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Should the US be concerned about an invasion of Ukraine by Russia?

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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM


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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #28800 on: June 30, 2022, 09:45:11 PM »

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« Reply #28801 on: June 30, 2022, 10:02:43 PM »

Aint that the damn truth.
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« Reply #28802 on: June 30, 2022, 10:10:09 PM »

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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #28803 on: June 30, 2022, 10:25:13 PM »

http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/30/the-men-disputing-cassidy-hutchinsons-retelling-of-trumps-suv-lunge-got-warnings-about-plans-to-flood-the-capitol/

Secret service might get a whole hearing of their own in this whole mess.

That Ornato and Hutchinson were having these sorts of texts suggests a casual relationship rather than strictly formal, which then makes his possibly having told her stuff "OTR" of the sorts that she has asserted.
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #28804 on: June 30, 2022, 10:38:22 PM »

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In his 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism", cultural theorist Umberto Eco lists fourteen general properties of fascist ideology. He argues that it is not possible to organise these into a coherent system, but that "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it". He uses the term \"ur-fascism" as a generic description of different historical forms of fascism.

While Eco is firm in claiming "There was only one Nazism," he says,\ "the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change."

The cult of tradition. "One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers.
The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements."

The rejection of modernism. "The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism."

The cult of action for action's sake. "Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection.
Thinking is a form of emasculation."

Disagreement is treason. "The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge."

Fear of difference. "The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition."

Appeal to social frustration. "One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups."

The obsession with a plot. "Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged."

The enemy is both strong and weak. "By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."

Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. "For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle."

Contempt for the weak. "Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology."

Everybody is educated to become a hero. "In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death."

Machismo and weaponry. "Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality."

Selective populism. "There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People."

Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. "All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning."

Link: https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #28805 on: June 30, 2022, 11:26:35 PM »

http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/30/the-men-disputing-cassidy-hutchinsons-retelling-of-trumps-suv-lunge-got-warnings-about-plans-to-flood-the-capitol/

Secret service might get a whole hearing of their own in this whole mess.

That Ornato and Hutchinson were having these sorts of texts suggests a casual relationship rather than strictly formal, which then makes his possibly having told her stuff "OTR" of the sorts that she has asserted.

Ornato went full on MAGA and was reassigned for Training because transition wanted him nowhere near Biden
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #28806 on: July 01, 2022, 12:38:51 AM »

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« Reply #28807 on: July 01, 2022, 12:46:30 AM »

http://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/30/the-men-disputing-cassidy-hutchinsons-retelling-of-trumps-suv-lunge-got-warnings-about-plans-to-flood-the-capitol/

Secret service might get a whole hearing of their own in this whole mess.

That Ornato and Hutchinson were having these sorts of texts suggests a casual relationship rather than strictly formal, which then makes his possibly having told her stuff "OTR" of the sorts that she has asserted.

Ornato went full on MAGA and was reassigned for Training because transition wanted him nowhere near Biden

Can he be trained to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

Spare the rod, spoil the child.
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« Reply #28808 on: July 01, 2022, 01:08:48 AM »

Still waiting for the announcement that Ornato and Engels sworn testimony is scheduled.

Ornato has apparently denied other conversations that he is alleged to have been a part of, with a split decision on whether his words can be accepted as truth.
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #28809 on: July 01, 2022, 09:20:29 AM »

Iran ready for
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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #28810 on: July 01, 2022, 09:52:14 AM »

She is the right hand to Chief of Staff for the President of the United States of America  and no one knows her.


Trump remembers her.  She stocks the Diet Coke.
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« Reply #28811 on: July 01, 2022, 11:10:13 AM »

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« Reply #28812 on: July 01, 2022, 12:22:05 PM »

She is the right hand to Chief of Staff for the President of the United States of America  and no one knows her.


Trump remembers her.  She stocks the Diet Coke.

And she remembers the highly illegal shit that happened in her workplace and the sadistic creeps around her that did the deeds.
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« Reply #28813 on: July 01, 2022, 01:15:53 PM »

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Re: Biden Administration
« Reply #28814 on: July 01, 2022, 04:37:00 PM »

Poor Red, he won't be able to celebrate Independence Day the way we do in NJ and Massachusetts and Virginia and California and Colorado. Like Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham and Mike Pence, and Sarah Palin, Red lives off the kindness of the rest of the country. He's in a dependent state:

https://wallethub.com/edu/most-independent-states/36426

Seems to me, if you're that dependent upon the rest of the country, you ought to shut up and listen to the folks who have it figured it out.

So, happy Independence Day Weekend to those of you who are properly situated.

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