Media underplaying due to compliance and fear, the very essence of Naziism.
Entities and individuals who should be acting bravely and calling it out are victims and enablers of the very Nazi fascism that has risen rapidly before our eyes.
I am afraid, though, it is here. In its nascent stages, relatively speaking, the people (the mass of stupid or fearful ones) do not or cannot recognize it.
Countries accepting freedom-loving American immigrants..?
"It's good to be proud of German culture and German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything," Musk said.
Then, in an apparent reference to the Nazi era, Musk added that there is "frankly too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that."
"Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their parents, their great-grandparents," he said as the crowd applauded."
In a photo, Elon Musk is depicted wearing a suit and is standing behind a lectern with the presidential seal on the front. His right arm is raised up and to the side, with the palm of his hand facing down.
Elon Musk tried to turn the salute controversy into a joke
Musk's comments came two days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day — this year marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz — and less than a week after he twice made straight-armed gestures at a Trump inauguration event, which many viewers interpreted as Nazi salutes.
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We have a common denominator, even with most Republicans in Congress: Treason. I think the sell out re Ukraine, Vance meeting with the Nazis, etc has to shake up even Senate Republcans. This may be a window of oppotunity....
Yesterday in Saudi Arabia, there was a replay of the Ribbentrop Molotov Pact, Instead of Hitler and Stalin caving up Poland it was Trump and Putin carving up Ukraine.
Unfortunately, too many Americans have always been okay with the American version of Nazism. They are deep seated bigots after all, still clinging to the white supremacy agenda of decades ingrained in generations since the confederacy. The MSM will never address this white supremacy issue with the seriousness it deserves since it would expose the cancerous underbelly of the billionaire owners of most media.
Read Rachel Maddow's Prequel, If the Japanese hadn't bombed Pearl Harbor, America would have become Fascist. over 40% of Americans were members of or sympathetic to the NAZI party. There was an overflow attendance of a NAZI part y rally at Madison Square Gardens, with a banner of George Washington flanked by two NAZI banners..
So this country is now being run by a bunch of damn nazis. Where are the Democrats? Why aren't they stepping up, speaking out, calling out these nazi scum, and taking action to resist/obstruct Trump in every way possible? We know the media is complicit in all of this because 90+% of the media is owned by conservatives. I want to know why our elected Democratic officials aren't fighting this stuff 24/7. Why should we vote for them if they aren't going to protect us from Trump's stormtroopers?
Just means she'll need a fact finding hearing. The standard for a TRO is a party must convince the judge that they will suffer immediate irreparable injury unless the order is issued. If the judge is convinced that a temporary restraining order is necessary, she may issue the order immediately, without informing the other parties and without holding a hearing. Requires "clear and convincing evidence" of harm.
To seek a permanent injunction, a plaintiff must pass the four-step test: (1) that the plaintiff has suffered an irreparable injury; (2) that remedies available at law, such as monetary damages, are inadequate to compensate for the injury; (3) that the remedy in equity is warranted upon consideration of the balance ...
Daniel, you are a lawyer, a retired jurist in your own right, an institutionalist, and think in terms of he law and precedent.
But we are faced with an unprecedented scoff law and a supreme court that supports the scoff law..
All is temporary until decided by SCOTUS, and we have the history of this Supreme Court to forecast their decisions.
I doubt that there is a betting parlay in Vegas featuring SCOTUS, because only a fool would vote for the defendant. If SCOTUS agees with the lower court ruling ,which is conservative, they refuse to take the case, if it is a case that they wish to set as rock solid precedent like Presidental Immunity, they will take the case.
Are you saying that Tanya Chutkan lacked discretion. Here I thought that a judge was all about discretion. If they don't have discretion then we don't need judges just automatons, AI.
1. Discretion -- "clear and convincing" is not the same as "preponderence." Judges can't rule if the plaintiffs don't bring actual evidence. Can't grant a TRO on the pleadings. In antideluvian time, the lawyers had to verrify, under oath, the pleadings. Who are the actual witnesses?
2. In the actiual case on the merits she has to take testimopny and give both sides due process before she rules.
Why do you think Trump and Musk want to kill MSNBC? Because it’s liberal, what doesn’t make sense is why its viewership has dropped off so precariously and why Trump and Musk want to 1. Shut it down or2. Buy it and turn it into Fox 2! I only get my political news from MSNBC and Trump hates it and wants it gone because it tells the truth about him. I don’t understand why its viewership has dropped off so much, it doesn’t make sense. I never watch Fox , I turned it on once and was so shocked by the lies I couldn’t believe they were allowed to air.
Many of my liberal friends and family have tuned out. What’s discussed on MSNBC is too painful for them to watch. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what trump and his Nazis want, so they can do as they please. So tune in, get engaged, and fight back.
I have the same reaction here. I could not believe how many well-educated people I know watched Fox News over the years, like my brother-in-law, who was a Professor of Chemistry but gradually slipped into the abyss of lies. Like Trump's wholesale lies that he is not embarrassed or ashamed as a leader, he keeps on spewing out lies. My husband claimed to be far left but only watched the TV news channels, and yes, he read but not widely enough to escape the embrace of the liberal media that has led us down the path of culture wars.
A number of them are. AOC, Crockett, Murphy, Sanders, Stansberry, Gallego, Pritzker, Jaypal, and a number of others. I get at least one email a day from Jeffries, and I am an Independent. But why should you vote for them? Well, who else is there, duh? No political philosophy can EVER match, to a tee, every individual value of humans. I have mostly voted against politicos most of my life, but not always. I helped start a green party in my state. It essentially went nowhere, and it is a minority/majority state that votes D. 'murkans are fast becoming a zombie culture. Most young persons cannot name 20 percent of necessary facts on most any subject. Most older folks are cynical, uninformed, stressed out, dumbed down, drugged UP UP UP, Way malnourished, gaslighted, extorted and manipulated, and drowned in psychologically overwhelming propaganda. What have you done in the last 15 years to tamp this junk down?
I am with you on all but Jeffries, His number one contributor is AIPAC, aside from that he is a coward. He stood in from of the mikes and complained that he could do nothing because he doesn't have leverage.
Yes he does it is called Nay and obstructionism, even if it means bringing the government to a halt.
Thanks for the update. Let us face embarrassing human facts - in the brain of humans, there is no perfect logic. Overarching power, such as Pelosi or rumpfk or Anyone with leverage, humans mostly fish or cut bait. I have seen this with Jeffries, but still not a bad man. I do not defend him. Now is not the time for half-efforts or calculations of risk vs. benefit. But we should comprehend what the House and Senate have morphed into - click bait and hustle. A massive issue with Constitution, which allows SC to make decisions about EVERYTHING. WHaTTT??????????????????????
The hugest, of many sins of said Constitution is the god-like attitude of SCOTUS. AT the time, divined wisdom from ON HIGH. Where is THAT?????
All of this is ill usion/delusion. We live in Kabuki theatre. The Cartesian mind must be destroyed, violently and completely, if possible. We have to stop thinking like we live inside some mind hive. WE ARE a hive, not inside or obedient to IT. There are 'things' greater than self, but it is NOT another MAGA self. Get it together. Grow up, get a life while there is one left to get. No insults or put downs intended.
The god like attitude towards SCOTUS is manufactured by the controlling money powers.
He was a vile racist and murder but Andrew Jackson was right. The Supreme court can only rule, it has not the means to back up it's ruling and a law without enforcement is not a law, proof is the scofflaw whom sits in the Offal Office. Courts rule and he ignores the courts.
Maybe you are in a hive, you can only speak for yourself, and from what I have seen in 85 years, you have a lot of company. I know the hive mind, I know how to interact with it, how to pull out a screen of honey without being stung, but I am not of a hive.
Useless Hakeem Jeffries whining that they can't do anyting because they have no leverage.
They certainly do, It is called Nay. And feckless Chuck Schumer crawls out of his shell, and bleats before a microphone, while for his whoe career he has enabled the fascists with his political cowardice.
It is very much like the Sergeant Schultz line from Hogan's Heroes: "I see nothing. I know nothing!"
Musk was very comfortable making that salute---it really was straight from his black heart. It was obvious he had done it many times before.
So many have pointed out that our fathers gave up their youth and some their lives to rid the world of Nazis. Now Vance has stopped by to give the European Neo-Nazis a big kiss from him, the Republicans' fuhrer, and Musk.
There were plenty of signs condemning our Nazis at yesterday's rallies. Europe needs to know they are not alone. Get out there if you can. Thanks Thom.
The end-goal of Republican governance is the destruction of American democracy,
The ideology of Nazism is embedded in the American soul. It was plainly evident in the 1930s and so many Nazis came to America after the war, disappearing into the crowd and finding sympathetic ears. I am afraid Canada is next on their shopping list, for the same reason Putin hates Ukrainians and America destroyed democracy in Central America. We serve as a bad (good) example.
When the Nazis lost WWII, that was just Act1 in their eyes. Everything since then has been Act2. Now we enter Act3.
Wars are just acute moments in larger social illnesses. For Liberals to think that the worst was over and it would be clear sailing going forward was foolishly optimistic. And remember, Nazis are just one team in the Fascist League.
People forget, or maybe they want to. In his time Napoleon was a mass murderer, and not just on the battlefield, killing thousands of prisoners, opponents, casual civilians and so on. He reintroduced slavery to France! Today he's something between a national hero and a funny icon. He was not on the scale of Hitler, but then he had less to work with. In a century or less the Third Reich could be like that. There are few people left from the 1940s to remind us of what they did.
But regarding the Nazis, maybe we've been looking at Trump's sellout to Putin all wrong. Yes he may be a dope who is willing to give Moscow everything he can, but that doesn't mean he's like Chamberlain at Munich. It is at least possible that the people behind him (Musk and undoubtedly other big money groups) are taking a page from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 when Hitler and Stalin divided up Eastern Europe.
Just maybe the idea is to let Putin take back much of the old Soviet satellite empire, while Western Europe (particularly Germany) is left so weakened that the U.S. can economically dominate it again without the expense of leaving troops there. China, given a free hand in eastern Asia (and propping up Russia), would be happy with this and the U.S. could keep its primacy in the Americas.
This is just an idea of course, and vast conspiracies are never likely anyway. But it does sort of create a parallel to Orwell's tri-polar world in "1984". It's not perfect--India and Brazil, for example, are bigger players now—but it could be considered as one explanation for what is now happening. The sad thing is that even if something like this is true it may not really matter. Without immediate action climate change will destroy the whole world’s political and economic structure no matter what we do. When people fight in a burning house things do not end well.
Interesting that the world domination players are not taking the massive climate change realities into account. There’s that massive ice sheet ready to break off in the Antarctic which will raise the sea level world wide.
If you ditch the TV and most radio and concentrate on the superb reporting in several of the still viable distinguished publications (The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Reason, even Vanity Fair, etc.), you will find much of what you're wishing for - the back stories, the indepth research that requires weeks, months, even years to authenticate. Example: Sometime in the 80s, I read a magazine piece (can't now recall which mag) about Leonard Leo and the GOP plan to rig the court system; but his name appeared in popular media only within the last few years (after the substantial takeover). I doubt that one in ten adult Americans have any idea who Leo is. For the last few years, especially, Nation and Mother Jones have done superb reporting on the origins and likely consequences of the moment we're now in. Do these names ring a bell with you: Russell Kirk? Curtis Yarvin (January 2025 The Nation)? Dr. John Tanton? Chris Pavlovski? Charlie Kirk? Jeffrey Yass? Christopher Polhaus? Did you learn about them on MSNBC? How about Wolfgang Yourgrau? Get his story in the September issue of The Nation. No TV performance art required, and you get the whole story.
I have never owned a TV, but I know about all of these people and many more because I read. But: I am currently encouraged by a plethora of quality podcasts online. I am particularly encouraged by the number of young people podcasting. They are articulate, knowledgeable, and fiercely dedicated to the whole story and to rescue and preservation of our democratic system. They can also be listened to without being glued to a screen.
Uh-oh. I neglected to mention that most of the wrecking ball people take the climate issue quite seriously; it's part of the white supremacy movement. If the planet is going to become increasingly unliveable and will sustain fewer and fewer people, then "they" plan to be the survivors. Technology will bail them out. Dark skins will be sacrificed. The US must control territories for the resources that will be necessary to sustain the technologies and the livelihoods of the superior caste. It's all very simple; see?
I say read or listen to Jeffrey Sachs about how the world works -what is happening with Russia, Ukraine and the US. Putin is recorded saying that he had worked with three US Presidents who devised ideas to work together on Russian issues, only to backtrack when the men in black suits and ties came in to tell the presidents how it would come down. CIA.
Perhaps. There are so many interests crossing each other. I loved what Candidate Obama said but President Obama suddenly changed. Clinton too, I think. Harry Truman wrote an article in December, 1963 basically saying that the CIA had gotten completely out of control (they tried to talk him out of publishing but couldn't). A decade later the Church Committee put on some controls, but you know how long such things last.
You have a point Doc, Time dulls the mind. Napoleon was a proto Hitler, Julius Caesar committed genocide and bragged about it. Alexander the great, on the other hand even manumitted his opponents and treated the populations he conquered with more respect and care than their own kings.
As regards the Trump Putin world. I think it is more along the lines of George Orwell,
Why indeed are they GETTING AWAY WITH IT? I don't think that is ok anymore ???? They alone now hold the solution to stop this ( World?) implosion. They will be cheered for saving ..... or they will be harshly and severely held accountable for the destruction .... they will not be able to hide when the Public turns their attention to saving their Country and freedom.
The dems need to have a daily messaging event led by Mayor Pete, who is probably the most articulate person in the party. We need to be repeating the truth and calling out the liars and sycophants in the republican party.
The other "big lie," is that the media has a liberal bias. The truth is, they have a profit bias, and whatever side their bread is buttered on, that's where they go. (There are exceptions, of course, thank God, like the Pentagon Papers, but the norm even with dissent is safe and tepid.)
The liberal bias myth is exposed when you do a deep dive as I have into who owns the corpporate media. Most major media are owned by other corporations, and then some of them are owned by other corporations. Most are owned by a combination of private and institutional investors. The major institutional investors are Vanguard, State Street Group and Blackrock. Blackrock is owned by larry fink, Tnese same institutional investors own major corporations in every segement of our society from Health care, to petroleum to chemical to defense.
The private investors are often the CEO and Chairman of the Board, they are Brian L Roberts, Robert Iger, the Newhouse Family, the Redstone Family, Ochs Sulzberger, Bezons and Patrick Soon-Shiong, and of course there is the real spreder of disinformation. Shitter, Fartbook, Telegram, Tic Toc, etc.
I could go on (and on and on), but keep in mind that for many decades "Fascist" and "Nazi" had virtual trademark signs attached: they could only be applied to Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, and Hitler's Germany. There was some reason for this: In my college years (early '70s) and long after, too many lefties, especially lefties too young to have memories of the 1930s or WW2, regularly called their political opponents Fascists or Nazis. ("Nazi" was usually capitalized; "fascist" usually wasn't.)
What got lost was what those words actually meant -- that they described conditions that weren't unique to Italy, Spain, or Germany. So when those conditions arose elsewhere, for instance in Chile or Brazil, people tiptoed around the F-word and the N-word and hushed or ignored anyone who used them. What happens when you don't have the words to identify something? Maybe you apply a different word, or come up with a new one. These alternatives don't have the power of the originals. "Far right" is vague, even mild, compared to "fascist" or "Nazi," and until fairly recently if you actually used "fascist" or "Nazi," you would be accused of hyperbole.
I think things changed in a big way after the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. When swastikas appear and white guys chant "Jews will not replace us," the word "Nazi" is not hyperbole. More and more of us started seeing the connection between the U.S. "far right" and the Nazis, even if there were no swastikas in sight. But the mainstream media -- and too many liberal politicians --remain so excruciating cautious about their language that they can't see, and don't want to see, what's happening right in front of them.
Leadership? Like Chuck Schumer waving his arms and babbling "We will win"? The real leaders among the Democrats have almost all been marginalized by their "leadership."
Schumer is a caricature, so was Harry Reid, and so was Biden, desensitized into careerism (institutionalism) and bipartisan ship, beholden to the donor class, they are wimps, except from within their ranks, then they are bullies.
We ought to be more specific: Schumer (D-Tel Aviv). As for Biden, there's a special place in hell for the way he twisted the blade in Anita Hill's back and foisted Angry Clarence on the country.
Here is Joe.. Delaware has such lenient charter laws that most large corporations charter themselves in Delaware, over 600 of the biggest, especially those in the financial world,including insurance companies.
Biden was known as the Senator from Wall Street.
When he first entered Congress, the Democratic party was run by Dixiecrats, racists who had achieved power and position within the party and the Senate, so didn't do what Democrats in the House did, become Republicans.
Biden was mentored by these racists, like James Eastman and Strom Thurmond, the lesson he learned was to protect his career, by working with the Racist Republicans. and he learned it well.
Obama's handlers actually chose Biden as his running mate because he was acceptable to the racists. in part because he voted to approve Clarence Thomas. Biden had no reputation as a liberal, much less a progressive.
There is one progressive move that he made, and that is telling Obama not to defend Obergefell's challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act.
The American Rescue Plan, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPs and Science Act, all passed Congress because besides providing jobs, they were actually gifts to corporations, the Chamber of Commerce.
As regards Schumer, same with Fetterman. I have a problem with any citizen, much less an elected representative whose first loyalty is to their ethnicity, and not the nation, and hat goes for Ilhan Omar and the Imams and Muslims that voted for Trump or did not vote at all.
There is a strategic reason for supporting Israel. It is a land locked aircraft carrier sitting smack dab in the middle of the trouble some middle east, which controls most of the worlds oil.
We learned in 1973 that if the Arabs squeeze their sphincter and cut off the oil supply, the eyes of the west bulge.
As regards their religious quarrel and their thousand year old brotherly squabble I could care less.. but not true for the ethnic loyalists in the west, whose first allegiance is to their ethnicity.
And BTW I don't believe in dual citizenship, because it is impossible to swear allegiance to and by loyal to two masters, especially when they are in conflict.
Thank you. I write about this all the time and I castigate the mainstream media for not covering them truthfully. Likewise, I do, like you, dare to call them Nazis. This is just one of those articles.
Media underplaying due to compliance and fear, the very essence of Naziism.
Entities and individuals who should be acting bravely and calling it out are victims and enablers of the very Nazi fascism that has risen rapidly before our eyes.
I am afraid, though, it is here. In its nascent stages, relatively speaking, the people (the mass of stupid or fearful ones) do not or cannot recognize it.
Countries accepting freedom-loving American immigrants..?
Not all....https://www.npr.org/2025/01/27/nx-s1-5276084/elon-musk-german-far-right-afd-holocaust. "On Saturday, Musk spoke repeatedly about the importance of Germans taking pride in their heritage.
"It's good to be proud of German culture and German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything," Musk said.
Then, in an apparent reference to the Nazi era, Musk added that there is "frankly too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that."
"Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their parents, their great-grandparents," he said as the crowd applauded."
In a photo, Elon Musk is depicted wearing a suit and is standing behind a lectern with the presidential seal on the front. His right arm is raised up and to the side, with the palm of his hand facing down.
Elon Musk tried to turn the salute controversy into a joke
Musk's comments came two days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day — this year marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz — and less than a week after he twice made straight-armed gestures at a Trump inauguration event, which many viewers interpreted as Nazi salutes.
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We have a common denominator, even with most Republicans in Congress: Treason. I think the sell out re Ukraine, Vance meeting with the Nazis, etc has to shake up even Senate Republcans. This may be a window of oppotunity....
I keep sayin' we need Republicans to object -- pressure the Senate Republicans who voted for the Ukraine package https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4464791-here-are-the-senate-republicans-who-voted-for-the-ukraine-package/
Yesterday in Saudi Arabia, there was a replay of the Ribbentrop Molotov Pact, Instead of Hitler and Stalin caving up Poland it was Trump and Putin carving up Ukraine.
Un frigging real.
Zekensky has proven to be a remarkable leader in extremely difficult times.
It is so damn fascist of America to go over Ukraine’s head.
Zelensky is a hero, he is my hero until proven different.
Agreed, but senate GOP has left their spines on the floor in a stunning surrender of power.
Very difficult to watch this slow motion shit show.
Yes, email and call all congresspeople again and again.
Ready to fight back, but strong leader/s need to rise like phoenix from this burn pit - motivate the people.
And yes to BlueSky. Dump anything to do with Felon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.
Do not enable the authoritarian oligarchical kleptocracy.
Unfortunately, too many Americans have always been okay with the American version of Nazism. They are deep seated bigots after all, still clinging to the white supremacy agenda of decades ingrained in generations since the confederacy. The MSM will never address this white supremacy issue with the seriousness it deserves since it would expose the cancerous underbelly of the billionaire owners of most media.
Read Rachel Maddow's Prequel, If the Japanese hadn't bombed Pearl Harbor, America would have become Fascist. over 40% of Americans were members of or sympathetic to the NAZI party. There was an overflow attendance of a NAZI part y rally at Madison Square Gardens, with a banner of George Washington flanked by two NAZI banners..
And the attendees signing the Horst Wessel Lied. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=horst+wessel+lie+george+rockwell+version
So this country is now being run by a bunch of damn nazis. Where are the Democrats? Why aren't they stepping up, speaking out, calling out these nazi scum, and taking action to resist/obstruct Trump in every way possible? We know the media is complicit in all of this because 90+% of the media is owned by conservatives. I want to know why our elected Democratic officials aren't fighting this stuff 24/7. Why should we vote for them if they aren't going to protect us from Trump's stormtroopers?
There are multiple democrat-led lawsuits in the court system right now. Dem AGs, among others are suing. Many elected officials are speaking out and demonstrating - eg, Eliz Warren, Jaime Raskin, Ron Wyden, AOC, Deputy Mayors in NYC, and others. We Dems need to initiate and push for a general strike. In the meantime, please buy nothing on Feb 28, "economic blackout" day, except for necessary food and emergency items (https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hsimp=yhs-076&hspart=infospace&type=ud-c-us--s-p-bkivufdg--exp-none--subid-fk6j226i&p=feb%2028+economic+blackout. )
Yeh Judith in that regard the great black hope Tanya Chutkins crumbled. She is unwilling to bar Musk from meddling in Federal Agencies: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/17/judge-chutkan-musk-lawsuit-hearing-00204590
Nows the time for a New book, Profiles in Cowardice.
Just means she'll need a fact finding hearing. The standard for a TRO is a party must convince the judge that they will suffer immediate irreparable injury unless the order is issued. If the judge is convinced that a temporary restraining order is necessary, she may issue the order immediately, without informing the other parties and without holding a hearing. Requires "clear and convincing evidence" of harm.
To seek a permanent injunction, a plaintiff must pass the four-step test: (1) that the plaintiff has suffered an irreparable injury; (2) that remedies available at law, such as monetary damages, are inadequate to compensate for the injury; (3) that the remedy in equity is warranted upon consideration of the balance ...
Need to see what affidavits were attached.
Daniel, you are a lawyer, a retired jurist in your own right, an institutionalist, and think in terms of he law and precedent.
But we are faced with an unprecedented scoff law and a supreme court that supports the scoff law..
All is temporary until decided by SCOTUS, and we have the history of this Supreme Court to forecast their decisions.
I doubt that there is a betting parlay in Vegas featuring SCOTUS, because only a fool would vote for the defendant. If SCOTUS agees with the lower court ruling ,which is conservative, they refuse to take the case, if it is a case that they wish to set as rock solid precedent like Presidental Immunity, they will take the case.
Baloney. As usual the media dolesn't understand the procedure. Without evidence the judge lacked discretion.
Are you saying that Tanya Chutkan lacked discretion. Here I thought that a judge was all about discretion. If they don't have discretion then we don't need judges just automatons, AI.
It's not a done deal. The judge is open to the plaintiffs returning with facts that will lead to a ruling against Musk.
I am only a layman, but so far she has ruled in favor of the plaintiff's, to me that is a tell. She didn't have to, and should not
1. Discretion -- "clear and convincing" is not the same as "preponderence." Judges can't rule if the plaintiffs don't bring actual evidence. Can't grant a TRO on the pleadings. In antideluvian time, the lawyers had to verrify, under oath, the pleadings. Who are the actual witnesses?
2. In the actiual case on the merits she has to take testimopny and give both sides due process before she rules.
Why do you think Trump and Musk want to kill MSNBC? Because it’s liberal, what doesn’t make sense is why its viewership has dropped off so precariously and why Trump and Musk want to 1. Shut it down or2. Buy it and turn it into Fox 2! I only get my political news from MSNBC and Trump hates it and wants it gone because it tells the truth about him. I don’t understand why its viewership has dropped off so much, it doesn’t make sense. I never watch Fox , I turned it on once and was so shocked by the lies I couldn’t believe they were allowed to air.
Many of my liberal friends and family have tuned out. What’s discussed on MSNBC is too painful for them to watch. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what trump and his Nazis want, so they can do as they please. So tune in, get engaged, and fight back.
I have the same reaction here. I could not believe how many well-educated people I know watched Fox News over the years, like my brother-in-law, who was a Professor of Chemistry but gradually slipped into the abyss of lies. Like Trump's wholesale lies that he is not embarrassed or ashamed as a leader, he keeps on spewing out lies. My husband claimed to be far left but only watched the TV news channels, and yes, he read but not widely enough to escape the embrace of the liberal media that has led us down the path of culture wars.
A number of them are. AOC, Crockett, Murphy, Sanders, Stansberry, Gallego, Pritzker, Jaypal, and a number of others. I get at least one email a day from Jeffries, and I am an Independent. But why should you vote for them? Well, who else is there, duh? No political philosophy can EVER match, to a tee, every individual value of humans. I have mostly voted against politicos most of my life, but not always. I helped start a green party in my state. It essentially went nowhere, and it is a minority/majority state that votes D. 'murkans are fast becoming a zombie culture. Most young persons cannot name 20 percent of necessary facts on most any subject. Most older folks are cynical, uninformed, stressed out, dumbed down, drugged UP UP UP, Way malnourished, gaslighted, extorted and manipulated, and drowned in psychologically overwhelming propaganda. What have you done in the last 15 years to tamp this junk down?
I am with you on all but Jeffries, His number one contributor is AIPAC, aside from that he is a coward. He stood in from of the mikes and complained that he could do nothing because he doesn't have leverage.
Yes he does it is called Nay and obstructionism, even if it means bringing the government to a halt.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. At AIPAC there's a Musk problem.
Thanks for the update. Let us face embarrassing human facts - in the brain of humans, there is no perfect logic. Overarching power, such as Pelosi or rumpfk or Anyone with leverage, humans mostly fish or cut bait. I have seen this with Jeffries, but still not a bad man. I do not defend him. Now is not the time for half-efforts or calculations of risk vs. benefit. But we should comprehend what the House and Senate have morphed into - click bait and hustle. A massive issue with Constitution, which allows SC to make decisions about EVERYTHING. WHaTTT??????????????????????
The hugest, of many sins of said Constitution is the god-like attitude of SCOTUS. AT the time, divined wisdom from ON HIGH. Where is THAT?????
All of this is ill usion/delusion. We live in Kabuki theatre. The Cartesian mind must be destroyed, violently and completely, if possible. We have to stop thinking like we live inside some mind hive. WE ARE a hive, not inside or obedient to IT. There are 'things' greater than self, but it is NOT another MAGA self. Get it together. Grow up, get a life while there is one left to get. No insults or put downs intended.
The god like attitude towards SCOTUS is manufactured by the controlling money powers.
He was a vile racist and murder but Andrew Jackson was right. The Supreme court can only rule, it has not the means to back up it's ruling and a law without enforcement is not a law, proof is the scofflaw whom sits in the Offal Office. Courts rule and he ignores the courts.
Maybe you are in a hive, you can only speak for yourself, and from what I have seen in 85 years, you have a lot of company. I know the hive mind, I know how to interact with it, how to pull out a screen of honey without being stung, but I am not of a hive.
Useless Hakeem Jeffries whining that they can't do anyting because they have no leverage.
They certainly do, It is called Nay. And feckless Chuck Schumer crawls out of his shell, and bleats before a microphone, while for his whoe career he has enabled the fascists with his political cowardice.
It is very much like the Sergeant Schultz line from Hogan's Heroes: "I see nothing. I know nothing!"
Musk was very comfortable making that salute---it really was straight from his black heart. It was obvious he had done it many times before.
So many have pointed out that our fathers gave up their youth and some their lives to rid the world of Nazis. Now Vance has stopped by to give the European Neo-Nazis a big kiss from him, the Republicans' fuhrer, and Musk.
There were plenty of signs condemning our Nazis at yesterday's rallies. Europe needs to know they are not alone. Get out there if you can. Thanks Thom.
The end-goal of Republican governance is the destruction of American democracy,
The ideology of Nazism is embedded in the American soul. It was plainly evident in the 1930s and so many Nazis came to America after the war, disappearing into the crowd and finding sympathetic ears. I am afraid Canada is next on their shopping list, for the same reason Putin hates Ukrainians and America destroyed democracy in Central America. We serve as a bad (good) example.
Can’t post the photo, but it is an illustration of steps going downhill to Nazism:
1. We must be careful not to offend Hitler.
2. If we’re nice to him, maybe he’ll leave us alone.
3. To stand together might appear unfriendly.
4. We might as well try to appease him.
5. Maybe Nazism isn’t so bad.
6. Nazi flag.
When the Nazis lost WWII, that was just Act1 in their eyes. Everything since then has been Act2. Now we enter Act3.
Wars are just acute moments in larger social illnesses. For Liberals to think that the worst was over and it would be clear sailing going forward was foolishly optimistic. And remember, Nazis are just one team in the Fascist League.
People forget, or maybe they want to. In his time Napoleon was a mass murderer, and not just on the battlefield, killing thousands of prisoners, opponents, casual civilians and so on. He reintroduced slavery to France! Today he's something between a national hero and a funny icon. He was not on the scale of Hitler, but then he had less to work with. In a century or less the Third Reich could be like that. There are few people left from the 1940s to remind us of what they did.
But regarding the Nazis, maybe we've been looking at Trump's sellout to Putin all wrong. Yes he may be a dope who is willing to give Moscow everything he can, but that doesn't mean he's like Chamberlain at Munich. It is at least possible that the people behind him (Musk and undoubtedly other big money groups) are taking a page from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 when Hitler and Stalin divided up Eastern Europe.
Just maybe the idea is to let Putin take back much of the old Soviet satellite empire, while Western Europe (particularly Germany) is left so weakened that the U.S. can economically dominate it again without the expense of leaving troops there. China, given a free hand in eastern Asia (and propping up Russia), would be happy with this and the U.S. could keep its primacy in the Americas.
This is just an idea of course, and vast conspiracies are never likely anyway. But it does sort of create a parallel to Orwell's tri-polar world in "1984". It's not perfect--India and Brazil, for example, are bigger players now—but it could be considered as one explanation for what is now happening. The sad thing is that even if something like this is true it may not really matter. Without immediate action climate change will destroy the whole world’s political and economic structure no matter what we do. When people fight in a burning house things do not end well.
Interesting that the world domination players are not taking the massive climate change realities into account. There’s that massive ice sheet ready to break off in the Antarctic which will raise the sea level world wide.
If you ditch the TV and most radio and concentrate on the superb reporting in several of the still viable distinguished publications (The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Reason, even Vanity Fair, etc.), you will find much of what you're wishing for - the back stories, the indepth research that requires weeks, months, even years to authenticate. Example: Sometime in the 80s, I read a magazine piece (can't now recall which mag) about Leonard Leo and the GOP plan to rig the court system; but his name appeared in popular media only within the last few years (after the substantial takeover). I doubt that one in ten adult Americans have any idea who Leo is. For the last few years, especially, Nation and Mother Jones have done superb reporting on the origins and likely consequences of the moment we're now in. Do these names ring a bell with you: Russell Kirk? Curtis Yarvin (January 2025 The Nation)? Dr. John Tanton? Chris Pavlovski? Charlie Kirk? Jeffrey Yass? Christopher Polhaus? Did you learn about them on MSNBC? How about Wolfgang Yourgrau? Get his story in the September issue of The Nation. No TV performance art required, and you get the whole story.
I have never owned a TV, but I know about all of these people and many more because I read. But: I am currently encouraged by a plethora of quality podcasts online. I am particularly encouraged by the number of young people podcasting. They are articulate, knowledgeable, and fiercely dedicated to the whole story and to rescue and preservation of our democratic system. They can also be listened to without being glued to a screen.
Uh-oh. I neglected to mention that most of the wrecking ball people take the climate issue quite seriously; it's part of the white supremacy movement. If the planet is going to become increasingly unliveable and will sustain fewer and fewer people, then "they" plan to be the survivors. Technology will bail them out. Dark skins will be sacrificed. The US must control territories for the resources that will be necessary to sustain the technologies and the livelihoods of the superior caste. It's all very simple; see?
I say read or listen to Jeffrey Sachs about how the world works -what is happening with Russia, Ukraine and the US. Putin is recorded saying that he had worked with three US Presidents who devised ideas to work together on Russian issues, only to backtrack when the men in black suits and ties came in to tell the presidents how it would come down. CIA.
Perhaps. There are so many interests crossing each other. I loved what Candidate Obama said but President Obama suddenly changed. Clinton too, I think. Harry Truman wrote an article in December, 1963 basically saying that the CIA had gotten completely out of control (they tried to talk him out of publishing but couldn't). A decade later the Church Committee put on some controls, but you know how long such things last.
You have a point Doc, Time dulls the mind. Napoleon was a proto Hitler, Julius Caesar committed genocide and bragged about it. Alexander the great, on the other hand even manumitted his opponents and treated the populations he conquered with more respect and care than their own kings.
As regards the Trump Putin world. I think it is more along the lines of George Orwell,
Oceania, Eurasia, East Asia and Islam here is a wikipedia rendering of that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four#/media/File:1984's_Geopolitics.png
Why indeed are they GETTING AWAY WITH IT? I don't think that is ok anymore ???? They alone now hold the solution to stop this ( World?) implosion. They will be cheered for saving ..... or they will be harshly and severely held accountable for the destruction .... they will not be able to hide when the Public turns their attention to saving their Country and freedom.
The dems need to have a daily messaging event led by Mayor Pete, who is probably the most articulate person in the party. We need to be repeating the truth and calling out the liars and sycophants in the republican party.
Watch Keen Martin and get back to us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbLYjvUsa5I
The other "big lie," is that the media has a liberal bias. The truth is, they have a profit bias, and whatever side their bread is buttered on, that's where they go. (There are exceptions, of course, thank God, like the Pentagon Papers, but the norm even with dissent is safe and tepid.)
The liberal bias myth is exposed when you do a deep dive as I have into who owns the corpporate media. Most major media are owned by other corporations, and then some of them are owned by other corporations. Most are owned by a combination of private and institutional investors. The major institutional investors are Vanguard, State Street Group and Blackrock. Blackrock is owned by larry fink, Tnese same institutional investors own major corporations in every segement of our society from Health care, to petroleum to chemical to defense.
The private investors are often the CEO and Chairman of the Board, they are Brian L Roberts, Robert Iger, the Newhouse Family, the Redstone Family, Ochs Sulzberger, Bezons and Patrick Soon-Shiong, and of course there is the real spreder of disinformation. Shitter, Fartbook, Telegram, Tic Toc, etc.
Historically Murdock was funded by Saudis.
I could go on (and on and on), but keep in mind that for many decades "Fascist" and "Nazi" had virtual trademark signs attached: they could only be applied to Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, and Hitler's Germany. There was some reason for this: In my college years (early '70s) and long after, too many lefties, especially lefties too young to have memories of the 1930s or WW2, regularly called their political opponents Fascists or Nazis. ("Nazi" was usually capitalized; "fascist" usually wasn't.)
What got lost was what those words actually meant -- that they described conditions that weren't unique to Italy, Spain, or Germany. So when those conditions arose elsewhere, for instance in Chile or Brazil, people tiptoed around the F-word and the N-word and hushed or ignored anyone who used them. What happens when you don't have the words to identify something? Maybe you apply a different word, or come up with a new one. These alternatives don't have the power of the originals. "Far right" is vague, even mild, compared to "fascist" or "Nazi," and until fairly recently if you actually used "fascist" or "Nazi," you would be accused of hyperbole.
I think things changed in a big way after the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. When swastikas appear and white guys chant "Jews will not replace us," the word "Nazi" is not hyperbole. More and more of us started seeing the connection between the U.S. "far right" and the Nazis, even if there were no swastikas in sight. But the mainstream media -- and too many liberal politicians --remain so excruciating cautious about their language that they can't see, and don't want to see, what's happening right in front of them.
Pardon the crudity. Major media have bent over and spread their cheeks.
And, sadly, much of the Democrtic "leadership", totally absent, quiet as a dormouse.
Leadership? Like Chuck Schumer waving his arms and babbling "We will win"? The real leaders among the Democrats have almost all been marginalized by their "leadership."
Schumer is a caricature, so was Harry Reid, and so was Biden, desensitized into careerism (institutionalism) and bipartisan ship, beholden to the donor class, they are wimps, except from within their ranks, then they are bullies.
We ought to be more specific: Schumer (D-Tel Aviv). As for Biden, there's a special place in hell for the way he twisted the blade in Anita Hill's back and foisted Angry Clarence on the country.
Here is Joe.. Delaware has such lenient charter laws that most large corporations charter themselves in Delaware, over 600 of the biggest, especially those in the financial world,including insurance companies.
Biden was known as the Senator from Wall Street.
When he first entered Congress, the Democratic party was run by Dixiecrats, racists who had achieved power and position within the party and the Senate, so didn't do what Democrats in the House did, become Republicans.
Biden was mentored by these racists, like James Eastman and Strom Thurmond, the lesson he learned was to protect his career, by working with the Racist Republicans. and he learned it well.
Obama's handlers actually chose Biden as his running mate because he was acceptable to the racists. in part because he voted to approve Clarence Thomas. Biden had no reputation as a liberal, much less a progressive.
There is one progressive move that he made, and that is telling Obama not to defend Obergefell's challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act.
The American Rescue Plan, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPs and Science Act, all passed Congress because besides providing jobs, they were actually gifts to corporations, the Chamber of Commerce.
As regards Schumer, same with Fetterman. I have a problem with any citizen, much less an elected representative whose first loyalty is to their ethnicity, and not the nation, and hat goes for Ilhan Omar and the Imams and Muslims that voted for Trump or did not vote at all.
There is a strategic reason for supporting Israel. It is a land locked aircraft carrier sitting smack dab in the middle of the trouble some middle east, which controls most of the worlds oil.
We learned in 1973 that if the Arabs squeeze their sphincter and cut off the oil supply, the eyes of the west bulge.
As regards their religious quarrel and their thousand year old brotherly squabble I could care less.. but not true for the ethnic loyalists in the west, whose first allegiance is to their ethnicity.
And BTW I don't believe in dual citizenship, because it is impossible to swear allegiance to and by loyal to two masters, especially when they are in conflict.
Thom,
Thank you. I write about this all the time and I castigate the mainstream media for not covering them truthfully. Likewise, I do, like you, dare to call them Nazis. This is just one of those articles.
https://dundas.substack.com/p/the-fuhrer-prinzip-today-trumps-word
Please be safe and watch your six.
Steve Dundas
In the meantime, Ivanka is married to a Jew, Vance is married to an Indian, Musk has a Trans kid, and Thiel who funded Vance is Gay. Go figure.