The GOP is quoting Mussolini now

[nini]

Link to tweet

The curtain has been pulled completely back.


Senator John Cornyn
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@JohnCornyn
“We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.” Benito Mussolini

[alterfurz]

1. Mussolini vs Metamucilini

[George II]

13. DAMN YOU! I came here to post those two names!

[Bob Loblaw]

23. Hair Mousse-a-lini

[alterfurz]

38. aka/dba Assolini

[DemocracyMouse]

56. Shouldn't Senator Cornwyn resign? Yes, absolutely

[smirkymonkey]

40. "Metamucilini"!

I have never heard that one before! It's perfect!

[alterfurz]

43. my current personal fave: Igolf Tweetler

[calimary]

49. Whoa - this one's outstanding, too!

[calimary]

48. If there were still DUzys, you'd get TEN of 'em for this one post!

A freakin’ MASTERPOST, alterfurz!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. ...

[IluvPitties]

3. They are fascists.

[nini]

15. My dad fought in WWII

He always told me to watch out for the GOP because they're just hiding their fascist ways. He's spinning in his grave over this crap today.

[superpatriotman]

16. And THAT is the answer to the DemocratsSocialists trope

Nt

[Fuzzpope]

4. What. The. FUCK.

[yardwork]

11. My thought exactly.

[Hortensis]

42. They've been spinning fascism as what DEMOCRATS

are moving toward for a long time now. And some believe it and vote Trump, etc. to battle our evil.

They don't know that liberalism is the anti-fascism.

They don't know that fascism is an archconservative form of government.

They're like drivers who are trained to only look left for uncoming traffic.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Hope Cornyn remembers what happened to Il Duce. . .

. . .just sayin'.

[appalachiablue]

7. Mother told us about this, we remember.

Cannot believe this statement was made, and openly.

**Video, GRAPHIC WARNING**

Hanging of Mussolini in Milan, Italy on April 28, 1945.

[nini]

17. That was too good for that monster

Apparently too many people did not pay attention in history class and aren't furious at that twitter post. (Not here.. on twitter)

[appalachiablue]

24. Americans better wise up soon about this evil redux.

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(30 secs.) "A Night At The Garden"; 'It Can Happen Here.' In Feb. 20, 1939, 80 years ago the Nazi supporting 'German American Bund' drew a crowd of 20,000 people to Madison Square Garden in NYC.

vimeo.com/237489146

*Promo, New documentary, "A Night At The Garden" (2019) by Marshall Curry.

(7 mins). https://anightatthegarden.com/ The night of Feb. 20, 1939 when 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history. *A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN*, made entirely from archival footage filmed that night, transports audiences to this chilling gathering and shines a light on the power of demagoguery and anti-Semitism in the United States.

A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN was directed and edited by Marshall Curry and was supported and released by Field of Vision. The film was nominated for a 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short; it was also an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival and was part of a special screening and panel discussion at the New York Film Festival.

[Doremus]

58. The spectator at 1:21 in the 2nd video looks just like Ted Cruz. nt

[LisaM]

52. They didn't pay attention. My father taught high school history.

It's in our family lore that once while he was grading a (multiple choice) test, he looked up and asked the family, in his mild, wry manner, "did you know that Woodrow Wilson was hung upside down after he died, and stoned by an angry mob?"

You'd have to come from the most ignorant family in the world or really not have been paying attention to muck that up on a multiple choice test.

[appalachiablue]

61. That's a real duzy. A physician of Indian-Pakistani background

told us he taught a college class in the US with American pre med students. Once when he asked them, 'who is Winston Churchill?' an enthused student said, 'an American president.'

It's great having parents who impart their knowledge and wisdom. Our mom was excellent in many areas, esp. history, art and culture. She told us so much and took us to many important and interesting sites in the US.

Mussolini and Co. were executed, then their bodies were strung up in public upside down- the Italian treatment for traitors.

Definitely old school and effective.

[DirtEdonE]

47. Someone should send this video to trump

and the rest of the fucking traitor gop.

Tell them it's just more fake news. lofl

[smirkymonkey]

41. If only...

[saidsimplesimon]

51. For a certain corpulent

domestic leader we may need to special order a method for hanging after conviction of high crimes. I would prefer the guillotine, more humane.

[lagomorph777]

53. Suspended by the mushroom.

[saidsimplesimon]

55. This was an awesome reply.

4 words and the laughing at my end is much appreciated.

[marble falls]

6. But, Sen Crornyn, can you make the trains run on time?

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. What a fucking idiot...

it is so hard to believe that ANY American would let a quote from Mussolini pass their lips, but that is the environment we live in now.

[mn9driver]

9. Cornyn is a gibbering fuckwit.

He seems to think his constituents are too stupid to understand the difference between fascism and social democracy.

Then again, he may be right.

[Blue Owl]

10. What fucking year is this, again?

[Norbert]

12. Senator Daniel Inouye must be turning over in his grave.

[nini]

28. I know my dad is

He would be livid.

[Pepsidog]

14. WTF!

[leftofcool]

18. There is no GOP

It's the new Nazi Party. Maybe Cornyn can do Hitler next

edited for a typo

[ooky]

29. They are the American Fascist Party.

[czarjak]

19. "The Mores...

And The Have More's"

[Leith]

20. How horrible

I almost never tweet, but this had me flabbergasted.

Link to tweet

My reply:

Well, you finally took the mask off and showed your true self. The only surprise is how publicly you did it.

[OnDoutside]

34. Well said.

[Casandia]

35. Excellent

You need to tweet more often. BTW, I'm following you now

[calimary]

50. Astonishing that anyone would quote Mussolini for any reason other than

to provide a sample of what’s DEEPLY wrong-headed.

[SunSeeker]

60. I retweeted you!

[IronLionZion]

21. He takes a dig at Democratic Socialists by quoting a fascist dictator

because when things get too complicated for him, it must mean he's losing his freedoms.

They are really terrified that we're going to get Medicare for all soon. I'm seeing increasingly idiotic memes about Venezuela's violence, and how Nazis put people on trains, and stuff that will make you go cross-eyed.

[appalachiablue]

26. Spot on and 'soshialism' fear is sending some over the edge.

[Fritz Walter]

22. Sic semper tyrannis!

“Thus always to tyrants!”

Despite recent headlines from Virginia, the motto of my birthplace has stuck with me for the past six decades.

Looking at you, Cornyn, along with your fellow RepubliCONs!

[PatrickforO]

25. Unbelievable.

Cornyn, Trump - the whole Republican party seems to have turned against democracy.

[Marie Marie]

27. What a great tweet for Beto to run against.

I would love to see Beto unseat this fool.

[DFW]

30. Cornyn must have woken up thinking......

"Gee, I haven't embarrassed Texas in a good while. What could I do today to REALLY make my state look bad?"

[Vogon_Glory]

31. And As Trump And Christie Have Shown

with their handling of California’s high speed rail project and Christi’s handling of the Hudson tunnels, unlike Mussolini’s fascists, the Trump-publican party couldn’t make the trains run on time even on their best day.

[Achilleaze]

32. When someone shows you who they are, believe them

republicans have embraced russian-style fascism, and pissed on truth, justice, honor, democracy, and America.

[OnDoutside]

33. But can Cornyn make the trains run on time ?

[Vogon_Glory]

37. You Have To Ask?

Of course not!



Besides, these are Republicans we’re talking about.

[OnDoutside]

36. Interesting that he mentions Mussolini, since RWNJ Italian PM joins Bannon's Euro

Populist group, with other Fascists.

An Italian Expose Documents Moscow Money Allegedly Funding Italy's Far-Right Salvini


An exposé claims that Vladimir Putin is funneling $3 million to Matteo Salvini through dirty diesel to help swing European elections towards Russia-friendly candidates.

ROME — Italy’s interior minister and vice premier, Matteo Salvini, went off the grid for 12 hours during an official state visit to Moscow last October. Tales of Russian prostitutes seemed to explain the time lapse for the single statesman. But a new exposé by the Italian newsmagazine L'Espresso suggests that his time may have been spent doing something far more sinister: he may have been making backroom deals with Russian operatives ahead of European Parliamentary elections.

The investigation, which the magazine says was conducted over several months, comes to the conclusion that Russian president Vladimir Putin is selling 3 million tons of diesel fuel via a Russian company to an Italian state company, Eni, that Salvini as interior minister can help manage.

L'Espresso names the first Russian company involved as Avangard Oil & Gas, which has a curiously opaque façade, and is housed on Novinsky Boulevard in Moscow next to major firms like ExxonMobil, Repsol, Shell, Glencore amd Samsung.

The Russian profits, according to L'Espresso, would then be funneled back to Italy to fund Salvini's Lega [League] party to help it engage in the dark art of manipulative online persuasion ahead of European elections in May.

SNIP

Savoini is an associate of Aleksey Komov, a name often associated with Putin-connected Russian oligarch Konstanin Malofeev, who happens to have a religious media propaganda TV station in the same Novinsky Boulevard building as Avangard Oil & Gas.

Komov, who L'Espresso says works for Malofeev at his massive St. Basil the Great Charitable Foundation, is also tied to U.S. President Trump's former campaign chairman Steve Bannon through the Catholic group Dignitatis Humanae, which is building a university for alt-right politicians in an 800-year-old monastery outside of Rome. Komov is the Russian ambassador of the World Congress of Families, which fights abortion and same sex unions on whatever platform it can.

Full article here


https://www.thedailybeast.com/an-italian-expose-documents-moscow-money-allegedly-funding-italys-far-right-salvini

[Hortensis]

39. "Fascism is the state. Liberalism is the individual." Mussolini.

Note that he did not point out differences between fascism and conservatism, the one is an extremist but natural development from the other.

[peggysue2]

44. Really???

I read this yesterday and thought this is nakedly exposing yourself and your party for the world to see.

My father and father-in-law both WWII vets must be spinning in their graves.

Mussolini, for God's sake! What's next? Hitler quotes?

[FiveGoodMen]

62. Almost!

As the Nazi Party rose to power, Hitler used the slogan "Make Germany Great Again."

Mixture

What's True

A prominent theme during the Nazi Party's ascendancy was restoring Germany to its former greatness, and Adolf Hitler used the phrase "make Germany great again" upon occasion.

What's False

"Make Germany Great Again" was not a (campaign) slogan employed by Hitler, and Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler are far from the only politicians who promised to make their countries "great again."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/make-germany-great-again/

So, basically, yes it's true.

[padah513]

45. I'd like to see Beto run against him

If he doesn't announce for president

[Polybius]

46. Wow

Crazy times...

[rickyhall]

54. Whenever these idiot repugs talk about FREEDOM,

I think about all those brothers and sisters in jail for smoking the sweet leaf, hurting no one. Is that what they call FREEDOM? Dicks

[FiveGoodMen]

57. "Is that what they call FREEDOM?"

Yes, it is.

They're talking about THEIR freedom to persecute whoever they want in whatever way they want.

Seriously, other people's freedom does not matter to them.

[malaise]

59. They are fascists

Lock them up