It takes more

 It just AIN’T Trump. Of course, Trump is the anal opening of the Elephant; beware of the shit he expels, but watch out for the brains and tusks of that elephant; their bite and their aims are much more precise and deadly.

 

Take Steve Bannon; he espouses some weird, distorted concept of Popularism, a kind of country reminiscent of the “Wild West days,” where power was having the quickest hand on your rifle and bullying anyone you figured did not deserve to share your land. Steve Bannon Has Called His “Army” to Do Battle—No Matter Who Wins in November Bannon, a self-declared general of global populists, wants to break the world order. And he’s tapped into something much bigger than Trumpism. He unabashedly brags about the philosophies of such autocrats as Viktor Orbán, Vladimir Putin, and the ex-autocrat from Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro barred from running for office for 8 years and Nigel Farage, the right of right-wing Britain, who promoted Brexit.

 

“Traditionalists aspire to be everything modernity is not,” Teitelbaum wrote. “To commune with what they believe are timeless, transcendent truths and lifestyles rather than to pursue ‘progress.’ ” (Vanity Fair). Traditionalists believe that the natural order of things meant men ruled over women, and whites and Aryans were above blacks, Jewish, and Arab people.  In other words, Racism, Bigotry, and Hate of the other are natural and are necessary for those who are not Black, Jewish, Arab, and Women to be truly free!

 

Steve Bannon is in jail for a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack. Also, Bannon faced a federal case that began in August when New York federal prosecutors charged him and three others with defrauding donors of more than a million dollars as part of a fundraising campaign purportedly aimed at supporting Trump’s border wall. But TRUMP, of course, found nothing illegal about that and pardoned him.

 

A con, a thief, a criminal, a self-serving prick, an enemy of “fair and equal,’ Steve Bannon pretends he is a Populist, your all-American bud…Bannon is a part of the TRUMP Cabal of enemies of the state, all of whom are keeping TRUMP on life support.

 

 

NOW/THEN

 NOW…

In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Trump has leaned into an anti-immigrant message. Earlier this week, he suggested that undocumented immigrants who commit crimes have “bad genes.” While speaking here Saturday, Trump described the border as the top issue and continued to portray undocumented immigrants as criminals, even as federal data shows that the vast majority of people arrested at the southern border do not have criminal convictions. There’s little evidence that undocumented immigrants commit more crime than U.S. citizens. (The Washington Post)

 

THEN…

"We," that is the democracies, "are not in a position to take in the Jews." Yet in these empires there are not 10 people to the square kilometer. While Germany, with her 135 inhabitants to the square kilometer, is supposed to have room for them!

2. They assure us: We cannot take them unless Germany is prepared to allow them a certain amount of capital to bring with them as immigrants.

The world has sufficient space for settlements, but we must once and for all get rid of the opinion that the Jewish race was only created by God for the purpose of being in a certain percentage a parasite living on the body and the productive work of other nations. The Jewish race will have to adapt itself to sound constructive activity as other nations do, or sooner or later it will succumb to a crisis of an inconceivable magnitude. (Extract from the Speech by Adolf Hitler, January 30, 1939/World Holocaust Remembrance Center)

 

I know that Republicans prefer that the masses do not read history. Still, you can bet that the current crop of American Fascists read every detail, every fact, every event history provides! The folks who surround TRUMP, those who plan for their own form of Dictatorship, understand the lessons history has taught, and they engorge themselves on all of the heinous, horrific, and horrendous iterations possible.

are you now?

 A question used by US government officials working for the Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations under Senator Joseph *McCarthy. The committee carried out a campaign against supposed communists, and questioned citizens on their suspected membership of the Communist Party: ‘Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?’... ... (oxfordreference.com)

 

Right from the start, McCarthy had prominent critics. But almost the entire political establishment was afraid of him. You could fight him, in which case he just made your life harder, or you could ignore him, in which case he rolled right over you. He verbally abused people who disagreed with him. He also had easy access to money, much of it from Texas oilmen, which he used to help unseat politicians who crossed him. To his supporters, he could say and do no wrong. Tye quotes the pollster George Gallup, in 1954: “Even if it were known that McCarthy had killed five innocent children, they would probably still go along with him.” His fans liked that he was a bully, and they liked that he scandalized the genteel and the privileged. (newyorker.com)

 

History is a great source of repetition, and when its tales of the past are ignored, History will not fade away; rather, it will grow in force and power and, like a tornado, destroy anything in its wake that had not been heeded.

 

In the 1950s, the GOP created a much-needed villain: the so-called Communists. With nothing else to seize upon and very little else from which they could mount any honest effort to sell to the American public, Joe McCarthy created the Red Scare. Funded by the wealthy and supported by the rich, McCarthy was able to divert the public's attention. In 2024, TRUMP has become the new Joe McCarthy and IMMIGRANTS the new Communists. Fear. Loathing and Xenophobia are always the ingredients in producing SNAKE OIL!

 

Weekend at Bernie's

 It tells the story of two young insurance corporation employees who discover that their boss Bernie is dead after arriving at his house in The Hamptons. Two young men are trying to make their way in a corporation. One on charm, the other on hard work. When they go to President Bernie with a serious financial error on a printout, he is thrilled and invites them to his beach house for the weekend. But when Bernie is killed, the boys end up having to pretend Bernie is still alive. as the frustrated hit-man tries time and time again to complete the job. (‘Weekend at Bernies’/written by Robert Klane)

 

“And, it’s so simple, I mean, you know. This isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land within 12 inches on the moon where they wanted to land,” Trump said. “Or, he gets the … engines back—that was the first I realized, I said, ‘Who the hell did that?’ I saw engines about three, four years ago. These things were coming—cylinders, no wings, no nothing—and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace, with a circle, boom!” (The New Republic)

 

“They got these big, ugly suckers hanging down. They’re rusting and rotting,” Trump said. “Half of them weren’t spinning, and the ones that were were going so slow. They were going, it’s not too windy, but y’know, they’re going like slow. The other ones were just dead. But they’re all rusting and disgusting looking.” (HuffPost)

 

Trump then appeared to lose his train of thought as he complained about Democrats opposing the SAVE Act, a longshot Republican bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote in a presidential election—something that is already mandated by the federal government. (The New Republic)

 

Fiction becomes fact. Compare the efforts and energies used by the Trump Republican First Lieutenants to try and keep the façade of Trump being in perfect cognitive condition alive and well. Day after day, the GOP Fascists come up with one more excuse denying a very telling decline in Trump's mental facilities. TRUMP is no longer the ventriloquist but more so the DUMMY, as he demonstrates not the art of the deal but the art of talking out of his own ass. In the movie, ‘Weekend at Bernie's,’ Bernie is a convenient prop for two wannabes to gain power. In the year 2024, the same ploy is used to keep TRUMP around, as to keep the possibilities alive for way too many self-serving ENEMIES OF THE STATE!

 

Ah, its MITTENS, again

 PROFILE IN COWARDICE, or BEING MITT ROMNEY

Ah, Willard. We knew you all too well. Here in the Commonwealth (God save it!), we knew you as a governor. Here in the United States, we knew you as a presidential candidate and, eventually, as a senator. We knew all along that if we stared into your political soul, searching for some vestige of principle, we’d see a deep, echoing void. In this volatile political era, it’s nice to have some things you can count on. (Esquire)

 

Mittens tried his best form of spinelessness by courting TRUMP, hoping to become a member of the Douchebag’s Cabinet. Like so many other Republican wannabe Eunuchs, Mittens pretended that all of his loathing and disgust for DonOLD could be undone, unseen, or unheard. After all, never being honest or having integrity are two attributes that make Republicans, well, REPUBLICANS! Once these self-serving men and women removed their heads from their own anal openings and sniffed the potential power of TRUMP, they realized that no matter what is necessary to obtain personal power, it is the required thing to do.

 

Mittens was never a man for the people or of the people, but the kind of guy who is just a snake oil salesman wearing expensive suits!

 

The Republicans, where Mittens Romney and Nikki Haley demonstrate one of the better forms of hypocricy!

 

 

SPEAKER JOHNSON

SPEAKER JOHNSON,

 

You pontificate with incredible hubris and hysterics to be a man of Jesus, a proud Christian, the GO-TO Pro-Life kind of guy. You pretend that your religion is your guiding force to identify good from bad, right from wrong, and just from evil. You hate with great fervor, you discriminate with greater gusto, and you inject your intolerance as if it were the blood of Christ. You, however, do not lack in HYPOCRICY, as you provide your “dog and pony show!” Your so-called religious beliefs and weird ideals about Patriotism are so convoluted as to make one dizzy and delusional.

 

You are a Con, Speaker Johnson, a clown, and a pawn. You have worshiped TRUMP, it seems, even more than your Christian God. You follow TRUMP closer than the US Constitution. And your so-called Pro-Life philosophy is heresy, to say the least. And now, Speaker Johnson, you are prioritizing the politics of TRUMP over the people of this nation. Of course, he doesn’t want President Biden to seem like the hero, helping the victims of Helene and Milton, because in doing so, it might seem Biden is doing the job of Commander and Chief…something TRUMP is jealous of. SHAME on you, Speaker Johnson, you second-rate Con Man!

 

Speaker Johnson calls requests for more FEMA funding 'premature'. There is a bipartisan push for Congress to pass more disaster funding. However, House Speaker Johnson is not budging. (MSNBC)

 

President Joe Biden on Thursday joined growing calls from Democrats and even one Republican to bring Congress back to pass certain additional disaster aid funding in the wake of the devastation in southeastern states caused by back-to-back hurricanes.

 

Biden told reporters that the Small Business Administration is "pretty right at the edge now," and it would take "several billion dollars" to help businesses recover in the affected states. (ABC News) 

The Devils

 TRUMP/Margie-Putin-Greene/Elon the Idiot, all three giving zero shits for truth, for facts, and for the welfare of the people they profess to respect, have gone out of their Fascist ways to pour gasoline on the peasants and are ready to light the matches. TRUMP will do and say anything to the detriment of others. Putin-Greene is a sitting member of Congress and, like her idol TRUMP, will use the lack of intelligence of the public at her selfish whims, and Elon the Idiot lacks any respect for anyone who isn’t him. 

Elon Musk has used his platform seemingly to spread any rumor that’s come his way. Late last week, he posted a note that said that “FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help!” Last week ahead of a visit to North Carolina, he posted on social media that he was getting “reports” about “the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.” At a rally in Michigan this week, Trump said that “Kamala spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country,” According to Greene, an undefined “they”—who, if we’re being generous, is meant to be the Democrats, the deep state, or the “establishment”—“can control the weather.” In other words, “they” are actively working to crush communities with historic storms.

 

A wannabe President, a current member of Congress, and a buffoon Billionaire, three examples of Public Enemies number one. And because the MAGA are morons, and they will easily and readily shoot themselves in their own feet over and over and over again, these Red Hated, hateful fools end up as turds floating to the top of an abandoned Gas Station on the abandoned Route 66.                  

 

A Republican House member from North Carolina took to social media this week to help debunk the misinformation spread by members of his own party about Hurricane Helene. Meanwhile, a man tells Dan Abrams his father-in-law is refusing FEMA help because of Trump's recent rhetoric. (MSNBC)