Hey, Republicans!
Your party’s standard-bearer is a fraudster, a marital infidel, a rapist, a domestic terrorist, a traitor to the U.S., and an insurrectionist.
Make America Great Again was a failed delusion. Proudly wearing a MAGA hat in 2024 is akin to proudly wearing a dunce cap.
America is great. Just because it doesn't prominently reflect only them is what angers them. That's not greatness. That's weakness as, having failed, they are proven losers.
By all means, sell them their red dunce caps.
"Video Reportedly of Amazon Worker Refusing to Mail MAGA Hats Sparks Probe"
Nige Farage: "Brilliant Putin is the leader I most admire". This Putin apologist should be in prison, not out electioneering. We cannot have a traitor in the UK Parliament. The #Conservatives were far too close to the Russians. Now we face the prospect of a mini-Duma sitting in the UK Parliament under the the #reformuk banner.
MAGA is petrified. They've spent 3 1/2 years telling you #Biden can't put his pants on by himself and can't maintain a thought, but now that we are a week from the debate, they know #Trump is the one who truly is having cognitive problems. Plus they know Biden is old but is not as decrepit as they've described him. What's the new lie? Biden is taking drugs, he's doping. It's so ridiculous and desperate. #MAGA is pathetic — Barry Markson #quotes#quote#Lies
Democrats are seeking to overhaul an 1873 federal #law that #bans abortion-related materials from being sent through the mail, worried that a future Trump admin could invoke the #ComstockAct to crack down on #AbortionAccess or effectively #ban the procedure altogether.
"The Trumpian revolution … seems to be the product of decadent boredom commingled with casual nihilism.
Circumstances for our revolutionaries have never been better. They are so flush that they parade on their boats. And fly upside-down flags outside of their million-dollar suburban homes."
“‘Why do these easy victories of Hitler’s never stop?’ he [Fest’s father] asked one evening after a pensive listing of events. And why, he asked on another occasion, was this mixture of arrogance and hankering for advantage breaking out in Germany, of all places? Why did the Nazi swindle not simply collapse in the face of the laughter of the educated?"
"On another occasion he [Fest’s father] spoke of the main error that he and his friends had fallen victim to, because they had believed all too unreservedly in reason, in Goethe, Kant, Mozart, and the whole tradition which came from that. Until 1932 he had always trusted that this tradition was proof enough, that a primitive gangster like Hitler could never achieve power in Germany. But he hadn’t had a clue."
"One of the most shocking things for him had been to realize that it was completely unpredictable how a neighbor, colleague, or even a friend might behave when it came to moral decisions”
“Hitler had made it to the chancellery in a brokered deal that conservative elites agreed to only because they were convinced they could hold him in check and make use of him for their own political aims. They underestimated his cunning and overestimated his base of support, which had been the very reason they had felt they needed him in the first place."
~ Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (NY: Random House, 2020), p. 82
"At the height of their power at the polls, the Nazis never pulled the majority they coveted and drew only 38 percent in the country's last free and fair elections at the onset of their twelve-year reign. The old guard did not foresee, or chose not to see, that his actual mission was 'to exploit the methods of democracy to destroy democracy.’
By the time they recognized their fatal miscalculation, it was too late."
"Hitler had risen as an outside agitator, a cult figure enamored of pageantry and rallies with parades of people carrying torches that an observer said look like ‘rivers of fire.’ Hitler saw himself as the voice of the Volk, of their grievances and fears, especially those in the rural districts, as a god-chosen savior, running on instinct. He had never held elected office before.”
"There is, however, a difference between ‘not seeing’ and ‘not knowing’. And after Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938, there could be no possible excuse for any foreign traveller to claim that they did not know the Nazis’ true colours."
~ Julia Boyd, Travelers in the Third Reich, The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945 (NY: Pegasus, 2018), pp. 372-3
Perhaps the most chilling fact to emerge from these travelers’ tales is that so many perfectly decent people could return home from Hitler’s Germany singing its praises. Nazi evil permeated every aspect of German society yet, when blended with the seductive pleasures still available to the foreign visitor, the hideous reality was too often and for too long ignored."