You know, notwithstanding the mushiness of the word, they're at least fascistic.
But being fucking stupid, focused overwhelmingly at the least on their own success and, as I keep ranting like the unhinged dotard I am, pathological vermin, I'm not sure they're sane and/or intelligent enough to have an actual philosophy attributed to them.
I mean, I wouldn't ascribe any philosophical beliefs to a dig and come on dogs are better tan those people.
Too, life is short. They're complete, irredeemable scum. I don't need more than that.
Obviously, just my opinion; opinions clearly may differ.
Now that we are all officially terrorists I guess it's only fair to state I still need to spend down my Soros Bucks, so who knows what US mailbox is about to be glued shut* ?!
Trump and Vance clearly calling for violence against Democrats while telling Democrats to tone down their rhetoric is just, well, par for the course, I guess. I remember Rush Limbaugh using eliminationist terms back in the early '90s. I thought that was dangerous then, and I see the danger growing now in ways that horrify me.
Like the OG Nazis, every one of the MAGA atrocities is framed as self-defense. Like the bully who punches you repeatedly, then when it looks like you may swing at him, drops to the ground in the fetal position while wailing about being the REAL victim here, these guys are cowards.
But they're cowards that evil, ignorant, stupid, and just indifferent, disengaged people have given the power of life and death over the country and the world.
So there’s a guy on Substack, Ben Cohen, maybe he’s well-known, maybe not, who’s bent on showing Both Sides Do It with Kirk and Attiah as examples. Yesterday someone said Kirk was a Nazi and there ensued a back and forth about Nazis, fascists, Hitler and Mussolini that was maybe the stupidest thing I’ve read on the subject. Something about Kirk only meant specific Black women are DEI hires, as if that hair can be split so finely. Who wants to defend Donald Trump or Kirk against people calling them a derogatory name? They stand for a world where women, gays, Blacks and other non-white male Americans are second class citizens. Confederates, fascists, Nazis - they fit all those names like a diver fits a wetsuit.
Oh and can we all agree that the Virginia grand jury to be convened in the next day or so to go after Comey (aGAIN?!) will return a loud, decisive NOPE...? It's what I am looking forward to with breath.*
*What's that? No, I do NOT bait my breath. That would be weird.
That giant meteor can't hit soon enough. These clownshoes pricks are already gunning to incinerate the planet anyway, why not let Mother Nature call their fucking bluff.
Looks like we crossed another planetary boundary just yesterday! (sorry I didn't get you anything for the occasion) Ocean-dwelling animals that like to build their shells out of calcium carbonate may no longer be able to do so, thanks to increased ocean acidity (CO2 in the atmosphere gets turned into carbonic acid when it's absorbed by the oceans).
Didn't expect "Collapse of the oceanic food chain" in my lifetime, but here we are.
The original Nazis were made up of battle hardened veterans of some of the toughest combat ever seen in places like Verdun, The Somme and Ypres. . Hitler was everything bad that you can imagine except he wasn't a coward.
The modern Nazi is is a veteran of some of the most violent and horrific virtual combat on platforms like Call of Duty, Battlefied and Brothers in Arms. Their leader is everything bad that you can imagine except he's a pussy
Further hardened in daily street battles with the Communists. As compared with "Hey lets all dress in blue polo shirts and khakis like we work at Best Buy, pile ourselves into the back of a rental van and then get laughed out of town!"
I was reminiscing about the old days with a friend of mine a month or so ago and we were talking about how the funniest thing we'd ever seen on the internet was when Voltron made his appearance in Get Your War On.
"Public Enemy No. 1"—??? Isn't that from "Bum Rush the Show" by Public Enemy? Of course, the opening track from their first album is what all of us public enemies should tell the (GOP) NAZIs: "You're gonna get yours!"
i often have a "morning thought" bubble up, right before my blood pressure med kicks in, a few hours before dawn. today's was kinda simplistic:
"morning thought:
trump fascism & crime mob:
we are seeing the 'not very bright' doing things that always 'get out of hand', but their ultimate goals are to take all the money & kill or enslave everybody not in on their plot. (i'm sure there are also plenty of betrayals & doublecrossings.) Fight"
and then i go about my bizness readin' you and Heather Cox Richardson and others on my "there must be an answer" list that counteracts my BP meds. Today was a 'bingo' day. I'se already aligned with you big guns.
and, my friends, it looks like "we're gonna need a bigger boat" than a Nuremberg.
besides my "they're Nazis" sign, I think I'm gonna get a grandchild to make me a (neatly drawn) second sign for the stints at the fed bldg/ICE hdqrs here in Eugene: "If you wait until they hurt *you* it may be too late. Fight" for all the traffic passing by.
I seem to recall Mehdi Hasan going on that Jubilee thing earlier this year and arguing with a variety of people. Some highlights from his debate opponents include: saying Nazis were bad for hurting Catholics (but ambivalent about the treatment of Jews), admiration for a Nazi writer, being very cool with removing voting from the public, and declaring authoritarianism as A-OK because it would hurt the correct groups of people.
So the GOP pols and the wildly overpaid op-ed writers can delicately thread the needle all they want, but the non-elite conservatives know exactly who they are and are not afraid to say it.
Your closing sentence nails it. Vance and Patel et al don’t give a crap about public safety, except the kind where plebes do what they’re told and don’t make waves. They wouldn’t have just held an all-day orgy of stochastic retribution against the majority of the population if they were trying to turn down the temperature.
Beyond intimidation, it’s also a signal to pundits staking ground in the reasonable center to continue their whither fascism pieces, thus keeping the question afloat until such time as the full authoritarian lockdown is firmly in place. Then they’ll proudly call themselves nazis.
I don't know what effect their furious demands to TONE DOWN YOUR RHETORIC VERMIN will have, except that it will be enthusiastically adopted by political hacks paid by billionaires to make long lists of all the things Democrats should NOT say.
Our little cowtown newspaper had an editorial calling attention to the fascism around us and pointing out that fascism is bad, prompting a local Republican Party leader to write a letter to the editor, whining that it was “complicit in raising the rhetorical temperature.” Man, fuck that guy and the two-faced assholes like him.
A few years back he wrote a letter to the editor calling his literal neighbor a liar. A nice woman who simply wrote a letter of her own accurately describing what republican policies were doing, and he publicly (and FALSELY) called her a liar. And now he’s mewling about incivility. Man, fuck that guy.
Don't know about this asshole, but with some guys, I think the politics are actually secondary. They're just looking for a reason and an opportunity to be a jerk, and these days politics just happens to be the thing.
He must have seen the rise of Trump as a wonderful gift, the opportunity to employ his "talents" on a bigger stage. No more just cutting people off in traffic while waving a handgun in a threatening manner, not just screaming at a McDonalds server that they better get those damn fries out here RIGHT NOW, this is his chance to be a jerk FOR AMERICA.
It might be more believable if the bullet writing were something they'd have to pixelate for TV -- like "fuck ICE!" or "DIE motherfucker!" or such. But "anti-ICE" isn't so much a message as a description -- the very one they want to get across. The Sharpie is a nice, familiar touch that reminds me of a very old joke. The Secret Service reports to Nixon that they found "NIXON SUCKS" written in piss in the snow outside the White House. Analysis shows that the pee belongs to Henry Kissinger. Further study reveals worse news: It's in Pat's handwriting.
Old technology: fax machine hoaxes around "urban gangs" heading wingnuts' way.
I remember this '90s one. Snopes says it started in the '80s as about the Hell's Angels, before the story underwent a whole change of, uh, complexion. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lights-out/
You know, notwithstanding the mushiness of the word, they're at least fascistic.
But being fucking stupid, focused overwhelmingly at the least on their own success and, as I keep ranting like the unhinged dotard I am, pathological vermin, I'm not sure they're sane and/or intelligent enough to have an actual philosophy attributed to them.
I mean, I wouldn't ascribe any philosophical beliefs to a dig and come on dogs are better tan those people.
Too, life is short. They're complete, irredeemable scum. I don't need more than that.
Obviously, just my opinion; opinions clearly may differ.
Now that we are all officially terrorists I guess it's only fair to state I still need to spend down my Soros Bucks, so who knows what US mailbox is about to be glued shut* ?!
*It's a pretty small outlay.
One would have thought that a life of terrorisming would be more exciting than this. Shit, I still gotta go to work every day.
Kidz be goin' "'Salright, Mr B, do whatcha gotta do. We'll watch the place for ya."
The Kidz Are Alright.
You got $oro$ Buck$®????
I'm still waiting for mine!!
Trump and Vance clearly calling for violence against Democrats while telling Democrats to tone down their rhetoric is just, well, par for the course, I guess. I remember Rush Limbaugh using eliminationist terms back in the early '90s. I thought that was dangerous then, and I see the danger growing now in ways that horrify me.
Like the OG Nazis, every one of the MAGA atrocities is framed as self-defense. Like the bully who punches you repeatedly, then when it looks like you may swing at him, drops to the ground in the fetal position while wailing about being the REAL victim here, these guys are cowards.
But they're cowards that evil, ignorant, stupid, and just indifferent, disengaged people have given the power of life and death over the country and the world.
They are Nelson Muntz but with less charm and grace.
Guess I agree with Kash Patel that "“It has to end" for somewhat different values of the variable "it".
So there’s a guy on Substack, Ben Cohen, maybe he’s well-known, maybe not, who’s bent on showing Both Sides Do It with Kirk and Attiah as examples. Yesterday someone said Kirk was a Nazi and there ensued a back and forth about Nazis, fascists, Hitler and Mussolini that was maybe the stupidest thing I’ve read on the subject. Something about Kirk only meant specific Black women are DEI hires, as if that hair can be split so finely. Who wants to defend Donald Trump or Kirk against people calling them a derogatory name? They stand for a world where women, gays, Blacks and other non-white male Americans are second class citizens. Confederates, fascists, Nazis - they fit all those names like a diver fits a wetsuit.
"with Kirk and Attiah as examples"
One of these things is not like the other
Why, it's just a coincidence the women he named in that comment were all Black!
And a surprising one at that!
Can I help it if Black women are the #1 mortgage fraudsters in America? The indictments speak for themselves!
I hear "midlist podcaster" in Mose Allison's 'Certified Senior Citizen' voice. Makes me slightly happier.
Oh and can we all agree that the Virginia grand jury to be convened in the next day or so to go after Comey (aGAIN?!) will return a loud, decisive NOPE...? It's what I am looking forward to with breath.*
*What's that? No, I do NOT bait my breath. That would be weird.
Bated, I hate to tell you. As in abated. (Though maybe there's a joke here I'm missing.)
I'm hip. But I'm more concerned with avoiding the smell.
“I always bait my breath when I’m fishing for compliments.” - Groucho Marx
We're all Marxists now.
"What do you call someone who's really good at baiting?" - Elon Musk
Actually, I don't think Elon's very good at it...
Did you hear about the cat who ate cheese and waited outside the mouse hole with baited breath?
Did not hear about it, but we should all agree that him what smelt it dealt it.
His mind was on vacation and his tongue worked overtime.
2 marks.
That giant meteor can't hit soon enough. These clownshoes pricks are already gunning to incinerate the planet anyway, why not let Mother Nature call their fucking bluff.
Looks like we crossed another planetary boundary just yesterday! (sorry I didn't get you anything for the occasion) Ocean-dwelling animals that like to build their shells out of calcium carbonate may no longer be able to do so, thanks to increased ocean acidity (CO2 in the atmosphere gets turned into carbonic acid when it's absorbed by the oceans).
Didn't expect "Collapse of the oceanic food chain" in my lifetime, but here we are.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/24/worlds-oceans-fail-key-health-check-as-acidity-crosses-critical-threshold-for-marine-life
“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!”
“Oh god, she’s armed!”
The original Nazis were made up of battle hardened veterans of some of the toughest combat ever seen in places like Verdun, The Somme and Ypres. . Hitler was everything bad that you can imagine except he wasn't a coward.
The modern Nazi is is a veteran of some of the most violent and horrific virtual combat on platforms like Call of Duty, Battlefied and Brothers in Arms. Their leader is everything bad that you can imagine except he's a pussy
Further hardened in daily street battles with the Communists. As compared with "Hey lets all dress in blue polo shirts and khakis like we work at Best Buy, pile ourselves into the back of a rental van and then get laughed out of town!"
Don’t forget those who scrabbled and crawled over the scorched denuded killing grounds of 4chan and Breitbart, fighting for every blood soaked pixel.
Heroes. Each and every one!
There's a wonderful Tom Tomorrow cartoon about this, written all the way back under the Bush administration.
Administering the under-bush is kinda like raking the forests, if you squint hard enough.
I was reminiscing about the old days with a friend of mine a month or so ago and we were talking about how the funniest thing we'd ever seen on the internet was when Voltron made his appearance in Get Your War On.
Rees is a damn genius. For me, it's the panel in "My new Filing Technique..." where the guy is getting fired and says "oh shit! The frilly shirt!"
"Public Enemy No. 1"—??? Isn't that from "Bum Rush the Show" by Public Enemy? Of course, the opening track from their first album is what all of us public enemies should tell the (GOP) NAZIs: "You're gonna get yours!"
i often have a "morning thought" bubble up, right before my blood pressure med kicks in, a few hours before dawn. today's was kinda simplistic:
"morning thought:
trump fascism & crime mob:
we are seeing the 'not very bright' doing things that always 'get out of hand', but their ultimate goals are to take all the money & kill or enslave everybody not in on their plot. (i'm sure there are also plenty of betrayals & doublecrossings.) Fight"
and then i go about my bizness readin' you and Heather Cox Richardson and others on my "there must be an answer" list that counteracts my BP meds. Today was a 'bingo' day. I'se already aligned with you big guns.
and, my friends, it looks like "we're gonna need a bigger boat" than a Nuremberg.
besides my "they're Nazis" sign, I think I'm gonna get a grandchild to make me a (neatly drawn) second sign for the stints at the fed bldg/ICE hdqrs here in Eugene: "If you wait until they hurt *you* it may be too late. Fight" for all the traffic passing by.
Thank you for your service.
just me, unbeknownst, a Starfleet Commander of Antifa sittin' in the sun fer a few hours, readin' Wendy Brown.
Ah, the reading. They always give themselves away with the reading.
Project 2025 = Projekt 1933. Right down to the accusations of "Bolshevism".
I seem to recall Mehdi Hasan going on that Jubilee thing earlier this year and arguing with a variety of people. Some highlights from his debate opponents include: saying Nazis were bad for hurting Catholics (but ambivalent about the treatment of Jews), admiration for a Nazi writer, being very cool with removing voting from the public, and declaring authoritarianism as A-OK because it would hurt the correct groups of people.
So the GOP pols and the wildly overpaid op-ed writers can delicately thread the needle all they want, but the non-elite conservatives know exactly who they are and are not afraid to say it.
Long live Chuck Schumer, and let every American child have his own transsexual groomer (manifesto con’t on next bullet).
I'm sorta-stealing "What's on your bullet?" from Capital One
Schumer, groomer...rumor, tumor...there's something there.
OK Boomer
Alla yins on this threadlet getcher 2 marks.
"Let's call the whole thing off."
Your closing sentence nails it. Vance and Patel et al don’t give a crap about public safety, except the kind where plebes do what they’re told and don’t make waves. They wouldn’t have just held an all-day orgy of stochastic retribution against the majority of the population if they were trying to turn down the temperature.
Beyond intimidation, it’s also a signal to pundits staking ground in the reasonable center to continue their whither fascism pieces, thus keeping the question afloat until such time as the full authoritarian lockdown is firmly in place. Then they’ll proudly call themselves nazis.
"Public Safety" in the Eugene "Bull" Connor mode. . .
The public needed to be destroyed in order to save it.
I don't know what effect their furious demands to TONE DOWN YOUR RHETORIC VERMIN will have, except that it will be enthusiastically adopted by political hacks paid by billionaires to make long lists of all the things Democrats should NOT say.
Our little cowtown newspaper had an editorial calling attention to the fascism around us and pointing out that fascism is bad, prompting a local Republican Party leader to write a letter to the editor, whining that it was “complicit in raising the rhetorical temperature.” Man, fuck that guy and the two-faced assholes like him.
"Huh. Wonder why you thought we were talking about YOU?"
A few years back he wrote a letter to the editor calling his literal neighbor a liar. A nice woman who simply wrote a letter of her own accurately describing what republican policies were doing, and he publicly (and FALSELY) called her a liar. And now he’s mewling about incivility. Man, fuck that guy.
Don't know about this asshole, but with some guys, I think the politics are actually secondary. They're just looking for a reason and an opportunity to be a jerk, and these days politics just happens to be the thing.
I’m sure he’s been a jerk his whole life, punching down every chance he got.
He must have seen the rise of Trump as a wonderful gift, the opportunity to employ his "talents" on a bigger stage. No more just cutting people off in traffic while waving a handgun in a threatening manner, not just screaming at a McDonalds server that they better get those damn fries out here RIGHT NOW, this is his chance to be a jerk FOR AMERICA.
It might be more believable if the bullet writing were something they'd have to pixelate for TV -- like "fuck ICE!" or "DIE motherfucker!" or such. But "anti-ICE" isn't so much a message as a description -- the very one they want to get across. The Sharpie is a nice, familiar touch that reminds me of a very old joke. The Secret Service reports to Nixon that they found "NIXON SUCKS" written in piss in the snow outside the White House. Analysis shows that the pee belongs to Henry Kissinger. Further study reveals worse news: It's in Pat's handwriting.
Chinga la Migra
I wonder why they didn't write M-S-1-3 on each bullet.
You have any idea how hard it is to draw an emoji on the side of a bullet?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/fbi-cbp-tren-de-aragua-emojis
Old technology: fax machine hoaxes around "urban gangs" heading wingnuts' way.
I remember this '90s one. Snopes says it started in the '80s as about the Hell's Angels, before the story underwent a whole change of, uh, complexion. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lights-out/
"Blood" initiation weekend, LOL
And, sadly, Snopes seems as out of date as fax machines. "Snopes? They still around? FACT-checking? Who even does that any more?"
Blood Initiation Weekend to be the next Trumpenberg Rally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_in_the_Face
Got it. It's always our fault. Murc's Law: only Democrats have agency.
Democrat murdered: "Lone gunman! What're you lookin' at US for?" Followed two weeks later by "WHO? Sorry, can't say I've heard of her."