If there ever was a modern nation “fiddling while Rome burns” it is the America of the twenty-first century. No matter what happens in the community on all sides around us—homelessness, mass killings, the death of civics education in schools, sports gambling, rampant sexual abuse in the churches, insensate addiction to video gaming, porn, or any number of legal or illegal substances—Americans could care less.
As long as our bellies are full, our eyes and ears are tingling with happy-go-lucky TV drug advertisements, free-the-nipple social media, Hollywood photographs, get-rich-quick promises by employers and stock traders, upcoming sports events, and online shopping sales, we are happy and unconcerned about anything else.
It is not possible to assess how far backward this country has slid from the knowledge base and intellectual capacity, habits of hard work, and social, spiritual, and political attainments of even our most recent ancestors, let alone the Founders of this country. How would we even know who they were and what they accomplished? We know nothing of American history and the efforts our ancestors made to lift up future generations economically and socially, and our leaders are certainly not interested in teaching us any of that. It is in their best interest to play dumb. And, besides, they probably don’t know much if any of that history either.
MAGA constantly accuses Democrats of undermining everything holy and true about America. MAGA Republicans believe they must be able to defend themselves against their own government and all its subversive election workers, civil service employees, liberal local prosecutors, and defense and intelligence agencies.
Those agencies are full of anti-American liberals who want to overthrow God’s kingdom and everything else good in America, including private schools, oil companies, law enforcement, and the Ten Commandments. Republicans want their own party members to be armed to the teeth, and rich party member to have private security armies to protect their interests from all the bad elements in society.
MAGA Republicans are fully prepared to shift the entire American tradition and culture over to a politics of force, rather than to a politics of reason, law, and shared community values. For example, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) recently asked Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) during a House hearing if she wanted to “take it outside,” that is, to use fisticuffs and fingernails to settle their differences. MAGA women have learned well at the feet of the male prophets of force in the party.
Pete Hegseth, the MAGA nominee for Defense Secretary, constantly speaks about “lethality” as his own personal ethic and the best ethic for America’s fighting forces, completely forgetting about the historical peace-keeping philosophy of both of our political parties. Donald Trump sets the standard for the movement with his personal motto—“fight like hell”—as evidenced by his announced intention to make “all hell break out” in the Middle East if Muslims don’t accept his Day 1 sovereignty over the whole 1,400-year-old religion-based conundrum.
The MAGA party has taken care to empower white supremacist organizations and prepare them to “stand by” at the ready until such time as their lethal skills are needed. MAGA also wants Americans ignorant of history and civics to have AR-15s and other hardware at the ready-to-place debate as the best forum for decision-making.
MAGA is preparing for civil war, and the 2024 election was just the start of their preparations, not the end of them. Do you think all of America will willingly bend the knee to autocracy or monarchy just because a handsome, wealthy, sexually active, strong-arm politician says pretty please? Converting a 400-year-old civilization based on friendly and ethical debate over to a government based on unfriendly use of dark-side force is going to take some doing. Republicans are hard at work at it, especially since the rewards are clearly much more money and much more power.
Democrats, while less sanguine about using battlefield equipment and projectiles at home, are still just fine using them to kill innocent Muslim women, children and elderly in Gaza. Israel’s Netanyahu is the far-right tail that wags the far-left Democrat party dog. And you don’t think religion plays a role in our government any longer?
In the meantime, Democrats have always been more comfortable fawning at the feet of Taylor Swift than reading and studying the U.S. Constitution. They are the ones fiddling the fastest while America burns.
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The 11 million people that the Gestapo is hunting down now by scourging the democratic cities will be sent to concentration camps in San Salvadore. They will all be taken in handcuffs and chains and left in cells of up to 100 for an indefinite period of time. Probably the only hope for some of these people is an underground railroad to Canada and freedom. Fascism in the U.S is only beginning . it will get categorically worse until MAGA gets the Civil war it wants so badly. Then Trump can clain absolute dictatorship and no place will be safe.
There is still hope justice will put a ringer in this madness. "A federal appeals court on Tuesday said that Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution for alleged crimes he committed during his presidency, flatly rejecting Trump’s arguments that he shouldn’t have to go on trial on federal election subversion charges."
I thought it a real shame that Petro backed down. He did take the opportunity to tell Trump what he thought of him. But he has to think oof his country. Trump will use Economic violence for anyone that gets in his way. And he will indiscriminately use army violence to quell any demonstrations against him in this country. It is all coming very quickly. Fascism is a hard nut to crack. The U.S. is a Fascistic State. All the world knows it now. Other countries will just boycott American products. They don't need a tariff. But the big tech will just borrow money from the government and launder so the fat cats stay fat. I am so sick of this arrogant fascist pig. But like everyone else in the country, who cares. He has shown he is able to commit cold blooded murder and he has no remorse. Being a murderer is the resume needed to get into politics now. Like the Jews in Germany stay in the house and leave at night .
"Democrats have always been more comfortable fawning at the feet of Taylor Swift than reading and studying the U.S. Constitution. They are the ones fiddling the fastest while America burns." You
Are you on drugs because I think you're totally conflicted. If progressives learn one thing from this election (again) it's that there is only one alternative to republican insanity and that is they must vote together for the one candidate that can beat them. That's the Democrat. In a 51/49 country we can't afford to have 20 million people stay home and not vote as they are busy wringing their hands when everything isn't perfect. It has nothing to do with Democrats being uneducated about the constitution.
O.K. I wont argue the point about failure. You sat it is the democrats fault for not winning the election. Yes totally agree that worst planned fiasco on the books. Did anyine really think that Kamala could win by raising money. And the forfront issues were to controversial for a nation that is emersed in Christo Bible thumping about the Garden of Eden. trump dumped the Bible on people and most educated people, most thinking people are humanist and believe that the earth is a little older than 4000 years. And Trump has declared that attacking sick women in seeking medical help is legal and the perpetrators cannot be prosecuted. You see mathew who is responsible for putting this vil=olent derelict in power is irrelevant. He is orchestratin a Civil War and his mafioso Proud Boys will kill on command and he can declare martial law and become first temporary and then absolute dictator and destroy the country. So what does it matter?? One must expose the corruption. The history of the United states is not one of virtue. It has been a battle against justice.
This severe evil is beyond endurance. he is blackmailing the California governor and withholding aid for the fires, He saunters down there like he just got out of prison and he wants to look over the situation. He is nothing but arrogant slime who thinks cutting taxes for as Vegas casino workers is a noble gesture. It is mere publicity for his Elon Musk one million lottery for votes put out by the gambling syndicate in nevada. He is a casino owner and won the election with fraud and decit of the brain dead. This is corruption and greed in the Republican Party. Most Americans at least not now wont suffer. Idaho is a Christo fascist state and has the protection to some degree from the mafioso CZAR.
Mathew get real. 20 million votes disappeared and went in all directions. They could be independents who dont like women. They could be people who are personally opposed to abortion which was was one of kamala's points which turned the campaign into a women's liberation movement. And some people didn't vote for her because she was to far left. and finally but not finally some people just died since the last election 4 years ago. Howw many of us sitting here on this saturday afternoon will be alive four years from now??Most of us hope we will be but a good many of us won't. Especially since Trump's first move was to keep drug prices as high as possible and he nixed Biden's perscription program.Republican philosophy for the most part is total fascism. Let the old, the sick, and the weak die off and be rid of them. If they dont' get the medicine they need they will die any years before their time. Longevity is a priveledge reserved for the rich.
So by not voting or voting for the independent this is what they got. Many of those votes went to Biden in 2020. I've looked at the totals. Even without the 20 million we lost over 1% to the independents in the swing states on the ballet. Elections have consequences. trump is what we get. If we don't learn a lesson from that we are finished.
Trump wants to expand American territory. Why. To make himself famous and fullfill his battered narcissm now that he is revealed as a fraud. greenland was for starters ast term. Now he waants Canada and mexico and Panama and will use economic violence to achieve his ends. He knows all about economic violence. He has had his practice with 32 felonies in New York alone. Florida can't get him now because he has immunity. He respects no treaties and proclaims borders sacred. Whie the mexican and Columbian the poor of the world are no allowed into his Gate City. They are his scapegoats for America's economic problems. ha ha ha , maybe America's economic problems who have been ripping the government off with trillions of dollars in grants for machines and equipment and laundered the produce into their bank accounts or their businesses and put the debt on the working class middle class tax payer who is truggling to pay the interest and never will if trump wants to errase the debt ceiling and give Musk and some of his other buddies and himself laundered somewhere in the middle billions more to see who gets to a trillion first.
As you know Trump has no idea what he is doing. Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kamp so everyone knew his plans for world domination. They did not stop him because like Mexico and Canada they do not want to stand against the Fascist Regime of Adolf Hitler.
BTW Republicans water at the mouth over Taylor Swift as well. The point is the human animal is basically a Neaderthal. He eats, he sleeps and he does other
things and really doesnt have time to really think about it.
The idaho ballot was a joke. First entry in larger space and print was Donald Trump Republican. I had to actually look for Kamala and she was four ir five down the list sandwicjhed in smaller print between two candidates I had never heard of. And Trump wants to talk about voter fraud. It is not fraud because her name was there. But I am not sure some 18 or 22 year old voter who has never vorted in his life knows the difference. For most Americans not brain dead but lknow little about brainwashing propaganda see Trump as billy the Kid making it to the top. jesse james who outwitted the law. That is the new morality. Rich and smart enough to beat the game makes for the good guy. They know nothing about nucear bomb fear. They never lived having to hide under their desk for nuclear drills. "Put your hands behind your head. Put your hed between your legs and kiss your as.,, good=bye. yeah
Kim Shinkoskey.
Sir: I think you are a man of courage. As you know fascist regimes or even communist ones are not created overnight. The intellectual class is the enemy of the Fascist State. They are the obstacles to absolute power. Most died in the Concentration camps of Adolf Hitler in NAZIS Germany and the Gulags of Stalin.
MAGA wants Civil War. The purpose is to initiate violence so the Adolf Trump Regime can declare Martial Law and create his dictatorship to annex mexico, Canada and any and all he so deems in his quest for world domination. He knows the Christofascist are gullible. H
he claims he wants the dreams of Martin Luther King to be the new America of his creation. The brain dead Christo fascist believe him. In eality everything about the man speaks violence. He made his fortune by ruthless economic violence all of which has been proven and for which he is a convicted felon. he is the father of deceit and lies and looks only for victims in his plan for world domination.
He is now attacking the democratic states to bring them into submission. he owns the courts and this was all part of his plan. These are the steps to world domination.
Expansion of territory is Fascist in nature. It is nothing more than the aggrandisement of power. It is his move to make skaves of the American people.
The road to this enslavement is the elimination of the intellectual class.
Trump says he wants to fulfill the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. What a joke. He is art of the lie. He is a racist of the first order the author of untold misery and suffering. The world he wants is a gated city where only the Christo fascist can enter. And the poor shall die in the streets. We have to much to learn from Mexico. That country will be the future becon of the Free world. The U.S will destroy itself in Civil War and power mongering.
“ We have to[sic{ much to learn from Mexico. That country will be the future becon[sic] of the Free world.” What exactly? How to let one’s national and state governments become co-opted by drug-lord crime syndicates?
Interesting that you make the comment that Mexico is a country of drug crime syndicates. By the same token the United States is run by a Christo fascist regine mafioso.
I really doubt that the cartels are running mexico anymoree than the mafia is running the U.S. But I am sure that Europe and the Ukraine in particular see the American predicament as a victory for the mafia. You have to understand that Trump is a master manipulator of meaningless propafanda His Bible hoax was just to show the apathetic braindead middle class Christo's that he is some kind of Holy Man. When in reality when he stopped in California to blackmail the Governor of california he went to Las Vegas to give tax breaks to casino workers. Glitter and gold the trappings of evil and corruption. Probably stopped by the something similar to the Mustang Ranch and taste the wear as get post cards to send to all his buddies now that he is a world traveler again on the government dime. He will be over in Moscow sucking up to Putin his hero so he can better learn the points of dictatorship as he is a avid student of both stalin and Hitler but he loves the bombastity of Mussolini. his favorite. And now he likes to run his mouth about football as usual because he loves the rallies. He loves the attention to feed his narcisstic addiction.
Yes about Mexico. American are notally mislead about Mexico. Some Americans have escaped there since Trump's first term. They were not comfortable living in a fascist state. But Congress interupted his plans with impeachment for abuse of power first and then trying to overthrow the legitimate government second. But he was saved by a corupt money grubbing Senate who saw their power and money interests at stake and human freedom and decency and the Constitution could take a back seat.
I'm curious. Have a fascismo like yourself ever bothered to read anything about Mexico at all. In case you don't know the States of California, Arizona, New Mexioc, Utah, and Colorado were part of Mexico. The Mexican War was waged by a President named Polk, a slaveholder committed to the expansion of slavery. He succeeded. But there was not undo opposition to the Mexican war. That was from Northern Abolitionist and people who thought war was rather a barbaric practise.
The U.S government is by nature a thief and a fraaud. What greater proof that to elect to destroy the country am with 32 felony convictions for fraud and theft. He has fascistic philosphy and displayed violence and his manipulating lies have shown aAmerican with any common sense that he is the greatest fraud his class has yet produced. And his right hand man is Elon Musk who bought the election and has swindled his fortune out of the U.S taxpayer with reseach grants from the government and laundered a good part of the money into his own accounts. Granys are tax free and Musk has had over 2 trillion dollars worth of them cluttering the nethosphere with junk.
The U.S has been ripping off its Latin neighbors for 2 centuries. Trump a slaver and userer is taken the opportunity. His road to power is not without a plan. But it will backfire. And this term they are going to get the lying sniveling fascist pig.
Actually Polk was one of the better Democrat Party Presidents.
Shin kinkotskey
You are absolutely right . Trump believes he has enough power now to destroy his enemies. He is the most p[owerful man in the world that has a huge military and thousands of atom bombs at his command. Pelosi was right. Impeachment took the red button away from him but he has it and he will destroy all thiosw ho oppose the will of the rich
His first objective is start a Civil war and then can be done be done at the medical centers where he has sanctioned violence against the sick and helpless women who come for medical care. Places like Idaho is a Christo fascist State and there is no medical care for the sick and helpless woman so there is no problem of civil war because the fascist Idaho Congress has total control . Idaho is a Right to Work Slave State, so the Idaho millionaires get codos from the dark Lord. But it is the American Free States like California and Washington where he wabnts to send troops to round up the Mexican and the yellow man regardless of their citizenship and send them to Mexico. Naturally like Hitler did to the Jews he will confiscate their property auction it of and money launder the money to Elon Musk and friends.
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