Lessons of History and Trying To Avoid the Same Mistakes

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• Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been vacationing in Costa Rica this week.
• That's despite the House voting on a major government spending bill that she's dubbed the "omnimonster."
• She also did not attend an address at the Capitol by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been vacationing in Costa Rica during one of the most consequential legislative weeks of the year

The congresswoman left the country on Sunday, skipping an address by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the $1.7 trillion omnibus vote.

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[ Kari Lake going the same way Master MAGA has gone. He got one, she gets zero ]

Kari Lake had her 2 days in court, Katie Hobbs will get her 4 years in the Gov's Office on Jan. 5

Kari Lake’s first lawsuit challenging her 2022 loss to Katie Hobbs in the Arizona gubernatorial race resulted in her lawyers being sanctioned and fined for presenting such a bogus filing, which did nothing but waste the court’s time. Her one attorney...

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Donald Trump was slammed for another round of threats and incitement Saturday after evoking last year’s Jan. 6 insurrection — and then telling his followers it’s now time for the FBI and Justice Department “thugs” to be “dealt with.”

Critics considered the threatening messages to be a clear dog whistle to his followers, many of whom are armed. Some 62% of gun owners voted for Trump in the 2016 election. And his Oath Keeper supporters had a “massive stockpile” of weaponsstashed in the Washington, D.C., area last Jan. 6 to support Trump in the event he tried to seize control of the government and remain in power, according to trial evidence.

Trump baselessly insisted in a Truth Social post that the FBI was “absolutely” involved in a “coordinated effort to change election results” to make him a loser. That justified last year’s violent Jan. 6 “protest” at the U.S. Capitol, he insisted, even though nearly 1,000 rioters have been indicted for crimes related to the insurrection that day.

Now, Trump is urging his followers on Truth Social that the “weaponized thugs and tyrants” in the FBI and DOJ “must be dealt with.”

Trump supporters on Truth Social responded by blasting the FBI as the “gestapo” and members of “organized crime,” which could put agents lives in jeopardy among Trump acolytes.
Conde Nast legal affairs editor Luke Zaleski called Trump’s brutal message the “exact speech he gave on Jan. 6.”

“He’s continuing the rhetoric that incites violence against the United States and his thugs know what ‘must be dealt with’ means,” Zaleski tweeted.



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Trump Ominously Evokes Jan. 6, Tells Backers It's Time To 'Deal With' FBI, DOJ 'Thugs'

Donald Trump is urging his followers on Truth Social that the “weaponized thugs and tyrants” in the FBI and DOJ “must be dealt with.”

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With all the arguments over whether MAGA Republicans are fascists, I reread William Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” to see how much the rise of Hitler and the rise of MAGA smell similar. Conclusion: They do. This thread lists 10 ways. Please take a look.

1. A big lie about treachery is used to foment resentment. Nazis: We didn’t really lose World War I. It was a “stab in the back” by Jews and other "November criminals." MAGA: We didn’t really lose the 2020 election. It was a “steal” by politicians and Blacks in big cities.




2. There’s an obsession with purity of the culture. Nazis: “Racial mixture” was a threat to Aryan culture, Hitler wrote. MAGA: “Great replacement theory” says immigrants threaten white culture.



3. Chaos is something to be exploited, not addressed. Nazis: Economic distress is a great political opportunity. MAGA: Economic distress is a great political opportunity.



4. The super-rich bankroll the right-wing seizure of power. Nazis: Thanks to I.G. Farben, Deutsche Bank, Thyssen, Krupp, etc. MAGA: Thanks to the Mercers, Uihleins, DeVos, Thiel, etc.



5. Some people think the fascist threat is overblown. Nazis: While Hitler posed a major threat, some said he "ceased to be a political danger.” (2 weeks later, he was chancellor.) MAGA: While Trump poses a major threat, many people think it’s “just politics,” no worries.


6. There’s a cult of personality. Nazis: The German army made a pledge of loyalty to Hitler personally. MAGA: Trump’s supporters bill him as “the most moral president” in U.S. history.



7. Christianity is used to legitimize the movement. Nazis: “The party stands for positive Christianity.” MAGA: Trump is described as the “Chosen One” protecting American Christianity.





8. Books are the enemy. Nazis: Any book that “acts subversively on our future” must be burned. MAGA: “I think we should throw those books in a fire,” says a Virginia school board member.




9. An independent news media is the enemy. Nazis: Any newspaper that “offends the honor and dignity of Germany” must be banned. MAGA: The press is the “enemy of the people.”



10. Educators are pressured to be politically compliant. Nazis: Teachers took an oath to “be loyal and obedient to Adolf Hitler.” MAGA: Florida’s DeSantis accuses teachers of “indoctrination” and pressures them to avoid references to America’s racist history and LGBTQ people.



I'm not saying that MAGA will end up as horrifically as Nazism. I am saying that America 2022 feels too much like Germany 1932, and I don't want to take the risk of watching MAGA cultism play out. We have to stop it now.



Why did Twitter put a “sensitive” warning on this thread? Who knows? My only theory is that it has a “hateful symbol”—a swastika on the cover of Shirer’s book about Nazism.

Does China pay well………you guys seem to enjoy punching their propaganda….

 

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Among other things, Santos told the New York Post that he had not worked “directly” for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, saying that a company he did work for did business with both of them.

He also said he had not graduated from Baruch College, nor “from any institution of higher learning.”

“I am not a criminal,” he was quoted as saying.

The 34-year-old Long Island Republican was elected to replace Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), who did not seek another term. He defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman by 8 percentage points in what was regarded as a toss-up race.


“We do stupid things in life,” Santos told the Post.

Santos’ background had come under question due to reporting in the New York Times. His lawyer said the Times’ reporting constituted a “smear,” but on Thursday, Santos tweeted: “To the people of #NY03 I have my story to tell and it will be told next week.”

Rep.-elect Santos admits lying about his credentials

“My sins here are embellishing my resume. I’m sorry,” he told the New York Post.

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Does China pay well………you guys seem to enjoy punching their propaganda….

You are certainly incapable of learning anything, and only making allegations.

Nothing I have posted here is based on fairytales or falsehoods.

I am glad you do not like them, as it shows where your mind is, which is exactly what this thread is about.

Believe in a made up world which does not exist and do not defend what needs to be defended.

 

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Column: Closing out 2022, Trump has supplanted Nixon as the saddest figure in post-presidential politics

Nixon in exile still enjoyed the respect not just of his friends but of his enemies. Trump has no friends and his pathetic record of lies stands alone.

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Column: Closing out 2022, Trump has supplanted Nixon as the saddest figure in post-presidential politics

Column: Closing out 2022, Trump has supplanted Nixon as the saddest figure in post-presidential politics (via @latimesopinion )

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Four years after then 27-year-old candidate and now state Sen. Julia Salazar, born and raised in a tony part of South Florida, just a few years after arriving in New York as a right-wing pro-Israel Christian, introduced herself to voters as an impoverished Jewish immigrant of color and progressive anti-Zionist in a shanda for leftists willing to look past that mess, and her own family’s emphatic denials of her life story — not to mention identity theft allegations that, according to Salazar’s own civil court filings, also including a claim that she’d had an affair, which she’s denied, with her neighbor and Mets and Seinfeld legend Keith Hernandez — to back the new socialist’s winning bid to defeat a real-estate friendly incumbent Democrat in North Brooklyn whose son still represents the same area in the Assembly, a Republican newly elected to Congress representing parts of Queens and Nassau County just told her to hold my beer.

Salazar and Santos, pseudo Jews.

This time, yadda yadda, voters didn’t choose to look past a candidate’s bizarre biographical issues, once again involving a concocted claim of a Jewish family history since the New York Times’ blockbuster report on how basically nothing in Trumpy 34-year-old George Santos’ biography — including where he went to school, the big-name businesses he says he worked at while he was actually doing customer service for the Dish Network, or the animal rights rescue group he claims to have led — checked out in a campaign he ran largely off of his biography, conveniently omitting the parts about his conviction in Brazil for fraud and his involvement with a Florida company that ran what the SEC alleged was a $17 million Ponzi scheme — didn’t get published until after he’d won a House seat in America’s first-ever general election face-off for federal office between two openly gay candidates to become the first-ever openly gay non-incumbent Republican elected to Congress.

That Times story was followed by a Daily Beast story about how Santos had, in fact, been married to a woman until 2019, the year before he first ran as an openly gay candidate with no mention of that marriage.

And a Forward story about how his telling of his family’s Holocaust story (his campaign bio began with the claim “George’s grandparents fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII”) doesn’t match up with genealogical and other records showing that they were, in fact, both born in Brazil and never fled from anywhere in Europe. Also his mother who supposedly was Jewish, had social media accounts that never mentioned Jews or anything Jewish-themed but “regularly shared posts with Catholic themes and images of Jesus” before she passed away in 2016.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the people who were furious about Salazar back in 2018 have had little to say in 2022 about Santos, who frequently identified himself during the campaign as “Half-Jewish” and a “Latino Jew.”

Pretend Jews win votes by lying about themselves

Four years after then 27-year-old candidate and now state Sen. Julia Salazar, born and raised in a tony part of South Florida, just a few years after arriving in New York as a right-wing pro-Israel…

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Loser of the year Donald Trump blames the Jews - opinion

As Trump’s political fortunes wane and his legal troubles mount, he will be looking for scapegoats and all those disloyal Jews will be attractive targets.

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