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We did Nazi this one coming. What This Congressman’s Nazi Staffer Scandal Says About the GOP’s Future. It could help Democrats win a key Senate seat, too.
By Ian Prasad Philbrick | Aug 27, 2026 6:15 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/08/mike-collins-nazi-republic
an-senate.html
Contrary to what you learned in civics class, the grease that keeps the wheels of American democracy turning isn’t voters, legislation, or donor cash; it’s staffers. Without the armies of aides, interns, and volunteers who answer phones in Capitol Hill offices, draft bills, and staff campaigns, lawmaking and reelection bids across the country would grind to a halt.
But who you surround yourself with is part of who you are, which means staffers can also create problems for the politicians they work for. That’s what’s currently happening in the race for U.S. Senate in Georgia, one of a handful of elections this fall that will determine which party controls the Senate. Rep. Mike Collins, a two-term Republican running for the seat, is on defense after multiple people in his orbit turned out to have dabbled in racism and white supremacy. It’s part of a trend among GOP staffers toward greater extremism that augurs a dark future for the party.
Who exactly are these staffers, and what did they do?
Rumblings of trouble surfaced in May—in Slate, no less. As my colleague Ben Jacobs reported, Collins’ then–chief of staff Kip Talley had been part of a group chat that included Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer, two well-known white nationalists. In the chat, Talley bragged about using his position as a congressional aide to help Charles Johnson, a notorious Holocaust denier and racist, get out of jail. Johnson, who was imprisoned last year for contempt of court connected to a civil racketeering case, has claimed that Nazi gas chambers were “not real” and repeatedly posted the N-word online. Talley left Collins’ office in July. (In a statement, Talley stated that he’d tried to help Johnson “solely in my personal capacity after hearing concerns that an acquaintance I have known for years was being mistreated in custody and denied basic medical care.”)
OK, but surely that’s all for dodgy people who worked for Collins?
Au contraire! As the Washington Post revealed Thursday, a different former Collins staffer named Preston Parra recently posted an A.I.-generated photo of himself styled as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing white robes and holding a telltale pointed hood. Parra, who is 24, interned in Collins’ congressional office in 2024 and worked as a contractor for a Collins-affiliated political action committee until last year. Parra shared the KKK image on an X account where he’d previously described himself as a “twink fascist” and posted “DEUTCHLAND UBER ALLES,” anti-Black slurs, and the phrase White power. Last month, Parra posted the word TWINK dozens of times in an arrangement shaped like a swastika. Parra told the Post that he isn’t a white supremacist but does believe “that the white race contributes more to the world.”
How do people with this sort of background even get hired??
Great question! Collins’ office declined to comment on the record to Slate when asked about Talley’s participation in the group chat and didn’t answer the Post’s questions about Parra, who claims that Collins’ office wasn’t aware of his posts. “What, is there supposed to be some kind of CIA background check?” Parra said.
But he and Talley aren’t the only former Collins employees with questionable histories. The chief of staff Talley replaced, Brandon Phillips, had worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign until reporters revealed that he’d been charged after damaging a woman’s laptop, attacking a man, and slashing his tires years earlier. Phillips ultimately lost his job with Collins too, this time after crudely mocking a rival political operative whose wife had accused former NBC journalist Matt Lauer of rape. Phillips was additionally probed by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly hiring a girlfriend to intern in Collins’ office. (C
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We did Nazi this one coming.
Oh. That's so clever!
*yawn*
Shut the fuck up, faggot.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Why are there braindead liberal dipshits under 30 all over TikTok and Reddit celebrating the death of Dolly Parton right now?
You people just fucking suck and you're awful all the time.
Why target Dolly? Was she some sort of MAGA Bogey Man or something?
I didn't even know she was still alive and haven't even heard her name spoken or written in what??? 20 years now maybe?
What the fuck did she say that was so horrible 40 years ago that has you worthless faggots cheering on her death from your poor parents' basements?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Get some help.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains
Lessons from fallen autocrats
By David Frum | August 29, 2026, 6 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/reclaim-wealth-trump-corrupt
ion/688435/
Americans are not accustomed to learning lessons about democracy from Nigeria, Peru, or the Philippines. That disregard may soon change. Those countries offer examples of what it looks like to reclaim stolen or swindled wealth from fallen authoritarian rulers. Done right, this work can deliver justice and strengthen democratic institutions for the long run. But cleaning up after a corrupt regime also comes with serious challenges and hazards.
The Trump presidency has often looked more like a post-Soviet or postcolonial regime than like a first-world democracy. The Trump post-presidency may look the same. Trump has abused his office to enrich himself and his family in ways that are completely unprecedented—not only in the United States but also in the history of almost any peer democracy. Only Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s notoriously lawless former prime minister, was in any way comparable, and Berlusconi was sentenced to prison.
Trump faces little danger of prison. The U.S. Supreme Court has bestowed substantial criminal impunity on him, even assuming that he leaves office in 2029 as required by the Constitution. But an ex-president remains subject to civil liability, and the proceeds of bribery, extortion, insider trading, and market manipulation may be exposed to civil penalties. Other countries have shown the way.
Alberto Fujimori, who was elected president of Peru in 1990, entered office at a time of extreme national crisis. The murderous Shining Path insurgency controlled much of Peru’s hinterland and terrorized the capital, Lima. Inflation ran at nearly 8,000 percent. Food and electricity were in constant shortage. Fujimori stopped the inflation and crushed the insurgency, but his harsh and sometimes criminal methods included warrantless detentions and extrajudicial killings. Fujimori dissolved Congress and the Supreme Court and rewrote Peru’s constitution to allow his own reelection in 1995. He won roughly two-thirds of the vote in a free, more or less, election.
But as Fujimori was doing things Peruvians wanted done, he was also presiding over a secret scheme of self-enrichment. His intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, operated a system of embezzlement and kickbacks that amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts. When this deception came to light, just after Fujimori’s 2000 reelection to a third term, he fled the country and resigned from office.
To claw back these funds, Peru created a special prosecutor’s office and worked closely with the countries that hosted these contested assets. Peru has since recovered about $200 million of misappropriated wealth from accounts in the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, the United States, and Luxembourg, according to the database of the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative. Peru’s economy also grew strongly after Fujimori’s fall from power. Foreign investment returned when the country renewed the rule of law. But then, in the 2010s, world demand slowed for Peru’s mineral exports, ensuring that Peru’s economy slowed too. Political instability returned.
As Peru rotated through eight presidents over the past decade, a mood of “Fujimori nostalgia” gained strength. Fujimori’s daughter Keiko, who was elected to Congress in 2006, founded her own political party in 2010, built mostly on a message of family revenge and redemption. She ran for president in 2011, 2016, and 2021, losing narrowly each time. She ran again this year—and won.
Believers in free and fair government can hope that Peru’s democratic institutions have strengthened sufficiently over the past quarter century to deter Keiko Fujimori from indulging in the deviousness that led to her father’s disgrace. But her tenure is new, and her political message has long been one of excusing her father’s abuses.
Peru is not the only case of a former kleptocratic ruling
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If you called yours out and didn't pretend they weren't all doing the same thing, somebody might care about Trump now.
But you didn't so nobody does.
Keep crying about bullshit everyday, Shit Golem.
Fucking waste of carbon.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Quote:Don't change, 6ixStringJoker. Your "logic" and "reasoning" are truly world-class, same as Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If you called yours out and didn't pretend they weren't all doing the same thing, somebody might care about Trump now.
But you didn't so nobody does.
Keep crying about bullshit everyday, Shit Golem.
Fucking waste of carbon.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Court’s Ballroom Decision Is a Sign of Deeper Problems
The conservative justices have separation of powers exactly backwards.
By Leah Litman | September 2, 2026, 10:38 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/scotus-separation-powers-bal
lroom-trump/688499/
In deciding to allow President Trump to proceed with constructing a new ballroom, which Congress has not authorized, at the White House, which Trump does not own, the U.S. Supreme Court invoked the separation of powers. But the Court got the constitutional problem precisely backwards: The separation-of-powers problem isn’t that courts are impermissibly blocking the president’s use of taxpayer funds to create a ballroom. It’s that the president is impermissibly using unauthorized taxpayer funds to create a ballroom.
The Court’s missteps were many, starting in the very first sentence of its opinion: “In October 2025, the federal government started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House.” (The opinion, decided via the Court’s shadow docket, was per curiam, meaning that it did not indicate an author, but because the four dissenters noted their names, we know the five justices in the majority were Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.)
But the federal government didn’t begin replacing part of the White House. Only the president and the executive branch did. Under the U.S. Constitution, the president is not the be-all and end-all of the federal government. Far from it: The legislature, Congress, is the body that has the power to establish and regulate federal property (including the White House) and to authorize the spending of federal funds. Indeed, the plaintiff in the case—the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States—argued that the president was proceeding without congressional authorization and in violation of federal laws. The Supreme Court majority did not say otherwise, making no claim as to whether the ballroom-construction project was legal or whether the president had the authority to undertake it.
The Supreme Court’s conflation of the president with the federal government is the latest iteration in the Court’s steady embrace of the unitary-executive theory and the accompanying expansion of executive power. This theory maintains that all executive power resides in the president, and that Congress cannot limit the president’s exercise of that power. Yet these days, the president, occasionally with the Court’s blessing, is claiming to possess legislative powers too. That is the case when the president declines to spend funds that Congress has obligated or when the president decides to spend funds that Congress has not authorized. Under the Constitution, Congress, not the president, has the power of the purse. Nevertheless, the unitary-executive theory unites all government power in the president, paving the way for an executive unbound by law.
The Court’s errors continued as justices attempted to explain why the lower courts were wrong to block the president’s demolition of a portion of the White House. The Court relied on the doctrine of standing, which maintains that a plaintiff challenging the government’s actions must show that they have been injured by the actions they are contesting. In this case, one of the members of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who lives in Washington, D.C., and about once a month visits the neighborhood where the White House is located, alleged that she had “aesthetic, cultural, and historical interests” in what happened there.
Under the Court’s precedents, that injury should have sufficed. Indeed, in a prior opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court had said that desire to “observe an animal species, even for purely esthetic purposes,” can constitute “a cognizable interest for purpose of standing.” Crocodiles and all animals are great and important, to be sure. But so is the White House. As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his dissent, “The White House is not just any building.” It is “an iconic
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Trump Speaks His Truth About Russia And Ukraine
Phillips P. OBrien
Sep 06, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-201-it-will-be-a
-brutal
At times Donald Trump speaks the truth. It can happen when he loses control and gets so angry that he blurts out what he really thinks. He did that this week on twitter, when he started a rant about the US reporting of his war with Iran, but then turned into a whine about how the US needs to be paid back for giving Ukraine aid under the Biden Administration.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
For the treasonous SCUM that refuses to accurately report on our Military Operation in Iran, we have virtually unlimited amounts of Mid to High Grade Ammunition, far more than we could ever use for this, or for any other War (which is highly unlikely!), that could improbably take place. In addition, we are producing Munitions at levels never seen before. We are stockpiling and preparing for any contingency that could happen. We are taking them for ourselves, the U.S.A., rather than selling them to others, but the sales to Allies will soon again, begin. Also, please let it be known, that the Biden Administration gave far more Munitions away to Ukraine, at no cost to them, whatsoever, than we have used in Iran. Hundreds of Billions of Dollars was given to Ukraine and NATO, free of charge, that Europe would have paid for — If they were only asked, but we will be asking for that money, though somewhat belatedly! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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It seems he could not control himself and Natalie could not either, so he just had to let his resentment towards Ukraine come out.
Note—this aid was all congressionally sanctioned, so actually the US cannot demand any money back. Trump cares so little for Congress that he overlooks that. However, the truth is that if Trump could make Ukraine pay back the aid—he would.
At the same time that Trump could not control himself about Ukraine, he revealed his instinctive respect and affection for Putin by defending the Russian dictator from the charge that it was Russians who had orchestrated the attack on Germany’s Leipzig airport (which is now what the German government is stating clearly). When Trump was asked about the German government’s claim, he instinctively jumped to Putin’s defense, and, as he often does with the Russian dictator, talked up the fact that the two of them have a close personal relationship.
“I don’t think that Putin will be… I speak to him. I know him very well. Putin’s not looking to attack NATO territory,”
This instinctive Trumpian affection for Putin and Russia was shown in the other big story of the last few days, the visit of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv. That trip (which started yesterday when the two reached Moscow and which should soon see them in Kyiv) reveals just how deep the affection runs between Trump and Putin. When Witkoff and Putin sat down with Putin yesterday, the Americans could not have been more positive. Witkoff gushed about his repeated pleasure at meeting Putin, saying that when he retires he will look back on all these “incredible stories and incredible memories and yours will be right at the top.”
Witkoff can barely contain his glee at meeting again with Putin
Beyond Trump’s and Witkoff’s obvious affection for Putin, the staging of the visits reveals a great deal. Even though the two have never before visited Ukraine, Trump felt the need for them to go to Moscow first, to show Putin he is, always, the number 1 priority. Only after seeing Putin, and presumably working out a plan with him, can they be allowed to finally visit Ukraine. Remember, the last time they presented a “compromise” plan to the Ukrainians, it was practically word for word a dictation of a Russian plan.
So once again, the US government seems to need to agree to a position with Putin before it can talk with Ukraine.
Such behavior, btw, makes me doubt that the real reason behind the R
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