Back in July last year Donald Trump escaped an assassination attempt. That happenstance (a lucky last minute head turn on his part) has now transmuted into his firm belief that "divine providence" renders him above the law.
The Trump fist pump delivered as his sorry ass was escorted off the Butler Farm, PA rally site where the attempt took place:
Elicited one WaPo commenter to write the next day:
"Let's not sugar-coat the black heart of a fascist just because a bullet grazed his ear."
Turns out the writer was correct. According to a New York Times piece Sunday ('Trump Suggests No Laws Are Broken If He' Saving Country'):
“Trump on
Saturday posted on social media a single sentence that appears to encapsulate
his attitude as he tests the nation’s legal and constitutional
boundaries in the process of upending the federal government and
punishing his perceived enemies.
“He who
saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Mr. Trump wrote, first on his
social media platform Truth Social, and then on the website X.
Mr. Trump,
through his words and actions, has repeatedly suggested that surviving two
assassination attempts is evidence that he has divine backing to enforce his
will.
He has brought a far more aggressive attitude toward his use of power to the White House in his second term than he did at the start of his first. The powers of the presidency that he returned to were bolstered by last year’s Supreme Court ruling that he is presumptively immune from prosecution for any crimes he may commit using his official powers."
The preceding shows the WaPo commenter was not only perceptive but 100 % correct. We now have an unhinged fascist on our hands seeking to wreak total havoc and lawlessness on the nation (evidence when he pardoned the Jan. 6th traitors) and believes his escape from the July 13th assassination attempt confers "divine" benediction on whatever he does. Including dispatching Musk and his DOGE lackeys to destroy agencies and millions of lives.
As for Dotard’s claim he has "divine backing" to enforce his lawless will. Don't make me laugh. He was saved by a lucky turn of his head at the last second, not a divine reprieve or a sudden reduction of karma.
It was a fortuitous escape following which he's not displayed the least semblance of grace, gratitude or humility. And as Financial Times columnist Edward Luce pointed out in his column ('America is staring into an Abyss’) the day after the attempted assassination:
"No honest accounting of America’s fetid climate can ignore the fact that the former president himself is the country’s most influential exponent of political violence. "
This orange fecal fungus, make no mistake, will turn this nation into a shithole if we let him. Adhere to God and the Constitution? Trump adheres only to himself! No one in his or her right mind should buy the twaddle that divine intervention gave this degenerate the "right" to be lawless!
Trump's boast of a divine right to be crowned 'Dark Lord of Misrule' because God saved him, followed close on the heels of JD Vance giving a fascist speech in Germany. This tool - an alleged Yale grad - insisted that the Nazi- spawned Afd party be given a seat in the German federal system by abandoning the so-called firewall. (WSJ, p. A7, Feb. 5-6). This firewall constitutes agreement among mainstream parties not to form a coalition with the Afd that would give them control of the German government. The Germans are right to demand this, all Vance's twaddle to the contrary- given they alone lives through the hell of Hitler.
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by Thom Hartmann | February 19, 2025 - 7:01am | permalink
One of the enduring mysteries in today’s American political life is why so many Republican politicians and their friends are adopting or promoting openly Nazi symbols, iconography, and slogans.
Is it a shout-out to the hardcore racists and haters that make up the GOP’s base, all just a performance to get enough votes to win elections? Or a proclamation that the end-goal of Republican governance is the destruction of American democracy, perhaps in deference to Vladimir Putin? How about it’s being a bizarre attempt at trolling people old or well-educated enough to remember or know what Nazism inevitably leads to?
And why are America’s mainstream media so unwilling to even report on, much less discuss, all the Nazi and neo-Nazi references surrounding Trump and today’s captive Republicans?
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by C.J. Polychroniou | February 20, 2025 - 6:48am | permalink
Over the past few years, there has been an alarming surge of coups d’état across the world, particularly in Africa. The most common definition of a coup is an illegal attempt to seize control of the government. The seizure of power by coup leaders is often justified by pointing to poor governance and/or deteriorating security situations.
Coups are typically irregular transfers of power that occur in countries with weak democratic institutions and may be carried out by military or civilian elites. Consolidated democracies have long prided themselves of being immune to the conditions that generate coups d'etat, but the Trump phenomenon in U.S. politics seems to suggest that there are no absolutes, and that liberal democracy can be brought down.
The storming of the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, was a coup attempt incited by outgoing president Donald Trump, and can be best described as an “attempted auto-coup.” Yet, shockingly enough, not only wasn’t Trump held accountable in the end for being criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 election but was allowed to run again for the presidency in 2024. And what is even more shocking is that he prevailed in his third presidential bid by winning both the electoral college and the popular vote.
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by Chuck Idelson | February 19, 2025 - 5:57am | permalink
Vice President J.D. Vance’s embrace of Germany’s neo-Nazi party in a high profile Munich visit this past week sparked outrage and alarm across Europe. It was the latest example of a long history of U.S.-Nazi racism and dictatorship ties that should be a stark warning of what it portends for the U.S. as well.
Vance’s refusal to meet with German Chancellor Olof Scholz, instead holding a private meeting with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader, followed Elon Musk’s video appearance at a campaign kickoff for the AfD ahead of next Sunday’s German elections. It also coincided with escalation of the Musk-Trump administration’s gutting of federal programs and firing of workers, a key step for establishing authoritarian rule at home.
The rise of the AfD and President Donald Trump’s election were both animated by vitriolic, racist practices and ideology, a stark reminder of how the U.S. legacy of racist behavior and laws were a prime model for the ascent of Hitler and Nazi fascism. And how Hitler’s success inspired U.S. acolytes of Hitler like Charles Lindberg, Father Coughlin, and Henry Ford.
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by Thom Hartmann | February 18, 2025 - 6:49am | permalink
The 32-year-old Norwegian considered himself a deep thinker and a big fan of the rightwing and Russian propaganda which argued western civilization was rotting from within because of multiculturalism, empowered women, racial/religious minorities, and liberalism. Putting pen to paper, he wrote:
“When I first started blogging I was concerned with how we could ‘fix the system.’ I’ve gradually come to the conclusion that the system cannot be fixed, and perhaps shouldn’t be fixed. Not only does it have too many enemies, it also has too many internal contradictions.
“If we define the ‘system’ as mass immigration from alien cultures, globalism, multiculturalism and suppression of free speech in the name of ‘tolerance,’ then this is going to collapse. It’s inevitable.
“The goal of Western survivalists — and that’s what we are — should not be to ‘fix the system,’ but to be mentally and physically prepared for its collapse, and to develop coherent answers to what went wrong and prepare to implement the necessary remedies when the time comes.
“We need to seize the window of opportunity, and in order to do so, we need to define clearly what we want to achieve.”
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What’s behind Vance’s stunning decision to embrace Germany’s AfD?
That’s one question that arises from his decision to meet with the head of a German political party so extreme, and with such a long and noxious history of sanitizing and embracing symbols and slogans of the Third Reich, that even other radical right-wing parties in Europe have ostracized it.
by Robert Becker | February 16, 2025 - 6:12am | permalink
NOTE: This only mildly outdated essay was written in 2016 before the first Trump win. What must now be corrected is my naive confidence in the wisdom of the American electorate (twice), that enough voters in the right states would see through the Cosmic Con. Thus while I stand by my overall evisceration of Trumpism even before MAGA Trumpism took hold a second time, history has disproved both my naivete and rational projections. One may be right on the facts but wrong on destiny. The headline with its focus on "reigns" turns out to be truer than my warnings. America has yet to exile this Lord of Misrule for what he is (and always was). RB
Early on, DJ Trump perceived his talents more suited to play the truculent Lord of Misrule than plausible presidential prospect. Or competent campaigner. Or rational leader. Or trustworthy man. From Birtherism on, Trump gleefully stalked the opposition as a calculated agent of disorder. That’s why today’s scorched earth, “everything is rigged” demolition derby presents nothing new. De-legitimizing rivals, polls, the media, and his own disloyal party, even trustworthy national vote counting, replicates his opening bad faith gambit. Does he now think more fact-free recklessness, let alone again seeding criminal, post-election violence, attracts undecided voters?
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by Robert Reich | February 14, 2025 - 6:55am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Friends,
I want to talk today about the media’s coverage of the Trump-Vance-Musk coup.
I’m not referring to coverage by the bonkers right-wing media of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and its imitators.
I’m referring to the U.S. mainstream media — The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, National Public Radio — and the mainstream media abroad, such as the BBC and The Guardian.
By not calling it a coup, the mainstream media is failing to communicate the gravity of what is occurring.
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