{"id":1264,"date":"2022-05-21T22:46:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T22:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2022-05-21T22:46:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T22:46:37","slug":"facing-fascism-by-their-crazy-ye-shall-know-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Facing Fascism — By their crazy ye shall know them"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facing Fascism<\/b><\/p>\n

By their crazy ye shall know them<\/b><\/p>\n

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May 21st<\/sup>, 2022 <\/i><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

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More and more, we\u2019re seeing a dangerous rise of the racist, neo-Nazi right, as witness the horrible shooting in Buffalo last week where one of the spawn of Fox News and the GOP massacred 10 people who were doing nothing more criminal than a bit of grocery shopping.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re also seeing a rise in the sheer lunacy of the people the far-right is putting up as their voices and leaders. It isn\u2019t just Trump and the idiotic trolls that infest Congress; it\u2019s people who say utterly insane things to disguise what they really are.<\/p>\n

On the Christian fascist front, as god-floggers in dozens of states race to convert the United States into a 12th<\/sup> century theocracy, one of the great movers and shakers of this poisonous movement appeared before Congress, to explain, under oath, why abortion needs to be illegal. Since there\u2019s no sane secular or religious reason to support this point of view, she had to wax inventive\u2014under oath, no less.<\/p>\n

She said, \u201cBodies [are] thrown in medical waste bins, and in places like Washington, D.C., burned to power the lights of the cities\u2019 homes and streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Americans United for Life President Catherine Glenn Foster proclaimed.\u201cLet that image sink in with you for a moment,\u201d she continued. \u201cThe next time you turn on the light, think of the incinerators, think of what we\u2019re doing to ourselves so callously and so numbly.\u201d<\/p>\n

OK, I thought about that. If the street lights have a bluish glow, they are running on little boy fetuses. If it\u2019s little girl fetuses being burned, the lights are pinkish.<\/p>\n

And if it\u2019s the brains of right-wing god-floggers, the lights are dark.<\/p>\n

She proclaimed this amazing idiocy under oath. To the House Judiciary Committee. She gets paid $190,000 a year to justify the actions of the Christian fascists\u2019 most hateful and paranoid anti-choice group. The group claims \u201cWe are the voice for millions, a nonpartisan force working to create lifelong connections between persons of all ages, backgrounds, and beliefs.\u201d People of all white race, male, stupid and anti-women beliefs, of course. The rest of us can go hang. We\u2019re burning fetuses to power streetlights, you see.<\/p>\n

The Democrats should charge this nut with perjury and contempt of Congress. Granted, she\u2019ll probably get off on a sanity clause plea.<\/p>\n

Chip Roy of Texas, because of course Texas, wanted to know if it was OK to abort a baby as it was being born. This is a favorite lurid fantasy of the far right religious nuts; that a woman will go all the way to term and then decide on a whim to abort. That they believe that this can even happen, let alone is a common occurrence, just shows the utter moral and mental bankruptcy of this movement. After the second trimester, abortions only happen if there is something gone catastrophically wrong\u2014the fetus is dead, or both are unlikely to survive birth. But these pseudo-religious whacks like to believe the very worst in others so they can tell themselves they are superior.<\/p>\n

Republicans proved what utter hypocrites they are. Even as they pushed to make all abortions and even contraception illegal, they unanimously voted against a bill to increase the supply of baby formula in the face of a critical shortage created by criminal corporate malfeasance. The GOP motto is \u201cevery fetus is sacred\u2014until birth. At that point, fuck it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats in the House reintroduced a bill to increase government response to domestic terrorism. Last year, the same bill got a majority of GOP votes, and in fact was sponsored by three GOP members.<\/p>\n

According to Raw Story: \u201cSenate Republican Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota immediately poured cold water on a just-passed House bill to help fight rising domestic terrorism, in the wake of his past weekend\u2019s massacre of ten Black people in Buffalo by a self-avowed white nationalist and antisemite and a California church shooting deemed a \u2018politically motivated hate incident\u2019 by local law enforcement. The House bill passed with all Democrats and just one Republican voting for it. 203 Republicans voted against the legislation that would establish new offices across three federal agencies to help identify and combat domestic terrorism. Three of the Republicans who voted against the legislation are original co-sponsors of the bill, and many who voted for a very similar bill two years ago voted against this bill Wednesday. The final tally was 222-203. Conservative Tom Nichols, interviewed on the Joy Reid Show, said, \u2018there is a nihilistic, fear-driven alliance here with a group of opportunists, and I want to get back to this issue of about Hungary, the really dangerous thing here is that some of these people believe very deeply in \u2014 in some of this stuff and yet others, and I would say people like [Tucker] Carlson and Matt Schlapp and some of the other people capering about in Budapest, don\u2019t believe in any of this and don\u2019t believe in anything of this other than the extension of their own personal power and wealth. And when you have this coalition of shallow, empty opportunists along with with a group of paranoids, basically, then you have a really dangerous movement because each side has to keep upping the ante to kind of justify why they are doing the things they are doing,\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So the stance of the GOP is this: They don\u2019t want to work against bad domestic terrorists because it may inconvenience some of the good domestic terrorists. If people are slaughtering Americans in the name of the Koran, or Karl Marx, or Xi, then it\u2019s OK to prosecute them. But if they are home-grown cowards and murders, waving the cross and the flag and avidly watching Tucker Carlson for tips on how to annoy liberals by behaving like Nazis, well, that\u2019s just political persecution, isn\u2019t it? Republican mass murderers good, other mass murderers bad.<\/p>\n

Tucker Carlson and CPAC are meeting in Hungary this week. Featured guest of honor was Viktor Mih\u00e1ly Orb\u00e1n, the dictator of Hungary. Tucker and his crowd worship this five-and-dime tyrant, you see.<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n this week made it illegal to call him a dictator. No, really\u2014he did. There\u2019s a technical term for leaders who make it illegal to call them dictators. That term is \u201cdictator.\u201d Orb\u00e1n pretty much personifies it.<\/p>\n

Trump addressed this dumpster-fire remotely, joining a line-up that included Zsolt Bayer, who likes to refer to Jews as \u201cstinking execrement.\u201d Now, I realize Trump is the most trash president America has ever had, but \u201cstinking execrement?\u201d Well, this is the level of crazy Carlson and Fox News have brought us to. Remember, Donnie: if you march with Nazis, you are a Nazi.<\/p>\n

OK, these people are crazy, and stupid, and about half of them are play acting for malevolent ends. But they are dangerous.<\/p>\n

Nations routinely fall to fascism, both religious and secular. There really isn\u2019t much difference, except religious dictatorships usually move quicker to open concentration camps to \u201cprotect us all\u201d from non-believers, which is usually a majority of any given population.<\/p>\n

But getting rid of these pests is nearly impossible. It usually requires great amounts of sacrifice, blood, death and misery, because they will never relinquish power voluntarily.<\/p>\n

If this lot take over, expect to see your children sacrificing their lives to overthrow them. The only thing worse would be to see your children shooting people in the name of God in a vile new regime.<\/p>\n

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