around 40 percent of eligible voters don't....time to get them out to vote Democrat.

all the fear mongering, scapegoating, smears and propaganda are grifts, scams, frauds.

We are already calling the Pig a liar, start calling and labeling his narratives what they are a grift.

problem is he has no conscience, bad weeks aren't bad to him. He has no motivation to do anything different.

Even if he started hemorrhaging cultists.....meh. Nothing is his fault, he has no reason for regrets, nor any reason to forgive.

Seems like the media should adjust their approach...not sure what that would be though.

10. Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology, insofar as it is fundamentally aristocratic, and aristocratic and militaristic elitism cruelly implies contempt for the weak. Ur-Fascism can only advocate a popular elitism. Every citizen belongs to the best people of the world, the members of the party are the best among the citizens, every citizen can (or ought to) become a member of the party. But there cannot be patricians without plebeians. In fact, the Leader, knowing that his power was not delegated to him democratically but was conquered by force, also knows that his force is based upon the weakness of the masses; they are so weak as to need and deserve a ruler. Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to a military model), every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors. This reinforces the sense of mass elitism.

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism (1995)

I have been put into time out on The Hill.

Anyone seen any stories or press releases to say that it isn't anything but another lie?

Did the Pig get some poor family's hopes up?

I have been asking that question on threads about the immigration debacle and it is like flipping a switch.

One second they are there blustering and spewing racist talking points and then silence.

11. In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as “Long Live Death!”). In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism (1995)


Trump is always the hero....whose sacrifices only exist in his delusions.

extorting the GOP for the wall? Are they so afraid of the disaster that are going to cave on paying for it?