The Trump administration has entered the propaganda phase that characterizes fascist governments. Government websites and advertisements are using phrasing derived from past fascist movements and jingoist nationalism.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment ads beckon us to “JOIN ICE TODAY” with the “Uncle Sam wants you” image dating from World War I and “DEFEND THE HOMELAND”. Homeland is a creepy “blood and soil” term that was commonplace in Nazi Germany and has now sunk in here since Bush created the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 whereas we formerly simply said “America”.
The Labor Department tells us “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage Remember who you are, American”. The phrasing is redolent of the Nazi slogan “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer’ One People, One State, One Leader – used on propaganda posters in Germany at the time.
At Homeland Security it’s “PROTECT THE HOMELAND. DEFEND THE CULTURE.”
The White House posted a controversial graphic this week giving Greenland 
Which way Greenland man?
two options: US or Russian-Chinese influence. The post was captioned on X with “Which way Greenland man?” which is a not so subtle reference to a notorious white supremacist book defending Hitler which is titled, “Which Way Western Man”.
A few days ago, Homeland Security (DHS) posted an ad promoting sign-ups for ICE with the tag line "We’ll have our home again". That is a white supremacist anthem favored by the Proud Boys…
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If it wasn’t apparent already after the killing of the two ship[wrecked survivors in the Caribbean, it is clear now that we have a government bankrupt of morality and incapable of decency. The deliberate killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good 
Renee Nicole Good
has left three children without their mother, yet the president, the vice-president and the head of national security immediately constructed an artifice of lies in the hope of making her deserving of her fate and absolving the ICE killer. Knowing that their false version would not stand up, they then shut out any Minneapolis or Minnesota investigation by denying them access to evidence. The administration’s duplicity demands that we adopt their version of what happened – the opposite of what we have all seen in the video.
Here’s what they said – more complete than you’ve seen and read in the regular media, which tends to extract sound bites, so that you can realize the breadth of the lying.
noemHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem began the process, rushing to cameras in her cowgirl costume to hurriedly fabricate an account intended to preempt truth:
“Our ICE officers were out in an enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out her vehicle, and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them.”
It was all lies. The vehicle was not stuck. The road was clear. No one was pushing any vehicle. The woman never left her SUV. trump
The President inserted himself into what needed to be an impartial appraisal of what happened with still more falsehoods. It is entirely improper to pass judgment from any perch, much less the presidency, before there has been careful analysis of an incident, but Trump was again… Read More »
In October’s piece about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the President lecturing the military's top brass summoned from around the world to Quantico, Virginia, we mentioned Trump saying,
“I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships, by the way… your secretary likes it and I'm sort of open to it…I tell you, it's something we're seriously considering.”
We scoffed,
”This in the new age of drones and anti-ship missiles. Battleships are entirely outmoded, a realization that became apparent even toward the end of World War II.”
It was a mistake to discount what seemed only to be musings, because this is a president who gets whatever he wants, and uses our tax money to get it. Just days ago along came the startling announcement that,
”President Donald Trump has rolled out plans for new large surface combatants for the U.S. Navy."
Yes, his battleships. The Navy's ships of like designs are called a "class" and the new battleships are to be named needless to say the “Trump Class":
"I look at different ships in the old pictures. I used to watch 'Victory at… Read More »
For ten years we have been subject to the inanity of Donald Trump's rampant narcissism, but his recent act of self-adulation is a contemptible act of vandalism: his adding himself to the Kennedy Center. This is a memorial to our assassinated president John F. Kennedy revered worldwide and yet the current president believes we should honor him still more, even to the extent of not just listing his name first on the title of the cultural center, but above Kennedy's. Trump called the change he had demanded of the Center’s board “a surprise”; 
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Over ten months into his second term, President Trump has paid no attention to fulfilling the campaign pledge that is believed to have won him the election: the promise to bring down inflation and prices.
Until this week. Perhaps urged by aides that “affordability” has become the hot button issue for America’s families struggling to pay their bills, he staged a rally in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. He had previously said, “The word affordability… Read More »