Can we call it fascism yet?
Also, what happened in Minamar, exactly?
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This past weekend, while most Americans paid tribute to those who had paid the ultimate sacrifice to defend their country, a Russian asset was calling for the violent overthrow of the United States government.
And what kind of lefty radical would disrespect his country like that on Memorial Day weekend? Um, the former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States. 🤷♂️
To be fair, if you listen closely you’ll hear that he was actually talking about what happened in Minamar - I think it’s a suburb of Miami or something - and not Myanmar, where a military coup overthrew the elected government.
(No, Secretary Reich or whatever college freshman runs your Twitter account, there aren’t grounds to arrest Flynn for this. To paraphrase Julian Sanchez, if calling for the overthrow of the government - as opposed to actually doing it - wasn’t protected speech in America, you could probably throw the woman who wrote that stupid pro-looting book in jail.)
Forget about the QAnon conference (also featuring Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, but not the MyPillow guy for once) where Flynn was speaking. Imagine that it was the Republican National Convention where he was talking like this. And try to tell me the crowd reaction would be different.
After all, we already have a test case: from 2016, when Flynn got the attendees chanting to summarily jail the Presidential candidate he opposed, because reasons.
Burn this party to the ground and salt the earth.
Speaking of Russian stooges: as someone who has wasted many precious hours watching YouTube videos of celebrities talking about working with Steven Seagal, this caught my attention.
Hollywood actor Steven Seagal, a long-time admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has joined a pro-Kremlin party, the the party said on Sunday.
Seagal received a party membership card of an alliance named Just Russia – Patriots – For Truth on Saturday, a video relased by the party showed. It was formed earlier this year, when three leftist parties, all of which support Putin, merged into one.
Seagal, a Russian citizen since 2016, proposed a crackdown on businesses which damage the environment.
“Without being able to arrest people, when we just fine them, they are probably making more money of the production of the things that are defiling the environment,” said in his welcome speech at a party event.
The party controls a faction in the lower house of the Russian parliament and plans to take part in a parliamentary election in September.
Does this mean we’ll get a Russian reboot of On Deadly Ground any time soon? Stay tuned.
I’ll just leave this masterpiece from Seagal’s Songs From The Crystal Cave album here. You’re welcome.
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Burn this party to the ground and salt the earth.
Hear! Hear!
On top of General Jack d. Ripper, er, I mean Mike Flynn on Sunday, we had to put up with the ever-more-ludicrous Matt Gaetz talk about the Second Amendment existing so that the people could mount an armed resistance to the government.
You're right, they really are fascists. They have their program to destroy democracy (voting "reform"), they have their charismatic leader, and now their paramilitary "militias," so - check, check, check.
I also wish that there was a way for the actual conservatives to call the people who support that party who call themselves "conservatives" what they really are. They're as "conservative" as my big toe on my left foot (which does have a mind of its own when I get a shooting pain up the foot). It's like a dear departed friend, who survived "the twelve bad years" in a certain central European country explained to me: "The Nazis didn't elect Hitler, the conservatives did! They believed him when he told them he was one of them, a lie they discovered too late."
Richard Hofstadter was right back in 1954 when he called them "pseudo-conservatives." Here's some of what he had to say:
From clinical interviews and thematic apperception tests, Adorno and his co-workers found that their pseudo-conservative subjects, although given to a form of political expression that combines a curious mixture of largely conservative with occasional radical notions, succeed in concealing from themselves impulsive tendencies that, if released in action, would be very far from conservative. The pseudo-conservative, Adorno writes, shows “conventionality and authoritarian submissiveness” in his conscious thinking and “violence, anarchic impulses, and chaotic destructiveness in the unconscious sphere. . . . The pseudo conservative is a man who, in the name of upholding traditional American values and institutions and defending them against more or less fictitious dangers, consciously or unconsciously aims at their abolition.”
Read the whole thing - it absolutely describes what we are seeing today.
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-pseudo-conservative-revolt/