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{VIDEO} British broadcaster Anthony Davis responds to the Highland Park shooting - ‘The Republican Party have embraced the AR-15 as their mascot.’ Americans should see how the free, civilized world sees this country right now. Once, America led the free world, but now many are in denial that this is no longer the case. Not that most Americans care how the world sees them - in fact, Americans tend to only become more jingoistic the more they are called out on their pathetic jingoism. One of the results of this extreme rhetoric and brainwashing is that America is growing apart from Europe and the Western world; when the American people return the radicalized GOP to congressional majorities this November and then restore Trump (or install a DeSantis or similar type) as dictator in two years, our alliance with the free world comes to an official end. In fact, I fully expect that American Christofacsists, in time, are going to begin calling for a modern-day Crusades to ‘liberate’ Europe from Satanism, or Communism, or whatever garbage is used as an excuse. America is crumbling quickly and Fascism is rising at an alarming pace. Either President Joe Biden takes drastic action to attempt to save this republic, or it is gone; forget about trusting most of our fellow Americans to do the right thing, they are a lost cause.
Even if this republic is somehow held together and Fascism is defeated, we’ll never again have the prosperity we once knew domestically, or anywhere near the level of respect and deference on the global stage. The hallmarks of the post-war global order will not be reclaimed; the new Fascist state is emerging, but as with Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, it will collapse before too long; eventually, the union is likely to be dissolved and broken up into many smaller states. Large numbers of us are going to be dead before it completely collapses. Putting it bluntly, Europe, Asia, etc., are ‘over’ our bulls**t and are moving on. Like an jilted love that refuses to let go, Fascist America - or #Murica - will grow more aggressive and hostile the more isolated it becomes. Just as with Russia, or taken to the extreme, North Korea. Hermit kingdoms that offer nothing but misery and death. Putin’s Russia may be one of #Murica’s only allies once the Fascist takeover is complete. I pray that at least some sane Americans will be able to escape this nightmare, and find new, more welcoming homes elsewhere. To that end, I pray the Fascist alliance does not destroy the entire planet, and that there will be an ‘elsewhere’ to go. Just know that once Fascist Americans finish annihilating their domestic enemies they are not going to want to stop there. Bloodlust is addictive, and therein will lay #Murica’s eventually downfall; the free world and its governments must prepare now. (MeidasTouch 7/07)
Katherine Stewart: Christian nationalists are excited about what comes next - ‘(M)ovement leaders are already preparing for a new and more brutal phase of their assault on individual rights and democratic self-governance. Breaking American democracy isn’t an unintended side effect of Christian nationalism. It is the point of the project.’ (New York Times 7/05)
Fact-checking #Cult45, as futile as that may be these days: No, the Supreme Court did not secretly overturn the 2020 presidential election, and does not have constitutional authority to do so. (Reuters 7/12)
The law of unintended consequences: Following the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the coach who led his team in prayer at the 50-yard line, Satanists petition to lead prayer at a Florida high school football game. (Patch 7/08)
Oakland: Four baseball fans injured by bullet fragments from outside the stadium while on field for post-game fireworks display - Attendance is already wretched for A’s at Oakland Coliseum, this won’t help. In all seriousness, one of the effects of all these mass shootings {along with other factors, such as COVID} is that people are increasingly less willing to attend any sort of public gathering. (AP 7/05)
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to step aside, will stay in office until the Tories pick a new leader - Imagine that, a country that still demands character and will hold its leaders accountable. And, for all his flaws, Boris Johnson could not possibly have done 1/1000th of the evil Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and other tyrants around the world have. A great orator who stood by Ukraine and against Putin; he was also either the very first or one of the first to publicly congratulate Joe Biden and acknowledge the man as the rightful winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, much to the chagrin of the American right. The major concern now for Great Britain and the entire world is which direction the Conservative Party heads in, and who they choose as leader. If they go the route of the GOP and other right-wing parties that are embracing the revival of Fascism, then the United Kingdom is in a lot of trouble. Boris Johnson may have some serious flaws, but what comes next, in his absence, may be catastrophic; I would not be celebrating his impending exit. (NPR 7/07)
Russian politicians and propagandists celebrate the downfall of ‘stupid clown’ Boris Johnson - The outgoing PM ‘finally got his just reward for arming Ukraine against Russia,’ they say. (Reuters 7/07)
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is fatally shot at a campaign event, stunning world leaders. (AP 7/08)
HERE & THERE
First color image from the James Webb Space Telescope is revealed, comprising ‘thousands of galaxies.’ (CBS News 7/11)
