and flag poles and all that mace and bear spray. They threw police barricades and fire extinguishers. They included organized cadres of hate group members.
Perhaps most of all, the idea that you can change the results of an election through violence because you didn’t like the result is in fact a dangerous idea. It’s one of the most dangerous ideas.
“They talked about the Constitution, and something called their rights. Some of them made openly seditious claims,” he said. “They insisted, for example, that the last election wasn’t entirely fair. The whole thing was terrifying, and then, as you’ve been told so very often, they committed unspeakable acts of violence.”
Carlson is being sarcastic, of course, acting like he’s exaggerating what happened in order to downplay it. But we are talking about people who pul
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Racist Roomba needs a firmware update.
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Is Gutfeld! the Worst Show on Television?
Greg Gutfeld’s new Fox News “comedy” show is the latest evidence that conservatives have no sense of humor.
https://newrepublic.com/article/161985/gutfeld-worst-show-television?u
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Greg Gutfeld’s new right-wing comedy program might not be the worst program in television history, but it is undoubtedly the worst late-night comedy show in television history. (Yes, it is even worse than Chevy Chase’s.) It is excruciating and often depressing to watch. Even a couple of minutes makes you question the point of comedy itself and wonder if you’ll ever laugh again. It is the latest futile attempt at providing a conservative counter to The Daily Show and proving that conservatives are funny, too, goddamnit—a pathetic and profoundly insecure show that mostly serves as a collection of anxieties about the left’s cultural power.
But mostly it just sucks. The show’s logo, as many have pointed out, so closely resembles that of the cartoon strip Garfield that it cannot be an accident. Garfield and Gutfeld sound sort of similar—get it? Sadly, the logo is probably the funniest thing about the show.
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