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keep_left's JournalWe were warned about this years ago; in fact, we used to teach it...
...in the schools. Books like Fromm's Escape From Freedom and Hoffer's The True Believer were widely read, often beginning in sophomore or junior year of high school. But then again, the US had just concluded fighting a world war against fascism. It was a little fresher in our memories then. Little did we know that years later, we would be fighting a homegrown fascism right on our own doorsteps, and there would be no Germans to blame for our predicament--only ourselves.
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What a moron. No one "capped" Patton.
He died from complications of a car crash. Royce White is a conspiracy-theorizing nutcase, among many other repugnant things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton#Accident_and_death
Apropos, does anyone remember this one (Carlin on KO's "Countdown" show)?
"This country is finished!".
I can't really agree with Carlin, but I certainly understand his despair.
It's a generic alt-right meme, while also serving as a sort of Rorschach test...
...that says more about the people using the meme than it does about the meme itself. It's popular with not only the NWO/black helicopter paranoid wing of the alt-right, but also the MRA/PUA/incel crowd for some reason. MTG (Congresswoman from GA) has also promoted the meme in her tweets and speaking engagements.
LOL, the jokes just write themselves. He's the Platonic ideal...
...of the neckbeard incel stereotype!
"Cats and Cosby" is apparently where Rita Cosby landed after...
...her time at Fox "News". It looks like a WABC show, the same network that gave Hannity his break. Nice to see that they're giving Trump yet another completely uncritical platform to spew his garbage, as if he doesn't have enough of those already.
What did Fox nutcase Laura Ingraham say? "Shut up and sing"?
In Olsen's case, I guess it would be "shut up and act!". Maybe she should take Ingraham's advice. After all, they're always dishing it out to people like us!
Yep, this is being pushed by that POS Christopher Rufo...
...and covered extensively by far-right media, particularly Catholic radtrad media like EWTN and (Ir)-Relevant Radio.
Yes, and there's a video clip of it that should still be at YouTube.
Trump basically complained that, as you say, these were "just people sitting around on the clock", and "we can get them back very quickly" in an emergency, which was completely false. The YouTube clip was posted at DU several times (at least) during the pandemic. And of course, the Trump regime also tossed the Federal pandemic response in the trash. This was often erroneously called the "Obama plan", but it was actually started by the George W. Bush administration.
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