Fascists operate by Testing the Fences. No, MTG is not done with her "America First"

[TomDaisy]

#KuKluxKlan caucus.

This was a test to see what she could get away with easily. If you have read "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder you know he says that most of a tyrant's power is given to him or her without even asking for it.

This was a limits-testing exercise and she is not done. At all.

[msfiddlestix]

1. Completely Agree n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Desensitize people and in 2 years there will be less of an uproar, esp. if the fascists seize power.

[TomDaisy]

3. normalizing and wearing people down

[PortTack]

4. I for one have faced some really tough trials in my life...I will NEVER wear down NEVER

They will carry me out feet first b4 I give in or give up.

[vercetti2021]

6. Go out dying would be me

Live free or die. Never would surrender to anyone.

[PortTack]

9. Would be willing to wager there are a lot of us that feel that way!

[wnylib]

13. Yes there are. Count me in.

[vercetti2021]

14. Well said

At least this liberal would go out guns blazing. I'm one of the responsible owners that took classes and has been shooting since they were a kid.

[PortTack]

19. My partner's reply to trumpers on more than one occasion has been just because I'm liberal and

Drive a Prius doesn’t mean I don’t own a gun and know how to use it..

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. This desensitizing

Has been going on for decades.

[RainCaster]

5. Fascists will touch the stove repeatedly

Intelligence is not big on their list.

[Baked Potato]

7. Yep, they are rolling out different "products" to gauge popularity.

[TomDaisy]

16. exactly. they are relentless. they don't get discouraged.

[Mr.Bill]

10. Sorry, I am of the opinion

that she is is just a plain moron. Anything else is way over-thinking it.

[thenelm1]

12. The problem being that they're are a lot of other eff'in...

morons that lap her krap up. Look at her recent fund raising numbers. I have no solution, but it's like a disease - as or more deadly than COVID. Too many people are too happy to be dumbasses. Idiocracy come to life.

[Hortensis]

26. Part of being a moron is assuming fascistic colleagues would follow

the leadership of a woman. Authoritarian movements are always strongly male dominated, and a big part of their energy comes from the male members' need subjugate women, accepted by the female members. And fascism, where it applies, is an extreme form of RW authoritarianism.

My guess is that if this noise of the moment got any encouragement at all from better entrenched colleagues, it was merely from some interested in the possibility of hooking onto her gravy train.

[Mr.Bill]

28. I totally agree.

Except for that small subset of ammosexuals that get an erection when they see a woman with a gun. And they would still seek to ultimately dominate her, not follow her.

[thenelm1]

29. So true - I hadn't even considered that aspect.

That whole women should be subservient thing is such a foreign concept to me, it was never even a thought that entered my mind.

[IronLionZion]

11. Trump was pushing the limits his whole presidency

it was quite brazen

[IcyPeas]

15. So, this will be the third headline now with this story. She learned well from trump

All publicity is good publicity.

She did, she didn't, she did again.

[ancianita]

17. They're in public rotation, and we don't need to get too reactive. Just monitor and use

tools that shut them down.

It's more about what they do than what they say. We need to pay attention to that because when they're busy, that's posing; it's those around them, what their "aides" do, that indicates what the electeds are really doing. In MTG's case, nothing. Her goal is to appear powerful without doing anything for anyone, just make them believe she is. That spokesperson? That guy runs messaging.

[PortTack]

20. Oh very well said!! Thank you

Some of it, I believe is her extreme jealousy of AOC- smart, well spoken, has a true following, classy, educated, accomplished, groomed...which she is none of. I think this is margarine’s answer to the squad, which is laughable..and pitiful

[rickyhall]

18. Like caged animals.

[greenjar_01]

21. A haunted house, with a picket fence

To float around and ghost my friends.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

22. The stuff about "Anglo-Saxon political traditions"...

... made little sense to me, in a democracy, but perhaps that was part of it? Not even the Magna Carta came about until long after the Norman conquest of England!

So the accusations of racist dog-whistles is probably correct, although I'll admit that I NEVER knew it was ever used by racists in this country!

Years ago, when I was home-brewing lots of English ales (with my ancestry almost entirely from England), I bought this shirt:



If someone had accused me of being racist for wearing it, I would've truly been confused by it. It's not like I want to waste much of my life focusing on the KKK and other white supremacists!

Or maybe modern-day Republicans really would like a return to the feudalism of old England when the Anglo-Saxons were in power? That's how many businesses basically operate, and right-wingers seem to want them to have complete power without any democratically-elected government ever meddling in their mini-tyrannies!

[ancianita]

24. Until

the dogwhistles stop with the Anglo Saxon stuff, and as long as they try to use it as cover for their white supremacy, it's got to get damped down. Maybe it's temporary. I hope so. Your symbol isn't confusing, either.

But hey, might as well do a symbol review... and this group isn't all of them, by any stretch...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

25. I hope that the white supremacists stop associating...

... themselves with various stuff, like the "ok" finger symbol.

I'd hate to wave at someone and then have someone charge at me, saying that I was doing the "supremacist wave" or whatever.

I'm exaggerating about that, of course, but sheesh... I certainly never knew about "Anglo-Saxon" being associated with them!

Aryan? Well, of course.

And the symbol on that shirt is the old English flag, still worn by the England football (soccer) team as far as I know.

Edit: I'm convinced that MTG was aware of any such association, though. I'm just saying that I never knew about it until this story came out.

[Meowmee]

23. This

Agree completely, exactly what happened with dumpster.

[Elessar Zappa]

27. She's just like Trump.

Everything she does is for attention, there’s no planning going on.

[Initech]

30. I truly despise these people.

Yes, I hate them. Yes, I am seething at rage at their very existence. You can quote me on this! Fuck white supremacists, fuck white nationalists, fuck gun nuts, fuck MAGA supporters, fuck Q Anon, and fuck the NRA. And if you support any of these groups, fuck you too.