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Steve Bannon ally indicted in $1 billion fraud conspiracy
https://www.rawstory.com/steve-banno...aud-conspiracy
Marjorie Taylor Greene blurts out potentially classified info:
'I'm not going to be confidential'
exposed what one border patrol official said could be classified information about explosives found near the U.S. border.
"Chief Ortiz, are you aware that there was an explosive device found by Border Patrol agents on January 17th in an area called No Man's Land,
and there's surveillance of who put it there?" she wondered.
"And guess what? It wasn't Americans; it was cartels. Are you aware of that?"
Chief Ortiz, but I'm not going to be confidential because I think people deserve to know," Greene declared.
"Our Border Patrol agents should not be in those type of conditions where they are at risk of being blown to pieces by
the cartels, who, by the way, are criminals,
and they should be treated as such."
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-ta...plosive-device
the bomb was sand wrapped in duct tape
Steve Bannon ally indicted in $1 billion fraud conspiracy
https://www.rawstory.com/steve-banno...aud-conspiracy
$19 million yacht at center of new probe into scandal-plagued George Santos
https://www.rawstory.com/george-santos-money-2659599966
'Seditionist square': Trump allies gobbling up properties two blocks from the US Capitol
the Conservative Partnership Ins ute, an organization led by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, recently went on
a $41 million property buying spree that left it in possession of
"four commercial properties along a single Pennsylvania Avenue block,
three adjoining rowhouses around the corner, and
a garage and carriage house in the rear alley."
https://www.rawstory.com/conservative-partnership-ins ute-2659599692
hole MS news
Legislative plans in Mississippi are ‘Jim Crow 2.0’
to create courts with appointed rather than elected judges and
to expand patrols by state police inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson amount to “Jim Crow 2.0,”
https://apnews.com/article/jackson-m...80a26a766cb0c4
MS hole news, lege corrupted by BigOil and BigAuto, same as TX, the Confederacy
Electric car stores will be restricted in Mississippi
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-ele...8511e2a4082a99
North Carolina’s high court seems inclined to toss past redistricting rulings
The move could moot the U.S. Supreme Court’s showdown over powers of state legislatures
to tear up the state’s congressional maps, and the new ones would likely favor the GOP up and down the ballot.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/14/north-carolina-supreme-court-gerrymandering-00087066
NC is a purple state at voters level, 50-50, but gerrymandering now and later make NC a Repug state with supermajority
Republicans Went All In On Partisan Probes -- And Have Nothing To Show
subcommittee on the weaponization of government was supposed to be the true centerpiece of the effort,
making the case that the federal government has targeted Republicans.
So far, though, it has been unfocused and ineffective with hearings that haven’t made much of an impact, and no big bombs s. Again, Republicans are saying this.
“Jordan is overextended and short-staffed, biting off much more than he can chew,”
“Is it once again all talk & no action from the GOP - this time from the Weaponization Committee?”
“The reality is that there are a lot of people that don’t want to go and leave their jobs and work for this committee,”
Jordan is using the hearings to float one false story and conspiracy theory after another
”There is a feeling right now that this will simply be a Fox News clip generator
James Comer, chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is drawing some gripes as he announces one investigation after another without making much of an impact.
Just this week his committee has held seven hearings, all on different topics, with yet another one being postponed.
“Everyone thought he’d learn from prior chairmen and work in a more coordinated way. It’s been quite the opposite.”
https://www.nationalmemo.com/jim-jordan-2659582658
Raskin says Republican Comer is trying to quash release of Trump financial records while expanding Hunter Biden inquiry
Comer quietly issued a subpoena of Hunter Biden's business associate.
Republican Chairman James Comer has abandoned efforts to get former President Donald Trump's financial do ents
while quietly digging into the finances of President Joe Biden's son.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/raskin-says-republican-comer-trying-quash-release-trump-financial-reco-rcna74654
Probably beyond the statute of limitations.
Players win and winners play. Have a lucky day.
Repugs know their dumbass voters will always vote Repug, no matter what.
Repugs know the oligarchy BigDonor class will always be financing the strategy of one-party Christo fascism
Repugs know they can get their done through their corrupt toadies in robes, rather than messing with squishy legislatures.
America is ed and able.
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Matt Gaetz hires self-described ‘raging misogynist’ Andrew Kloster for obvious reasons
new congressional legal counsel Andrew Kloster.
Kloster is a self-described “raging misogynist” with a long history of offensive, prolific, and ignorant social media posts and interactions.
The Daily Beast reports that Kloster has quite a collection of greatest hits that support his self-assessment as a man who hates women.
On top of the list: On The Volokh Conspiracy, a legal news and opinion blog most enjoyed by libertarians and conservatives,
there was a post led “Government Out of Bedrooms, but into Barnyards.”
Kloster responded with “Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...bvious-reasons
Fascism for dummies
Stanley goes on to enumerate ten strategies that underpin the rise of right-wing autocracy. I have listed them below with my commentary and references to America today.
1. Mythic past.
No country has an unblemished history. No nation even has a period of perfection. The budding fascist, however, will refer back to some imaginary, Edenic era, which in myth was a time when the country was great — mainly because everybody understood their role, stuck to their lane, and did not act uppity.
In the American conservative orthodoxy, that time was the “Father Knows Best” 1950s. The US had just saved the planet from fascist hordes (spot the irony). And Americans lived in a white suburban heaven where bread-winning patriarchs provided for domestic goddess wives and their passel of bright-eyed and (mostly) obedient children.
2. Propaganda
To return to this Eden — to make the country great again — the fascist promises to defeat the forces that have caused the national decline. In short, these ‘bad actors’ are the “them” in the “us vs. them” formulation. The leader demonizes them repeatedly as agents of destruction.
These enemies of the state can be a racial, religious, and/or foreign cabal. For the American right-winger today, these are minorities, immigrants, Muslims, and the UN
3. Anti-intellectualism.
The fascist cannot allow multiple perspectives. He must destroy the reputation of intellectually diverse people. He characterizes knowledge as deviancy. Mao unleashed his Cultural Revolution to decimate Chinese academia. And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, while not mandating that university professors go pick oranges, is just as determined to undermine the university intelligentsia.
Schools in the fascist nation teach only state-approved curriculums — which fosters the belief in a perfect past. And shield students from today’s realities. While the autocrat may celebrate free markets in business, he cannot allow a free market of ideas. And therefore we have “don’t say gay” laws and a ban on CRT — even though it’s not taught in schools. and few people know what it is.
4. Unreality
The fascist lies — repeatedly. Joseph Goebbels reportedly explains why. “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.” (He may not have said it, but the message resonates.) A fascist who can get a population to agree with his version of reality has established a base that will accept as gospel anything he says
5. Hierarchy
The fascist tells the ‘select’ group — in the US, that would be whites — that they are better than the others. Often racial superiority will be reinforced by the primacy of one religion. He will enforce this state of affairs by casting the chosen people as morally superior to the rest.
Southerner Lyndon Johnson was well aware of this strategy, saying:
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man,
he won't notice you're picking his pocket.
, give him somebody to look down on,
and he'll empty his pockets for you."
6. Victimhood.
If the “lower” groups dare to lobby for equality, the fascist calls his base the nation's true citizens — “real Americans”, for example. He will portray the supreme group as under attack. In his formulation, Protestants are the victims of papism.
Christians are the victims of Jews and Muslims.
Whites are the victims of minorities.
Men are the victims of feminism.
7. Law and order.
The fascist embraces ‘law and order’ to preserve the status quo. Groups representing minority interests — say, Black Lives Matter — are painted as murderous, anti-social lawbreakers. And a threat to the peaceful order.
8. Sexual anxiety
The fascist extols the heterosexual/bigender model. Anybody not conforming is a deviant and threatens the womenfolk and children. The LGBTQ community is not satisfied with acceptance. They have an agenda to corrupt the young. Drag queens and transgender are visible symbols of immorality.
Ironically, against this background, the base will excuse a fascist who is a heterosexual predator, if he has promised to crush the perverts.
9. Sodom and Gomorrah.
The fascist extols the virtues of the non-city dweller. He demonizes cities as magnets for deviants, decadence, immigrants, and criminals — even if he is a product of the city himself. The fascist extols patriots, who live in the country and work with their hands.
10. Arbeit macht frei.
“Work sets you free.” The fascist characterizes minorities as lazy and content to live on state handouts — which weak-minded (i.e. liberal) citizens are eager to dole out to the undeserving for their votes. He will slime trade unions as hotbeds of communists who get rich by picking the workers’ pockets. In their place, the fascist promotes “right to work” (aka union busting) laws.
Stanley could add three more autocratic tactics to his list.
11. Isolationism
Fascists celebrate isolationism and preach anti-globalism. They say that foreign wars are not their concern. In the 1930s, some Americans, notably the German Bund, dismissed the Nazi territorial grabs in Austria and the Sudentenland as local concerns. And Hitler’s jingoistic militarism would, at worse, result in a European war.
Today, their descendants dismiss the Ukrainian War as a “territorial dispute.”
12. Enforced patriotism
The fascist insists on pledges of allegiance. He will slam any questioning of the national values. Consider the US athletes kneeling during the anthem. They were called anti-patriotic, unAmerican troop-haters and excoriated far beyond the scope of their supposed sin.
13. “We were robbed”
Claiming the democratic process is rigged — and elections are stolen — evidence be damned.
The fascist presents himself as the leader in an existential fight to reclaim the nation. Once his target audience accepts his bas ization of the truth — his set of lies — he is insulated from criticism. Any attack on him or his policies is considered evidence that he is a threat to the Deep State or other forces determined to diminish the rights of the citizens.
For decades the right in America has warned that unAmerican actors were coming to grab their guns and Bibles and strip away their religious freedom. That it never happens is irrelevant. The warnings are constant. The fears are chronic.
Fascism is like a car accident. It happens seemingly suddenly.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/15/2158471/-Fascism-for-idiots
Florida
Republican
says he filed pro-Confederate flag bill 'in error'
denying that he's a "Confederate sympathizer," and added that the legislation was retracted.
The amendment, SB 668, provided a list of flags to be displayed by Florida's governmental buildings, saying that
the government en ies "may expose to public view only the following flags in and on the grounds of public buildings and other public properties" --
one of which was the "flag of the Confederate States."
"Jay Collins is an American patriot ...
https://www.rawstory.com/florida-rep...-bill-in-error
GA Repugs try to recall Fani, intering with justice
Gym Jordan, pedo protector, interferes by demanding DA Bragg testify
House Republicans seek testimony from Manhattan DA on Trump hush money probe
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3...sh-money-probe
North Carolina man put swastikas in his yard
after Black businesswoman set up shop next door
https://www.rawstory.com/north-carolina-racism
The Confederacy is alive, and sick as always.
Kevin McCarthy says Trump indictment unfair
because Hillary Clinton 'didn't get arrested'
https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccar...ump-indictment
dumbass pandering to, inflaming ignorant, dumbed down Repug voters
Private communications with GOP legislators read like 'Handmaid's Tale' excerpts
A trove of leaked emails between South Dakota legislators and anti-trans lobbyists read like excerpts from "The Handmaid's Tale,"
use deeply religious language that shows Christian nationalists are pushing restrictions on LGBTQ rights as part of what they believe is a holy war,
“Know that many have prayed and are praying for you this day,"
"Do not back down, nor should you be afraid.
Know that the Lord is with you.
The children of South Dakota belong to him.
He is jealous over them.
Let his jealousies be spoken forth in the House of Representatives of South Dakota today
so that his children would be made safe.
Know you are HIS representative today.
Do not be afraid.
Stand firm in what is right."
The emails were shared with Vice by Elisa Rae Shupe,
a trans woman who had de-transitioned and
become an anti-trans advocate
before re-transitioning and renouncing her ties to Christianity.
“It is the language of Christian nationalism,”
“It is the language of people who very much believe they are doing God’s will, and
it is the language of people
who very much believe that they are engaged in a holy war.”
https://www.rawstory.com/handmaid-s-tale
Repug SADISTIC MISOGYNY
Florida wants to ban young students from learning about periods or HIV
A proposed Florida bill that would limit young girls from discussing gender, HIV, sexuality and periods in school
would mean vital
lessons in “acquired immune deficiency syndrome, sexually transmitted diseases, health education” and menstrual cycles to grades six through 12,
would only be permitted to students aged 12 to 18.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/03/...uality-school/
Experts: Republicans’ “punitive” attacks on SNAP could strip food aid from over 10 million people
About a quarter of all food stamp recipients could lose their benefits
https://www.salon.com/2023/03/21/experts-punitive-on-snap-could-strip-aid-from-over-10-million-people_partner/
Ms of Repug voters in toxic rural America exist on welfare
Repugs know they can screw their voters, have for decades, and know they will get their vote
Threatens his own cons uency for bringing charges he didn't contest.
literally trying to revive the Comstock Act
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03...-comstock-act/Comstock helped found the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, which worked to ban obscene books, and then turned his focus to mail-order contraception and abortion. In 1873, he convinced Congress to pass an anti-obscenity law nicknamed the “Comstock Act.”
The law initially outlawed the mailing of any “obscene, lewd or lascivious” writings; anything intended to prevent pregnancy; and “every article or thing designed, adapted or intended for producing abortion.”
It's on liberals to model moderate conservatism that's nearly extinct in the wild. It's the only way to save the GOP from itself.
conservatism endpoint always is pro-Capital, anti-Labor, anti-govt, fascism, retrograde to a fantasy past, racist.
They just don't state it extremely, explicitly
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