I only recently learned just how much time and energy that Joseph McCarthy personally poured into Nazi apologia, going so far as to destroy the lives and reputations of the US Army prosecutors who charged Nazi war criminals for slaughtering unarmed American POWs, using baseless and disproven allegations that the prosecutors had tortured the SS Stormtroopers into giving false confessions.
There is a non-trivial portion of the GOP that believes and always has believed that the United States sided with the wrong people during World War II.
So, I guess all that fuckshit is okay as long as they tell everyone the trains run on time? Honestly I think that’s how the MAGA brain works. Whatever Trump says is true, until he says something else, and then that’s the new truth. So whatever it takes to make Trump say the thing they want is okay.
The GOP, especially Trump-side, is loaded with America First this and that. Enough of those people know the historical significance, and they don’t care.
Certain trains ran on time, as we know they always do under fascist regimes. The ones headed to the camps took priority over all others, including military troop and supply trains headed to the front.
The same ones who always hated FDR and the New Deal. They had to hide their views after 1941, but since 2015 they’ve felt comfortable uncloaking.
He didn’t just go “full Trump”, he did it in about the worst way possible stating something like, “I don’t care who the nominee is, my side needs to win, full stop”. Nothing about wanting the best for his constituents or the American people. Only cowardly and predictable, “Team R über alles”.
I don’t have any love for any of the Republicans who are endorsing Harris and stumping for her, but I give them credit for putting the country over Party.
A million times this. I won’t forgive and won’t forget what they have done and who they are. These are all people that propped up Trump and made America (and the world) much worse as a result. They aren’t heroes and aren’t worthy of my respect. But, for this one specific thing, I can say they were in the right side of history. It’s such a low bar, but it’s still notable. It’s right up there with giving Pence minimum credit for simply doing his fucking job and certifying the 2020 election.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times has resigned after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president, a journalism trade publication reported Wednesday. …
“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent,” Garza said. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”
In a post on the social media platform X that did not directly mention the resignation, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong said the board was asked to do a factual analysis of the policies of Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump during their time at the White House.
Additionally, “The board was asked to provide (its) understanding of the policies and plans enunciated by the candidates during this campaign and its potential effect on the nation in the next four years,” he wrote. “In this way, with this clear and non-partisan information side-by-side, our readers could decide who would be worthy of being president for the next four years.”
get that? a major news editorial board which ‘carefully’ decided it best not to express an opinion on the most significant (and @#$ obvious) issue facing the nation.
