Sounds like GW should spend a bit more time consulting its own legal expertsā¦
Absolutely. This needs to be Trumpās petard.
Itās interesting you say this because I was on the inside of the national Republican party leading up to the Reagan years, and thatās exactly how party officials felt about Reagan. I can still remember that during the 1976 convention in Kansas City the most common way he would be referred to in private meetings was āthat wacko from Californiaā. In 1980, they gritted their teeth and held their noses while publicly supporting him because he was the most electable candidate running and that was the most important thing for the party. In 1984, it was like he had invented both beer AND sliced bread. And thus began the downward slide that has brought us to this point in political history.
Hmmmmā¦ Only things Iād comment on that are that Trump is kind of running on fascist economic policies: his health plan is some kind of state underwritten private sector con - you canāt get more fascist than that. His focus on military strength and centralised initiatives like the farcical wall are state sided also. Fascists and Nazis used the ideology of a strong centralised state AND a strong innovative private sector driven by profits which would efficiently leverage this national will and cash. Heās pretty fascist there.
Also, anti-modernism is a tricky one to define. Mussolini was pretty modernist, Italian fascists were very much so intellectually while also being classicists. But then most western modernists in literature for example are that way too e.g. Joyce, Proust, Eliot. And the Nazis were very much in thrall to technology, German technology, delivering the future.
So he still strikes me as pretty much a text book fascist.
I think Americans can get hung up on the right -left thing. Simply put: European fascists were the movement against worker power and communism that the capitalist class financed. The alliance of anti-worker capitalism and non-capitalist class petit bourgeoisie and workers through the populist exploitation of racism is, for me at least, the very essence of how I see fascism in Europe.
I want my Nazi scalp!
Itās pretty appropriate for Trump to look like The Corinthian from Sandmanā¦
āA nightmare created to be the darkness, and fear of darkness in every human heart. A black mirror, made to reflect everything about itself that humanity will not confront.ā
Thanks for the link butā¦what the fucking FUCK? 
You were a republican once? I want my chili powder back!!! Hahahah. No I donāt. Itās tainted by republihands.
Yeah, but back in the good old days of Nixon.
Everyone liked Gerry Ford, right? Nice chap, bit dim?
And now Trump is making the Reaganites look positively moderate. Ugh. But yeah, the rise of Reagan led to this moment now, I think.
Well, you know, Palestinians are antisemitic, donāt you know! /s
Was going to write āOy!ā But seem to have lost my sense of humorā¦ugh
There is also something out there that changes all mentions of Donald Trump to āmy drunk uncle at Thanksgivingā (or something along those linesā¦). Canāt remember where it is, but Iām sure a diligent search shall bring it forth.
Trump threatened again today to run as an independent: āA new poll indicates that 68% of my supporters would vote for me if I departed the GOP & ran as an independent.ā https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/674317248803307520
This campaign strategy is actually causing him some serious financial hits. I think heās serious, as heās investing his reputation. His name is becoming toxic, especially overseas. NBC and telemundo have dropped Miss Universe. NBC has cancelled the apprentice. Macys has dropped his clothing line, as has the manufacturer of those clothes. Serta has dropped his mattress line. Many buildings using his name are quickly re-christening themselves. Heās still got his hotels, golf courses, branded coffee beans, etc, but many of these are vulnerable to pressure.
The contact forms for his interior decoration company is here: http://dorya.us/pages/contact-us
And for his line of chandeliers: http://www.elklighting.com/eSource/CMSPages/contactus.aspx?store=Elk
And for his branded coffee: http://tworiversco.com/contact/
Why arenāt there more shared off-the-grid grids?
There are similarities between the national GOP (Reagan) coalition of today and the old national Dem (FDR) coalition in 1968.
In 1968, LBJ ā a sitting president ā had come under such attack by the left wing of his own party that he refused the nomination. LBJ wasnāt progressive enough.
So Nixon (and later Reagan) peeled away southern conservatives and others and made a new national governing coalition.
And the Democrats made a frowny face and the left wing split into a bazillion different identity politics flavors. They held onto the House ā¦ for awhile. And the GOP made the U.S. all fascisty.
Now the GOP has made the U.S. such a comfortable homeland for the hard right, they think that JEB BUSH is not conservative enough.
Thatās (slang) crazy (not clinical) (probably). So their candidates are numerous and (politically) bonkers.
Their coalition is whipsawed from attacking the president for being āweakā while also denouncing Trump ā sometimes ā and refusing to even debate a war declaration in Congress. And gun violence and etc.
So the national GOP coalition looks done, except for the House, for awhile.
You might want to skip that last item. I have grave doubts that all TSA staff are capable of locating the US on a map of the world.
No, I think youāre right, it is getting harder to laugh through all this. The world spirals downward, and no one seems able to see the connections that make it all happen. At this point, we all sink and swim together, and too many people just canāt see that. That point is most keen in the case of Israel-Palestine.
