OT: Speaking of Republicans stealing the mid-term elections...
"A national security expert was left stunned Friday after President Donald Trump purged the leadership of the EAC, a move effectively “disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration” at a time when the president is pushing to enact sweeping changes to election law."
Shortly before the midterms, TFG will order the military into position at swing state voting sites. At that point, military leaders will have a decision to make: follow orders or obey the constitution. I have little confidence that they will do the right thing.
Is it pronounced AN-tee-fah or an-TEE-fah or an-tee-FAH???
In Europe, where the term originated as a shortened version of the German word antifaschistisch, it is also sometimes pronounced with an emphasis on the third syllable, sounding like "anti-far" (an-tee-FAHR).
Basically, you can say it anyway you like, but last week I said an-tee-FAH in a conversation, and the people I was speaking to didn't understand me because they pronounce it AN-tee-fah. People can be so weird.
I kinda like using the Italian version: antifascisti, which was created in the 1920's to represent groups who were non-violently resisting fascism under Mussolini. Then I get to sort of spit in the middle of the word, and there's no confusion over how to pronounce it.
By and large, to the extent they have anything in common, these people the wingers are calling "antifa" are anarchists. As were the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Anarchism doesn't even believe in large-level hierarchical structures, so of course there is no national organization called "antifa" to which you get a membership card. For this reason also, they aren't in any kind of big conspiracy together, either. Overall, we are talking about a small number of people, dispersed into small groups. Most of them are no danger to anyone, and certainly not a class-A danger to the State (they might wish they were! But they aren't.). It's panic theatre, something the right wing specializes in (see also: trans people, immigrants, feminists, etc.) However, charging people who are protesting with terrorism offenses, maybe with a conspiracy charge or two added in, is no laughing matter. They get a conviction on that, it's decades in prison. For being anti-Fascist, maybe even (God forbid) anti-capitalist, too.
I still think the reason he's still let out in public is that there's no one single person "back stage" who's able to run things. It's going to be chaos when the sick old man finally croaks.
They certainly are persistent in trying to inflict their illusions on others. Don’t they know that truth is manufactured through the repetition of a lie?
"Donald Trump’s interference in Folarin Balogun’s match ban may not have made any difference to the USMNT being thrashed out of the World Cup by Belgium (it probably did), but it is notable in that it’s a rare Trump incident where he actually wasn’t completely lying.
During a press conference at the White House with Gianni Infantino, Trump claimed he had no idea what a red card even was until the previous week, when USA played Bosnia.
Which initially struck some as another presidential fib. After all Trump played soccer in his high school days, and was on the first team in his senior year at NYMA.
The catch is that he’s so old that this would have been before red cards were introduced to global football, in 1970."
Which initially struck some as another presidential fib. After all Trump played soccer in his high school days, and was on the first team in his senior year at NYMA.
Donnie will not sign the Housing Bill that will become law nonetheless tonight. May this example of an impotent hissy fit be a preview of his lame duck future.
Trump is going to steal the election in the most clumsy, heavy-handed way imaginable. He has already started. Then there will be riots, possibly even an uprising. That is what they are preparing for with all their radical left bullshit. It is a pretense for a police state crackdown.
While handcuffed and not resisting, ICE agents smashed a man’s face into a stone wall, then assaulted a U.S. citizen multiple times, once they realized they were being filmed by him and other people, who were also threatened by Trump’s thugs."
OT: Speaking of Republicans stealing the mid-term elections...
"A national security expert was left stunned Friday after President Donald Trump purged the leadership of the EAC, a move effectively “disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration” at a time when the president is pushing to enact sweeping changes to election law."
https://bsky.app/profile/rawstory.com/post/3mqcl5yq7ga2w
"...Several said their nations’ foreign or interior ministers wouldn’t attend because summer is..."
... here and the time is ripe for dancing in the streets.
Shortly before the midterms, TFG will order the military into position at swing state voting sites. At that point, military leaders will have a decision to make: follow orders or obey the constitution. I have little confidence that they will do the right thing.
I wonder if anyone in power is tracking this and making plans.
I'm sure several strongly worded protest letters are being readied for the occasion
OT: Today, in Grotesque Republican Hypocrisy...
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗢𝗣 𝗦𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗞𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗴𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗮𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻’𝘀?
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳.
https://factkeepers.com/what-would-the-gop-say-if-trumps-kazakstan-tungsten-deal-had-been-bidens/
Murc's Law is pretty clear on what they and the media would say.
Is it pronounced AN-tee-fah or an-TEE-fah or an-tee-FAH???
In Europe, where the term originated as a shortened version of the German word antifaschistisch, it is also sometimes pronounced with an emphasis on the third syllable, sounding like "anti-far" (an-tee-FAHR).
Basically, you can say it anyway you like, but last week I said an-tee-FAH in a conversation, and the people I was speaking to didn't understand me because they pronounce it AN-tee-fah. People can be so weird.
I kinda like using the Italian version: antifascisti, which was created in the 1920's to represent groups who were non-violently resisting fascism under Mussolini. Then I get to sort of spit in the middle of the word, and there's no confusion over how to pronounce it.
My gosh, you are a fount of information. Keep it coming. Thanks for this.
Why not 'antifash'?
"Commies"
"You can only be a Communist or a complete Fascist, there is nothing in between"
The rest of history: "Hey, over here?"
No joke: I pronounce it an-TEE-fah because that seems more natural on my tongue.
I should add that I don't watch or listen to stuff - I read - so I have no idea how a lot of things are actually pronounced.
antifascisti is the course usually served before the fascisti
By and large, to the extent they have anything in common, these people the wingers are calling "antifa" are anarchists. As were the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Anarchism doesn't even believe in large-level hierarchical structures, so of course there is no national organization called "antifa" to which you get a membership card. For this reason also, they aren't in any kind of big conspiracy together, either. Overall, we are talking about a small number of people, dispersed into small groups. Most of them are no danger to anyone, and certainly not a class-A danger to the State (they might wish they were! But they aren't.). It's panic theatre, something the right wing specializes in (see also: trans people, immigrants, feminists, etc.) However, charging people who are protesting with terrorism offenses, maybe with a conspiracy charge or two added in, is no laughing matter. They get a conviction on that, it's decades in prison. For being anti-Fascist, maybe even (God forbid) anti-capitalist, too.
OT: That might explain the smell...
𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗱 '𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝘀𝗲' 𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗢 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁
https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/donald-trump-walking-corpse-turkey-37406291
I still think the reason he's still let out in public is that there's no one single person "back stage" who's able to run things. It's going to be chaos when the sick old man finally croaks.
Da!
Objection: Actual "walking" not in evidences. Stumbling, yes. Shuffling, usually. But not walking.
judges will also accept: 'shambling'
"Lurching"
They certainly are persistent in trying to inflict their illusions on others. Don’t they know that truth is manufactured through the repetition of a lie?
Some foreign ties for Antifa members are easily obtained on the InterWebz! https://www.zazzle.com/european_union_flag_eu_europe_neck_tie-151025154272064480?rf=238689132076650504&tc=Cj0KCQjwsMLSBhD9ARIsAIpUTDoNhRJBpN02xoTNCTlk1CvoESTxazqRQyMV1xh030jlr7TDl-ONFzMaAj2tEALw_wcB|22235160637|174555874683&z_ca=22235160637&z_ag=174555874683&z_adid=732818639983&z_devm=&z_dev=c&z_nw=g&z_mt=&z_lp=9002118&z_li=&z_tid=aud-2292374761169:pla-539552244179&z_plt=&z_fid=&z_kwt=&z_pl=&utm_term=PRODUCT_GROUP&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=22235160637&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22235160637&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsMLSBhD9ARIsAIpUTDoNhRJBpN02xoTNCTlk1CvoESTxazqRQyMV1xh030jlr7TDl-ONFzMaAj2tEALw_wcB
OT
"Police investigating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to fly to US to speak to Virginia Giuffre’s family"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-virginia-giuffre-police-epstein-b3012611.html
Or:
https://archive.ph/b5nCq
OT: For you World Cup people...
"Donald Trump’s interference in Folarin Balogun’s match ban may not have made any difference to the USMNT being thrashed out of the World Cup by Belgium (it probably did), but it is notable in that it’s a rare Trump incident where he actually wasn’t completely lying.
During a press conference at the White House with Gianni Infantino, Trump claimed he had no idea what a red card even was until the previous week, when USA played Bosnia.
Which initially struck some as another presidential fib. After all Trump played soccer in his high school days, and was on the first team in his senior year at NYMA.
The catch is that he’s so old that this would have been before red cards were introduced to global football, in 1970."
~ Popbitch
Which initially struck some as another presidential fib. After all Trump played soccer in his high school days, and was on the first team in his senior year at NYMA.
Hmmm. About those bone spurs?
Caused by playing soccer, of course.
Shhhh!
Donnie will not sign the Housing Bill that will become law nonetheless tonight. May this example of an impotent hissy fit be a preview of his lame duck future.
Trump is going to steal the election in the most clumsy, heavy-handed way imaginable. He has already started. Then there will be riots, possibly even an uprising. That is what they are preparing for with all their radical left bullshit. It is a pretense for a police state crackdown.
That's why Hegseth, Blanche, MarkWayne, MarkWayne's Oklahoma sheriff at ICE; that's their purpose and why they're in place.
'Cause they'll do it eagerly.
My question is, how to defend against it. What guardrails are being put in place? Do the Dems even see the intense consolidation? This is war.
Exactly and it seems like no one with power is doing anything to stop it. Millions of "poors" dead and it will be just the cost of doing business
It's unfathomable. I don't get it. Looks like democracy only happens in comfort for TPTB.
Sources tell me that Antifa Wold Headquarters is an underground bunker beneath the tundra of Greenland.
No wonder Dipshit wants to invade.
Mars. It's Mars. Antifa powered by aliens. Musk can only dream. Oh, the jealousy!
Shh! Don’t spill the beans!
Gosh, you have a point there. 🤐
I heard it's in an extinct volcano in Parador.
OT: JFC...
"YESTERDAY - ST. CHARLES, CHICAGO
While handcuffed and not resisting, ICE agents smashed a man’s face into a stone wall, then assaulted a U.S. citizen multiple times, once they realized they were being filmed by him and other people, who were also threatened by Trump’s thugs."
https://bsky.app/profile/harrypotterresists.bsky.social/post/3mqcd5ccwbs2g
As fascist paramilitary members are wont to do
"tax-funded fascist paramilitary members"
ICE needs to be abolished and many arrests made.
"Sentence first; verdict afterwards."
They don't want to eat at the WH because they're afraid of being served Happy Meals.