Proud Anti Fascists since 1942 when we declared WAR on Italian/Mussolini and German/Hitler fascism. WHAT IS the biggest and boldest and most baddass banner for Anti Fascist everywhere? Yes💥 say it loud📣WHOSE FLAG! OUR FLAG 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
To the footnote - Kimmel's framing was not dumb, nor was it false. MAGA really wanted the shooter to be anything but a white and raised in a conservative household.
The NYT's win today in having a court throw out Trump's libel suit and the WSJ defense looking very strong with the release of the birthday book, perhaps print media will gain a bit of courage. Also seeing Ted Cruz push back on Carr is a welcome development.
Yeah! Finally someone is using the correct WORD to describe what Trump and his Project 2025 puppet masters (you don't really think he understands what's behind all the "executive ordres" do you?) are up to. You don't have to read the entire 900 pages of the "manifesto" to understand it's FASCISM they believe in. Here's the definition from the American Heritage dictionary:
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
Quoting house speaker little Mike Johnson - there is no corruption if it is done openly. We now have an administration that is openly corrupt and lawless and the guardrails have collapsed.
In truth, of course, whether its open or clandestine makes no difference. Corruption is corruption regardless. But when a corrupt official makes an effort to do their corruption in secret or cover it up, if shows his understanding that he might face consequences if his corruption is uncovered. When corruption is so blatantly and obviously taking place out in the open like with this administration, its actually worse because it signifies an expectation by those engaged in corruption that they will never face any consequences for it, either because of a lack of power by anyone who might want to impose consequences or the lack of will by anyone with the power to do so. Mike Johnson's absurdly pathetic deflection and excuse making only proves the point.... Trump can be openly corrupt because people like Mike Johnson will allow him to be openly corrupt.
It is corruption, but Mike Johnson's excuse making just shows he has no will or intention of imposing any consequences because his oath of office was just a bunch of words that were not worth the time he took to say them.
I would really recommend reading this book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer.
We get caught up in history written at a remove from the event. That is nothing unusual as if you want to write a book about World War Two, it is an exercise in research because all he participants are gone.
William Shirer wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as a participant. He was there.
William Shirer was a jounalist, not a historian. He was no different than Christiane Amanpour or Richard Engel in that respect. He was on the front lines reporting what he saw.
I started reading that book because I had started reading other books on WW2 , having exhausted books on The American Revolution so just wanted to better understand WW2
Shirer spent a bunch of time in Europe generally, and Berlin specifically, from the early 1930’s up through when he knew he had to get out of Europe or face time in a concentration camp as a prisoner.
Shirer is describing what he saw, boots on the ground, as things evolved over time.
As American’s, we have a different view of WW2 and if you ask the average person on the street “When did WW2 start?” you are going to get a bunch of Pearl Harbor’s and December 7, 1941 in your responses.
It is in the 1930’s, when Hitler was still acting within the law that Shirer was a spectator to. I think people, when the reject the premise of Trump acting like a Fascist, it is because they know the outcome of WW2 and all the killing that went on as time progressed. The problem with that rejection is that we can’t predict the future. That said, if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
For me, after reading Shirer’s book, I am comfortable saying Trump and his minions are 100% acting as Fascists. I pray like hell that our future is better than how Europe’s future turned out during the 1930’s.
What if the public opinion is that the court is behaving like a bunch of partisan activists who bend over backwards and abandon established precedents on a whim while ignoring well founded legal and constitutional solely to rule in favor of the administration and Republican agenda items either via emergency docket actions that the court does not even bother to explain to rationalize or via poorly reasoned, inflammatory rants masquerading as judicial opinions that are unbecoming of a U.S. Supreme Court that is wildly out of step with the rest of the federal judiciary and the Court's historical precedent. That public opinion wildly held means that there is no confidence in the Supreme Court and no respect for its opinions.
Judge's shouldn't be concerned with public opinion with regards to the outcome of an individual case before them because public opinion shouldn't govern the outcome of a legal issue. The law should do so. But if public opinion is that the judges aren't engaged in judicial decision making and are behaving lawlessly... You need an actual response to that. Saying just "I don't care about public opinion" to that is basically confirmation that we are right. This Court is a stain on the institution and Roberts will go down besides Taney as the worst Chief Justice in U.S. History.
She was saying last night that this is the point of her book. By showing people how the court operates, it’s supposed to give us more confidence that they are thinking this through and not just rubber stamping a Trump agenda. But she was disingenuous in several answers, as you would expect from a talented lawyer who knew she had … not a hostile crowd.. more like a lot of retired U Texas professors and older Texas liberals. It was a very polite evening which seems weird given that Rome is burning.
How the court operates meaning what exactly? I’m pretty knowledgeable about “how the court works” in general and these days, and to me that’s the problem. Knowing “how the court works” right now doesn’t give me any confidence. It’s doing the exact opposite. It seems like one of the underrated problems with the court right now is that the justices are oblivious to what the actual problem is and how smug and tone deaf their public comments seem at times. They can’t fix anything if they can’t identify what’s wrong.
How many months left? 38 until Election Day 2028? That’s when Trump’s term effectively ends. After that, all the people scared of him will no longer be. Then we can begin to heal and plan for the future. Until then? Just survive.
Do you really believe that we will have free and fair elections? And that MAGA will relinquish power and simply turn over the government? Remember Jan 6th? If you still believe that we have a functioning democracy now -- let alone in 2028, I have both a bridge and some shore houses to sell,,,,
If we were as far gone as you think, this website would already have been shutdown, and Markos from Daily Kos would already have been arrested.
Put the hyperbole away. We’re going to have elections, and Trump won’t be running. These guys might be fascist wannabes, but they aren’t actual Nazis. As disillusioned as you might be, this is not 1930’s Germany. The Money still controls this country, and they are way too smart to turn it over to a real Hitler.
They still own Trump. They put him in office, and when they’re done with him, they’ll take him out of office. And that will be in 2028. They’d much rather have JD Vance. He’s on board by choice, not by manipulation, and without the unpredictable buffoonery.
soooo....you think Vance is not a fascist? Have you read Peter Thiel? And Yarvin? I agree that we are not totally "gone" but the attacks on the first amendment (specifically the loss of due process for all people, and the permission to detain on the basis of race, language, or employment -- of anyone. as well as the increasing chilling of speech) fill me with foreboding. I also lack faith that "Money will save us". From the buffoonery yes, but only to be much more efficient and effective in pursuing their interests -- and democracy is not on their list. I actually think trump will be pulled before 28 -- but Vance will not be an improvement for the people. For "Money" yes, but not for "we the people." So I guess it depends on what you believe in. For me it's democracy and a humane society free from fear above all. We can disagree on how to achieve that -- but the goals I cannot compromise on are the absolute primacy of law, the attempt to eliminate corruption in all branches of government, the well-being of all the people, the non-politicization of the military, the non-militarization of civil society, and respect for the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution. (Sort of how American society has usually tried to be -- and which Vance and cabal have openly disparaged and defied.)
You are so right; sad to say, Reagan Bush Republican so misses the boat. On a daily basis, The Money shows no guts, no principles, no understanding of history. The Money had umpteen chances to stop Hitler, but ducked every one. Vance is actually more dangerous than Trump because he can speak in real sentences and is dedicated to Project 2025.
This is off-topic, but I am tired of the media (but not The Bulwark) using the verb "float" to describe every threat and illegal action of this administration -- as in "Trump floats pulling licenses of networks that criticize him." "Float" implies something benign, like floating the idea of having a Super Bowl party or floating the idea of giving people a half day off every Friday. Trump isn't "floating" an idea. He's threatening. He's attempting to do something illegal and constitutional. The headline should be "Trump threatens illegal and unconstitutional action of pulling broadcast licenses of networks that disagree with him."
And doesn’t that make us proud Antifa?
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Proud Anti Fascists since 1942 when we declared WAR on Italian/Mussolini and German/Hitler fascism. WHAT IS the biggest and boldest and most baddass banner for Anti Fascist everywhere? Yes💥 say it loud📣WHOSE FLAG! OUR FLAG 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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To the footnote - Kimmel's framing was not dumb, nor was it false. MAGA really wanted the shooter to be anything but a white and raised in a conservative household.
The NYT's win today in having a court throw out Trump's libel suit and the WSJ defense looking very strong with the release of the birthday book, perhaps print media will gain a bit of courage. Also seeing Ted Cruz push back on Carr is a welcome development.
Maria Ressa and Jon Stewart best described our current government-by-fascism last night:
https://youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4?si=sNzh87Wukp5tFtPx
Yeah! Finally someone is using the correct WORD to describe what Trump and his Project 2025 puppet masters (you don't really think he understands what's behind all the "executive ordres" do you?) are up to. You don't have to read the entire 900 pages of the "manifesto" to understand it's FASCISM they believe in. Here's the definition from the American Heritage dictionary:
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
Oppressive, dictatorial control.
Nuf said!
I appreciate Lisa Cook's spine, and hope the whole story doesn't fade from the media ecosystem. It's too important.
Quoting house speaker little Mike Johnson - there is no corruption if it is done openly. We now have an administration that is openly corrupt and lawless and the guardrails have collapsed.
In truth, of course, whether its open or clandestine makes no difference. Corruption is corruption regardless. But when a corrupt official makes an effort to do their corruption in secret or cover it up, if shows his understanding that he might face consequences if his corruption is uncovered. When corruption is so blatantly and obviously taking place out in the open like with this administration, its actually worse because it signifies an expectation by those engaged in corruption that they will never face any consequences for it, either because of a lack of power by anyone who might want to impose consequences or the lack of will by anyone with the power to do so. Mike Johnson's absurdly pathetic deflection and excuse making only proves the point.... Trump can be openly corrupt because people like Mike Johnson will allow him to be openly corrupt.
It is corruption, but Mike Johnson's excuse making just shows he has no will or intention of imposing any consequences because his oath of office was just a bunch of words that were not worth the time he took to say them.
andrew!
you are a luminous creature.✨
Hey Bulwark. I keep thinking about a Charlie Kirk, Horst Wessel comparison. Both were made martyrs for political purposes.
I don't really think that works.... an Ashli Babbitt/Horst Wessel comparison on the other hand....
I would really recommend reading this book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer.
We get caught up in history written at a remove from the event. That is nothing unusual as if you want to write a book about World War Two, it is an exercise in research because all he participants are gone.
William Shirer wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as a participant. He was there.
William Shirer was a jounalist, not a historian. He was no different than Christiane Amanpour or Richard Engel in that respect. He was on the front lines reporting what he saw.
I started reading that book because I had started reading other books on WW2 , having exhausted books on The American Revolution so just wanted to better understand WW2
Shirer spent a bunch of time in Europe generally, and Berlin specifically, from the early 1930’s up through when he knew he had to get out of Europe or face time in a concentration camp as a prisoner.
Shirer is describing what he saw, boots on the ground, as things evolved over time.
As American’s, we have a different view of WW2 and if you ask the average person on the street “When did WW2 start?” you are going to get a bunch of Pearl Harbor’s and December 7, 1941 in your responses.
It is in the 1930’s, when Hitler was still acting within the law that Shirer was a spectator to. I think people, when the reject the premise of Trump acting like a Fascist, it is because they know the outcome of WW2 and all the killing that went on as time progressed. The problem with that rejection is that we can’t predict the future. That said, if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
For me, after reading Shirer’s book, I am comfortable saying Trump and his minions are 100% acting as Fascists. I pray like hell that our future is better than how Europe’s future turned out during the 1930’s.
So, we all need to declare we are "Anti-Fascist"
The full list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
In his first term Trump met 12 of these. Now he easily meets all 14.
I was at a live event at the LBJ library tonight. Interview w Amy Coney Barrett
Justice Barrett was smug “I want people to have confidence in the Court but I don’t care about public opinion”.
What if the public opinion is that the court is behaving like a bunch of partisan activists who bend over backwards and abandon established precedents on a whim while ignoring well founded legal and constitutional solely to rule in favor of the administration and Republican agenda items either via emergency docket actions that the court does not even bother to explain to rationalize or via poorly reasoned, inflammatory rants masquerading as judicial opinions that are unbecoming of a U.S. Supreme Court that is wildly out of step with the rest of the federal judiciary and the Court's historical precedent. That public opinion wildly held means that there is no confidence in the Supreme Court and no respect for its opinions.
Judge's shouldn't be concerned with public opinion with regards to the outcome of an individual case before them because public opinion shouldn't govern the outcome of a legal issue. The law should do so. But if public opinion is that the judges aren't engaged in judicial decision making and are behaving lawlessly... You need an actual response to that. Saying just "I don't care about public opinion" to that is basically confirmation that we are right. This Court is a stain on the institution and Roberts will go down besides Taney as the worst Chief Justice in U.S. History.
She was saying last night that this is the point of her book. By showing people how the court operates, it’s supposed to give us more confidence that they are thinking this through and not just rubber stamping a Trump agenda. But she was disingenuous in several answers, as you would expect from a talented lawyer who knew she had … not a hostile crowd.. more like a lot of retired U Texas professors and older Texas liberals. It was a very polite evening which seems weird given that Rome is burning.
How the court operates meaning what exactly? I’m pretty knowledgeable about “how the court works” in general and these days, and to me that’s the problem. Knowing “how the court works” right now doesn’t give me any confidence. It’s doing the exact opposite. It seems like one of the underrated problems with the court right now is that the justices are oblivious to what the actual problem is and how smug and tone deaf their public comments seem at times. They can’t fix anything if they can’t identify what’s wrong.
One party has controlled the court for over fifty years.
It is no longer a legitimate institution
How many months left? 38 until Election Day 2028? That’s when Trump’s term effectively ends. After that, all the people scared of him will no longer be. Then we can begin to heal and plan for the future. Until then? Just survive.
Do you really believe that we will have free and fair elections? And that MAGA will relinquish power and simply turn over the government? Remember Jan 6th? If you still believe that we have a functioning democracy now -- let alone in 2028, I have both a bridge and some shore houses to sell,,,,
If we were as far gone as you think, this website would already have been shutdown, and Markos from Daily Kos would already have been arrested.
Put the hyperbole away. We’re going to have elections, and Trump won’t be running. These guys might be fascist wannabes, but they aren’t actual Nazis. As disillusioned as you might be, this is not 1930’s Germany. The Money still controls this country, and they are way too smart to turn it over to a real Hitler.
They still own Trump. They put him in office, and when they’re done with him, they’ll take him out of office. And that will be in 2028. They’d much rather have JD Vance. He’s on board by choice, not by manipulation, and without the unpredictable buffoonery.
soooo....you think Vance is not a fascist? Have you read Peter Thiel? And Yarvin? I agree that we are not totally "gone" but the attacks on the first amendment (specifically the loss of due process for all people, and the permission to detain on the basis of race, language, or employment -- of anyone. as well as the increasing chilling of speech) fill me with foreboding. I also lack faith that "Money will save us". From the buffoonery yes, but only to be much more efficient and effective in pursuing their interests -- and democracy is not on their list. I actually think trump will be pulled before 28 -- but Vance will not be an improvement for the people. For "Money" yes, but not for "we the people." So I guess it depends on what you believe in. For me it's democracy and a humane society free from fear above all. We can disagree on how to achieve that -- but the goals I cannot compromise on are the absolute primacy of law, the attempt to eliminate corruption in all branches of government, the well-being of all the people, the non-politicization of the military, the non-militarization of civil society, and respect for the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution. (Sort of how American society has usually tried to be -- and which Vance and cabal have openly disparaged and defied.)
You are so right; sad to say, Reagan Bush Republican so misses the boat. On a daily basis, The Money shows no guts, no principles, no understanding of history. The Money had umpteen chances to stop Hitler, but ducked every one. Vance is actually more dangerous than Trump because he can speak in real sentences and is dedicated to Project 2025.
This is off-topic, but I am tired of the media (but not The Bulwark) using the verb "float" to describe every threat and illegal action of this administration -- as in "Trump floats pulling licenses of networks that criticize him." "Float" implies something benign, like floating the idea of having a Super Bowl party or floating the idea of giving people a half day off every Friday. Trump isn't "floating" an idea. He's threatening. He's attempting to do something illegal and constitutional. The headline should be "Trump threatens illegal and unconstitutional action of pulling broadcast licenses of networks that disagree with him."