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January 6 committee presents new video footage of the U.S. Capitol riot, shares testimony from numerous Trump allies - including Ivanka - that his election fraud claims were bogus - The footage is shocking and ugly. The evidence is damning. Yet, I don’t see anything changing politically, or any of the important players going to prison. In fact, the January 6 attack was just the beginning of much violence to come. We have mass shootings on an almost daily basis in #Murica, and it hardly phases anybody now. Certainly not enough to enact reasonable gun regulation on the federal level. The people of this country really don’t want to be bothered with this, just as they’ve proven they don’t want to be bothered with the war in Ukraine, or with further COVID-19 restrictions. Some are angry about gas prices and inflation, and they blame the old man in the White House; but most are just apathetic and only want to play video games, or watch ‘reality TV,’ or gorge on cheeseburgers, anything but giving a damn. Even without majority support - due to anemic voter turnout - the GOP are going to win large majorities in both houses of Congress, and the march toward total Fascism will move forward. In fact, many who are currently on-the-fence politically or apolitical will come to welcome our Fascist overlords. In no small part because #Cult45 and GOP lawmakers are growing increasingly willing to enforce their positions upon others, and others will be threatened into compliance. #Cult45 are eager for violence. If anything, this new footage is only going to inspire more violence, and fewer and fewer Americans will care unless they’re the victim. Or even ‘if’ (and when) they are the victim. This is a broken country full of broken people, and it does not have the will or the means to defeat this Fascist plague. We’re going full Nazi, and most seem to sense it and are resigned to it. For those of us who will never accept Fascism, the remnant - only God knows what will happen to us. I know what my gut tells me, and better dead than a slave. I’ve been suffering panic attacks for years, fearing a moment exactly as we saw on January 6, 2021. And worse; worse is coming, the current situation is awful enough. I’ve prayed that these premonitions of unbridled hate and warfare in the streets of America were all just my paranoia, but it’s all proceeding in real-time just as I feared. Until I breathe my last, however, I carry on expressing my indignation at what has become of this country and what its people have become. And longing for a better life in a world far from our own. (NBC News 6/09)
I’ve been telling you folks for several years now that the nationalist populist right in America - #Cult45 - are going to stop at nothing in their crusade to destroy liberal democracy and restore Fascism, theocracy, misogyny, and racism. Great, I am glad the hearings are happening, and much respect to Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney, and the J6 Committee for their work. Know this, however: No matter what is revealed, nobody’s minds are going to be changed. Not a single pro-Trump Republican voter in America is going to be moved by this, bank on that. None of the J6 ring leaders will ever go to prison. Just as with the most recent school massacre in Texas, and the discussion over whether to show the public the images of the slain children: They could do that, and not a single Second Amendment absolutist is going to change his or her mind. Millions of Americans will scorch the earth if widespread gun confiscation were to occur. The anti-abortion lobby is never going to be swayed, the COVID deniers will never be swayed by facts, reason, or logic. Christ Himself could return in the flesh and chastise evangelical Christians for their hypocrisy and the cruelties being done in His name, and none of these Christofascists are going to give an inch. Yes, they would reject Him. The extreme right has grown very large and very powerful, and it will take victory in a long, bloody civil war to ever stop them - do NOT underestimate how determined millions of our fellow Americans are to silence other Americans! And that very much goes for the extreme contingent on the hard-left, but they are not nearly as numerous (or as well-armed) as the extreme right. Fewer and fewer of us are occupying the center, which is really the most dangerous spot an American can occupy when surrounded by blood-thirsty vampires on the left and right. This isn’t the old days, such as in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, when everybody finally comes to their senses and realizes they were supporting a crook. The battle lines have been drawn, hearts have been hardened, humanity has been lost, we are heading for civil war, and the ultimate dissolution of the republic. Not going to sugarcoat it, having faith in people to do the right thing these days is futile.
Americans spending half or more of their time whining about how bad President Biden they believe to be, while simultaneously baffled and angered - just like the idiots and lemmings they are - because not everybody loves the corrupt, orange buffoon who - in four short years - did more damage to the office of the presidency than every one of his predecessors combined in over 200 years of American history. There isn’t any use in even talking to any of them or trying to reason; people only see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. Trump is their opiate, one of their few comforts in this miserable world, and the one giving them permission to be their true, ugly selves. And to take their idol away from them is something they are not ever going to forgive or forget, and they are very likely to turn more to violence and outright Fascism at ever-faster rates. We are in a dangerous time, and if I have a criticism of President Biden, it is that he is not laying down the law strongly enough, and usually doesn’t defend himself as he really needs to (and is capable of, but I think maybe his handlers are a bit too wedded to this kindly old-man image they wish to project.) This is a man who spent 36 years in the United States Senate, holding some very powerful chairmanships in that time. Eight years as VP. The man is going to be 80 this November, and is undertaking one of the hardest jobs in the world, and 95% of his critics can barely get out of bed each day (not that I’m one to talk about getting out of bed, but I’m not the one talking s**t about the president.) If Biden goes all-out authoritarian, it will be because #Murica has so richly earned it. Seriously, I’m not the smartest man alive, but I knew an obvious con-man when I saw one in the 2016 campaign. And I’ve lived long enough to recognize a mass hissy-fit when I see one. Lord knows there have been plenty in recent years in this ridiculous and stupid nation. You are pathetic, #Cult45. And that also goes to all the grifters in the media - laughing all the way to the bank while America is torn apart, no real care for the preservation of our constitutional republic - and to the hard-left whackos who are the flip side of the same tyrannical coin as #Cult45. To the whole lot of you: Not a single word you say, and nor any of your actions will ever be taken seriously by me, or millions of others around the world, ever again. Bloody fools, you are going to be the death of us all. You are not patriots, but agents of death and misery. Here’s hoping for the president to begin kicking seditious ass, and to explain to the whiners that they are not helping matters with their belligerence and petulance.
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John Schindler: Military history repeats in Ukraine - ‘
Russians will always fight like Russians.’ Ukraine needs our support now more than ever, at precisely the moment where most have stopped paying attention. (Top Secret Umbra 6/05)
U.S. Marine and former prisoner of the Russians, Trevor Reed, warns that hostage Brittney Griner is likely being treated especially harshly by her captors - Quote: ‘There is no justice in Russia. Brittney and Paul will not receive justice in Russia. They're not going to receive a fair trial. They will not receive a fair investigation. They will be there as hostages until the United States gets them out.’ (Axios 6/07)
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Vital thread, concerning hygiene in hospitals and other medical settings - Long before the pandemic, there were those who outright refuse to even wash their hands; it has never ceased to amaze and disgust me. The backlash against COVID protocols is only creating more belligerence (Dr. Lisa Iannattone 6/08)
Anti-vaccine film that claimed COVID is ‘a synthetic version of snake venom that evil forces are spreading through remdesivir,’ and makes one ‘a hybrid of Satan,’ is thoroughly debunked by scientists - It is as if we are back in the Middle Ages with some of these people. (Genetic Literacy Project 6/06)
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Trump calls for children’s book where he is fictionalized as ‘King Donald’ to be put in all classrooms in #Murica - Our heads may hurt from the stupid, but know this is a dog whistle for GOP lawmakers on the state level to put forward bills to do precisely that. He, and his disciples, will punish their enemies in any manner they can. (Huffington Post 6/05)
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DOJ opens probe into Louisiana State Police over countless accusations of a ‘pattern of looking the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men’ - Once the current administration is cast aside and the Fascists achieve complete control, the next AG will, also, be ‘looking the other way,’ and it will be open season on everyone who are deemed as outcasts. (AP 6/09)
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