My point is that it was always a bullshit smokescreen for fascism. It’s a reactionary ideology. The trappings are starting to fall off because fascism is starting to be seen as respectable in some quarters once again.
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You’d think people would get by now that if you ride the Trump train, that you’ll eventually get tossed under it, but… 
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the GOP’s flagship organization started 2024 with just $8 million in its coffers.
Oh dang. That’s barely enough to cover their quarterly sexual misconduct settlement bill.
ETA: also this. There’s debasing oneself in the name of Trump, and then there’s changing your name just to stay on his good side. Jesus Christ.
Ronna Romney McDaniel, the niece of Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, famously dropped her maiden name in 2017 at Trump’s request.
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The wheels on that bus go round and round, round and round…
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Brilliant! If she sees her career flash before her eyes, she might testify against him. From what I’ve seen in the various coverage of the insurrection, McDaniel is neck-deep in the financial planning of Jan6. I’m surprised she hasn’t been indicted.
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I don’t generally watch awards shows but it sounds like Trevor Noah did a great job last night making topically relevant jokes about Taylor Swift without being mean or misogynist.
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So, to sum up, the MAGA “truckers” have been more disruptive to Eagle Pass than the immigrants that the RWNJ rage-machine has been dogwhistling about.
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“Remember, everything is a plant,” the former Republican governor of California said, laughing. “COVID was a plant. The vaccine was the plant. Of course, she’s also a plant and the team that wins is a plant. There are agents everywhere. The CIA is operating everything. I can see it very clearly how everything is a plant. It’s entertaining.”
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It’s entertaining.
Is it?
Maybe when viewed from his lofty, multiply privileged perch.
Methinks another thing that’s plant-like may be Arnold’s level of intelligence.
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Netflix’s six-part series on Alexander the Great – Alexander: The Making of a God – is already drawing criticism from the right for depicting the ancient Greek king as having had sexual relationships with men.
“Netflix made a new documentary about Alexander The Great. Within the first 8 minutes, they turned him gay,” complained the influential rightwing account End Wokeness on X. End Wokeness has over two million followers.
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Next they’ll be suggesting that Alexander promoted interracial marriage!
*For certain values of “interracial” and “marriage”
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