I think "America's Sulla" fits this situation much better. It's a shame hardly anybody studies the last century of the Roman Republic these days. There are a lot of lessons there that might be really helpful in navigating our current crises if anybody knew about them.
If this country, and all its town and villages, are being overrun by immigrants, and those immigrants are murderously fatally murdering so many innocent Americans, probably in their beds as they sleep, one might think that some media outlet, somewhere, would have provided a story about said murdering. Fox News hasn't done it, nor have any other right wing outlets, and one would think such a story would require days of loud and long reporting. Anyone have any thoughts on why such reports haven't been seen or heard?
No matter how dire our political situation is, I love your consistently derisive tone toward the bad guys, Mr. Hurst. It's a key reason I started paying for access to Wonkette. Keep roasting the motherf***ers!
OT: I wanna brag about Alice for a moment. It’s a cold and foggy and icy and nothing nice outside kind of night, but the two working cats wanted to go out there anyway. I went outside looking for them a little while ago, didn’t see them and came back inside.
A few minutes later, Alice started calling me at the back door. She’s not a real talkative cat, but this time was pretty insistent. I told her that the light would come back on when they were moving around outside, but she called again. And I took a look and there was Gryffn, who was warmly greeted by Alice when she came back inside. It was very clear that Alice understood the mission, and took pride in having successfully communicated with me. And was probably also pleased with my training coming along so well.
The "villages"?? The murderous gangs of murdering migrant gang people are rampaging through the villages of US and America murderously, doing all kinds of unamerican murders to the villagers and villages? ??? What the hell? Is this the "eighteenth-century Germany" timeline?
"It’s no secret that Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, can’t stand Trump, or that he thinks Trump is dangerously unfit. Trump has been lashing out at Milley and accusing him of treason for years now."
There is little doubt in my mind that Retired Gen Milley is at, or close, to the top of the Fulvous Flatulence's enemies list. Should he be returned to power [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers] the RINO Secret Police will scoop Milley up and summarily execute him -- no trial needed since Milley has already shown himself to be a traitor by not unquestionably backing the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus' illiberal actions with military support. After all, the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster was the (extremely unqualified) Commander-in-Chief, and a soldier's duty is to obey the commands of an officer of higher rank.
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"Milley told Trump that he has legitimate fears that if Trump wins, Trump will recall him to uniform to be court-martialed for “disloyalty""
Another option open to the Desert Sand Demi-Demon, but my money's still on option one as detailed above.
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“No person who has inflicted the violence and terror that Kamala Harris has inflicted on this community can EVER be allowed to become President of the United States.”
Of course, the Mango Malignancy's hands are clean of violence and terror during his one, ignominious, term; he had his proxies, minions, toadies, sycophants, and turd polishers whisper into the ears of his cultists what he expected from them. Like any successful crime boss, he maintained a plausible deniability, and like with any crime lord it's still obvious from where the orders originated.
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"We guess this would mean that all countries where the populations aren’t white would now be enemy nations with whom we’re at war, according to the Hitler-in-Chief."
Not exactly. Only immigrants from western or northern Europe are acceptable. There are "White" countries in eastern and southern Europe, i.e. The Czech Republic, Poland, or Italy, whose emigrants are not to be allowed unfettered entrance to the US.
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"Trump repeated the promise ... to invoke this wartime authority to target immigrants for deportation, without hearings, based on their nationality/race."
The Peach[tree Dish] Pestilence, as has been noted, will also vacuum up naturalized citizens using the Alien Enemies Act (this action does have a precedent -- the calamity of Japanese Internment Camps after Pearl Harbor).
"The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a wartime authority that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation. The law permits the president to target these immigrants without a hearing and based only on their country of birth or citizenship." https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/alien-enemies-act-explained
Here are the problems facing the Coral Corruption:
* The "Alien Enemies Act" is a *wartime* power:
"The president may invoke the Alien Enemies Act in times of “declared war” or when a foreign government threatens or undertakes an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” against U.S. territory." [Please note that only Congress can declare war so the Sandstone Snowflake can't arbitrarily claim the US is at war with countries X, Y, and Z] ibid;
* The Act is supposedly only applicable to "natives and citizens of an enemy nation" -- see above re Japanese-Americans;"
* He will most likely face considerable pushback by non-MAGAdroids -- not that this would stop him.
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"the lines have disappeared between “everybody who opposes me” and the alleged criminal gangs Trump believes are taking over all the American cities"
IMO, there never was a line in the sand to be erased. Ever since the MAGA oberster Fuhrer rode down his golden escalator and immersed himself in politics opposition=criminal acts and/or treason.
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"(He’s so breathtakingly stupid.)"
It's a good thing that there was no power outage during that momentous descent or he'd have been stuck until someone came and rescued him.
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“Kamala [Harris] has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world … from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens[.]”
Hey, let's not forget that these 10s of millions will also vote illegally and for VP Harris. (The Great Replacement Theory marches ever onward.)
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"So this is Trump in the final few weeks of the 2024 campaign. If he wins, it’s almost certainly a preview of the dictator he wants to be on day one."
As I keep pointing out, to the Cadmium Orange Cancer *every* day is day one of the rest of his (mis)administration.
What amazes me is that Hitler was a LOT smarter and had much smarter and more competent people working for him. Trump is a buffoon and a moron, and all his people are blatantly incompetent and clearly in it only for the power and the money, so how did he manage to get this far??? It says more about American culture and the mind-set of many Americans than it does about either Hitler or Trump.
Hitler didn't have the disadvantage by being stupidly rich. He actually had to be around people as a student and a soldier. At the very least he had a sort of understanding about how people will view the world and how their viewpoints could be pointed in a direction.
Having a bunch of friends in snappy uniforms willing to just beat the shit out of other people on his behalf was a bonus. Trump just thinks that he gets that AFTER he's created his movement, not as the starting point. But, as noted - stupidly rich.
“what we’re watching right now is a Trump who is absolutely panicking ”
Trump isn’t panicking. His eliminationist rhetoric is deliberately done to drive up “turnout from the most easily frightened elements of his pantshitting Nazi MAGA base.”
He’s campaigning in CO, NY, and CA not to win those states, but to drive down the Democratic margins by activating the states’ “pantshitting Nazi MAGA base”, so he has a chance to do better in the popular vote total.
It's not 'panic' in the sense we would use it. For Trump everything is about protecting his narcissistic core. Every action in his life is about him being a special person, who can only maintain that by delusions of grandiose self-importance. Every lie he tells about himself is to bolster a fantasy of entitlement and superiority. When faced with the possibility that it is not the case, he'll retreat into rage and sadism. He's a lot worse inside than on the outside.
The only thing he hasn't done is issue his militarized fan club distinctive brown uniforms with swastika armbands.
He tried to do a "Reichstag Fire."
He tried to do and is threatening again to do a "Night of the Long Knives."
He's threatening to set up a police state.
A concentration camp system.
Subvert the justice system.
AND THE PEOPLE ARE SUPPORTING THIS?????
WHAT THE HELL???????
It cost 56 million lives to make Hitler shoot himself in his bunker.
The Bloated Yam hid in his bunker already, but hasn't rid us of his presence......
"all his rallies in the final stretch are in states he’ll never win in a million years"
He's coming into what he would consider enemy territory to fire warning shots and attempt to establish dominance.
I hadn't thought about it that way, but I believe you're right.
the nice thing about being put into those camps is I'll finally get to meet alot of my fellow Wonketteers
I think "America's Sulla" fits this situation much better. It's a shame hardly anybody studies the last century of the Roman Republic these days. There are a lot of lessons there that might be really helpful in navigating our current crises if anybody knew about them.
If this country, and all its town and villages, are being overrun by immigrants, and those immigrants are murderously fatally murdering so many innocent Americans, probably in their beds as they sleep, one might think that some media outlet, somewhere, would have provided a story about said murdering. Fox News hasn't done it, nor have any other right wing outlets, and one would think such a story would require days of loud and long reporting. Anyone have any thoughts on why such reports haven't been seen or heard?
No matter how dire our political situation is, I love your consistently derisive tone toward the bad guys, Mr. Hurst. It's a key reason I started paying for access to Wonkette. Keep roasting the motherf***ers!
OT: I wanna brag about Alice for a moment. It’s a cold and foggy and icy and nothing nice outside kind of night, but the two working cats wanted to go out there anyway. I went outside looking for them a little while ago, didn’t see them and came back inside.
A few minutes later, Alice started calling me at the back door. She’s not a real talkative cat, but this time was pretty insistent. I told her that the light would come back on when they were moving around outside, but she called again. And I took a look and there was Gryffn, who was warmly greeted by Alice when she came back inside. It was very clear that Alice understood the mission, and took pride in having successfully communicated with me. And was probably also pleased with my training coming along so well.
I'm not waiting until Nov. 5th. I can't early vote this week like I planned (out of town), but I WILL be early voting.
I don't see how this fearmongering is going to increase his totals. The people who fall for this sort of propaganda are already all in for Chump.
And there's less of them now, what with COVID, age, stupidity, and the natural occurrences of life.
Is this just him deconstructing in front of our eyes and no one in the campaign able to do anything about it?
The "villages"?? The murderous gangs of murdering migrant gang people are rampaging through the villages of US and America murderously, doing all kinds of unamerican murders to the villagers and villages? ??? What the hell? Is this the "eighteenth-century Germany" timeline?
"America’s Stupidest Hitler": Evan has found the perfect Trump campaign slogan.
Interesting how he never talks about undocumented immigrants of European descent (including Canada and Australia). I wonder white that is?
We are so screwed. One candidate promises to attack Aurora, CO when elected and still news media claims a tight race is afoot.
"It’s no secret that Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, can’t stand Trump, or that he thinks Trump is dangerously unfit. Trump has been lashing out at Milley and accusing him of treason for years now."
There is little doubt in my mind that Retired Gen Milley is at, or close, to the top of the Fulvous Flatulence's enemies list. Should he be returned to power [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers] the RINO Secret Police will scoop Milley up and summarily execute him -- no trial needed since Milley has already shown himself to be a traitor by not unquestionably backing the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus' illiberal actions with military support. After all, the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster was the (extremely unqualified) Commander-in-Chief, and a soldier's duty is to obey the commands of an officer of higher rank.
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"Milley told Trump that he has legitimate fears that if Trump wins, Trump will recall him to uniform to be court-martialed for “disloyalty""
Another option open to the Desert Sand Demi-Demon, but my money's still on option one as detailed above.
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“No person who has inflicted the violence and terror that Kamala Harris has inflicted on this community can EVER be allowed to become President of the United States.”
Of course, the Mango Malignancy's hands are clean of violence and terror during his one, ignominious, term; he had his proxies, minions, toadies, sycophants, and turd polishers whisper into the ears of his cultists what he expected from them. Like any successful crime boss, he maintained a plausible deniability, and like with any crime lord it's still obvious from where the orders originated.
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"We guess this would mean that all countries where the populations aren’t white would now be enemy nations with whom we’re at war, according to the Hitler-in-Chief."
Not exactly. Only immigrants from western or northern Europe are acceptable. There are "White" countries in eastern and southern Europe, i.e. The Czech Republic, Poland, or Italy, whose emigrants are not to be allowed unfettered entrance to the US.
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"Trump repeated the promise ... to invoke this wartime authority to target immigrants for deportation, without hearings, based on their nationality/race."
The Peach[tree Dish] Pestilence, as has been noted, will also vacuum up naturalized citizens using the Alien Enemies Act (this action does have a precedent -- the calamity of Japanese Internment Camps after Pearl Harbor).
"The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a wartime authority that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation. The law permits the president to target these immigrants without a hearing and based only on their country of birth or citizenship." https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/alien-enemies-act-explained
Here are the problems facing the Coral Corruption:
* The "Alien Enemies Act" is a *wartime* power:
"The president may invoke the Alien Enemies Act in times of “declared war” or when a foreign government threatens or undertakes an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” against U.S. territory." [Please note that only Congress can declare war so the Sandstone Snowflake can't arbitrarily claim the US is at war with countries X, Y, and Z] ibid;
* The Act is supposedly only applicable to "natives and citizens of an enemy nation" -- see above re Japanese-Americans;"
* He will most likely face considerable pushback by non-MAGAdroids -- not that this would stop him.
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"the lines have disappeared between “everybody who opposes me” and the alleged criminal gangs Trump believes are taking over all the American cities"
IMO, there never was a line in the sand to be erased. Ever since the MAGA oberster Fuhrer rode down his golden escalator and immersed himself in politics opposition=criminal acts and/or treason.
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"(He’s so breathtakingly stupid.)"
It's a good thing that there was no power outage during that momentous descent or he'd have been stuck until someone came and rescued him.
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“Kamala [Harris] has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world … from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to prey upon innocent American citizens[.]”
Hey, let's not forget that these 10s of millions will also vote illegally and for VP Harris. (The Great Replacement Theory marches ever onward.)
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"So this is Trump in the final few weeks of the 2024 campaign. If he wins, it’s almost certainly a preview of the dictator he wants to be on day one."
As I keep pointing out, to the Cadmium Orange Cancer *every* day is day one of the rest of his (mis)administration.
fnord
As mentioned before: VOTE and offer rides to vote for anyone you know that may need transport.
Also: stock up non perishable food & water. The crazies may disrupt normalcy for awhile.
Last: if you already have a firearm obtain extra ammunition just in case the worst happens.
If you don’t think you need a gun, please review the post above.
That orange painted bastard is every bit a fascist as was Mussolini, Franco and yes, Hitler - except with more wild eyed followers than any of them.
What amazes me is that Hitler was a LOT smarter and had much smarter and more competent people working for him. Trump is a buffoon and a moron, and all his people are blatantly incompetent and clearly in it only for the power and the money, so how did he manage to get this far??? It says more about American culture and the mind-set of many Americans than it does about either Hitler or Trump.
The structures of power have shifted, both government and wealth carries a lot more weight now.
The USA government is much more centralized and stronger than pre WW2 Germany, and Trump has a lot more money.
Also, mass indoctrination is a lot easier now.
Hitler didn't have the disadvantage by being stupidly rich. He actually had to be around people as a student and a soldier. At the very least he had a sort of understanding about how people will view the world and how their viewpoints could be pointed in a direction.
Having a bunch of friends in snappy uniforms willing to just beat the shit out of other people on his behalf was a bonus. Trump just thinks that he gets that AFTER he's created his movement, not as the starting point. But, as noted - stupidly rich.
“what we’re watching right now is a Trump who is absolutely panicking ”
Trump isn’t panicking. His eliminationist rhetoric is deliberately done to drive up “turnout from the most easily frightened elements of his pantshitting Nazi MAGA base.”
He’s campaigning in CO, NY, and CA not to win those states, but to drive down the Democratic margins by activating the states’ “pantshitting Nazi MAGA base”, so he has a chance to do better in the popular vote total.
It's not 'panic' in the sense we would use it. For Trump everything is about protecting his narcissistic core. Every action in his life is about him being a special person, who can only maintain that by delusions of grandiose self-importance. Every lie he tells about himself is to bolster a fantasy of entitlement and superiority. When faced with the possibility that it is not the case, he'll retreat into rage and sadism. He's a lot worse inside than on the outside.
Maybe so. But it’s his sycophant followers that drive my enmity against him and all of them.
I’m ready. Our family is ready.
Time for everyone to be “ready”. Once the shit starts, you won’t be able to obtain what you need.