You would be forgiven if you thought the orange imbecile was inadvertently revealing a sexual fantasy: “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
That’s what Karine Jean Pierre tells us about our conclusions drawn from the recent videos of Joe Biden. Whether he’s frozen in place, mumbles an answer to a reporter, or wanders off, we are the problem—not Joe Biden. Not only that, we are colluding with each other to doctor videos to implicate the president’s decline. The Left insists on creating its own reality and believes those who disagree with them are deceitful.
This is serious business, like something out of 1984. They are creating “the truth,” and anyone who contradicts them is violating reality. Yes, that’s what I said, “violating reality.” We need to be silenced. We need to stop disagreeing with them. We need to profess their reality to everyone to whom we speak.
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts. Smiley-smiley. – George Carlin
George Carlin died 15 years ago, in 2008. He first made this statement in one of his 1990s nightclub acts. Yet if anything best describes the soft fascism that has emerged since 2020, this statement does. Right down to Nike endorsement of modern fascism as typified by the behavior of Colin Kaepernick.
“The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’” – Eric Blair (George Orwell)
I recently listened to a discussion between Nick Gillespie, Jonah Goldberg, and Zach Weissmueller about whether Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s incoming prime minister, was a fascist and whether it really did indicate Italy was returning to fascism. (Be warned if you click, it is 87 minutes long.)
Join Jim and Greg as they eagerly welcome a poll showing Republicans with a 21-point advantage in competitive House districts. They also shudder as more signs emerge of a worsening economy from – from energy to housing to hiring. And they discuss the left and the media branding incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as a fascist. But since the left now tars anyone who disagrees with them as “fascist,” the word has lost much of it’s meaning.
While Joe Biden raves and rants at MAGA Republicans, who he thinks are determined to destroy our democracy (which is actually a republic), the rest of the country is taking stock of Biden’s presidency and asking the difficult question: why are we supporting this man who has led this country in such a disastrous direction? I’m becoming more convinced every day that he has sealed his own fate and that of all citizens by believing that the country will be inspired by his rhetoric, which is not only irresponsible but denigrates the very people he is supposed to be serving.
Why have I come to this conclusion?
He insists on thinking that Democrats don’t realize that his administration is responsible for all the hardships that are unfolding. Inflation has risen on his watch; the borders have been decimated with his ignoring enforcement; interest rates are rising; the food and household goods continue to be in short supply.
Wisdom, honesty, truth and common sense go a long way – in politics and life. So it’s hard to believe the words coming out of the president’s mouth that conservatives, mainly those that support a “Make America Great Again” philosophy, are now considered “semi-fascists”. This is a lie. Biden is labeling people because they want freedom and prosperity for all? Because that is what Make America Great Again means, whether you liked Trump or not. In fact, it seemed to be great – until Biden took over.
The traditional definition of liberalism was defined in this excellent article at the Gatestone Institute. They talk about how The Great Reset’s policies that Biden has wholeheartedly sucked up, is the very antithesis of liberalism. It’s cult-like policies could in fact be labeled fascist and totalitarian, and they’re just getting started. Here is an excerpt:
“To Unity [Mitford], National Socialism was a Left Wing revolution and Hitler was a champion of the downtrodden masses.” – Virginia Cowles
This quote comes from the book Looking for Trouble, Cowles memoirs of her years as a war correspondent between 1936 and 1941. The book originally appeared in 1941.
Here’s the TLDR from a Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Report survey. For Democratic voters:
Second look at a national divorce?
https://spectator.us/topic/all-capitalist-pigs-jeff-bezos-billionaires/
The fact that the linked was written by Pat Buchanan, often considered a Fascist, authored a column clearly describing modern Fascism, yet fails to recognize it as such, proves that irony is not dead yet.
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” ― Benito Mussolini
If anyone doubts the US is becoming increasingly fascistic, this quote – from an expert on fascism – should serve to remove those doubts. The main difference between communism and fascism is that in communism the government enforces its will directly, while in fascism, the government subcontracts enforcement to pliant corporations. The corporate wokeness blooming like thriving poison ivy over the last year shows how they are cooperating with the authoritarians within the Federal government to strip both individual citizens and state and local governments of both autonomy and of the traditional liberties they had previously enjoyed.
Remember the good old days when we rolled our eyes and protested with annoyance at the exaggerations that the Left repeatedly spewed? We assumed they did it to demonize those of us on the Right, to upset us, and cause us to react defensively at their hyperbole and distortions. And of course, to some degree that was precisely what they were doing. And eventually, we reached a point where we grew accustomed to their misrepresentations because no one was in a position to stop them. Yes, some of us protested their statements—some of the politicians, the few journalists on the political Right, and those of us on Ricochet. But for the most part, the media repeated these attacks, happy to be in the ranks of the Left.
Terms like Nazis, concentration camps, cruelty to children, bigotry, the influence of the rich were all terms used to discount and discredit the people on the Right. Their contrived reputation of us as racists, the enemy, fascists, white supremacists, and the like were often used to condemn our criticisms of the strategies of the Left. When we called out “fake news,” we were called enemies of the state and destroyers of democracy. The attacks have become a normal part of the rhetoric of the Left. The word “hyperbole” has no place in their vocabulary, and they continue to try to destroy those who do not buy into their ideology or accept their lies and distortions.
The irony of their words and actions is that hyperbole has been transformed into today’s political reality. Only the attacks of the Left on the Right to defame and demonize us have emerged as definitions of the Left: they have become everything they accuse us of.
That’s what’s asserted here.
https://twitter.com/aka_realdirty/status/1347957967619022848?s=21
I obviously wasn’t there, but if this is true we’re already living in a fascist state.
There’s a little checklist making the rounds on social media and purporting to list “characteristics of fascists.” As lists go it isn’t a very good one, in that it oddly omits the sine qua non, the single essential aspect, of fascism, which is the blunt use of government authority to completely control the economy and the people.
That, after all, is what fascism is, so it seems worth mentioning.
;P
I stayed home, sick, from my home office yesterday, and I had a lot of time to browse and catch up on things. One of them left me shaken to my core. Marco Rubio had become a fascist. Well, fascist would be too much of an ugly exaggeration, but he certainly advocates for dictatorship now.
“There’s nothing sane or scientific about the hells communism creates on the Earth. It’s just as animalistic and base as fascism. It relies on malice and hatred and will to power just as much. It’s just that the communist sanctifies envy, and the fascist sanctifies pride.” – Sarah Hoyt
While reading libertarian science fiction author Sarah Hoyt’s blog on the antagonism of fascism and communism, this phrase stuck out to me. Sarah grew up in Portugal during the socialist regime, so she speaks from experience.
I ran across this last week while looking up something I thought was misspelled:
Hostility to gays
Gorky strongly supported efforts in getting a law passed in 1934, making homosexuality a criminal offense. His attitude was coloured by the fact that several leading members of the Nazi Sturmabteilung, or Brownshirts, were overtly homosexual. Writing in Pravda on 23 May 1934, Gorky claimed “exterminate all homosexuals and fascism will vanish.”
Our old friend, Claire Berlinski, has a very good piece in the City Journal about a communist festival she attended last Fall. In classic Berlinski style, she captures the fist in the air punch with all its Marxist glory, using her funny/serious, tongue-in-cheek writing style. It’s a snapshot of the mindset of current zombie European culture, basking in all the modern amenities of abundant food, wine, cell phones, music, entrepreneurship, while spitting on how those things came to be present. A communist bash with something for everyone except truth. She strolls down streets within the park called Rosa Parks Ave., Woodie Guthrie Ave. and Karl Marx Ave. Something for everyone, just no booths showing American allies liberating this place from the tyrannies of the past. Selective history.
The bright, young stars of the New Socialist Democratic Party like AOC and Omar, along with the old guard like Bernie would have been right at home. With so many Democratic Socialist hopefuls gearing up for the next presidential election, elbowing for the front row and right to lead the greatest country in the world, maybe they should just throw a big socialist festival and all have booths! They could hand out flyers, offer their favorite foods and beverages, sell t-shirts, have music – so much more fun than those dreary debates. What kind of music, food, and propaganda could they peddle that would propel a sure win to the White House? Where should they have it – San Francisco, Portland?
Your thoughts?
In a post awhile ago, I shared some of the YouTube military history channels I follow. One of these, The Great War, ended, kind of, with the hundredth anniversary of the Versailles Treaty. Now the host of that channel, a Texas ex-pat named Indy Neidell, has started a new project called World War Two. This has basically the same format as the first, with a recap, week by week, of important events 80 years ago. Here’s the first one:
Recently my readings brought me to 1 Samuel 11, which I thought offered some fascinating reflections on government and political power.
Humility in Leadership
