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usonian

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15. Projection.

Reply to Passages (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2026, 10:17 AM

12 hrs ago

Found on Hacker News.

This decapitation of education, military, cyber-defense, public news, the arts, disaster preparedness, climate science ... the list goes on ... is so systematic that it can only be described as a fifth column effort to destroy the U.S. from inside, which Putin can't do from outside.

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Norman Ornstein: Trump has called the left: - Enemy within - Scum - Terrorists - Vermin - Radical [View all] Passages 14 hrs ago OP

Should some one alert Dana Bash? Traildogbob 14 hrs ago #1

She's certainly passing her audition BlueKota 13 hrs ago #6

He's like one of those old-time Kodak projectors. tavernier 14 hrs ago #2

Always true about him. multigraincracker 13 hrs ago #3

"This isn't fringe rhetoric." I call bullshit on that. Martin Eden 13 hrs ago #4

I would have to say Just Jerome 13 hrs ago #7

I've called Trump a fascist many times Martin Eden 11 hrs ago #18

Says, Eric Adams - corrupt piece of shit that he is. harumph 13 hrs ago #5

Not enough caffeine. It took me until your post to remember him. niyad 13 hrs ago #8

Yep, Adams was jonesing for a Trump pardon. harumph 12 hrs ago #12

The hostility needs to be mutual. We need to treat the enemies of American democracy as our enemies. hay rick 13 hrs ago #9

Outside of Jew Haters these labels are what Hitler and the Nazis called Jews Botany 13 hrs ago #10

True, Trump made his ambitions no secret. Passages 13 hrs ago #11

He is publicly murdering people both here in the United States and internationally, both of his elections ... Botany 12 hrs ago #13

I don't think it was a conspiracy, nor a false-flag event. Wednesdays 10 hrs ago #19

Yup! Botany 10 hrs ago #20

Strange Rebl2 12 hrs ago #14

Projection. usonian 12 hrs ago #15

Shook who now? ECL213 12 hrs ago #16

When I confront MAGATs with this rhetoric BeneteauBum 12 hrs ago #17

My brother and I just had brunch with Norm DFW 10 hrs ago #21

You're very fortunate to know him. I admire and respect Norman even when we do not agree. Passages 9 hrs ago #22

That short description is very accurate. DFW 3 hrs ago #23