When authoritarian leaders lose office, they come back, like, 10 times worse — they never get less extreme, they always get more extreme,” Ben-Ghiat said. “January 6 was a profoundly radicalizing event for the base, for the GOP and for Trump himself, because even assaulting the Capitol you could get away with. His campaign events have to be seen as that of an extremist radicalizing people and emotionally reeducating people to hate people.” @ruthbenghiat https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/24/trump-language-policy-2024-race/
~“Loud cheers erupted in packed high school gym after Brandon School Division rejected call to remove books dealing with sexuality & gender identity from libraries.
Hundreds of people in Manitoba’s 2nd-largest city showed up for a marathon school division meeting, which ran into early morning.
Trustees voted 6-1 to reject proposal to create a committee of trustees & parents to review books...”
And PPC bigot Max Bernier showed up! Yikes.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brandon-school-division-books-libraries-1.6852651
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We just avoided entering the 1930s when Biden won.
We tread gingerly toward it again in 2024. Then we get to find out if we postponed the 1930s for another four years.
I may be a pessimist but I think fascism is inevitable when half the states seem to have a headstart.
The writer is new to me: Jim Avila, former CNBC reporter and, he says, a friend of Chris Licht's.
"Donald Trump has single-handedly destroyed the middle of the road in journalism.
"It is not there anymore.
"In today’s world, both sides journalism cannot exist because one side lies all the time. One side allows disinformation and libel to permeate its broadcasts. Fox did not pay Dominion hundreds of millions of dollars because it tells the truth."
Like honest serious question. Clearly if you send your kids (it's boys always little boys...) anywhere near a catholic church they are going to be sexually abused. Why are you fucked up people still letting your kids anywhere near these people? This is a serious question and I promise I won't even say anything back.
This is just absolutely blowing my mind and I'm just grasping for answers. Why send your children to be molested at catholic churches when you know it's going to happen at this point?
Even TFG’s lawyers are so stupid they don’t realize only the sitting president has pardon power.
Older man comes unglued making demands unreasonable for a civilian.
The goal of banning abortion (control women, push them out of public life) is very blatant when all male SC GOP legislators voted to ban it; all women legislators voted against the ban. The 5 women wore buttons which said "Elect more women."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/male-republican-senators-ignore-women-vote-for-abortion-ban-in-south-carolina
Ukraine has now the minimum number of weapons required to launch a counteroffensive, said head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, in an interview with the Japanese news agency NHK.
"Many civilians are still under Russian occupation, and we have no more time to lose. We already have the minimum number of weapons and other equi https://www.uawire.org/ukrainian-intelligence-chief-kyiv-has-the-minimum-number-of-weapons-required-to-begin-counteroffensive source : #Ukraine
If this passes I want lawsuits to also include the SATANTIC TEMPLE'S SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS in every classroom.
Expert: Jack Smith subpoena for foreign deals suggests DOJ concerned Trump tried to “monetize” docs
#SalonNews #DOJInvestigation #TrumpForeignDeals #MonetizingDocuments #JackSmithSubpoena #LegalExpertOpinion #Politics #News
Using the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling is perfect given MAGA is today’s Confederacy. My new article on how Section 4 of 14th Amend was enacted to protect the US economy from the traitorous Confederates. Today that threat is from MAGA: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/using-the-14th-amendment-to-raise
Taiwan CDC Warns Of Increasing COVID Hospitalizations & Deaths https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/05/taiwan-cdc-warns-of-increasing-covid.html
Eleven days ago in Hong Kongs COVID Resurgence, we saw a roughly 10-fold increase in cases over the past 6 weeks, while the WHO has reported sharp increases in Southeast Asia in recent weeks.
Today - in sharp contrast to 3 weeks ago - Taiwan is reporting increasing numbers of hospitalizations (and deaths) as XBB variants continue to increase their hold on the nation.
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