“One thing I know is the conservative movement has always been steeped in respect for other people, respect for religious liberty, respect for economic liberty,” Donalds told reporters during a campaign stop in Miami this week.

Oh, so we’re just straight up lying now?

Isn’t it just so weird that another TPUSA group chat was full of Nazis?

Gonzalez described Agartha to the group chat as, “Nazi heaven sort of,” and Valdes explained it, “esoteric nazism essentially.”

“This is not something you would know about unless you had spent a considerable amount of time in white supremacist circles,” said Heidi Beirich, who researches extremism and co-founded the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.

“It was something Himmler was obsessed about and it’s basically a mythical white homeland in the center of the Earth. If you’re using the term Agartha, you have spent some time reading about white supremacy and Nazis, there’s just no way around it,” she said. “You’re embedded in the culture.”

“Pro-life” has never been about protecting life. It was always a means to control women.

Yeah, I need to listen to most recent one; I’m curious how Jones is dealing with the attack on Iran.

The podcast is very good, I highly recommend picking out a few episodes that look interesting and diving in.

It’s quite remarkable how he launders dumbass galaxy-brain conspiracy theories to his audience and drives the conversation towards PR for billionaires.

Mark Andreson led him around like a bull with a ring through his nose; the guy is one of the most useful idiots in history.

Edit: For people who didn’t read the article, I’m talking about the author’s podcast, The Know Rogan Experience.

1. Suck up to Donald Trump

That’s it. That’s the list. I guess hypothetically he’d need to be confirmed by the Senate, but what are they gonna do? Not rubber-stamp an appointment?

It would be so funny if he was doing one of his bullshit press conferences where he gets pathetic sycophants to bow and scrape before the king, when they gradually realize that he’s been sitting there dead for about ten minutes while they pretended like nothing was wrong for fear of making him look weak.

Hope it hurts.

That dipshit, Joe Wilson, is still in the House of Representatives. He was pissed because Obama said illegal immigrants wouldn’t benefit from the ACA.

His yelling at Obama was making political hay; scaremongering that “undeserving” people might get healthcare in the richest country in the history of the world.

I’ve been a bit obsessed with one of Cleopatra’s arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Se pietà di me non senti. She’s bummed that she thinks her brother is going to have her killed.

Se pietà di me non senti giusto ciel io morirò.

Tu da’ pace a’ miei tormenti o quest’alma spirerò.

Just heaven, if you feel no pity for me, I shall die.

I shall give up the ghost if you do not pacify my torment

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There are ways of saying that without posting ragebait bullshit.

I see. So you’re spreading it around despite doubting if it’s even true?

Any source on this besides a twit account I’ve never heard of?

How did I possibly forget that Tulsi ‘Present’ Gabbard was the director of national intelligence?

I guess I don’t understand what you think I’m missing. I think the rise of an explicitly fascist party and the propaganda arm to support it is pretty dire.

And historically, the right has been at the forefront of new media. Talk radio has been almost exclusively reactionary since its inception, and that provided a model for new media as well. We’ve had nearly a century of radical right-wing radio content to hone the message and tactics. Father Caughlin was doing his radio show in 1933, wherein he took his “America First” message to the nation.

There have been more leftist new-media shows than previously, but they are still playing catch-up with the well-funded reactionaries.

The right-wing rage machine has recently been fueled by a number of things, but mainly loss in prestige due to acceptance of LGBTQ+ people & the US hiring a black president. They got a candidate in Donald Trump who swore to be their retribution, and they rallied around him because he hates all the same people, but (perhaps most importantly) also spoke to their loss in a way that other Republicans and Democrats would not.

Yes, the reactionary right is often derided as stupid, but they’re very effective at stealing the language of liberation from the left and repurposing it to defend the people in power.

While many of the base are indeed ignorant and misinformed, the people driving the message are meticulous and creative about finding ways to make White Evangelical Supremacy more palatable. Tucker Carlson is especially effective at laundering neo-nazi talking points for them; his constant scaremongering around the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory and his open hatred and lies about trans people are some of the most egregious.

But it’s also people like Joe Rogan who make this reactionary funnel really work: he acts like a middle-of-the-road centrist, but also sells a gentler version of the same great replacement and “gender ideology” bullshit while introducing his audience to a whole bunch of radical right-wing freaks like they’re just normal people.

Reactionary ideology is about loss and blame.

The current reactionary stripe in the US is focused on White Evangelical Supremacy, so everyone who is not in that group is a prime target.

White Evangelicalism has lost a heap of prestige in the last 30 years, while LGBTQ+ rights have been ascendant. This is the reason why trans people have long been taegeted by the reactionary right: they want to roll back all of the gains made to sexual minorities, and trans people make the easiest targets.

They also target immigrants for largely the same reason: they’re a highly visible population who doesn’t conform to their ideal White Evangelical model, so they use terror tactics to oppress them.

The goal is to make life intolerable for the people they hate so that they don’t have to compete against ideas that make the world a more equitable place. It’s no coincidence that the reactionary right rallied around fighting diversity, equity and inclusion: they are an evangelical white supremacist coalition.

She’s just mad that she got frozen out of the boys club. She was one of the biggest fundraisers in the party— she did her “duty” and only after she got stiffed did she figure out that there is no honor among thieves.

If this caterwauling troll had gotten her bag she’d have had no complaints. Fuck her.

I’ll just wait until you’re done moving those goalposts.