Trump stooge Indiana Congressman Jim Banks must have been in a deep Rip Van Winkle sleep for the past 5 years and woke up when Biden spoke the truth about the moronic Focks Snooze placeholder Peter -Goosey- Doocy. Biden called him “a stupid son-of-a-bitch” under his breath which was picked up by a “hot” mike. Bravo to Biden to call out the idiots hired by Murdoch to spew lies and propaganda over the airwaves. Later, Biden called Doocy and apologized to him. Something Trump would never do. Jimbo Banks must have woken up and heard the Doocy insult. While asleep for 5 years, he missed the former guy, the Ex-Man, called the press the enemy of the people. In a free press and free speech country, most of us value facts and truth being told to us. The last guy in the White House hated the press because they reported all of his evil doings and past evil deeds.
Jimbo Banks Tweeted,
“Have we ever seen a President attack and malign the free press like Joe Biden has??”
And, of course, Trump made fun of a disabled reporter,Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition affecting his joints, by mimicking spastic movements at one of his rallies. Hey Jimbo Banks, you missed that one, while you were in your deep sleep mode.
Duh’Fuhrer Trump said in response to being questioned about it, “I didn’t know what he looked like. I didn’t know he was disabled." "He was groveling, grovel, grovel, grovel. That was the end of it. All of a sudden, I get reports that I was imitating a reporter who was handicapped. I would never do that."
The attacks against a free press and those who report on the news are clearly a slide into fascism by spewing a negative message to his MAGATrumpies who read all of the lies he dribbles from his lips. This is a strong factor that allows a democracy to fall into fascism/authoritarianism/Nazism/Putin Leninism. Denigrating a free press is a leading cause of how the United States falls off the cliff into Darkness, such as Poland.
What was once known as the GOP, has now become the POTTI-‘Party Of Trump’s Thickwitted Insurrections.’ The once know GOP worked hard to sell to the American people that they were the party of smaller government. And, they were the party that stayed out of your home and bedroom. But now, the POTTIs have become the opposite of those stalwart values. They have become the party of surveillance and snitching. Not unlike Nazi Germany where they had everyone spy on each other.
Ronnie DeSantis as Mini-Me
We have the POTTI Governor Ronnie DeSantis forming his own, although legal, secret police force likely made up of angry White vigilante Floridians unable to join a militia group, calling it his “civilian military guard”, which is designed to help DeSantis break up crowds of dissenters, as well as to police the elections in his state. Ruth Ben-Ghiat wrote:
“…DeSantis' plan to empower armed agents to make warrantless arrests for violations of Florida's election laws.” “anyone who gets in the way of DeSantis' preferred electoral outcomes could, hypothetically, be jailed. This includes election workers, officials and judges — categories of people currently being threatened around the country by far-right extremists.”
“Rep. Charlie Crist, a Democrat who is challenging DeSantis for governor next year, tweeted, "No Governor should have his own handpicked secret police." State Sen. Annette Taddeo called DeSantis a "wannabee dictator trying to make his move for his own vigilante militia like we've seen in Cuba.””
In an article written by Ruth Ben-Ghiat for CNN, she describes DeSantis as a mini-me Trump.
“Anyone who wishes to understand how authoritarian leader cults work needs only to listen for their echoes in the evolution of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.” They have “presented their home as an altar of Trump worship, complete with their infant lying in a crib, dressed in a MAGA shirt, with a MAGA blanket.” “Four years later, DeSantis's new identity has now anchored so completely that he routinely mimics the former President's body language, from his hand gestures (including the classics: "accordion hands" and the "pinch" of thumb and forefinger), to the way he faces the cameras. He has become a mini-Trump.”
[Emphasis my own] “This all bears a striking resemblance to the intense world of authoritarianism. When leaders have a personality cult, they don't just set policies, but also model certain ideals of masculine power and performance that their followers widely imitate.”
“The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini set the modern template for authoritarianism. His surrogates and proxies repeated his hyper-masculine performances and bombastic oratory…” She wrote that he made the Republican Party into his own “tool by converting critics into slavish adulators,” such as with Lindsey Graham-cracker who once thanked Trump, in an interview on Focks Snooze, “for allowing me to be in his world.” “Trump's game requires participants to publicly prostrate themselves to his version of reality, even when it means denying obvious truths about subjects like the 2020 election and the efficacy of vaccines and masks in containing the coronavirus.” “DeSantis has made Trump’s lines and lies his own.” “…he signed into law an election bill predicated on the existence of state election fraud, good standing in the Trump cult required delegitimizing the American election system. The governor "increasingly acts like his role model, the tyrannical Donald Trump," wrote the Florida Sun-Sentinel's editorial board.”
Then we have the other POTTI Governor Glenn Youngkin who has created gangs of suburban White vigilantes, most likely women, who will spy on teachers and then squeal on their teachings if those lessons disagree with their own worldview. They want to make sure that the school lessons are White Washed to reflect their own values on the topics of Black History month, women’s history, slavery, gender identity, and probably sex education, just to name a few.
Now we have the Texas legislature legalizing the bounty hunting of women, doctors and others involved in providing abortions. A $10,000 reward will be given following a conviction. Other states are about to do the same thing.
So, what is next? Oh, we have a guy in Florida who has targeted around 200 Jewish families by mailing fliers to their homes with anti-Semitic tropes and pieces from the Elders of Zion.
This is the big hand of government stepping upon specific segments of our society. This is what Putin’s fascist form of Nazism does to his society. Russia being the most white nation practicing mostly Christianity. They don’t approve of any other religion. Putin attempts to assassinate his opponents. The corporate elites are the government and the top government officials are the corporate elites—Corporate Leninism.
As we recall when the Ex-Man was sitting on his Golden Potty Chair throne in the Oval Office’s daycare center, he would rail against the press and call for locking up reporters who write about the facts and truth if those pieces are about him or his family.
Newt Gingrich, once a political kingpin, but now a washed up has-been trying to stay relevant, believes that if the POTTIs wins in 2022, the legal Congressional body operating under the laws of the U.S. Constitution investigating the January 6 insurrection might end being investigated by a new majority in the Congress and possibly charged with made up crimes and Trumped-up charges. This could likely happen under the fascist presidency of DeSantis.
This call by Gingrich is what we might hear out of fascist Russia from members of their federal assembly. Gingrich clearly is not a supporter of democracy, freedom and liberty. He is a member of the POTTis or TANNP—Trump American Neo-Nazi Party--leaning toward Russian style fascism.
These people are not ashamed of abandoning democracy and favoring fascist authoritarianism. The are not ashamed of allowing state sanctioned mini-former East German Stasi militias to form and report back to the state government officials who created them. Many of those in the POTTI are Christian White men and women afraid of being replaced by “the other.”
So what is next? How about this—“In the mind and heart of MAGA Christianity, “No need for critical thinking or discerning. We love it. As is. Every bit of it,” written by Chriskratzer.com. “Everywhere white MAGA Christianity goes, there you will find an enemy they must fight, violence as their solution, and white privilege their ultimate priority.” Read his entire posting here.
The Washington Post printed last year an article by Ruth Ben-Ghiat titled “ American’s gun culture is priming us for authoritarianism.” She began by saying that :
“What is driving democratic decline in America? Disinformation, election subversion, Donald Trump’s authoritarian leader cult and institutionalized racism leap out at you. But there’s another factor that is all the more dangerous because it’s part of our everyday reality: civilian access to lethal weapons, and the mass death that enables.”
“The scale and scope of gun violence in America doesn’t just desensitize us to violence. It also cheapens the value of life. It fosters political, social and psychological conditions that are propitious for autocracy. The omission of gun law reform from discussions of democracy protection is symptomatic of our normalization of this tragic situation. The Jan. 6 insurrection shows us how dangerous that blind spot has become.”
'More than 1.5 million died of gunshots in the past 50 years vs. 1.2 million in all the wars in the country’s history. This year alone, mass shootings have killed or injured more than 1,800.” “Some 40 percent of firearms purchases in 2020 were to first-time buyers, including to women and non-Whites who fear for their safety.”
“The terror-filled psychological climate created by mass death only encourages the embrace of fundamentalist and cult ideologies that promise to bring order to chaos by providing an explanation for everything that happens.”
“Such [formulaic strongmen] leaders know that it can be easier to try to control the world through violence than to stay still and grieve, and easier to find a scapegoat than look within. That’s what happened a century ago, when fascism arose among veterans in Italy and Germany who had been ravaged by World War I and formed far-right militias rather than transition to civilian society.”
Here it is folks:
“When violence is accorded a patriotic value; when mass death of your fellow citizens is considered an acceptable price to pay for possession of lethal weapons; when a leader has convinced people to follow his dogma even if it jeopardizes their own well-being; when the very thing that frightens is the thing primed to save you from your fear; when the value of life itself has been cheapened … then the conditions are right for authoritarian rule.”
We have to ask ourselves: what is next? Is this only the beginning? This is why Democrats MUST vote in-mass in 2022 and 2024 in order.
Finally, a question was asked by a friend reading the newsletter. “Has a Supreme Court Justice ever been impeached?” The answer is YES. Samuel Chase was impeached in 1805, but the Senate voted to acquit him. He was a “Founding Father” of the United States, and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence.“ He was impeached by the House of Representatives on grounds of letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions but was acquitted by the Senate and remained in office,” as written on his Wiki page.
This sure sounds like Clarence Thomas whose partisan leanings represented by his wife and her attraction to people engaged in the Act of Sedition when deciding on cases brought to the court on the topic, such as should Trump be allowed to hide his official documents from the January 6 committee? He was the sole dissenter in the ruling, siding with Trump. His decision was truly partisan. And, what about those on the court who are making decisions on abortion, which is the law of the land, and are anti-abortion supporters themselves? Thomas needs to be, at least, sanctioned by Chief Justice Roberts, and at the most, impeached by the House of Representatives!!!
Jane Meyer asks the question is "Ginni Thomas a threat to the Supreme Court?"
Ginni's parents, who lived in Nebraska, were "crazy" people, and even more outside the box of typical Goldwater Republicans. She was a part of a cult called LifeSpring, where you got naked as the members shamed one another's body fatness. This illustrated her attraction to extremists. She and Tommie both had extremist views of the press and society. Creepy Clarence listened to Gargoyle Ginni more than anyone else.
Lifespring promoters say about 350,000 people have graduated since it was founded in 1974. The Chicago-based Cult Awareness Network has labeled Lifespring one of a "new crop of destructive cults that are emerging in American society today."Jun 9, 1991 Sun-Sentinel.
In conclusion, Matt Gaetz’ pal pleaded guilty on sex trafficking charges of minors and is now trying reach a deal before his sentencing hearing. Will he flip on his sidekick, the Eddie Munster look alike? Let’s hope so.
Is this Matt Gaetz as a boy holding a Donald Trump doll?