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 elections

Trump Inserts Himself Into Elections Past and Future

And we refer only recent actions with far more to come.

Donald Trump continued these last 10 days his quest to remake our country to his liking. He wants elections to be nationalized because “Our elections are crooked as hell” he falsely says. For that matter, why have midterm elections he said, boasting that he had accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.” And he’s still working on fixing the results of the 2020 election, having his FBI haul off hundreds of boxes of ballots from a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia, home to Atlanta. He wrapped up the week with a racist slur that tops them all, but we’ll take that up below.

Georgia on his mind

There were a number of oddities about the FBI’s “court-authorized law enforcement activity”, additional to the unexplained reason for the raid itself. The search warrant, which requires listings of what is sought, is under seal and no one is talking. Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, the officer that is in charge of elections, was not advised of the raid. The special agent in charge in that Georgia district, who would have overseen the raid, “resigned” but may have been fired just days before the warrant was executed.

Raffensperger was on the other end of the notorious Trump phone call after election results were reported in 2020, beseeching that he "find" 11,780 votes, the number needed for Trump to win Georgia, and threatening Raffensperger should he not comply. A Republican himself, the state secretary is…

 fascism

A Young Mother Murdered
and Nothing But Lies

Americans don't know enough to recognize that this is fascism.

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 article illustration
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.

noem

Homeland 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…

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 the administration

Who Can Believe This Government Anymore?

The rush to lying after the execution of ICU nurse Alex Pretti a week ago made it clear that lying and cover-up have become the norm of the current administration. Just as happened after the murder of Renee Nicole Good two-and-a-half weeks earlier, top officials concocted false narratives of the Pretti killing as if that could turn all the video shot by bystanders into deep fakes.

Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who article illustration
Stephen Miller absolved himself of any
blame for the killing of Alex Pretti
saying that Border Control had not
followed protocol.

sets the arrest quotas for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), went straight to social media to call Mr. Pretti a “domestic terrorist who had tried to assassinate federal law enforcement”.

On Thursday came the startling discovery of videos of Alex Pretti in a confrontation article illustration
Alex Pretti


with federal agents 11 days before he was killed. He had allegedly kicked out the tail light of one of their vehicles and had been wrestled to the ground then, too. That he is revealed as someone more than a peaceful protester hardly justifies his killing, as hosts at Fox News are bound gleefully to contend.

Miller knew nothing of this, and knew nothing about Pretti when he tweeted three hours after the killing. His accusation was a total lie.

Nor did Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have any knowledge of the incident when she lied that Pretti… Read More »

 fascism

Trump Regime Indoctrinating Us with Nazi Propaganda

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.

 & Chr$(34) & 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”.

 & Chr$(34) & 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.

 & Chr$(34) & At Homeland Security it’s “PROTECT THE HOMELAND. DEFEND THE CULTURE.”

 & Chr$(34) & The White House posted a controversial graphic this week giving Greenland article illustration
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”.

 & Chr$(34) & A few days ago, Homeland Security (DHS) posted an ad promoting sign-ups for ICE with the tag line "We’ll have… Read More »

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